Imagine booking a luxury international vacation. A dedicated concierge arranges your hotels, your travel arrangements, and your daily itinerary. You barely lift a finger. From the outset, however, you realize something unusual. You have been booked on a discount airline with seats in the back of the coach section. You must wait at the airport to be picked up by a cramped, dilapidated taxi. Your “luxury” hotel is actually a two-star property in a bad part of town. Why pay for a luxury concierge
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First-Ever Medicare Advantage Plan for LGBTQ+ Older Adults Launches
What You Should Know:
- SCAN Health Plan, a Medicare Advantage insurer known for its expertise in keeping older adults healthy and independent is launching SCAN Affirm partnered with Included LGBTQ+ Health (HMO), a first-of-its-kind Medicare Advantage plan developed exclusively for LGBTQ+ older adults, in collaboration with Included Health, the only integrated virtual care and navigation platform.
- SCAN Health Plan will offer the SCAN Affirm plan to members in
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WELL Health Acquires EMR, Billing, Clinical Assets from CloudMD for $5.75M
What You Should Know:
- WELL Health is acquiring CloudMD's Cloud Practice entity which includes OSCAR1 based Juno EMR and ClinicAid billing Software applications as well as three primary care clinics located in the province of British Columbia.
- The combined entities serve more than 2,500 healthcare practitioners across Canada and represent WELL's entrance in the Alberta and Saskatchewan markets for its EMR and billing products.
Leveraging Technology to Empower Healthcare
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NeuroFlow Secures $25M for Behavioral Health Integration Platform
What You Should Know:
- NeuroFlow, the market leader in behavioral health integration technology, has secured $25 million in growth capital, led by SEMCAP Health.
- With SEMCAP Health as a new strategic partner and investor, the company will continue to expand its groundbreaking referral network and deepen its relationships with payors and providers, determined to identify and triage individuals with behavioral health needs across the spectrum of care
Accelerating
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GRAIL, Carrum Health Partners to Help Employers Address Cancer Care
What You Should Know:
- GRAIL and Carrum Health announce a partnership to help self-insured employers improve care outcomes for their employees while also reigning in the rising cost of healthcare spending for this group: CANCER.
- This product integration will enable employers who offer Carrum Health benefits to provide eligible employees the Galleri test as part of the comprehensive cancer care Carrum delivers.
- Members who receive a signal detected from the Galleri test can work
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Medical Gaslighting Remains Rampant for Women: Whose Job Is It To Stop It?
Have you ever gone to a medical appointment, knowing and feeling with certainty that something is wrong, only to have a doctor downplay and write off your symptoms?
Medical gaslighting, a relatively new, non-clinical term, refers to the practice of minimizing or dismissing a patient’s symptoms, concerns, or experiences. Often, symptoms are written off as psychological in nature, or patients are told that what they are experiencing isn’t serious or that it is normal.
The problem
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Growing Surgical Revenue, OR Automation Named Top Priority for Health Systems
What You Should Know:
- Increasing surgical services revenue is a top priority for healthcare systems, with automation seen as a way to accomplish it, according to a new survey of healthcare executives conducted by The Health Management Academy.
- Seventy-six percent of respondents named increasing surgical services revenue as a top priority, while half the health systems represented said they plan to increase investments across their surgical services in the next two
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Healthfirst and MediSys Launch FHIR Platform, Hyphen
What You Should Know:
- Healthfirst and The MediSys Health Network announced today they are using Hyphen to connect longitudinal data from claims, quality measures and electronic health records (EHRs) to identify gaps in care, making it easier for clinicians to address patient needs in real-time.
- Hyphen is a cloud-based platform that uses Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resource (FHIR) standards to share member data directly into provider or hospital EHR systems, along with patient- and
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Why It’s Time for Healthcare Organizations to Start Treating Patients Like Consumers
When the pandemic disrupted routine procedures and primary care across healthcare, many care delivery organizations believed patients would eventually return to in-person care as they always have once the pandemic was over and restrictions were lifted. Pent-up patient demand for non-emergency, preventative services–everything from cancer screenings to mental health support to birth control to smoking cessation–would eventually draw patients back into the healthcare system. Patients with common
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Building a Healthier Future with Real Wireless Power
One of the lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic has been that healthcare facilities need to scale up operations quickly to respond to a public health emergency and that doing so is a significant challenge. In the early days of the pandemic, hard-hit cities like New York and others had to set up mobile hospital units or access additional capacity through military hospital ships.
In an emergency like the pandemic, staffing shortages remain a persistent problem, but expanding facility
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