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- Availity today announced a definitive agreement to acquire the utilization management solution and business unit from healthcare automation company Olive AI, Inc. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.
- The acquisition of Olive AI's utilization management solution offers numerous benefits for Availity’s national network of payers and providers. These include lower administrative and medical costs, improved patient access
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Clearday and Viveon Health Merge to Create Longevity Care Company
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- Clearday, an innovative longevity technology company using an integrated platform of robotic companion care and AI-driven technology to serve the senior adult care sector, and Viveon Health Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition (SPAC) company have entered into a definitive merger agreement.
- The combined company's pro forma equity valuation (assuming no share redemptions) is expected to be approximately $370M. VHAQ currently has $20M held in a trust
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The Future of Digital Transformation in Hospitals
Hospitals are increasingly motivated to drive digital transformation in order to improve patient outcomes, reduce costs, meet regulatory requirements and stay competitive. Additionally, digital transformation can support medical research and drive innovation in healthcare, as well as generate new revenue streams. An increasingly important tool as hospitals undergo these transformations is federated learning, a technology that we will expand on later. Federated learning is a machine learning
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KLAS: Approaches to Moving Epic in the Cloud 2023
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The benefits of public cloud are promising, as many Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft customers (both provider organizations and vendors) have noted in previous KLAS research. The first health systems using a public hyperscale cloud provider (e.g., AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure) to support their EHR environment in the cloud have begun to go live, and interest in this approach is gaining momentum, particularly among Epic organizations. Most who are
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Cognizant to Integrate TriZetto with Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare
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- Cognizant expands partnership with Microsoft to give healthcare payers and providers easy access to cutting-edge technology solutions, streamlined claims management, and improved interoperability to optimize business operations and deliver better patient and member experiences.
- As part of the expansion, Cognizant and Microsoft will work together to build an integration roadmap between Cognizant's TriZetto healthcare products with Microsoft Cloud for
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How AI is Transforming Rare Disease Diagnosis
Collectively rare diseases are anything but rare – they impact 30 million people in the US and ten times that amount globally. And 1 in 3 children suffering from a rare disease will not survive beyond the age of five.
One of the biggest challenges facing clinicians is making a quick, accurate diagnosis – on average patients visit eight physicians and receive two to three misdiagnoses before being correctly diagnosed, a process that takes US patients around 7.6 years, and is often referred to
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How Health Insurance Plans Can Track & Improve Member Engagement
The first step toward better health outcomes happens when people become proactive about protecting their own health and well-being. Proactive action rarely appears out of nowhere, though — most of us need some inspiration to start thinking about living healthier lifestyles.
That’s where health insurance plans have a real opportunity to help. Health plans can be that spark for their members: They can encourage healthier living while ensuring that members have access to the
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Dot Compliance Launches First AI Based ChatGPT Powered eQMS for Life Sciences
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Dot Compliance, a leading provider of eQMS compliance solutions for the life sciences sector, has introduced an industry-first, ready-to-use AI-Based electronic Quality Management System for life sciences, powered by an embedded generative and predictive artificial intelligence.The system deploys ChatGPT combined with proprietary algorithms to optimize quality processes, automate tasks and help professionals working in quality assurance to focus on what really matters
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Intermountain Health Expands Relationship with Kyruus for Rebranded Digital Patient Experience
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- Intermountain Health announced it is expanding the use of Kyruus’ ProviderMatch® platform to power a new digital patient experience initiative.
- This expansion builds on an existing relationship with Kyruus via legacy SCL Health (now Intermountain) in which Kyruus overhauled the system’s provider directory and replaced its existing online scheduling solution, which in less than a year, yielded a 21% increase in appointments scheduled online.
- As
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Patientory Launches Blockchain App Enabling Patients to Earn Money for Their Health Data
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Patientory Inc., the creator of a blockchain-based, HIPAA-compliant, private medical data ecosystem, announced today that it has launched two solutions–Patientory Consumer Decentralized Application-designed to help patients more efficiently and securely store and earn money from their medical data and Neith Enterprise Dashboard in partnership with Prosper Healthtech, a community-backed organization committed to equity in Birmingham offering a supportive network of
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