- Papa raises $10M in Series A funding to expand “grandkids on-demand” platform to help reduce social isolation in seniors. - Adds partnerships with multiple large health insurance plans, including Humana, Aetna, Priority Health and Alignment Healthcare. - Papa will use the funding to expand its services to a broader population of older adults, via partnerships with additional insurance plans and employee benefits provider.Papa, a digital health company that provides “grandkids on demand” to
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Cerner Appoints Darrell Johnson as First Chief Marketing Officer
- Former Medtronic executive Darrell Johnson joins Cerner as their first SVP and Chief Marketing Officer.
- Johnson will oversee marketing, corporate communications and market intelligence in its next wave of growth to introduce its new solutions to the market.
Cerner announced today it has appointed Darrell Johnson in the newly created role of Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer where he will be responsible for leading global marketing, corporate communications, and
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Livongo Founder Glen Tullman to Receive “Ripple of Hope” Award
Livongo Founder and Executive Chairman Glen Tullman will be honored with a Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Ripple of Hope Award for his career focused on improving the safety, empathy, and efficiency of our healthcare system.
The Ripple of Hope Award Background
The Ripple of Hope Award celebrates leaders of the international business, entertainment, and activist communities who have demonstrated a commitment to social change. Past honorees include President Barack Obama, Archbishop
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FCC Strengthens Rural Telehealth Program: 5 Things to Know
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Thursday took action to promote telehealth in rural America through reforms to the Rural Health Care Program that ensure limited program funds are disbursed efficiently and equitably, promote transparency and predictability in the program’s administration, and strengthen safeguards against waste, fraud, and abuse.
The announcement revises the rules governing the Telecom Program to simplify calculation of the urban rate—the amount health care
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HIM Provider Ciox Health Lands $30M to Expand Health Data Repository
Ciox Health, a provider of health information management solutions has raised $30 million in equity investment capital led by Merck Global Health Innovation Fund (Merck GHIF) and private equity owner New Mountain Capital. Every record represents a real person. Each data point is a potential game-changer in someone’s life: a connection to be understood and acted upon. Ciox rapidly and securely facilitates access to clinical records on behalf of its healthcare provider customers, enabling
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Referential Matching—What It Is and Why It Matters for Providers
Clean patient data is the critical first step for any successful health IT integration, EHR conversion, interoperability initiative or electronic information exchange. According to a recent Pew Charitable Trusts report, most hospital executives and administrators believe the accuracy of patient matching when information is exchanged between organizations with different EHR systems is subpar.
Further, as health systems continue to consolidate and add more data to their networks, the importance of
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Notable Nabs $40M to Expand Drug Discovery Platform for Personalized Oncology
Notable, a San Francisco, CA-based company redefining cancer treatment with a clinically validated platform that rapidly advances cancer drug development has raised $40M in Series B funding. The Series B round is co-led by B Capital Group and LifeForce Capital. LifeForce is a returning investor, joined by new investors B Capital and Industry Ventures. This latest round brings Notable’s total funding to over $55M.Notable was founded in 2017 by Matt De Silva after helping his own father Marc, who
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KLAS: Are Revenue Cycle Outsourced Services Worth The Investment?
One-third of providers have buyer’s remorse when it comes to purchasing revenue cycle outsourcing services, according to a recent KLAS report. Provider organizations investing in outsourced revenue cycle services to relieve cost and resource burdens need their firms to take true ownership of the complex revenue cycle and deliver accordingly.For the report, KLAS spoke to 140 provider organizations using RCO or EBOS to determine which firms are delivering and which are falling behind. The KLAS
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Revenue Leakage: 3 Methods to Revive Your Charge Integrity Program
Many consider a strong charge integrity program the cornerstone and heartbeat of the revenue cycle. Without an effective charge integrity program, health care providers run the risk of revenue leakage.
According to the Healthcare Financial Management Association, “one percent of net patient revenue is lost due to charge capture errors,” which can add up to multi-millions of dollars for health care organizations. Most providers have not considered or quantified the potential dollars lost when
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You Want Patient Engagement? Make The System Navigable
Last month, New York Times reporter Robert Pear died at age 69 from complications of a stroke. The name was unfamiliar to me, and I guess that’s to be expected, given what I’ve learned of the man since.
Turns out Robert Pear was a thoughtful, unassuming reporter who wanted the accuracy and validity of his work to speak for him. This approach engendered much respect among his peers in the 40 years that he primarily covered healthcare policy.
“Robert was an exacting reporter,” writes
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