Clinician shortage has reached a new level of urgency as we face rising demand and healthcare costs, according to a recent Accenture report. Healthcare workers are increasingly burned out and leaving the industry altogether in droves. Those who remain to do the work are overburdened. We ask seventeen healthcare IT executives for their insights on how health IT solutions could potentially help address clinician burnout, clinician staffing shortages, and deal with capacity.
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Vital Secures $24.7M for AI-Driven Solutions for Hospitals, Health Systems
What You Should Know:
- Vital, an artificial intelligence (AI)-driven digital health company improving the patient experience, today announced that it has raised $24.7M in Series B funding to fuel expansion and support the rapid growth of its modern software. The investment round led by Transformation Capital, with support from Threshold Ventures, strategic health system investors and Vital CEO / Mint.com creator Aaron Patzer, brings Vital’s total funding to over
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Aledade Expands Access to Value-Based Care for More Medicare Advantage Customers
What You Should Know:
- Aledade is continuing its strong momentum today, announcing that Cigna Healthcare Medicare Advantage customers can now receive value-based care from Aledade’s network of independent primary care practices.
- Participating practices can access Aledade’s cutting-edge data analytics, user-friendly guided workflows, and health care policy expertise, as well as integrated care services supported by AledadeCare Solutions.
- This news comes shortly after Aledade
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AHN/RHS Partner with Unite Us to Support Integrated Behavioral Health and Social Care
What You Should Know:
- Unite Us is partnering with Advance Health Network IPA and Recovery Health Solutions IPA (AHN/RHS), behavioral health independent physician association's (IPAs) operating in affiliation and comprised of 47 behavioral health and human service organizations serving the New York City and Long Island communities, to advance the integration and coordination of care for individuals with both behavioral health and social needs.
- Through this relationship, AHN/RHS
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UR Medicine Taps DexCare to Power On-Demand Video Visits
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- UR Medicine, the clinical enterprise of the University of Rochester Medical Center, has selected DexCare’s technology to power its Get Care Now Program and provide more patients with on-demand video visits.
- By choosing DexCare to offer On-Demand Video Visits, UR Medicine patients now have access to immediate, high-quality care from the comfort of their own homes. UR Medicine now serves patients across 24 counties in New York – beyond those where the health system
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AppliedVR Becomes First Virtual Reality Provider to Receive HCPCS Level II Code
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-AppliedVR, an immersive therapeutics (ITx) pioneer advancing a novel approach to medicine, today announced that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) established a unique Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) Level II code (E1905) for its flagship product, the RelieVRx program.
- Defined as a virtual reality (VR) cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) device that includes pre-programmed therapy software, CMS’ coding decision categorizes the
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NVIDIA Unveils Generative AI Service to Advance Life Sciences R&D
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- NVIDIA today announced an expanded set of generative AI cloud services for customizing AI foundation models to accelerate the creation of new proteins and therapeutics, as well as research in the fields of genomics, chemistry, biology and molecular dynamics.
- Part of NVIDIA AI Foundations, the new BioNeMo™ Cloud service offering — for both AI model training and inference — accelerates the most time-consuming and costly stages of drug discovery. It
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Love.Life Acquires Telemedicine Platform Plant Based TeleHealth
What You Should Know:
- Love.Life, a health and wellness company leading the convergence of food, medicine, and wellness therapies, is pleased to announce the acquisition of Plant Based TeleHealth Inc., a nationwide telemedicine service focused on the prevention and reversal of chronic disease utilizing lifestyle medicine.
- The company has been rebranded as Love.Life Telehealth and will add to the robust suite of medical offerings that Love.Life will feature in its
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Desert Oasis Healthcare Partners with Rimidi, Teva to Improve Asthma Management
What You Should Know:
- Rimidi, a clinical management platform today announced that Desert Oasis Healthcare (DOHC), a regional medical group has implemented Rimidi’s new Respiratory Module.
- Designed to give providers a more complete view of the patient in order to guide treatment decisions for those with respiratory diseases such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) or asthma, the Respiratory Module is enhanced by a collaboration with Teva Pharmaceuticals.
- Data from
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Northwell to Deploy Epic Enterprise EHR Platform Across System
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- Northwell Health today announced an agreement with Epic to implement the health system’s next-generation EHR as part of its ongoing digital transformation to ensure a more seamless patient experience and team member experience.
- The announcement marks the replacement of Allscripts and will result in one patient record across every Northwell venue of care and drive enhanced care coordination across 21 hospitals and about 900 outpatient facilities.
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