What You Should Know:
- Recent KLAS research reveals that Imprivata—whose single sign-on solution has a large healthcare footprint—is currently the only vendor to offer a broad digital identity platform.
- Building on that research, a new report explores the potential benefits and challenges of deeply adopting Imprivata’s offerings. Insights come from in-depth interviews with 6 organizations identified by Imprivata as “deep adopters” as well as from 15 organizations within the
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AI Provider Anomaly Launches Tech to Predict Claims Denials with 97% Accuracy
What You Should Know:
- Anomaly, a precision payments company streamlining healthcare billing and payments for providers and payers, today announced its new offering Anomaly Smart Response.
- Smart Response uses AI to enable providers and payers to reduce avoidable claim denials and rework and increase payment transparency, top priorities for healthcare stakeholders. Smart Response complements Anomaly’s planned suite of products powered by its AI claim prediction engine, including
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Clarify Health & Datavant Partner to Integrate Real-World Data
What You Should Know:
- Clarify Health, a cloud analytics and value-based payments platform company, and Datavant, a provider helping organizations securely connect health data expands their relationship to enable life sciences companies to connect their proprietary, first-party data in Clarify’s AI-powered Atlas analytics platform to improve clinical development and commercial operations.
- Datavant’s privacy-preserving tokenization and high-accuracy matching technologies will be used to
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EMPI/MPI: An End-to-End Approach to Patient Data Integrity
Maintaining patient data integrity is more complicated than ever; cybersecurity threats loom, patients are taking more ownership of their care (self-registration, for example) and health system merger activity is on the rise. It can make the quest for the ever-elusive 1% maximum duplicate rate seem, at times, unattainable.
But a secure, accurate, and duplicate-free MPI/EMPI can be achieved. It just requires a multi-pronged approach to protect data throughout its journey into a health system
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MedAllies Selects Lyniate for EMPI & Data Management
What You Should Know:
- Lyniate, a healthcare data interoperability announced MedAllies, a multimodality connectivity services company, has chosen Lyniate Enterprise Master Patient Index (EMPI) by NextGate to better serve its healthcare clients and partners.
- This integration will bolster MedAllies’ identity data management capabilities to increase the accuracy of the data it exchanges for the benefit of all.
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Upfront Acquires Patient Engagement Platform PatientBond
What You Should Know:
- Upfront acquires PatientBond, a digital patient engagement platform creating a single enterprise technology solution to drive patient acquisition and loyalty.
- The acquisition accelerates Upfront's delivery of their next-generation personalization platform. Combined with Upfront's omnichannel communications capabilities, PatientBond's robust consumer insights build and expand loyal patient-provider relationships to influence positive behavioral changes, resulting
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Connecticut Abandons $20M Health Information Exchange They Built In-House
What You Should Know:
- In 2017, the University of Connecticut created a new unit called UConn Analytics and Information Management Solutions—UConn AIMS for short—to do the work of planning its health information network.
- Today, UConn AIMS is out of business, 20 people are out of jobs and the system developed for Connie at the cost of about $20 million has been discarded and dismantled.
An Abandoned Health Information Network Worth $20M
The effort to create a Connecticut health
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Get Well Launches Monkeypox Digital Care Management Plan
What You Should Know:
- Get Well releases a new monkeypox digital care management plan. This is the first digital care plan for monkeypox to be released in the industry.
- Get Well’s monkeypox symptom monitoring tool, which is available now, is designed to help manage and slow the spread of the virus. It enables patients or clinicians exposed to the virus to effectively monitor their symptoms from home, allowing providers to triage patients to the right setting of care when and if symptoms
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Modernizing Medical Payments: Why Providers Must Enrich the Patient Financial Experience
Medical billing issues cause many consumers to shop for different providers. Customers expect a simple, automated billing experience. Insider Intelligence’s recent Spotlight on Modernizing Medical Payments looks at what drives consumers away from their medical providers, and what providers can do to modernize their billing processes.
Incorrect or Confusing Bill Cause Patients to Leave Their Doctors
According to a December 2021 report on Patient Payment Technology, 64% of respondents
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CareHarmony Secures $15M for AI-Powered Care Coordination
What You Should Know:
- CareHarmony, an AI-powered care coordination solutions provider, today announced it has closed a $15 million Series A funding round led by Maverick Ventures, with participation from Nashville Capital Network.
- The financing comes as CareHarmony continues to experience exponential growth, serving several of the nation’s leading hospitals and health systems through its care platform.
Developing Proprietary Technology To Meet Increased Demand
Founded in 2015,
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