What You Should Know:
- Laudio and the American Organization for Nursing Leadership announced the release of the inaugural Quantifying Nurse Manager Impact report, which delivers insights into the impact of nurse managers on health system financial outcomes and key factors that can impede this impact.
- Leveraging Laudio’s unique data set, the report provides first-of-its-kind data on the influence of leader-team member engagement on nurse retention – a pervasive and costly
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Establishing Effective Payer Benefits Strategies for Health Equity
Health equity helps ensure all individuals have equal access to healthcare. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, health equity means everyone has a fair and just opportunity to attain their highest level of health.
To address the benefit needs of underrepresented population groups, payers can develop “more equitable approaches to healthcare benefits design that recognize and meaningfully address access and affordability concerns,” according to a
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Greenway, Nabla Partner to Launch Ambient AI Assistant — Greenway Clinical Assist
What You Should Know:
- Greenway Health, a provider of healthcare information technology (HIT) services, has announced a partnership with Nabla, a prominent AI assistant company specializing in ambient clinical documentation.
- This collaboration brings forth Greenway Clinical Assist™, a solution designed to streamline clinical workflows, reduce provider burnout, and ultimately enhance patient care.
Integration for Efficiency
Greenway Clinical Assist™ seamlessly
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Atlantic Health System Deploys FeelBetter’s Precision Population Health Platform
What You Should Know:
FeelBetter, the leading provider of polypharmacy patient management technology and pioneer of Pharmaco-Clinical Intelligence, today announced a commercial partnership with Atlantic Health System (“Atlantic Health”).The not-for-profit health system, which provides care for more than half the state of New Jersey and parts of New York and Pennsylvania, is leveraging FeelBetter’s AI-based precision population health platform to optimize and personalize medication
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OHSU Partners with LeanTaaS to Alleviate OR Staffing Challenges
What You Should Know:
LeanTaaS, Inc., the market leader in providing AI-powered and cloud-based capacity management, staffing, and patient flow software and services for health systems, today announced the impressive results Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) has achieved in alleviating perioperative staffing challenges in its Center for Health and Healing (CHH) by using the new Staff Planner module in iQueue for Operating Rooms.After using iQueue Staff Planner for nine months,
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MassMutual Leverages Genomics for Personalized Risk Assessments
What You Should Know:
Genomics plc (Genomics), a healthcare company transforming health through the power of genomics, and MassMutual, a leading mutual life insurance company in the United States, today announced the next phase of their innovative partnership enabling more eligible MassMutual policyowners to gain knowledge about their health in order to make informed, proactive decisions that may help them lead longer, healthier lives.The program offers a genetic risk assessment service to
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Apixio Partners With Vim, Bringing AI Insights to the Point of Care
What You Should Know:
- Apixio, a healthcare data and analytics company, and Vim, a point-of-care connection platform, have joined forces to significantly enhance patient care through a strategic partnership.
- The strategic collaboration focuses on improving the accuracy of capturing patient conditions during visits and empowering healthcare providers with real-time insights.
The Challenge of Prospective Risk Adjustment
The healthcare industry is undergoing a critical
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UnitedHealth Faces New Ransomware Threat After Alleged $22M Payment Failure
What You Should Know:
- UnitedHealth Group is embroiled in a new ransomware saga, just as it recovers from a February attack, according to a blog post from threat intelligence firm SOCRadar.
- A hacking group called RansomHub claims to possess 4 terabytes of stolen data from UnitedHealth's subsidiary, Change Healthcare and is demanding a ransom to prevent its release.
RansomHub's Demands and Allegations
This data supposedly includes the personal details and medical records of
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Vista Equity Partners Acquires Model N for $1.25B
What You Should Know:
- Model N (NYSE: MODN), a leading provider of revenue optimization and compliance solutions for the life sciences and high-tech industries, has announced a definitive agreement to be acquired by Vista Equity Partners ("Vista").
- Under the terms of the agreement, Vista will acquire all outstanding shares of Model N common stock for $30.00 per share in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $1.25 billion.
- The transaction is expected to close in
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Epic & Press Ganey Integrate to Streamline Nursing Quality Data
What You Should Know:
- Press Ganey, a provider of healthcare experience measurement and data analysis, announced a collaboration with Epic to integrate nurse-sensitive indicators (NSIs) and outcomes directly into Press Ganey's National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators (NDNQI).
- The strategic integration partnership will significantly improve efficiency for nursing leaders and ultimately enhance patient care.
What is the NDNQI?
The NDNQI is a comprehensive database
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