The healthcare industry has always been under pressure to find ways to provide consistently improving patient satisfaction and outcomes in the face of a rapidly changing medical and regulatory environment. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the pressure has only accelerated; improvement in patient outcomes now can mean the difference between viability and non-viability for a hospital system.
Collaboration is key to the ability to improve patient outcomes. Without all of the teams
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ACAP Launches Center for Social Determinants of Health Innovation
What You Should Know:
- Today, the Association for Community Affiliated Plans (ACAP) announced the launch of The ACAP Center for Social Determinants of Health Innovation. The center will encourage and empower other stakeholders to support SDoH initiative.
- The center offers tailored resources, including policy reports, market research, and roundtable educational events, to help health plans, policymakers, and other stakeholders address social issues that impact health and wellbeing,
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Most Healthcare Facilities Lack Holistic Digital Identity Strategy, Report Finds
What You Should Know:
- Healthcare facilities are struggling with implementing and enforcing holistic digital identity management strategies, according to the new Imprivata report released today titled, Security and Digital Identity in the Healthcare Industry.
- The findings show that despite 69% of respondents saying identity management is important to their organization’s security strategy, 51% have still experienced a security incident in the last year.
Healthcare Facilities Need a
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Indegene Partners with Amwell to Customized Digital Patient Engagement
What You Should Know:
- Indegene, a technology-led healthcare solutions provider, today announced a partnership with Amwell to facilitate life sciences organizations to connect patients to better quality care and drive better health outcomes.
- This partnership will facilitate Indegene to enable life sciences organizations to drive virtual care automation and patient companionship to advance longitudinal care, behavioral health, and other specialty and chronic care segments. It will help
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ClearSky Health Expands Contract With Oracle Cerner
What You Should Know:
ClearSky Health, a network of inpatient rehabilitation facilities is expanding its contract an additional five years with Oracle Cerner to support nine additional facilities in the next 18 months with Oracle Cerner as their EHR supplier.
- The partnership to deliver increased continuity, helping clinicians understand a patient’s journey from admission to discharge.
Expanded Partnership Details
Through its five medical rehabilitation centers in New
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Why Health Plans Are Vital to Health Equity
In Florida, where Black residents are three times more likely to be hospitalized or die from asthma-related complications than white residents, one researcher’s efforts to “strip away the jargon” related to asthma treatment strengthened patients’ engagement in a year-long clinical trial. The impact: development of an asthma regimen to help combat disparities in asthma management and outcomes.
The results are one example of the gains that can be made in addressing health inequities—differences
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Olive Launches Autonomous Revenue Cycle (ARC) Suite
What You Should Know:
- Olive, the automation company creating the Internet of Healthcare, today launched its Autonomous Revenue Cycle (ARC), the company's flagship Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) suite of solutions.
- Olive's ARC is designed to handle tedious, time-consuming administrative tasks in the revenue cycle, allowing healthcare organizations to get paid quicker while reducing the risk of uncompensated care.
Automate the Revenue Cycle Management Process
Managing revenue
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HFMA: DeliverHealth Launches AI-Driven Autonomous Coding
What You Should Know:
- DeliverHealth, a provider of technology-enabled solutions for hospitals, health systems and group practices launches artificial intelligence (AI) driven autonomous coding for a simpler, more efficient way to accelerate revenue cycle optimization.
- The autonomous coding platform removes inherent complexities clinicians and care teams face while helping administration and operations obtain the realization of their EHR investments.
Combating the Impact of the
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Analysis: Is Oracle Cerner Planning to Build A National EHR?
Earlier this month Oracle closed its $28.3B acquisition of Cerner and shortly after Oracle founder and CTO, Larry Ellison, outlined Oracle’s vision for Healthcare IT post-acquisition. The key elements of this vision included:
- Developing a solution for a national EHR database.
- Leveraging this solution, and similar smaller-scale connected EHR initiatives, to provide life science, pharma and other users with a rich environment for research, clinical trials and drug
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TDS Acquires PrescribeWellness from Tabula Rasa HealthCare in $140M Deal
What You Should Know:
- Transaction Data Systems (TDS), the leader in pharmacy software solutions has acquired PrescribeWellness from Tabula Rasa HealthCare in a deal worth up to $140M.
- Further, TDS’s plans to accelerate product innovation will create solutions to further optimize pharmacy workflows, support real-time clinical interventions and expand patient engagement opportunities to clients.
Acquisition Benefits for TDS
TDS connects community pharmacies through its
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