In an era when healthcare costs continue to soar, a deviation from the status quo is becoming increasingly necessary. Backing this up are recent findings by the Federal Reserve Board, which unearth an uncomfortable truth—that 28% of adults in the U.S. were compelled to forgo medical care in 2022 due to exorbitant costs. Both alarming and disappointing, this statistic underscores the urgent need for a transformative take on healthcare that places patients at the helm of their own unique
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Trilliant Health Launches Network Explorer: An Application To Improve Network Performance With Real-World Data
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Trilliant Health, the leading provider of data-driven strategy analytics for the health economy, announced the launch of Network Explorer, a point-and-click application to manage network performance.Network Explorer enables stakeholders across the health economy to form evidence-based strategies to improve their network performance. Limited to their own data, no health economy stakeholder has a full picture of the scope of physician-patient interactions, leaving
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Trualta and PointClickCare Partner to Support Family Caregivers
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- Trualta, a family caregiver education and support platform, and PointClickCare, a cloud-based healthcare platform for long-term and post-acute care (LTPAC) providers, have announced a new partnership to provide crucial support to families caring for loved ones after discharge.
- Under this new agreement, Trualta will be offered as an integrated partner solution to PointClickCare customers through their online Marketplace. This means care facilities using
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Brightside Health Expands Medicaid & Medicare Access for Telemental Health Coverage
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Brightside Health today announced new and expanded payer partnerships to support Medicaid and Medicare. The news comes just months after the company – which serves individuals with mild-to-severe clinical depression, anxiety, and other mood disorders – shared that it would begin serving 50 million Medicaid and Medicare beneficiaries. These underserved populations will have access to all of Brightside Health’s life-saving mental health care
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UnityAI Secures $4M for AI-Powered Patient Flow Optimization
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- UnityAI, a healthcare technology startup, announced today the successful closure of its seed funding round, raising $4M led by Max Ventures, with participation from Whistler Capital Partners, Nashville Capital Network, Company Ventures, and individual healthcare angels.
- The funding fuels the company's mission to transform hospital operations through AI-powered patient flow optimization.
Founded by Healthcare Experts, Focused on Patient Care
UnityAI is
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Maverick AI and ImagineSoftware Partner to Automate Medical Coding with Gen AI
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- Maverick Medical AI ("Maverick"), a provider of an autonomous AI-powered medical coding platform, today announced a strategic partnership with ImagineSoftware, a provider of revenue cycle management (RCM) technology in the United States.
- The strategic partnership aims to automate the coding process, maximize revenue recovery, and optimize workflows for healthcare providers nationwide.
The Challenge: Manual Coding in a Digital Age
The healthcare industry
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Strive Health, Medical Mutual Partner to Bring Value-Based Kidney Care to Ohioans
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- Strive Health, the national leader in value-based kidney care, and Medical Mutual, one of the largest Ohio-based health insurance companies, announced a new value-based kidney care partnership.
- The strategic collaboration aims to deliver value-based kidney care to eligible members with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) across all lines of business, including Medicare Advantage, individual, and commercial group health
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MEDITECH Launches Redesigned Expanse Pathology
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- MEDITECH, a leader in healthcare information technology solutions, announces the release of its redesigned Expanse Pathology solution. This innovative tool, part of the company's comprehensive
- Expanse EHR, empowers pathologists with cutting-edge technology to tackle increasingly complex cases and collaborate seamlessly with other healthcare providers for improved patient care.
Expanse Pathology Key Features
The pathology industry is
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Siftwell Analytics Secures $5.8M for AI-Powered Community Health Plan Analytics
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- Siftwell Analytics, a healthcare technology company founded by industry veterans, announced today the successful closing of its seed funding round totaling $5.8M.
- This significant investment, led by AlleyCorp, Arkin Digital Health, Tau Ventures, and The Charlotte Fund, underscores the growing demand for Siftwell's innovative approach to population health management.
Empowering Community-Oriented Organizations with Explainable AI
Co-founded in 2022 by Trey
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How Physician Groups Can Fight Back Against Private Equity
As a society, we should all be concerned about the increasing rate at which private equity firms are acquiring physician groups. Over the last decade, private equity firms have invested nearly $1 trillion in approximately 8,000 healthcare deals, encompassing a wide spectrum of medical services, from fertility clinics to neonatal care, primary care to cardiology, hospices, and everything in between.
The consequence? Healthcare has shifted towards a profit-driven model where physicians have
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