What You Should Know:
- Wolters Kluwer, Health today announced the launch of Best Care Everywhere, a mission-driven movement to build and strengthen health equity globally. Wolters Kluwer is committed to the belief that all people—everywhere—should receive the best care possible.
- Wolters Kluwer is tackling challenges head-on in an array of healthcare settings to help reduce inequities in learning, research, decision support, and care.
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Archives for 2021
Central Logic Integrates Offering and Rebrands to ABOUT
What You Should Know:
- Healthcare technology company Central Logic, today announced it has rebranded as ABOUT (ABOUT Healthcare, Inc.), as the company also announces the integration of two earlier acquisitions with its core solution, to better serve health system clients across the country.
- The integration of Ensocare—which automates the inpatient referral process to post-acute care; and Acuity Link—which provides transportation communications and logistics management
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Innovaccer Launches Patient Relationship Management (PRM) Solution
What You Should Know:
- Today Innovaccer Inc., the Health Cloud company, unveiled its Patient Relationship Management (PRM) solution on the InnovaccerⓇ Health Cloud, the first solution to bring patients’ clinical and care episodes to the forefront of a tailored patient engagement journey.
- Now providers can integrate clinical data with claims, pharmacy, laboratory, SDoH, and other consumer information to establish a complete patient record that helps engagement
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Taking a Platform Approach to Drug Pricing Issues Can Help Unify Adversarial Sides
Healthcare is a notoriously complex industry with a multitude of stakeholders, many of whom find themselves in adversarial positions, simply due to the way the market operates. Ultimately, there is a shared goal of providing the best care to the patient. But as stakeholder relationships grow more complex, there can also be conflicts that drive wedges between parties and hamper successful collaboration.
We see this dynamic playing out in many areas of healthcare, but particularly in drug
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6 Steps for Securing Patient Information in Healthcare
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) strive for innovations in healthcare technologies that drive down costs and improve the patient experience. One big step forward is the 21st Century Cures Act passed in 2016, putting patients in charge of their own health records.
Then in 2021, both the CMS Interoperability and Patient Access Final Rule and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) Information Blocking Rule went into effect, which aims to drive
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Elevate Emerges Out of Stealth with $15M to Modernize Consumer-Directed Benefits Platform
What You Should Know:
- Elevate, a Denver, CO-based next-generation consumer-directed benefits platform, today announced that it has raised $12 million in Series A funding, co-led by Greycroft and Norwest Venture Partners, with participation from existing investors Bowery Capital. The fresh round of capital coincides with Elevate’s formal public launch after a year in stealth mode, as it looks to reimagine how employers and employees access, manage and experience consumer-directed benefits.
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Aquiline Drones Establishes AI-Driven Airline for Tissue/Organ Delivery Service
What You Should Know:
- Aquiline Drones (AD), an American drone manufacturer and cloud technology enterprise announced the formation of AD Airlines after being awarded its Air Carrier Certificate by the FAA on September 16, 2021, which enables AD to commercialize its lifesaving tissue and organ delivery service.
- Specifically, AD Airlines will implement its patent-pending and unique Mixed Modal Transport Model (R2M2), starting with the use of manned aircraft, and gradually incorporating
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Sharecare Launches Evidence-Based Mental Wellness App
What You Should Know:
– Sharecare, today announced the launch of Unwinding by Sharecare, a broad-based mental well-being app designed to help people better understand how their minds work, reduce their stress, and build healthier habits. Like a virtual quick-start guide for the mind, the solution empowers people to stay grounded at the moment through evidence-based mindfulness techniques, enabling them to unwind unwanted behaviors that both result from and often exacerbate stress.
- Based
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4 Ways Hospitals Benefit From Improved Surgery Scheduling
Hospitals rely on elective surgeries as a source of up to 50% of all revenue, allowing them to take losses on a range of high-cost service lines to remain profitable. The COVID-19 pandemic laid bare the impact of reduced surgery volume, with hospitals suffering immediate revenue loss and negative profit margins.
As surgical service lines return to pre-pandemic volumes, it’s imperative for hospitals to have the right technology tools and best practices in place to maintain safe, accurate, and
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Genetika+ Raises $10M for Personalized Medicine for Psychiatry Solution
What You Should Know:
- Genetika+, a female-founded startup focused on developing personalized medicine for psychiatry conditions, that the company has closed a $10 million Series A round led by GreyBird Ventures with participation from Meron Capital, Jumpspeed Ventures, Sapir Venture Partners, Howard Morgan Chairman of B Capital Group and Michael Zeisser of FMZ Ventures and former Chairman, Investments at Alibaba Group.
- Founded in 2018 by Talia Cohen-Solal, Ph.D., and Daphna
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