What You Should Know:
- Healthcare technology company Central Logic, today announced it has rebranded as ABOUT (ABOUT Healthcare, Inc.), as the company also announces the integration of two earlier acquisitions with its core solution, to better serve health system clients across the country.
- The integration of Ensocare—which automates the inpatient referral process to post-acute care; and Acuity Link—which provides transportation communications and logistics management
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Innovaccer Launches Patient Relationship Management (PRM) Solution
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- Today Innovaccer Inc., the Health Cloud company, unveiled its Patient Relationship Management (PRM) solution on the InnovaccerⓇ Health Cloud, the first solution to bring patients’ clinical and care episodes to the forefront of a tailored patient engagement journey.
- Now providers can integrate clinical data with claims, pharmacy, laboratory, SDoH, and other consumer information to establish a complete patient record that helps engagement
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Taking a Platform Approach to Drug Pricing Issues Can Help Unify Adversarial Sides
Healthcare is a notoriously complex industry with a multitude of stakeholders, many of whom find themselves in adversarial positions, simply due to the way the market operates. Ultimately, there is a shared goal of providing the best care to the patient. But as stakeholder relationships grow more complex, there can also be conflicts that drive wedges between parties and hamper successful collaboration.
We see this dynamic playing out in many areas of healthcare, but particularly in drug
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6 Steps for Securing Patient Information in Healthcare
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) strive for innovations in healthcare technologies that drive down costs and improve the patient experience. One big step forward is the 21st Century Cures Act passed in 2016, putting patients in charge of their own health records.
Then in 2021, both the CMS Interoperability and Patient Access Final Rule and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) Information Blocking Rule went into effect, which aims to drive
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Elevate Emerges Out of Stealth with $15M to Modernize Consumer-Directed Benefits Platform
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- Elevate, a Denver, CO-based next-generation consumer-directed benefits platform, today announced that it has raised $12 million in Series A funding, co-led by Greycroft and Norwest Venture Partners, with participation from existing investors Bowery Capital. The fresh round of capital coincides with Elevate’s formal public launch after a year in stealth mode, as it looks to reimagine how employers and employees access, manage and experience consumer-directed benefits.
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4 Ways Hospitals Benefit From Improved Surgery Scheduling
Hospitals rely on elective surgeries as a source of up to 50% of all revenue, allowing them to take losses on a range of high-cost service lines to remain profitable. The COVID-19 pandemic laid bare the impact of reduced surgery volume, with hospitals suffering immediate revenue loss and negative profit margins.
As surgical service lines return to pre-pandemic volumes, it’s imperative for hospitals to have the right technology tools and best practices in place to maintain safe, accurate, and
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Ellipsis Health Named Winner of Accenture HealthTech Innovation Challenge
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- Accenture announced Ellipsis Health as the “Innovation Champion” of its fifth annual Accenture HealthTech Innovation Challenge-North America, a competition that supports new and novel solutions from startups to improve the way people access, manage and finance healthcare in North America.
- Based in San Francisco, CA, Ellipsis Health was named this year’s Innovation Champion for pioneering an artificial intelligence-powered, speech-based vital sign to
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axialHealthcare Rebrands as Wayspring, Raises $75M for Value-Based Care Solution
- Wayspring, formerly axialHealthcare, announced today its new name and a $75M investment from Valtruis, Centene Corporation, CareSource, HLM Venture Partners, and existing investors Highmark Ventures, .406 Ventures, the Blue Venture Fund, and Oak HC/FT. Wayspring will use the capital to scale its value-based care solution, a full-risk medical home model for substance use disorder (SUD).
- Using data analytics to drive high-touch, high-impact outreach to the most at-risk
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Rimidi Launches EHR-Integrated Patient Reported Outcomes Tool, Survé
What You Should Know:
- Today, Rimidi, a leading clinical management platform designed to optimize clinical workflows, announced the official launch of its EHR-integrated Patient Reported Outcomes tool, Survé by Rimidi.
- While originally deployed as a virtual screening and triage tool to help limit the spread of COVID-19 in healthcare settings, Survé has since been enhanced to work across a number of different clinical areas and use cases, such as dermatology, orthopedics and
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Learning from Financial Fraud Detection to Tackle Opioid Abuse Amid COVID-19
Despite falling from its prominent place in the headlines, America’s opioid crisis is still raging. Anxiety, stress, depression, and isolation caused by the pandemic have contributed to substance use disorders. At the same time, the Drug Enforcement Administration has loosened prescribing restrictions, including waiving the requirement for in-person visits and allowing clinicians to prescribe controlled substances via telemedicine alone.
Given these conditions, it is not surprising that over
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