What You Should Know:
- Invitae launches a seamless digital platform to enhance patient and provider experiences and further bring genetics to mainstream medicine.
- Offering seamless integrations with EHR solutions, Invitae Digital Health will provide healthcare systems with a customizable suite of tools in a single, intuitive platform.
Invitae, a San Francisco, CA, based medical genetics company, announced the launch of Invitae Digital Health—a connected
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Fresenius Health Partners, InterWell Health, and Cricket Health Announce $2.4B Merger
What You Should Know:
- Cricket Health is announcing today that it will merge with Fresenius Health Partners (the value-based care arm of Fresenius), and InterWell Health, to form the nation’s premier, value-based kidney care provider with a totally new model of addressing kidney disease. The new company will operate under the InterWell Health brand and is valued at $2.4B.
- Together, Fresenius Health Partners, InterWell Health, and Cricket Health will drive innovation and industry
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Recora Raises $20M for Virtual Cardiac Recovery Platform
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- Recora today emerged from stealth to announce $20M in Series A funding led by SignalFire with participation from Valor Equity Partners and existing investor Pear VC.
- In addition, the company while also unveiled its Cardiac Recovery Program for health systems, medical groups and health plans.
Redefining the Future of Heart Health
Recora is redesigning heart health, beginning with cardiac recovery. Cardiac rehabilitation is indicated
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DeliverHealth Acquires Revenue Cycle Company PresidioHealth
What You Should Know:
- DeliverHealth, a provider of technology-enabled solutions for hospitals, health systems, and group practices, today announced the acquisition of PresidioHealth, a healthcare technology and clinical intelligence company. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
- The acquisition enables DeliverHealth to further expand its software platform, thus improving coding quality and speeding up the reimbursement cycle for healthcare organizations.
Combined
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Top 9 Most In-Demand Medical Billing/Revenue Cycle Positions
A new AKASA survey highlights the vacant roles healthcare CFOs and financial leaders most need talent for to sustain daily operations within medical billing and the revenue cycle. The back office of healthcare is essential to keeping the doors of hospitals open by making sure the bills are paid. Yet, these teams are facing labor shortages like never before.
The survey of more than 400 healthcare financial leaders ranked the following as the roles where
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Nuance Integrates DAX Tech with Cerner EHR to Optimize Clinician & Patient Experience
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- Nuance and Cerner announced that they have expanded their collaboration to integrate the Nuance® Dragon® Ambient eXperience™ (DAX™) system into the Cerner Millennium EHR.
- The collaboration deepens the existing integration of Nuance and Cerner technologies and is expected to help manage administrative workloads that lead to clinician burnout, expand access to care for patients, and enhance healthcare outcomes with clinical
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HIMSS22 Day 2 Roundup: Google Partners with MEDITECH, Microsoft’s Health Cloud Strategy Expansions
Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) Activity
OptimizeRx Acquires EvinceMed, a Specialty Drug Prescription Initiation Platform
OptimizeRx, a provider of point-of-care technology solutions helping patients start and stay on therapy announced a definitive agreement to acquire the EvinceMed platform and related assets. EvinceMed is a provider in delivering end-to-end automation for specialty pharmaceutical transactions. The acquisition includes the full Market Access Management Platform
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Ease of Access: Applying the “911” Principle Across Healthcare
The fastest way to access healthcare in the United States isn’t through a primary care physician or urgent care or orchestrated referrals processes. It comes through three taps of a button: Nine, one, and one.
Dialing 911 during a medical emergency is a straightforward process: Callers are routed to the correct dispatcher, resources are deployed quickly and effectively, and patients are transported to the correct facility to receive care. Through three simple numbers, you are whisked
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To Engage and Activate Patients, CRM Alone Isn’t Enough
We talk about patient engagement a lot in healthcare today. But the reality is, we often don’t just want a patient to engage with a piece of content or information; we want them to take action. The traditional CRM and marketing automation are great tools for the former – keeping patients and their healthcare providers connected. But it does little to move beyond a digital connection.
Today’s patients (or, consumers) expect more from all of their relationships, especially their healthcare
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MediQuant® DataArk Awarded Project to Archive All Military Health Records
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MediQuant®, a provider of enterprise active archiving and conversion solutions, has been selected by the US Defense Health Agency (DHA) to help consolidate all clinical data across the Military Health System as it transitions to a new enterprise electronic health records (EHR) platform by 2024.
- The contract to deploy MediQuant’s DataArk solution for the DHA “Genesis” rollout was secured by ECS, a leading provider of science, engineering, and advanced technology
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