Pomelo Care Secures $33M, Partners with Leading Health Plans, Employers and Academic Medical Centers to Deliver Value-Based Care and Improve Maternal and Newborn Health
Backed by Andreessen Horowitz and First Round Capital, Pomelo Care has Built an End-to-End, Value-Based Virtual Maternity Care Platform and is on Track to Cover 2M Lives this Year
Pomelo Care, a virtual medical practice that improves maternal and newborn health outcomes, today announced $33 million in Seed and Series A funding led by Andreessen Horowitz. The capital will fuel Pomelo’s continued partnership expansion with major health plans, including several Medicaid managed care organizations, employers and leading academic medical centers on the front lines of the national maternal health crisis.
Pomelo’s multispeci...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - June 23, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Adam Boehler Allen & Company LLC Andreessen Horowitz BoxGroup Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation CMMI Elevance First Round Capital Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: Who'dat?
In Nehemiah 8, a character named Ezra appears. Is this the same dude who is the protagonist of the Book of Ezra? Doesn ' t seem to be -- he has a different job description. Previously, he was in charge, in basically the same role Nehemiah has in the current story. Now he ' s a priest and " teacher of the law " (rendered " scribe " in the KJV). Did Nehemiah show up and demote him? What this really shows is that the book Ezra/Nehemiah grew by accretion and there was no editor to assure continuity. Exactly how different protagonists got assigned to the two versions of the story there ' s no telling.The " Book of the Law of Mo...
Source: Stayin' Alive - June 18, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Wednesday Bible Study: Transcription error
Nehemiah 7 reveals the accretionary history of Ezra-Nehemiah. It ' s essentially a faulty transcription of Ezra 2, but the lists of the returnees from exile contradict each other in 15 places, mostly in the numbers of people. I won ' t bother to list all of the contradictions, but just so you get the idea, in Ezra 775 children of Arah returned, while here there were only 652. The numbers of the various other clans also generally differ by similar amounts, as do the number of singers and porters, and the amount of gold, silver and priestly garments the people give. So this is obviously the same story, probably copied severa...
Source: Stayin' Alive - June 14, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Hyro Raises $20M in Series B Funding to Advance AI-Powered Communications for Healthcare
New Growth Capital will help Expand Hyro’s Platform, Featuring both Conversational and Generative AI, across Key Channels in Healthcare and other Regulated Industries
Hyro, the leader in plug-and-play conversational artificial-intelligence (AI), today announced that it has finalized a $20 million Series B funding round led by Macquarie Capital, with participation from Liberty Mutual Strategic Ventures, Black Opal Ventures, and existing and new investors, bringing the company’s total funding to $35 million. With this capital raise, Hyro will continue to meet the healthcare sector’s critical demand for conversational A...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - June 9, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT 2022 Gartner Cool Vendor AI Artificial Intelligence Baptist Health Black Opal Ventures ChatGPT Conversational AI Dan Philips Generative AI Google Bard Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, May 29th 2023
In this study, we used a Drosophila model to understand the role of the dec2P384R mutation on animal health and elucidate the mechanisms driving these physiological changes. We found that the expression of the mammalian dec2P384R transgene in fly sleep neurons was sufficient to mimic the short sleep phenotype observed in mammals. Remarkably, dec2P384Rmutants lived significantly longer with improved health despite sleeping less. In particular, dec2P384R mutants were more stress resistant and displayed improved mitochondrial fitness in flight muscles. Differential gene expression analyses went on to reveal several altered tr...
Source: Fight Aging! - May 28, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
How AI Is Transforming the Patient-Provider Relationship
The following is a guest article by Ronen Lavi, Co-Founder and CEO at Navina
As Paul Starr famously wrote about in The Social Transformation of American Medicine, the healer’s relationship with the patient was historically perceived not unlike a religious leader’s relationship with a parishioner: an opportunity to get closer to a higher spiritual plane.
Today, with patients routinely “consulting” with online resources, self-diagnosing, or requesting medication they saw on a television ad, the physician-patient relationship has materially changed. That said, the objectives have not: patients wish for their doctors...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 26, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: AI/Machine Learning Clinical Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Algorithmic Bias Artificial Intelligence Care Delivery EHR Generative AI Healthcare Barriers Navin Source Type: blogs
Wednesday Bible Study: Deja vu?
Ezra and Nehemiah were originally a single book, and as a matter of fact early editions seemed to assume that they were actually the same person -- that the story was told twice, in different versions. Certainly it does seem that there is an echo in here. Both characters are Jews who have favor in the court of Ataxerxes, who sends them to be governors of Judah, and they carry out similar projects. Whatever the case, historians seem to believe that Nehemiah was a real person,that he actually was the cupbearer to Ataxerxes, as the narrator claims to be. That means he was a highly trusted courtier -- his job was basically to ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - May 24, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Towards SIRT6 Upregulation as a Calorie Restriction Mimetic Strategy
Researchers have in recent years expressed a growing interest in the role of sirtuin 6 (SIRT6) in the mechanisms of calorie restriction and improved function that occurs in response to mild stress. Many forms of stress, such as lowered levels of nutrients, produce benefits via upregulation of cellular maintenance processes such as autophagy.
That said, it is unclear as to whether calorie restriction mimetic therapies will prove to be all that interesting as a class of therapy in humans, as calorie restriction only produces significant gains in life span in short-lived species. While scientists are far from a full ac...
Source: Fight Aging! - May 23, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: More biblical morality
This is the last chapter of Ezra. Obviously, the story is implausible, but just consider the moral principle here. Speaking on behalf of Yahweh, Ezra commands an untold number of men -- evidently a substantial proportion of the population -- to abandon their wives and children and, presumably, expel them from Judah. I can assure you that the neighboring states didn ' t have refugee resettlement agencies or Aid to Families with Dependent Children, meaning that the like fate of these people was starvation. That ' s the moral thing to do, according to Ezra and his psychopathic deity. I don ' t have more to say about thi...
Source: Stayin' Alive - May 21, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Wednesday Bible Study: Miscegenation
Formatting problem with the previous post is fixerated, I hope. So, Ezra discovers that the Jews have been intermarrying with other people of the area and he completely loses his marbles. He pulls out his hair and beard, and can ' t even manage to stand up for hours. Then he finally pulls it together, berates the people, and convinces them to expel their gentile wives and children, which they do without, apparently, a murmur of protest. Indeed the Torah, and notably Deuteronomy, which was actually written late in the First Temple period, does forbid intermarriage. But there is some tension about this in the Tanak...
Source: Stayin' Alive - May 17, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Bonus Features – May 14, 2023 – Only 16% of organizations are using data to define clinical best practices, 84% of orgs hit with ransomware attacks lose revenue, and more
This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.
News
In a temporary rule, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) extended telemedicine flexibilities for prescribing controlled medications for six m...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 14, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT athenahealth AVIA Marketplace Belong.life Chris Lance Controlled Substances DEA directtrust DrFirst eClinicalWorks eCW Edifecs EPIC iO AURA ePrescribing Equiva Health Forrester Health3PT Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: Temple II?
Ezra 8 makes a very strange implication, or actually a couple of them. First we get a long list of families who decide to return to Jerusalem with Ezra, but like Ezra himself, their parents and grandparents all must have decided to remain in Babylon and not return when they had the chance at least 80 years earlier. Somehow, for two or three generations, they have retained their ethnic and religious identity, and now, for unexplained reasons, suddenly decide to return to Jerusalem after all. Even stranger, however, is that although they have held on to their religion, there are no Levites among them. Yet Ezra kno...
Source: Stayin' Alive - May 14, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Therapy Onboarding Optimization: Why the Analytics of Patient Drop-Off Requires a Closer Look
The following is a guest article by Yishai Knobel, CEO at RxWare
From April 2020 to August 2021, the healthcare solutions company Indegene looked at approximately 7.9 million emails sent by prescription drug companies across 15 different email campaigns. The results, reported in April 2022 by Fierce Pharma, highlighted the need for brands to more carefully manage how they engage with healthcare providers in a post-COVID world, where in-person meetings play second fiddle to the convenience of digital communication.
Of course, this finding should come as no surprise to anyone who has given their email address or phone numbe...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 11, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Analytics/Big Data Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Digital Communication Fierce Pharma Indegene IQVIA Patient Drop-Off Patient Onboarding prescription drugs RxWare Specialty Drugs Therapy Onbo Source Type: blogs
Wednesday Bible Study: Let's do the time warp again
The Book of Ezra continues to be chronologically challenged. The character of Ezra finally appears, in the 7th year of the reign of Ataxerxes, which would be 72 years after the death of Cyrus and something like 80 years after the return from exile described in the opening chapters. Therefore Ezra ' s father, and grandfather must have chosen to remain in Babylon, along with other priests, musicians, and temple servants as described in verse 8. While in Babylon, these people apparently exercised their offices, and Ezra studied to assume his hereditary priesthood. Why and how this happened is not explained, and it ' s especia...
Source: Stayin' Alive - May 10, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: The man grants permission
Ezra 6 probably requires some historical context that the book itself does not provide. Darius was a cousin of Cyrus the great, who usurped the Persian throne in 522 BCE, eight years after the death of Cyrus. So, on the one hand it is plausible that he would not have known about Cyrus ' s orders concerning the Jewish temple and so would have had to search the records, on the other hand the chronology doesn ' t seem entirely plausible. The temple should have been finished, or at least well on the way, by this time. Also, the mention of Ataxerxes, who took the throne in 465 BCE, is entirely anachronistic. The muddled ch...
Source: Stayin' Alive - May 7, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
