What You Should Know:
- The FCC’s Enforcement Bureau today announced the opening of a new online portal by which private entities such as hospitals and health systems can alert agency enforcement staff of suspicious robocall, robotext, and spoofing campaigns. For example, a private hospital or small business might use the portal to seek support from the FCC in cutting off or taking enforcement action against robocallers flooding their institution’s phone lines with robocalls or spoofing the
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Prescryptive Health Taps Lilly on First-to-Market Value-Based Program to Stabilize Insulin Pricing
What You Should Know:
- Prescryptive Health, a healthcare technology company on a mission to rewrite the script for the U.S. pharmaceutical market partners with Eli Lilly and Company on a new and first-to-market subscription model to help lower costs for people who pay for their Lilly insulin through their employer-sponsored benefits.
- Through a flat, per-member, per-month subscription fee, employers can offer insulin to their employees with predictable, affordable, and transparent costs.
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Greenway Health Launches Greenway Engagement Model
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- Greenway Health has launched its new client engagement program, the Greenway Engagement Model (GEM), designed to strengthen Greenway's trusted advisor relationship with clients and support a more successful healthcare technology journey for Greenway clients through intentional interaction and strategic support.
- The GEM program provides a dedicated client support team and creates a client feedback program aimed at improving the user
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Violet Partners with Ontrak Health to Improve Inclusive Care
What You Should Know:
- Violet, a health equity platform, announced that it has partnered with Ontrak Health, an AI and technology-enabled behavioral health company, to offer better-personalized support and treatment through identity-centered care.
- Through the partnership, Ontrak Health will implement Violet’s continuing education for care coaches learning how to better support every health plan member served by their
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Sameday Health Launches Single Swab Test for COVID-19, Flu, and RSV
What You Should Know:
- Sameday Health, a nationwide testing and wellness provider, today announced the launch of its single swab test for COVID-19, influenza A/B strains, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV).
- The swab test is currently offered in Los Angeles clinics with plans to soon expand statewide — delivers reliable results, unmatched efficiency, and peace of mind amid the "tripledemic."
- The new testing service utilizes laboratory-developed nasal
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HearUSA to Carry Sony’s Over-the-Counter Hearing Aids
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- HearUSA, America’s largest hearing care retailer, will announce the availability of OTC hearing aids from Sony in all HearUSA centers and online.- Beginning early next year, the Sony CRE-C10 and Sony CRE-E1 will be available for purchase at over 350 HearUSA centers nationwide and on the HearUSA website.HearUSA is partnering with Sony to better serve the 65% of the people in the United States with hearing loss who do not wear hearing aids.The goal is to
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Ardent Health Services to Deploy AI-Powered, Virtual Nursing Program
What You Should Know:
- Ardent Health Services today announced a partnership with AI-powered ambient monitoring platform care.ai to implement care.ai’s Virtual Nursing solution at Lovelace Medical Center, Ardent’s Albuquerque, New Mexico-based affiliate.
- Ardent, which operates 30 hospitals and nearly 200 sites of care across six states, is among the first of care.ai’s partners to introduce AI-powered nursing.
Virtual Nursing Solution Driving Improved Clinical
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AHI Acquires Canadian-based wellteq Digital Health Inc.
What You Should Know:
- Advanced Health Intelligence Ltd acquires Canadian health technology company wellteq Digital Health Inc. This transaction follows the acquisition of South Africa based Vertica Health (Pty) Ltd in August, a biomathematical health risk modelling platform. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.
- The 3-company combination creates the only company globally capable of offering biometric health screening, health risk stratification, triage into
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WellSpan Health & Helix to Create Population Genomics Program
What You Should Know:
- WellSpan Health and Helix, the nation’s leading population genomics and viral surveillance company, announced today a partnership to create a comprehensive population genomics program designed to improve patient healthcare outcomes by integrating genetic insights into clinical care and research.
- Patients who are interested can have a DNA sample collected to generate genomic data. Once obtained, with their consent, the results from their sample will be integrated
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Point32, Wellthy Partner to Offer Members Tech-Enabled Caregiving Support
What You Should Know:
- Point32Health (the combined entity of Harvard Pilgrim and Tufts Health Plan) and Wellthy, the tech-enabled caregiving support company, are launching a new collaboration to support caregivers.
- Through this new program, commercial members of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and Tufts Health Plan’s fully-insured health plans throughout New England will now have access to Wellthy, the market-leading solution for caregiving. The partnership demonstrates a commitment by
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