Flatiron Health has signed a new partnership agreement with the London-based precision medicine software company Lifebit that will enable its researchers to securely access sensitive, real-world data on cancer patients - and hence speed up research and deliver global research improvements in treatments and care. Implementing Lifebit’s pioneering federated Trusted Research Environment technology will enable approved researchers to safely and securely access high-quality real-world data on cancer
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Epic EHR Optimization: 8 Steps to Maximize Your Epic Investment
Epic's EHR has changed the face of healthcare, becoming the one source of truth and reporting for many organizations. It provides a wide range of comprehensive functionalities across patient experience, clinical documentation, reporting, and the revenue cycle. It has truly transformed the patient experience with portals for convenient appointment scheduling, viewing of medical records, and the ability for patients to easily communicate with their providers. It’s highly customizable and
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Compassionate Care: 3 Steps for Health Plans to Improve CMS Star Ratings
Health plans have an incredible opportunity to make a positive impact on the health and well-being of Medicare beneficiaries. It's a responsibility that should not be taken lightly. One way health plans can ensure they’re providing the best possible care to members is to focus on improving CMS Star Ratings.
CMS Star Ratings help Medicare consumers compare the quality of Medicare health and drug plans so they can make the most informed decisions. Improving Star Ratings can help health plans
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Brazilian Health Insurance Company Sami Secures $18M
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Sami, a health insurance startup that aims to revolutionize the Brazilian private health care system, today announced it raised $18 million USD in a Series B round led by Redpoint eventures and Mundi Ventures.Other investors participating in the round Endeavor Catalyst,Didi Digital Horizon and Tau Ventures, joining current investors monashees, Valor Capital, Kevin Efrusy (Accel), Ricardo Marino (Itaú), Mancora
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The Evolution of Interoperability in Healthcare: Where We’ve Been, Where We Are Today, and Where We’re Going
We take for granted that we can seamlessly send money to another person regardless of where they bank, or that we can easily text someone who uses a different cellular network. It’s called interoperability, where disparate systems can seamlessly connect and share data with each other and it’s almost always in real or virtually real-time.
This ease of data sharing across systems may be a reality in most areas of our lives, but it still eludes healthcare. Initiatives to improve
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Healthcare Software Investment: 5 Questions for Hospital C-Suite
As hospitals and health systems continue to be stretched thin by negative operating margins, competitive pressures, and workforce shortages, decision-makers must do more with less and make strategic software investments to reduce costs and increase efficiencies in both the short and long term. Decision-makers agree that now is not the time to pull back on software investment: according to research from Bain & Company, 45% of providers have increased their software investments over the past
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Monopolization in Healthcare Could Affect Access to Quality Treatment
Consolidation and the threat of monopolization in healthcare are rising. The pharmaceutical industry has experienced a wave of accelerated consolidation since 2010. In 2019, the industry saw a record-breaking 1,276 pharmaceutical M&A’s, representing a total value surpassing $411 billion. Monopolistic practices within healthcare and pharmaceutical industries not only hurt a healthy economy, but they also ultimately limit patients’ choices when it comes to healthcare options, further eroding
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Podimetrics Director Talks Supporting Patients Living with SDoH Challenges
In an interview with HIT Consultant, Dr. Gary Rothenberg, Director of Medical Affairs at Podimetrics talks about how healthcare technology can help support a focus on social determinants of health (SDoH) to enhance the relationship between the patient and physician/care team.
How can health technology play a role in helping to address social determinants of health (SDOH) when it comes to diabetes care?
Dr. Gary Rothenberg, Director of Medical Affairs at Podimetrics: While I am a big
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Building a Better, Digitized Hospital Incident Command System
Plenty of crisis events and safety initiatives can and do, receive extensive attention and pre-planning from hospital officials, but the reality is that when an emergency incident unfolds, time is not always on the side of health facility leaders. Natural disasters, severe weather, mass casualty incidents, system malfunctions and pandemics can present with little to no warning and impact every area of a hospital or health center.
Regardless of the circumstances or the timing of an adverse
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Carrum Health Closes $45M Series B to Scale Oncology & Acute Surgical Care
What You Should Know:
Value-based healthcare platform Carrum Health today announced an oversubscribed $45 million Series B financing led by OMERS Growth Equity.The funding will be used to scale the company’s oncology and surgical care service lines for self-insured employers through Carrum Health’s Centers of Excellence network.
Surgery and cancer care have never been better.
Founded in 2014, Carrum Health is a value-based healthcare platform delivering higher quality care
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