Healthcare leaders have seen an incredible increase in telehealth adoption over the past year alongside the continued growth of patient expectations for self-service, access, and convenience. Fortunately, healthcare IT continues to offer healthcare leaders new and expanded tools to deliver on these expectations so telehealth isn’t just offered but leveraged alongside traditional in-person care delivery for a patient experience that truly accommodates patients.
Healthcare continues to refine
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Archives for 2021
Mayo Clinic, Spire Health to Co-Develop Remote Pulmonary Rehab Program
- Spire Health and Mayo Clinic announced a strategic collaboration to integrate Mayo Clinic’s remote pulmonary rehabilitation program into Spire Health’s respiratory remote patient monitoring (RPM) service.
- Developed by Dr. Roberto Benzo and his team at the Mindful Breathing Laboratory, Mayo Clinic’s remote pulmonary rehabilitation program has been the recipient of multiple, multi-year grants from the National Institute of Health (NIH).
- The program, validated using randomized
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4G Clinical Secures $230M for Randomization and Trial Supply Management
What You Should Know:
- 4G Clinical, a cutting-edge randomization and trial supply management (RTSM) company, today announced it has entered into an agreement to receive a growth equity investment of over $230MM from Goldman Sachs Asset Management ("Goldman Sachs").
- Founded in 2015, 4G Clinical's Prancer RTSMⓇ enables life sciences companies to reach First Patient In (FPI) up to 50% faster than other providers and implement mid-study changes more efficiently. 4G Clinical's clinical
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Foundation Medicine Integrates Genomic Profiling with Flatiron Health’s EMR
What You Should Know:
- Foundation Medicine (FMI) announced today it will begin integrating with Flatiron Health and other electronic medical record (EMR) systems to make it easier for oncologists to order comprehensive genomic tests (CGP), review results, continually access clinical and genomic information and share among their care teams in order to quickly and efficiently develop personalized treatment plans for their patients.
- This integration, the first of a
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Marshfield Clinic Health System to Launch Rural Health Equity Initiative
What You Should Know:
- Marshfield Clinic Health System, one of the largest rural, integrated health systems in the country, is partnering with NowPow and a broad range of community organizations to connect patients with local resources to improve their health and quality of life.
- Marshfield Clinic Health System and NowPow are working together to build a comprehensive network of agencies and programs serving northern, central and western Wisconsin, ensuring that individuals have access
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SUD: Can Digital Health Solutions Remove Stigmas Around Addiction?
We can safely take for granted that a doctor treating your back pain isn’t going to determine the course of care based on whether she thinks you’ll fully commit to getting better. She isn’t likely to start treatment with a contract stating that the only way to stay in treatment is to commit to doing everything she requires and reaching total recovery. She isn’t going to set arbitrary parameters for how fast you should recover.
It’s also safe to assume that your quest to get care for back pain
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XSOLIS Raises $75M for AI-Driven Precision Utilization Management Platform
What You Should Know:
- XSOLIS, a healthcare technology firm focused on improving healthcare operations announced it has raised $75M in minority growth investment from Brighton Park Capital ("Brighton Park"), a research-driven investment firm.
- XSOLIS is an artificial intelligence-based software platform that helps national health systems and payers streamline the utilization management process.
- XSOLIS' suite of data-driven solutions leverages insights from proprietary machine
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Walmart to Offer Included Health’s Care Navigation Platform to LGBTQ+ Employees & Families
What You Should Know:
- Today, Walmart announced it is teaming up with Included Health, a LGBTQ+ focused care navigation platform to provide a new healthcare benefit for LGBTQ+ employees and their loved ones.
- Through its partnership with Grand Rounds, associates on a Walmart medical plan and their covered dependents will now be eligible to leverage Included Health’s care-navigation platform tailored for the LGBTQ+ community.
Why It Matters
LGBTQ+ people face serious
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The Science of Storytelling: Brand Voice and the COVID-19 Vaccine
Healthcare feels like it’s in a perpetual state of a renaissance.
A decade ago, it seemed it was hardly spoken about at all. People either had it and never thought about it, or lived without it, and worried about it constantly. According to Gallup’s “Confidence in Institutions Study,” 80 percent of Americans trusted the medical system in the 1970s. By 2015, it had fallen to 37 percent.
In the era of COVID-19, people are more distrustful than ever, but we appear to have
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Hospital IQ Raises $25M to Scale Predictive Hospital Operations Platform
What You Should Know:
- Hospital IQ, a provider of predictive hospital operations and communications software, secured $25 million in Series C funding led by Baxter Ventures, the venture investment arm of Baxter International Inc., and Health Velocity Capital, joining existing investors Pierpoint Capital and Allscripts.
- Hospital IQ provides an operations management software platform that uses artificial intelligence to anticipate and direct actions, enabling health systems to
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