What You Should Know:
- Centivo, a pioneering healthcare company built to make quality healthcare more affordable for employers and their employees, today announced the acquisition of Eden Health, an employer-centered virtual-first medical provider, effective immediately.
- This strategic move enables Centivo to accelerate its plans to
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Beyond the EHR: Why We Need a Patient Communication Layer
Healthcare looks a lot different than it did a few years ago. Healthcare leaders need to address rising consumerism, persistent labor shortages, systemic equity gaps, and a critical shift toward value-based care.
It’s worth asking: If the healthcare landscape has changed so much, why do foundational electronic health record (EHR) systems stand largely unchanged?
Sure, the walled gardens surrounding the EHR have dropped a bit, as the EHR giants have been badgered into interoperability
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Humana Becomes First Insurer to Cover TMS Therapy for Adolescent Depression
What You Should Know:
- Neuronetics, Inc. and Humana announce a significant step forward in adolescent mental healthcare. This collaboration offers new hope for young people struggling with major depressive disorder (MDD) by making transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) therapy more accessible.
- Humana, a health insurance provider, has become the first commercial payer to update its policy in response to the FDA's recent clearance of NeuroStar TMS for adolescents aged 15-21 with
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Report Reveals Pharmacies Poised for Expansion: Consumers Open to Broader Clinical Services
What You Should Know:
- A recent survey by Outcomes Operating, Inc., a leader in pharmacy workflow solutions, paints a clear picture: consumers are ready for pharmacies to play a bigger role in their healthcare. The overwhelming majority (86%) are open to receiving new clinical services at pharmacies, indicating a significant shift towards a more comprehensive approach to healthcare delivery.
- The survey highlights a clear opportunity for pharmacies to expand their role in
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2024 Employee Health & Productivity: A Data-Driven Look at What Workers Want
Why an Enterprise Master Person Index is Foundational for Health Tech Innovation
Healthcare is poised to become the world's fastest-growing source of data in the next year (RBC Capital Markets), accumulating from sources that are as varied as they are numerous, including hospitals, doctors’ offices, retail clinics, and wearable devices. While this wealth of information holds immense potential to revolutionize healthcare, accurately managing it is cumbersome and leveraging it effectively is challenging.
A substantial driver of this challenge is that correctly
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CharmHealth EHR Integrates With VitaminLab to Offer Personalized Supplements for Patients
What You Should Know:
- CharmHealth, a leader in healthcare technology solutions for providers, today announced that it has partnered with VitaminLab, a leader in truly personalized supplements designed to meet individual health needs.
- Through this seamless integration, healthcare providers from any size practice can formulate
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Saint Luke’s Launches Digital Atrial Fibrillation Care Program, Powered by Story Health
What You Should Know:
- Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute today launched the newest solution on its care platform, a comprehensive program to support patients living with or at risk of developing Atrial Fibrillation (AFib).
- Built in collaboration with Story Health, a digital health company transforming specialty care
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Daffodil Health Secures $4.6M for AI-Powered Healthcare Pricing & Admin Solution
What You Should Know:
- Daffodil Health, a healthcare technology company, has secured $4.6M in seed funding to tackle the multi-billion dollar problem of wasted healthcare administrative costs led by Maverick Ventures with participation from Epic Ventures.
- Daffodil Health is the brainchild of a team with over 100 years of combined experience in healthcare and technology, from companies like MultiPlan, Google, and McKinsey. They recognize the urgent need to overhaul the current
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The Benefits of AI-Powered Healthcare Data Management
As we step into the promising terrain of 2024 and beyond, the healthcare industry stands at the cusp of a transformative era, propelled by advanced technology solutions. For healthcare IT professionals, there will be many challenges and opportunities – especially as there is more patient data than ever before.
However, there are new solutions that leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to help address the trove of patient data that is being created. Let’s look at how it can help address
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