Press Releases
21 July 2022
One year after introducing a mental health initiative aimed at tackling addiction among entrepreneurs, QED Investors today expanded the program to more than 16,000 employees at its Spanish-language portfolio companies across Latin America. The program, called ‘Shatterproof Just Five’ and offered in partnership with Operation Lighthouse, is focused on eliminating the stigma of talking about substance abuse in the workplace. Operation Lighthouse is a nonprofit or
Read more...Priority Health, a nationally recognized nonprofit health plan, announced today the launch of PriorityGPS™, an integrated health navigation and advocacy solution. PriorityGPS will be delivered through a strategic partnership with Accolade (Nasdaq: ACCD), a Personalized Healthcare service, and is available for self-funded (ASO), large employers. According to a survey conducted by the International Federation of Employee Benefit Plans, about half of employees don’t underst
Read more...Prevencio, Inc. today announces that Atlas Genomics, Prevencio’s performing laboratory for its Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven cardiac HART blood tests, has entered into a preferred provider agreement with Alivio Health to provide expanded access for Prevencio’s HART tests. The coverage includes HART CVE, the only blood test available for assessing a patient’s one-year risk for a heart attack, stroke, or cardiac death, and HART CADhs for assessing a patient’s risk
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Healthcare Realty Trust Incorporated announced the merged Healthcare Realty and Healthcare Trust of America, Inc. will be included in the S&P MidCap 400 Index effective prior to the opening of trading on Thursday, July 21, 2022. The combination of the Company and HTA is structured as a reverse merger with HTA being the legal successor. Following the expected closing of the merger transaction on Wednesday, July 20, and prior to the opening of trading on Thursday, July 21, H
Read more...19 July 2022
SeekOut, the leading Enterprise Talent Optimization Platform, today announced the launch of its Healthcare Talent Pool for companies to source candidates for hard-to-fill healthcare positions. With the newly expanded capabilities, SeekOut’s platform provides companies with access to the largest pool of U.S. healthcare candidates, empowering recruiters to find and source the talent they need faster than before. According to the World Health Organization, the supply of healthcar
Read more...19 July 2022
Evry Health, a tech-savvy employer health insurance company, announced today it has expanded its reliable, value-based health care to Austin, Houston and San Antonio. Launched earlier this year with a focus on the Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) business-to-business market, Evry Health is transforming the healthcare industry with its software automation yielding lowered healthcare costs for businesses, in addition to its model of no deductibles or copays for in-network care and its expansive, tailor-
Read more...Roche today announced the launch of the Elecsys® HCV Duo immunoassay in countries that accept the CE Mark. Elecsys HCV Duo is the first available immunoassay that allows the simultaneous and independent determination of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) antigen and antibody status from a single human plasma or serum sample. This means that the test can be used to detect the early stage of infection, as well as when the patient is recovering from the virus, or showing signs of a chronic infectio
Read more...18 July 2022
The Digital Medicine Society (DiMe) released the Sensor Data Integrations Toolkits, four comprehensive toolkits to guide data producers, processors, and consumers to use the influx of data from the increased use of wearables and digital sensing products at scale. These resources are based on the Sensor Data Integrations project, comprised of healthcare leaders from Amazon Web Services (AWS), Oracle, the Moffitt Cancer Center, Takeda, the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), and more. These
Read more...16 July 2022
Metadeq Inc., a global NASH and metabolic diseases diagnostics company, today announced a breakthrough non-invasive blood test that utilizes two novel circulating proteins to accurately diagnose Non-alcoholic steato-hepatitis (NASH) and liver fibrosis, and can score the stages of both diseases, without the need for invasive liver biopsy. The study which details the new blood test – just revealed in Gut, a leading hepatology and gastroenterology journal published by BMJ – was led b
Read more...Healthcare Trust of America, Inc. today announced that, based on a preliminary vote count, its stockholders have approved the previously announced combination with Healthcare Realty Trust Incorporated ("HR") at today's Special Meeting of Stockholders . In a separate special meeting of stockholders held today, based on a preliminary vote count, HR stockholders also voted to approve the merger. "We are pleased that HTA's and HR's stockholders
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