What You Should Know:
- As the world prepares for the Inflation Reduction Act’s landmark policy changes, healthcare stakeholders realize that its wide-ranging effects will require new approaches to drug pricing, health plan design, and investment.
- Avalere’s ‘2023 Healthcare Industry Outlook’ examines how community-wide healthcare will be affected by a recent court ruling, and consider data’s role in addressing health disparities.
Key Trends in Healthcare in 2023
The main insights
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AI Mental Health Chatbot Predicts Disorders with 93% Accuracy
What You Should Know:
- London-headquartered digital health startup, Limbic, has announced that its psychological assessment tool, Limbic Access, has achieved Class IIa UKCA medical device certification – making it the first and only AI mental health chatbot in the world to earn this status for its clinical effectiveness, safety and risk management.
- The certification confirms that its mental health e-triage chatbot, which is able to predict mental health disorders with an accuracy rate
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Intermountain and Story Health Partner on Specialty Care for Patients with Heart Failure
What Should Know:
- Intermountain Healthcare and Story Health, a health technology and services company that provides scalable specialty care beyond the clinic, have entered into a strategic partnership to improve access to specialty care for patients with heart failure.
- The partnership combines Intermountain's leadership in clinical quality improvement and excellence in healthcare delivery with Story Health's specialty care platform solution to extend access to the high-quality heart
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Inflation, Recession Fears Increase Tension Between Healthcare Patients and Providers
What You Should Know:
- Weave (NYSE: WEAV), the all-in-one customer communication and engagement platform for small- and medium-sized businesses, today announced new research, the 2023 Healthcare Business Insights Report, which examines how inflation and recession fears are impacting small healthcare offices, the patient experience and the strength of patient-provider relationships.
- The healthcare industry has become increasingly more competitive in the last five years. The sheer
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KLAS IV Workflow Management 2022: Functionality Drives Recent Purchases
What You Should Know:
- Health systems rely on IV workflow management solutions to streamline and improve pharmacy operations. Functionality has emerged as the most important criterion for prospective clients; however, no vendor meets all customer needs and performs at a high level, and each customer base notes gaps in functionality.
- To understand which solutions are being selected and why and help provider organizations select solutions that meet their unique needs, this new
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Authenticx Secures $20M to Enhance Customer Experience
What You Should Know:
- Authenticx, the new standard in healthcare for listening to customer voices at scale, today announced $20M in Series B funding led by Blue Heron Capital with participation from Beringea, 50 South Capital, High Alpha, Mutual Capital Partners, Signal Peak Ventures, Allos Ventures, Elevate Ventures and M25.
- The investment comes after a significant year of growth for Authenticx, which saw a 2.5x increase in ARR in 2022 and 64 new employees since July 2021, many
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80% of Healthcare Execs Want Complete Clinical Data From Other EHRs
What You Should Know:
- Health Gorilla, a Health Information Network and interoperability provider, released it's inaugural 2023 State of Interoperability report today to understand how healthcare decision-makers are approaching their clinical data strategies in light of patient privacy concerns and new federal regulations.
- The study, conducted in collaboration with Flexpa and the Health Management Academy, found that 60% of health systems report duplicative or incomplete data retrieved
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Study Reveals Current Landscape of FHIR Apps
What You Should Know:
- A study led by Regenstrief Institute Research Scientist Titus K. Schleyer, DMD, PhD, is among the first to survey the current landscape of FHIR® apps, providing a snapshot of how the innovative standard is used to enable the flow of health information
- FHIR apps can pull in data from most electronic health record systems, facilitating secure movement of information when and where needed.
Expanding the Horizon of Patient Data Security Via FHIR Apps
FHIR,
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43% of Consumers Spend Up To A Month Correcting Billing Errors
What You Should Know:
- In the online survey administered to 800 U.S. consumers who had found at least one medical billing error in the last five years, 41% of the consumers are significantly frustrated trying to address billing errors.
- Zelis, a company modernizing the business of healthcare, announced findings from a new study on consumer billing conducted in partnership with Hanover Research, an independent research firm. The full results and insights are featured in the
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SmartRx Launches Prescription Discount Cards, with Premium Savings Options
What You Should Know:
- Higher prices across most health-related goods and services have consumers reeling to find better options to save money.
- Starting today, these consumers have access to SmartRx, the newest prescription discount card. While designed to compete directly with GoodRx, SingleCare, Carecard, SmartRx(a division ofSmarty) acts as a premium health savings that goes beyond prescription drugs.
Offering Consumers a One-Stop For Premium Health Savings On
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