In March 2020, many office workers packed up their bags under the mandate of their employers, assuming they’d be working from home for a few weeks so the coronavirus could “blow over.” Fast-forward two years: many of those same employees have yet to step foot back into their old offices, and some never will again.
A similar trend is playing out in healthcare. When COVID-19 started, many health systems rapidly adopted virtual care models as a matter of necessity to keep as many non-COVID
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Health Plan Invests $100M to Introduce Real-Time Claims Payments for Providers
What You Should Know:
- CalOptima will be the first health plan to introduce ‘real-time claims payments’ permanently for providers as part of this historic $100+ million investment in the safety net in Southern California.
- Board also approves $100 million in technology to improve health care delivery and $8 million to launch a Street Medicine Program.
CalOptima, a publicly funded health care coverage for low-income children, adults, seniors and people with disabilities in Orange
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Podimetrics Secures $45M for SmartMat to Prevent Diabetic Amputations in High-Risk Patients
What You Should Know:
- Podimetrics raises $45M to help at-risk providers and health plans prevent diabetic amputations in high-risk patients.
- With this latest round of funding, Podimetrics plans to focus on hiring to build out their product development and research teams, while also expanding the breadth of services delivered by their nurse support team.
Podimetrics, a care management company with the leading solution to help prevent costly and deadly diabetic foot ulcer (DFUs)
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When Automation Meets Empathy: Intelligent Virtual Assistants for Healthcare
Advances in conversational artificial intelligence are transforming basic chatbots into intelligent virtual assistants that provide comfort and utility for healthcare consumers and the healthcare organizations that serve them.
Most consumers have their minds made up about automated phone agents, and not too many people like them. Who among us hasn’t experienced the frustration of an automated phone menu when calling for a doctor's appointment or shouted “representative!” into our
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What Healthcare Leaders Need to Do Now About Ransomware
If ransomware is not a topic of conversation around any healthcare organization’s boardroom table, directors and senior executives may be exposing the organization (and themselves) to considerable risk. Here’s a guide to ransomware trends for 2022 and steps healthcare leaders can take to help protect their organizations.
Ransomware trends in 2022
The risk of a ransomware attack in 2022 is substantial, with gangs specializing in targeting the healthcare sector. Last year saw dozens of
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MEDITECH and Google Health Partner to Embed Search & Summarization in Expanse EHR
What You Should Know:
Today at HIMSS22, MEDITECH announced a new collaboration with Google Health that will embed Google’s search and summarization capabilities within the Expanse EHR.
- This functionality builds upon the integrated, longitudinal record inherent in Expanse by pulling forward discrete information from legacy and disparate systems and filling gaps in information for a more holistic view of a patient's record.
Rich Longitudinal Health Record to Enable Care Teams to
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OpenLoop Raises $8M to Expand Full Stack, White Label Telehealth Services
What You Should Know:
OpenLoop, a health tech startup delivering full-stack clinical support to companies launching and scaling virtual care services across the nation raises a Series A funding round of $8M led by SpringTide Ventures.
- OpenLoop, known for the quality, flexibility and breadth of services they offer to clients who are often early in their telehealth delivery journeys, will use this fresh capital to continue to expand their technology-enabled infrastructure. They will be
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Health Gorilla Raises $50M to Expand FHIR-Native Health Interoperability Platform
What You Should Know:
- Health Gorilla raises $50 million in Series C funding to securely enable the exchange of actionable and aggregated clinical data.
- The new investment will accelerate Health Gorilla's mission to connect everyone, everywhere, with actionable health data.
Health Gorilla, a Sunnyvale, CA-based health interoperability platform, today announced it has raised $50M in Series C funding led by SignalFire with participation from Epsilon Health Investors, IA Capital, and
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XRHealth Secures $10M to Expand Virtual Reality Treatment in the Metaverse
What You Should Know:
- XRHealth, the gateway to the healthcare metaverse, announced today that they raised $10M in funding to expand virtual healthcare treatment in the Metaverse. The funding was backed by HTC, Bridges Israel impact investment fund, AARP, and crowdfunding on StartEngine.com and existing investors.
- XRHealth’s platform is FDA and CE registered and provides an immersive experience for users, transporting them to a virtual world for comprehensive
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Unlock Healthcare Data to Improve Patient Care and Operational Efficiency
The ease in which protected health information (PHI) is shared, accessed, and analyzed has a direct impact on clinical productivity, patient care coordination, and health outcomes. Today, clinicians still spend a considerable amount of time typing in, clicking through, and editing electronic health records (EHR). Manually keying-in patient data into fields is not only time-consuming and inefficient, but it can also lead to medical errors if any of the information is typed incorrectly.
This
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