What You Should Know:
- Holy Name Medical
Center based in New Jersey and Israel’s Sheba Medical Center, the largest
medical center in the Middle East announced a strategic partnership to develop
digital health and telehealth solutions, The
Times of Israel reports.
- As part of the partnership, Holy Name’s team will Sheba’s ARC (Accelerate, Redesign, Collaborate) Innovation
Center with the focus of identifying clinical needs and developing
solutions to medical challenges.
- ARC
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Evidation’s Appoints Co-CEO, Greenway’s New President, Other Health IT Appointments
Evidation’s Board of Directors has appointed Christine Lemke as Co-CEO alongside Executive Chair Deborah Kilpatrick.
Greenway Health appoints Pratap Sarker as President to oversee all commercial and customer-focused functions including sales, marketing, and customer success. He will also work closely with Greenway’s clearinghouse, revenue cycle and IT teams to ensure the delivery of quality solutions that are critically needed to support practices’ business continuity, as well as their
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Greenway Health Taps AWS to Develop Cloud-Based, Data Services Platform
What You Should Know:
- To help meet the needs of ambulatory care practitioners in a post-COVID environment, Greenway Health, a leading health information technology, and services provider, today announced a new strategic partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS).
- Leveraging AWS cloud services, Greenway is developing a
new cloud-based, data services platform, Greenway Insights, that creates new
data insights and healthcare interventions to advance the breadth of Greenway’s
products and
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Big Data Takes on the Silent Epidemic of Undiagnosed Behavioral Health Conditions
Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, a study found that almost half of Americans will experience an episode of mental illness in their lives, but may never get the diagnosis and treatment they need. In a more recent finding, over 25% of American adults now meet the criteria for a diagnosis of severe mental distress.
The looming impact on our collective mental health is concerning enough, but there are also serious implications for physical health. Left unaddressed, behavioral health issues
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Telehealth Could Be The Solution for a Pandemic, But Are We Too Late?
In the past several months, Novel Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) has risen from humble beginnings in a Wuhan farmer’s market to international status: dominating the news cycle, exhausting the world’s hand sanitizer resources, and generally monopolizing the mental real estate of the developed world.
As new cases continue to be identified in the U.S., politicians are giving coronavirus the attention it deserves, responding to initial accusations of inadequacy with proposals for funding and
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Boston Children’s Hospital Taps Kyruus to Power Digital Access Initiatives
What You Should Know:
- Boston Children’s Hospital has selected Kyruus, a provider search and scheduling company, to power its digital transformation initiative centered on patient access.
- Boston Children’s will leverage Kyruus’ solutions to create a convenient online experience for families with provider search capabilities and appointment self-scheduling functionality.
Boston
Children’s Hospital announced it has selected Kyruus, a leader in provider
search and scheduling
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Coronavirus Pandemic Reveals the Need for a Broader Digital Front Door
Healthcare facilities and providers around the country are experiencing COVID-19 differently. Many medical facilities treating COVID-19 patients have been overwhelmed, with some even resorting to creating pop-up hospitals to support the unexpected influx. Meanwhile, other providers have seen a sharp decline in their waiting rooms as patients have shied away from in-person appointments or had elective procedures postponed. Even patients with serious conditions are avoiding hospitals due to
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3 Ways to Build a Back-to-Basics Approach to Revenue Cycle Management
Sixty-nine percent of healthcare revenue cycle leaders say they will put more money toward technologies that boost revenue integrity, eliminate human error and unlock greater efficiency in the year ahead, an HFMA/Navigant analysis found. But for many organizations, the biggest untapped opportunity to improve performance comes down to a single word: data.
For all the buzz at about the ways in which digital innovation and automation could transform revenue cycle management, healthcare
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Hospital Execs Believe Their EMRs Will Fail to Meet Their Future Needs, Report Finds
What You Need to Know:
- New Sage Growth Partners report reveals more than a quarter (27 percent) of respondents believe their EMR will fail to meet their future needs. COOs are the most pessimistic (67 percent) followed by CEOs (37 percent), and CFOs (34 percent).
- Hospital Technology Forecast 2020 market survey report reveals hospital leaders’ top health IT investment priorities, challenges, and opportunities.
- 35 percent of hospital executives say if they could go back in time,
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Partners HealthCare Launches $100M, 5-Year Digital Health Initiative to Reshape the Patient Experience
- Partners HealthCare launches $100M, five-year digital health initiative focused on patient experience, clinical transformation, scaling research and development, and streamline hospital operations. - The digital health initiative will incubate innovative programs under development with the goal of expanding programs that show provider adoption and patient impact.Partners HealthCare today announced it has launched a five-year digital health initiative to improve the patient experience, boost
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