What You
Should Know:
- SwitchPoint (made up of veteran healthcare leaders with experience at Intermedix/R1 RCM and others) launches a new technology venture, Polaris Health that leverages AI to predict patient demand and create efficient clinician schedules that align with this demand.
- Polaris Health’s solution utilizes
proprietary machine learning algorithms to predict provider demand, distribute clinician resources to meet that
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2020 Fortune/IBM Watson Health 100 Top Hospitals List
What You Should
Know:
- Fortune and
IBM Watson Health named the 100 Top Hospitals that are setting new standards
for using technology to improve operational efficiency, quality care and
safety.
- The rapid shift to virtual care amid COVID-19 put a bigger spotlight on the barriers impeding digital transformation, but this year’s top hospitals are leading the way for practical approaches to using telehealth and predictive modeling as well as data as a foundational measure to align
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NexHealth Raises $15M to Expand Patient Experience Management Platform
NexHealth, a San Francisco, CA-based patient experience management platform, announced it has raised $15M in Series A funding from some of Silicon Valley’s best investors, including product-driven founders such as Scott Belsky, founder of Behance and Chief Product Officer at Adobe, and mission-driven founders such as Josh Buckley and Naval Ravikant.
Empowering Doctors to Run Thriving Businesses
Patients today spend more out-of-pocket, shop for care, and
have high expectations from their
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New Report Debunks Belief COVID-19 Increased Healthcare Data Breaches
What You Should
Know:
- Vectra spotlight report on healthcare discredits the
widely held belief that external threats would lead to an increase in data
breaches during the COVID-19 pandemic.
- According to Vectra, although opportunistic attacks against healthcare were up – and some might have succeeded – external activity does not appear to have led to an internal activity normally observed in successful attacks. Healthcare organizations in general are doing a good job of mitigating
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New AI Accurately Translates 93% of Prescription Information Imported into EHRs
What You Should Know:
- Healthcare technology company DrFirst has announced the
release of its next generation, patented SmartSig AI technology to improve the
quality of patient medication history when it is imported into hospitals’ and
health systems’ electronic health records (EHRs).
- Simple prescription instructions, called “sigs,” can
have hundreds of variations or be missing entirely from patients’ medication
histories when they are imported into hospitals’ EHRs. The missing
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Vonage, Redox Integrate Telehealth Data with EHRs to Support Interoperability
What You Should
Know:
- Vonage and
Redox form partnership where Vonage API users can now leverage Redox APIs to
exchange telehealth data with electronic health records (EHRs).
- Together the
companies enable healthcare providers to connect effectively and privately with
patients via a platform that is fully interoperable with EHRs and other leading
healthcare data source systems.
Vonage, a global leader in cloud communications helping businesses accelerate their digital
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Give Your EHR a Makeover—Not a Do-Over
EHRs have long been blamed for fueling clinician frustration and burnout. According to a recent study published in the Journal of Informatics in Health and Biomedicine, 70 percent of clinicians reported experiencing stress related to the use of health information technology. In an effort to address those issues, healthcare organizations have spent countless hours and revenue to rip out inefficient clinical systems and replace them with new technologies—yet clinician satisfaction hasn’t
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Cedar Gate Technologies Acquires Citra Health Solutions to Expand Value-based Technology
Cedar Gate Technologies
(Cedar Gate), a Greenwich, CT-based value-based care
performance management company, today announced its acquisition
of Citra Health Solutions (Citra), a
provider of capitation management software solutions.
Expands Value-Based Care Technology Suite with Citra's Capitation
Management Solutions
By acquiring Citra, Cedar Gate expands its software and
services capabilities across the full spectrum of value-based care. By
combining Cedar Gate's existing capabilities in
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4 Ways Healthcare Leaders Can Use Data & Analytics to Prevent, Predict and Prepare for a Pandemic
COVID-19 has put a laser focus on how data and analytics are powerful tools for healthcare leaders to predict, prepare, and respond in a proactive and coordinated manner to a global health crisis. Throughout the pandemic, data has been used to document the spread of the virus, project the curve, and more.
Responses and actions to mitigate viral spread hinge on real-time data collection, governance, and analysis for instant decision making. The exchange of reliable, real-time data between
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Black Lives Matter: Health IT Industry, Where Are You?
All lives truly matter. However, the world does not exist in a vacuum void of institutional racism, subconscious, and implicit bias. As a result, every life within America is not valued the same, as is evident by the recent George Floyd murder. When all lives are not treated with the same opportunities and respect, whether in matters of criminal justice, employment, housing, education, health, and healthcare evidence shows the result is that only some lives actually matter. One cannot change the
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