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- WellNow Urgent Care, one of the country’s fastest-growing urgent care providers has completed the strategic acquisition of Physicians Immediate Care, a Midwest leader in urgent care and occupational health services with 55 locations in Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin. WellNow currently operates 128 centers across New York, Illinois, Ohio, Indiana and Michigan.
- The acquisition follows a period of rapid growth for WellNow, which opened its first location in Big
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Medical Solutions Acquires Healthcare Marketplace Platform Matchwell
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- Medical Solutions, one of the nation’s largest providers of total workforce solutions serving the healthcare industry acquires Matchwell, a tech-enabled job marketplace that empowers healthcare organizations to access and manage a flexible workforce in the most efficient model in the industry.
- Integrating Matchwell into the Medical Solutions family of service offerings will enable the company to provide even more opportunities and options for clinicians,
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Innovaccer Launches Connected Digital Health Solution for Biopharma & Medtech
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- Today Innovaccer, the Health Cloud company, announced its Connected Digital Health solution, a new way for life sciences companies to rapidly deliver next-generation digital apps that surround therapeutics and devices with highly engaging patient experiences, improve clinical outcomes, and generate valuable real-world evidence (RWE).
- The new solution will allow life sciences companies to realize the promise of digital health with holistic, “around-the-brand”
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Teladoc Health Expands Whole-Person Primary Care Offering
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- Today, Teladoc Health announced the expanded capabilities available to Primary360 users to remove barriers to access and offer comprehensive primary care that meets people where they are.
- Primary360 members will now receive health plan in-network referrals and care coordination support; free, same-day medication delivery from Capsule, the leading national digital pharmacy; and in-home, on-demand phlebotomy with Scarlet Health.
Reducing Barriers to
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Path to Predictive Patient Data: Silencing The Noise of Healthcare
As the healthcare industry is experiencing major changes in the wake of the pandemic, how do we cut through the noise of beeping monitors and the constant influx of data each patient produces in a given moment to ensure optimal care, especially for critically ill patients? Instead of adding a new beep or silencing the existing ones, why not build a path through the noise with data?
The Path to Predictive Data
Nearly every advancement in healthcare has been centered around data, with
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Quality Improvement: Eliminating the Silo Effect in Healthcare Organizations
The healthcare industry has always been under pressure to find ways to provide consistently improving patient satisfaction and outcomes in the face of a rapidly changing medical and regulatory environment. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the pressure has only accelerated; improvement in patient outcomes now can mean the difference between viability and non-viability for a hospital system.
Collaboration is key to the ability to improve patient outcomes. Without all of the teams
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ACAP Launches Center for Social Determinants of Health Innovation
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- Today, the Association for Community Affiliated Plans (ACAP) announced the launch of The ACAP Center for Social Determinants of Health Innovation. The center will encourage and empower other stakeholders to support SDoH initiative.
- The center offers tailored resources, including policy reports, market research, and roundtable educational events, to help health plans, policymakers, and other stakeholders address social issues that impact health and wellbeing,
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Most Healthcare Facilities Lack Holistic Digital Identity Strategy, Report Finds
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- Healthcare facilities are struggling with implementing and enforcing holistic digital identity management strategies, according to the new Imprivata report released today titled, Security and Digital Identity in the Healthcare Industry.
- The findings show that despite 69% of respondents saying identity management is important to their organization’s security strategy, 51% have still experienced a security incident in the last year.
Healthcare Facilities Need a
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Indegene Partners with Amwell to Customized Digital Patient Engagement
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- Indegene, a technology-led healthcare solutions provider, today announced a partnership with Amwell to facilitate life sciences organizations to connect patients to better quality care and drive better health outcomes.
- This partnership will facilitate Indegene to enable life sciences organizations to drive virtual care automation and patient companionship to advance longitudinal care, behavioral health, and other specialty and chronic care segments. It will help
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ClearSky Health Expands Contract With Oracle Cerner
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ClearSky Health, a network of inpatient rehabilitation facilities is expanding its contract an additional five years with Oracle Cerner to support nine additional facilities in the next 18 months with Oracle Cerner as their EHR supplier.
- The partnership to deliver increased continuity, helping clinicians understand a patient’s journey from admission to discharge.
Expanded Partnership Details
Through its five medical rehabilitation centers in New
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