What You Should Know:
- Labcorp has announced the acquisition of femtech startup Ovia Health, a digital health platform used by millions of women seeking information and support with family planning, pregnancy, and parenting. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.
- The acquisition extends Labcorp’s position as a leading, go-to source for women’s health insights, opens new avenues for personalized care experiences, and fosters better dialogue between
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Archives for 2021
Cigna & Fresenius Extend VBC Program to Help More People with Kidney Failure
What You Should Know:
- Today, Fresenius Medical Care North America (FMCNA) and Cigna announced an expansion of their value-based care(VBC) program to improve health outcomes and lower the cost of care for those living with kidney failure, or end stage renal disease (ESRD), through at least 2023.
- First launched in 2017 as part of Cigna Collaborative Care, the VBC program will now include additional incentives to support more kidney disease specialists
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3 Ways Healthcare Orgs Can Work to Prevent Insider Security Threats
Though it’s often “highly sophisticated” or “nation-state” attackers that make headlines, the truth is that healthcare’s most overlooked cybersecurity threats are within the IT ecosystem. In fact, according to Verizon’s 2021 Data Breach Investigations Report, nearly 40 percent of all global security incidents in 2020 were caused by inside actors. These insider threats are often not malicious in nature, but accidental errors, such as employees clicking on phishing links, using weak passwords, or
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Ciitizen Launches Solution to Help HIEs Comply with Info Blocking Regulation
What You Should Know:
- Ciitizen, a Palo Alto, CA-based consumer healthcare technology company helping patients get full control of their medical records to access more personalized treatment options, today announced the launch of Cures Gateway, a platform for Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) to effortlessly comply with patient-initiated requests for medical records.
- The Ciitizen Cures Gateway will enable records to be delivered to a personal health app selected by the patient. It is
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Ransomware in Healthcare: The Costly Reality of Withstanding Hackers
How much larger a percentage of U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) can healthcare command?
This isn’t a rhetorical question, even if it may be difficult to come up with a direct answer. After all, between 1960 and 2018, healthcare increased as a percentage of GDP from a modest 5 percent to more than triple that at almost 18 percent. Over that time period, healthcare economists noticed the rise in healthcare costs and regularly rang the alarm bells with increasing levels of concern.
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XpresSpa, 98point6 Partner to Provide Virtual Care to Travelers
What You Should Know:
- XpresSpa, a health and wellness company, announced an agreement with 98point6, an on-demand virtual primary care provider, to provide services for the new Treat™ Care app.
- The Treat Care app will soon be available in the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store and will offer travel health and wellness content, access to board-certified health professionals, a travel wallet to store health records and more.
98point6 Overview
98point6 is an on-demand,
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Good Health Pass Releases Blueprint for Digital Health Passes to Restore International Travel
What You Should Know:
- The Good Health Pass Collaborative announced the release of the Good Health Pass Interoperability Blueprint, a proposed new set of interoperability specifications which, as they are adopted, will allow airlines and governments to verify travelers’ COVID status (proof of vaccination, testing, and recovery), while simultaneously ensuring that core principles – such as privacy, security, user-control, and equity – are protected.
- Over the past six
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Olive Selects AWS as Its Preferred Cloud Provider to Create the Internet of Healthcare
What You Should Know:
- Olive, the AI healthcare company, announced today the adoption of Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) as its preferred cloud provider, now leveraging AWS’s computing capabilities to improve healthcare efficiency and reduce costs for patients and organizations.
- Olive’s workflow automation solution will run on AWS to connect the disparate systems used by healthcare organizations to help automate and optimize administrative tasks for healthcare providers, freeing them to
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Kareo Acquires RPA-Powered Medical Billing Provider PatientlySpeaking
What You Should Know:
- Kareo, a provider of cloud-based clinical and business management software solutions for independent healthcare practices and billing companies, today announced the acquisition of PatientlySpeaking, a process automation technology company for billing companies and medical practices.
- Together with Kareo’s intuitive billing platform, PatientlySpeaking provides an integrated data connection for billing companies and medical practices to automate redundant daily tasks
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AMA Forms External Advisory Group to Advance Equity in Healthcare Innovation
What You Should Know:
- The American Medical Association (AMA) today announced the creation of an external advisory group, the Equity and Innovation Advisory Group dedicated to advance equity in healthcare innovation.
- The advisory group plans to recommend strategies that will help drive equitable resources to health solutions created by marginalized innovators and include marginalized patients’ voices in health innovation development processes – with a target of ultimately reaching a
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