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Labcorp today announced its strategic partnership with Ascension, one of the nation’s leading Catholic and non-profit health systems. Through this comprehensive arrangement, Labcorp will manage Acension’s hospital-based laboratories in 10 states and acquire select assets of the health system’s outreach laboratory business. Meanwhile, Ascension can leverage Labcorp’s innovative technology to scale diagnostics in priority clinical areas like oncology, neurology and women’s
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PayZen Integrates with Epic’s App Orchard Marketplace
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- PayZen, a fintech startup tackling healthcare affordability in the U.S., today announced its technology has been approved by Epic to offer its “Care Now, Pay Later” solution on the App Orchard Marketplace.
- The integration provide a seamless solution to Epic EHR providers, as well as a high-quality user experience for patients. PayZen’s first-of-its-kind, AI-backed technology allows hospitals, health systems and large physician groups to offer their patients
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Epic, Galen Healthcare, Chartis Group Named 2022 Overall Best in KLAS Awards
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- Epic, Nordic, Galen Healthcare and The Chartis Group won 2022 Overall Best in KLAS® awards, released today, which reports on the top vendors for 2022. Epic was named the top Overall Software Suite for the twelfth straight year in 2022 Best in KLAS Software & Services report, released today, which reports on the top vendors for 2021. Epic was also named the top Overall Physician Practice Vendor. Epic won nine other Best in KLAS awards in various market
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Profitability Tops Number 1 Priority for Healthcare Practices in 2022, Survey Reveals
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- Healthcare practices named ranked running a profitable practice as their number one priority for 2022, according to a new recently released survey by Updox. Additional practice priorities included improving patient satisfaction (32%), improving patient outcomes (21%), spending less time doing paperwork (12.34%), and improving staff satisfaction (5.65%).
- The Updox survey was designed to determine healthcare practice priorities in 2022 and how paperless and virtual
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3 Ways Artificial Intelligence Can be Used to Improve Health Equity
When I graduated from medical school and took the Hippocratic Oath, I vowed to not just treat the illness on a patient’s medical history form but to treat the person behind the diagnosis. To do this well, clinicians need to understand the whole person and the context in which they live — their race, gender identity, native language, socioeconomic status, or zip code, among other things — to ensure equitable care. According to the CDC, health equity is reached when every person has the
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Top 5 Data Management Challenges Healthcare Organizations Face
In the United States, healthcare costs make up more than 17% of GDP.
The data that healthcare organizations generate, collect, and manage is massive, having an ever-growing impact on the industry. RBC Capital Markets, a global investment bank, estimates that approximately 30% of the world’s data volume is generated by the healthcare industry. By 2025, the compound annual growth rate of data for healthcare will reach 36%. That’s 6% faster than manufacturing, 10% faster than financial
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MedStar Health Launches Patient Experience Platform Powered by b.well
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- MedStar Health launches a new patient experience platform, a patient-focused tool that has the most comprehensive product features available in the region to greatly improve the patient experience and access to care, powered by b.well Connected Health, a Baltimore-based digital health platform company focused on re-imagining the consumer healthcare experience and supporting healthcare stakeholders with their digital transformation efforts.
- Using a smartphone,
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Data Integrity, Security, and Confidentiality: The Building Blocks of Healthcare Data Management
Stethoscopes, needles, tourniquets, and blood pressure cuffs are what typically come to someone’s mind when thinking of items used to assess, diagnose, and treat patients in a healthcare setting. While these physical tools within a hospital or private practice are important, unstructured data also plays a critical, yet often understated, role in the overall care experience of a patient.
Lab results, transcripts, radiology imagery, and physicians’ notes all fall under the category
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ConcertoCare Raises $105M for Value-Based At-Home Care for Seniors
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- ConcertoCare, a value-based care provider of at-home care for seniors and other adults with unmet health and social needs raises $105M in Series B funding led by Wells Fargo Strategic Capital. The round also includes investments from Obvious Ventures, Vast Ventures, The Schusterman Family Foundation, SteelSky Ventures, Pennington Partners, and returning investor Deerfield Management. The funding announcement comes on the heels of ConcertoCare acquiring home-based
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How Healthcare Consumerism is Driving Integration in 2022
Healthcare consumerism is not just a buzzword. It’s a movement changing the reality of how it is delivered. Retailers and other industries like banking and travel with strong consumer strategies understand how to appeal to consumers through convenience and simplicity, two characteristics that healthcare is trying to emulate.
A 2020 consumer experience study uncovered that the process of finding, accessing and paying for healthcare in the U.S. is so inconvenient that half of the consumers
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