What You Should Know:
- Hospitals and health systems saw decreases in outpatient revenue and operating room time and increases in inpatient lengths of stay from June to July 2022, leading to a decline in financial performance after months of improvement, according to the latest National Hospital Flash Report from Kaufman Hall.
- The analysis reveals that U.S. hospitals and health systems are experiencing some of the worst margins since the beginning of the COVID-19
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FundamentalVR Expands into Urology with Teleflex Partnership
What You Should Know:
- FundamentalVR, a provider of virtual reality (VR) integration for medical simulation is expanding its offering into urology through a partnership with Teleflex Interventional Urology.
- Bringing its immersive, haptic VR training solution to urologists, the partnership highlights how FundamentalVR’s advanced technology and high-fidelity graphics will accelerate the learning curve in the use of Teleflex’s UroLift® 2
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Oak Street Health Opens Ninth Center in Arizona
What You Should Know:
- Oak Street Health, a network of value-based primary care centers for adults on Medicare and the only primary care provider to carry the AARP name, is now welcoming patients at the new Rolling Hills Square center at 7040 East Golf Links Road in Tucson.
- This is Oak Street Health’s ninth center in Arizona.
Oak Street Health Background
Oak Street Health delivers personalized, preventive primary care through a model that was created to meet the unique needs of
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POGO Blood Glucose Monitoring Now Available in Kroger Health Pharmacies Nationwide
What You Should Know:
- Intuity Medical, Inc., a commercial-stage medical technology and digital health company focused on making life with diabetes easier, today announced that the POGO Automatic® Blood Glucose Monitoring System is now available at the more than 2,200 U.S. pharmacies of Kroger Health, the healthcare division of The Kroger Co.
- With POGO Automatic Monitors and Cartridges now available at all Kroger Health pharmacy locations, the simplicity of One-Step testing
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Clarify Health & Datavant Partner to Integrate Real-World Data
What You Should Know:
- Clarify Health, a cloud analytics and value-based payments platform company, and Datavant, a provider helping organizations securely connect health data expands their relationship to enable life sciences companies to connect their proprietary, first-party data in Clarify’s AI-powered Atlas analytics platform to improve clinical development and commercial operations.
- Datavant’s privacy-preserving tokenization and high-accuracy matching technologies will be used to
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EchoNous Alliance with Samsung for AI-Guided Ultrasound
What You Should Know:
- EchoNous, a company delivering AI-enabled handheld ultrasound capable of producing diagnostic-quality images, forms an alliance with Samsung that enables its Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) Kosmos platform run on Samsung’s Galaxy Tab Pro tablets (models 12.0 and higher).
- Made possible through the EchoNous/Samsung alliance, this new compatibility will lower the overall price point of the Kosmos platform, which already costs tens of thousands of dollars less than
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MedAllies Selects Lyniate for EMPI & Data Management
What You Should Know:
- Lyniate, a healthcare data interoperability announced MedAllies, a multimodality connectivity services company, has chosen Lyniate Enterprise Master Patient Index (EMPI) by NextGate to better serve its healthcare clients and partners.
- This integration will bolster MedAllies’ identity data management capabilities to increase the accuracy of the data it exchanges for the benefit of all.
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Maven Launches Menopause Care Product
What You Should Know:
- Maven Clinic, the world's largest virtual clinic for women's and family health, today announced that it has expanded its full-spectrum reproductive health platform to include a dedicated program for Menopause and Ongoing Care.
Maven’s Menopause and Ongoing Care program, which already spans nearly 1 million lives across 40 employers, employers can now offer their employees a dedicated program that provides holistic and specialized support throughout every phase of
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Wisp Launches Telemedicine Abortion Care in California
What You Should Know:
- Wisp, a sexual and reproductive telehealth provider, today introduced its first medical abortion service in an effort to increase access to affordable, safe and convenient healthcare.
- The medical abortion service is now available in California and WISP plans to roll it out in New York, Illinois and Colorado later this quarter as it expands Wisp's suite of specialized services for sexual and reproductive health, from emergency contraception and birth control to
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Hazelden Betty Ford Taps Oracle Cerner and Xealth to Simplify Access to Addiction Treatment
What You Should Know:
- The Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation is simplifying the distribution of addiction treatment and recovery support content with the Oracle Cerner EHR and Xealth’s digital therapeutic distribution platform
- The new system makes it easier for Hazelden Betty Ford clinicians to provide patients with digital content as a key part of their treatment and recovery process, including therapeutic education, exercises, and
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