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State of the Patient Financial Experience in 2019: 6 Key Trends to Know

by Fred Pennic 08/07/2019 Leave a Comment

State of Patient Financial Experience Waystar 5

Waystar, a provider of cloud-based revenue cycle technology has released an industry survey examining today’s state of the patient financial experience. In the first half of 2019, Waystar surveyed 1,000 consumers about their last hospital encounter and their experience with the hospital business office. The study, "The Patient Financial Experience: Consumer Attitudes and Behavior," reveals that the biggest barriers to a positive patient financial experience are lack of understanding around
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Quest Diagnostics to Contribute Biomarker Datasets to Support One Brave Idea Initiative

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Quest Diagnostics to Contribute Biomarker Datasets to Support One Brave Idea Initiative

In a move to advance the ground-breaking work to identify coronary heart disease at the earliest transition from wellness to disease, Quest Diagnostics announced it will contribute biomarker implementation, population health analytics and a national lab platform as a pillar supporter of One Brave Idea, the research initiative co-founded by the American Heart Association (AHA) and Verily Life Sciences with significant support from AstraZeneca.The Burden of Cardiovascular DiseaseHeart disease is
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Nordic Expands Beyond Epic With New Cerner Solutions Business Line

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Nordic Expands Beyond Epic With New Cerner Solutions Business Line

Healthcare IT consulting firm Nordic continues its expansion beyond Epic consulting with the launch of a new Cerner Solutions business line to meet the needs of healthcare organizations. The new business line reflects Nordic’s long-term strategy of expanding its offerings beyond Epic consulting to meet the needs of its clients, including advisory services, performance improvement, ERP Solutions, and Managed Services. Nordic acquired The Claro Group's revenue cycle management (RCM) transformation
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Litmus Health Launches Next-Generation Data Science Platform for Clinical Research

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Litmus Health Launches Next-Generation Data Science Platform for Clinical Research

 Litmus Health, the research-ready infrastructure platform for real-world data has announced the release of the next generation of their platform focused on reliable data engineering, data quality, and flexible deployment. The end-to-end platform supports the entire trial process: from data collection at the point of experience to laboratory analytics that can inform decision making.Pharma Industry Increasingly Turning to Real-World DataThe pharmaceutical industry has been increasingly looking
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Fitbit Launches New Research Pledge to Address Evolving Privacy Risks

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Fitbit Research Pledge

Fitbit launches Researcher Pledge and updates to their Terms of Service to help educate the research community on user privacy risks.  In response to these evolving user privacy issues, Fitbit has developed a new Researcher Pledge and updates to their Terms of Service to help educate the research community on these risks and specify the commitments we require from researchers to help protect the privacy of our users. The new Research Pledge outlines best practices to help ensure research study
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Axia Women’s Health to Power Pregnant Patients With Babyscripts Prenatal App During Their Prenatal Journey

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Prenatal App Babyscripts Announces Partnership with Axia Women’s Health

Axia Women’s Health, the nation’s largest independent, physician-led women’s health network, today announced a partnership with Babyscripts, a virtual care platform for managing obstetrics. With nearly 300 providers and more than 115 health centers across New Jersey and Pennsylvania., Axia will provide their pregnant patients access to the Babyscripts app during the entirety of their prenatal journey and beyond. Babyscripts Program Offered Through Axia Women’s HealthThe Babyscripts program
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Research: July Digital Health IPOs, M&A Activity, Public Company Performance Summary

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Research: July Digital Health IPOs, M&A Activity, Public Company Performance

Summary of Health IT/digital IPOs, merger & acquisition (M&A) activity, and public company performance during the month of July. Digital Health IPOs in July Breaking the digital health IPO drought, there were four initial public offerings (IPOs) during a five-week period from late June to late July, including Livongo, Health Catalyst, Phreesia, and Change Healthcare. The last health IT companies to reach IPO were iRhythym Technologies and Tabula Rasa Healthcare in late 2016 -
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NYC Health + Hospitals Launches Primary Care-Centered Diabetes Management Program

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NYC Health + Hospitals, the largest public health care system in the nation announced the launch of a comprehensive, primary care-centered diabetes management program. The diabetes management program includes investing in new clinical pharmacy staff, equipment, and technology to improve health outcomes and expand services through telehealth techniques for more than 60,000 New Yorkers with diabetes who receive care in the City’s public hospitals and community-based health centers.Impact of
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M&A: PE-Backed Guidehouse Acquires Navigant Consulting for $1.1B

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M&A: PE-Backed Guidehouse Acquires Navigant Consulting for $1.1B

Guidehouse (formerly PwC’s US Public Sector business), a portfolio company of private equity firm Veritas Capital has acquired global management consulting firm Navigant Consulting, Inc. for approximately $1.1 billion. The newly combined entity will bring together each organization’s strong expertise in highly regulated industries across both the commercial and government sectors, with a focus on supporting client needs in the industries of Healthcare, Financial Services, Energy, National
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Accolade Acquires MD Insider for Machine Learning Physician Performance

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Accolade Acquires Machine Learning Physician Performance Company MD Insider

Accolade, a Seattle-based leader in personalized advocacy solutions for employers has acquired MD Insider, a Santa Monica, CA-based provider of machine learning-enabled physician performance transparency. Enabled by the acquisition of MD Insider, Accolade is launching new solution called Accolade Total Care that combines data-driven physician quality insights with cost transparency to ensure members have the best health outcomes while reducing costs for them and their employers.Machine Learning
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