TriHealth, a Cincinnati-based, not-for-profit health system, has implemented Kyruus’ patient access platform to boost online patient acquisition and engagement. Now working with Kyruus, TriHealth is empowering patients to seamlessly search for providers by a wide range of criteria across its network of five hospitals and over 100 sites of care. Formed as a partnership between Good Samaritan Hospital and Bethesda Hospital, TriHealth includes five hospitals and over 100 other sites of
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Revenue Cycle Startup Nym Lands $6M for Autonomous Medical Coding Solution
Nym, an Israeli-based autonomous medical coding technology provider announced that it has secured a $6 million seed funding, led by Bessemer Venture Partners. Founded in 2018 by Amihai Neiderman and Adam Rimon, Nym’s automatic medical language understanding technology streamlines the hospital revenue cycle.Traditional Cumbersome Medical Coding ProcessThere are over 250,000 medical coders in the United States today manually reviewing patient charts and assigning the applicable medical codes
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Innovaccer Launches Outreach Management Solution to Reinvent Patient-Provider Collaboration
Innovaccer Inc., a San Francisco-based data activation company, today announced the launch of its Outreach Management solution to enable organizations with effective outreach to their patients. The solution is aimed at enhancing patient-provider collaboration at every instance of care delivery by eliminating communication barriers that currently plague our healthcare system.Lack of Interaction in Care Delivery ProcessOver the years, involving patients in their care delivery processes has become
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StartUp Health Adds 11 New Startups to Army of Healthcare Transformers
StartUp Health, a platform where health transformers, partners, customers, investors, patients, and caregivers connect and accelerate the progress of the health moonshots.Here is a look at the 11 new members of Startup Health’s global army of healthcare transformers:1. Cityblock Health: Iyah Romm (Co-Founder & CEO)Cityblock is a Brooklyn, NY-based company building sustainable, scalable systems that provide high-quality, cost-effective care for underserved populations with complex health
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Why Healthcare Marketers Should Care about the Patient Financial Experience
What comes to mind when you think of health system marketing? For most people, it’s dynamic content on the organization’s latest clinical advancements, philanthropic efforts, wellness management and relationship-building efforts within the community it serves. It’s also understanding patients and their motivations, using consumer research and analysis, focus groups, surveys, and other tools. You probably don’t think about the healthcare billing experience.It’s understandable. Frank discussions
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Protecting Medical Device Security in the Age of Ransomware
From medication pumps to pacemakers, people depend on lifesaving devices to live their healthiest possible lives and manage chronic ailments. Many of those patients likely hear about cybercriminals orchestrating massive data breaches, and might get concerned about one of those incidents compromising their information.However, they probably haven’t considered the hackers might target the devices in their bodies or the ones they otherwise use for better well-being.Hospitals Must Pay Attention to
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Box Launches Compliance Monitoring for Life Sciences with GxP Validation
Box, Inc, a provider of cloud content management, today announced Box GxP Validation, an innovative new approach for maintaining GxP compliance in the cloud. Box GxP Validation enables Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology and Medical Device businesses to develop, validate and operate their GxP compliance standards within Box. Box GxP Validation methodology complies with GAMP5 guidelines, accelerates the validation process, and lowers risk via use of daily tests to assure a continued state of
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TPG Capital to Acquire Mediware Information Systems for Undisclosed Sum
TPG Capital, the global private equity fund of leading alternative asset firm TPG has entered an agreement to acquire Mediware Information Systems, Inc. from private equity firm Thoma Bravo. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. The acquisition is expected to close during the first quarter of 2017, subject to customary closing conditions.For more than 30 years, Mediware has been a leading supplier of healthcare and human service software for the nation’s largest blood banks,
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Rush Health Taps InterSystems to Implement Private Health Information Exchange
Rush Health, a Chicago-based clinically integrated health network has selected InterSystems to implement a private health information exchange (HIE). The implementation of InterSystems HealthShare will provide their hospital, physician and affiliate members a complete view of their patients’ records across the care continuum from within their EHR – connecting primary, specialty, sub-acute and hospital-based providers, as well as other HIEs regardless of EHR system.After evaluating several
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FDA Clears Box DICOM Viewer as Class II Medical Device, Access Images Via Mobile, Web
Enterprise content management platform Box, today announced during HIMSS16 that the Box DICOM Viewer has been FDA cleared as a Class II Medical Device, enabling it to be used for diagnostic purposes. Box DICOM Viewer allows users to store, view and share any DICOM file (x-rays, MRIs, CT scans, ultrasounds) on a web browser or mobile device. Medical professionals can now collaborate across facilities, remotely diagnose patients, share imaging studies with patients, and securely transfer
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