- Providence acquires HMR Weight Management Services Corp. as part of their initiative to support patients and consumers in improving their health. - HMR operates clinics inside three Providence facilities, while Providence refers its caregivers to HMR for weight management support and care as part of its employee wellness program.Providence St. Joseph Health announced today it has acquired HMR (Health Management Resources), an established provider of clinically proven weight-loss programs, from
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R1 Expands Revenue Cycle Management Offering to More Medical Groups
- R1 announced an expansion of its revenue cycle management services, making them available to large independent practices and hospital-owned groups.- Now groups beyond hospitals and health systems will be able to use R1’s industry-leading RCM tools designed to enable the best quality clinical care and financial expectation setting for even more patients.- This new slate of provider organizations and patients will also benefit from R1’s recent acquisition of SCI, offering access to the broadest
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Report: Epic Will Not Pursue Further Integration with Google Cloud
- Epic account reps have notified their clients that they will not pursue further integration with Google Cloud, citing lack of interest among its healthcare provider customers. - The company plans to focus on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure as cloud providers. Account reps from Epic have started notifying their clients that they will not be pursuing further integration with Google Cloud as a service provider, according to a report from CNBC. CNBC reports that Epic cited lack of
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UChicago Medicine Selects Life Image’s Breast Health Data Tool
- UChicago Medicine working with Mammosphere by Life Image to allow patients easy, secure access to their breast imaging and to support the WISDOM Study to establish screening guidelines. - Mammosphere was developed to support women throughout their entire breast health journey, including contributing to scientific research. By offering patients this digital tool, patients in the WISDOM Study will have additional tools to support their long-term commitment to the research.Life Image, the world’s
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ChristianaCare Partners with Cedar to Personalize Patient Financial Experience
- ChristianaCare partners with Cedar, a patient engagement and payment technology platform to modernize and personalize the patient financial experience for ChristianaCare patients.- Beginning this spring, the new payment experience will be implemented for most ChristianaCare services, including its primary and specialty care, imaging, labs, rehabilitation services and more.ChristianaCare today announced a new collaboration with Cedar, a patient engagement and payment technology platform that
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Health Scholars Nabs $17M to Expand Clinical Virtual Reality Training Platform
- Health Scholars, a Westminister, CO-based virtual reality healthcare training platform raises $17M in Series B funding. - Funding will be utilized for the expansion of clinical training simulations and virtual simulation technologies.Health Scholars, known for their VR simulations and cloud-based training platform utilized for management, delivery, and analysis of clinical training, is excited to announce the successful completion of a $17M round of fundraising with investments from Arboretum
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Medsphere Raises $40M to Expand Suite of SaaS EHR & RCM Solutions
- Medsphere raises $40M in preferred equity investment to fund the expansion of efficient, flexible, subscription-based software solutions. - Medsphere has grown subscription revenue by over 400% using a combination of organic growth and accretive acquisitions, achieving a compounded annual growth rate of over 50%. Medsphere Systems Corporation, the leading provider of efficient and interoperable healthcare information technology (IT) software solutions, and services, today announced new $40
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Grand Rounds Launches Population Health Solution to Address SDoH
- Grand Rounds announced the launch of Premium Navigation, the company’s new and most comprehensive population health solution to address social determinants of health (SDoH). Users now have a single entry point for all their healthcare needs, clinical and beyond.- Premium Navigation simplifies the ever-complicated healthcare experience. It connects members with their clinical care team for case management while guiding them around clinically appropriate benefits and advocacy support. Grand
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CVS: 4 Approaches to Reduce The Cost Impact of Gene Therapies
- While the life-changing and life-saving potential of gene therapies is tremendously exciting, finding ways to pay for these treatments is a significant challenge for families and payors.- With prices for a single treatment as high as $2 million, many employers are struggling to find ways to offer coverage without bankrupting their health plans, or even their companies.- Newly released CVS Health white paper outlines four key approaches that health plans and employers can utilize to reduce the
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Definitive Healthcare Analytics Firm PatientFinder to Expand Data Insights
- Definitive Healthcare acquires software analytics firm for life sciences PatientFinder to expand contextual data and insights within a business’s end-to-end commercialization effort.- With this acquisition, Definitive Healthcare will add an enormous new set of data fields through an acquisition that will dramatically change the views and analytics possible for patient care.Definitive Healthcare, a provider of data, insights, and analytics on the healthcare provider market has acquired
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