The promise of primary care on improved health outcomes has been proven over time. At the core of this equation is a robust and longitudinal patient-provider relationship. These positive relationships often improve patient satisfaction, yielding higher engagement and utilization of primary care services. However, recent studies suggest people are not engaging with primary care.
In fact, internal Teladoc Health data has shown that 80% of members do not have a strong relationship with a
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Verana Health Raises $150M to Expand Real-World Data Network
What You Should Know:
Verana Health, a digital health company that delivers quality drug lifecycle and medical practice insights from an exclusive real-world data network, today announced a $150 million Series E funding round led by Johnson & Johnson Innovation - JJDC, Inc. (JJDC) and Novo Growth, the growth-stage investment arm of Novo Holdings.
- Existing Verana Health investors GV (formerly Google Ventures), Casdin Capital, and Brook Byers also joined the round, as well as notable
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Wolters Kluwer Launches Workflow Solution to Support Evidence-Based Practice
What You Should Know:
- Wolters Kluwer Health announced the launch of Ovid® Synthesis, a suite of applications to power evidence-based workflows in hospitals and health systems.
- The first application is called Clinical Evidence Manager, developed in collaboration with Duke Health, WVU Medicine and other healthcare organizations, to provide a holistic view of all quality improvement research projects across an institution.
Streamlining the Research Process
Providers are
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3 Ways Real-Time ADT Notifications Will Benefit Payers’ Businesses
Payers and providers share goals around emerging healthcare delivery models such as value-based care and accountable care organizations (ACOs). But inadequacies in current payer/provider communication often disrupt the flow of timely care and lead to unnecessary hospital readmissions and poor outcomes. What’s needed in this partnership is the standardized, fluid, real-time exchange of data to help both parties become even more efficient and effective at providing members the proper care at the
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Improvements in Data Quality Could Yield Up to $42.1M for Healthcare Organizations
What You Should Know:
- InterSystems and Sage Growth Partners announced research that reveals just how much healthcare organizations could save from investing in higher quality data - including up to $42.1 million over the course of three years.
Report Background
According to the respondents from 100 C-level leaders from top healthcare organizations, hospitals, and healthcare systems are using inefficient practices that can impose a significant financial burden. The research found that
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Atlantic Health System Expands Online Scheduling to Patients Via Kyruus
What You Should Know:
- Atlantic Health System, a leading non-profit health system in New Jersey, has expanded its use of the Kyruus ProviderMatch® platform to offer consumers convenient online scheduling on its website. The health system has seen rapid adoption from both new and existing patients with thousands of appointments booked online in the first five months.
- The organization has already leveraged Kyruus’ provider directory platform for five years
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Turning Health Data Deluge Into Actionable Healthcare Analytics
At the time, the 2009 HITECH Act and the introduction of the Meaningful Use program represented a momentous step in healthcare’s digital transformation. With billions of dollars in government investment and incentives in nearly two years’ time, over 77 percent of hospitals had reached Stage 3 of the Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (EMRAM), or gone even further, pulling millions of data points into newly-established EMRs.
Over the next 10 years, as EMRs grew into a broader and
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Innovaccer Offers Public Health Command Center at No Cost to Assist with Omicron Surge
What You Should Know:
- Innovaccer has launched Public Health Command Center, an innovative solution designed to help hospitals fight the pandemic more effectively at scale. It seamlessly integrates Innovaccer’s proven COVID-19 Command Center with a COVID-focused version of Innovaccer’s new Patient Relationship Management solution. And it’s available at no cost to public health departments and hospitals for the first three months of use.
- Powered by the Innovaccer Health
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HeyRenee Raises $4.4M for Care Concierge Platform
What You Should Know:
- HeyRenee, the newest health-tech innovation from Dr. Renee Dua and Nick Desai, the founders of Heal, today announced an oversubscribed $4.4M Seed II funding round led by Quiet Capital, with participation from City Light Capital, Fika Ventures, Global Founders Capital, Mucker Capital, SaaS Ventures, and Tau Ventures. HeyRenee has raised a total of $8.2 million and tripled its valuation in just five months.
- Set to launch in early spring 2022, HeyRenee aims
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Hidden Vulnerabilities in Clinical Workflow Put PHI at Risk
If you’re a healthcare CIO or CISO, you already know that cybercriminals are targeting protected health information (PHI). A recent report shows that stolen PHI can sell for as much as $1,000 per record on the Dark Web. The value of patient records has driven a surge of attacks targeting healthcare organizations. 2020 saw a 25% increase in healthcare data breaches, with more than 29 million records exposed. It’s no longer a question of if you will face a breach, but when.
I’ve had hundreds of
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