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- 0:00This is Naomi diaz with the Becker Digital
- 0:02Health podcast.
- 0:03Here's your daily industry news briefing for today,
- 0:05July first.
- 0:07First,
- 0:08Cleveland Clinic and Mass mo, a provider of
- 0:10medical technology and hospital
- 0:12automation tools, are joining forces on a new
- 0:14partnership focused on hospital based remote patient monitoring
- 0:17and tele critical care.
- 0:19Under the partnership, Cleveland Clinic critical care and
- 0:21non critical care central hospital patient monitoring platforms
- 0:24will be integrated with Mas most hospital automation
- 0:27platform.
- 0:28According to a news release from Mas mode
- 0:30the aim equip clinicians with tools that improve
- 0:32such an situational awareness and support clinical decision
- 0:35making for hospitalized patients. To The partnership would
- 0:38also include joint development initiatives on predictive analytics
- 0:41and Ai based algorithms aimed at improving cardiac
- 0:44care.
- 0:46Second,
- 0:47Health technology company fabric acquired Walmart virtual care
- 0:51business, me md, which serves 30000 employers and
- 0:54has 5000000 members.
- 0:56Walmart announced plans in April to exit the
- 0:58healthcare care provider space and closest health centers
- 1:00june in 20 eighth.
- 1:02The retail giant had acquired Me med in
- 1:0420 21 to provide on demand medical and
- 1:06behavioral health services.
- 1:08Meme med grew significantly significantly over the last
- 1:113 years and will now contribute to fact
- 1:13fabrics expansion strategy
- 1:16Fabric will keep serving sam club members after
- 1:19the acquisition.
- 1:21Fabrics current customer base includes Cleveland Clinic, inter
- 1:24mounted health, Mu health and has more than
- 1:26200 employees and recently closed 60000000 dollars series
- 1:30a funded ground.
- 1:31General catalysts, G ventures, Salesforce ventures, and thrive
- 1:34capital are among Fabric
- 1:36financial backers.
- 1:38Third,
- 1:39United health Group's Opt has scrapped his plan
- 1:42to acquire Dallas based stored Healthcare physician Group
- 1:45Storage Health. The Boston Globe reported June 20
- 1:48seventh.
- 1:49Opt, which has almost 90000 employed or affiliated
- 1:52physician, agreed toy a preliminary deal in March
- 1:55to acquire them physician group, which comprises primary
- 1:57care physicians and other clinicians in 8 states.
- 2:01Stored an Opt did not finalize an asset
- 2:03purchase agreement and Opt is no longer purse
- 2:06pursuing the acquisition according to the globe. It
- 2:08is not clear whether stored is negotiating with
- 2:10other potential buyers for the physician group, which
- 2:13is recently described as a highly desired app
- 2:15asset.
- 2:16Stuart stewardship for chapter eleventh bankruptcy May 6
- 2:19and as required to sell its assets, including
- 2:2231 hospitals through act with auctions.
- 2:25Becker has reached out to Stored at Opt
- 2:27and will update this story as more information
- 2:29becomes available.
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