We shouldn’t underestimate the power of patient data.
Every data point from clinical studies and patient medical records provides fuel for researchers. The more fuel they have, the greater the chance for life-saving breakthroughs.
As we sit here today, the research ecosystem isn’t working to its full potential. Valuable datasets are siloed and disparate, making it hard for researchers to access them. Patients aren’t empowered to take ownership of their own data; the power of data is in the
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M&A: Avel eCare Acquires Virtual Hospitalist Provider Fident Health
What You Should Know:
Avel eCare, a provider of clinician-to-clinician telemedicine services acquires Fident Health, a Texas-based virtual hospitalist provider dedicated to delivering high-quality telemedicine care to rural and suburban communities.
- The acquisition strengthens Avel eCare’s existing clinician network and builds on the company’s successful acute and post-acute telemedicine solutions to help hospitals, health systems and senior care facilities throughout the
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Zocdoc Expands Beyond Marketplace with Launch of Zocdoc Practice Solutions
What You Should Know:
Zocdoc, the leading healthcare marketplace that makes it easy for patients to find and book in-person or virtual care across over 250 specialties and more than 18,000 insurance plans, today announced the launch of Zocdoc Practice Solutions.Zocdoc Practice Solutions is a free suite of tools that helps providers seamlessly reach, manage and keep patients. Any practice or provider — regardless of whether they’re a Zocdoc marketplace customer — can sign up to use these
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Consumers Cite Healthcare Affordability as Biggest Concern to Paying Medical Bills
What You Should Know:
Rising healthcare expenses, lack of certainty over costs and financial support and poor coordination between providers and payers have caused consumers to feel more stressed than ever before about their healthcare bills. According to the 2024 Healthcare Financial Experience Study, 72% of consumers cite affordability as the biggest challenge to paying larger healthcare bills—not that they don’t want to. Struggling to afford healthcare bills isn’t just a headache, it can
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Zscaler, Imprivata, CrowdStrike Launch Zero Trust Security Solution
What You Should Know:
Zscaler, Inc., the leader in cloud security, today announced that it has teamed up with CrowdStrike and Imprivata to deliver a zero-trust cybersecurity solution from device to cloud that’s custom-made for medical institutions.The new Zscaler integration with the Imprivata Digital Identity Platform will provide visibility, threat protection and traceability for end-to-end, multi-user, shared device access control that are required for organizations to meet
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The SDOH Reality Check: Coding, Claims and Value-Based Care
While the need to address social determinants of health (SDOH) is definitely not new, 2023 marks the first year SDOH is codified into national and statewide value-based payment program mandates. These mandates are designed to hold Managed Care Organizations (MCOs) and Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) accountable. While the rollout of SDOH code sets across our healthcare ecosystem is one phase, alone it’s not enough. The next phases are even more critical: codes must be collected, used,
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Advancing Health Equity by Addressing The Health Data Desert
Massive disparities continue to plague healthcare in the United States. Many Americans do not have access to quality care, leading to higher rates of diseases like diabetes, hypertension, cancer, and obesity. Health equity means ensuring that health resources and services are accessible and affordable for everyone, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, race, geography, ethnicity, or financial circumstances.
Health equity allows people to lead active and productive lives, reduces the
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60% of Ground Ambulance Rides Were Out of Network in 2022
What You Should Know:
- Out-of-network ground ambulance rides accounted for a larger percentage of ground ambulance claim lines1 than in-network rides from 2018 to 2022. In 2022, out-of-network transport accounted for 59.4% of all ground ambulance claim lines, while in-network transports made up 40.6% of the distribution, according to other findings reported in a FAIR Health brief released today, A Window into Utilization and Cost of Ground Ambulance Services: A National Study
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ShiftKey Expands to Acute Care Facilities Across 4 States
What You Should Know:
- ShiftKey today announced its expansion into acute healthcare facilities and will now be available to acute care facilities in the states of Kansas, Missouri, Tennessee and Texas – providing solutions to workforce challenges and maximizing access to high quality care for patients.
- Additionally, beta testing of the technology has already rolled out at acute care facilities in Alabama, Louisiana, Nebraska, New Mexico, South Carolina and West
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Why Home-Based Care Needs Smarter Referral Management
In home-based care, the way we manage care transitions must change.
Poorly managed care transitions have become more prevalent in the sector and have a considerably negative impact on patients. In addition, less-than-ideal transitions place a tremendous amount of pressure on providers, who face the risk of referral rejections, hospital readmissions and the consequences of below-average value-based care performance – often all due to messy processes or important data slipping through the
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