What You Should Know:
- Credentialing management has historically required dozens of spreadsheets, manual data entry, and painstaking monitoring of multiple payer, state, and national databases—causing significant inefficiencies and expenses. Vendors providing credentialing software and/or services promise major efficiency gains for healthcare organizations, but not all offerings are equally effective.
- A new report by KLAS examines three strong predictors of efficiency—the use of
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HealthTap Launches Eval360 for Health Plans to Expand PCP Care for Members
What You Should Know:
- HealthTap, the leading virtual primary care provider, announced today the official launch of Eval360, an innovative product for health plans that enables HealthTap’s primary care doctors to conduct comprehensive virtual medical evaluations and easily share useful health data back with those partner plans, by providing a 360-degree view of a member’s health status.
- HealthTap completed a successful beta period for Eval360 for over 15,000 seniors through its
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Research: Proscia AI Predicts Diagnostic Agreement for Melanoma
What You Should Know:
- Proscia® a provider of digital and computational pathology solutions, has released study results on new artificial intelligence (AI) that predicts diagnostic agreement for melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer.
- The findings, which were presented at the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2022, highlight the potential of the technology to improve diagnostic accuracy for melanoma and other diseases with low pathologist concordance.
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Consumers Prefer Telehealth Over In-Office Visits for Routine Care
What You Should Know:
- The popularity of telehealth remains strong – and even the top choice among consumers needing routine medical care, according to a recent survey of individuals who previously had at least one telehealth visit.
- Regardless of the type of virtual care, nearly all participants of the survey, sponsored by KeyCare, stated it was important that both their regular doctor and their telehealth provider had access to their health records for sharing critical data such
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Cedar Launches Payer Intelligence Layer to Integrate Payer-Provider Data
What You Should Know:
- To address the systemic challenges consumers face when paying for healthcare, Cedar, an enterprise healthcare engagement platform that improves the end-to-end consumer financial journey, has developed the Payer Intelligence Layer.
- With the Payer Intelligence Layer, Cedar can now integrate data from health insurers and healthcare providers to help create a single source of information for consumers managing medical bills. A game-changer for the healthcare industry,
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Report: Half of all Nurses are Currently Showing Signs of Burnout
What You Should Know:
- According to a new study, half of all nurses are currently showing signs of burnout – up from 40% in 2019.
- More than a third of doctors report the same emotional exhaustion. The study highlights that although the pandemic is over, the mental health toll on healthcare workers continues to exacerbate.
Evaluating Burnout in Healthcare Workers in the Aftermath of Covid-19
For the study, researchers sent an electronic survey to HCW during three time periods.
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CVS Health Taps ixlayer to Offer At Home Health Testing Kits for Consumers
What You Should Know:
- ixlayer, a digital health company on a mission to make health testing more accessible by pairing at-home self-collection testing with digital experiences, announced it is now the platform for CVS Health branded at-home sample collection kits.
- Easily accessible to consumers, the easy-to-use kits provide convenient, affordable and quality testing for Vitamin D, Lyme disease, sexually-transmitted infections, and thyroid function – and offer next-best care
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Aspen RxHealth Launches Clinical Pharmacy Services Platform for Payers
What You Should Know:
- Aspen RxHealth recently announced the launch of Alliance by Aspen RxHealth, a clinical pharmacy services model serving payers across the nation.
- For the first time, the new model will allow health plans' in-house pharmacy teams to utilize Aspen RxHealth's proprietary platform and support services to complete pharmacy consultations for their member or patient populations—eliminating the need for a sizable investment to create a homegrown
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KLAS-Bain: Post-Pandemic Investment Priorities for Healthcare Providers
What You Should Know:
- Competition in the provider IT space shows no signs of abating: Early-stage capital, big tech, and scale EMR players continue crowding into more segments. This has significant implications for providers as they transition into a new disruptive period, for software players as they fine-tune go-to-market models for the current environment, and for private equity investors as they look to invest behind winning themes.
- A new report by KLAS Research and Bain &
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Bain Capital PE Makes Strategic Investment in CitiusTech
What You Should Know:
- CitiusTech, a leading provider of technology and consulting services to healthcare and life sciences companies, today announced a strategic growth investment from Bain Capital Private Equity (“Bain Capital”).
- Bain Capital joins Baring Private Equity Asia (“BPEA”), which acquired a majority stake in CitiusTech in 2019, as a significant shareholder to accelerate the Company’s growth. Financial terms of the private transaction were not disclosed.
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