The prevailing global economic conditions are negatively impacting the healthcare industry. Continuing staff shortages, endemic COVID-19, high inflation rates, and supply chain disruptions continue to drive medical costs higher, worsening what is already a persistent challenge for health insurers.
To offset rising healthcare costs, health insurance payors are challenged to find ways to contain their own costs by streamlining their processes and tightening their belts, which invariably
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Duped by Data? Here’s Why EMRs Are Antiquated & Outdated in Today’s Hospital
Electronic medical records (EMRs) - software systems where physicians, nurses, and other healthcare workers store, retrieve, and act on clinical data - are fundamentally broken. This sentiment is so widely shared among healthcare workers that it has become almost trite to point it out. Patients feel it too - we’ve lost count of the number of times we’ve heard “isn’t it in my chart?” when we ask a question during a clinical visit.
Unfortunately, the vast majority of EMRs do not facilitate
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Children’s Mercy Kansas City Launches Patient Progression Hub
What You Should Know:
- Children's Mercy Kansas City launches its Patient Progression Hub – a hospital operations center that uses artificial intelligence (AI), predictive analytics and real-time information to optimize care progression and coordination from the time a patient's admission is requested until discharged.
- The Patient Progression Hub is part of a strategic collaboration with GE Healthcare to improve access, streamline the flow of patients, enhance discharge planning,
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Chiefy Raises $4.2M to Build a Culture of Trust in Surgery
What You Should Know:
- Chiefy, a NYC-based cloud platform that helps surgical teams seamlessly embed quality and communication best practices, today announced it has raised $4.2M in seed funding led by LionBird, with participation from Nina Capital and Emerge Ventures.
- The company plans to use the seed funding to accelerate and expand product development and customer acquisition.
Get Surgical Teams Aligned
Globally, over 300 million surgeries are performed each year, and
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ClaimsXten Rebrands as Lyric, Appoints Raj Ronanki as CEO
What You Should Know:
- ClaimsXten Portfolio, a claims editing software business owned by TPG Capital, today announced it has rebranded as Lyric.
- In addition, the company announced the appointment of Raj Ronanki as Chief Executive Officer. Ronanki most recently served as Senior Vice President of Elevance Health and President of Carelon Digital Platforms. Carolyn Wukitch, who has served as CEO of the company, formerly known as ClaimsXten Portfolio, will continue in a leadership role as
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Hint & Eden Partner to Expand Virtual Direct Primary Care Offering Nationwide
Hint & Eden Partner to Expand Virtual Direct Primary Care Offering Nationwide
What You Should Know:
Hint Health, the company powering the Direct Primary Care (DPC) movement, and Eden Health, a leading national virtual and in-person primary care provider, today announced a partnership to expand the Hint Connect footprint with a virtual DPC offering across all 50 states.This partnership allows employers to offer a DPC network nationwide for patients who don’t have convenient access
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Philips HealthSuite Imaging PACS Now Available on AWS
What You Should Know:
Market-leading Philips PACS is now available on AWS for industry-leading availability, reliability, security, and AI-supported workflow enhancements.Expansion of the collaboration with AWS will support the development and deployment of generative AI applications that further support efficient clinical workflows and enhance diagnostic capabilities. Market-leading Philips PACS is now available on AWS for industry-leading availability, reliability, security, and
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Microsoft and Epic Accelerate Generative AI Integration
Amazon Rolls Out New Alexa Healthcare Features
What You Should Know:
Today at HIMSS23, Amazon announced a new suite of Alexa Smart Properties (ASP) for Healthcare capabilities designed to improve the patient and medical staff experience at hospitals.
- With these new capabilities, healthcare and solution providers have even more ways to enable device fleet management and build Alexa capabilities at scale for patient care.
The new Alexa features include:
Upcoming availability of WebRTC support: will help patients
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Allina Health Partners with Epic-based KeyCare Platform
What You Should Know:
- KeyCare, the nation's first and only Epic-based virtual care company, announced today its partnership with Allina Health to deliver high-quality virtual care with licensed providers whenever and wherever patients need it.
- Allina Health patients can access care by scheduling a virtual visit through the Allina Health MyChart patient portal.
- KeyCare offers health systems the ability to easily augment their care teams, optimize capacity, and widen their digital
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