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- Experity, the chosen partner of 50% of U.S. urgent care clinics, announced their new EMR and PM operating system in direct response to the pivotal, pandemic-driven movement towards on-demand healthcare. The company
has committed over $50 million in product and development to bring this new urgent care-focused EMR/PM to market in under two years.
- With Experity’s new EMR/PM solutions, on-demand care and urgent care facilities can keep up
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Trinity Health Mid-Atlantic, Independence Blue Cross Foundation Launches Program to Address Nursing Burnout
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- Independence Blue Cross Foundation, Trinity Health Mid-Atlantic, and NeuroFlow have joined forces to implement a new technology program to create better pathways to care for nurses and frontline workers suffering from symptoms of burnout.
- The initial rollout will include Nazareth Hospital, Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital, and St. Mary Medical Center in the Greater Philadelphia region. As registrations increase and more users engage with the
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Engagement, Interoperability, and the Future of the Healthcare Tech Stack
For all of the advanced clinical technology hospitals across the country leverage to stay on the bleeding edge of innovative patient care, healthcare, as an industry, has been extremely slow to adapt when it comes to implementing modern technology to improve everyday processes—both inside and outside clinical settings. In many hospitals, manual phone calls and fax machines are still some of the most relied upon methods for exchanging information.
Healthcare IT, meanwhile, has traditionally
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Delta Variant Raises New Uncertainties for Hospitals Nationwide
What You Should Know:
- In May, U.S. hospitals, health systems, and physician groups were beginning to recover from COVID-19’s impact on their operations, but the dramatic spread of the Delta variant and an increase in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations caused new setbacks, according to two reports from Kaufman Hall.
- Hospitals and health systems experienced setbacks in July as the variant drove dramatic spikes in new COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations. Margins and volumes both fell
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How Built-In Financial Services Can Help Healthcare Providers Rebound Post-Pandemic
While their staff grappled with the medical toll of the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare provider’s financial struggles went largely uncovered. But a 2021 KaufmanHall report revealed that hospital operating margins lag well behind pre-outbreak levels—a gap even the CARES Act assistance couldn’t help bridge. To make matters worse, cash flow has been bogged down in bureaucracy, further highlighting the need for providers to ensure fiscal stability.
Yet this recent financial blow is only part of a
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Google Shuts Down Health Division After VP Joins Cerner
What You Should Know:
- Google is eliminating its health division after VP, David Feinberg, MD, joins Cerner as its newest President and CEO, according to an internal memo, Insider first reports. In an internal memo sent by Jeff Dean, head of Google’s research division to employees stated Google Health will no longer function as a unit. Formed in 2018, Google Heath which included artificial-intelligence research teams Google Brain and DeepMind, as well as health teams from Nest Labs, the
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Dosis Expands Dosing Platform to Personalize Anemia Management
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- Dosis, the AI-powered precision dosing platform on a mission to transform healthcare, has announced the release of its Strategic Iron Advisor (SIA) tool, the first precision dosing tool on the market for intravenous iron.
- SIA is a sub-module that works with Dosis’s existing anemia tool, Strategic Anemia Advisor (SAA), to personalize anemia management. SAA is widely used nationwide to personalize Erythropoiesis Stimulating Agents (ESA) dosing, and the SIA
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How Patient Interactive Systems Minimizes Nurse Burnout & Facilitates Patient Education
How interactive patient systems help hospitals support their nurses – ultimately allowing them to provide better patient care and work at the top of their licensure, while also educating patients in their care plans, and enhancing the overall patient experience with no expense to the nursing staff.
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The critical role of nursing, along with high nurse burnout
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Provider Adoption of Automated Revenue Cycle Operations On The Rise
What You Should Know:
- 78 percent of health systems are currently using or are in the process of implementing automation in their revenue cycle operations, according to recent survey results from AKASA, a South San Francisco-based revenue cycle management automation company. The key findings signal automation in healthcare is no longer an emerging trend but is mission-critical for driving efficiency and cost-effectiveness in revenue cycle operations.
- According to the
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Drug Diversion is Complicated: 5 Data-Related Challenges to Overcome
COVID-19 thoroughly dominated American life last year, contributing heavily to the kind of despair that drives drug overdose deaths, which soared last year as well.
This worrisome trend has intensified long-running concerns about how drugs like opioids find their way to abusers’ hands in the first place. One point of vulnerability stems from our healthcare systems, including employee diversion, a problem so big and complex only sophisticated computing can address it.
Over 81,000 drug
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