What You Should Know:
- Philips, a global leader in health technology, and Bon Secours Mercy Health (BSMH), a prominent Catholic health system, today announced a strategic multi-year collaboration focused on improving patient monitoring.
- By integrating Philips' cutting-edge patient monitoring platform into its system, BSMH will standardize care across its 49 hospitals. This platform offers a comprehensive view of patient data, enabling clinicians to make more informed
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XO Health Taps Kyruus Health to Enhance Digital Member Experience
What You Should Know:
- XO Health, an innovative health care services organization designed by and for self-insured employers, has announced a strategic partnership with Kyruus Health, the leading care access platform, to enhance its digital member experience.
- This collaboration aims to create a more unified healthcare journey for all stakeholders, including members, providers, and payers, with an anticipated go-live date of January 2025.
XO Health Partners with Kyruus Health to
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Crossing the Digital Divide to Serve Medicaid Populations
A discussion of technology and the Medicaid population inevitably raises the topic of the digital divide — that is, the gap between people who have access to modern information and communications technology (ICTs) and those who don't.
“We can’t deliver internet-dependent solutions to Medicaid enrollees because they don’t have access to the internet.” Or so the argument goes.
But this is an outdated and manifestly untrue statement that relies on a very limited definition of
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United Language Group Now Offers Click-to-Connect Instant Interpreter Access with Epic EHR Integration
What You Should Know:
- United Language Group (ULG), a leading provider of language services, today announced a groundbreaking integration with Epic, the most widely used electronic health record (EHR) system in healthcare.
- ULG’s Epic integration empowers healthcare professionals to connect with interpreters in over 250 languages with a single click directly within the patient’s EHR. This eliminates the need for separate phone calls or unfamiliar workflows, fostering a smooth
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RLDatix Acquires Digital Care Management Platform Carebeans
What You Should Know:
- RLDatix, a global leader in connected healthcare operations software and services, has announced the acquisition of Carebeans, a UK-based provider of digital care planning and management software.
- The acquisition strengthens RLDatix’s position as a comprehensive solution for healthcare organizations, addressing critical compliance, risk, governance, and workforce management needs.
Addressing Industry Challenges
The acquisition comes at a time
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Rise of Cardiology Deserts: Nearly Half of U.S. Counties Lack Cardiologists
What You Should Know:
- Heart disease remains a leading cause of death in the United States, claiming over 700,000 lives in 2022 alone. While cardiologists play a crucial role in diagnosing and treating cardiovascular conditions, a new study reveals a shocking disparity in access to these specialists across the country.
- A collaborative study between GoodRx Research and Harvard Medical School researchers reveals that a staggering 46% of U.S. counties, home to 22 million residents,
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90% of Healthcare Insurers Struggle to Get Insights from Data – Is AI the Answer?
What You Should Know
- A new study by ActiveOps, a leader in AI-powered decision intelligence, paints a concerning picture of the US healthcare insurance industry drowning in data yet thirsty for insights. The crux of the problem? Critical decision-making is hampered by a severe lack of data accessibility, context, and trust.
- The ActiveOps study was commissioned Censuswide to survey Chief Operating Officers, Chief Financial Officers, and Senior Heads of Operations within the US
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Fullscript Shows How Whole Person Care Reduces Healthcare Burden
What You Should Know:
- Fullscript, a leading healthcare platform for whole person care, announced the publication of two studies, with combined results proving the effectiveness of whole person care when using the Fullscript platform, highlighting how it can be both achievable and scalable, and showcasing the dual benefits for both patients and providers.
- The studies measured the impact of Fullscript’s platform in driving better engagement and clinical outcomes for patients, while also
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NetSfere Integrates with Microsoft Nuance’s Dragon Medical Speech Recognition
What You Should Know:
- Healthcare professionals face a constant challenge: balancing efficient communication with patient privacy and regulatory compliance. Today, NetSfere, a provider of secure messaging solutions, announced it is integrating its secure message platform with Microsoft Nuance’s Dragon Medical speech recognition.
- Doctors, nurses, and frontline workers can now communicate using industry-specific jargon – anatomical terms, medications, procedures – all
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Aligning Primary Care with Behavioral Health is Critical to Patient Outcomes
There is increasing recognition across the healthcare continuum of the link between patient behavioral health and clinical outcomes. Unfortunately, alignment between primary care physicians and services for mental health issues, substance use, and other social determinants of health (SDoH) too often range from poor to nonexistent.
“Behavioral health factors have an outsized influence on morbidity and mortality, and are the source of a large portion of family physicians' frustrations
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