What You Should Know:
- Azalea Health Innovations Inc. (Azalea Health or Azalea), a provider of cloud-based patient management and health IT solutions, today announced its acquisition of dashboardMD, an innovative cloud provider of business intelligence reporting solutions and healthcare analytics. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.
- The acquisition pairs two true innovators in the health IT space -- Azalea with its fully interoperable, cloud-based electronic health
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Intelerad Acquires Insignia Medical Systems, UK-Based Enterprise Imaging Provider
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Today, Intelerad Medical Systems, a provider of medical image management solutions, announced its acquisition of Insignia Medical Systems, a leading UK-based enterprise imaging provider. The deal signals an important step in expanding next-generation imaging solutions and resources to help modernize hospital trusts across the UK and marks the company’s fifth acquisition in the past year.
Notably, the UK healthcare system is facing an aging and growing population,
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TransUnion Explores Sale of TransUnion Healthcare, Sources Say
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- Credit reporting agency TransUnion is currently evaluating the sale of its revenue cycle management subsidiary, TransUnion Healthcare, PE Hub first reports.
- Sources report TransUnion Healthcare at an initial valuation of $1.9B to $2.2B with approximately $100M of earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA).
- TransUnion Healthcare makes mutual trust possible between patients, providers, and payers by helping them navigate payment
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State of Consumerism in Healthcare 2021: Regaining Momentum
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- Hospitals and health systems that launched or accelerated digital health capabilities during the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic are failing to commit fully to the digital and consumer-centered transformation required to deliver care when, where and how consumers want to receive it, according to Kaufman Hall’s 2021 Healthcare Consumerism Survey.
- The survey found only 7% of participating organizations performed in the first tier of the Kaufman Hall Healthcare
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Laguna Health Launches App-Based Digital Care For Post-Hospital Recovery at Northshore
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- Laguna Health today launched a full app experience to bridge the care gap between discharge and recovery. Currently, in a clinical trial with NorthShore University Health System, Laguna Health marries a proven clinical treatment model with a digital-first care team, personalized recovery plans, coaching, data-driven interventions and expansive behavioral health resources, now delivered in a friendly and accessible app-based environment.
- With two-thirds of
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Utilizing Tech to Improve Patient Experience Amid The No Surprises Act
With the No Surprises Act taking effect in less than four months, it is critical that hospitals and providers leverage technology to ensure patients are informed about their expected care costs prior to receiving services. Despite industry improvements in the last several years, there remains a pressing need for more meaningful price transparency in healthcare. The No Surprises Act, in addition to recent revisions to existing Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) price transparency
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Invitae Acquires Ciitizen for $325M to Strengthen its Patient-Consented Health Data Platform
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- Medical genetics company Invitae today announced its $325M acquisition of Ciitizen, a patient-centric consumer health tech company that offers a global platform to help patients collect, organize, store and share their medical records digitally.
- Ciitizen is a patient-centric consumer health technology platform that enables patients to collect, store and share their medical records in a single location. Ciitizen developed proprietary machine learning and AI
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Stryker Acquires Med Device Company Gauss Surgical
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- Stryker today announced the acquisition of Gauss Surgical, a Menlo Park, CA-based medical device company that has developed Triton™, an artificial intelligence-enabled platform for real-time monitoring of blood loss during surgery. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.
- Triton combines the power of A.I. with the simplicity of a mobile device to deliver accurate blood loss during surgery. Triton has demonstrated improvements in maternal and
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How Healthcare Can Weaponize Data to Fight Worldwide Disease
After more than a year since COVID-19 became a global pandemic, we now understand that part of the challenge in fighting it, and any infectious disease, is solving the underlying data problem.
Without reliable data, leaders can’t plan, epidemiologists can’t model, and citizens don’t feel confident following expert recommendations. Bad data has led to both poor behavioral and policy-oriented decisions, exacerbating COVID-19 and prolonging its consequences.
It’s not purely a data problem,
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Leveraging SDOH in Post-Pandemic Risk Modeling to Overcome Distorted Care Projections for 2021 and Beyond
The uncertainty and risk created by pandemic-related disruptions in care have health plans in uncharted water when it comes to relying on claims data and utilization patterns to inform their risk models. But while these disruptions weakened the reliability of traditional risk models, they also created opportunities to deepen and enrich member data by leveraging consumer and other data related to social determinants of health (SDoH) that can deliver significant performance and accuracy
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