What You Should Know:
- Health IT leader Cerner and AI developer for healthcare operations AKASA announce a partnership to scale automation within the revenue cycle at hospitals and health systems using AI and machine learning.
- The collaboration offers Cerner customers access to AKASA’s AI-based Unified Automation® platform which is purpose-built for healthcare.
Growing Need for Revenue Cycle Automation
Staff shortages are particularly concerning for healthcare revenue cycle
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Axuall’s CEO Talks Why Health Administrators Should Adopt Robotic Process Automation
Axuall’s CEO & Founder, Charlie Lougheed shares why health administration teams should embrace the power of robotic process automation (RPA).
Built with leading healthcare systems, Axuall is a workforce intelligence company powered by a national real-time practitioner data network. The technology enables healthcare systems, staffing firms, telehealth, and health plans to dramatically reduce onboarding and enrollment time while also providing unique, powerful data insights for network
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Arcadia & Datavant Partner to Accelerate Whole-Person Care & Biopharma Research
What You Should Know:
- Arcadia and Datavant today announced a partnership to enable de-identified connectivity of Arcadia’s electronic health record data for life sciences research and commercial analytics.
- This partnership will unlock fresh insights to accelerate whole-person care and biopharma research, extending Arcadia’s leadership in empowering a data-driven transformation of healthcare.
- Datavant will allow clients to connect Arcadia data to other types of Real World Data
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Raising Clinical Outcomes and Engagement Through Healthcare Equity: What Health Plans Need to Know
Structural racism and poverty are correlated with a higher incidence of obesity among Black Americans (49%). Social drivers of health, which impact a disproportionate number of non-white Americans who live below the poverty line, account for as much as 90% of individuals’ health outcomes.
These are just two examples of data that highlight the need for equity.
Health plans are well-aware that shifting this dynamic and boosting clinical outcomes is possible through better,
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Luma Health & Change Healthcare Partner to Develop Solutions to Optimize Patient Journeys
What You Should Know:
- Luma Health, a digital health company streamlining patient-provider communications announced a strategic partnership with Change Healthcare, a healthcare technology company that provides the connection and data transfer between providers, payers, and consumers.
- The two companies will develop solutions to meet health systems' demand for streamlined and unified clinical, operational, and financial journeys.
Develop Solutions to Unify All Journeys -Clinical,
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Magellan Federal Launches Population Health Platform for Military Families
What You Should Know:
- Magellan Federal, which serves 300 U.S. military bases, has partnered with NeuroFlow to support United States military families with personalized, digital behavioral health and well-being support.
- The platform will give hundreds of thousands of service members the ability to track their mood, report on the highs and lows of military life, and engage with counselors if needed.
NeuroFlow’s Population Health Platform for Military Families
The 18-month-long
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Vivalink Launches Multi-Vital Blood Pressure Patch for Remote Patient Monitoring
What You Should Know:
- Vivalink, a leading provider of digital healthcare solutions launches a multi-vital blood pressure patch for remote patient monitoring is now available for research and development.
- The advanced multimodal continuous signal processing patch captures ECG trace, heart rate, respiratory rate, systolic and diastolic blood pressure on a single device.
Cuffless Blood Pressure Monitor
Cuffless blood pressure is still in its infancy, but new research is exploring
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Banner Health Invests In Atlas Healthcare Partners
What You Should Know:
- Atlas Healthcare Partners (Atlas), which specializes in developing and managing ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) in partnerships with health systems and physicians, announced today that Banner Health has invested into Atlas.
- Atlas formed a joint venture partnership with Banner in 2018 to develop and operate a network of ASCs in Arizona, Colorado, and Wyoming. This strategy has resulted in significant growth over the last three years, expanding from eight ASCs to
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Divurgent Appoints Ed Marx as New CEO
What You Should Know:
- Divurgent, a healthcare IT consulting company, today announced it has appointed Ed Marx, a renowned leader with more than 30 years of experience, as its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO).
- In addition, Colin Konschak, company founder and CEO since 2007, will move to a new role as Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors.
Ed Marx Background
Ed Marx is an influential, veteran IT leader with deep experience in healthcare. He was the former Chief
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Can Automation Drive Health System Outcomes?
The United States spends about $1 trillion per year on healthcare administration. 95% of healthcare workforce growth since 1990 has been administrative. But adding administrative staff hasn’t helped health systems stay on top of the increase in manual work queues, and it certainly hasn’t been improving outcomes for patients. So when asked if automation can drive better health system outcomes, through my work in healthcare technology, I know for a fact that it already is.
Research has
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