What You Should Know:
- Apstar Pharma acquires the assets of respiratory health company Cohero Health to expands its digital portfolio with a focus on respiratory disease management.
- Cohero Health develops digital tools and technologies to improve respiratory care, reduce avoidable costs, and optimize medication utilization.
AptarGroup, Inc., a global leader in consumer dispensing, active packaging, drug delivery solutions, and services, announces that it has acquired all operating
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Arcadia, PatientPing Expands Partnership to Enhance Real-Time Patient Data for Healthcare Organizations
What You Should Know:
- Arcadia and PatientPing expand partnership to help customers achieve improved post-acute and transitions of care outcomes.
- As part of the expanded partnership, Arcadia Analytics will further integrate real-time health event notifications into comprehensive patient data set for improved care coordination.
Arcadia , a provider of population health management technology, announced today that it has expanded its relationship withPatientPing, a comprehensive
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CMS Direct Contracting Model Options for Value-Based Care
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) created the Direct Contracting Model to expand opportunities for more diverse providers and healthcare organizations to participate in value-based care arrangements for Medicare fee-for-service (FFS) beneficiaries.
The goal of the new model is to create the next generation of risk-sharing arrangements to improve outcomes for patients, lower costs, and ensure high-quality care. In developing the Direct Contracting model and associated
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CareLinx, Doctor On Demand Partner to Bring In-Home Virtual Care to Seniors
What You Should Know:
- Doctor On Demand and CareLinx, one of the largest professional networks for in-home care, have announced a collaboration to bring in-home virtual care services to CareLinx clients.
- At a time when seniors have been encouraged to stay home to avoid exposure to COVID, Doctor On Demand’s partnership with CareLinx will vastly improve their opportunity to receive comprehensive healthcare while remaining safe.
After being the first and only
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Baptist Health Implements First-of-its-Kind ED to PCP Referral Automation
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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