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Omada Health Raises $50 Million, Led by Cigna

6/14/2017

 
Via: Business Wire 
SAN FRANCISCO & BLOOMFIELD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Building on the largest enrollment quarter in the company’s history, Omada Health today announced a $50 million fundraising round led by global health services leader Cigna (NYSE: CI). In addition to leading the fundraising round, Cigna will also grow its non-exclusive commercial partnership with Omada, adding the recognized Omada Program to Cigna’s suite of health improvement services. Joining the Cigna-led fundraising round were new investors Civilization Ventures and Sanofi Genzyme BioVentures.

As part of the expanded commercial collaboration, eligible Cigna-administered health plan customers may have no-cost access to Omada’s digital intensive behavioral counseling platform as a fully covered preventive benefit in the carrier’s health improvement program portfolio. The Cigna-Omada Initiative will incorporate Omada’s data-driven, evidence-based digital behavioral counseling program and be available to Cigna customers with prediabetes, as well as those at elevated risk of chronic conditions such as heart disease and hypertension.

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 http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170614005208/en/Omada-Health-Raises-50-Million-Led-Cigna

Cigna leads Omada Health’s latest $50M investment round

6/14/2017

 
Via: MedCity News
Aside from Humana and Kaiser Permanente Ventures, Omada Health has scored yet another insurer investor: Cigna.

Omada, which has a built a digital platform to prevent prediabetics from becoming full-blown Type 2 diabetes patients, announced Wednesday that Cigna led its $50 million round that also attracted two new investors: Civilization Ventures and Sanofi Genzyme BioVentures.

Cigna is doing more than just investing in Omada. It is also expanding its commercial partnership with the San Francisco-based company such that the behavioral health technology will be made available to Cigna customers with prediabetes, as well as those at higher risk of chronic conditions such as heart disease and hypertension.

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 http://medcitynews.com/2017/06/cigna-leads-omada-healths-latest-50m-investment-round/

New procedure help prevent 'procedural stroke' at Virginia Mason

6/12/2017

 
Via: KING 5
Stroke prevention is all about catching a problem before it becomes life or death. Treatment usually involves angioplasty or a stent to increase blood flow in the arteries.

Now, a new procedure promises to lower the chance of stroke during surgery by redirecting and filtering blood.

Traditional surgeries to place a stent can pose the risk of what’s called a 'procedural stroke,' that's when doctors dislodge plaque from the arteries, and it gets into the brain. But Vascular surgeons at Virginia Mason have a new tool to protect from procedural stroke called trans carotid artery revascularization or TCAR.

Here's how it works - a specialized sheath, or tube, is placed in the common carotid artery which reverses the blood flow, directing it away from the brain. That blood then runs through a filter which catches any plaque loosened during the procedure. Finally, a stent is placed in the artery through the same sheath used to reverse blood flow.

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www.king5.com/news/local/new-procedure-help-prevent-procedural-stroke-at-virginia-mason/447989054

New technique prevents strokes by reversing blood flow through brain

6/2/2017

 
Via: The San Diego Union-Tribune
Oxygen-rich blood generally flows from the heart to the brain, but a new technology aimed at preventing strokes temporarily reverses that path.

Surgeons at Sharp Grossmont Hospital in La Mesa are the first in this region, and among a growing number nationwide, to use the system to channel blood from the brain through a special external filter and then injecting it back into the body via a vein in the leg.

The point of this unusual rerouting is to keep bits of plaque in a clogged carotid artery — plaque can be knocked loose during insertion of a stent — from traveling to the brain, where they can cause strokes.
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“While the flow is reversed, any plaque that tries to break loose gets filtered out,” said Dr. Scott Musicant, a vascular surgeon at Sharp Grossmont.

Made by Silk Road Medical in Sunnyvale, the system is a new take on the well-established idea of using stents to open narrowed carotid arteries. Studies of this technology, which has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and is covered by Medicare, found that only 1.4 percent of patients suffered strokes when undergoing the blood-flow-reversal technique. In comparison, strokes occurred in about 4 percent of patients who underwent regular stenting procedures.


Read More: ​http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/health/sd-me-brain-blood-20170602-story.html 

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