What You Should Know:
- During National Caregivers Month, Wounded Warrior
Project and NeuroFlow are joining forces to raise awareness and access for
mental health by providing access to new technology tools and care options
- There are 53 million Americans who are unpaid
caregivers to family, friends, neighbors and spouses. This shared burden is
also widespread in the military community as many veterans and their caregivers
battle silent burdens.
NeuroFlow, the leader in
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How Care Coordination Technology Addresses Social Isolation in Seniors
Jenifer Leaf Jaeger, MD, MPH, Senior Medical Director, HealthEC
Senior isolation is a health risk that affects at least a quarter of seniors over 65. It has become recognized over the past decade as a risk factor for poor aging outcomes including cognitive decline, depression, anxiety, Alzheimer’s disease, obesity, hypertension, heart disease, impaired immune function, and even death.
Physical limitations, lack of transportation, and inadequate health literacy, among other social
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Unite Us, CVS Health, Humana & Ochsner Health Partner to Expand Social Care Throughout Louisiana
What You Should Know:
- Unite Us today announced its Unite Louisiana
network has partnered with CVS Health, Humana, and Ochsner Health in an effort
to expand and improve community health and social care throughout the state.
- New partners will enable Unite Louisiana, the statewide
social care network, to further expand into more parishes and broaden access to
care in response to COVID-19 challenges.
Unite Us, the technology company
building coordinated care networks
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VHA, Ontrak Launch 3-Year AI Study to Help Prevent Veteran Suicide
What You Should Know:
- The Veterans Health Administration has selected Ontrak
in collaboration with Harvard Medical School and Brown University to transform
suicide prevention care for veterans.
- Leveraging AI developed by a Harvard Medical School
professor and the core analytics of the Ontrak platform, the three-year study
will look at the effect of intensive care coaching in addition to the standard
of care for veterans at high risk of suicide after inpatient hospitalization at
a
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The Future of the ICU? How Clinical Decision Support Is Advancing Care
Kelly Patrick, Principal Analyst at Signify Research
Without a doubt 2020 has been a devastating year for many; the impact of COVID-19 on both personal lives and businesses has had long-term consequences. At the end of September, the number of COVID-19 cases fell just short of 350 million, with just over 1 million deaths reported. The expectation of a second peak in many countries exposed to the deadly illness is being handled with care, with many governments attempting to minimize the impact
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Change Healthcare Launches New AI Model to Extract Diagnostic Data from EHRs for Case Management
What You Should Know:
- Change Healthcare launches a new artificial intelligence model that automatically extracts diagnostic data from clinical notes to increase the efficiency of automated medical necessity reviews by over 20%.
- The new Change Healthcare AI models are trained using
clinical data and are honed by expert physicians.
Change Healthcare unveils new innovative new Artificial Intelligence models, trained by expert physicians, which extract meaningful diagnostic
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CurieAI Launches AI-Driven Platform for COVID-19 Respiratory Monitoring and Management
What You Should Know:
- SRI Ventures spin-off CurieAI announces the launch of
its AI-driven COVID-19 case management platform
- The Curie solution has been deployed to monitor
inpatients and outpatients at San Carlos Apache Healthcare Corporation (SCAHC).
CurieAI, a Menlo
Park, CA-based healthcare startup spun-off from SRI
Ventures, the corporate venture arm of SRI International, today announced
the release of CurieAI’s first-of-its-kind AI-driven
platform specifically designed
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IBM Unveils Watson Works for Data-Driven Insights to Address COVID-19 Return to Workplace Challenges
What You Should Know:
- Today, IBM launched Watson Works, a curated set of
products that embeds Watson AI models and applications, to help companies
navigate many aspects of the return-to-workplace challenge following lockdowns
put in place to slow the spread of COVID-19.
- Watson Works provides data-driven insights to help
employers make informed decisions on workplace re-entry, facilities management,
space allocation and other COVID-related priorities.
IBM today unveiled Watson
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Carequality Releases Implementation Guide for Electronic Case Reporting
What You Should Know:
- Carequality releases an implementation guide for electronic case reporting that enables automated, electronic case reporting to public health agencies, including the CDC.
- Carequality worked closely with the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) in developing the new implementation guide.
- This is Carequality’s second implementation guide, the first being the Query-Based Document Exchange Implementation Guide, which was originally adopted in 2015
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Applying Social Determinants of Health to Improve Care Coordination
Allie Freed, Consultant, Freed Associates
In today’s era of value-based care, providers must focus more than ever on ensuring that patients get the care they need, when they need it, across the entire care continuum, including in non-traditional health care settings. This is important not only as it relates to patient outcomes, but also to providers’ bottom lines.
However, when patients lack access to basic care-centric needs like proper housing, food, transportation, and a support system,
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