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- Brightline, a Palo Alto, CA-based provider of virtual behavioral health care for children and families, announced nationwide expansion of its first-of-its kind behavioral health coaching programs and digital platform, called Brightline Connect, to support families across the country.
- Brightline initially launched behavioral health coaching for children, teenagers, and parents and caregivers in spring 2021 to bring families tangible support — especially in the
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Nurse Staffing Shortage: 5 Policy Solutions to Address National Crisis
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- The American Nurses Association (ANA), representing the interests of the nation's 4.2 million nurses, urges the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to declare the current and unsustainable nurse staffing shortage facing our country a national crisis.
- In a letter to HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra, ANA calls for the Administration to acknowledge and take concrete action to address the current crisis-level nurse staffing shortage that puts nurses'
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Real-World Data Flow – The Only Way to Change Value-Based Care?
Healthcare interoperability issues have always been confusing, changing, and difficult to address. The reason why is not straightforward: we have a fragmented health system with a myriad of specialized applications that are not universally used. Instead, we have a system where each organization elects which technology tools to use and in what configuration.
Compounding this fragmented system is the push to value-based care (VBC). As more organizations shift their focus to VBC models, the need
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Provation Acquires endoPRO Software Portfolio from PENTAX Medical
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- Provation, a SaaS provider of procedure documentation and clinical decision support solutions, backed by Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. (together with its affiliates, “Clearlake”), today announced its acquisition of the endoPRO® endoscopy informatics and software portfolio from PENTAX Medical. Terms of the carve-out transaction were not disclosed.
- The Provation-acquired endoPRO portfolio of software solutions includes endoPRO iQ® endoscopy procedure
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One Medical Completes Acquisition of Iora Health
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- Today, One Medical closed its acquisition of Iora Health, a value-based primary care group serving roughly 39,000 Medicare patients. Together, One Medical and Iora will extend its combined reach to provide human-centered, technology-powered care across every stage of life, with nationwide digital health coverage and a combined office footprint in 28 markets covering 120 million people or nearly 40% of the entire U.S. population.
- The acquisition, taking on
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Ochsner Health Launches Fall Prevention Pilot Program to Medicare Advantage Members
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- Ochsner Health and innovationOchsner (iO) have partnered with Bold, an evidence-based, digital exercise platform for older adults aimed at reducing falls and improving health outcomes.
- The Bold platform is one of five interventions in the Ochsner Connected Stability pilot fall prevention and monitoring programs focused on helping Medicare Advantage members who are at the highest risk for falls.
Impact of Non-Fatal Falls
More than 85% of older adults
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Is Zero Trust the Remedy to Healthcare’s Ransomware Epidemic?
There’s no sugarcoating it: healthcare has a serious ransomware problem. And it’s not a new problem for this sector. In fact, the first-ever such attack targeted the industry in 1989 when 20,000 floppy disks infected with ransomware were given to those who attended the World Health Organization’s AIDS Conference.
So, the problem isn’t new, but it is getting worse. Ransomware has exploded in the past several years across almost every sector, but healthcare has definitely been one of the
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Hoy Health Acquires Mobile Med Units Company HomeFront Health
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- Hoy Health, a bilingual digital primary care platform today announced the acquisition of HomeFront Health, a San Antonio, TX-based service-driven mobile healthcare organization that delivers frontline medical services to patients in their homes as an extension of hospital- and provider-centric care models. By harnessing the untapped resource of military-trained and field-tested veteran medics, the mobile medical units provide unparalleled in-person patient care when
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DirectTrust Acquires Assets of SAFE Identity to Support Healthcare Interoperability
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- DirectTrust today announced it has acquired the assets of SAFE Identity (including Trust Framework), an industry consortium and certification body supporting identity assurance and cryptography in healthcare. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.
- The acquisition substantially extends DirectTrust’s capabilities and services and is expected to enable new and expanded interoperability use cases.
Post-Acquisition Plans
As part of the
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Appriss/Patient Ping Rebrands as Bamboo Health for Whole-Person Care Coordination
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Today, Appriss Health announced its new company name—Bamboo Health—following the acquisition of PatientPing earlier this year. The new name is representative of their newly merged company’s approach to whole-person care coordination. Bamboo is a symbol of strength, flexibility, and health.
Bamboo Health supports more than 2,500 hospitals, 37 payers, 7,800 post-acute facilities, 25,000 pharmacies, and 45 state governments. Bamboo Health's care collaboration network
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