Healthy mine Melissa Smith, Executive Vice President of Consulting and Professional Services, recently accepted an interview with AIS Health Medical Insurance Advantage Radar. In this exclusive Q&A, Smith shared how the Medicare Advantage organization can use scalable digital participation to observe across populations to improve the patient experience. This article explains how it plans to use technology to prevent and resolve membership issues throughout the year in order to get more positive feedback in future CAHPS surveys.
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Virtual reality skeleton, A virtual reality startup that supports medical training, has completed a $27 million Series B financing. Recent partners with medical device companies include Johnson & Johnson, Stryker and Smith. GSR Ventures led the investment, with participation of SignalFire, Kaiser Permanente Ventures and Anorak Ventures. To read more, click here.
Crow Biomaterial Get investment Ben Franklin Technology Partner in Northeast Pennsylvania Support the development, testing, and preparation of magnetic beads to separate biological components from blood. The company’s first application aims to improve the manufacturing of cell therapy for cancer treatment, increasing the production of targeted cell materials at a significantly lower cost than current methods. Other applications under development include patient monitoring, gene therapy, antibody production, blood banks, vaccine manufacturing, and scientific research. To learn more, please click here.
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