What You Should Know:
- Sohar Health, an AI-driven eligibility determination and Verification of Benefits (VoB) provider, has announced a partnership with Talkiatry to automate Talkiatry's insurance verification process.
- Sohar Health's Eligibility Automation technology is designed specifically for behavioral health providers. The collaboration has resulted in improved claim accuracy, reaching 95%.
Today’s Cumbersome Insurance Eligibility/Verification Challenges
Patients
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Why Nurse Leaders Deserve a Seat at the AI Table
AI is unlocking new possibilities for care delivery. As the frontline guardians of patient care, nurses play a critical role in ensuring AI solutions effectively address healthcare’s most pressing challenges. To fully harness AI’s potential, healthcare organizations must bring nurses, other clinicians and nurse leaders to the decision-making table.
Evaluating the Healthcare Landscape
In the last year alone, healthcare organizations faced over 700 data breaches, a nearly 21% turnover
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University Hospitals Cleveland Taps AI For Early Lung Cancer Detection
What You Should Know:
- University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center (UH) has announced a groundbreaking collaboration with global healthcare Artificial Intelligence (AI) innovator Qure.ai to deploy chest X-ray AI supporting earlier identification of lung cancers.
- The FDA cleared chest X-ray AI solution qXR-LN will act as a second read, to be compared to the radiologists’ read of patient chest X-rays for any suspicious lung nodules. This will also provide evidence for future AI
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Redox Joins CommonWell Health Alliance for Healthcare Data Interoperability
What You Should Know:
- Redox, a provider of healthcare data interoperability solutions, has announced its membership in CommonWell Health Alliance, a Qualified Health Information Network™ (QHIN™).
- Redox brings a key advantage to CommonWell's QHIN participants: real-time writeback for direct connections. This capability enhances data exchange and workflow efficiency.
Expanding Access to Critical Healthcare Data:
By joining CommonWell, Redox aims to empower a wide range of
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Transparency in Healthcare: Why It’s Essential for Patient Trust
Healthcare organizations need patient trust to operate successfully, and a lack of transparency is the biggest threat to maintaining the good faith of the people they serve. Whether it’s pricing, treatment methods, drug costs, or even the efficacy of medications, patients often feel left in the dark. And in an industry where life-altering decisions hinge on trust, transparency isn’t just a nice-to-have—it’s critical.
When patients receive medication, they should be confident that it was
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CareCloud Acquires RevNu Medical Management to Expand Audiology RCM
What You Should Know:
- CareCloud, a provider of practice management, healthcare technology, and AI-driven solutions for medical practices acquires RevNu Medical Management (RevNu), an emerging revenue cycle management (RCM) company specializing in audiology.
- Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.
Expanding in the Audiology Market
This acquisition represents a strategic move by CareCloud to expand its presence in the U.S. audiology market. The U.S.
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Healthcare Downtime: The Cost of Digital Failures and Threats to Patient Safety
If we learned anything from the CrowdStrike fiasco of July 2024, it’s how much our daily lives depend on digital systems and how that reliance can spell disaster when these systems fail. Flights were grounded, banking systems went down, and hospitals and healthcare clinics were forced to delay or even cancel services.
Delta lost an estimated $380 million in revenue for its September quarter. But the stakes are even higher in healthcare, where digital platforms have become the backbone of
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Serve You Rx Integrates With Waltz Health’s AI Specialty Pharmacy Platform
What You Should Know:
- Serve You Rx, a full-service pharmacy benefit manager (PBM), has announced a strategic partnership with Waltz Health to integrate Waltz Connect, an AI-powered specialty platform.
- The collaboration aims to address the rapidly escalating costs of specialty medications, which have surged by over 40% in recent years, reaching $300 billion annually.
Enhanced Specialty Medication Management
By integrating Waltz Connect, Serve You Rx is reinforcing its
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MedeAnalytics Launches Health Fabric™ on Snowflake AI Data Cloud to Transform Healthcare Data
What You Should Know:
- MedeAnalytics, a provider of healthcare enterprise data enrichment platforms and analytics software-as-a-service (SaaS) launches Health Fabric™ on the Snowflake AI Data Cloud.
- The new integration with Snowflake empowers healthcare organizations to unify and leverage disparate data sources, optimizing their existing infrastructure and driving improved patient outcomes.
Health Fabric™: A Unified Platform for Healthcare Analytics:
Health Fabric™ is
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With RCM Staff in Short Supply, Is AI the Missing Piece?
A hefty 63% of healthcare providers are grappling with revenue cycle management (RCM) staffing shortages, causing significant operational and patient-care challenges across the healthcare system.
The staffing deficit has created a challenging cycle: understaffed RCM departments struggle to handle claims denials, leading to delayed reimbursements and increased administrative costs. When staff members spend excessive time investigating and correcting denied claims, it prevents them from
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