What You Should Know: - Mass General Brigham (MGB) has partnered with DexCare to improve consumer experiences and outcomes for virtual urgent care. - DexCare’s solution will allow patients to access care from MGB at their preferred time and format through simple, self-directed digital experiences = better patient acquisition, retention and experiences. The platform will allow MGB to optimize resource usage and intelligently navigate patient demand to see more patients while reducing
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Nuvance Health Launches Cognitive Care-At-Home Program
What You Should Know: - Nuvance Health, a system of nonprofit hospitals and outpatient healthcare services throughout the Hudson Valley and western Connecticut launches a pilot that provides brain-stimulating activities such as gamification and a way to upload family photos and videos for “reminiscence” therapy. - The platform, Neuroglee Connect uses artificial intelligence to track which activities help each individual the most to target the most effective treatment possible.
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Humana Taps Cohere Health to Streamline Prior Authorizations for Cardiovascular & Surgical Specialties
What You Should Know: - Health insurer Humana has expanded its partnership with Cohere Health to streamline the prior authorization process for cardiovascular care and surgical specialties. Both these care pathways are clinically complex, involving multiple exchanges between primary care physicians and specialists, which can contribute to costly and unnecessary variations in care. - For surgical services, Humana staff will use the Cohere Unify™
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JPMorgan Chase Launches 3 Advanced Primary Care Centers
What You Should Know: - Vera Whole Health announced a collaboration with Central Ohio Primary Care (COPC) and JPMorgan Chase & Co. to launch three new on-site advanced primary care centers across the company’s Columbus offices. - These new centers provide a full suite of comprehensive in-person and virtual health and wellness services for more than 20,000 JPMorgan Chase employees. Vera and COPC will provide the same advanced primary care services at two near-site care centers to
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Should I Get Another Booster? How Doctors Can Help Patients Navigate the Next Phase of COVID-19
The general consensus is that COVID-19 in some form is here to stay. As people come to terms with this reality, primary care providers may be getting more questions from patients – especially older and immunocompromised ones – asking for advice on how to handle different situations. Should I get another booster? Can I start traveling? Is it OK to go to a wedding next weekend? How cautious do I need to be in social settings? The answers to these questions aren’t always clear. A lot depends on
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Violet Reveals 3x Patient Retention Rate After Clinicians Use First-Ever Cultural Competence Framework
What You Should Know: - Violet, the first-ever cultural competence credentialing, upskilling, and care coordination platform for clinicians, released today a new clinical research report showing the validity of a framework for standardizing and measuring cultural competence in clinicians. - The framework was piloted with payors and providers, and garnered a 90% retention rate over industry standards of care. Developed by two academic researchers at Violet, the report explains the need
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Eyenuk Raises $26M for AI-Powered Eye Screening & Predictive Biomarkers
What You Should Know: - Eyenuk, Inc., a global artificial intelligence (AI) digital health company and the leader in real-world applications for AI Eye Screening™ and AI Predictive Biomarkers™, today announced it has secured $26 million in a Series A financing round, bringing the Company’s total funding to over $43 million. - The capital raise was led by AXA IM Alts and was joined by new and existing investors including T&W Medical A/S, A&C Foelsgaard Alternativer ApS, Kendall
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Health IT for Emerging “Payviders”
Though doubts about the benefits of the “payvider” model certainly exist, the success of recent payer-provider partnerships showcases the potential of these programs to improve the patient and provider experience. A study of Aetna’s integrated program, for example, found that plan members could realize significant savings for high-cost chronic conditions and experience fewer hospital admissions. A similar report from Cigna echoed these conclusions, finding that integrated benefit plans resulted
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Aetna Taps Emcara Health to Deliver Home-Based Primary Care to 240k Medicaid Patients
What You Should Know: - Emcara Health and Aetna Better Health, which announced that the two companies will be partnering to deliver primary care in the home to more than 240,000 Medicaid patients in the Miami/Dade and Tampa, Florida regions. - The relationship extends Emcara Heath’s comprehensive primary care model – which includes behavioral health and social determinants of health assessments – to adult Aetna Medicaid members. Partnership
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Memora, Luma Partner to Offer Health Systems a Wholesale Digital Front Door
What You Should Know: - Today, Memora Health announced a partnership with Luma Health to offer health systems a combined wholesale digital front door and patient engagement tool - which have traditionally been separate offerings. - Together the digital health companies will offer a tool that streamlines patient communication, increases access, and ensures patients are following care plans - all while unburdening care teams from routine administrative tasks. After implementing Memora
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