What You Should Know:
- CVS Health released their Drug Trend Report, examining the drivers of overall and specialty drug trend through the first three quarters of 2021. Data were calculated on a cohort of 1,014 PBM clients—employers and health plans—covering approximately 22 million lives.
- The report details how CVS Health delivered an overall drug trend of 2.4% for commercial PBM clients, with 35.9% having a
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Force Therapeutics and Xealth Integrate to Drive Remote Care Management
What You Should Know:
- Today, Force Therapeutics and Xealth are partnering to bring remote management of postoperative recovery and care plans into clinicians’ EHR workflows.
- The Force platform delivers provider-prescribed digital education and video content for patients recovering from injury or surgery at home. The partnership integrates the Force platform with a provider’s electronic health record, enabling care teams to view clinically relevant metrics within the
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Healthcare Is A Cyber Criminal’s Dream, But It Doesn’t Have To Be This Way
Healthcare is a cyber criminal’s dream. It presents the intersection of a data treasure trove, weak security posture, limited resources, complicated supply chain, and patient care delivery. When faced with having to pick a priority to optimize for, healthcare will, of course, always pick delivering healthcare. This means that when tradeoffs must be made and resources are limited immediate patient care is prioritized over anything else.
A great example of this is looking at how
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Why The Future of Healthcare Interfaces is Fluid
Tools we use to do our daily work have rapidly evolved following deep human-computer interaction (HCI) research. However, when it comes to healthcare, the HCI research has not found its way to healthcare practice. Most healthcare professionals still rely on memory, experience, pen & paper and difficult-to-use healthcare software. The future of medical tools needs to be catalytic as opposed to a hindrance. In this piece, we attempt to untangle the set of tools used in healthcare today
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WellSky Acquires TapCloud, Health AI Platform to improve Patient Engagement
What You Should Know:
- Today, Wellsky announced the acquisition of TapCloud, a virtual, interoperable, and AI-driven patient engagement platform that allows patients to share symptoms and other health data with providers via virtual visit technology, secure messaging, and remote symptom screening protocols.
- Frequent communication between patients, clinicians, and payers is critical to providing quality care and delivering on value-based care. TapCloud’s interoperable, AI-driven platform
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Connecting the Dots – Building Data Bridges for a Better Healthcare Future
Healthcare data is increasing at an exponential rate. Approximately one-third of the world’s data volume is being generated by the healthcare industry. By 2025, the compound annual growth rate of healthcare data will reach 36% – that’s 6% faster than manufacturing, 10% faster than financial services, and 11% faster than media and entertainment.
In addition to information captured during visits with healthcare professionals, personal health information is being created by an increasingly
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Unlock Healthcare Data to Improve Patient Care and Operational Efficiency
The ease in which protected health information (PHI) is shared, accessed, and analyzed has a direct impact on clinical productivity, patient care coordination, and health outcomes. Today, clinicians still spend a considerable amount of time typing in, clicking through, and editing electronic health records (EHR). Manually keying-in patient data into fields is not only time-consuming and inefficient, but it can also lead to medical errors if any of the information is typed incorrectly.
This
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Sirona Medical Acquires Nines Radiology AI Division
What You Should Know:
- Sirona Medical, a software company with a cloud-native solution for radiologists, has announced its acquisition of Nines Radiology’s AI division. Sirona Medical did not acquire Nines' teleradiology business, Nines Radiology. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.
- This is Sirona’s first acquisition just months after its exit from stealth in Aug. 2021 with a total of $62.5M in Series A & B financing rounds.
Why It Matters
The FDA-cleared medical
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Transcarent Inks Partnership with RUSH, Will Support 9,000 Employees
What You Should Know:
- Rush University System for Health (RUSH) announced a partnership with Transcarent, a new and different health and care experience company for employees of self-insured employers and their families led by Glen Tullman, to provide 9,000 RUSH employees with a new way to access high-quality medical care.
- With Transcarent, RUSH employees can use Transcarent’s digital health care app, 24/7 personalized Health Guides, and other tools and resources to enhance their
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FemTec Health Taps GeniusRx as Exclusive Online Pharmacy Partner for D2C Platform
What You Should Know:
- Today, FemTec Health, the leading health and beauty sciences company, announced an exclusive partnership with online pharmacy company GeniusRx that will provide Awesome Woman members access to on-demand, door-to-door prescription delivery.
- Launching later this month, Awesome Woman is FemTec Health’s consumer brand that will provide personalized health and wellness services along with products that are meaningful and effective to women at all life stages.
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