GHP provides coverage to more than half a million members throughout Pennsylvania and boasts a network of more than 30,000 primary and specialty care physicians. GHP will utilize Cohere's AI-driven and machine learning technology to accelerate patient access to high-quality care while streamlining prior authorization. Cohere's digital platform creates episode-specific care paths based on the member's utilization history and individual care needs, in addition to historic results for a specific patient population. Fully transparent, evidence-based suggestions prompt providers to select high-value care options before requests are submitted, reducing peer-to-peer clinical reviews and denials. Initial clinical improvement programs will focus on increasing patient access to conservative and home-based treatments.

GoodRx a leading consumer-focused digital healthcare platform, announced the completion of its previously announced acquisition of vitaCare for $150 million in cash, with an additional $7 million of consideration contingent payment upon vitaCare's financial performance through 2023. VitaCare is a pharmacy services platform that expands GoodRx's offering to pharmaceutical manufacturers while helping to improve patient access and adherence to affordable brand drugs. The acquisition will enable GoodRx to help more patients receive their prescriptions in an efficient, affordable, and transparent manner, and stay on their prescribed therapies as long as appropriate. In addition, the acquisition is expected to further strengthen our rapidly growing Pharma Manufacturer Solutions offerings which span medication awareness, access, and adherence with unique capabilities. "The vitaCare acquisition gives us unique capabilities to facilitate the brand prescription process from start to finish, expanding our capabilities beyond our digital platform and into the patient's pharmacy journey," said Doug Hirsch, co-CEO and co-founder of GoodRx.

READY FOR ITS CLOSE-UP: Artificial intelligence has long been hyped as a game changer in health care: Remember this 2012 prediction that computers will replace 80 percent of doctors? But it's been much harder to get a sense of the real-world scale of the phenomenon. Is AI a perpetual technology of the future? Or is it starting to get a toehold? A recently released Food and Drug Administration database starts to get at that question.

Myomo, Inc., a wearable medical robotics company that offers increased functionality for those suffering from neurological disorders and upper-limb paralysis, announced that Harry Kovelman, MD, is joining the Company as its Chief Medical Officer, effective November 2. In this role, Dr. Kovelman will oversee Myomo's patient advocacy organization, which helps ensure MyoPro patients' clinical qualification for the brace and pursues insurance coverage. At Myomo, he will work closely with commercial and government payer organizations to continue to increase patient access to the MyoPro product line. Dr. Kovelman brings 25 years of experience in medical devices and pharmaceuticals, including roles as Global Medical Director for Orthopedics at Ottobock Healthcare and Global Medical Affairs Director for Dynasplint Systems. He has also held senior executive roles at Pacira Pharmaceuticals, and Helius Medical Technologies. He is the author of several papers on rehabilitation procedures and has presented at numerous professional conferences on various innovations in healthcare products and services.

Long wait times for patients can be the undoing of a large clinic or a hospital system. According to a recent survey, 84% of patients consider a reasonable wait somewhat or very important to a quality experience, and 30% say they've left a medical appointment because of an inordinately long wait. And a whopping 20% of patients say they'd consider changing providers due to wait times alone. That's why Mohan Giridharadas, a Stanford graduate and former McKinsey and Company partner, founded Charlotte, North Carolina- and Santa Clara-based LeanTaaS. It's a predictive analytics company that taps data science to "radically" improve health care provider performance, using cloud-based solutions to solve problems like resource utilization.