Hint & Eden Partner to Expand Virtual Direct Primary Care Offering Nationwide What You Should Know: Hint Health, the company powering the Direct Primary Care (DPC) movement, and Eden Health, a leading national virtual and in-person primary care provider, today announced a partnership to expand the Hint Connect footprint with a virtual DPC offering across all 50 states.This partnership allows employers to offer a DPC network nationwide for patients who don’t have convenient access
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M&A: Vytalize Health Acquires IPA New York
What You Should Know: Today, Vytalize Health announced it has acquired Independent Physician Association (“IPA”) of New York, one of the nation's largest IPAs with more than 3,000 providers. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.The deal scales Vytalize's successful value-based care model to new payer arrangements and specialty care across the healthcare spectrum.Based in Suffolk County, IPA NY is one of the largest multi-specialty
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AristaMD Launches Unified Care Transition Platform
What You Should Know: - AristaMD, a digital healthcare company specializing in eConsult and referral management services, today announced the launch of a unified care transition platform. - The platform seamlessly integrates patient-to-provider matching, electronic referral processing, and eConsults into one single interoperable solution for primary care providers (PCPs). The end-to-end referral solution ensures that all patients receive timely care from the right provider in the right
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The Future of Digital Transformation in Hospitals
Hospitals are increasingly motivated to drive digital transformation in order to improve patient outcomes, reduce costs, meet regulatory requirements and stay competitive. Additionally, digital transformation can support medical research and drive innovation in healthcare, as well as generate new revenue streams. An increasingly important tool as hospitals undergo these transformations is federated learning, a technology that we will expand on later. Federated learning is a machine learning
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Siemens Partners with LeanTaaS on Hospital Operational Performance
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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