What You Should Know:
- GHX Lumere announced the launch of its consulting service to support healthcare providers that want to optimize savings and reduce clinical variation.
- This premium service combines clinical expertise, data, evidence and technology to help hospitals and health systems improve supply chain performance.
Lumere Consulting Services Offering
As hospital operating margins continue to lag, many organizations are looking to achieve savings through
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Netsmart Acquires SNF Claims Data Analytics Solution CORE Analytics
What You Should Know:
- Netsmart announced that it has acquired CORE Analytics, the industry-leading skilled nursing facility (SNF) claims data analytics offering from Zimmet Healthcare.
- With the addition of Core Analytics, Netsmart Simple™is now the only solution suite in the market capable of calculating quality measures and Five-Star ratings leveraging Minimum Data Set (MDS), Payroll-Based Journaling (PBJ) and UB-04 claims data.
Software Solutions to Problems in
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What is the Potential for Digital Twins in Healthcare?
Digital twins are virtual representations of an object or system that spans its lifecycle, is updated from real-time data, and use simulation, machine learning and reasoning to help decision-making (IBM). In most cases, this helps data scientists understand how products are operating in production environments and anticipate how they may behave overtime. But what happens when a digital twin is that of a human being?
By using digital twins to model a person, you can use technologies like
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HIMSS Delivers 9 Recommendations for Strengthening Primary Healthcare
What You Should Know:
This week, The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) responded to a Request for Information (RFI) from the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Health on the HHS Initiative to Strengthen Primary Healthcare. The letter submitted on 8/1 calls for improved healthcare access, equity and outcomes to the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health (OASH).
- The OASH requested input from
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Healthcare & Life Science M&A Activity Plummets 1H’22
What You Should Know:
- The index of Healthcare & Life Science equities tracked by Stout was down 16.8% in Q2 2022, which was in line with the S&P 500 decline of 16.4%.
- Healthcare & Life Science M&A activity plummeted to 338 deals in Q2 2022 versus 535 in Q2 2021 and a record 565 deals in Q4 2021. The report reveals credit markets likely to tighten, but a healthy level of M&A is expected to continue in the growing and defensive healthcare sector.
Key Trends and
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GSA Renews Contract with Xenex LightStrike Germ-Zapping Robots
What You Should Know:
- Xenex Disinfection Services has announced the 5-year renewal of its U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) contract, which enables federal agencies (including Veterans Affairs and U.S. Department of Defense healthcare facilities) to easily deploy Xenex’s powerful LightStrike™ room disinfection technology.
- In addition to federal agencies, the GSA contract supports the procurement needs of eligible state, local, territorial, and tribal governments (including
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Our Nursing Home Industry – A National Scandal
A society defines itself by how it cares for its most vulnerable, and especially its seniors. As a Board-Certified Internist and Geriatrician with over 35 years of providing care in nursing facilities, this sentiment has guided me throughout my career. It has led me to found Tapestry Health, a multispecialty medical practice that focuses on providing medical infrastructure in skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), as well as Project Patient Care, a patient advocacy organization based in Chicago,
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Annexus Health Raises $33M to Optimize Patient Access and Affordability
What You Should Know:
- Annexus Health, Inc. has announced its Series B financing of $33 million, which was led by leading digital health growth equity firm Transformation Capital.
- The funding is set to advance Annexus Health's mission to improve access to care and combat patient financial toxicity amid ever-rising healthcare costs
Re-Imagining the Healthcare Ecosystem by Increasing Access To Care
Annexus Health strives for a better healthcare experience for patients, more
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Samsung EVP Outlines Vision for Digital Health and Wellness
What You Should Know:
- This week, TaeJong Jay Yang, EVP and Head of Health R&D for Samsung outlined the company’s vision health and wellness.
- Samsung’s health and wellness vision is focused on setting new standards for health experiences through our Galaxy Watch series, and across our broader product portfolio.
Pillars of Samsung’s Health & Wellness Vision
Samsung has established three key pillars to help consumers reach their own goals:
1.
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Adventist HealthCare to Deploy Innovaccer Health Cloud for Value-Based Whole-Person Care
What You Should Know:
- Adventist HealthCare has selected Innovaccer Inc., the Health Cloud company to be their next-generation population health management and value-based care partner.
- Innovaccer will help Advent HealthCare create a unified data platform to help deliver deeper insights into community health and network operations.
Supporting Value-Based Whole-Person Care
One of the longest-serving health systems in the Washington, D.C. region, and one of
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