What You Should Know:
- Baptist Health deploys first-of-its-kind conversational
digital assistant powered by LifeLink for patients who are discharged from the
Emergency Department (ED) with referrals.
- Since launch, the conversational chatbot solution, which
engages patients with mobile messaging to recommend follow-up care, the number
of PCP appointment requests have increased by 15%. The technology is integrated
into Cerner and Salesforce, personalizing the patient experience by
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Innovaccer Launches AI-Enabled Patient Relationship Management Solution
What You Should Know:
- Innovaccer launches its artificial
intelligence (AI)-enabled patient relationship management solution to
streamline communication between patients and their care teams.
- The solution enables
providers and member teams to move beyond treating illness to facilitating
proactive care by building productive, long-term relationships with patients.
Innovaccer, Inc., a San Francisco, CA-based healthcare technology
company, today launched its artificial
intelligence
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Making the Case: Why Pagers and Smartphones Should Wed
Clinicians in healthcare settings typically have information coming at them from all directions, at all times, and often with little distinction as to the level of urgency. It makes for inefficiency and confusion for today’s busy doctor.
In today’s hospital setting, that disjointed communication creates dissonance and distraction. Even though the world has gravitated to the ubiquitous use of smartphones, that’s not the dominant form of connection for physicians. The vast majority of hospitals
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COVID-19’s Amplification of Digital Technology in the Patient Experience
In the last decade, the healthcare industry has experienced a rapid rise in digital health solutions that have promised to transform care delivery and improve outcomes. Yet, with change comes skepticism – especially in an industry that is notoriously slow to adopt new technologies and innovations. Despite the industry’s conservative reputation, we have seen an influx of global venture capital funding for digital health services, which hit a record $3.1 billion in funding this
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Banner Health Taps Innovaccer’s Data Activation Platform to Power Digital Transformation
What You Should Know:
- Banner Health, one of the country’s largest non-profit healthcare systems, has partnered with Innovaccer for its digital transformation.
- Banner Health will leverage the platform to create unified patient records that drive comprehensive, preventive, and whole-person care solutions for patients across the care continuum.
Banner Health,
one of the country’s largest non-profit healthcare systems, has partnered with Innovaccer, Inc., a leading
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HP Launches EMR-Integrated Print Solutions to Digitize Point of Care Workflows
What You Should Know:
- HP launches patient-first print technologies to help healthcare
workers stay safe and spend more time caring for patients.
- Innovations co-developed with healthcare professionals
include industry’s first sterilizable printers, exclusive EMR-compliant
workflow solutions, and services to improve patient safety and privacy.
Today, HP Inc.
officially launched new print solutions for the healthcare industry. Based on
deep customer insights and co-developed with
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WellSky Acquires CarePort Health from Allscripts for $1.35B
What You Should Know:
- Health technology leader WellSky has agreed to acquire
CarePort Health to power coordinated care transitions for acute and post-acute
care patients for $1.35B.
- By providing end-to-end visibility across the
continuum, WellSky and CarePort can improve outcomes, lower costs, and increase
patient satisfaction.
WellSky, a global health, and community care technology company, announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement with Allscripts to
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HealthStream Acquires Nurse Scheduling Solution ShiftWizard for $32M
What You Should Know:
- HealthStream acquires ShiftWizard, a SaaS-based nurse
scheduling software saves your hospital time & money with an innovative
scheduling solution and mobile app made by nurses, for nurses.
- HealthStream acquired ShiftWizard, Inc. for
approximately $32.0 million in cash, subject to working capital and other
customary purchase price adjustments.
HealthStream today announced that it has acquired ShiftWizard, Inc., a Raleigh, North Carolina-based company
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Humana, Fresenius Medical Care Expand Partnership to Improve Care Coordination for Medicare Advantage Members
What You Should Know:
- Humana Inc. and Fresenius Medical Care North America
(FMCNA) today announced an agreement to broaden their collaboration toward
improving the health of eligible Humana Medicare Advantage members
- The
agreement between Humana and Fresenius Medical Care North America goes into
effect Jan. 1, 2021.
Humana Inc. and leading renal care company Fresenius Medical Care North America (FMCNA) announced an agreement to broaden their collaboration toward improving the
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Curation Health Raises Series A Funding for Clinical Decision Support Platform
What You Should Know:
- Curation Health raises an undisclosed Series A round of funding to accelerate the adoption of its advanced clinical decision support platform.
- Curation Health provides an advanced clinical decision
support platform for providers and health plans that aids in managing risk
contracts and improving quality performance.
Curation Health, an Annapolis, MD-based advanced clinical decision support platform for value-based care, today announced the completion of
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