What You Should Know:
- Today, Teladoc Health announced the expanded capabilities available to Primary360 users to remove barriers to access and offer comprehensive primary care that meets people where they are.
- Primary360 members will now receive health plan in-network referrals and care coordination support; free, same-day medication delivery from Capsule, the leading national digital pharmacy; and in-home, on-demand phlebotomy with Scarlet Health.
Reducing Barriers to
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Path to Predictive Patient Data: Silencing The Noise of Healthcare
As the healthcare industry is experiencing major changes in the wake of the pandemic, how do we cut through the noise of beeping monitors and the constant influx of data each patient produces in a given moment to ensure optimal care, especially for critically ill patients? Instead of adding a new beep or silencing the existing ones, why not build a path through the noise with data?
The Path to Predictive Data
Nearly every advancement in healthcare has been centered around data, with
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Quality Improvement: Eliminating the Silo Effect in Healthcare Organizations
The healthcare industry has always been under pressure to find ways to provide consistently improving patient satisfaction and outcomes in the face of a rapidly changing medical and regulatory environment. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the pressure has only accelerated; improvement in patient outcomes now can mean the difference between viability and non-viability for a hospital system.
Collaboration is key to the ability to improve patient outcomes. Without all of the teams
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ACAP Launches Center for Social Determinants of Health Innovation
What You Should Know:
- Today, the Association for Community Affiliated Plans (ACAP) announced the launch of The ACAP Center for Social Determinants of Health Innovation. The center will encourage and empower other stakeholders to support SDoH initiative.
- The center offers tailored resources, including policy reports, market research, and roundtable educational events, to help health plans, policymakers, and other stakeholders address social issues that impact health and wellbeing,
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Most Healthcare Facilities Lack Holistic Digital Identity Strategy, Report Finds
What You Should Know:
- Healthcare facilities are struggling with implementing and enforcing holistic digital identity management strategies, according to the new Imprivata report released today titled, Security and Digital Identity in the Healthcare Industry.
- The findings show that despite 69% of respondents saying identity management is important to their organization’s security strategy, 51% have still experienced a security incident in the last year.
Healthcare Facilities Need a
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Indegene Partners with Amwell to Customized Digital Patient Engagement
What You Should Know:
- Indegene, a technology-led healthcare solutions provider, today announced a partnership with Amwell to facilitate life sciences organizations to connect patients to better quality care and drive better health outcomes.
- This partnership will facilitate Indegene to enable life sciences organizations to drive virtual care automation and patient companionship to advance longitudinal care, behavioral health, and other specialty and chronic care segments. It will help
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ClearSky Health Expands Contract With Oracle Cerner
What You Should Know:
ClearSky Health, a network of inpatient rehabilitation facilities is expanding its contract an additional five years with Oracle Cerner to support nine additional facilities in the next 18 months with Oracle Cerner as their EHR supplier.
- The partnership to deliver increased continuity, helping clinicians understand a patient’s journey from admission to discharge.
Expanded Partnership Details
Through its five medical rehabilitation centers in New
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Why Health Plans Are Vital to Health Equity
In Florida, where Black residents are three times more likely to be hospitalized or die from asthma-related complications than white residents, one researcher’s efforts to “strip away the jargon” related to asthma treatment strengthened patients’ engagement in a year-long clinical trial. The impact: development of an asthma regimen to help combat disparities in asthma management and outcomes.
The results are one example of the gains that can be made in addressing health inequities—differences
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Olive Launches Autonomous Revenue Cycle (ARC) Suite
What You Should Know:
- Olive, the automation company creating the Internet of Healthcare, today launched its Autonomous Revenue Cycle (ARC), the company's flagship Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) suite of solutions.
- Olive's ARC is designed to handle tedious, time-consuming administrative tasks in the revenue cycle, allowing healthcare organizations to get paid quicker while reducing the risk of uncompensated care.
Automate the Revenue Cycle Management Process
Managing revenue
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HFMA: DeliverHealth Launches AI-Driven Autonomous Coding
What You Should Know:
- DeliverHealth, a provider of technology-enabled solutions for hospitals, health systems and group practices launches artificial intelligence (AI) driven autonomous coding for a simpler, more efficient way to accelerate revenue cycle optimization.
- The autonomous coding platform removes inherent complexities clinicians and care teams face while helping administration and operations obtain the realization of their EHR investments.
Combating the Impact of the
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