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Arcadia, a healthcare data analytics company raises $125M from Vista Credit Partners and a strategic investor and financing partner focused on the enterprise software, data and technology market.Arcadia helps providers and health plans deliver actionable insights to advance care and research, drive strategic growth, and ensure financial success.The investment will accelerate Arcadia’s platform innovation and go-to-market strategy to meet the growing demand from
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Imprivata Launches First Digital Identity Maturity Model
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Imprivata launches Imprivata Digital Identity Maturity Model and Digital Identity Maturity Assessment, a custom-built to amplify the voice of clinicians and end-users in the decision-making process for a healthcare organization’s digital identity strategy.To help organizations assess and benchmark the maturity of their current strategy, Imprivata offers its Digital Identity Maturity Assessment.This self-service, interactive tool enables clinical leadership, IT, and
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Why Data Resilience in Healthcare Needs a Routine Physical
The greatest innovation in healthcare in the last twenty years is something that connects us all… data. At any given moment, healthcare facilities, hospitals and more rely on data to operate more efficiently, drive forward patient care and further develop medical research. Even in the last two years, data has been paramount to the development of mRNA technology that has helped us combat the COVID-19 crisis and even led to a new treatment for type-two diabetes.
The recent medical
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What Role Can Consumer Health Technology Play in Diagnoses?
There’s an ongoing debate regarding the role that consumer health technology, like wearable health devices (i.e., smartwatches), can play in diagnostics, now and in the future. Because this is a relatively new technology, the scope of its potential impact is, at present, only scraping the surface.
Even so, smartwatches and their connected health apps are reshaping the healthcare industry. This technology has the ability to not only make personalized healthcare more widely accessible, but its
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Risk Adjustment 2023: Which Vendors Drive Value in a Shifting Market?
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Strategies employed by payers, provider-sponsored health plans, and provider organizations are starting to become more proactive, and the need for solutions with prospective, predictive capabilities is rising. Additionally, amid rising healthcare costs and economic uncertainty, organizations are looking for solutions that deliver more for less.A new KLAS report examines risk adjustment vendors’ abilities to drive outcomes and value, their prospective capabilities,
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4medica’s EMPI Platform Now Available on Google Cloud Marketplace
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4medica®, a healthcare data quality and matching technology company, today announced that the 4medica Enterprise Master Patient Index (EMPI) platform is now available on Google Cloud Marketplace.Built on Google Cloud’s Healthcare API, 4medica’s EMPI offers healthcare organizations access to a highly scalable data management services such as referential matching and identity enrichment.
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M&A: Vytalize Health Acquires IPA New York
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Today, Vytalize Health announced it has acquired Independent Physician Association (“IPA”) of New York, one of the nation's largest IPAs with more than 3,000 providers. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.The deal scales Vytalize's successful value-based care model to new payer arrangements and specialty care across the healthcare spectrum.Based in Suffolk County, IPA NY is one of the largest multi-specialty
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LifeOmic Launches Patient Engagement App to Automate Patient Pathways
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LifeOmic, a healthcare technology company powering precision health with its end-to-end software solution, the LifeOmic Platform, today announced the launch of its Patient Mobile App. LifeOmic’s Patient Mobile App enables the two-way connection between the healthcare team and patient. With the LifeOmic Patient Mobile App, healthcare providers have access to a highly configurable solution that integrates directly into their existingworkflows to meet
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Exec Hires: COTA Appoints First Chief Commercial Officer
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- COTA, Inc., an oncology real-world data and analytics company, today announced the appointment of Sandy Leonard as its first Chief Commercial Officer.
- As CCO, Sandy will drive COTA’s life sciences growth strategy, prioritizing customer success and experience. More specifically, she will lead a team that is laser-focused on ensuring that pharmaceutical partners have the data assets, analytics, services, and support they need to develop life-saving
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ConnectRN Expands Nursing Staffing Services Into Hospital Settings
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connectRN, the nurse staffing community that provides clinicians with flexible scheduling opportunities and resources, announced today that nurses have begun using the platform to find hospital shifts at multiple Nashville hospitals.Previously, clinicians and nurses used the app to find shifts in skilled nursing facilities and home health settings - now they will soon be able to connect with hospitals in their areas as connectRN works to expand hospital availability
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