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The Driver: Cured, a healthcare digital marketing and customer relationship management (CRM) platform The round was led by DNA Capital and joined by CU Healthcare Innovation Fund, UCHealth, High Alpha, Waterline During their time in other roles, the founders noticed that healthcare organizations were consistently Unlike other industries, the healthcare industry sends digital communication to patients as an exception Cured’s latest innovation in healthcare marketing allows healthcare organizations to use over 70 “curations

Background: The shortage of clinical workers in healthcare is a major problem for health systems in the Remote patient monitoring allows healthcare providers to monitor and capture health data from patients Enhanced remote monitoring technology can positively impact healthcare delivery by 1) reducing patient Digitizing Healthcare Supply Chain is Essential for Value-Based Care-The HSB Blog 1/10/22 Virtual care Virtual Care May Be One Answer to Healthcare’s Nursing Shortage-The HSB Blog 5/10/22

lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and others (LGBTQ+) community is being empowered with the healthcare tools they need for healthy lives that begin to address historic disparities in healthcare access and LGBTQ+ insurance coverage and healthcare discrimination are two significant issues faced by this community The overall state of LGBTQ+ health and availability of healthcare in America is still very poor compared . 18% of LGBTQ+ adults reported having avoided healthcare due to anticipation of discrimination, along

healthcare organizations enhancing their ability to optimize operations while lowering the costs and from fee-for-service reimbursement systems to value-based care, given the need to optimize service delivery In order to optimize cost, minimize errors and foster patient centric care, healthcare organizations To address supply chain disruptions, 88% of healthcare executives identified AI as a critical technology For example, a more digitized healthcare supply chain enlightened by AI might have led to more timely

Earlier this year we wrote a piece on how virtual care my be one anwer to healthcare’s labor shortages , please see: Virtual Care May Be One Answer to Healthcare’s Labor Shortages-The HSB Blog 1/31/22. Our Take: Leveraging virtual care is one way to deal with a number of the issues that healthcare’s workforce While healthcare workers are experiencing elevated levels of stress, patients may also experience a different Going virtual is a way to create work-life balance and still practice their craft, optimizing the benefits

Our Take: Understanding the uniqueness of the U.S. healthcare sector is crucial for digital health investors goals of the so-called “triple aim” of healthcare reform simultaneously. Payment and healthcare costs: The system of payment and reimbursement in the healthcare sector is complex Implications: The healthcare sector is a unique industry with several requirements that healthcare innovators Related Reading: The Business of Healthcare and the Economics of Healthcare: Shall Ever the Twain Meet

Key Takeaways: Access to rural healthcare has gotten significantly worse over the past 7 years with over Homeward’s mission is to provide access to primary and specialty healthcare for rural America using a The Differentiator: Homeward's goal is to completely redesign rural healthcare from the ground up, in the words of co-founder Schneider, we want to "rearchitect" rural healthcare, "we're not reinventing As noted in a recent Fierce healthcare article, Homeward’s teams conduct physical exams, take vital signs

Take: The digital health industry is increasingly moving to platform solutions, with many different healthcare While companies that buy and sell healthcare technology products both stand to benefit from this trend For industries that are associated with complex problems, including healthcare, education, government Although the healthcare industry has large market opportunities, it is highly regulated with legal and improving healthcare delivery when the barriers to innovation can be overcome.

Our Take: Leveraging virtual care is one way to deal with a number of the issues that healthcare’s workforce While healthcare workers are experiencing elevated levels of stress, patients may also experience a different It is important to understand the dynamics of the overlapping crisis we currently face as healthcare professionals quit and the barriers hospitals and Healthcare systems face to catch up. Going virtual is a way to create work-life balance and still practice their craft, optimizing the benefits

and availability of digital health during COVID has begun to address some of the structural racism in healthcare improving satisfaction and broadening access to healthcare delivery. Nevertheless, structural racism in healthcare remains and has impacted the quality of care provided and starting from the conception of public healthcare facilities. inequities will we start to navigate our way through this most complex of ecosystems to achieve more optimal

Our Take: To fully complete the transition to the digitalization of healthcare we must incorporate greater Digital healthcare has many advantages and has given patients greater access to clinicians who are now In addition, the report also found that 57% of healthcare providers viewed telehealth more favorably Clinicians must recognize that technology used in a healthcare setting is usually biased in their favor Related Readings: Digital Health is a Cultural Transformation of Traditional Healthcare Compassion Tech

Our Take: While non-traditional tech and retail disrupters in healthcare, like IBM, Walmart, Amazon, Hathaway (through the Haven joint venture), and Google, all had different goals in changing the face of healthcare IBM built up and eventually branded its AI healthcare unit as Watson Health to use AI to improve health One of the things we see with organizations that have been more successful in applying AI in healthcare , “healthcare is always a local delivery and local financed industry...the challenge is always aligning