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UPMC announced it is replacing Oracle Cerner with Epic’s enterprise EHR platform to create a unified platform across its health system, representing more than six million patient records. UPMC previously deployed Epic in its outpatient space, Pittsburgh Post Gazette reports.UPMC cites lowering operational costs, optimizing security, and improving patient engagement as reasons for the EHR replacement.Migration of all UPMC patient records to Epic’s EHR platform is expected
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Streamlining Digital Preference Cards for Surgeons Improves Operational Efficiency & Patient Safety
In the dynamic world of healthcare, preference cards serve as crucial tools that capture a surgeon’s specific needs and preferences for each type of surgical procedure they perform. These cards typically outline the equipment, instruments, and supplies required for a particular procedure, providing a personalized roadmap for surgical teams to follow. By detailing these specifications, preference cards help streamline surgical planning, foster improved communication among the operating room (OR)
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TeleVox Acquires Odeza Patient Engagement Business from Ensemble Health Partners
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- TeleVox announced it has acquired the Odeza patient engagement business from Ensemble Health Partners (Ensemble), a revenue cycle management company for hospitals, health systems and physician practices. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
- The acquisition will make TeleVox’s technology available to Ensemble’s customers, offering healthcare providers a comprehensive solution from patient acquisition to discharge and beyond.
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Integral Secures $6.9M to Expand Real-Time Compliance for Life Sciences
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- Integral, an innovator in safeguarding privacy and maximizing data quality raises $6.9M in seed funding to protect sensitive health data and provide automated expert certification software that enables health and life sciences companies access to compliant, rich, de-identified data in hours, rather than months.
- The seed round was led by Haystack, The General Partnership, and Virtue Ventures, with additional support from Also Capital, Array Ventures,
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Girls Inc. & Learn to Live to Tackle Mental Health for Teenage Girls
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Today, preeminent girls’ leadership organization Girls Inc. and leading digital mental health provider Learn to Live announced a partnership to make clinically proven mental health services available free to Girls Inc. participants aged 13 and above.The program will offer support for social anxiety; depression; stress, anxiety & worry; panic; insomnia; substance use; and resilience skills to over 55,000 girls across the U.S. and
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The Medical Library: A Hospital’s Most Underappreciated Asset
The impact of medical librarians is well-documented. In one experiment, a group of primary care providers had the opportunity to send clinical questions to a rapid-response medical librarian. They received their replies in an average of 14 minutes, and 86 percent were described as having a positive impact on care. Two studies indicated patient length of stay was reduced when clinicians requested medical library searches related to a patient's
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Better Life Partners Raises $26.5M to Expand Virtual SUD Platform
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- Better Life Partners, a virtual and in-person, community-embedded, whole-health solution for individuals and populations with substance use disorders (SUD) raises $26.5M in Series B funding round.
- The round is co-led by aMoon and existing investor F-Prime Capital with participation from existing investor, .406 Ventures. Better Life Partners has raised $38M to date.
- Better Life Partners plans to use the new capital to further develop and scale its effective,
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Headspace & Intermountain’s Castell Form VBC Mental Healthcare Partnership
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- Headspace, a comprehensive digital mental healthcare provider, and Castell, Intermountain’s value-based care subsidiary, have signed a value-based care (VBC) mental health partnership designed to improve health outcomes through a personalized care experience for members.
- The VBC mental health partnership will provide members with access to Headspace’s clinical offerings including their self-guided content, behavioral health coaching, and therapy in an
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Why Accurate Data is a Lifeline to Care in the Medicaid Redetermination Cycle
During the pandemic, Medicaid enrollment grew by nearly 30% to cover more than 93 million Americans, due in large part to COVID-19 provisions that included continuous Medicaid enrollment. With the unwinding of these pandemic emergency orders, annual cycles of Medicaid redetermination have returned. As a result, states have removed close to 4 million Americans from Medicaid to date. The ongoing redetermination process is likely to expand health inequities across the nation, including in
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GoodRx Launches Real-Time Benefit Check in Provider Mode
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- GoodRx, a resource for healthcare savings and information launches its real-time benefit check (RTBC) in Provider Mode.
- Developed in collaboration with AssistRx, the advanced therapy initiation and patient solutions provider, real-time benefit check gives healthcare professionals (HCPs) immediate access to eligible patients’ insurance coverage and greater visibility into the cost of brand and specialty drug prescriptions at the point of
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