What You Should Know:
- Jasper Health, an NYC-based cancer care coordination and experience platform raise $25M in Series A funding led by General Catalyst.
- The round, which was joined by new and existing investors Human Capital, W Health Ventures, Redesign Health, and 7wireVentures, brings Jasper’s total funding to approximately $31 million.
End-to-End Oncology Solution
1.8 million people are diagnosed with cancer every year. It’s an emotional and complicated process that no one
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PointClickCare Acquire Audacious Inquiry, Care Coordination Platform
What You Should Know:
– PointClickCare Technologies, a healthcare technology platform enabling meaningful collaboration and access to real-time insights, today announced its intent to acquire care coordination platform Audacious Inquiry.
- The combination of PointClickCare and Audacious Inquiry will help accelerate the companies’ mission to address critical gaps in healthcare and enable better care for vulnerable patients.
Cloud-Based Solutions Leverage Open APIs and Accredited
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5 Tech Solutions For Employee Management In A Growing Healthcare Facility
Tech solutions in health care are getting the spotlight these days. Propelled by the sudden changes that the pandemic brought forth, the various quickly developed solutions were aimed to address a wide scope of old and entirely new problems within the industry.
In terms of advantages, the benefits that modern technology brings to healthcare are common for a number of other fields: optimizing workflows, simpler updating and accessibility of patient care protocols, and easier time and staff
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5 Trends Bringing Effective Intelligence into Revenue Cycle in 2022
5 revenue cycle management trends that will drive adoption of automation, data-first processes, employee effectiveness and virtualization
Many physician practices are facing a harsh reality as they enter 2022: The revenue cycle processes and technology that have traditionally produced an acceptable bottom line are no longer delivering.
Tectonic shifts in the way healthcare organizations are reimbursed are unearthing the shortfalls of reactive systems that don’t get ahead of claims issues,
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Vynca Secures $30M to Expand Integrated Palliative Care Platform
What You Should Know:
- Vynca, a technology provider addressing the needs of those battling serious illnesses, has raised $30 million in growth capital led by Questa Capital with participation from existing investors including Generator Ventures, First Trust Capital Partners, 4100 Group and OCA Ventures.
- Vynca will use the capital to grow its clinical services organization and expand its technology suite to meet the needs of value-based care programs, in addition to
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Walmart, Health at Scale Launch Personalized Provider Recommendations to Employees, Families
What You Should Know:
- Today, Walmart and healthcare machine intelligence company Health at Scale announced a collaboration to provide personalized provider recommendations to Walmart employees and their families.
- The U.S. healthcare system drives life-determining decisions, like doctor referrals, based on reputation rankings and star ratings on Google. Health at Scale’s technology uses advanced AI and machine learning – developed by a leading team of engineers from MIT, Harvard,
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Omicron: Hospitals and Physicians Face High Expenses & Labor Shortages
What You Should Know:
- The nation’s hospitals, health systems, and physician groups closed the second year of the pandemic amid ballooning expenses exacerbated by nationwide labor shortages and global supply chain challenges. Many providers ended 2021 in a stronger financial position relative to the first year of COVID-19 in 2020, as they learned to better navigate pandemic volatility. Yet overall performance remains down compared to pre-pandemic levels,
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Clinician Burnout, Nursing Staffing Shortage: 7 Exec Predictions to Watch
From clinician burnout to nursing staffing shortages, we asked executives to share their clinical predictions to watch in 2022 and beyond.
Angie Franks, CEO of ABOUT
Health system leaders will be focused on addressing dangerously high rates of clinician burnout and labor shortages across all roles, coupled with continued revenue and margin pressure. So it will be more important than ever for healthcare organizations to operate as a system and leverage all of their resources to ensure
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Uber Health Hires First Chief Medical Officer, Aledade’s New CEO, Other Digital Health Appointments
Uber Health, Uber’s healthcare arm, announced its first Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Michael Cantor. Dr. Cantor will enable Uber Health to continue building innovative solutions that address the needs of patients, clinicians, and care coordinators. As a board-certified geriatrician, his experience designing clinical programs for older adults and vulnerable populations gives him unique insights into the most pressing gaps in care–and how technology can provide the flexible solutions needed to
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Mayo Clinic Taps Oracle Fusion Cloud for Finance, HR, and Supply Chain Management
What You Should Know:
- Mayo Clinic has selected Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications Suite and Oracle Fusion Analytics to power its business processes as it transforms the future of healthcare.
- With Oracle, Mayo Clinic will be able to support its path to 2030, an ambitious strategy to cure, connect and transform healthcare, by improving the administrative services experiences and scaling functions and business analysis to support its global growth.
- As one of the world’s leading
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