In collaboration with Intermountain Healthcare, R1 plans to build a state-of-the-art Technology and Innovation Center in Salt Lake City to foster revenue cycle management (RCM) innovation. This move reflects the industry’s ongoing effort to offer patient-centric care across the healthcare continuum – starting with an improved patient financial experience. Innovation Center Opening DateScheduled to open in May 2019, the 30,000 square foot facility will be used to evaluate patient needs, test
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Health Data Analytics Platform Health Catalyst Raises $100M, Reaches $1B Valuation
Health Catalyst, a Silicon Slopes, Utah-based provider of next-generation data, analytics and improvement, today announced it has raised $100 million in Series F equity and debt funding led by OrbiMed. The funding also included participation from Sequoia Capital, Norwest Venture Partners, Sands Capital Ventures, UPMC Enterprises, and Kaiser Permanente Ventures also contributed to the financing, which lifts Health Catalyst's value above $1 billion. Health Catalyst plans to use the funding
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Ride Share Lyft Expands Partnerships to Address Medicare Advantage Plans
Ride-sharing company Lyft, today announced its plans to expand its collaboration with Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) Institute, as well as work with LogistiCare to encompass certain Humana Medicare Advantage (MA) plans. CMS continues to update MA plan flexibility to allow for additional services that address holistic health, and one of the key social determinants of health is access to services and programs. Transportation is the key to unlocking that access, and Lyft is a cost-effective,
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Cognoa Awarded FDA Breakthrough Designations for Diagnostic and Digital Therapeutic Devices for Autism
Cognoa, a digital health company focused on behavioral health for children, today announced FDA Breakthrough designations for it's first diagnostic and therapeutic devices to identify and treat autism. This is the foundation for its AI-based digital precision health to support the developmental and behavioral health of children, combining diagnostics and therapeutics into one platform. This signifies a big step in the company’s expansion into therapeutics.FDA Breakthrough Devices Program
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Big Health Launches Digital Therapeutics App, Daylight to Improve Anxiety
Daylight is the first digital therapeutic to combine cognitive behavioral therapy, animation and the human voice to help people improve feelings of worry and anxiety. Digital therapeutics company Big Health today announced the launch of Daylight™, a scientifically rigorous yet approachable mobile app for reducing feelings of worry and anxiety. The Daylight app uses scientifically proven techniques based on cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to address feelings of worry and anxiety wherever and
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CommonWell Launches CommonWell Connector Program to Improve Health IT Interoperability
CommonWell Health Alliance today announced a new option for health IT vendors and healthcare practitioners looking to connect to the nationwide CommonWell interoperability network. Through the creation of this new CommonWell Connector program, participating CommonWell members who provide health data integration platforms and services will now be able to offer CommonWell services to their customers, including both to provider organizations and to other end-user facing platforms such as
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PerfectServe Acquires AI Patient Scheduling Solution Lightning Bolt and CareWire
After 16 years of bootstrapped success, Lightning Bolt is being acquired by PerfectServe, a provider of cloud-based clinical communication and collaboration solutions. Lightning Bolt’s AI technology enables healthcare organizations to build smarter physician shift schedules that give doctors balanced hours, safer shifts, and more flexibility to take time off, all while still improving patient access.Founded in 2002 and based in San Francisco, California, Lightning Bolt is an AI-enabled solution
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Konica Minolta Deploys AI Robots to Support Patient Care at Hospital in Italy
Konica Minolta announced a collaboration with the Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza Hospital in San Giovanni Rotondo, Foggia, Italy to better develop artificial intelligence (AI) in robots to assist in both urgent and non-urgent patient care. Specifically, the team wants to study the employment of robots to assist patients and support the work of nurses and doctors by conducting basic monitoring activities. The announcement follows the recent establishment of Konica Minolta’s latest research center
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HealtheConnections and HealthlinkNY Merge to Set New Standard for Regional Health Improvement
Rob Hack, president, and CEO of HealtheConnections, and Staci Romeo, executive director of HealthlinkNY, announced today their companies will merge together into HealtheConnections, forming a health improvement organization that spans 26 counties of the Central New York, Southern Tier, and Hudson Valley regions. The merger follows a strategic partnership announced in September 2018, and, according to Romeo, the teams quickly agreed that a merger would be the best choice to accelerate their goal
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LexisNexis Partners with QuadraMed to Prevent Duplicate Patient Records
LexisNexis and QuadraMed, a division of Harris Healthcare, today announced they have partnered to improve patient matching for QuadraMed’s Enterprise Master Patient Index (EMPI) software and clean-up customers at over 1,200 healthcare facilities. QuadraMed diagnoses, treats, cures and prevents patient identity issues through a comprehensive set of software and services, including duplicate and overlap reconciliation, but its ability to confirm that two records represent the same person is
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