CareCloud, a practice management platform for medical groups has announced the launch of their new fully integrated pay-per-visit telemedicine solution. The integrated solution features a fully integrated solution that includes built-in insurance eligibility checking and scheduling tools, a unique pay-per-visit pricing model, and one-click activation. Simplifying clinical workflows, this approach to telemedicine seamlessly connects the dots between efficient practice management and secure video
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Mediktor Launches AI App to Identify A Patient’s Symptoms in Real-Time
Digital health startup Meditkor, which initially launched in Europe at the Health 2.0 conference in Barcelona in May, today announced the launch the U.S. availability of the first scientifically validated health checker based on artificial intelligence (AI). Mediktor is the first pre-diagnosis tool that uses AI to identify a patient's symptoms in real-time and suggests next steps based on medical needs including recommendations for a specialist or doctor.Mediktor combines artificial
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Women’s Care Florida to Deploy eClinicalWorks Healow Mom App to 273 Providers Across 62 Locations
Women’s Care Florida, an independent, fully integrated OB/GYN groups has selected eClinicalWorks to deploy the company’s Healow Mom mobile app for its 273 providers across 62 locations.Once live, the Healow Mom App will provide enhanced communication and encouraged patient engagement Once live, healow Mom app provides Women’s Care Florida with access to the healow app health tracker which is integrated with the eClinicalWorks EHR to give their providers up-to-date information on blood pressure,
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Your.MD Lands $10M to Expand AI-Powered Health Information Service & Marketplace
Your.MD, a London-based digital health startup has raised $10 million in funding led by Orkla Ventures and with participation from Smedvig Capital AS and other existing shareholders. The round of funding will be used to support the growth of Your.MD’s health information platform and expansion of its global AI-powered marketplace, OneStopHealth.OneStop Health- a one-stop-shop in digital health to allow people to take full control of each stage of their health issues: from understanding their
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Change Healthcare: $262B in Healthcare Claims Initially Denied in 2016
A new analysis by Change Healthcare of $3 trillion in medical claims submitted to payers last year revealed 9% of charges, representing $262 billion, were initially denied. For the typical health system, as much as 3.3% of net patient revenue, an average of $4.9 million per hospital, was put at risk due to denials. While 63% of these claims were recoverable on average, reworking each denial costs providers roughly $118 each, or as much as $8.6 billion in appeals-related administrative
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Accenture: Artificial Intelligence Healthcare Market to Reach $6.6B by 2021
The artificial intelligence (AI) healthcare market is expected reach $6.6 billion by 2021, representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 40 percent over the next five years, according to a new report from Accenture. The report reveals key clinical health AI apps can potentially create $150 billion in annual savings for the US healthcare economy by 2026.AI in health represents a collection of multiple technologies enabling machines to sense, comprehend, act and learn so they can perform
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University of Chicago Medicine, Tempus Partner on Personalized Pancreatic Cancer Project
Pancreatic cancer is the third leading cause of cancer-related death in the United States. It has a five-year survival rate of just nine percent. Lack of effective treatments and early detection methods contribute to this grim prognosis. Personalized approaches to match a patient’s genomic information to therapies have led to improvements in treatment of other cancer types. None of the genetic mutations commonly seen in pancreatic cancer, however, have “druggable” targets.That’s why the
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Carolinas Healthcare System to Implement Cerner’s Population Health Management Platform
Carolinas HealthCare System (CHS) has selected Cerner to implement their HealtheIntent population health management platform. The implementation will coordinate and manage care for its more than 12 million patient interactions each year across its health system and clinically integrated network, Carolinas Physician Alliance (CPA). Additionally, CHS will continue to use the Cerner Millennium® integrated EHR and will also extend its remote hosting relationship with Cerner.
HealtheIntent’s
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Patientco Integrates With Epic’s EHR to Improve Patient Payment Experience
Patientco, a cloud-based patient payment platform for health systems is integrating with Epic’s EHR to improve the patient payment experience. The integration will provide robust payment functionality, automated workflows, and payment processing through Epic solutions, including MyChart. Patientco’s payment platform can be deployed enterprise-wide to help health systems leverage their investment in Epic and streamline payment workflows for revenue cycle teams.Patientco goes beyond basic payment
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Apple Is Reportedly Working with Health Gorilla to Add Diagnostic Data to iPhone
Apple is reportedly working with digital health startup Health Gorilla to add diagnostic data such as blood work to integrate with hospitals, labs, and imaging centers, CNBC’s Christina Farr first reports.Founded in 2011, Health Gorilla is a Clinical Network that offers clinicians and patients a secure clinical collaboration platform to place clinical orders and exchange data through secure Health Gorilla clinical profiles. Health Gorilla processes millions of transactions to aggregate clinical
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