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- AliveCor, the global leader in FDA-cleared personal electrocardiogram (ECG) technology, today announced that KardiaMobile 6L, the most clinically-validated six-lead personal ECG device, is now available via KardiaPro on Epic's App Orchard Marketplace for hospitals, health systems and providers.
- The integration will enable even more healthcare providers around the world to seamlessly prescribe and deliver the physician-preferred remote ECG monitoring solution to
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Equality Health Announces New Investment from Governor Jeb Bush-Led Firm
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Equality Health receives an infusion of capital from Governor Jeb Bush-led firm to accelerate its national expansion of the company’s value-based primary care platform.
Equality Health, a Phoenix, AZ-based value-based care organization uniquely equipped to address the needs of diverse and historically underserved populations, today announced an equity investment from Finback Investment Partners.
Finback’s leadership team consists of Co-Founders and Managing
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Complex Claims Vendor Argos Health Merges with EnableComp
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- Argos Health ("Argos"), a rapidly growing provider of complex claims solutions to the country's leading healthcare providers announced today it has merged with EnableComp. Argos Health is.
- Argos works with hospitals, health systems, and physician groups to increase revenue recovery across workers' compensation, motor vehicle accident, out-of-state Medicaid, and Veterans Affairs claims, as well as ERISA appeals. Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe ("WCAS") acquired
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Oracle Acquires Cerner for $28.3 Billion in Historic Health IT M&A Deal
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- Oracle Corporation and Cerner Corporation today jointly announced an agreement for Oracle to acquire health IT leader Cerner through an all-cash tender offer for $95.00 per share, or approximately $28.3 billion in equity value. The acquisition of Cerner will be a huge additional revenue growth engine for Oracle as it immediately grabs significant market share in the healthcare space. In addition, Oracle plans to expand Cerner's business into many more countries
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Oracle in Talks to Acquire Cerner for $30B
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- Oracle Corp. is currently in discussions to acquire health IT vendor Cerner in a deal that could be worth around $30 billion, Wall Street Journal first reports.
- If the deal is finalized, it would be marked as the largest health IT acquisition to date and establish Oracle as a significant player in the healthcare space.
- The news of the potential acquisition increased Cerner shares by 14.2% in trading Friday to $90.75.
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AdhereHealth Partners with Digital In-Home Care Provider, Hero
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- Partnership enables AdhereHealth to deploy Hero’s digital in-home care platform to simplify complex medication routines, improve patient safety and optimize value-based care.
AdhereHealth, a healthcare technology leader in medication adherence insights and health outcomes, has entered into a strategic partnership with Hero, the market leader in digital in-home care. This new agreement enables AdhereHealth to deploy Hero’s digital in-home care platform to help
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5 Patient Matching Best Practices for Providers to Consider
What is Electronic Patient Matching Anyway?
According to HealthIT.gov, patient matching is defined as “the identification and linking of one patient's data within and across health systems to obtain a comprehensive view of that patient's health care record." At a minimum, one can accomplish patient matching by automatically linking multiple demographic data fields such as name, birth date, phone number, and address. Therefore, patient matching is a critical component to interoperability
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Report: Healthcare Augmented Intelligence Operations Market Trends
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- New Chilmark Research report on artificial intelligence (AI) for healthcare operations forecasts a market poised for explosive growth with a CAGR of 40% over the next 5 years as solutions mature and more use cases demonstrate ROI.
The COVID-19 pandemic has irrevocably expedited adoption of enterprise augmented and artificial intelligence (collectively AI) solutions in healthcare to modernize operations. Burnout and staffing shortages, discharge planning, supply
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Nurse Shortage is a Chronic Problem Being Treated With Acute Solutions
While COVID-19 has exacerbated the shortage of nurses in the US, the shortage precedes the pandemic by decades. Nurses across healthcare specialties have been in consistently high demand for many decades, and the current shortage, as the Baby Boomer generation continues to age (effectively converting them from nurses to patients themselves), has continued from around 2012. Some reports estimate that to fully cover our shortage by 2030, 1.2 million RNs will be needed. Yet, entry-level nursing
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Medicare Transformation Company Ilumed Raises $16.5M to Expand DCE Services
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- Ilumed, a Medicare transformation company focused on assisting patients to achieve their healthiest lives by driving lower cost, better quality and more equitable healthcare outcomes raises $16.5M in Series A funding led by Ascend Partners.
- Ilumed is one of fifty-three Direct Contracting Entities approved by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services as part of CMS’s Global and Professional Direct Contracting Model, which was designed to enhance care quality
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