What You Should Know: - Today, XSOLIS, the AI technology company creating a more efficient healthcare system, announced a new partnership with Florida-based Halifax Health to achieve greater efficiencies between its utilization management and physician advisor teams across its three hospitals. - XSOLIS’ CORTEX® platform will help Halifax solve administrative challenges and mitigate revenue risk associated with misaligned care level status. CORTEX’s advanced case management analytics
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The Patient Data Bill of Rights
While the United States is generally viewed as one of the great nations with a bill of rights, views differ considerably regarding whether the country has an enlightened approach to healthcare; especially contentious is the ability to provide universal, cost-effective access. I believe all patients in the United States should have basic inalienable rights regarding their personal health information. Therefore, I propose this Patient Data Bill of Rights, and believe it should be mandated by
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athenahealth Updates its Marketplace Program with Enhancements
What You Should Know: - athenahealth, Inc., today announced it significantly upgraded the athenahealth Marketplace with new features and capabilities designed to help customers and partners further extend the value of athenahealth’s solutions. - Over the last year, athenahealth has evolved the Marketplace program’s infrastructure and app store to help healthcare practices easily discover and quickly implement innovative solutions that support their efforts to improve clinical and
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Artera Launches with $90M for Multimodal AI, Predictive Cancer Tests
What You Should Know: - Artera, the developer of multimodal artificial intelligence-based predictive and prognostic cancer tests, launches publicly today with $90M in funding. - The investment comes from a syndicate of prominent tech and healthcare investors, comprised of seven institutions (Coatue, Johnson & Johnson, Koch Disruptive Technologies, Walden Catalyst Ventures, TIME Ventures, Breyer Capital, The Factory) and 11 angel investors (Marc Benioff, Jim Breyer, Lip-Bu Tan, Chris
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Healthcare in Denial: The State of Claims in 2023
How do you solve a persistent and growing problem like claims denials? It’s been a hot topic for revenue cycle management professionals for years that’s only getting hotter with the increasing pressures of staffing shortages, challenges with staff turnover and training and ever-changing policies and protocols at the government and payer levels. On the macro-economic level, denials contribute mightily to the growing problem of uncompensated care in America, currently estimated at $43
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Sana, Little Otter Partner to Give Adolescent Members and Their Families Access to Mental Healthcare
What You Should Know: - Sana, a healthcare company that provides Fortune 500-level health benefits to small businesses at affordable prices, today announced a partnership with Little Otter, a digital mental health solution for children and their families. - Both Little Otter and Sana are aligned in their goal to provide comprehensive, high-quality mental healthcare to their members and their families. By investing more in primary care and enabling access to more low-cost,
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Desert Oasis Healthcare Partners with Rimidi, Teva to Improve Asthma Management
What You Should Know: - Rimidi, a clinical management platform today announced that Desert Oasis Healthcare (DOHC), a regional medical group has implemented Rimidi’s new Respiratory Module. - Designed to give providers a more complete view of the patient in order to guide treatment decisions for those with respiratory diseases such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) or asthma, the Respiratory Module is enhanced by a collaboration with Teva Pharmaceuticals. - Data from
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Interoperability: Particle Health Launches Suite of Solutions to Wrangle Data
What You Should Know: - Particle Health, an interoperability platform that aggregates and delivers actionable patient data and insights to healthcare companies, announced today it has launched its Particle FOCUS (Filtered Outputs Curated for Usability + Simplicity) solution suite. - FOCUS data products are designed to streamline data by delivering comprehensive, simplified, and organized patient health information across seven disease states:
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Northwell to Deploy Epic Enterprise EHR Platform Across System
What You Should Know: - Northwell Health today announced an agreement with Epic to implement the health system’s next-generation EHR as part of its ongoing digital transformation to ensure a more seamless patient experience and team member experience. - The announcement marks the replacement of Allscripts and will result in one patient record across every Northwell venue of care and drive enhanced care coordination across 21 hospitals and about 900 outpatient facilities. -
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Nuance and Microsoft Launches AI-Automated Clinical Documentation App
What You Should Know: - Nuance Communications and Microsoft launches DAX Express, a workflow-integrated, fully automated clinical documentation application and the first to combine proven conversational and ambient AI with the newest and most capable generative AI technology, GPT4. - DAX Express creates draft clinical notes automatically and securely in seconds from exam room or telehealth patient conversations for immediate clinical review after each
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