What You Should Know:
- Today, Unite Us -- a software company enabling collaboration across sectors to improve the health and well-being of communities -- announced a partnership with Metro Mommy Agency, a full-spectrum doula service provider to improve the quality of maternity care for Black women in Miami-Dade County.
- Black women in Miami-Dade face maternal and infant mortality rates 168% higher than white and Hispanic women in the county. Doula care
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Consumers Prefer Telehealth to In-Person Visits While Traveling
What You Should Know:
- New KeyCare survey finds nearly 7 in 10 (68%) of consumers who needed minor but urgent medical services while traveling in the prior year received care via telehealth visits with their regular physicians or affiliated members of their physicians’ care teams, outpacing all other care-delivery options.
- Results are based on a survey of 400 consumers who have previously scheduled and
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Healthy.io & Reset Kidney Health Partner on Comprehensive Virtual Kidney Care
What You Should Know:
- Healthy.io, the global leader in transforming the smartphone camera into a medical device, and Reset Kidney Health, a hybrid care platform that offers gold-standard multidisciplinary care to patients with kidney disease, have announced a partnership that will give patients the option to utilize at-home, smartphone-powered kidney testing.
- As part of the partnership, Reset will provide eligible patients with Healthy.io's Minuteful Kidney™ test to complete at
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AWS, Center for Health Affairs Launches Social Determinants of Health Hub
What You Should Know:
- The Center for Health Affairs and Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced it has established the world’s first and only Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) Innovation Hub.
- The hub’s objective is to start locally and move globally to address structural racism and poverty that result in gun violence, behavioral health crises, and a myriad of other factors negatively impacting the health of local residents.
SDOH Challenges
According to the U.S. Census Bureau,
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Ambience Healthcare Launches Automated AI Medical Scribe Platform
What You Should Know:
- Ambience Healthcare, an AI company developing technology to supercharge healthcare providers launches its fully automated AI medical scribe, Ambience AutoScribe.
- Already in use by provider organizations across North America, AutoScribe is revolutionizing the way healthcare providers document patient visits.
How AutoScribe Works
AutoScribe comprehensively captures the nuances of each patient story, without the need for a virtual or in-person human scribe.
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BrightInsight Adds ixlayer to BrightInsight Ecosystem to Improve Therapy Matching
What You Should Know:
- BrightInsight announced that ixlayer has joined the BrightInsight Ecosystem, a network of more than 20 of the world’s leading healthcare and technology companies driving growth and adoption of digital health solutions.
- The BrightInsight Ecosystem of partners collaborates to solve healthcare’s biggest challenges to drive digital innovation, adoption and engagement.
Why It Matters
Conditions such as high cholesterol, autoimmune
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Vysioneer & Pfizer Partner on AI-Powered Oncology Clinical Trials
What You Should Know:
- Vysioneer, a provider of applied AI for Oncology, today announced a data-sharing agreement with Pfizer, a global leader in pharmaceuticals. The agreement aims to lay the foundation for the application of AI in oncology clinical trials.
As part of the agreement, Vysioneer gains access to one of Pfizer's oncology clinical trial datasets to apply Vysioneer's advanced machine-learning techniques to facilitate the drug efficacy assessment process, thereby allowing Pfizer
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Aledade Acquires Curia, Adds More Than 450 New Practices
What You Should Know:
- Aledade today announced the acquisition of Curia, a leader in value-based care analytics using practical applications of artificial intelligence (AI) to optimize the targeting of patient care and engagement programs. The acquisition will enhance Aledade’s ability to extract valuable insights from disparate data sources, provide more accurate predictions using past data, and optimize primary care workflows through cutting-edge AI algorithms.
- In addition, the
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Ascensia Diabetes Care Partners with SNAQ to Support Mealtime Decision-Making
What You Should Know:
- Ascensia Diabetes Care, a global diabetes care company announces a landmark global collaboration with SNAQ, an award-winning app-based solution that offers key insights on food and nutrition for people with diabetes (PWDs).
- As part of the strategic collaboration, Ascensia and SNAQ will integrate their solutions to empower more PWDs to make impactful mealtime decisions, with a goal to improve diabetes management.
Support Mealtime Decision-Making
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AGS Acquires Offshore Patient Access BPO Unit from Availity
What You Should Know:
- AGS Health, a provider for tech-enabled revenue cycle management (RCM) solutions announces the acquisition of the India-based patient access outsourcing business unit of the Florida-based healthcare technology company Availity.
- With more than half of U.S. hospitals anticipating a year of negative margins, achieving full and accurate reimbursement for services has never been more critical. With this expansion, AGS Health is positioned to provide faster, more
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