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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
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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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RCM: Why Generative AI is Needed for Prior Authorization Reform
The headline-grabbing emergence of generative AI platforms, such as ChatGPT, BARD and BingGPT, has forced leaders across all verticals to ask, “What can we optimize with AI?” The AI chatbots remain in early stages of their development, but they have shown enough promise to suggest their full arrival is imminent. Every industry is currently weighing the best way to deploy AI, and that includes healthcare, where efficiency and improved workflows can make a tangible impact on the care that patients
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Quest Diagnostics Completes Acquisition of Haystack Oncology
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Quest Diagnostics announced that it has completed its $450M acquisition of Haystack Oncology.Haystack Oncology has developed a highly sensitive minimal-residual disease (MRD) testing technology, based on circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA), to aid in the early detection of residual or recurring cancer and better inform therapy decisions.Acquired back in April, the acquisition will leverage Quest’s expertise and scale in oncology, genomics and pathology. Quest
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Verana Health Launches RWE-Driven Solution for Clinical Trial Site Selection
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Verana Health®—a digital health company elevating quality in real-world data (RWD)—today announced the launch of VeraSite, a solution for identifying potential clinical trial sites.The new subscription-based tool offers clinical trial sponsors and contract research organizations (CROs) a secure way to quickly identify practices with clinical expertise and potential patient populations matched to unique study protocols. This data can guide site selection, ensuring
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Zocdoc Integrates With Elation Health for Seamless Online Schedule
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Zocdoc, a healthcare marketplace that makes it easy to find and book in-person or virtual care across over 250 specialties and more than 18,000 insurance plans, today announced its partnership with Elation Health, the clinical-first healthcare technology company powering innovation in primary care. Now, any healthcare provider or practice using the Elation EHR can seamlessly integrate its calendar with Zocdoc to automatically surface their real-time appointment
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Improving Medical Record Access Key to Unlocking Power of Data
Shannon West, Chief Product Officer for Datavant
The healthcare industry is facing immense pressure to provide patients with seamless and compliant access to their medical records. Despite recent regulations that discourage information blocking and promote interoperability for secure access, the medical records retrieval process remains confusing and difficult. This affects both patients and healthcare providers, who need a comprehensive understanding of the patient's record and context. Even
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Aledade Raises $260M to Expand Services for Network of Primary Care Practices
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Aledade, a Bethesda, MD-based network of independent primary care practices raises $260M in a Series F funding round led by new investor Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from Venrock, Avidity Partners, OMERS Growth Equity, and Fidelity Management & Research Company.The new funding will be used to further accelerate the growth of Aledade’s primary care network and strategic alliances with national and regional health plans while continuing to
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DexCare Raises $75M to Accelerate Care Access Platform
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DexCare, Inc., a Seattle-based patient demand and care access platform raises $75M in Series C funding led by ICONIQ Growth with participation from existing partners Transformation Capital, Kaiser Permanente Ventures, and others. The funding will advance DexCare’s platform, which extends limited health-system capacity to serve patients faster and to precisely manage the supply and demand of digital-care access. The new funding brings the total raised to
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Konica Minolta’s Microsoft Azure-Hosted Platform Automates Exchange of Healthcare Data
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Konica Minolta launches Konica Minolta Connected Care, a cloud-based workflow automation platform designed to streamline manual processes such as patient intake, care transitions and referral management across acute, post-acute and ambulatory care settings. Konica Minolta Connected Care is hosted in Microsoft Azure and is available through the Microsoft Azure Marketplace.
The solution automatically converts unstructured data to structured, automates manual
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