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Elevance Health is finding ways to connect with the community in order to achieve better health equity.

HealthBook+ provides a way for individuals to aggregate and use their personal health information safely and securely to power AI engines that direct people to their next best health action. Importantly, it also gives employers predictive insights to help them provide the most relevant benefits for their employees.

The healthcare industry must prioritize the development and implementation of universal tools that can efficiently navigate, interpret, and derive value from the growing wealth of health data.

In the runup to the MedCity INVEST Digital Health conference, Christoph Besmer, a trade commissioner and head of investment promotion with Swiss Business Hub USA, talked about the “X Marks the Spot” campaign and how Switzerland Global Enterprise hopes to strengthen ties with U.S. health tech companies. 

Pair Team's $9 million Series A funding round was led by Next Ventures and included participation from PTX Capital, Create Health Ventures, OCA Ventures, CHCF Innovation Fund, Kapor Capital and other investors. In total, Pair Team has raised about $20 million.

Companies built for other businesses are attempting to offroad their skills into a brand new field. These fairweather healthcare players are unprepared for the terrain. Meanwhile, the true disruptors of this industry are already in it.

Abivax pulled off stock market deals in the U.S. and Europe that infuse the biotech with capital to continue clinical development of a small molecule for inflammation that’s differentiated from biologic therapies. In other biotech IPO news, Cargo Therapeutics and Invea Therapeutics both filed paperwork to go public.

The INVEST Digital Health conference in Dallas, a collaboration between MedCity News and the Health Wildcatters accelerator, spotlights a wide range of hot topics in digital health, a startup pitch contest focused on femtech, and networking opportunities with investors and healthcare stakeholders. Register today!

Consultants are spending more time evaluating vendors and parsing options in growing areas such as mental health, inclusive family planning and chronic care, according to “The 2023 Benefit Consultant Sentiment Index” conducted over the summer in partnership with Quantum Health.

Demand is increasing, yet many payers are still hesitant to cover them – in large part thanks to laws that govern coverage, a lack of clarity regarding coverage approaches, and questions regarding evidence generation for these solutions.