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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Amwell Adds Cardiometabolic Program with DarioHealth Partnership
What You Should Know:
- Amwell, a leader in digital healthcare enablement, today announced the expansion of its digital clinical programs to include a cardiometabolic program, enabling health plans and clinicians to seamlessly connect members living with common chronic diseases, such as diabetes and high blood pressure, to Dario’s highly personalized digital therapeutic solution on the Amwell platform.
- In partnership with personalized global digital therapeutic
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Halifax Health Partners with XSOLIS for Precision Hospital Utilization Reviews
What You Should Know:
- Today, XSOLIS, the AI technology company creating a more efficient healthcare system, announced a new partnership with Florida-based Halifax Health to achieve greater efficiencies between its utilization management and physician advisor teams across its three hospitals.
- XSOLIS’ CORTEX® platform will help Halifax solve administrative challenges and mitigate revenue risk associated with misaligned care level status. CORTEX’s advanced case management analytics
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athenahealth Updates its Marketplace Program with Enhancements
What You Should Know:
- athenahealth, Inc., today announced it significantly upgraded the athenahealth Marketplace with new features and capabilities designed to help customers and partners further extend the value of athenahealth’s solutions.
- Over the last year, athenahealth has evolved the Marketplace program’s infrastructure and app store to help healthcare practices easily discover and quickly implement innovative solutions that support their efforts to improve clinical and
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