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- Ayble Health, a digital health platform for patients with chronic gastrointestinal (GI) conditions, and Commure Engage, an AI-powered care coordination platform, have announced a strategic integration that promises to revolutionize GI care delivery.
- The integration partnership aims to address the growing demand for GI care and improve outcomes for both patients and providers.
Filling a Critical Gap in GI Care
Demand for GI care is skyrocketing, with
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Care Guidance: The Human-Enabled Tech Solution for Clinical Staff
Hospitals, health systems and group practices nationwide are finding value and effectiveness by partnering with an outsourced care guidance resource to extend clinical staff and strengthen care management support. The addition of a structured and highly scalable care guidance program that goes beyond mere navigation efforts provides a unique solution as a service proposition to comprehensively address many of the operational and financial challenges that directly affect the entire provider
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Bamboo Health Launches Discharge Summaries to Streamline Follow-Up Care
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- Bamboo Health has announced a new solution called Discharge Summaries, which is an enhancement to its existing Pings platform.
- Discharge Summaries is designed to address the challenges of patient discharge communication by providing care coordinators with easy access to real-time discharge information, including medication lists, follow-up appointments, and other vital details. This information is critical for ensuring that patients receive the appropriate care
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How AI Can Reinvent Nurse Staffing
Artificial intelligence is transforming the way the healthcare industry operates, from clinical decision-making to front-office tasks to financial workflows. Perhaps one of the areas where AI has the most potential is nurse staffing, an issue that has reached crisis proportions as a result of COVID-19.
The pandemic exacerbated existing issues such as short staffing and created new ones like skyrocketing contingent labor costs. Today, nurse turnover rates remain far higher than
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Ounce Raises $5.2M to Bridge the Gap Between Housing and Health
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- Ounce, a company bridging the gap between health and housing has raised a $5.2M seed round co-led by Meridian Street Capital and Flare Capital Partners with participation from Chelsea Clinton’s Metrodora Ventures Wilshire Lane Capital, Chris Nassetta (Hilton CEO), Taylor Justice (Unite Us cofounder), and others.
- Ounce Community Health Workers (CHW) currently serve more than 2,000 D.C. residents, helping them enroll in Medicaid, apply for energy assistance,
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Nursa Partners with American Red Cross on Nurse Staffing for Disaster Relief Sites
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Nursa, a nationwide platform that exists to put a nurse at the bedside of every patient in need, today announced a partnership with the American Red Cross to help in staffing disaster relief sites with nurse volunteers, especially as the U.S. enters peak natural disaster season.The American Red Cross reports that in the first half of 2023 alone, the nation experienced a record 15 billion-dollar disasters. This partnership comes as a timely moment as
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Nursa Secures $80M to Expand Healthcare Staffing Platform
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Nursa, a nationwide platform that exists to put a nurse at the bedside of every patient in need, today announced the completion of its executive leadership team following an $80 million Series B funding raise led by Drive Capital and joined by existing partners Pelion and Kickstart. With the addition of experienced Chief Product, Revenue and Technology Offers, Nursa is diversifying its expertise in order to further address the industry’s
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A Blueprint for Solving the U.S. Nursing Shortage Crisis
Nurses have the highest level of public trust across medical professions, yet there’s a huge chasm between Americans’ appreciation for nursing and the profession’s uncertain future. A nursing shortage, exacerbated by the COVID pandemic, has been fueled largely by high levels of moral distress, politicization, and lack of support. Left unchecked, the country will experience a critical shortfall of nearly 200,000 nurses in just a few years, according to the latest U.S. Bureau of Labor
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How Can Nursing Homes’ Data Problem Be Solved?
Nursing homes have embraced technology, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, to help seniors, staff, and clinicians better communicate with one another and for residents to stay in touch with loved ones. The use of electronic health records (EHRs) has saved long-term care providers both time and money.
When it comes to managing billing and insurance reimbursement, complex data that is reported to different agencies in various formats and from a variety of systems has resulted in
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Fold Health Lands $6M for Optimization Platform for VBC Primary Care
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- Fold Health,a San Francisco, CA-based platform supporting value-based primary care raises $6M in funding from Iron Pillar and global angel investors.
- Fold partners with leading value-based primary care groups, ACOs, health systems, health plans and digital health companies, to 10x the reach and effectiveness of collaborative care teams in their mission to radically improve outcomes.
Supercharge Primary Care
Despite the rapid shift to value-based
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