HEALTH TECHNOLOGY
Bearpac Medical, LLC | March 16, 2022
Bearpac Medical, LLC announced that Vizient, Inc., the nation's leading member-driven healthcare performance improvement organization, has awarded Bearpac Medical, LLC an Innovative Technology contract for their Passio Pump Drainage System. The contract was awarded based on hospital experts serving on one of Vizient's member-led councils recommending the Passio Pump Drainage System. It demonstrates to Vizient members that the Passio Pump Drainage System possesses unique characteristics that can improve the healthcare industry.
Innovative technology contracts are proposed after evaluation and engagement with items submitted to Vizient's Innovative Technology Program. Councils headed by Vizient members discover innovations to improve clinical treatment, patient safety, worker safety, or healthcare organizations' business operations.
Bearpac has created a digital handheld control unit with a pump mechanism that evacuates patient fluid into a collecting bag at a vacuum pressure of -45 to -70 cm H2O. This vacuum level is exponentially lower than the competitors. As a result, Passio's simple digital platform empowers malignant pleural effusion (MPE) patients and caregivers to manage their treatment from the comfort of their own homes.
"Bearpac is excited and honored to be recognized by Vizient for the innovation that Passio brings to the MPE drainage space, which has not evolved in over 20 years. We look forward to working with Vizient to offer their members the next generation of pleural drainage therapy."
Jay Zimmerman, President of Bearpac Medical
"Our member councils reviewed and determined the Passio Pump Drainage System should be recognized with an Innovative Technology contract based on its potential to make an incremental difference in health care," said Kelly Flaharty, director of the contract process. "Congratulations to Bearpac on receiving this contract status."
Vizient serves a varied membership base, including university medical centers, pediatric institutions, community hospitals, integrated health delivery networks, and non-acute health care providers, with an annual buying volume of more than $110 billion. Vizient's Innovative Technology Program collaborates with member-led councils and task groups to assess products for their potential to transform health care via true innovation. In addition, Vizient has the right to grant contracts to goods con
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FUTURE OF HEALTHCARE
Mpowered Health | October 22, 2021
Mpowered Health, a consumer health empowerment company, today announced a partnership with eHealth, Inc., a leading online health insurance marketplace.
Through its partnership with eHealth, Mpowered Health's consumers who include seniors, uninsured and underinsured families, can now review, compare, and enroll in a broad selection of plans, with access to tools that will help them find plans covering their preferred doctors and personal prescription drug needs at the lowest price.
"Our vision is to provide consumers the convenience, choice, transparency and access they need to make better healthcare decisions for themselves and their families. Providing a convenient, personalized coverage purchasing experience is aligned with this vision. We are pleased to partner with eHealth in bringing this convenience to our consumers."
Nandini Devi, Founder & CEO, Mpowered Health
"Mpowered Health's commitment to promoting market transparency and empowering consumers makes it a natural partner for eHealth," said John Connor, eHealth's Vice President and General Manager of Strategic Partnerships. "At eHealth, we're dedicated to serving the needs of all health insurance consumers, from individuals and families to Medicare beneficiaries, by helping them find the very best coverage for their personal needs and budget. We're excited to work with Mpowered Health toward that goal."
Prior to founding Mpowered Health, Nandini co-founded ZeOmega and helped scale it into one of the largest population health management solutions companies in the industry.
Nandini founded Mpowered Health in February 2019 as a bold move intended to give consumers a voice, the transparency, the choice, the access and the convenience they need to manage their own and their family's healthcare from birth to end-of-life.
About Mpowered Health
Mpowered Health is a consumer-driven healthcare technology company committed to creating a better healthcare experience for consumers and enterprises. The California-based company empowers consumers to take charge of their healthcare by providing mobile-led solutions that improve transparency, choice, access and convenience.
About eHealth
eHealth, Inc. operates a leading health insurance marketplace at eHealth.com and eHealthMedicare.com with technology that provides consumers with health insurance enrollment solutions. Since 1997, eHealth has connected more than 8 million members with quality, affordable health insurance, Medicare options, and ancillary plans. eHealth's proprietary marketplace offers Medicare Advantage, Medicare Supplement, Medicare Part D prescription drug, individual, family, small business and other plans from over 200 health insurance carriers across 50 states and the District of Columbia.
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HEALTH TECHNOLOGY
PicnicHealth | May 25, 2021
PicnicHealth and Komodo Health today announced a partnership to support real-world evidence research programs for complex illnesses like multiple sclerosis and hemophilia. With this partnership, PicnicHealth will enrich its database of de-identified patient medical records with data from Komodo’s Healthcare Map™. The combined breadth and depth of real-world patient data will help support research efforts to shut gaps in care, address unmet patient needs, and streamline clinical development efforts to deliver life-saving therapies to appropriate patients.
By integrating PicnicHealth’s data with Komodo’s Healthcare Map, PicnicHealth’s Research Platform will offer differentiated insights on complex therapeutic areas which will have variable impacts on population subsets. For heterogeneous diseases like MS, controlled clinical research settings are limited within the scope of insights they supply. At an equivalent time, real-world studies have historically faced challenges in gathering the required data in these therapeutic areas where patients are moving between providers and healthcare organizations, which each use different systems of record.
To address these shortcomings, PicnicHealth is tapping Komodo’s Sentinel platform to collect journeys of thousands of patients with a given condition into one research database. The series of initiatives is already generating insights that layer demographic and geographic distributions of patients with analyses of patient journeys and care patterns to unlock new learnings about patients with previously difficult-to-study diseases.
PicnicHealth provides patients ownership of their medical data by aggregating each patient’s medical records into a comprehensive and accessible dashboard. In July 2020, the corporate launched the PicnicHealth Research Platform, a real-world evidence-based biomedical research program to explore the progression of diseases, including MS, red blood cell disease, and hemophilia, among others.
Komodo Health has created a new standard for real-world data and analytics by pairing the industry’s most complete view of patient encounters with enterprise cloud technologies that connect the dots between individual patient journeys and large-scale health outcomes. Komodo’s Healthcare Map unlocks a deeper understanding of the healthcare experiences of quite 325 million patients. Additionally, its Sentinel platform allows clinical, commercial, and HEOR Life Sciences teams to integrate data from the Healthcare Map with their proprietary datasets to trace detailed patient behaviors and treatment patterns that unlock critical strategic insights.
About PicnicHealth
PicnicHealth may be a healthcare technology company that partners with patients, porting their complete medical records into an easy-to-use online application. The platform gives patients unprecedented access to and control over their medical records and, with their consent, the chance to contribute this valuable data to further research projects. Founded in 2014 by Noga Leviner and Troy Astorino, the corporate partners with several of the world’s largest biopharma companies and academic research institutions. PicnicHealth has raised quite $35M from Felicis Ventures, Amplify Partners, Foresite Capital, Refactor Capital, and Y Combinator.
About Komodo Health
Komodo Health believes that smarter, more innovative use of knowledge and analytics is important for reducing disease burden. We apply AI and other advanced data science techniques to our first-of-its-kind Healthcare Map™, which tracks the unique patient journeys of over 325 million patients. We empower a mess of healthcare stakeholders – life sciences companies, healthcare payers and providers, patient advocacy groups, et al. – to make a less expensive, value-driven healthcare system.
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