Dr. Jacob Lazarovic M.D., IMCS Group
As you read this, over 200,000 American deaths have been attributed to the virus. The influx of cases continues, while state and local economies are experiencing hardship, children are shuttered in their homes learning remotely, grown children are moving back home and the “new normal” disrupts nearly all of life’s plans.
Yet, these issues don’t reveal all the traumas that Americans are experiencing 10 months into the pandemic. The pandemic's impact
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Press Ganey Acquires Doctor.com, Acquires Majority Stake in Binary Fountain
What You Should Know:
- Press Ganey advances the healthcare consumerism movement with acquisitions of Doctor.com and a majority stake in Binary Fountain.
- Expanded technology platform enables industry-leading
management of providers’ online brand and seamless Web-wide patient acquisition
and loyalty strategies.
Press Ganey today
announced the expansion of its market-leading health care consumerism platform
with the acquisitions
of Doctor.com and a majority equity stake
in Binary
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Cedar Joins Epic App Orchard to Enable Patient-First Billing Experience in MyChart
What You Should Know:
- Patient financial engagement platform Cedar announced the
availability of its patient billing solution, Cedar Pay in the Epic App Orchard
marketplace.
- Cedar engages patients through a frictionless billing
experience that is embedded in MyChart using single sign-on. By tailoring
in-app messaging and balance resolution workflows.
Cedar, a leading
patient financial engagement platform, today announced that Cedar Pay, its
flagship patient billing solution, is
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Comcast Spinoff Quil Unveils Home-Based Sensor Network for Seniors
What You Should Know:
- Comcast spinoff Quil announces its entry into the
senior market -- via integrated sensor-based home monitoring.
- Quil plans to launch Quil Assure to consumers by the
third quarter of 2021 following a series of pilots beginning this December.
Today, Quil Engage is available to consumers via partnering providers and
health plans.
Quil—the healthcare
joint venture of Comcast NBCUniversal and Independence Health
Group—announced plans to
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AWS, PHDA Collaborate to Develop Breast Cancer Screening and Depression Machine Learning Models
What You Should Know:
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) and the Pittsburgh Health Data Alliance (PHDA) announce a collaboration to produce more accurate machine learning models for breast cancer screening and depression.
- In work funded through the PHDA-AWS collaboration, a research team led by Shandong Wu, an associate professor at the University of Pittsburgh Department of Radiology, is using deep-learning systems to analyze mammograms in order to predict the short‐term risk of developing
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Digital Behavioral Health: Addressing The COVID-19 Behavioral Health Crisis
Victor Siclovan, Director of Medicaid Transformation Project at AVIA
Living through a pandemic is stressful and anxiety-inducing. Stay-at-home measures are compounding this stress, resulting in social isolation and unprecedented economic hardship, including mass layoffs and loss of health coverage. Fully understanding the impact of these pernicious trends on overall mental health will take time. However, precedents like the Great Recession suggest that these trends are likely to worsen the
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Why Hasn’t A More Holistic Approach to Patient Care Become The Norm?
When food production technology made it possible, wheat flour processors started to eliminate the tough exterior (bran) and nutrient-rich core (germ) of the kernel to get at the large, starchy part (the endosperm) only. The bread produced from this process is white and fluffy, and it makes great PB&Js and takes forever to grow mold, but it is almost totally lacking nutritional value.
Nutrition experts eventually pointed this out, of course, after which commercial bakers tried fortifying
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4 Areas Driving AI Adoption in Hospital Operations and Patient Safety
Renee Yao, Global Healthcare AI Startups Lead at NVIDIA
COVID-19 has put a tremendous burden on hospitals, and the clinicians, nurses, and medical staff who make them run.
Many hospitals have suffered financially as they did not anticipate the severity of the disease. The extended duration of patient stays in ICUs, the need for more isolated rooms and beds, and the need for better supplies to reduce infections have all added costs. Some hospitals did not have adequate staff to check-in
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CloudMD Acquires Digital Patient Engagement Platform iMD Health Global for $10M
What You Should Know:
- CloudMD announces it will acquire digital patient engagement platform iMD Health Global for $10M
- The integration of iMD’s educational platform will enable CloudMD to provide its entire network of over 3000 healthcare practitioners, specialists, and allied health professionals and almost 3 million patients with valuable educational resources on healthcare issues, treatments, and preventative solutions.
CloudMD Software & Services Inc., a Vancouver,
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Medisafe Launches New Platform for Medication Management to Improve Patient Journey
What You Should Know:
- Medisafe launches a new Medisafe Maestro platform that brings precision and speed to patient journeys.
- The new platform aims to revolutionize digital health platforms by combining a host of resources to help patients through any hurdle in their journey and updates and monitoring happen in real-time to meet patients in their moments.
Medisafe, a Boston,
MA-based digital therapeutics companion platform, announced the immediate
deployment of its new Medisafe
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