INSURANCE
Exela Technologies | January 12, 2022
Exela Technologies, Inc. (“Exela”)today announced that it continues to expand its relationship with a leading health insurance organization that spans almost two decades. This customer continues to accelerate deployment of Exela’s PCH Global platform to speed up their digital transformation and improve both the member and provider experience. The latest expansion is valued at $6.2 million of additional contract value revenue.
Exela continues to invest in expanding PCH Global’s capabilities to provide a cloud hosted solution with one of the best edit resolutions for healthcare claims. This extension of deployment marks another milestone in the value proposition of the PCH Global platform to digitally connect members, providers and insurance companies to enable clean claims, payment transparency and digital appeals. PCH Global’s cloud network also offers increased scalability, the highest uptime and best business continuity protections. PCH Global has robust data analytics which are continually improving as Exela processes more and more data. Additionally, PCH Global’s improved data analytics can be accessed via a self-service model.
“We are proud of our long standing partnership and privileged to be part of customer’s digital transformation journey. Adoption of our PCH Global platform continues to address healthcare industry’s goal to deliver most efficient, cost effective and best healthcare to the members.”
Suresh Yannamani, President of Exela
About Exela Technologies
Exela Technologies is a business process automation (BPA) leader, leveraging a global footprint and proprietary technology to provide digital transformation solutions enhancing quality, productivity, and end-user experience. With decades of experience operating mission-critical processes, Exela serves a growing roster of more than 4,000 customers throughout 50 countries, including over 60% of the Fortune® 100. Utilizing foundational technologies spanning information management, workflow automation, and integrated communications, Exela’s software and services include multi-industry, departmental solution suites addressing finance and accounting, human capital management, and legal management, as well as industry-specific solutions for banking, healthcare, insurance, and the public sector. Through cloud-enabled platforms, built on a configurable stack of automation modules, and over 17,500 employees operating in 23 countries, Exela rapidly deploys integrated technology and operations as an end-to-end digital journey partner.
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FUTURE OF HEALTHCARE
Omega Healthcare | March 09, 2022
Omega Healthcare, a leading healthcare management solutions partner supporting the broad healthcare ecosystem, today announced its acquisition of Reventics, aDenver, CObased company.
Reventics is a clinical documentation improvement ("CDI") and revenue cycle management ("RCM") solutions provider that delivers Provider Engagement Solutions to enhance physician reimbursement and compliance, while improving clinical quality measures.
This acquisition enables Omega Healthcare to expand its core coding and RCM offering by leveraging Reventics' proprietary cloud native platforms for CDI and RCM - RevCDI and RevMAX - along with expert clinical resources to drive improved outcomes for its clients.
The transaction is part of Omega Healthcare's strategic growth plan to expand its existing CDI capabilities through technology-driven solutions, giving Omega exceptional scale and proficiency in this specialized competency.
"Reventics brings to our organization clinical excellence, analytic capabilities, and new age technologies to complement Omega's existing technology and automation services. Not only is this a strategic fit that will benefit our clients, but we will be able to expand our CDI and RCM capabilities through this acquisition, while increasing our AI capabilities as well."
Anurag Mehta, CEO of Omega Healthcare
"We see our core values of "client first" approach reflected in Omega's own philosophy and are excited by how our clients could benefit from the larger enterprise and its extensive capabilities. We believe the client partnerships we currently enjoy will only be strengthened through this transaction." saysArnab Sen, CEO of Reventics. "
"Omega is excited to welcome the Reventics team and is eagerly looking forward to creating enhanced value for its customers under the combined leadership" addedSumithra Gomatam, Executive Chair of Omega.
Anurag Mehtawill continue to serve as the CEO of the combined entity.
About Omega Healthcare
Founded in 2003, Omega helps payers, providers, and pharmaceutical companies eliminate administrative burdens, accelerate cash flow, and reduce health management costs while enhancing patient care. The company streamlines medical billing, coding, and collections processes and provides virtual nursing services, including triage, care continuation, clinical documentation improvement, and re-admittance avoidance. Combining the largest medical coding staff in the world with proprietary technology, analytics, and automation capabilities, Omega provides the most comprehensive outsourced solutions in the industry and is ranked among the top revenue cycle management business process services by industry analysts.
Backed by the Private Equity business within Goldman Sachs Asset Management and Everstone Group, Omega has more than 20,000 employees acrossthe United States,India,the Philippines.
About Reventics
Reventics is a physician-focusedclinical documentation improvement (CDI)andrevenue cycle management (RCM)company. The company is changing the way the industry thinks about CDI and RCM by placing the provider at the center of its solutions. From the AI that powers Reventics' products to its physician-led delivery approach, Reventics drives an unrelenting focus on clinicians, to improve their operational and financial outcomes. Reventics' approach is based on using itsto deliver Provider Engagement Solutions that enhance physician reimbursement and compliance while improving clinical quality measures.
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HEALTH TECHNOLOGY
Titan Medical Inc. | May 04, 2022
Titan Medical Inc. a medical device company focused on the development and commercialization of innovative surgical technologies for single access robotic-assisted surgery announced receipt of a $2.6 million purchase order from Medtronic plc a global leader in healthcare technology.
The order covers the purchase of instruments and cameras that will be used in preclinical activities and the evaluation of Titan Medical as a potential manufacturing and supply partner for Medtronic.
“Medtronic has been a great partner for Titan since 2020 and we’re excited about this opportunity to further our work together. Our manufacturing team and capabilities continue to expand at our operations in Chapel Hill. With this order, we will produce instruments and cameras for Medtronic’s evaluation and testing in addition to producing instruments and cameras for our own single-access RAS platform, Enos.”
Paul Cataford, Interim President and CEO of Titan
For clarity, these agreements are between Medtronic and Titan Medical Inc. Titan Medical is not affiliated with Titan Spine, which Medtronic acquired in 2019.
About Titan Medical
Titan Medical Inc. a medical device company headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, with operations in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, is focused on enhancing robotic-assisted surgery (RAS) using innovative technology through a single access point. The Enos™ robotic single access surgical system is being developed with an ergonomic focus to provide a surgical experience that imitates real-life movements that surgeons demand. The Enos system includes multi-articulating instruments designed to allow surgeons an increased range of motion in a confined space, with dexterity and the ability to exert the forces necessary to complete common surgical tasks. Titan intends to initially pursue gynecologic surgical indications with the Enos
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FUTURE OF HEALTHCARE
GeneQuantum Healthcare | April 19, 2022
GeneQuantum Healthcare Co., Ltd., a company specializing in site-specific bioconjugation for next generation biotherapeutics, has signed an agreement with a Korean biotech company, Aimed Bio Inc., to co-develop a First-in-Class therapeutic antibody drug conjugate (ADC). Aimed Bio, a spin-off company from Samsung Medical Center, is focusing on developing innovative antibody-centric drugs for brain diseases with few treatment options. Additional details were not disclosed.
GeneQuantum focuses on next generation Antibody Drug Conjugate development. Taking advantage of the proprietary 'Ligase Dependent Conjugation' technology platform, which allows a site-specific conjugation of cytotoxins or other type of payloads to antibodies, the company has successfully developed a robust pipeline with more than 10 assets, with several at or approaching clinical stage. In addition to expanding the unique technology platform, the company has entered into a number of partnerships with domestic biotech/pharmaceutical companies and international partners. The growing number of partnerships speaks to the power of the GeneQuantum platform technology for not only improving key therapeutic characteristics of existing molecules, but also for creating new classes of molecules, ultimately increasing the number of available treatment options for patients worldwide. GeneQuantum is excited about the significant potential of partnerships with business partners and will continue to expand its deal pipeline in the antibody drug conjugate and protein therapeutic market.
The collaborating ADC is a first-in-class asset with highly differentiated antibody against a unique target, a stable linker design and a novel payload with a strong by-stander killing effect. The resulting ADC is expected to treat brain and other cancers with huge unmet needs.
"As an innovative antibody+ company, we look for complementary partners to maximize value of our platform technology. Aimed Bio not only has differentiated antibody acting on a unique target but also has deep knowledge and expertise in the field of brain tumor & CNS diseases. This collaboration is based on an excellent match between the two companies to generate a FIC ADC. Through close partnership, we are thrilled to bring revolutionary therapy for those patients without efficient treatment at this moment."
Dr. Gang Qin, the Founder & Chairman, CEO of GeneQuantum
Dr. Dohyun Nam, the Founder & Chairman, CTO of Aimed Bio and internationally renowned neurosurgeon with 32 years of experience in brain tumor & CNS diseases commented: "Aimed Bio has been successfully expanding its R&D pipeline for the past 2 years, and I am pleased to start this collaboration with GeneQuantum. After evaluating the data, the linker-payload and conjugation technology GeneQuantum provides proved to be very safe and effective. With the best antibody and brain tumor expertise of Aimed Bio, I believe the collaborating ADC will bring a tremendous impact on the field. We look forward to initiating clinical trial as soon as possible."
About GeneQuantum Healthcare Co., Ltd.
GeneQuantum Healthcare Co., Ltd. is a high-tech biopharmaceutical company dedicated to the development of innovative biotherapeutics. The company is focused on the development of a next generation of bioconjugate therapeutics to meet the unmet medical needs of cancer patients globally. For more information, visit www.genequantum.com.
About AIMEDBIO Inc.
AIMEDBIO is a spin-off company from Samsung Medical Center established in August 2018. AIMEDBIO aims to provide therapeutic solutions to patients with serious brain diseases, including neuro-oncological and -degenerative diseases, to save patients' lives and improve patients' quality of life. Based on solid global networks with key opinion leaders in the field, an excellent research team with profound achievements, and R&D pipelines with an outstanding drug development platform, AIMEDBIO is an emerging leader for development of innovative therapeutics against diverse brain diseases.
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