What You Should Know:
- Ellipsis Health launches new voice-based Rising
Higher app, enabling behavioral health measurement anytime, anywhere.
- The
HIPAA-compliant platform facilitates longitudinal visibility into behavioral health symptoms
for enhanced clinical decision support.
Ellipsis Health,
pioneer of the first commercial-grade voice-based vital signs to
quantify and manage depression and anxiety symptoms at scale, has announced
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BioIQ Appoints Former Walmart Health Exec, Sean Slovenski CEO
What You Should Know:
- Sean Slovenski, former Humana and Walmart Health exec
was recently announced as CEO of testing company, BioIQ. Sean turned to testing
when he noticed a massive failure of the industry to adapt during the COVID
crisis.
- The company has the capacity to test 500,000 per day
without ever owning a lab. Instead, they have a national network of labs that
enables them to be more agile and scalable bypassing the challenges others are
facing, including supply chain
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Verily Forms New Subsidiary Focused on Employer Stop-Loss Through Precision Risk
What You Should Know:
- Alphabet’s Verily has established a new subsidiary,
Coefficient, with a mission to create value by combining innovative health
technology solutions with new insurance and payment models. Verily is the
majority shareholder and Swiss Re Corporate Solutions, an established player in
the employer stop-loss market, has a minority stake in the new company.
- Coefficient will enter a segment of insurance called
employer stop-loss. Employer stop-loss typically protects
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Dignity Health Management Services to Leverage Innovaccer’s FHIR-enabled Data Activation Platform
What You Should Know:
- Dignity Health Management Services (DHMSO), the largest
health system in the state of California to transform their network health data
into actionable insights.
- With this partnership, the organization will leverage
Innovaccer’s FHIR-enabled Data Activation Platform to better manage healthcare
services for its attributed patients.
Dignity Health Management Services
(DHMSO), a healthcare management company part of CommonSpirit Health, that helps
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One Drop Launches Digital Membership for Whole-Person Approach to Chronic Condition Self-Care
What You Should Know:
- One Drop has expanded its consumer offering beyond
diabetes management with data-driven tools and personalized support for people
living with diabetes, prediabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, or
any combination of these conditions.
One Drop, a New
York City-based provider of digital health solutions
for people living with diabetes and other chronic conditions, today announced
the launch of its Digital
Membership, a new direct-to-consumer subscription
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UK Cancer Diagnostics Startup Biofidelity Raises $12M
What You Should Know:
- UK-based Biofidelity raises $12 million in Series A funding to accelerate the launch of disruptive cancer diagnostic technology.
- The funding will be used to bring technology to market,
enabling a dramatic simplification of precision genetic testing to ensure many
more cancer patients receive optimal diagnosis and therapy.
Biofidelity Ltd, a Cambridge,
UK-based cancer diagnostics company, today announced it has raised $12 million
in Series A funding led by
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Nuance Advances Virtual Assistant Tech for Customers Using Epic EHR
What You Should Know:
- Nuance advances conversational AI with Dragon Medical virtual
assistant for Hey Epic! virtual assistant in Epic Hyperspace.
- Building upon Nuance’s Dragon Medical solution already
used by more than 550,000 physicians, this integration with Hey Epic! enables
clinicians to conversationally navigate the EHR, search for information, place
orders, and seamlessly switch hands-free between voice assistant and dictation.
Nuance®
Communications, Inc., today
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Report: Modern Revenue Integrity Solutions Driving Payment Performance
What You Should Know:
- New Chilmark Research report on revenue integrity
in healthcare reveals a transitional market making strides to address the new
burdens of modern care economics.
- The ongoing COVID-19 public health emergency underscores
the imperative need for automation and reduced administrative costs even
clearer.
Revenue cycle
has and continues to be one of the most difficult challenges in healthcare.
These issues manifest in the claims process of submission,
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Genesis Health Taps Bright.md to Power New Telehealth Offering
What You Should Know:
- Genesis Health System has signed a partnership agreement
with Bright.md to offer patients in the Quad Cities of Iowa and Illinois access
to its Bright.md’s SmartExam solution.
- The new virtual care offering offers an affordable way to get care for hundreds of low-acuity conditions, mental health, urinary tract infections, and upper respiratory infections including the flu and COVID-19.
Genesis Health System, today
announced it has selected Bright.md’s
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Epic to Consolidate Four Departments into One Division
EHR leader Epic is planning a major internal consolidation that will affect thousands of Epic associates. According to a company-wide email sent to staff on 8/14, Epic will consolidate the End User Training, Implementation, Quality Assurance, and Technical Communications departments into the Application Services Division, effective immediately. The email did not imply that any jobs would be eliminated from the consolidation.
Obtained by News3Now, the email to affected works states, “There
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