Since the launch of the Affordable Care Act, we have seen federal administrations come and go. Yet throughout the changes and enhancements to the law over time and across party lines, one thing has remained constant – and that is, exchanges or state-based marketplaces (SBMs) have and will continue to provide states with the autonomy and flexibility to address the unique needs of health insurance markets and consumers around the country in a way that HealthCare.gov cannot.
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Aver Raises $58M Led by Cox Enterprises, Rebrands as Enlace Health
What You Should Know:
- Aver, Inc., an end-to-end solution that solves the infrastructure challenges driving today’s unsustainable healthcare system announced a $58M investment led by Cox Enterprises and with participation from other existing investors to accelerate the scale and deployment of its new Enlace Health brand. The capital will be used to accelerate growth and represents the first of many financial and strategic moves planned that begin the seismic shift needed to improve
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Search & Referral Platform Aunt Bertha Rebrands as findhelp
What You Should Know:
- Aunt Bertha, an Austin-TX-based search and referral platform for social services in the US, announced it has rebranded as findhelp - a name shift that helps customers, organizations, and those seeking care to instantly understand the company's mission: to connect all people seeking help and the programs that serve them with dignity and ease.
- The location-based network of free and reduced-cost resources for food, housing, goods, transit, health, money,
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Parkland Health Taps Current Health to Power its Hypertension Monitoring Program
What You Should Know:
- Parkland Health & Hospital System – one of the largest health systems in Dallas, Texas – has selected Current Health, the leading enterprise care-at-home platform, to support patients with hypertension from the comfort of their own homes.
- Through its new hypertension monitoring program, Parkland aims to mitigate this risk by providing regular monitoring, engagement, and education. Parkland will use Current Health to monitor patients’ blood pressure and other
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Accuhealth & 2bPrecise Joins Epic App Orchard Marketplace
What You Should Know:
- Accuhealth’s remote patient monitoring platform and 2bPrecise’s precision genetic/genomic data platform announced that it is available in the Epic App Orchard. The App Orchard program enables developers to integrate their healthcare IT solutions with the Epic electronic health record (EHR) using standards-based APIs.
- The 2bPrecise platform consumes genetic/genomic data from molecular labs and clinical information from EHRs. It synthesizes
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Why “Just in Time” is “Just Not Right” for Optimizing the Healthcare Supply Chain
The ongoing shortage of COVID-19-related masks and personal protective equipment (PPE) has sent shockwaves through the healthcare industry; we’ve all seen the newscasts and forecasts predicting these supply chain disruptions aren’t going anywhere anytime soon. Since China implemented its first lockdown at the start of the pandemic, it created a cascading effect of redirecting a reduced supply to their own country amplifying supply chain issues around the world – and unprepared hospitals have
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Transplant Connect and Cerner Streamline Organ Donation and Transplant Process
What You Should Know:
Transplant Connect, a Los Angeles-based medical software company that has introduced innovative new technology known as iReferral, and Cerner Corporation announce their new collaboration to enable automated donor referrals.
- For years, matching transplant donors with those who need them has been a manual process that typically takes 20 to 30 minutes of healthcare workers making calls. Slowing this process are staffing shortages and
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Mount Sinai Uses Machine Learning to Improve Postpartum Hemorrhage Risk Prediction
What You Should Know:
- Sema4, an AI-driven genomic and clinical data intelligence platform company, recently published two studies demonstrating the utility of machine learning to predict clinical outcomes for postpartum hemorrhage (PPH). The studies, which will appear in a special “Informatics for Sex- and Gender-Related Health” print issue of the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA), were conducted in collaboration with clinicians from
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Collective Medical, Nuance Launches PowerShare to Provide ED Physicians Real-Time Notifications
What You Should Know:
- Today, Collective Medical, a PointClickCare Company, was chosen for a collaboration with Nuance with the launch of Naunce PowerShare Image Aware.
- The collaboration will provide emergency department (ED) physicians with real-time notifications of a patient's prior radiology studies within existing clinical workflows. Point-of-care access to previous diagnostic images reduces unnecessary imaging, healthcare costs, and ED waiting times while
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State of Healthcare IT/EHR Staffing in a World with COVID-19
After a year dominated by COVID-19, and even with the rising challenges of the delta variant, Healthcare IT staffing is rebounding. To complicate matters more, the rising number of vaccine mandates across hospital systems has the potential to put the entire industry in a serious bind.
Throughout 2020, the majority of US hospital systems were stopped in their tracks. Spending on capital projects was paused indefinitely, and leaders were forced to significantly
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