What You Should Know: ClearSky Health, a network of inpatient rehabilitation facilities is expanding its contract an additional five years with Oracle Cerner to support nine additional facilities in the next 18 months with Oracle Cerner as their EHR supplier. - The partnership to deliver increased continuity, helping clinicians understand a patient’s journey from admission to discharge. Expanded Partnership Details Through its five medical rehabilitation centers in New
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When It Comes to Digital Health, Experience Is Everything
Thanks to COVID-19 and numerous other factors, the adoption of digital health technologies used by patients in the home has skyrocketed. Accenture reported in 2021, for example, that remote patient monitoring technology adoption tripled among patients. Whether it is streaming video telehealth appointments with a provider, a remote patient monitoring platform, or a prescribed digital therapeutic to manage a chronic condition, the emphasis must be on the patient and caregiver
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Innovaccer Joins the CARIN Alliance to Advance Interoperability
What You Should Know: - Today, Innovaccer Inc., the Health Cloud company, announced that it has joined the CARIN Alliance (CARIN), a multisector collaborative working to rapidly advance the consumer-directed exchange of health information to improve the interoperability of healthcare data. - Innovaccer will participate as a member of the multisector alliance to advance healthcare data sharing, enabling consumers, patients, and caregivers easier access to health
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Personalize the Healthcare Experience for Improved Outcomes, Happier Patients
A consumer desire for a personalized experience is converging with the healthcare consumerism trend to alter patient expectations for their relationships with caregivers. Wearable devices, IoT data, and healthcare apps that track sleep, diet, and exercise give consumers more insight and control of their overall health, and they increasingly view PCPs and healthcare professionals (HPs) as simply part of an overall healthcare journey. An important part, to be sure, but more like partners pursuing
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New Hospital-At-Home Study Focuses on Rural Health Deserts
What You Should Know: - Appalachian Regional Healthcare (ARH), based in Lexington, Ky., will use Biofourmis’ virtual care and AI-based predictive analytics technology to support a new Rural Home Hospital program delivering acute hospital-level care inside patients’ homes--including a clinical trial studying this care model in rural areas. - ARH joins Blessing Health System—which is also using Biofourmis’ solution—as one of only two U.S. participants
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Is It Finally Time for Hospital-at-Home or is Time Up?
All the signs point to a bright and expansive future for hospital-at-home programs, which have been growing steadily since the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) created the Acute Hospital at Home waiver program in November 2020. As of March, nearly 100 health systems and more than 200 hospitals in 34 states had been approved for the program. Meanwhile, Forrester predicts the number of hospitals delivering acute care at home will triple in 2022. The reasons why are compelling: a study
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Komodo Health Appoints COO, Transcarent, Vytalize Health, RxBenefits, Other Digital Health Appointments
Komodo Health has named Dr. Aswin Chandrakantan as its Chief Operating Officer. Dr. Chandrakantan will also continue to serve as the firm’s Chief Medical Officer, a role he has held since 2016. Dr. Chandrakantan was one of Komodo Health’s earliest employees – following leadership roles at McKinsey and Google – and has played a central role in the company’s rapid-fire growth. RxBenefits appoints Wendy Barnes as its new Chief Executive Officer. Barnes succeeds Bryan Statham, who served as the
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Homethrive Raises $20M for Next-Gen Caregiving Platform
What You Should Know: - Homethrive, a tech-enabled healthcare service company that’s disrupting and revolutionizing how employers, insurers, and affinity groups support unpaid family caregivers and their loved ones raises an additional $20M in Series B funding led by Human Capital. The round also included participation from Allianz and existing investors 7wireVentures and Pitango HealthTech. - The funding round fuel Homethrive’s aggressive expansion with self-insured employers and
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Cerner Collaboration to Increase Access to Cancer Clinical Trials
What You Should Know: - Cerner, Elligo Health Research® and Freenome are collaborating to enable a clinical trial through the Learning Health Network to help advance early cancer detection. - Together they will be using the research-activated network of health systems, real-world data (RWD) and multiomics technology, developed by Freenome, with the goal to help accelerate early cancer detection. Importance of Early Cancer Detection Early
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Delivering Patient-Centered Care Means Decluttering the Digital Health Landscape
Digital health companies (DHCs) and their solutions continue to grow at a rapid pace. This is in part being fueled by the record funding for DHCs, with over $29 billion for US-based companies in 2021 alone. As a result, patients are inundated with solutions from every direction – from employers, health plans, and directly through consumer-oriented apps and wearables. Physicians are also getting into the mix by directly prescribing digital therapeutics. On the surface, the blossoming of the
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