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The American Medical Association (AMA) announced today nine organizations selected as recipients of the 2023 Electronic Health Record Use Research Grant Program. This year’s grant recipients will divide $589k to fund research examining patterns of EHR use to inform solutions that prevent clinician burnout and turnover, enhance high-quality patient care, and improve workflows, teamwork, and resource allocation at the practice level.
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University Hospitals Taps Nuance to Improve Patient Engagement
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Nuance Communications announced that Cleveland-based University Hospitals has chosen Nuance Patient Engagement Solutions to improve patient experiences by providing streamlined, secure, around-the-clock support to patients. The future of healthcare depends on the unified communication between patients and providers. Nuance's platform integrates directly into University Hospital’s existing infrastructure and extends the capabilities of the EHR to accelerate the
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GDIT Awarded $39M New Mexico Medicaid Enterprise Benefit Management Services Contract
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General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT), a business unit of General Dynamics, announced today that it was awarded a $39M Medicaid Enterprise Benefit Management Services contract by the state of New Mexico to support its Human Services Department (HSD). The new contract has a four-year base period with four option years.Under the Benefit Management Services contract, the GDIT team will implement a key module of this New Mexico’s Medicaid Management
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Feasibility of Cryoablation as a Treatment for Invasive Ductal Carcinoma
Millions of women worldwide are affected by breast cancer, a prevalent form of cancer. For approximately 8 out of 10 cases, invasive ductal carcinoma (IDC) is the most prevalent form of breast cancer. IDC is characterized by cancer cells that have spread beyond the milk ducts into the surrounding breast tissue.
While surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation therapy are commonly used to treat IDC, there is growing interest in alternative treatment options such as cryoablation provided by the ICE3
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U.S. Digital Therapeutics Market to Reach $21.46B by 2030
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The U.S. digital therapeutics market size is estimated to reach $21.46B by 2030, expanding at a CAGR of 33.8% from 2023 to 2030, according to a new reports by Coherent Market Insights, Inc. Digital therapeutics solutions help improve medication adherence with personalized incentives to encourage long-term behavior change in patients and people with chronic conditions. The report reveals government initiatives to digitalize healthcare is one of the key trends
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Emory Healthcare and DispatchHealth Partner to Offer In-Home Care to Patients in Metro-Atlanta
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Emory Healthcare and DispatchHealth collaborate to offer patients a new option to receive convenient and safe follow-up and/or high acuity medical care in the comfort of their own homes. The collaboration is designed to improve access to health care and reduce the total cost of care for patients throughout Atlanta, Georgia and surrounding communities. Additionally, in collaboration with Emory Healthcare, DispatchHealth will supplement the health system's
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Report: Inaccurate Drug Discount Requests Reach Nearly $1B
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Kalderos, a data infrastructure and analytics company, identified nearly $1B in inaccurate drug discount requests from 2016-Q1 2023 on its drug discount management platform.The report, titled "Mission Critical: Bringing drug discount stakeholders together so patients win," outlines Kalderos' vision for a new paradigm of cooperation among drug discount program stakeholders in which everyone benefits — particularly patients.
Rising Costs of Inaccurate Drug
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M&A: Apixio and ClaimLogiq Merge to Minimize Reimbursement Inaccuracies
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Apixio announced it has completed its merger with ClaimLogiq, a healthcare technology business that delivers savings for health plans by reducing claim errors prior to payment. Together, the combined entity will be branded as Apixio.Together, the combination of Apixio and ClaimLogiq’s critical infrastructure, artificial intelligence, and proprietary healthcare data will accelerate the shift toward outcomes-based reimbursement models by reducing costs, minimizing
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Claroty & Siemens Healthineers Launches End-to-End Cybersecurity Solution
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Medigate by Claroty announced its strategic partnership with medical technology company, Siemens Healthineers to protect healthcare enterprises from malicious cyberattacks. Through a combination of software, managed services, and medical device security data sharing, the solution will increase reliability for patients by boosting risk management and operational efficiency. Additionally, the two companies will share medical device product security
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Simple HealthKit Launches At-Home Testing Kits on Walmart.com
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Simple HealthKit, which provides the first human-centric, complete diagnostics platform with access to follow-up care for respiratory health, sexual health and chronic conditions partners with Walmart to make Simple HealthKit’s at-home HbA1c (Diabetes), Respiratory Wellness and Sexual Wellness Tests available at Walmart.com*.Simple HealthKit’s HbA1c (Diabetes) Tests identify key markers for Type 2 diabetes. Its Respiratory Wellness Tests identify Influenza A,
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