What You Should Know:
- Sharecare, the digital health company that helps people manage all their health in one place, today announced the formation of a clinical advisory board for its home health platform and network of caregivers, CareLinx by Sharecare.
- The aim of the board is to help shape the clinical care offering from CareLinx as well as our nurse retention and recruiting efforts, so we’ve appointed 10 leaders across the nursing field – military, private practice, academia,
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3 Steps to Approach & Tackle Digital Transformation in Healthcare
Artificial intelligence (AI) is predicted to save the US healthcare economy $150 billion by 2026. Replacing legacy systems and changing standard operating procedures, hospitals are moving to capitalize on technology and the ways it can change a historically hesitant to change sector. The big question is how fast teams are going to implement changes.
Healthcare leadership recently reported that their organizations are 60% through their digitalization journey. IT leaders must be leading
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BCBS of Michigan Launches Joint Venture with Honest Medical Group
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- Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan (BCBSM) today announced a joint venture with Nashville-based Honest Medical Group to offer physicians comprehensive operational, clinical, and financial support for shared accountability Medicare contracts.
- The joint venture is the first of its kind for BCBSM and aligns with the organization's continued expansion of Blueprint for Affordability, its member-focused, value-based care and payment
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Kyruus and Upfront Partner to Maximize Digital Patient Acquisition and Retention
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- Kyruus, a provider search and scheduling solutions for healthcare organizations, and Upfront, preeminent patient communication and engagement platform, today announced a new partnership to help healthcare organizations drive patient acquisition, activation, and retention.
- The combination of both platforms allows healthcare organizations to create better digital experiences for their patients using Kyruus’ powerful provider search, match, and scheduling
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How Automation Can Help with Healthcare’s “Messy” Data Problem
Efficient data processing and data sharing are essential functions across healthcare—from patient care, clinical research, and health services planning to billing and government reporting for funding and research. But most of the data that the industry is processing is human-generated, meaning it’s messy and riddled with errors, and often manually inputted from Excel spreadsheets into various disparate platforms and technology systems. In some cases, our healthcare system is running on
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What the New CMS Staff Turnover Data Means for Nursing Homes
To make it easier for families and caregivers to evaluate the quality of nursing homes, the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) regularly publishes data on its “Care Compare” website. Anyone can go to the site and search for a facility to find COVID updates, quarterly quality scores, and information on inspections, penalties, ownership, and more.
Last month, CMS added additional metrics to how it scores the quality of nursing homes. The information is now available
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NexHealth Nabs $125M for End-to-End Patient Experience Platform
What You Should Know:
Today, NexHealth announced its $125M Series C funding, bringing the company’s valuation to $1B for its patient experience platform.
- The funding will support the company in advancing its mission to create a more streamlined doctor and patient experience while building the seamless technological infrastructure needed for future health tech entrepreneurs to innovate upon.
NexHealth, a San Francisco, CA-based patient experience management platform
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Analysis: CMS Data Underestimates Hospital Labor Spending
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- Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) payment adjustments did not adequately address hospitals increased costs for FY 2021, according to new data from Premier.
- The data reveals this discrepancy has resulted in hospitals receiving only a 2.4 percent rate increase, compared to a 6.5 percent increase in hospital labor rates, which account for 76 percent of hospital costs.
- The data CMS uses to account for real
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Physicians Say Access Challenges Impact Their Care Plans for Up to 33% of Patients
What You Should Know:
- Physicians would make a different therapy choice for 33% of patients if medication access was not a factor, and physicians had to change their treatment plan for 26% of patients due to medication access challenges, according to recent survey findings from OptimizeRX Corp.
- The results of a survey of 102 specialist physicians highlight how inefficient access pathways negatively impact patient care.
Survey Report Background
The survey, conducted in March
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Using NLP Technology To Uncover Real-World Patient Insights
It’s estimated that humans create a combined 2.5 quintillion bytes of data each day – and that around 90% of all data to ever exist was created in just the last few years. As difficult as it is to ignore the massive impact that connected technologies and social media have had on the way we experience our world, it’s somehow even more challenging to fully grasp the scale of it. For health researchers, this data explosion – and especially the rise
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