What You Should Know:
- UP Health System – Marquette (UPHS – Marquette), a Duke LifePoint hospital, has officially appointed Tonya Darner as its permanent Chief Executive Officer (CEO). This announcement follows Tonya's successful tenure as the interim CEO since early November and her role as Chief Operating Officer (COO) since 2021.
- As CEO, Tonya Darner will lead the hospital into its next phase, leveraging her extensive experience and leadership acumen to further enhance the quality of
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MedeAnalytics Partners with HSBlox to Power Value-Based Care
What You Should Know:
- MedeAnalytics and HSBlox have announced a strategic partnership to offer healthcare organizations a comprehensive end-to-end value-based care solution.
- This collaboration combines MedeAnalytics's best-in-class analytics platform with HSBlox's technology platform for contract management and administration.
Maximizing Value-Based Care Performance
Integrating HSBlox into the MedeAnalytics ecosystem ensures coordinated and aligned activities supporting
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Arcadia Partners with WellSpan Health to Supercharge Value-Based Care Journey
What You Should Know:
- Arcadia (arcadia.io), a data platform for healthcare, today announced a partnership with WellSpan Health to improve the Pennsylvania health system's performance in Medicare's Shared Savings Program.
- This strategic partnership aims to leverage Arcadia's data analytics platform to connect WellSpan Health's 220 patient care locations and provide actionable insights that support the healthcare network's value-based care journey.
Improving WellSpan Health’s
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EHR Data Holds Promise for Chronic Disease Surveillance, Study Reveals
What You Should Know:
- As chronic disease rates rise across the U.S., researchers are exploring how electronic health records (EHRs) can be used to improve public health surveillance and intervention efforts. While 90% of healthcare providers in the U.S. utilize EHRs, sharing this data with public health departments is currently limited due to legal, political, and organizational barriers.
- A new study from the Regenstrief Institute provides practical guidance for implementing governance
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ATA Establishes Clinician Council to Address Barriers and Build Trust in Virtual Care
What You Should Know:
- The American Telemedicine Association (ATA) has announced the creation of a new Clinician Council to tackle hurdles hindering the widespread adoption of telehealth and virtual care.
- This new Clinician Council aims to address emerging platforms and technologies supporting tech-enabled healthcare, while building trust through a "Trust Agenda" emphasizing responsibility, credibility, and integrity within the industry.
Clinician Council Leadership and Focus
Ann
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Smileyscope Receives FDA Clearance for First-Ever VR Analgesic
What You Should Know:
- Smileyscope™, a pioneer in virtual reality (VR) therapeutic solutions, has received Class II clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its Smileyscope™ Therapy system.
- The FDA clearance marks Smileyscope as the first and only VR Analgesic™ available in the US.
Digital Therapeutics Leadership
Smileyscope's FDA clearance underscores its leadership in Digital Therapeutics, a category defined as delivering medical interventions directly to
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ONC Launches Platform for Organizing and Building USCDI+ Datasets
What You Should Know:
- Today, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has officially launched a new platform dedicated to organizing and building USCDI+ datasets.
- This user-friendly platform, located at https://uscdiplus.healthit.gov, provides a central location for accessing and exploring all USCDI+ datasets across various domains.
Enhanced User Experience and Powerful Tools
The new platform boasts several improvements over previous data
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Deloitte Survey: 5 Factors Likely to Shape Healthcare in 2024
What You Should Know:
- The US healthcare system is undergoing a period of significant transformation, driven by factors such as consolidation, digital transformation, and the rise of empowered consumers, according to Deloitte’s 2024 Health Care Industry Outlook survey.
- Healthcare organizations face several challenges in 2024, including talent shortages, workforce challenges, rising costs, and affordability concerns. To navigate these challenges and succeed in the future, healthcare
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3Aware Integrates With Mayo Clinic Platform to Streamline Medical Device Compliance
What You Should Know:
- 3Aware, a provider of medical device regulatory compliance solutions, and Mayo Clinic Platform, a collaborative ecosystem for healthcare innovators, today announced a new partnership that will integrate 3Aware's aiSurveillance solution with Mayo Clinic Platform's extensive clinical data resources.
- This collaboration marks a significant milestone in the industry as it will enable medical device manufacturers to automate post-market clinical follow-up (PMCF) and
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Emory Healthcare Joins nference’s Federated Data Network to Advance Healthcare Research
What You Should Know:
- Emory Healthcare, an academic health system in Georgia and nference, a science-first software company transforming healthcare data for research and discovery, today announced a collaboration to expand access to diverse, aggregated, and de-identified data with the goal of accelerating groundbreaking research, disease diagnoses, and new treatments.
- nference's expertise in data science and Emory Healthcare's rich clinical data resources will enable researchers to
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