Heart disease is the leading cause of death for people of most racial and ethnic groups in the United States. Cardiovascular disease-related deaths—which occur every 36 seconds—cost our country about $219 billion each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). People with poor cardiovascular health are also at increased risk of severe illness from COVID-19, so the time to act is now. There’s no time like the present to look at major risk factors—from obesity and
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Novo Nordisk, TetraScience Partner on Cloud-Based Instrument Data Platform
What You Should Know:
- Novo Nordisk A/S, a leading global healthcare company, and TetraScience, the leading global Life Sciences R&D Data Cloud, announce a new partnership to design a cloud-based instrument data platform for drug R&D, built natively on Amazon Web Services.
- Novo Nordisk will leverage the TetraScience Platform for automated instrument data acquisition and scalable in-cloud processing from heterogeneous sources and data streams, including plate readers, robotic
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Long-Time Cerner Board Member Linda M. Dillman Passes Away
What You Should Know:
- Linda M. Dillman, a long-time and trusted Cerner Corporation board member, passed away on Saturday, March 13.
- Dillman retired from QVC in January 2017, having served as its Chief Information Officer since January 2012. Previously, she held positions as Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer at Walmart and Senior Vice President, Global Information Technology at Hewlett-Packard. She served on the Board of Directors for Cerner, GS1 US Board of
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Greenway Health Launches Customizable RCM Solution
What You Should Know:
- Greenway Health announced the launch of its new Greenway Revenue Services offering, GRS Select™, a customizable revenue cycle management (RCM) offering designed to meet the unique, individualized needs of healthcare practices as they rebuild and improve the profitability of their practices a year after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
- In contrast to most RCM services, Greenway Revenue Services partners with practices’ current staff to help them improve
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3 Ways Providers Can Navigate COVID-19 Vaccination Rollout Successfully
The New Year brings hope and promises that an end to the COVID-19 pandemic is in sight. With two vaccines authorized by the FDA for emergency use, and close to 3 million healthcare workers already vaccinated, there is hope that this virus will be eradicated and life will begin to return to normal by year’s end.
However, for the frontline healthcare workers still treating escalating case volumes, the physical and emotional toll is devastating. With another surge forecasted for
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Providence-Backed Tegria Acquires Healthcare IT Consulting Firm Cumberland
What You Should Know:
- Tegria today announced the acquisition of Cumberland, a leading healthcare IT consulting and services firm for payers and providers. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.
- The acquisition accelerates the growth of Tegria, launched by Providence in October 2020 to provide next-generation technologies and services to the healthcare sector. As a result of this transaction, Tegria increases its consulting capabilities for payer organizations while
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Strive Health Raises $140M for Value-Based Kidney Care Platform
What You Should Know:
- Strive Health, a Denver-based provider of value-based kidney care today announced $140 million in Series B funding with Alphabet’s independent growth fund, CapitalG, as the lead investor. Strive has more than doubled its presence in regional markets and grown its employee base by more than 600% in the last year. This funding will further increase that momentum.
- Currently, there is $410 billion of unmanaged kidney disease
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Unite Us Nabs $150M, Reaching $1.6B Valuation to Address Social Determinants of Health
What You Should Know:
- Unite Us, the tech company creating coordinated care networks nationwide, has just announced a $150M Series C round of funding led by ICONIQ Capital, bringing its valuation at $1.65 billion.
- Unite Us is leading the care transformation movement towards whole-person health with its core product, Unite Us Platform, an outcome-focused coordination software sconnecting community-based organizations with health care providers, health plans,
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Waystar Launches Price Transparency Solutions to Meet Consumer Demand
What You Should Know:
- Waystar, a provider of healthcare payments software, today announced the addition of the Text Statements feature to its suite of payment tools. This new solution enables patients to easily view and pay medical bills directly from their smartphone, bringing transparency and convenience to the patient financial experience – a long-standing focus for Waystar.
- Patients frequently don’t know what they’ll owe weeks, if not months after the point of care, If
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How Artificial Intelligence Is Making Senior Care More Human
When it comes to skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) in particular and long-term care in general, a human-centered and empathetic approach is not only necessary, it's obligatory. Putting the needs, constraints, and perspectives of patients first enhances the level of care we're able to provide.
Perhaps ironically, it is the integration and adaptation of artificial intelligence (AI) that has demonstrated the biggest potential in improving empathy and compassion in the industry.
It may
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