Think back to the last time you read a negative review about a restaurant. After reading the review, you probably dismissed the restaurant and considered other places to eat.Now, imagine you’re a patient considering options for an outpatient procedure and you came upon negative reviews about a provider. Chances are, you probably skipped that provider and opted for a consult with someone else. As providers, how can we fix this? Now, more than ever, patient satisfaction matters, especially given
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CareCloud Adds Spanish to Patient Experience Platform, Breeze
Medical groups using CareCloud's eCommerce platform Breeze en Español to help patients manage and pay for their healthcareAs part of a continued drive to improve every aspect of a patient’s experience and make healthcare more accessible, CareCloud, the platform for high-growth medical groups, is making its patient experience management platform, Breeze, available in Spanish. Through Breeze en Español, medical groups now will be able to remove the complexity and difficulty of scheduling,
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Breaking: CMS Proposes Historic Changes to Restore the Doctor-Patient Relationship & Streamline Clinical Billing
CMS proposed historic changes to Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) and the Quality Payment Program (QPP) to restore the doctor-patient relationship and streamline clinical billing.On Thursday, , the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed historic changes that would increase the amount of time that doctors and other clinicians can spend with their patients by reducing the burden of paperwork that clinicians face when billing Medicare. The proposed rules would fundamentally improve
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Octave Bioscience Grabs $14M for Care Management Platform Focused on Neurodegenerative Diseases
Octave Bioscience lands $14M to bring expertise in chronic neurodegenerative markets and molecular Insights for improved care.Octave Bioscience, a Menlo Park, CA-based developer of a fully integrated care management platform delivering powerful insights for patients with neurodegenerative diseases, today announced it has raised $14 million in Series A funding. The round was led by BCBS Venture Partners with participation from Echo Health Ventures (a strategic collaboration of Cambia Health
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Chilmark Report: NLP Technology is Poised to Unlock Value of Unstructured Health Data
In the span of 10 years, healthcare organizations (HCOs) have gone from having very little information available for data mining to nearly drowning in vast and complex digital information. Simultaneously, the effort required to enter and clean the data has been unsustainably high, affecting clinician morale and analysts’ ability to extract insights for improving population health.All that is about to change for the better. As revealed in the latest Chilmark Research report, Natural Language
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GHX Acquires Medical Columbus to Expand Healthcare Supply Chain Presence in Europe
Healthcare supply chain provider GHX announced that the company has entered into an agreement to acquire a majority of assets and employees from Germany-based Medical Columbus, a provider of market leading content management and healthcare procurement software across Germany, Switzerland, Austria, and the Netherlands.With this acquisition, GHX will expand its supply chain and procurement solution offering and trading partner network in key European markets. Both companies’ solutions serve
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CarePort Health, Jackson Health Launch First-of-its-Kind Integration with Cerner EHR System
CarePort Health, a provider of care management and post-acute outcomes solutions, announced that longtime Care Management client Jackson Health System will continue its partnership and extend its agreement to utilize CarePort’s discharge planning and referral management platforms at six Miami-area hospitals, medical centers and long-term care facilities.Additionally, CarePort and Jackson Health System developed a first-of-its-kind integration solution between the hospital’s Cerner EHR and the
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Lumiata Raises $11 Million to Accelerate AI Powered Health Analytics
Lumiata raises $11M from Khosla Ventures, BlueCross BlueShield Venture Partners, and Intel Capital to fuel transformation of healthcare across insurers, providers and employers through predictive analytics. Lumiata, a San Mateo, CA-based provider of AI-powered health analytics for managing cost and risk, today announced it has raised $11 million in funding co-led by Khosla Ventures and BlueCross BlueShield Venture Partners. The investment was secured under the leadership of Dilawar Syed, who was
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Report: 10 Disruptive Digital Business Models for Health Insurers
Digital technologies will transform the health insurance business and early adopters have started to implement new digital business models with initial success, according to a new Research2Guidance report. The report reveals new digital models are changing the way the insurers interact with patients.For example, digital insurers have reworked the trust equation with the patient, outsourced much of their value chain to their members, and now know much more about them. Digital business models tend
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Candor Healthcare to Implement Medsphere EHR in New Hospitals
Medsphere today announced an agreement with Texas-based Candor Healthcare to implement the company's healthcare IT solutions and services.Medsphere Systems Corporation, a provider of affordable and interoperable healthcare information technology (IT) solutions and services, today announced that the company has reached an agreement with Texas-based Candor Healthcare to implement Medsphere healthcare IT solutions in new hospitals Candor manages. The two companies will officially kick off the
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