What You Should Know:
- Massachusetts General Hospital ("MGH") announced a research agreement with Rocket VR Health, an emerging digital therapeutics company developing clinically validated virtual reality therapies that enhance the quality of life of cancer patients, their families and their caregivers.
- The research will study the effects of daily Virtual Reality Therapy's effect on patients during their entire hospital stay.
Partnership Details
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Validic’s Integrated RPM Platform Now Available on Epic App Orchard
What You Should Know:
- Validic today announced that its remote patient monitoring (RPM) platform, Validic Impact, is available on the Epic App Orchard.
- Through the App Orchard, organizations using Epic can easily integrate Validic's solution into their existing user workflow.
Platform-First Approach to RPM and Condition Management
Validic Impact takes a platform-first approach to RPM and condition management. Clinicians and care teams leverage streamlined workflows and access to
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Social Determinants of Health: Finding the Solutions Beyond the Buzzword
Health plans are on a constant quest to learn what they can do to help their member populations. Unfortunately, there is a scarcity of practical information for health plans to act upon when scanning media coverage and internet sites that purport to provide helpful guidance.
For example, the World Health Organization actually describes social determinants of health, or SDoH, as “non-medical factors that influence health outcomes.” This simple designation complicates matters, as non-medical
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Mount Sinai Selects Accenture and Microsoft on Five-Year Transformation Journey to Cloud
What You Should Know:
- Accenture and Microsoft will assist the Mount Sinai Health System (Mount Sinai) with its transition to the cloud to help enable innovation at a much faster pace.
- By modernizing its infrastructure, Mount Sinai will be able to reinvest cost-savings and focus on its healthcare mission.
The migration to Microsoft Azure could deliver millions in savings
Accenture will collaborate with New York City’s largest academic medical system to help devise and securely
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MEDITECH Expands Expanse Ambulatory to Independent and Physician-Owned Practices
What You Should Know:
- MEDITECH today announced the availability of Expanse Ambulatory in independent and physician-owned practices, without requiring an Expanse EHR in the hospital setting.
- The subscription-based solution lives in the cloud, so there is no significant IT footprint required.
Expanse Ambulatory’s Practice Management
Expanse Ambulatory’s Practice Management solution offers efficient office workflows and intuitive features like drag-and-drop scheduling, automated
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Why Medicaid Programs Need to Update Their Information Systems
You don’t have to be a news junkie or political aficionado to know that state unemployment information systems massively failed during the COVID-19 pandemic at a time when they were most desperately needed.
Overwhelmed by a rush of newly laid-off workers, websites crashed and timed out while phone lines were tied up for hours, leading to frustration and delays in benefits payments – harming local economies and imperiling American families.
In Ohio, unemployment overpayments reached
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GHX Acquires Syft, AI-Powered Hospital Supply Chain Platform
What You Should Know:
- Today GHX announced its acquisition of Syft, a leading provider of AI-enhanced inventory control and end-to-end supply chain management software and services.
- As a wholly-owned subsidiary of GHX, Syft joins GHX’s value-based care division’s growing portfolio of solutions that help modernize the supply chain.
Modernizing Healthcare Supply Chain to Overcome COVID-19 Related Challenges
As health systems shift to value-based care as well as overcome
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Butterfly Launches System-Wide Ultrasound w/AI-Guided Option
What You Should Know:
- Butterfly Network today launched Butterfly Blueprint, a system-wide platform that supports scaled deployment of ultrasound across hospitals and health systems.
- Blueprint integrates ultrasound information into health systems’ clinical and administrative systems and workflows. That means clinicians across all disciplines now have a tool that allows them to see and know results sooner to drive better care
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Definitive Healthcare Acquires Analytical Wizards, Healthcare Analytics Platform
What You Should Know:
- This week, Definite Healthcare announced the acquisition of Analytical Wizards, an advanced analytics company revolutionizing analytics in healthcare by combining our AI/ML-powered technology, domain expertise, and high-touch relationship model. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.
- Founded in 2015, Analytical Wizards automates complex analytic models using tools that expedite efficient big data mining using artificial intelligence (AI) and
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GuideWell Becomes First U.S. Payer to Automate Prior Authorizations
What You Should Know:
- GuideWell, one of the 10 largest health insurance providers in the U.S., became the first U.S. payer to automate prior authorization approvals through AI-powered clinical reviews from Olive, resulting in faster care for patients — up to 10 days faster — and greater provider satisfaction.
- After launching a pilot with Olive in Florida, GuideWell saw its time to decision reduced by 10 days when immediate responses were available, decreased unnecessary prior
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