Today, food insecurity affects more than 41 million Americans and is prevalent among children and the elderly population. Food insecurity is defined as the limited availability of nutritionally adequate and safe food or the inability to acquire these foods in socially acceptable ways. As a result, food insecurity can exacerbate medical conditions driving up hospital/health systems patient care costs. To learn more about how healthcare providers can address food insecurity, we sat down with Dr.
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3 Public Health Messaging Failures: What Went Wrong and How to Fix It
Public health crisis communications plans have the power to improve outcomes, reduce long-term healthcare costs, and save lives. These plans should convey crucial health information to impacted groups with recommendations on how and when to seek care and reduce spread. The consequences of ineffective, inconsistent, or absent public health messaging in times of crisis are grave, leading to the mistrust of healthcare institutions, stigmatization of impacted groups, and decreased likelihood of
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Avaneer Health Launches its Decentralized Network and Platform
What You Should Know:
- Avaneer Health, a secure digital network for healthcare, today announced that it has launched its private, peer-to-peer network with several leading healthcare organizations. With a single connection to the Avaneer Network™, participants can collaborate and share real-time data, streamlining healthcare administration and enhancing the healthcare experience for all stakeholders.
- For decades, the healthcare industry has been challenged with fragmented
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Spectrum Taps Proscia to Modernize its Pathology Operations
- Proscia®, a leading provider of digital and computational pathology solutions, today announced that Spectrum Healthcare Partners (SHCP), an independent, multispecialty, physician-owned healthcare practice, has selected Concentriq® Dx to modernize its pathology operations. In adopting Proscia’s software platform, SHCP will increase access to high-quality diagnostic services across Maine and New Hampshire, better informing treatment decisions for more patients.
- Digital pathology, which
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ECRI Names Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns for 2023
What You Should Know:
- The pediatric mental health crisis is named the number one patient safety concern, according to ECRI’s 2023 list of most pressing patient safety concerns.
- The nation’s largest nonprofit patient safety organization notes that, while rates of depression and anxiety in children have increased since 2017, the COVID-19 pandemic has elevated the situation to crisis levels.
Here are
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Fully Modular Medicaid System Enables Kansas to Achieve CMS Certification
What You Should Know:
- Gainwell Technologies (Gainwell), an innovator in healthcare technology solutions, announced that the nine-module Medicaid system it designed and implemented for Kansas is the first fully modular system to achieve the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Streamlined Modular Certification.
The deployment marks Kansas as the first state with a completely modular system to receive federal matching funds from the day
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Enabling a Better Future for All by Embracing Healthcare Interoperability
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has laid the critical groundwork to create a connected healthcare system in which patients, providers, and payers can easily exchange information. This is thanks in part to the release of the Interoperability and Patient Access Final Rule. With new policies now in place, CMS aims to generate better health outcomes through improved interoperability and better access to health information for all stakeholders.
CMS has also identified a new
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Health Gorilla Partners with CLEAR for Consumers to Access & Control Their Health Info
What You Should Know:
- Health Gorilla, a leading Health Information Network and interoperability provider, has partnered with CLEAR, a secure identity verification platform, to launch Individual Access Services, which allows consumers to access their personal health information securely.
- Health Gorilla will embed Powered by CLEAR to seamlessly verify a consumer's identity and provide them with secure and easy access to their health information. Friction-free identity
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National Kidney Foundation and Healthy.io Partner on Kidney Disease Detection
What You Should Know:
- The National Kidney Foundation (NKF), a non-profit health organization and Healthy.io, a global leader in transforming the smartphone camera into a clinical-grade medical device, announced a new effort to promote the detection of chronic kidney disease (CKD).
- Through their partnership, the NKF and Healthy.io will offer Healthy.io's Minuteful Kidney™ at-home kidney test, free of charge, to people who are at risk for kidney disease.
Healthy.io's Minuteful Kidney
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A Smarter Approach to Commercial Ecosystems for Superior HCP Experiences
The commercial life science industry continues to undergo a radical shift in the way it interacts with healthcare providers (HCPs) and consumers. In today’s complex, fast-paced market, traditional life science commercial models no longer cut it.
Fortunately, technology has advanced to enable the agile transition and optimization of customer engagement channels through automation and intelligence-driven workflows. Successful enterprises will leverage these technology advancements to
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