Carrum Health recently announced that the state of Maine will leverage Carrum’s pioneering Centers of Excellence (COE) platform to enhance employee benefits. Carrum will be offered through a partnership with Maine’s Healthcare Purchaser Alliance, offering state employees, early retirees and their dependents access to Carrum’s award-winning COE platform, which pairs the best providers with bundled payments to lower medical costs for a wide range of surgical procedures.
“We selected Carrum Health because of its robust quality evaluation process, which gives our members access to the best providers for predictable and affordable cost,” said Kurt Caswell, executive director, Employee Health & Benefits for the State of Maine. “The benefit has been well received, and we are looking forward to growing the program with Carrum.”
By partnering with the top 10% of hospitals and surgeons across the country, Carrum Health leverages the most esteemed medical expertise and technology to help large employers combat the dramatically rising cost of healthcare. The State of Maine is the latest public sector healthcare purchasers to choose Carrum Health because of its easy implementation, compatibility with existing benefits, and compliance with data and security standards of federal, state and local governments.
“Carrum Health is excited to partner with the State of Maine to improve employee benefits while reducing costs,” said Sach Jain, CEO of Carrum Health. “This partnership further demonstrates our continuing ability to meet the needs of large public sector employers.”
Rx.Health, which is integrating prescription of digital therapeutics with digital navigation programs for episodes of care, is expanding to six states. At the Clinically Validated Digital Therapeutics Conference in Boston Rx.Health, a spinoff from the Mount Sinai health system, shared how health systems are not only prescribing digital therapeutics from its EHR-integrated Digital Prescribing Platform but also digital navigation programs (DNP) which serve as the digital front door for bundles and “episodes of care” across different procedures and service lines. Recently, Rx.Health won the award for the impact of its DNP at American College of Radiology on reducing no-shows and improving procedure readiness and satisfaction with Radiology procedures at Yale New Haven.
Rx.Health uses Bulk Prescription™ and RxStitch™ released earlier this year to allow care teams to prescribe digital therapeutics, chatbots and apps in unified digital front door DNP experience to entire cohorts of patients through a single click. It will showcase its library of shareable use-cases with ROI from its partnering health system at NODE.Health’s 2019 Digital Medicine Conference from December 9-11 in New York City. Click here to read more.
Rad AI, an AI-powered startup in radiology focusing on workflow, has raised $4 million in a seed funding round led by Gradient Ventures, Google’s AI-focused venture fund. Other investors that took part include UP2398, Precursor Ventures, GMO Venture Partners, Array Ventures, Hike Ventures, Fifty Years VC and various angels. Click here to read more.
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