What You Should Know: - Siemens Healthineers and LeanTaaS have entered a strategic partnership to help health systems across the country achieve and sustain peak hospital operational performance. - The Siemens Healthineers network can now deploy system-wide tools designed to optimize capacity supported by the powerful combination of LeanTaaS’ Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) -based predictive and prescriptive analytics solutions and the enterprise-wide management
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HouseWorks Acquires Amedisys’ Personal Care Division
What You Should Know: - HouseWorks LLC, a provider of personal care services in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, and Maine has acquired Associated Home Care, the Personal Care division at Amedisys, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMED), a leading provider of home health, hospice, and high-acuity care. - HouseWorks, in partnership with eCaring, joins the Amedisys personal care network and forms a care coordination partnership to deliver comprehensive, seamless care to the communities both
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Value-Based Administration Enables All VBC Network Stakeholders to Benefit
Despite holding the promise of delivering superior patient outcomes while lowering healthcare costs, many providers remain reluctant to embrace value-based care (VBC) reimbursement models. Progress toward VBC adoption hasn’t achieved its potential yet, hovering around 60% of all payment models from 2018 to 2021, with the remaining 40% comprised of traditional fee for service (FFS). Though some providers simply are hesitant to abandon the FFS model that has served them well, others are leery
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Accenture Report Reveals Staggering Health Inequities and the Role of US Healthcare Ecosystem in Addressing Them
What You Should Know: - Health equity – or the lack thereof – is one of the biggest challenges facing US healthcare organizations today. - A new report from Accenture, US health inequity: beyond the statistics, analyzes the role US healthcare ecosystem participants can play in addressing health inequities due to race and ethnicity. The statistics are staggering. Analysing Key Trends Concerning Health Inequities To understand the human and economic
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Vital Secures $24.7M for AI-Driven Solutions for Hospitals, Health Systems
What You Should Know: - Vital, an artificial intelligence (AI)-driven digital health company improving the patient experience, today announced that it has raised $24.7M in Series B funding to fuel expansion and support the rapid growth of its modern software. The investment round led by Transformation Capital, with support from Threshold Ventures, strategic health system investors and Vital CEO / Mint.com creator Aaron Patzer, brings Vital’s total funding to over
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Sana, Little Otter Partner to Give Adolescent Members and Their Families Access to Mental Healthcare
What You Should Know: - Sana, a healthcare company that provides Fortune 500-level health benefits to small businesses at affordable prices, today announced a partnership with Little Otter, a digital mental health solution for children and their families. - Both Little Otter and Sana are aligned in their goal to provide comprehensive, high-quality mental healthcare to their members and their families. By investing more in primary care and enabling access to more low-cost,
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Northwell to Deploy Epic Enterprise EHR Platform Across System
What You Should Know: - Northwell Health today announced an agreement with Epic to implement the health system’s next-generation EHR as part of its ongoing digital transformation to ensure a more seamless patient experience and team member experience. - The announcement marks the replacement of Allscripts and will result in one patient record across every Northwell venue of care and drive enhanced care coordination across 21 hospitals and about 900 outpatient facilities. -
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Opioid Settlements are Making Headlines; Is Now The Time to Soften Guidelines?
The United States only represents five percent of the world’s population; however, Americans consume 80 percent of the world’s opioids.1 The U.S. is the world’s leader in the use of opioid medications to cope with physical and emotional difficulties. And the recent Walgreens and Wal-Mart multi-state opioid settlement agreement disclosures have only hammered home the point. America continues to have an opioid addiction problem. In light of all these circumstances, the recent CDC
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ECRI Names Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns for 2023
What You Should Know: - The pediatric mental health crisis is named the number one patient safety concern, according to ECRI’s 2023 list of most pressing patient safety concerns. - The nation’s largest nonprofit patient safety organization notes that, while rates of depression and anxiety in children have increased since 2017, the COVID-19 pandemic has elevated the situation to crisis levels. Here are
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Mayo’s Lucem Health Launches AI-Driven Early Disease Detection Platform
What You Should Know: - Lucem Health™ today announced the availability of its new early AI-driven disease detection solutions, Lucem Health Reveal that leverages existing EHR data to identify patients who may be at a higher risk of serious or chronic disease. - Reveal solutions surface previously undiscovered insights in readily available clinical data that can help provider organizations deliver greater clinical value for patients and more financial value to the organization. Early
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