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- Season Health announces anchor partnerships with Geisinger, CommonSpirit Health, and Cricket Health to scale Food as Medicine initiatives. Season is funded by LRV Health, 8VC, Bain Capital, Healthy.VC and Company Ventures, Toyin Ajayi (Co-founder and CMO of Cityblock Health), and Max Mullen (Co-founder of Instacart).
- These partnerships will combine Season’s industry-leading digital food pharmacy and medically tailored meal program with Geisinger, CommonSpirit and
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Hurdle Health Expands Mental Health Support into California, Texas and Massachusetts for BIPOC Communities
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- Hurdle Health, a digital platform revolutionizing mental healthcare by providing services with a focus on culturally intentional mental healthcare for people of color today announced expanded service availability in Texas, Massachusetts and California with plans to add even more states by Q2 2022, including Tennessee, Minnesota, Illinois, Georgia, and New York.
- With these expansions, the mental health service and its specially trained
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Why HIPAA Training Doesn’t Work. And How To Fix It
HIPAA, for better or worse, is a part of every healthcare business. It does not matter if your company is a traditional clinic or a cutting-edge AI platform powered by PHI (protected health information). There are different approaches to comply with HIPAA, and organizations as varied as clinics and AI platforms typically employ these different approaches.
HIPAA is not new. In fact, it’s older than companies like Facebook and predates the first iPhone. But, the way that we do HIPAA training
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4 Areas Where Technology Can Help Healthcare Workforce Enhancement
Staffing and workforce management have long been one of the most difficult responsibilities borne by healthcare executives, specifically those with responsibility for revenue cycle operations.
When the COVID-19 pandemic began, workers in administrative roles (the entire revenue cycle teams) were sent home. We didn’t know that almost two years later many would still be working remotely and that it might be that way from now on.
A recent survey commissioned by AKASA and conducted by
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Why Hospitals Need to Prioritize Clinical Data Management in 2022
The past two years have been fraught with difficulties for the healthcare industry. Labor shortages have negatively impacted hospitals and health systems nationwide, intensifying the burden on healthcare workers already strained. In fact, the latest job report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics has shown healthcare employment down by nearly half a million since February 2020.
While a lack of sufficient staff has obvious implications on providing patient care, the labor
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Signify Health Acquires Caravan Health, Forming Largest Networks of At-Risk Providers
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- Today, Signify Health announced it has reached an agreement to acquire Caravan Health, a leader in enabling accountable care organizations (ACOs) to succeed in value-based care payment. Together, the companies form one of the largest networks of at-risk providers in the U.S.
- Together, Signify Health and Caravan Health will be better positioned to enable organizations to manage larger populations covered by value-based arrangements and to
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Radial Analytics Raises $3M to Optimize Patient Care Transitions
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- Radial Analytics, a Concord, MA-based company optimizing patient care transitions with real-time decision-support solutions for payers and providers, today announced it has raised $3M in funding led by Initialized Capital.
- The company plans to utilize the funds to grow our team and build on our growing customer traction with Medicare Advantage plans and hospital systems in value-based care delivery contracts.
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What You Don’t Know About Your Patients Could Cost You
Healthcare spending is projected to exceed $6 trillion by 2028, largely driven by rising costs of care for an aging population and the growing number of Americans suffering from chronic physical conditions such as pulmonary disease, diabetes and hypertension.
To improve health outcomes while lowering cost of care, providers and payors increasingly are implementing value-based care (VBC) payment models. VBC contracts are structured to reward proactive and preventive healthcare, measurable
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Ascension Selects Labcorp to Manage Labs Across 10 States
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Labcorp today announced its strategic partnership with Ascension, one of the nation’s leading Catholic and non-profit health systems. Through this comprehensive arrangement, Labcorp will manage Acension’s hospital-based laboratories in 10 states and acquire select assets of the health system’s outreach laboratory business. Meanwhile, Ascension can leverage Labcorp’s innovative technology to scale diagnostics in priority clinical areas like oncology, neurology and women’s
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PayZen Integrates with Epic’s App Orchard Marketplace
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- PayZen, a fintech startup tackling healthcare affordability in the U.S., today announced its technology has been approved by Epic to offer its “Care Now, Pay Later” solution on the App Orchard Marketplace.
- The integration provide a seamless solution to Epic EHR providers, as well as a high-quality user experience for patients. PayZen’s first-of-its-kind, AI-backed technology allows hospitals, health systems and large physician groups to offer their patients
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