A common thread throughout my conversations at ViVE was the increased competition for health consumers. Larger health systems are continuing to be fragmented by smaller specialties, like Northwell Health, which reported their outpatient care volumes are continuing to rise. Free-standing surgery centers, ER, urgent care, primary care, imaging centers and so on, are monitoring large healthcare systems looking for ways to extract the most profitable arms and business from them. As this continues to
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What Do Highly Satisfied Users of EHRs Do Differently?
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The goal of the Arch Collaborative is to help organizations understand not just how to make the EHR usable but how to help clinicians embrace it as a tool essential for delivering great care.To that end, this report examines the responses of over 3,000 highly satisfied EHR users to identify what they do differently from less satisfied peers. Their insights reveal specific areas that other users and organizations can focus on to improve their own
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Catholic Care Center to Deploy Medsphere’s Wellsoft EHR and RCM Cloud Solutions
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- Medsphere Systems Corporation announced that Catholic Care Center of Bel Aire, Kansas, a Wichita suburb, will open a new senior behavioral health hospital with the company’s Wellsoft electronic health record (EHR) and RCM Cloud revenue cycle management solutions.
- Medsphere’s Wellsoft EHR solution supports comprehensive care across behavioral health, urgent, and emergency care environments. The company’s RCM Cloud solution is
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The Importance of Employee Recognition Programs in the Healthcare Industry
Hiring and retaining top-quality candidates in the healthcare sector has been a significant challenge. Aside from the risk of working around patients infected with diseases, as we saw during the COVID-19 outbreak, they are also faced with several difficulties. The healthcare industry needs effective and efficient retention strategies because of a talent shortage, high turnover rates, and heavy competition for top candidates.
Healthcare workers have a complex routine of responsibilities.
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Solve.Care Launches Decentralized Layer-2 Healthcare Blockchain Infrastructure
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Solve.Care, a healthcare platform company that leverages blockchain technology to deliver better care, has announced the launch of Care.Chain, a decentralized Layer-2 network infrastructure.Care.Chain is a significant step towards Solve.Care’s mission to improve healthcare access, delivery, management, and payments for both healthcare institutions and consumers through the benefits that blockchain technology provides.
Providing the Necessary Base Infrastructure to
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Hint Health Launches All-in-One EMR Platform for Direct Primary Care Practices
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Hint Health, the company powering the Direct Primary Care (DPC) movement, today announced the release of its newest product, Hint All-in-One.The all-encompassing EMR platform made exclusively for DPCs integrates Hint’s existing membership management platform with a new clinical platform that was purpose-built by and for DPC physicians. Now, delivered within the targeted 6-month deadline, the solution enables DPC physicians to get back to what they love to do – care for
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Uber Health Embeds Same-Day Prescription Delivery Into Its Care Platform
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Uber Health, Uber’s healthcare arm, today announced same-day prescription delivery on its HIPAA-supported, centralized platform.For the first time, those using Uber Health—including healthcare providers and health plans—will be able to manage prescription delivery from any pharmacy in their service area through the same platform they already use to coordinate transportation for patients. This launch enables providers to offer a full suite of care solutions that
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Florence Launches Modern Healthcare Experience With $20M
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Florence, an innovator in healthcare enablement software, has launched out of stealth mode after raising $20 million in seed funding.The health tech startup’s round was led by Thrive Capital, GV (Google Ventures), and Salesforce Ventures with participation from Vast Ventures, BoxGroup and Atento Capital.
Aspiring to Digitally Streamline Patient Access to Increase Efficiency
Comprised of physicians and engineers from leading health systems and technology companies,
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Genialis Raises $13M to Build Clinical Biomarkers that Predict Patient Response
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Genialis, a computational precision medicine company unraveling complex biology to find new ways to address disease, today announced it raised more than $13 million in Series A financing to transform the way diseases are diagnosed and treatment decisions are made.Taiwania Capital and Debiopharm Innovation Fund co-led the round, with participation from previous investors First Star Ventures, Redalpine Venture Partners, and Pikas. Other new investors include P5 Health
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How The Healthcare Industry Can & Should Be Supporting Unpaid Caregivers
Unpaid caregivers are the backbone of society, providing an essential service, yet often feel invisible and without support. In recent years, that backbone is starting to break with research showing that 70% of caregivers, including parents and caregivers of adults, have at least one significant mental health impact. Even more worrisome, the same study indicated that more than half (52%) of those considered part of the sandwich generation - caring for an aging parent and a child at the same time
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