Trial sponsors have made efforts to address underrepresentation and promote Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) in clinical trials since the Federal and Drug Administration’s (FDA) 2016 guidance, but a new report released by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) still shows a continuous presence of major gaps in patient diversity. It begs the question: how do we ultimately achieve full representation and ensure accountability to uphold the promises we have made for
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Roundups: 22 Recent Strategic Digital Health Partnerships
Advantus Health Partners forms a new 10-year, $2.9B strategic partnership with Medline to establish agility and scale, supply chain resiliency and enhanced clinical integration with the nurses and physicians who use Medline’s product. This strategic partnership focuses on serving the entire continuum of care and includes highly integrated collaborations with Medline and Advantus’s physician-led clinical integration team that works to improve physician alignment, product implementation, clinical
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How Clinical Decision Support Can Help Alleviate Provider Burnout
As health systems look to heal from two years of pandemic-related struggles and skyrocketing costs, new data reveals an even more troubling issue – disturbing levels of burnout across the entire healthcare ecosystem.
New research from Mayo Clinic Proceedings found that 63% of physicians report at least one symptom of burnout, a drastic increase from 46% in 2011. For organizations already navigating supply chain issues, increased operating costs, and COVID-19 surges, health systems risk
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New Initiative Examines Misuse of Race in Medical Research
What You Should Know:
Doris Duke Foundation (DDF) announce the launch of Racial Equity in Clinical Equations, a new initiative to examine the misuse of race in medical research. The foundation will provide $10M in new grants that will document the impact on patients of existing algorithms with potential race misuse, provide vital data to inform new guidelines, and ultimately enable the medical research community to identify a framework to reconsider and potentially revise the
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Hospitals’ Financial Performance Fails to Reach Pre-Pandemic Levels
What You Should Know:
Hospital finances showed signs of stabilizing in May, amid slightly improving operating margins, declining expenses and notable increases in outpatient visits, according to the latest National Hospital Flash Report from Kaufman Hall.
The National Hospital Flash Report draws on data from more than 1,300 hospitals from Syntellis Performance Solutions.
Analysis Shows Slow Increases in Margins
Key findings of the report include:
The median
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Epic EHR Integrates with Nuance’s AI-Powered DAX Express
What You Should Know:
Epic and Nuance (a Microsoft company) expand their long-term strategic collaboration by integrating Nuance’s new Dragon Ambient eXperience Express (DAX Express), the first fully AI-automated clinical documentation application in healthcare, into Epic workflows.As part of the integration, DAX Express for Epic will deliver everything clinicians need in one place to create a comprehensive note quickly, decreasing cognitive load, increasing provider satisfaction, and
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How EHR Interoperability Will Impact Health Care IT in 2023 and Beyond
The U.S. healthcare system has been in desperate need of modernization for decades. Thankfully, essential change is finally happening.
IT workers at healthcare organizations are now creating more efficient and effective electronic health records (EHRs), a process that requires integrating EHRs with new patient-access technologies. It also means that other healthcare workers – medical assistants, teletriage nurses, call center agents, etc. – need to change the way they work in
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U.S. Virgin Islands Launches Health Data Interoperability Pilot
What You Should Know:
U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) Governor Albert Bryan Jr. signed a Letter of Intent with CRISP Shared Services to participate in a health data interoperability pilot program that will lay the foundation for OHIT’s Health Information Exchange in the Territory. The pilot establishes the initial phase of the Territory’s Health Information Exchange (HIE), which will enable the instant sharing of health information among doctors’ offices, hospitals, federally qualified health
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Advantus Health and Medline Form $2.9B Strategic Partnership
What You Should Know:
Advantus Health Partners announced a new 10-year, $2.9B strategic partnership with Medline to establish agility and scale, supply chain resiliency and enhanced clinical integration with the nurses and physicians who use Medline’s product.Medline’s products will support the improvement of quality patient care and operating performance of Advantus’s growing client base of more than 200 hospitals, 1,700 sites of care and 600+ clinics in 46 states.This strategic partnership
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UnitedHealthcare Launches Virtual Eyewear Prescription Renewal
What You Should Know:
UnitedHealthcare launches a new virtual eyewear prescription renewal option for millions of members enrolled in eligible employer-sponsored vision plans.Millions of UnitedHealthcare Vision members now have the option to virtually renew their prescriptions for contact lenses and glasses at no additional cost, all from the comfort of home or on the go.
UHG Virtual Perscription Renewal Benefits
The capability is designed as an additional option for
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