What You Should Know:
- 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
Read More
Health IT | News, Analysis, Insights - HIT Consultant
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,
Read More
KLAS-Bain: Post-Pandemic Investment Priorities for Healthcare Providers
What You Should Know:
- 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 &
Read More
Clarius Marketplace Launches for AI Ultrasound Innovators
What You Should Know:
- 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,
Read More
ObvioHealth & Oracle Collaborate to Seamlessly Integrate Diverse Data Sets Into Decentralized Clinical Trials in APAC
What You Should Know:
- Today, ObvioHealth and Oracle have announced a partnership to enable the rapid collection, integration and analysis of this complex data to get breakthrough therapies to market faster and cheaper within the APAC region. This partnership will integrate ObvioGo, ObvioHealth’s next generation decentralized clinical trial (DCT) platform and mobile app, and Oracle Clinical One Cloud Service, facilitating pharma-grade analytics and reporting that can
Read More
Healthcare Payments: 3 Ways to Make the Experience Better for Patients and Providers Alike
The past few years have seen an enormous acceleration in the adoption of technologies that streamline and modernize payments across all industries. As embedded finance becomes more popular and companies begin to embrace automation technologies, there’s a clear opportunity for healthcare providers to embrace digital payments. Through the use of digital payment technology, healthcare professionals can make their services easier for their vendors, suppliers and patients.
Simplifying the Patient
Read More
Unite Us to Power Arizona’s Social Determinants of Health Referral System
What You Should Know:
- Contexture, Arizona’s health information exchange (HIE), today announced that Unite Us will serve as the technology platform for CommunityCares, the statewide referral system designed to address social determinants of health (SDOH) needs in Arizona.
- Unite Us is an enterprise technology company providing the digital infrastructure to power connected health and social care ecosystems. As part of the partnership, the new CommunityCares SDOH program is made
Read More
Humana Taps Cohere Health to Streamline Prior Authorizations for Cardiovascular & Surgical Specialties
What You Should Know:
- Health insurer Humana has expanded its partnership with Cohere Health to streamline the prior authorization process for cardiovascular care and surgical specialties. Both these care pathways are clinically complex, involving multiple exchanges between primary care physicians and specialists, which can contribute to costly and unnecessary variations in care.
- For surgical services, Humana staff will use the Cohere Unify™
Read More
JPMorgan Chase Launches 3 Advanced Primary Care Centers
What You Should Know:
- Vera Whole Health announced a collaboration with Central Ohio Primary Care (COPC) and JPMorgan Chase & Co. to launch three new on-site advanced primary care centers across the company’s Columbus offices.
- These new centers provide a full suite of comprehensive in-person and virtual health and wellness services for more than 20,000 JPMorgan Chase employees. Vera and COPC will provide the same advanced primary care services at two near-site care centers to
Read More
Should I Get Another Booster? How Doctors Can Help Patients Navigate the Next Phase of COVID-19
The general consensus is that COVID-19 in some form is here to stay. As people come to terms with this reality, primary care providers may be getting more questions from patients – especially older and immunocompromised ones – asking for advice on how to handle different situations. Should I get another booster? Can I start traveling? Is it OK to go to a wedding next weekend? How cautious do I need to be in social settings?
The answers to these questions aren’t always clear. A lot depends on
Read More
