The healthcare market underwent significant changes during the pandemic as patients rethought how they received care, including opting for more telehealth and deferred elective procedures, but patient care is now normalizing as patients return to the office. However, payers are working to reduce the cost of care to reel in healthcare costs and keep premiums lower to remain competitive, driving key changes.
Ambulatory Surgery and Home Care
Surgeries are increasingly moving away from
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On/Go Launches COVID Test to Treat w/ free Paxlovid Delivery
What You Should Know:
- On/Go (by Intrivo) – the health tech startup behind COVID test kits that have helped hundreds of millions of people – has launched a Test to Treat solution for at-home Paxlovid antiviral access, plus a virtual long COVID clinic.
- While some studies have shown Paxlovid may reduce risk of hospitalization and death by 89%, only 11% of Americans who recently had COVID were given antiviral therapy, likely due to accessibility issues. Paxlovid treatment must begin
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Thank AI for the New Enterprise IT Solution for Global Healthcare Operations
The needs of multinational healthcare operations have outpaced the capacities of homegrown IT systems. Flexible AI-powered SaaS IT service and asset management, on the other hand, excels on a global scale.
If you’re the CIO or CTO of a transnational healthcare or life sciences enterprise that employs around 10,000 workers around the world, you want to know if your IT system is in danger of crashing – even if the alarm sounds in the middle of the night. While you’re fast asleep, a team or
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Patching Cybersecurity Gaps in Healthcare, with New FDA Guidelines and Zero Trust
When it comes to protecting patients from the impacts of ransomware, the time has come for the healthcare sector to rethink the way it approaches cyber resilience -- starting with Zero Trust strategies.
The unprecedented wave of ransomware attacks on the healthcare sector has upended long-held assumptions about network security. Confidence in traditional methods alone and the philosophies behind them, have been undermined. The ransomware era has become a time of reckoning – particularly
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Memora Launches Research Program with Mayo Clinic for Postpartum Care
What You Should Know:
- Memora Health, an organization helping healthcare companies digitize and automate care programs has launched a research program with Mayo Clinic to extend care to postpartum patients.
- This new program will infuse Memora's digitized care programs across the health system, enabling Mayo’s postpartum care teams to proactively interact with new mothers from the comfort of their homes and respond to their needs with tailored guidance in real-time.
Memora’s SMS
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Color Acquires Mood Lifters, Launches Behavioral Health Product
What You Should Know:
- Color Health acquires Mood Lifters, a leading group-based mental health company and launches a new behavioral health product. The new solution will expand access to mental healthcare for organizations tackling public and population health.
- Mood Lifters uses an evidence-based treatment paradigm developed by Dr. Patricia Deldin and Dr. Cecilia Votta at the University of Michigan. Crucially, groups are led by participants who have
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Overcoming Ripple Effects of COVID-19 to Boost Patient Outcomes: 3 Insights
Fear of COVID-19 exposure isn’t the only thing holding patients back from seeking needed care during the pandemic. So are the complexities of navigating life after COVID-19—and it’s a struggle that physicians, who are overworked and burned out, can relate to as well.
Even as data indicates that consumer deferment of care—common during the first 18 months of the pandemic—has decreased, not all consumers have returned for care as soon as expected. In some instances, financial concerns
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Evidation Launches FluSmart to Better Identity & Understand Flu Early
What You Should Know:
Evidation, the company that connects directly with individuals to measure health in everyday life, has launched FluSmart, a digital flu monitoring program that brings together individuals, researchers, and public and private organizations to understand flu at its earliest stages.
Evidation has developed machine learning detection models to compare flu and COVID and validated and extended this work with collaborators. Evidation will use permissioned data from
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Report: Half of all Nurses are Currently Showing Signs of Burnout
What You Should Know:
- According to a new study, half of all nurses are currently showing signs of burnout – up from 40% in 2019.
- More than a third of doctors report the same emotional exhaustion. The study highlights that although the pandemic is over, the mental health toll on healthcare workers continues to exacerbate.
Evaluating Burnout in Healthcare Workers in the Aftermath of Covid-19
For the study, researchers sent an electronic survey to HCW during three time periods.
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AtlantiCare Deploys Orbita’s Healthcare Virtual Assistants
What You Should Know:
- Healthcare system AtlantiCare selected Orbita’s virtual assistant and conversational AI technology to improve patients’ care access and engagement while automating workloads internally.
- AtlantiCare is rolling out the Orbita platform in phases, beginning with web-based digital front door, which went live in September 2022. In 2023, AtlantiCare plans to add proactive outbound communications, including post-discharge follow-up information and
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