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UnitedHealthcare eliminates out-of-pocket costs for 24/7 Virtual Visits for eligible members enrolled in applicable fully insured employer-sponsored plans, starting July 1st. For UnitedHealthcare members enrolled in eligible fully insured plans, the coverage enhancement becomes available upon renewal and for newly effective plans, enabling more people to take advantage of $0 24/7 Virtual Visits.
UnitedHealthcare 24/7 Virtual Visits
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Roundups: 22 Recent Strategic Digital Health Partnerships
Advantus Health Partners forms a new 10-year, $2.9B strategic partnership with Medline to establish agility and scale, supply chain resiliency and enhanced clinical integration with the nurses and physicians who use Medline’s product. This strategic partnership focuses on serving the entire continuum of care and includes highly integrated collaborations with Medline and Advantus’s physician-led clinical integration team that works to improve physician alignment, product implementation, clinical
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How EHR Interoperability Will Impact Health Care IT in 2023 and Beyond
The U.S. healthcare system has been in desperate need of modernization for decades. Thankfully, essential change is finally happening.
IT workers at healthcare organizations are now creating more efficient and effective electronic health records (EHRs), a process that requires integrating EHRs with new patient-access technologies. It also means that other healthcare workers – medical assistants, teletriage nurses, call center agents, etc. – need to change the way they work in
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Why Interoperability is Key to Successful Digital Pharma Solutions
We are at an interesting crossroads when it comes to pharma and digital health. Several years after the first iteration of digital patient solutions was initially launched, many pharma companies are taking a step back to strategically evaluate how they have performed in practice and the impact they have had on both patient and business outcomes.
Unfortunately, many platforms that pharma companies have either integrated within existing platforms or built have failed to meet those needs – for
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AWS Launches $100M Generative AI Center to Accelerate Healthcare, Life Sciences
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Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) announced an investment of $100M to launch the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center, with healthcare and life sciences as a prioritized industry (alongside Financial Services, Energy & Utilities, Telco, and others). The AWS Generative AI Innovation Center will connect AWS AI and machine learning (ML) experts with customers around the globe to help them envision, design, and launch new generative AI products, services, and
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UnitedHealthcare Launches Virtual Eyewear Prescription Renewal
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UnitedHealthcare launches a new virtual eyewear prescription renewal option for millions of members enrolled in eligible employer-sponsored vision plans.Millions of UnitedHealthcare Vision members now have the option to virtually renew their prescriptions for contact lenses and glasses at no additional cost, all from the comfort of home or on the go.
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RCM: Why Generative AI is Needed for Prior Authorization Reform
The headline-grabbing emergence of generative AI platforms, such as ChatGPT, BARD and BingGPT, has forced leaders across all verticals to ask, “What can we optimize with AI?” The AI chatbots remain in early stages of their development, but they have shown enough promise to suggest their full arrival is imminent. Every industry is currently weighing the best way to deploy AI, and that includes healthcare, where efficiency and improved workflows can make a tangible impact on the care that patients
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GDIT Awarded $39M New Mexico Medicaid Enterprise Benefit Management Services Contract
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General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT), a business unit of General Dynamics, announced today that it was awarded a $39M Medicaid Enterprise Benefit Management Services contract by the state of New Mexico to support its Human Services Department (HSD). The new contract has a four-year base period with four option years.Under the Benefit Management Services contract, the GDIT team will implement a key module of this New Mexico’s Medicaid Management
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TikTok Reveals Consumers Want Engaging Healthcare Content
Technology has drastically changed the way we consume information in our daily lives. That goes for healthcare information, too. Dated, static educational pamphlets featuring dense explanations of illnesses and medical procedures just won’t cut it anymore. Most patients now have a smartphone and the internet right in their pocket or readily accessible at home, and patients expect, and deserve, to receive healthcare information that speaks their language, both literally and
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Why Health Tech Firms Must Hire Chief Medical Officers
The health tech industry is driven by innovation and is constantly in a state of change. Yet it’s clear that post-pandemic investors and consumers are a lot less comfortable with decision-making that is purely made by technology gurus without senior medical expertise in the room.
From the outside looking in, it might seem obvious to have a medical officer on your leadership team, but research shows this is often not the case. According to CB Insights’ most recent ‘Digital Health 150’, it was
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