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Precision Medicine: Is Personalized Care Really Here?

by Jasmine Pennic 06/29/2022 Leave a Comment

Is Personalized Care Really Here

What You Should Know: - New Definitive Healthcare report, Is Personalized Care Really Here? analyzes the US claims data to review how precision medicine has been used in recent years for cancer, transplant matching, genetic testing during pregnancy and more. - Trends within — and adjacent to — precision medicine suggests that consumer preferences for more effective, convenient and affordable care are driving rising rates of precision medicine procedures. Furthermore, the data reveal the
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Definitive Healthcare Acquires Analytical Wizards, Healthcare Analytics Platform

by Fred Pennic 02/25/2022 Leave a Comment

Definitive Healthcare Acquires Analytical Wizards, Healthcare Analytics Platform

What You Should Know: - This week, Definite Healthcare announced the acquisition of Analytical Wizards, an advanced analytics company revolutionizing analytics in healthcare by combining our AI/ML-powered technology, domain expertise, and high-touch relationship model. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. - Founded in 2015, Analytical Wizards automates complex analytic models using tools that expedite efficient big data mining using artificial intelligence (AI) and
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A Patient Engagement Strategy Needs to Deliver a Holistic Experience

by Chris Evanguelidi, Director, Enterprise Healthcare Market for Redpoint Global Inc. 02/03/2021 Leave a Comment

A Patient Engagement Strategy Needs to Deliver a Holistic Experience

Researchers from Johns Hopkins published a study in October on the impact of the pandemic on health care delivery. Among its findings, the data show a 21.4% decrease in primary care visits in Q2 of 2020, compared against the average volume of Q2 visits for the previous two years. By contrast, there was a sharp increase in telehealth engagements, accounting for 35.3% of all provider visits in Q2 this year, compared with 4.1% in Q1 and 1.1% in 2018-2019.  Despite the shifts in healthcare
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How Automation is Key to the Future of Healthcare Operations

by Giri Rajaiah, Executive Leader, Vice President, Healthcare & Life Sciences, DISYS 01/27/2021 Leave a Comment

How Automation is Key to the Future of Healthcare Operations

As the saying goes, necessity is the mother of invention. A similar correlation is seen in the quest to leverage innovation and out-of-the-box thinking to address key problems facing the healthcare industry. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has brought the immense pressure the U.S. healthcare system is under into sharp focus. Recent dynamics are compounded by the industry’s efforts to adopt newer ways of working and digitizing patient records, while implementing automation throughout their business
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Cerner Releases COVID-19 Reopening & Social Distancing Projections Dashboard

by Jasmine Pennic 05/21/2020 Leave a Comment

Cerner Releases COVID-19 Reopening & Social Distancing Projections Dashboard

Today, Cerner announced the release of the publicly available Reopening and Social Distancing Projections dashboard tool that helps organizations plan for reopening of elective care services and potential re-surges. Organizations can use the tool to view the trend of COVID-19 cases within their community, state, and country in the last 14 days and evaluate the potential consequences of reducing social distancing. Understanding the Cerner Reopening Risk Index Cerner has compiled a
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Can EHRs Stand Up Marketplaces for Innovation?

by Seth Joseph, Managing Director at Summit Health 02/26/2020 Leave a Comment

Can EHRs Stand Up Marketplaces for Innovation?

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) continues to advocate for improved data exchange, with the interoperability and information blocking rules being the latest federal push.  One of the ONC’s goals with its latest guidance is to establish an ecosystem of innovation, with electronic health records (EHRs) serving as the foundation -- i.e., the platform enabling application development and user access.  But when it comes developing an EHR-based marketplace for
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Definitive Healthcare Analytics Firm PatientFinder to Expand Data Insights

by Jasmine Pennic 01/14/2020 Leave a Comment

Definitive Healthcare Analytics Firm PatientFinder to Expand Data Insights

- Definitive Healthcare acquires software analytics firm for life sciences PatientFinder to expand contextual data and insights within a business’s end-to-end commercialization effort.- With this acquisition, Definitive Healthcare will add an enormous new set of data fields through an acquisition that will dramatically change the views and analytics possible for patient care.Definitive Healthcare, a provider of data, insights, and analytics on the healthcare provider market has acquired
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Top 60 Health IT/Digital Health Mergers & Acquisitions in 2019

by Fred Pennic 12/27/2019 Leave a Comment

Kareo Sells Managed Billing Services Business to Health Prime International

- From Google's acquisition of Fitbit to Philips acquisition of Carestream Health's health IT business, here is a look at some of the biggest health IT/digital health mergers & acquisitions in 2019 by each quarter. Q1 M&A Activity Johnson & Johnson Acquires Auris Health for $3.4B to Expand Digital Surgery Portfolio Johnson & Johnson acquiresAuris Health, a developer of robotic technologies for $3.4 billion in cash. Auris Health is a privately-held developer of
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Only 11% of Acute-Care Providers Use An Integrated EHR, Study Finds

by Jasmine Pennic 08/20/2019 Leave a Comment

Only 11 percent of acute care providers use an integrated electronic health record (EHR), according to PointClickCare’s results of its 2019 Patient Transition Study. The study reveals that acute care and long-term post-acute care patient coordination remains largely manual through paper, email, and fax processes.Conducted in partnership with Definitive Healthcare, c-suite executives from acute and post-acute care facilities provided input on data sharing, concerns about interoperability, and
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EHR Documentation Named Key Driver of Cognitive Overload for Clinicians

by Jasmine Pennic 07/01/2019 Leave a Comment

Physician Burnout_Cognitive Overload Documentation Overload

A recent study finds 77% of clinicians overwhelmingly identified documenting and charting in the EHR as a source of cognitive overload. When you were a student cramming for a test, remember that feeling of your brain just being unable to gather more information? You probably didn’t perform at your best. Imagine that stress every day. That’s the life of today’s clinicians, who are tasked with not only caring for multiple patients but also with burdensome clerical work from EHRs and other hospital
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