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Telehealth corporations check the waters on risk-sharing
A handful of digital care corporations are inking new sorts of contracts that reward them for retaining sufferers’ value low and penalize them for overspending — a mannequin often called risk-sharing. It’s a departure from the conventional “fee-for-service” billing course of, and a transfer corporations hope might assist them receives a commission for the providers they provide along with digital medical doctors’ appointments, like in-app messaging, remedy reminders, and digital health teaching. They’re additionally betting that embracing danger might endear them to the health plans and employers they rely upon for contracts.
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Execs from corporations like Heartbeat Health and Teladoc say they’re in the very early phases of cementing these contracts. While there’s no clear roadmap for how one can construction them, whether or not they take maintain might make clear how digital care will match into the brick-and-mortar healthcare system and incentivize these corporations to work with conventional suppliers on prevention, stated Jennifer Goldsack, CEO of the Digital Medicine Society. “There is a chance to reimagine what health care appears to be like like when it’s round the affected person,” she instructed Mohana. Read the full story.
The case for scaling main care
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Closely watched upstarts hawking higher-tech health care are in a fierce battle with retail giants and tech corporations to find out the way forward for main care. And as they make the rounds at conferences like JP Morgan, they’re out to persuade buyers that main care — which has traditionally been underfunded — is scalable and value backing. Medicare-focused startup Oak Street Health plans to open 70 extra places this 12 months; One Medical expects to succeed in 28 markets quickly. And different gamers together with Walmart, CVS, and Amazon are ramping up their very own efforts. But the corporations have additionally confronted headwinds, together with a DOJ inquiry into Oak Street’s potential False Claims Act violations. Casey has the story.
The promise of neurostimulation
Brain stimulation is booming. This increasing area of analysis is slowly revealing truths of the mind: the way it works, the way it malfunctions, and the way electrical impulses, exactly focused and managed, is likely to be used to deal with psychiatric and neurological issues. Researchers are trying into how completely different types of neuromodulation have an effect on habit, despair, power ache, obsessive compulsive dysfunction, and extra. Still, the area is in its infancy, and plenty of hurdles to remedy stay. STAT’s Isabella Cueto has the entire story.
Yes, it was some huge cash
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This is the chart all of us noticed coming, we simply lastly know what it says, courtesy of Silicon Valley Bank’s annual Healthcare Investments & Exits report. Health tech funding in 2021 greater than doubled, with 60% of funding coming from mega rounds. Early stage funding additionally elevated from $2.2 billion in 2020 to $3.5 billion in 2021. Despite these spectacular numbers total, SVB sees some indications that issues could cool off: It expects enterprise capital fundraising will drop to $16 billion throughout health care in 2022 from its spectacular $28 billion final 12 months.
What the analysis says about AI and high quality assurance
AI and machine studying promise widespread advantages in health care, however there’s no complete framework for how one can safely and responsibly introduce the know-how, a gaggle of researchers write in a brand new literature evaluate in Nature’s NPJ Digital Medicine.
Their evaluation finds that there’s an abundance of steering about information preparation, however much less about software program improvement and how one can assess influence and implementation. Their evaluate might function the foundation for such a framework, although they famous important gaps in tutorial analysis about high quality evaluation in the later phases of predictive mannequin improvement.
Tech takes over JPM
Today at JPM we’ll be watching shows from Talkspace, Color, and GoodRx. Here’s what’s occurred in tech at the convention since we final talked:
Headspace Health, which was fashioned final 12 months with the merger of telemental health service Ginger and mindfulness app Headspace, introduced the acquisition of Sayana, an AI psychological health app.
Transcarent, the health care startup for self-insured employers from Livongo founder Glen Tullman, introduced a $200 million Series C spherical led by Kinnevik and Human Capital with participation from Ally Bridge Group, General Catalyst, and 7wireVentures.
At a JPM facet occasion, Deborah Di Sanzo, president of Best Buy Health, stated that regardless of the firm’s ambitions, it’s not all in favour of care supply: “We have a giant purple line that we received’t cross, and that’s, we aren’t going to be a supplier,” she stated.
New 12 months, new gig
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center appointed Jeffrey Leek as vp and chief information officer. Leek beforehand labored at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
AliveCor appointed Vincent Balsamo as govt vp of worldwide gross sales and Archana Dubey as chief medical officer. Balsamo beforehand labored at Salesforce, Cisco, IBM, and Propeller Health. Dubey joins from Hewlett Packard.
Tendo Systems, a health care software program startup funded by General Catalyst and Lux Capital, appointed Bala Hota as senior vp and chief informatics officer. Hota comes from Rush University Medical Center.
SonderMind, a psychological health know-how startup, appointed Brannan Schell as chief working officer. He was beforehand the firm’s chief improvement officer.
Quartet, one other psychological health upstart, employed Jay Meyers as chief development officer. He was beforehand CEO of Wellvana Health and chief development & advertising officer for Anthem’s diversified enterprise group.
BehaVR, which is creating psychological health therapies utilizing digital actuality, appointed Risa Weisberg chief medical officer. Weisberg is a professor of psychiatry at the Boston University School of Medicine.
Make clearHealth employed Niall Brennan, former CEO of the Health Care Cost Institute, as its chief analytics and privateness officer.
Cityblock introduced on a bunch of recent hires this week, together with chief health officer Kameron Matthews, previously chief medical officer at the Veterans Affairs Department; chief individuals officer Ara Tucker, who led expertise technique at Audible; chief administrative officer Susan Brown, previously common counsel at Haven; and chief advertising officer Andrea Zahumensky, previously chief advertising officer at KFC.
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