What You Should Know: - Turquoise Health, an end-to-end healthcare pricing platform, today announced a $20M Series A investment led by existing investor Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), with participation from Bessemer, Box Group, and new investor Tiger Global. - Turquoise Health will use the funding to continue making transparent pricing ubiquitous for all healthcare stakeholders: payers, providers, and patients. Direct Contracting Platform In anticipation of July payer rates
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David Blumenthal to Step Down as Commonwealth Fund President at End of Year
What You Should Know: - David Blumenthal, M.D., will step down as president of the Commonwealth Fund at the end of 2022, after 10 years as head of the health care policy foundation. - Under his leadership, the Commonwealth Fund has implemented several new initiatives, including a major effort to eliminate racial and ethnic disparities in healthcare practice, policy, and outcomes and an expansion of work in healthcare coverage and access and international health policy and practice
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Patient Engagement: 3 Lessons Learned from Consumer & Service Industries
If there’s been a constant in healthcare the past two years, it’s been in the rapidity of change, largely in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Suddenly, healthcare needed to adopt new work models and technologies to provide proper patient care. No wonder healthcare ranked atop all other industries in “new ways of working and processes,” “new tech tools and infrastructure,” and “new staff wellbeing practices,” in a recent survey of 1,200 business leaders. Inevitably, healthcare organizations
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Digital Documentation: How PDFs Can Help Providers Expedite Care
We live in an increasingly digital world. Across industries, companies and consumers have come to rely on the rapid exchange of digital information. Healthcare, however, has been an outlier in this regard. While the healthcare digital transformation has been in play for years, it’s still taken longer for the paradigm shift to gain momentum. Healthcare stakeholders have long relied on paper-based processes. From documenting clinical care to filing medical claims and registering patients, paper
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Rimidi and ARKRAY Partner to Bring Glucose Data to the EHR
What You Should Know: - In an effort to make blood glucose data more actionable for providers and patients alike, Rimidi, a leading clinical management platform announced its integration with the ARKRAY GLUCOCARD® Shine Connex Blood Glucose Monitoring System to Rimidi’s Platform. - The integration enables providers to manage blood-glucose control more proactively within existing workflows, thus boosting patient adherence. Blood Glucose Data Directly Embedded in EHR Diabetes is the
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ScionHealth Signs 10-Year End-to-End RCM Partnership with R1 RCM
What You Should Know: - Today, R1 RCM, a leading provider of technology-driven revenue cycle management (RCM) solutions, is announcing a 10-year end-to-end partnership with ScionHealth, a new Louisville-based health system comprising nearly 80 hospitals, to provide exclusive enterprise RCM services to its long-term acute care hospitals. - ScionHealth joins healthcare systems including Ascension, Intermountain Healthcare, LifePoint Health, Penn State Health and more that have chosen R1 to
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Cerner & AKASA Partner on AI-Powered Revenue Cycle Automation
What You Should Know: - Health IT leader Cerner and AI developer for healthcare operations AKASA announce a partnership to scale automation within the revenue cycle at hospitals and health systems using AI and machine learning. - The collaboration offers Cerner customers access to AKASA’s AI-based Unified Automation® platform which is purpose-built for healthcare. Growing Need for Revenue Cycle Automation Staff shortages are particularly concerning for healthcare revenue cycle
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Axuall’s CEO Talks Why Health Administrators Should Adopt Robotic Process Automation
Axuall’s CEO & Founder, Charlie Lougheed shares why health administration teams should embrace the power of robotic process automation (RPA). Built with leading healthcare systems, Axuall is a workforce intelligence company powered by a national real-time practitioner data network. The technology enables healthcare systems, staffing firms, telehealth, and health plans to dramatically reduce onboarding and enrollment time while also providing unique, powerful data insights for network
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Arcadia & Datavant Partner to Accelerate Whole-Person Care & Biopharma Research
What You Should Know: - Arcadia and Datavant today announced a partnership to enable de-identified connectivity of Arcadia’s electronic health record data for life sciences research and commercial analytics. - This partnership will unlock fresh insights to accelerate whole-person care and biopharma research, extending Arcadia’s leadership in empowering a data-driven transformation of healthcare. - Datavant will allow clients to connect Arcadia data to other types of Real World Data
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Raising Clinical Outcomes and Engagement Through Healthcare Equity: What Health Plans Need to Know
Structural racism and poverty are correlated with a higher incidence of obesity among Black Americans (49%). Social drivers of health, which impact a disproportionate number of non-white Americans who live below the poverty line, account for as much as 90% of individuals’ health outcomes. These are just two examples of data that highlight the need for equity. Health plans are well-aware that shifting this dynamic and boosting clinical outcomes is possible through better,
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