With technology continuing to advance, making healthcare internet platforms easier to navigate, patients are becoming savvy consumers who increasingly are shopping for the healthcare they want to receive. Emerging trends, such as higher insurance deductibles and regulatory requirements for upfront estimates, are driving this trend, underscoring the role of patient access to move beyond the “one size fits all” mentality to address these fundamental changes.Traditionally, patients have had limited
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USC Keck School of Medicine Joins TriNetX, Increases Clinical Trial Opportunities
The challenges facing researchers in designing protocols for clinical trials are numerous; missed opportunities for collaboration, difficult user interfaces, and difficulty streamlining patient queries are just a few of those obstacles . The University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, one of the preeminent research-intensive medical schools in the United States, today announced that they have joined the TriNetX Global health research network to help increase its clinical trial
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New Doximity Report Reveals Large Gaps in U.S. Physician Compensation
Doximity, the largest social network for physicians and advanced practice clinicians) released it's Annual Physician Compensation Report revealing that in every single speciality across the United States men make more than women. In 2017, the national gender gap for physicians increased as female doctors earned 27.7 percent less ($105,000)than their male counterparts. The disparity in 2016 was 26.5 percent, when female doctors earned $91,284 less. Similar to 2016 findings, there remains no
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Blue Cross Expands Partnership with Lyft, Collabs with CVS & Walgreens to Send Patients to Pharmacies
In an effort to address the community effects of social determinants of health, the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (BCBSA) today announced a first nationwide partnership with Lyft to ensure Americans are not missing vital health care appointments simply because they lack reliable transportation.This partnership exemplifies Blue Cross and Blue Shield’s (BCBS) commitment to bringing private and public entities together to improve community health in a manner that a health care organization
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Mount Sinai Taps Joel Dudley, PhD to Create Precision Health Enterprise
Joel Dudley, PhD, an internationally recognized investigator in translational bioinformatics and precision medicine, has been named Executive Vice President for Precision Health for the Mount Sinai Health System. In this new role, he will create a Precision Health Enterprise by linking pioneering research conducted in the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS) with implementation strategies developed in collaboration with leadership and staff throughout the Health System.Precision
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Santa Rosa Consulting Launches Analytics Migration Program
Santa Rosa Consulting, Inc. a provider of management consulting and information technology services for the healthcare industry, expands its suite of Business Intelligence and Analytics (“BI&A”) solutions with an Analytics Migration Program that strengthens analytics during any EHR, ERP, or other system transition, while promoting a positive consumer experience and uninterrupted information for decision-makers. The program is an essential bridge to the realization of post go-live promises of
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Survey: Majority of Americans Have No Clue Where Their Medical Data is Stored
Majority of Americans have no knowledge as to where their medical data is stored and who has access to it, according to a new survey conducted by Australian start-up ScalaMed, a blockchain based mobile prescription system. The recent research of 800 patients reveals a number of key issues Americans face when it comes to managing their prescribed medication, while also highlighting how consumers know about where their medical records are stored and who has access to their health data.In fact,
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Four Use Cases to Apply Blockchain in Healthcare
There is a lot of buzz around Bitcoin and other forms of cryptocurrency as a new kind of payment technology and how it can change our future. I am going to take a different spin on what is really interesting about cryptocurrency. There is much more behind cryptocurrency and Bitcoin than being a new way to make a payment. The technology that Bitcoin is built on is extremely interesting and has many other applications. The underlying tech that drives cryptocurrency is called blockchain which is a
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Edifecs Launches Hosted Encounter Management Model for MAOs and MCOs
Edifecs, a global health information technology solutions company, today announced the availability of its Encounter Management solution for small and mid-sized Managed Care Organizations (MCOs) and Medicare Advantage Organizations (MAOs). The Encounter Management software-as-a-service (SaaS) model helps health plans facilitate the encounter data submission process in the transition from Risk Adjustment Payment System (RAPS) to the Encounter Data Process System (EDPS) with no infrastructure
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Ciox Health, NextGen Partner to Streamline Medical Record Retrievals
Ciox Health , today announce its partnership with NextGen Healthcare to streamline medical record retrievals, reducing faxes and phone calls needed. The technology-driven healthcare company has joined forces with NextGen Healthcare to boost efficiency of medical record release and deepen integration of health plan requests, laying the foundation for further use of advanced technologies in the way health information is exchanged.The joint service, Ciox Clinical Extract Service with NextGen Share,
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