What You Should Know:
Today, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced that Dionysus Digital Health, Inc. (Dionysus), a digital health company engaged in the development of precise medical insights using a proprietary digital and epigenetic analysis platform, was selected to move to the next phase of the Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics Technology (RADx® Tech) for Maternal Health Challenge. The $8 million cash prize challenge will accelerate the development of technologies to
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Catholic Care Center to Deploy Medsphere’s Wellsoft EHR and RCM Cloud Solutions
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- Medsphere Systems Corporation announced that Catholic Care Center of Bel Aire, Kansas, a Wichita suburb, will open a new senior behavioral health hospital with the company’s Wellsoft electronic health record (EHR) and RCM Cloud revenue cycle management solutions.
- Medsphere’s Wellsoft EHR solution supports comprehensive care across behavioral health, urgent, and emergency care environments. The company’s RCM Cloud solution is
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Phenomix Sciences Launches Saliva Test to Predict Obesity Phenotype
What You Should Know:
- Phenomix Sciences (Phenomix), a precision medicine biotechnology company that brings data intelligence to the treatment of obesity, announces today the launch of its first therapy selection test, the My Phenome Hungry Gut test.
- This is a first-of-its-kind obesity test and will determine if a patient’s phenotype is Hungry Gut (Satiety) or feeling hungry shortly after eating a meal. If a patient is Hungry Gut phenotyped, providers are able to more precisely and
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Telehealth Utilization Declined 76% Nationally from 2020 to 2021
What You Should Know:
- From 2020 to 2021, telehealth utilization declined 76 percent nationally while, during that same period, retail clinic utilization increased 51 percent nationally.
- Retail clinic growth had the greatest increase among all alternative places of service studied—retail clinics, urgent care centers, telehealth and ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs)—as well as emergency rooms (ERs), in a new FAIR Health white paper containing the sixth annual edition of
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CareRev Expands Flexible Healthcare Staffing into Delaware
What You Should Know:
CareRev, a technology platform reimagining healthcare staffing by connecting hospitals and health systems with local nurses and other healthcare professionals for daily shifts, announced its expansion into Delaware with a partnership with Beebe Healthcare.Beebe will utilize CareRev’s technology to identify and hire qualified local Delaware talent to support their full-time hospital staff and ultimately improve patient safety and outcomes. Staffing managers at Beebe
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Report: Razor Thin Hospital Margins Becoming The New Norm
What You Should Know:
- Hospital finances are beginning to stabilize as razor-thin margins become the new normal, according to the newest data from Kaufman Hall. The National Hospital Flash Report draws on data from more than 900 hospitals from Syntellis Performance Solutions.
- The latest National Hospital Flash Report shows that the high level of variance that plagued hospital margins over the past
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23andMe, Novartis Launches Pilot for Lipoprotein(a) Education
What You Should Know:
- In support of Lipoprotein(a) Awareness Day, 23andMe, a human genetics and biopharmaceutical company, today announced a collaboration with Novartis to increase awareness for Lipoprotein(a) (Lp(a)).
- High levels of Lp(a) are associated with increased risk of heart attack, stroke and other life threatening conditions. The level of Lp(a), which can be detected through a simple blood test, is almost entirely determined by genes and is unrelated to diet, exercise or
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Flume Health Launches Tool to Remedy Health Insurers’ Fatigue
What You Should Know:
- Flume Health, a healthcare technology company for payer operations launches Flume Relay to systematize the complex solution integration process involved in designing, launching, and administering a health plan.
- Flume Relay aims to solve payers’ greatest limitation: the integrations and real-time data exchange with the plethora of vendors and systems that make up a health plan.
Health Plan Vendor Fatigue
Health plans are experiencing vendor fatigue at an
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Ribbon Health Enables Access to Provider Appointment Booking, Eliminating Barriers to Care
What You Should Know:
- Ribbon Health (Ribbon), a leader in healthcare provider data technology and management launches new platform features that will increase access to care through provider scheduling.
- Enabled by partnerships with leading booking marketplaces, these new platform capabilities empower patients to easily search for providers that both fit their needs and are accepting new patients, and book appointments with those providers for high-quality care across primary,
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Vivante Expands Virtual GI Care with AI-Driven Care Plans
What You Should Know:
- Vivante Health, a provider of digital digestive health solutions for employers and health plans, is expanding its GIThrive platform with enhanced technology that optimizes triage, telemedicine appointments with physicians in every state when needed, and more
- GIThrive’s virtual care model will now be powered by enhanced technology that facilitates triage, including access to all existing GIThrive features plus GI-related test ordering,
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