- Intermountain Ventures, the strategic investment arm of Intermountain Healthcare has invested in digital care leader Omada Health. - The announcement expands the relationship with Intermountain Healthcare that began five years ago in 2016 and comes off the heels of Omada’s recent $73M funding round. - The Omada Program became a covered benefit for Intermountain employees and their adult dependents in 2019.Today, Omada Health announced a milestone investment from Intermountain Ventures, the
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The Graveyard of Digital Health, and How to Stay Out of It
- How partnerships are breaking the adoption barrier for digital health.
Collaboration is at the heart of successes over history — in Darwin’s words, “those who learn to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.”
Yet the healthcare space has been slow to learn that lesson. Far from functioning as a team focused on a single goal, healthcare stakeholders operate on a fractured playing field, each one trying to get to the goal on their own. From that perspective, everyone becomes
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Cerner Designates ResMed’s Home Health & Hospital Platform As Its Preferred Solution
- Cerner forms a collaboration with ResMed to designate ResMed’s Brightree Home Health and Hospice platform as its preferred solution.- Cerner also plans to connect other ResMed digital health data platforms—including those that support 10 million-plus cloud-connectable sleep apnea and respiratory care devices—to its EHR and HealtheIntent population health platform.Cerner and ResMed, a world-leading digital health company, today announced a new collaboration agreement to help providers make more
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6 Health System Barriers to Digital Health Transformation
- When CIOs were asked about “significant” barriers to their Digital Health efforts, the top four responses pertained to issues with sponsorship and/or leadership.- Currently, the health delivery industry as a whole is still in the earliest stages of what will prove to be a digital transformation. - 40.4% of surveyed CIOs believe enterprise EHR vendors will play the biggest role in their facility's digital health journey in the next two years. The concept of digital health information was
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AI-Powered ED Platform Vital Inks Pilot with Emory Healthcare Innovation Hub
- Vital launches pilot program with Emory Healthcare Innovation Hub for its AI-powered emergency department platform.
- Vital will deploy it’s ED platform in the emergency departments of Emory University Hospital, Emory Johns Creek Hospital, Emory University Hospital Midtown, and Emory Saint Joseph’s Hospital.
- The pilot program marks the first partnership out of the Emory Healthcare Innovation Hub.
Vital, an Atlanta, GA-based AI-powered software increasing productivity and
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Lafayette General Health Signs Intent to Merge with Ochsner Health System: 7 Things to Know
- The Board of Trustees of Lafayette General Health and Ochsner Health System have signed a letter of intent for Lafayette General to merge with Ochsner Health System.
- Ochsner will invest $365 million in capital and resources in Acadiana over the next 10 years.
- A 10-year, $10 million Community Support Fund overseen by the Lafayette General Board will be created to advance health and wellness in Acadiana.
- $1 million will be invested in the Healthcare Innovation Fund at the
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Welldoc’s BlueStar Integration with Xealth Improves Patient Engagement by 2.5X
- Welldoc’s BlueStar digital therapeutics improved in terms of activation rates, patient engagement, and ongoing usage when integrated into the EHR using Xealth’s digital health platform.
- When providers are connected to their patients, as demonstrated in a Welldoc randomized controlled trial, providers are 2-4x more likely to change an individual’s treatment plan to positively impact health in a more timely manner.
Welldoc, announced activation results for Welldoc’s BlueStar digital
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5 Approaches to “Diagnose” The Deeper Causes of Physician Burnout
The number of physicians experiencing symptoms of burnout continues to be unsustainably high. Physicians cannot contribute to delivering and improving quality patient care if physicians continue to burnout at this rate, leave practice, drop out of medical school, or take their own life. Characterized by emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and a reduced sense of accomplishment, burnout has a devastating impact on doctors and is linked to increased rates of suicide and depression – more
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7 Supply Chain Management Areas Where AI and ML Can Realize the Greatest Cost Savings
According to a recent report from Syft, health care leaders fail to leverage data analytics
in their supply chains. This shortcoming could result in them missing out on
millions of dollars. There's an urgent need to optimize supply usage throughout
the enterprise and patient care continuum while cutting waste.
In addition to the
increasing downward pressure hampering revenues, statistics anticipate that
supply chain costs will exceed labor-related expenses by 2022.
These factors
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Leveraging Healthcare CRM Tools to Deliver Better Patient Experiences
Consumers and patients have high expectations for their care providers – they want convenience, personalization, and increasingly, price transparency. We’ve all come to know this as the “Amazon experience”.
Yet, hospitals and health systems are different from other businesses, handling more sensitive and personal information while also delivering an often life-saving service. And while that is true, consumers now experience the world holistically and expect the same level of care and
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