What You Should Know:
- Arcadia launches COVID-19 Surveillance and
Engagement Toolkit with data and resources to help health systems in
value-based payment arrangements meet the demands of the pandemic.
- Since the introduction of Arcadia’s COVID-19 Surveillance
and Engagement Toolkit, more than a dozen health systems have used Arcadia Analytics
to reach patients via text message outreach and symptom screening tools, an
increase
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Kyruus Raises $30M to Expand Provider Search and Scheduling Solutions
What You Should Know:
- Kyruus, a provider search and scheduling solutions company raises $30 million in new funding from Francisco Partners, a technology-focused private equity firm.
- Kyruus will use the investment to expand its patient access platform to help health systems enhance the patient experience, both during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic.
Kyruus, a Boston, MA-based suite of provider search and scheduling solutions for health systems, today announced
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athenahealth Launches Its First Embedded Telehealth Solution at No Additional Cost
What You Should Know:
- Today, athenahealth unveiled athenaTelehealth, a new embedded offering that empowers healthcare providers to seamlessly conduct telemedicine visits with their patients. athenaTelehealth will be available at no additional cost for a limited time to allow providers to deliver care during COVID-19 and beyond.
- As stay-at-home orders and fear of exposure to coronavirus took root, government deregulation and high patient demand led to a surge in telehealth
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Care Coordination Network PatientPing Raises $60M to Fuel Expansion
What You Should Know:
- PatientPing raises $60M in Series C funding to fuel expansion to new geographies and extends the capabilities of their care coordination network solutions.
- As the nation’s leading care collaboration and
patient event notifications (e-notifications) platform, PatientPing’s
comprehensive suite of solutions leverage real-time patient data and are used
by provider organizations, hospitals, health plans, governments, individuals
and the organizations supporting
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How Direct Digital Fax Can Improve System Usability for EHRs
The lack of EHR usability is a huge concern for the healthcare industry. According to a study conducted by Mayo Clinic researchers, modern electronic health records (EHR) are less user-friendly than Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Excel, and Google. Using the System Usability Scale (SUS), Electronic Health Records were marked with an unsettling “F” and a SUS score of 45 while Excel received a SUS score of 57 and Microsoft Word received a SUS score of 76. Google search came in on top with an “A” and a
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Report: State of Health IT Private Equity in the Era of COVID-19
In May, as the U.S. cautiously started to reopen amid intense controversy, HGP polled hundreds of private equity funds across all stages of investment to find out how COVID-19 has impacted deal flow. Eighty respondents provided their perspective on topics ranging from an appetite for new investments to access to debt to the impact on portfolio companies.
Respondent Demographics
Effect of COVID-19 on Valuations
When asked how they expect overall and Health IT valuations to behave in
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CHI Texas Health Network Partners with Innovaccer for FHIR-Enabled Data Activation Platform
What You Should Know:
- Innovaccer has recently partnered with CHI Texas Health Network to boost provider performance and population health to leverage its FHIR®-Enabled Data Activation Platform.
- CHI Texas Health Network is driving improved physician performance, care coordination, and patient health outcomes.
- CHI Texas Health Network is a nonprofit, faith-based health system that strives to fulfill its mission each day by creating and nurturing healthy communities across the
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R1 Acquires Cerner RevWorks to Extend Revenue Cycle Capabilities
R1 RCM Inc., a provider
of technology-enabled revenue cycle management services to healthcare providers,
today announced that it will acquire
Cerner RevWorks services
business and commercial, non-federal client relationships. R1’s electronic health record-agnostic
revenue cycle
platform seamlessly complements a healthcare organization’s infrastructure,
quickly driving transformative improvements to net patient revenue and cash
flows while reducing operating costs.
Integration
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PE Firm Rubicon Technology Partners Acquires Central Logic – M&A
What You Should Know:
- Private equity firm Rubicon Technology Partners acquires Central Logic, a provider of patient orchestration and tools to accelerate access to care for healthcare organizations.
- Rubicon will be aggressively driving Central Logic’s growth with additional cash investments into the business, with a focus on product innovation, sales expansion, delivery and customer support, and the pursuit of acquisition opportunities.
Rubicon Technology Partners,
a Boulder,
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What’s the Secret to Building the Hospital of the Future? Simplicity.
As the healthcare industry becomes more connected, executives are increasingly looking for ways to digitally transform and provide next-level, life-saving care to patients. But it comes at a cost — and it’s not just monetary. The spiraling complexity of hospital networks is becoming a massive problem for health IT staff, and it’s inhibiting hospitals’ ability to advance. Brought on by years of network technologies and applications being layered onto the existing hospital infrastructure,
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