What You Should Know:
- Deloitte Centre for Health Solutions releases its thirteenth annual report, ‘Seize the Digital Momentum: Measuring the return from pharmaceutical innovation 2022’ that explores the performance of the biopharmaceutical industry (bio Pharma) and its ability to generate returns from investment in innovative new medicines.
- Since 2021, much of the world has successfully adjusted to life where COVID-19 is more endemic as vaccines and treatments reduced the risk and
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HTA to Offer Cognoa’s Canvas Dx Diagnostic Device for Autism to Member Organizations
What You Should Know:
- Health Transformation Alliance (HTA), a cooperative of nearly 60 of America’s largest employers, has partnered with Cognoa, a pediatric behavioral health company, to offer the company’s Canvas Dx diagnostic device for autism to all HTA Member organizations and their employees.
- HTA will offer its member organizations – some of the most influential and significant brands in the U.S. – the opportunity to add Canvas Dx to their benefit design.
Expanding Horizons By
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FemTech: Joi Women’s Wellness Launches Nationwide
What You Should Know:
- Joi Women’s Wellness (Joi), a modern, femtech proactive approach to women’s health care, today announced the company’s official nationwide launch and availability of its hormone optimization and peptide therapy treatments, as well as the introduction of a new telehealth platform that provides a goals-based, customizable experience to help women own their health journey and manage the hormone and age–related changes to their bodies.
- Joi offers health coaching and
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KLAS: What Impact Do Automated Prior Authorization Solutions Provide?
What You Should Know:
- Prior authorization is mandated by payers to ensure that certain clinical procedures and medications being ordered are necessary. To alleviate the heavy administrative burden this requirement causes, healthcare organizations have adopted automated prior authorization solutions.
- For this report, KLAS interviewed 30 respondents from 26 unique organizations to understand their experiences using these solutions and what outcomes they have seen.
Understanding
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Hurdle, CloudLIMS Partner to Augment Diagnostic Lab Capabilities
What You Should Know:
- Hurdle (a Chronomics Inc. brand), a global bio-infrastructure platform that powers end-to-end diagnostics for life sciences, labs and healthcare providers, and CloudLIMS, a leading SOC 2 compliant and ISO 9001:2015 certified lab informatics provider, announced today that the companies have entered into a strategic partnership marking the first integration between a Diagnostic as a Service (DaaS) platform and a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) LIMS provider.
- The
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Unintended Bias in AI-Driven Healthcare Applications
What You Should Know:
- Over the past few years, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and more specifically, Machine Learning (ML) technology, have experienced rapid adoption in the healthcare space as tools for diagnosis and decision-making. Such tools are intended to address challenges in the healthcare system to both processes and put into practice the proliferating medical findings, and also to support delivery of the promise of personalized and precision medicine.
- Unintended bias in AI and
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Addressing Health Equity: Practical Solutions to Address Variations in Care
What You Should Know:
- The companies and organizations that comprise the Healthcare Leadership Council (HLC), representing all sectors of the American healthcare industry, have joined in a commitment to advance health equity in the United States including principles and actions to ultimately eliminate health disparities.
- The joint commitment follows the release late last year of a report developed by HLC and ZS, a global management and technology consulting firm, identifying multiple
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Blood Sugar Monitoring Devices Pose Wearability & Use Problems for Older Diabetic Adults & Caregivers
What You Should Know:
- In an initial trial of continuous glucometer use, faulty device adhesive -- a serious wearability challenge -- and patient difficulty in interpreting graphs produced by the device, were noted. In a subsequent trial, 70 older adults with diabetes wore glucometers and activity monitors and used smartphones and electronic medication bottles to track and manage blood sugar over a two-week period.
- Among these 70 patients, two-thirds of whom were African American and
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Intermountain Health Taps Qualtrics to Help Advance Patient, Consumer and Employee Experience Management
What You Should Know:
- Intermountain Health has chosen Qualtrics (Nasdaq: XM), the leader and creator of the experience management category, to create world-class experiences for its patients, caregivers and all populations who interact with and consume Intermountain's services by helping improve how it listens, understands and acts on experience data.
- Intermountain is a nonprofit health system headquartered in Salt Lake City with 60,000 caregivers serving millions of patients each
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KLAS Report Reveals Key Challenges from Provider Organizations
What You Should Know:
- In September 2022, KLAS hosted the sixth annual Digital Health Investment Symposium (DHIS). Executives from healthcare provider organizations, HIT companies, investors, and innovators came together to collaborate on important developments in healthcare technology.
- Drawing on insights from a pre-summit survey as well as insights shared at the summit in small-group discussions, KLAS published a white paper highlighting core challenges identified by summit
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