The healthcare industry is in desperate need of nurses — and fast. Chances are this isn't news to you. You've seen the countless headlines covering the impact the pandemic has had on nurses, and how that nursing shortage has impacted employment numbers, healthcare facilities, and patient care.
Nurses are burnt out. They're stressed, exhausted, and struggling to find adequate mental health support. But the pandemic isn't the only issue to blame. Experts are predicting that over 1 million RNs
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How Low-Code Development Will Deliver The Future of Public Health Services
From reducing IT backlogs and accelerating app development, to empowering citizen developers and enabling “fusion” dev teams of programmers and business technologists, the private sector has been enjoying the benefits of low-code development for some time now.
For those unfamiliar with the concept, “low-code” generally refers to app development platforms in which users can input information and get the results they need through graphical user interfaces, or GUIs, rather than having to
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Prescryptive Health Taps Lilly on First-to-Market Value-Based Program to Stabilize Insulin Pricing
What You Should Know:
- Prescryptive Health, a healthcare technology company on a mission to rewrite the script for the U.S. pharmaceutical market partners with Eli Lilly and Company on a new and first-to-market subscription model to help lower costs for people who pay for their Lilly insulin through their employer-sponsored benefits.
- Through a flat, per-member, per-month subscription fee, employers can offer insulin to their employees with predictable, affordable, and transparent costs.
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PatientsLikeMe Partners with LetsGetChecked to Offer Members Access to Home Testing Solutions
What You Should Know:
- PatientsLikeMe (PLM), the trusted community health network that empowers patients to take charge of their health, announced its partnership with LetsGetChecked, a global healthcare solutions company.
- The partnership will provide PLM’s 1 million members with access to enhanced patient support capabilities for testing. PLM’s expansive patient community can now utilize LetsGetChecked’s suite of offerings directly through the PLM platform and receive a discount on
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Greenway Health Launches Greenway Engagement Model
What You Should Know:
- Greenway Health has launched its new client engagement program, the Greenway Engagement Model (GEM), designed to strengthen Greenway's trusted advisor relationship with clients and support a more successful healthcare technology journey for Greenway clients through intentional interaction and strategic support.
- The GEM program provides a dedicated client support team and creates a client feedback program aimed at improving the user
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Analysis: RSNA 2022: Predictions vs Reality
Much has already been written about attendance at RSNA, but from a first-hand perspective, RSNA 2022 could be regarded as a step back toward “normal”. Amongst mostly bustling halls, vendors reported very positive feedback on the volume and quality of customer meetings, with one prominent global imaging vendor citing “We’re signing deals here at the show again – things are looking up”.
Against this positive backdrop, however, the stark challenges facing radiology in a post-COVID world were
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EMRs Are Outdated, but Big Tech Is Not The Answer
Over a decade ago, the “meaningful use” clause in the United States Affordable Care Act incentivized Electronic Medical Record (EMR) adoption. The purpose of this directive was to improve the transfer of laboratory data to point-of-care clinicians to help us make better, more informed decisions for our patients.
In the years that followed, EMR systems have proliferated globally; countries like New Zealand, Norway, and the Netherlands are reporting EMR usage rates above 90% for primary care
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Inventory Management Systems Bolster Hospital Cost Savings Initiatives
For many hospitals and health systems, it’s been another challenging year. Increases in patient volume and modest revenue gains haven’t been enough to offset the impact of labor shortages and an inflation rate that reached a historic high in June. A recent Kaufman Hall report found most healthcare organizations had negative operating margins for the first half of 2022 due in large part to historically high expenses.
In the face of these ongoing operating losses, the industry has
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CrowdHealth Secures $6M for Community-Powered Alternative to Health Insurance
What You Should Know:
- CrowdHealth recently secured $6 million in Series A funding from Next Coast Ventures and Activate Venture Partners. CrowdHealth plans to reinvest that funding back into the company—growing the CrowdHealth community and providing more tools for members that want to take charge of their healthcare and affordably break free from health insurance.
- Operating under a monthly membership model, CrowdHealth is a healthcare technology company that offers a new way to
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Digital Health VCs Cite ROI & Clinical Validation As Greatest Markers of Company’s Success
What You Should Know:
- Investors in the healthcare technology space believe a measurable return on investment (ROI) and clinical validation of the technology's platform will be the greatest indicators of company success in 2023, according to a new survey of top digital health investors by GSR Ventures.
- ROI was deemed "important" or "very important" to the success of digital health companies by more than 94% of investor respondents, and 79% for clinical evidence and trials.
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