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- Color Health acquires Mood Lifters, a leading group-based mental health company and launches a new behavioral health product. The new solution will expand access to mental healthcare for organizations tackling public and population health.
- Mood Lifters uses an evidence-based treatment paradigm developed by Dr. Patricia Deldin and Dr. Cecilia Votta at the University of Michigan. Crucially, groups are led by participants who have
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Overcoming Ripple Effects of COVID-19 to Boost Patient Outcomes: 3 Insights
Fear of COVID-19 exposure isn’t the only thing holding patients back from seeking needed care during the pandemic. So are the complexities of navigating life after COVID-19—and it’s a struggle that physicians, who are overworked and burned out, can relate to as well.
Even as data indicates that consumer deferment of care—common during the first 18 months of the pandemic—has decreased, not all consumers have returned for care as soon as expected. In some instances, financial concerns
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Evidation Launches FluSmart to Better Identity & Understand Flu Early
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Evidation, the company that connects directly with individuals to measure health in everyday life, has launched FluSmart, a digital flu monitoring program that brings together individuals, researchers, and public and private organizations to understand flu at its earliest stages.
Evidation has developed machine learning detection models to compare flu and COVID and validated and extended this work with collaborators. Evidation will use permissioned data from
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Report: Half of all Nurses are Currently Showing Signs of Burnout
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- According to a new study, half of all nurses are currently showing signs of burnout – up from 40% in 2019.
- More than a third of doctors report the same emotional exhaustion. The study highlights that although the pandemic is over, the mental health toll on healthcare workers continues to exacerbate.
Evaluating Burnout in Healthcare Workers in the Aftermath of Covid-19
For the study, researchers sent an electronic survey to HCW during three time periods.
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AtlantiCare Deploys Orbita’s Healthcare Virtual Assistants
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- Healthcare system AtlantiCare selected Orbita’s virtual assistant and conversational AI technology to improve patients’ care access and engagement while automating workloads internally.
- AtlantiCare is rolling out the Orbita platform in phases, beginning with web-based digital front door, which went live in September 2022. In 2023, AtlantiCare plans to add proactive outbound communications, including post-discharge follow-up information and
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Arine, Gemini Health Partner to Optimize Medications While Lowering Prescription Drug Costs
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- Arine - a next-generation medication intelligence company - and Gemini - a drug cost transparency platform - announced an integration that supports Blue Shield of California (Blue Shield) by combining each platform’s unique technology to deliver value-based care.
- The collaboration incorporates cost transparency information into Arine’s medication intelligence platform to empower care teams to provide highly personalized, data-driven medication consultations for
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Aspen RxHealth Launches Clinical Pharmacy Services Platform for Payers
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- Aspen RxHealth recently announced the launch of Alliance by Aspen RxHealth, a clinical pharmacy services model serving payers across the nation.
- For the first time, the new model will allow health plans' in-house pharmacy teams to utilize Aspen RxHealth's proprietary platform and support services to complete pharmacy consultations for their member or patient populations—eliminating the need for a sizable investment to create a homegrown
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5 Tips for Building Your Revenue Cycle Metrics Constellation
If you scan a bright, clear night sky, you will likely pick out familiar shapes. Depending on your creativity, you might see Ursa Major and Minor or perhaps only the Big Dipper and its little brother. But those stars are not only entertaining, they also are important points of navigation used by ancient sailors, the Apollo missions, and even the Mars Rover.
Just as sailors might choose the North Star to guide them, CFOs and healthcare revenue cycle leaders often seek a simple,
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KLAS-Bain: Post-Pandemic Investment Priorities for Healthcare Providers
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- Competition in the provider IT space shows no signs of abating: Early-stage capital, big tech, and scale EMR players continue crowding into more segments. This has significant implications for providers as they transition into a new disruptive period, for software players as they fine-tune go-to-market models for the current environment, and for private equity investors as they look to invest behind winning themes.
- A new report by KLAS Research and Bain &
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Clarius Marketplace Launches for AI Ultrasound Innovators
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- Clarius Mobile Health, a leading provider of high-definition wireless ultrasound systems, today announced Clarius Marketplace, a new platform that enables ultrasound innovators to bring their AI-powered software solutions to market faster by integrating with the Clarius ecosystem, which includes 10 wireless ultrasound scanners and advanced Software-as-a-Service.
- Clarius members will gain access to solutions designed to streamline ultrasound training,
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