Staffing shortages and rising costs leave ERs in chaos and even force some hospitals to shut down money-losing emergency departments altogether. Chaotic or closed emergency rooms not only cost lives but cut off a pipeline of new patients that provide income for hospitals and jobs for specialist physicians.
The main driver behind ER chaos and expense is a nationwide shortage of trained doctors and nurses. A single nurse often has to care for ten or more patients in the ED simultaneously,
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CareFirst BCBS Community Health Plan Maryland Launches Medicaid Member Program
What You Should Know:
- Wider Circle, which builds peer-driven communities nationwide to help people improve their health and quality of life through trusted connections, announced a partnership with CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield Community Health Plan Maryland (CareFirst CHPMD).
- CareFirst is one of the nation’s largest not-for-profit healthcare organizations. Wider Circle is working with their Medicaid plan to enhance member engagement and improve health outcomes
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Wellsheet, Wolters Kluwer Integrates AI-Powered Clinical Workflows with UpToDate
What You Should Know:
- Wellsheet, an innovative provider of AI-powered clinical workflows, announced a collaboration with Wolters Kluwer Health to integrate evidence-based content from UpToDate, their leading clinical decision support solution (CDS), into Wellsheet’s Smart EHR UI application.
- The integration aims to revolutionize the clinician experience by providing immediate access to crucial clinical information and tools, reducing cognitive overload, and ultimately
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RadiantGraph Launches Integration Platform to Untangle Healthcare Data Chaos
What You Should Know:
- AI has proven effective in enabling health plans to hyper-personalize communications, engage consumers, and enhance outcomes, including CAHPS and star ratings. However, many large healthcare organizations struggle with unstructured and complex "big data," resulting in patients being disconnected from personalized healthcare.
- RadiantGraph now securely integrates with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Databricks, and Snowflake, offering
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Particle Health Sues Epic Systems, Alleging Antitrust Violations in EHR Market
What You Should Know:
- Particle Health, a company specializing in aggregating and delivering actionable patient data, has filed a federal antitrust lawsuit against Epic Systems Corporation.
- The lawsuit accuses Epic of abusing its dominant position in the electronic health records (EHR) market to hinder competition in the burgeoning payer platform market.
Epic's Alleged Anti-Competitive Practices
Particle's complaint alleges that Epic is actively thwarting the development of
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Hippocratic AI Secures $17M to Advance Safety-Focused LLMs in Healthcare
What You Should Know:
- Hippocratic AI, a pioneer in developing safety-focused Large Language Models (LLMs) for healthcare, announced today that it has received a significant investment from NVentures, the venture capital arm of NVIDIA.
- The $17M investment, backed also by Greycroft and Leo Shapiro of 7Wire Ventures, adds to Hippocratic AI’s recent Series A round, bringing the total funds raised to an impressive $137M.
Collaboration with NVIDIA
Hippocratic AI's
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Philips and Jackson Health System’s Collaboration Reduces Carbon Emissions in Patient Monitoring
What You Should Know:
- Philips and Jackson Health System have released the findings of a collaborative Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) demonstrating the substantial sustainability benefits of transitioning to Philips' next-generation monitoring solutions.
- The study, conducted at Jackson Memorial Hospital, Jackson North Medical Center, and Jackson South Medical Center, revealed a significant reduction in carbon emissions and waste, showcasing the potential for patient monitoring
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Moving Nurse Leaders from Task Managers to Business Leaders
As a CNO of more than 20 years, I have observed the nurse manager role evolve from what we would typically think of now as a charge nurse to that of essentially serving as the CEO of a multi-million-dollar enterprise. Nurse managers are responsible not only for clinical quality and patient satisfaction, but also for financial performance, employee engagement, operational efficiency, accreditation, regulatory standard compliance, and more. They are the linchpins to achieving hospitals’ strategic
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Komodo Health Integrates Cornerstone AI to Boost Healthcare Data Accuracy and Insights
What You Should Know:
- Cornerstone AI, creators of a powerful AI software solution that cleans real world healthcare data significantly faster and more accurately than existing solutions, today announced that healthcare technology company Komodo Health will integrate its software into components of its MapEnhance offering.
- The move comes upon the completion of a successful pilot program in which Cornerstone’s proprietary algorithms strengthened the fidelity of Komodo’s Lab Results, a
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Cardinal Health Acquires Integrated Oncology Network for $1.115B
What You Should Know:
- Cardinal Health (NYSE: CAH) has announced a definitive agreement to acquire Integrated Oncology Network (ION), a physician-led independent community oncology network, for $1.115 billion in cash.
- The acquisition will integrate ION into Cardinal’s Navista platform and expand its suite of solutions to deliver world-class patient care and experiences while navigating the complexities of the healthcare landscape.
Expanding Support for Independent
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