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- Xealth announced that Children’s Wisconsin, Wisconsin’s only independent healthcare system dedicated solely to the health and well-being of children, is using Xealth’s digital health platform system-wide to integrate patient education and custom content into care team workflows.
- The integration enables the faster and easier distribution of consistent communications across locations, providing patients and their families with timely access to reliable
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How Home Health Tech Can Solve a Stubborn $290B Healthcare Challenge
The good news on the medical front is that with advances in therapy, people with chronic diseases are able to remain in their homes and even live active lifestyles, which improves their quality of life and can save them, the government (Medicaid/Medicaid), and the insurance industry money. But -- and it’s a big one -- those savings can only be achieved if those patients adhere to their medication schedules.
Non-adherence first came to the forefront of awareness back in 2009, when the New
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Signify Health, Cardinal Health Partner to Offer In-Home Medication Therapy Management
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- Signify Health announced a partnership with Cardinal Health, a medical device and pharmaceuticals supplier, to provide in-home medication therapy management to Medicare members.
- In order to provide a more coordinated care experience and help members with their often-complex medication regimens, Signify’s mobile network of 11,000 credentialed clinicians will be able to offer medication management services for health plan members through in-home health evaluations
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Maryland HIE to Expand Medicaid Redetermination Notification Project
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- CRISP, the nonprofit state-designated health information exchange (HIE) of Maryland, announced plans to expand its Medicaid Redetermination Notification project across the state to support care teams as they navigate redetermination for 1.6 million Medicaid enrollees.
- The project is a collaboration across state agencies and began as a pilot supporting federally qualified health centers who expressed concerns about lacking resources that would contribute to
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Technology’s Role in the Development & Improvement of Drug Diversion Auditing Processes
Drug diversion is an increasingly serious issue that tends to be substantially underestimated. In every instance, a potential threat to patient safety is present. This includes the risk of inadequate pain relief, exposure to infectious diseases through contaminated needles or drugs, and risks associated with unsafe care from impaired healthcare workers. Drug diversion can also pose risks to staff safety and regulatory compliance, as can be seen across all types of healthcare facilities and,
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The Market Demand for Data-Driven Tech Solutions in Healthcare
The market demand for data-driven technology solutions in healthcare is on the rise. Today, one-third of the world's data is generated by the healthcare industry. This data is often complex and is coming from multiple different sources such as personal health information, claims data, clinical trial data, patient surveys, disease registries, population health statistics, wellness apps, and wearable devices. And so, the need for data management technologies continues to grow. In the Future Health
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Implicity Launches SMART on FHIR App to Optimize Interoperability & Workflow Efficiencies
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- Implicity, a leader in remote patient monitoring (RPM) and cardiac data management solutions, released a new SMART on FHIR application to improve interoperability and workflow efficiencies for providers.
- The new app improves cardiac remote monitoring workflows by providing clinicians access to Implicity alerts and reports directly within Epic's EHR system.
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Implicity's cloud-based platform allows cardiac teams to streamline workflows by
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Surgo Health Launches RWD-Driven Socio-Behavioral Analytics Platform
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- Surgo Health, a new healthcare technology company dedicated to personalized care announced its official launch in Washington, D.C.
- Formed as a public benefits company (PBC), Surgo Health is building on the analytics and proprietary data assets from Surgo Ventures and is developing a revolutionary socio-behavioral analytics platform and generating novel, real-world data to enable a greater understanding of the complex factors that influence how individuals engage
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Major Health Partners Reduces Home Medication Reconciliation Time by 30%
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Major Health Partners (Shelbyville, IN) announced that technicians saved on average three minutes of time per patient and realized a 30% improvement in the average time for overall home medication verification leveraging MEDITECH’s Expanse Patient Care solution.
The solution was rolled out facility-wide, including in the ED, where medication reconciliation technicians saw immediate results. MHP has been able to build on this success by adopting the Expanse Patient
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Generative AI Enters Healthcare with First Major Rollout that will Support 140+ Hospitals and 15,000+ Physicians
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- Abridge, the leader in AI-powered medical documentation, announced a partnership with The University of Kansas Health System that will mark the most significant rollout to date of generative AI in healthcare.
- Abridge has already helped more than 2,000 clinicians and served more than 200,000 patients. By delivering a solution that optimizes patient-provider communication, the new partnership has the potential to serve and support more than 1,500 practicing
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