As a physician, we have the unique privilege of having complete strangers share the most personal aspects of their lives and trust us to make their lives better.
While we find successful ways to help a majority of our patients, frustration begins to set in when we encounter a handful of patients we cannot assist. Sometimes, the root cause is something as simple as lack of timely communication, but often, it’s the technology, or the solution, that’s not available.
When the
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Why Data Transparency Is the Most Important Metric for Healthcare Providers Right Now
Healthcare providers all over the world are battling with how to take patient information and patient care digital. How can we use the tools and technology at our fingertips to make treating patients easier and more effective, rather than more complicated? Converting data into useful information will be the key to making this transition successful.
Data is the currency, language, form, and function of digital transformation in healthcare. Having an easily accessible data warehouse and
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PocketHealth Launches Tool for Sourcing Prior Diagnostic Imaging From Any Provider, Anywhere
What You Should Know:
- PocketHealth, a patient-centric, no-network medical image-sharing platform launches Record Retrieval to solve challenges that hospitals and imaging centers face while requesting and retrieving prior imaging from patients, referring physicians, or healthcare sites.
- Record Retrieval streamlines patient intake by creating an easy workflow that auto-imports data into PACS and fills the gaps left by CD-ROMs, VPNs and legacy networks.
Challenges Sourcing &
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Zelis Acquires Healthcare Payment Reimbursement Solutions Payspan
What You Should Know:
- Zelis, a company modernizing the business of healthcare, announced today the completion of its acquisition of Payspan, a leader in healthcare electronic payment and reimbursement automation services. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
- The acquisition will accelerate Zelis' mission to modernize the business of healthcare through a connected platform and expansion of offerings for healthcare insurers, providers, and their members.
Improving
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ChristianaCare Partners with Hims & Hers to Expand In-Person Healthcare Access in 4 States
What You Should Know:
Health system ChristianaCare is partnering with Hims & Hers Health, a consumer-first platform focused on providing modern personalized health and wellness experiences to consumers to expand access to healthcare services.
- The partnership will help ChristianaCare create a more seamless patient journey for patients in Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and expands the Hims & Hers’ partnership network with providers to now include 10 states and
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TXI Partners with Redox to Help Health Tech Companies Accelerate Improved Patient Care Outcomes
What You Should Know:
- TXI, the strategy and product innovation firm, today is teaming up with Redox, a company accelerating data interoperability in healthcare, to build and scale digital products from startups to enterprise-scale healthcare technology companies. The partnership will help to accelerate care outcomes for providers and patients.
- The partnership comes at a critical time as healthcare systems face staffing challenges, budget pressures, and a continued shift to virtual and
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BioIntelliSense and Medically Home Partner to Enhance High Acuity Hospital Care at Home
What You Should Know:
- BioIntelliSense, Inc., a continuous health monitoring and clinical intelligence company, today announced it has entered into a strategic partnership with Medically Home Group, Inc., a technology-enabled services company that is at the forefront of the movement to decentralize care for serious or complex illnesses.
- The collaboration further expands the availability of continuous biometric data and insights to physicians and nurses caring for patients in the
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Sprinter Health Partners with Firefly Health to Close Care Gap
What You Should Know:
- Sprinter Health, an on-demand mobile health and diagnostics company bringing personalized and affordable healthcare services to the home, today announced a partnership with Firefly Health, a health plan and virtual-first care innovator with a mission of delivering half-priced health care that’s twice as good, clinically and emotionally.
- The partnership aims to improve access to care while saving downstream costs by integrating Sprinter Health’s in-home clinical
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VA Expands Partnership with Get Well to Now Include 70 Medical Centers
What You Should Know:
- Get Well, the global leader in digital patient engagement, today announced it has expanded its work with the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) to include 70 Veterans Affairs Medical Centers (VAMC), a 130% increase over three years. Most recently, a fifth Veterans Integrated Service Network (VISNs) selected Get Well’s digital engagement solution to be installed in all nine of its healthcare facilities. Now successfully installed in nearly 13,000 VHA inpatient
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5 Trends Driving the Future Growth of Digital Health & MedTech
What You Should Know:
- Today Accenture published Digital Health and MedTech – New Signals for Transformation to understand the impact consumers, patients and healthcare professionals’ experiences and expanding care settings will have on the medtech industry.
- In a global survey of Medtech executives, five key trends were identified, including Care Anywhere and Everywhere with over 75% of executives saying that the expanding care settings and models will significantly
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