What You Should Know:
- Google Cloud launches Medical Imaging Suite that addresses common pain points organizations face in developing artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning models.
- Google Cloud enables the development of AI for imaging to support faster, more accurate diagnosis of images, increased productivity for healthcare workers, and improved care access and outcomes for patients.
Google Cloud's Medical Imaging Suite Key Features
Key features of the Medical
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Galileo Integrates with Elation Health EHR to Maximize Value-Based Contracts
What You Should Know:
- Galileo, a tech-enabled primary care provider seeing patients in all 50 states, today announced a partnership to roll out Elation Health's EHR.
- Through the Elation Health application programming interface (API), Galileo clinicians are now seamlessly able to automate and customize alerts at the point of care to maximize their value-based contracts.
- Elation’s clinical-first approach means its API gives customers the ability to build proprietary
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Aetna Taps Emcara Health to Deliver Home-Based Primary Care to 240k Medicaid Patients
What You Should Know:
- Emcara Health and Aetna Better Health, which announced that the two companies will be partnering to deliver primary care in the home to more than 240,000 Medicaid patients in the Miami/Dade and Tampa, Florida regions.
- The relationship extends Emcara Heath’s comprehensive primary care model – which includes behavioral health and social determinants of health assessments – to adult Aetna Medicaid members.
Partnership
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Memora, Luma Partner to Offer Health Systems a Wholesale Digital Front Door
What You Should Know:
- Today, Memora Health announced a partnership with Luma Health to offer health systems a combined wholesale digital front door and patient engagement tool - which have traditionally been separate offerings.
- Together the digital health companies will offer a tool that streamlines patient communication, increases access, and ensures patients are following care plans - all while unburdening care teams from routine administrative tasks. After implementing Memora
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Nordic Consulting Acquires Healthcare Consulting Firm Hygeian
What You Should Know:
- Nordic Consulting, a global health and technology consulting company, has acquired Hygeian, a healthcare consulting company supporting public and private sector clients across the United Kingdom and the Middle East with advisory services, change management, flexible resourcing, and filling fixed-term and specialist roles. This acquisition marks Nordic’s sixth acquisition in recent years and comes
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MEDITECH Expands Collaborative Environments
What You Should Know:
- MEDITECH announced today the expansion of MEDITECH Greenfield, now providing two collaborative environments that fuel innovation: Greenfield Alliance and Greenfield Workspace.
- Greenfield Alliance is a new partner engagement initiative for organizations with proven, interoperable products that complement, enhance, or extend the Expanse EHR.
- Greenfield Workspace - an established development ecosystem that enables our API
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SEQSTER and PatientsLikeMe Launch National Rare Disease Study
What You Should Know:
- PatientsLikeMe and SEQSTER announced a collaboration to launch one of the first rare-disease studies focused on Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency (AATD) - a rare genetic condition occurring in approximately 1/3500 people.
- AATD is a rare genetic condition occurring in approximately 1/3500 people. It is characterized by low levels of the alpha-1 antitrypsin protein, leading AATD patients to be very susceptible to lung and/or
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Why Data is at the Heart of Value-Based Care Success
The saying “you cannot manage what you cannot measure” applies to all aspects of healthcare delivery, but it is especially true in value-based care. After all, payers, providers, and the patients they care for need to know what high-value care looks like at an individual level – and how it can be applied at the population level.
Delivery and technology infrastructure. All too often, data is captured in disparate systems, forcing administrative staff – or, worse, physicians and nurses – to
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State Price Transparency Requirements Are No Longer Cut and Paste
For pharmaceutical manufacturing firms, the amount of documentation required around state price transparency regulations continues to expand. As it now stands, more than 22 states have transparency laws on the books, and each of these states requires a complicated and diverse set of reporting information, which was not the case five years ago.
These transparency requirements – including the need to provide data in different formats and on different dates due to “triggering events” – mean that
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U.S. Health Care Price Index: Telehealth Prices Down; Mental Health Up
What You Should Know:
- The latest U.S. Health Care Price Index (USHPI), the first national resource to publicly document the price of cash-pay medical care in America, reveals that national average prices for everyday healthcare services decreased in August and September, in the face of record inflation.
- The USHPI features pricing data for routine medical services in all 50 states – from primary care and mental health to women’s health and more - with additional prices and specialties
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