What You Should Know:
- Salucro Healthcare Solutions, a healthcare payment technology company, today announced an innovative technology partnership with Luma Health, the technology company behind the world’s first Patient Success Platform™.
- The partnership will combine Luma’s platform and Salucro’s patient-friendly financial engagement solutions to enable their clients to more efficiently collect payments throughout the patient journey.
Personalized Payment Integrations Throughout the
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Why You Should Use Digital Signage to Modernize Your Healthcare Communications
Patients seeking healthcare face a lot of hurdles – navigating the spaces where they receive care shouldn’t be one of them.
From preparing for the appointment while sitting in the waiting room to asking questions during the exam and taking care of administrative tasks as well as learning about products and services at the end of the visit, better provider-to-patient communication in care settings can improve how patients learn about their health and how they talk about it.
Digital
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Olio Health Raises $13M for Post-Acute Engagement for Health Systems
What You Should Know:
- Olio Health, an Indianapolis, IN-based workflow and collaboration platform for the post-acute care and population health industry, raised $13m in Series A funding.
- The round was led by Fulcrum Equity Partners with participation from Mutual Capital Partners. The company intends to use the funds to further accelerate its growth through product development and key hires across multiple departments.
- Led by Ben Forrest, CEO, Olio provides a platform for
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KLAS: Security & Privacy Consulting Services 2022
What You Should Know:
- Cybersecurity attacks are on the rise, and healthcare organizations are especially at risk. Security vulnerabilities can lead to financial penalties imposed by OCR, damaged organization reputations, and the increased risk of patient safety and data being compromised.
- A new report by KLAS examines several such firms (and one cross-industry firm) to determine who effectively assists in reducing risk, engages closely with clients, and exceeds expectations.
Using
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Abridge Partners with Google Cloud for Real-Time Clinical Documentation
What You Should Know:
- Abridge, the healthcare conversation company that uses AI to help everyone get more from their medical conversations, today announced a partnership with Google Cloud.
- Google Cloud now includes Abridge as a premier partner to structure, summarize, and generate insights on medical conversations.
Increasing Insights On Healthcare Conversations Through Real-Time Clinical Documentation
Clinical documentation is a struggle for clinicians and patients alike.
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eClinicalWorks Invests $100M in Microsoft Azure
What You Should Know:
- McKinsey reports that cloud capabilities have the potential to generate a value of $100 billion to $170 billion for healthcare companies in 2030. The cloud enables healthcare companies to innovate, digitize and realize their strategic goals.
- eClinicalWorks is currently investing over $100M in Microsoft Azure cloud services to accelerate innovations in digital healthcare.
Technological Solutions For Improving Patient Care and Health
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Facebook Pixel Healthcare Data Leak: Understanding Third-Party Risk for Sensitive Data
A recent report by The Markup, validated by research published in Patterns, highlights the risk of including third-party JavaScript in an organization’s website. The studies discovered that the Meta/Facebook “pixel” that was included on a large number of hospital and health organization websites was sending sensitive medical data to Meta, possibly in violation of HIPAA regulations.
Given the way the modern web is constructed, with pages assembled in real-time in the customer’s browser, there
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Harnessing Healthcare Data: How the Right Low-Code Solution Empowers Clinicians & Improves Patient Experience
The healthcare industry has been slowly adopting new technology solutions to improve efficiency and patient care, but it’s still largely known for paper-based processes, and for having massive amounts of data1. To make matters worse, it’s estimated that 80% of the data in the healthcare industry is unstructured, in the form of discharge summaries, medical images, and clinical notes.2
Even though the industry has started to adopt technology tools to get better insights and
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DeliverHealth Exec Talks Combatting Physician Burnout with Automation Tech & Data
Provider burnout has shown no signs of slowing down in the past couple of years - a fact proven by a recent report found that 45% of physicians have been experiencing burnout over the past two years. As providers and healthcare organizations continue to face burnout, staffing shortages and financial pressures, they must find a way to reduce administrative burdens while allowing for more time spent on patient care with an ultimate end goal of reducing burnout.
We recently spoke with
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ONC and HRSA Launches USCDI+ Initiative to Support UDS Modernization
What You Should Know:
- ONC and HRSA launches a new USCDI+ collaboration to support HRSA’s Uniform Data System (UDS) reporting through the UDS Modernization Initiative.
- Last October ONC announced USCDI+, an initiative to support the identification and establishment of domain or program-specific datasets that will operate as extensions to the existing USCDI. In particular, ONC envisioned USCDI+ as a service that ONC would provide to federal partners who have a
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