We hear a lot about 5G technology, but for many of us, its link to our lives goes as far as our smartphones and mobile service providers. But to think that 5G technology is only valuable for making our data speeds faster is like saying that electricity is great because it allows us to read books before bed. Sure, both are favorable side effects, but the impacts of each invention are far more widespread than that. A lot of industries have been disrupted by 5G technology — the video game
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Cybersecurity: The Hidden Health Tech Crisis No One’s Talking About
The life-saving capabilities of technology in a healthcare environment are beyond dispute. Medical professionals in hospital environments rely on networked medical devices to access and share patient information rapidly to reduce the time it takes to make life-saving decisions and deliver essential patient care. Connected devices in healthcare environments allow medical professionals to monitor patients more closely, improve medical assistance and use data for analytics and medical research.
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Teladoc Health Integrates Solo platform with Microsoft Teams for Health Systems
What You Should Know: - Teladoc Health announced a collaboration with Microsoft in which Teladoc Health’s Solo platform for hospitals and health systems will be integrated into the Microsoft Teams environment to strengthen physician and patient access to best-in-class virtual healthcare. - The combination of communications and workflows in Microsoft Teams with Teladoc Health’s medical-grade whole-person virtual care delivery solutions will simplify
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Unite Us Launches Social Care Solution to Improve SDoH
What You Should Know: - Unite Us today announced the release of its new end-to-end social care solution that will accelerate both the growth and impact of social care and services in local communities nationwide. - The new solution will expand far beyond patient referrals, to now identify and predict social care needs in communities, coordinate necessary care, leverage data to further improve systems at large, and enable sustainable and impactful funding of social care nationwide. Why
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Notable Launches End-to-End Revenue Cycle Workflow Automation Solution
What You Should Know: - Notable, a San Mateo, CA-based intelligent automation company for healthcare has launched expanded capabilities for comprehensive revenue cycle management (RCM) automation. - Unlike traditional point solutions that only automate siloed parts of the revenue cycle, Notable's intelligent automation platform is the only platform that combines robotic process automation (RPA), artificial intelligence (AI), patient engagement, and no-code configurability to provide the
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TailorMed, AllianceRx Walgreens Prime Collaborate to Reduce Patient Out-of-Pocket Costs
What You Should Know: - TailorMed, a leading financial navigation technology company that helps healthcare organizations remove financial barriers to care, today announced they are collaborating with AllianceRx Walgreens Prime – one of the nation’s largest specialty and home delivery pharmacies. - TailorMed’s platform will help the organization reduce the burden of specialty therapies for eligible patients by
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VisiQuate Lands $50M to Expand AI-Powered RCM Automation Solution
What You Should Know: - VisiQuate, Inc., a Santa Rosa, CA-based provider of advanced analytics and AI-powered automation today announced a new $50 million equity investment from Sixth Street Growth. - Founded in 2009, VisiQuate, Inc.’s user-friendly data management and analytics solutions let virtually anyone in a healthcare organization explore complex data from multiple sources to quickly gain insights and create actionable workflows. - VisiQuate’s artificial intelligence
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Israeli Startup Aidoc Raises $65M for AI-Powered Medical Imaging Platform
What You Should Know: - Aidoc, a Tel Aviv-based provider of artificial intelligence (AI) solutions for medical imaging, announced it has raised $65M in Series C funding led by General Catalyst, bringing its total funding to $140M. - This Series C round comes on the heels of a surge in demand for Aidoc’s AI-driven solutions, including the largest clinical deployment of AI in healthcare through its partnership with Radiology Partners. - Founded in 2016, Aidoc’s solutions aid
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When Virtual Goes Viral: Post-Covid Software Trends for Small Physician Practices
After the great telehealth rush of 2020, healthcare providers who could offer HIPAA-compliant services while also being able to access their patients’ complete healthcare information remotely, came out ahead of the game. The practices that continued operating their organizations in a way that met the healthcare needs of their patients in a ‘no-beats-missed’ fashion achieved greater patient satisfaction and outcomes due to the continuity of care. But across the country, this scenario was
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Banjo Health Lands $5M for AI-Driven Prior Authorization Platform
What You Should Know: - Banjo Health, a Washington-based provider of AI-driven prior authorization ("PA") solutions, announced today it has raised in excess of $5 million in Series A financing led by Epsilon Health Investors, with participation from Spark Growth Ventures and Tau Ventures. Epsilon Health Investors Co-Founder and General Partner, Gregory Epstein, will be joining Banjo Health's Board of Directors. - Banjo Health is focused on bringing transparency and automation to PA through
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