What You Should Know: - inVio Health Network and CVS Accountable Care Organization, a division of CVS Health, have announced a collaboration to participate in the new Medicare Accountable Care Organization (ACO) REACH program. This initiative focuses on improving access to high-quality healthcare for traditional Medicare beneficiaries in South Carolina. - The collaboration builds upon the past achievements of Prisma Health Upstate and Prisma Health Midlands Networks, which merged in
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Pine Park Health Taps Innovaccer to Optimize Population Health Analytics For Senior Living Communities
What You Should Know: - Pine Park Health, a rapidly growing primary care provider focused on senior living communities, has announced its adoption of Innovaccer's leading healthcare AI platform. - The integration aims to optimize population health analytics and further Pine Park Health's mission of serving residents with exceptional care. Serving Seniors in California, Arizona, and Nevada Pine Park Health operates across over 150 communities in California, Arizona, and
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Xealth & Locus Health Partner to Deliver Remote Monitoring for Kids at Children’s Wisconsin
What You Should Know: Xealth, a pioneer in facilitating digital health on a large scale, revealed today that Children’s Wisconsin, the sole independent healthcare system in Wisconsin focused solely on children's health, has adopted Xealth's digital health platform system wide. This integration allows care teams to virtually connect with pediatric patients' post-hospital discharge through Locus Health's remote patient monitoring (RPM) solution.Children’s Wisconsin, Wisconsin’s
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New Report Analyzes America’s Healthcare Affordability Crisis
What You Should Know: PayZen, a healthcare-focused technology company tackling healthcare affordability with AI-powered solutions, today released its latest industry report titled The High Cost of Health: Analyzing America's Healthcare Affordability Crisis.The report surveyed 1,007 Americans who had a hospital visit or surgery for themselves or a dependent in the last 24 months about the accessibility and affordability of healthcare in the US. Navigating Healthcare Affordability in
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Establishing Effective Payer Benefits Strategies for Health Equity
Health equity helps ensure all individuals have equal access to healthcare. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, health equity means everyone has a fair and just opportunity to attain their highest level of health. To address the benefit needs of underrepresented population groups, payers can develop “more equitable approaches to healthcare benefits design that recognize and meaningfully address access and affordability concerns,” according to a
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Augmedix, Andor Health Integrate to Enhance Virtual Care with AI-Powered Documentation
What You Should Know: - Augmedix (AUGX), a leader in AI-powered medical documentation, and Andor Health, a cloud-based platform for virtual care communication, have announced a strategic partnership to streamline workflows and improve patient care. - The strategic integration aims to revolutionize virtual care by leveraging ambient AI to automate note creation within the Andor Health platform, ThinkAndor®. Focus on Clinician Efficiency and Patient Care Augmedix's AI
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Atlantic Health System Deploys FeelBetter’s Precision Population Health Platform
What You Should Know: FeelBetter, the leading provider of polypharmacy patient management technology and pioneer of Pharmaco-Clinical Intelligence, today announced a commercial partnership with Atlantic Health System (“Atlantic Health”).The not-for-profit health system, which provides care for more than half the state of New Jersey and parts of New York and Pennsylvania, is leveraging FeelBetter’s AI-based precision population health platform to optimize and personalize medication
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Maternal Health: Philips & March of Dimes Offers Ultrasound Screenings at Mobile Clinics in Phoenix, Tuscon & DC
What You Should Know: Philips Foundation, with its mission to provide access to quality healthcare for 100 million people a year in underserved communities by 2030, is facilitating access to prenatal care through March of Dimes Mom & Baby Mobile Health Centers® in Phoenix, Tucson and Washington, DC.Through the partnership, Philips will provide point-of-care ultrasound technology with telehealth capabilities in three mobile health centers as well as support staffing and operational
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Redesign Health Spinout Beanstalk Benefits Launches with $7.5M for Benefits Platform
What You Should Know: Beanstalk Benefits today launched the first benefits platform to give individual employees the access and control to build their own portfolios of “everyday” benefits. By giving employees the flexibility to choose their own health, wealth and wellbeing services and solutions, rather than choosing on their behalf, employers are now better able to meet the dynamic needs of each member of their diverse and modern workforces – all under a single
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Democratizing Healthcare: How Telehealth and AI Are Transforming Access and Affordability
Each year, the financial barriers to healthcare continue to become more pronounced in the US. For example, the health expenditure per person in the US was $12,555 in 2022, with comparable countries spending about half of that. These costs can put such strain on Americans that a 2023 poll from KFF found that one in four adults will outright skip or postpone getting healthcare, which rises to six in ten among uninsured adults. There are other accessibility barriers to
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