What You Should Know:
- Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. today was sworn in as the 26th Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in the Oval Office by Associate Justice of the Supreme Court Neil Gorsuch.
- As Secretary, Kennedy will oversee a vast department with a nearly $2 trillion budget, responsible for protecting the health and well-being of all Americans.
Education and Experience
Kennedy, the son of former Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and nephew of
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VA Dismisses Over 1,000 Employees in Efficiency Effort
What You Should Know:
- The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced the dismissal of more than 1,000 employees as part of a Trump Administration initiative to streamline government agencies and improve efficiency.
- The dismissed employees are primarily non-bargaining unit probationary employees who have served less than one year in competitive service positions or less than two years in excepted service positions.
- The layoffs will “allegedly” save the
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Beyond the iPhone: Why Android is the Ideal Choice for Healthcare
Apple or Android? Ask any healthcare worker which device they prefer on the frontline and most will say Apple. It’s familiar, regarded as secure, and carries a certain prestige. However, in a medical context, Android is particularly suited to patient data and healthcare ecosystems. Also, and this often surprises people, it’s the device ecosystem that corporations prefer, with some of the world’s biggest companies choosing Android over Apple by about 60/40.
As the founder of an enterprise
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Montefiore Health System Selects AWS as Strategic Cloud Provider
What You Should Know:
- Montefiore Health System, a healthcare provider in New York announced a strategic collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to enhance its digital healthcare ecosystem and improve patient care.
- This initiative will leverage AWS's cloud capabilities to modernize Montefiore's technology infrastructure, enhance data security, and drive innovation in healthcare delivery.
Montefiore plans to transition a majority of its technology portfolio, including
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Open-Source Healthcare Data Platform: Tuva Health and MultiCare Join Forces
What You Should Know:
- Tuva Health, the world's first open-source healthcare data transformation platform, today announced it has partnered with MultiCare Connected Care (MCC), MultiCare Health System’s accountable care organization, to build, operate, and manage MCC’s enterprise healthcare data platform.
- In addition, MultiCare Capital Partners, the strategic investment arm of MultiCare, has invested in Tuva Health to further support the development of its open-source data model.
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John Muir Health Deploys Ambience’s AI Scribing Platform Across Enterprise
What You Should Know:
- John Muir Health (JMH), a health system renowned for its commitment to patient care, today announced the full enterprise rollout of Ambience Healthcare's AI scribing platform.
- The expansion follows a successful pilot program that demonstrated significant improvements in patient experience, clinician well-being, productivity, and financial sustainability.
"Coding Aware" Technology Improves Patient Experience
Ambience's unique "coding aware" technology
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Capital Rx Launches Unified Claims Processing Platform, Judi Health
What You Should Know:
- Capital Rx, a healthcare technology company announced the launch of Judi Health™, a groundbreaking unified claims processing platform.
- Judi Health is the first platform capable of administering both pharmacy and medical claims on a single system, addressing the long-standing challenges of fragmented healthcare administration and paving the way for a more efficient and patient-centric approach to care.
Streamlines Operations, Reduces Costs, and
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Candid Health Raises $52.5M for Autonomous Revenue Cycle Automation Platform
What You Should Know:
- Candid Health, a provider of autonomous revenue cycle automation solutions for healthcare providers raises $52.5M in a Series C funding round led by Oak HC/FT.
- The latest investment brings the company's total funding to $99.5M and plans to expand its customer relationships with multi-site provider groups across the United States.
AI-Powered Platform Reduces Administrative Costs and Improves Efficiency
Revenue cycle management (RCM) is a
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Keragon Secures $7.5M for AI-Powered Healthcare Automation Platform
What You Should Know:
- Keragon, an AI-powered, HIPAA-compliant automation platform for healthcare, has raised $7.5 million in an oversubscribed seed funding round led by Upfront Ventures, with early investors Afore Capital, Focal, and 25m Health doubling down.
- This brings Keragon’s total funding to $10.5 million. Six months since product launch, the company has already surpassed 100 paying customers, is growing at a 30% month-over-month rate, and has successfully executed more than 2
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Human-Generated Data: The Missing Link in AI-Powered Revenue Cycles
Mounting financial pressures for healthcare organizations mean sustainability hinges on reducing the cost to collect. Ongoing challenges associated with declining reimbursements, higher clinical and administrative costs and staffing shortages in the billing department leave providers without a lot of recourse for improving operational margin. Yet within the growing list of negative bottom-line issues, there is one area where healthcare leaders have some control to improve the outlook: increasing
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