The U.S. healthcare industry has hit an important inflection point. The global pandemic highlighted an increased need to deliver quality patient care. However, outdated, legacy technology is straining many health systems, and in some cases, exaggerating existing problems such as rising operational costs and high rates of attrition.
Health and hospital systems must take a purposeful approach to IT modernization — which includes embracing new technologies — to ensure success. And while each IT
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Recent Digital Health Strategic Partnerships Roundup: Unite Us, careMESH, CareCloud, Others
St. Joseph’s Health Enhances Provider Communications with careMESH’s Healthcare Directory and User-Friendly Messaging Services
New Jersey-based St. Joseph’s Health partners with careMESH to significantly expand the health system’s clinical communications reach to all community physicians, including digital access to electronic medical records. Using careMESH, St. Joseph’s will focus on several key areas, including:
Streamlining external communications with community physiciansReducing
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IT Infrastructure: Creating A Culture of Security In Your Hospital & Health System
It’s a fact: More than 80% of data breaches involve a human in some way. That could involve someone falling for a spear-phishing campaign designed to solicit credentials, clicking on a malicious link, or a simple error that leaves a security vulnerability open to bad actors. Creating a culture of security in your organization will keep security at the forefront of everything from operations to care delivery.
Monitoring and maintaining the security of IT infrastructure is often overemphasized
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Verizon Inks $448.3M Veterans Affairs Contract to Supply Medical Devices
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Verizon Public Sector announced a $448.3M, nine-year expansion of its existing partnership with the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) medical centers and healthcare facilities to supply mobile devices including mission-critical communications support during the VA’s disaster recovery missions and other emergencies.As part of the agreement, the VA can purchase devices and services for community-based outpatient clinics, field and program offices, and remote users in the
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The Importance of Decoding Health Data to Every Organization
To the observant onlooker, data is everywhere. From spending habits to hospital visits, humans are walking treasure troves of information. As technology has exponentially improved in the last 20 years, so has the collection of data. In 2010, a mere two zettabytes of data were created, captured, copied, or consumed. In 2020, estimates put that number at 79 zettabytes.
Data collection goes hand-in-hand with the revolution of the Information Age — since the 1970s, unprecedented digital
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Elevating Workplace Safety to Combat Healthcare Violence Against Workers
The healthcare workforce is in crisis. From devastating staffing shortages to unmanageable levels of stress and burnout, today’s healthcare workers are desperate for some relief. Unfortunately, exacerbating these already significant challenges is an increasing rate of workplace violence in healthcare.
According to the results of a study published recently in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, about one-third of public healthcare workers have experienced at least one incident
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Emcara Health Taps Innovaccer to Accelerate Scale in Value-Based Care
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Innovaccer Inc. announced that Emcara Health, PopHealthCare’s national value-based medical group that delivers advanced in-home primary care for seniors and vulnerable populations, has selected Innovaccer’s Best in KLAS data platform to accelerate its ability to drive growth and rapidly scale Emcara Health’s integrated care solution to more communities nationwide.The Innovaccer data platform will enhance Emcara Health’s ability to create unified patient records that
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Horizon Taps Solera to Deliver Members AI-Matched Solutions
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Solera Health, the premier technology platform for connecting people seamlessly and easily to health solutions that work, announces a multi-year strategic partnership with Horizon Healthcare Services, New Jersey’s largest health insurer with more than 3.6 million members.Through this strategic partnership, Solera will provide its technology platform to connect Horizon members to a personalized experience of innovative and effective curated networks of digital
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M&A: VMG Health Acquires BSM Consulting
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VMG Health, a full-service healthcare strategy and transaction advisory firm acquires BSM Consulting (“BSM”), a specialist healthcare consulting firm with offices in Reno, Nevada and Phoenix, Arizona. VMG Health is owned by VMG employees and Northlane Capital Partners (“NCP”). NCP invested in VMG Health in March 2020.Founded in 1978 by Bruce Maller, BSM Consulting provides practice management consulting and compliance expertise to clients in ophthalmology and medical
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Report: 20% of Americans Skip Healthcare Due to Transportation Barriers
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A new analysis shows more than 21% of U.S. adults without access to a vehicle or public transit went without needed medical care last year. These individuals were significantly more likely to skip care than those who reported neighborhood access to public transit services (9%).This analysis examining the association between transportation and access to healthcare was conducted by Urban Institute researchers with support from the Robert Wood Johnson
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