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A new study by Cedars-Sinai investigators describes how ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, may help improve health outcomes for patients with cirrhosis and liver cancer by providing easy-to-understand information about basic knowledge, lifestyle and treatments for these conditions.The findings, published in the peer-reviewed journal Clinical and Molecular Hepatology, highlight the AI system’s potential to play a role in clinical practice.
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Q1 2023 Digital Health Funding Reaches $3.4B Across 132 Deals
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2023 started off with the hallmarks of a rebound year. While Q4 2022 signaled the tail end of the digital health funding cycle, January and February funding numbers began to suggest that sector investment was slowly but surely inching back upwards. Inflation was easing ever so slightly. Investors were rediscovering their confidence and launching new projects, signaling optimism in the sector, according to a new Rock Health report. However, recent news—the collapse of
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What Do Highly Satisfied Users of EHRs Do Differently?
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The goal of the Arch Collaborative is to help organizations understand not just how to make the EHR usable but how to help clinicians embrace it as a tool essential for delivering great care.To that end, this report examines the responses of over 3,000 highly satisfied EHR users to identify what they do differently from less satisfied peers. Their insights reveal specific areas that other users and organizations can focus on to improve their own
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Solve.Care Launches Decentralized Layer-2 Healthcare Blockchain Infrastructure
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Solve.Care, a healthcare platform company that leverages blockchain technology to deliver better care, has announced the launch of Care.Chain, a decentralized Layer-2 network infrastructure.Care.Chain is a significant step towards Solve.Care’s mission to improve healthcare access, delivery, management, and payments for both healthcare institutions and consumers through the benefits that blockchain technology provides.
Providing the Necessary Base Infrastructure to
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Hint Health Launches All-in-One EMR Platform for Direct Primary Care Practices
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Hint Health, the company powering the Direct Primary Care (DPC) movement, today announced the release of its newest product, Hint All-in-One.The all-encompassing EMR platform made exclusively for DPCs integrates Hint’s existing membership management platform with a new clinical platform that was purpose-built by and for DPC physicians. Now, delivered within the targeted 6-month deadline, the solution enables DPC physicians to get back to what they love to do – care for
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Uber Health Embeds Same-Day Prescription Delivery Into Its Care Platform
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Uber Health, Uber’s healthcare arm, today announced same-day prescription delivery on its HIPAA-supported, centralized platform.For the first time, those using Uber Health—including healthcare providers and health plans—will be able to manage prescription delivery from any pharmacy in their service area through the same platform they already use to coordinate transportation for patients. This launch enables providers to offer a full suite of care solutions that
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Florence Launches Modern Healthcare Experience With $20M
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Florence, an innovator in healthcare enablement software, has launched out of stealth mode after raising $20 million in seed funding.The health tech startup’s round was led by Thrive Capital, GV (Google Ventures), and Salesforce Ventures with participation from Vast Ventures, BoxGroup and Atento Capital.
Aspiring to Digitally Streamline Patient Access to Increase Efficiency
Comprised of physicians and engineers from leading health systems and technology companies,
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Genialis Raises $13M to Build Clinical Biomarkers that Predict Patient Response
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Genialis, a computational precision medicine company unraveling complex biology to find new ways to address disease, today announced it raised more than $13 million in Series A financing to transform the way diseases are diagnosed and treatment decisions are made.Taiwania Capital and Debiopharm Innovation Fund co-led the round, with participation from previous investors First Star Ventures, Redalpine Venture Partners, and Pikas. Other new investors include P5 Health
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KLAS Reveals Some Providers Lack Confidence in Oracle Cerner’s Roadmap/Vision
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Cerner, one of the major software vendors in healthcare IT, has gone through significant changes over the last year and a half. In October 2021, they announced a new CEO and introduced RevElate as their go-forward patient accounting platform. Two months later, Oracle announced their intent to acquire Cerner. Customers soon reached out to KLAS, wanting to know about their peers’ experiences with these changes.To gather this information, KLAS has been meeting regularly
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KLAS: Independent Ambulatory Patient Portals Performance 2023
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Patient portals (tools used by healthcare providers to engage with patients) can greatly influence a patient’s ability to seek and receive care. Since the outbreak of COVID-19, healthcare organizations have become keenly interested in technology that gives patients ownership of their health and enhances office efficiencies.Though KLAS has historically looked at how portals perform in the IDN setting, this report examines the experience of customers in the independent
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