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Included Health announced a new partnership with a national provider of high acuity and complex in-home care, DispatchHealth to launch a new virtual-to-home, care model.Included Health and DispatchHealth will supplement care that begins online with on-demand, in-home support. This augmented offering will activate the home as a setting to treat everything from common to complex injuries, illnesses and disease, and offers great promise when it comes to reducing
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CareSource Invests $1M in Virtual Rehab Augment Therapy
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CareSource, a nonprofit managed care organization, today announced a $1M investment in Augment Therapy, a digital health company enhancing rehabilitative healthcare and exercise through immersive and gamified technology.The investment builds on CareSource and Augment Therapy’s pilot program at four locations in Ohio to research and showcase how access to Augment Therapy encourages children, and adults of all ages to exercise more and to get the most out of physical
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Notable Leverages GPT to Automate Patient Front Office Experience
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Notable, an intelligent automation company for healthcare, launches Patient AI, a solution leveraging large language models (LLMs) and GPT (the technology powering ChatGPT) to bring personalization at scale to healthcare.Using GPT to scan existing clinical documentation, this tech can detect missed diagnoses, identify lapsed insurance cards, incorrect addresses, eligible clinical trials, or costly care gaps in real-time across an entire patient population.
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Salesforce Launches New Customer 360 for Health Capabilities to Deliver More Personalized Patient Experiences
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- Salesforce today announced new Customer 360 for Health capabilities that help healthcare providers deliver more personalized patient experiences and reduce operational costs.
- Customer 360 for Health helps healthcare and life sciences organizations enhance the overall care experience with the full power of Salesforce technology, including real-time data from Data Cloud, Einstein AI, and automation with Flow.
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Risk Adjustment 2023: Which Vendors Drive Value in a Shifting Market?
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Strategies employed by payers, provider-sponsored health plans, and provider organizations are starting to become more proactive, and the need for solutions with prospective, predictive capabilities is rising. Additionally, amid rising healthcare costs and economic uncertainty, organizations are looking for solutions that deliver more for less.A new KLAS report examines risk adjustment vendors’ abilities to drive outcomes and value, their prospective capabilities,
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ConnectRN Expands Nursing Staffing Services Into Hospital Settings
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connectRN, the nurse staffing community that provides clinicians with flexible scheduling opportunities and resources, announced today that nurses have begun using the platform to find hospital shifts at multiple Nashville hospitals.Previously, clinicians and nurses used the app to find shifts in skilled nursing facilities and home health settings - now they will soon be able to connect with hospitals in their areas as connectRN works to expand hospital availability
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HouseWorks Acquires Amedisys’ Personal Care Division
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- HouseWorks LLC, a provider of personal care services in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, and Maine has acquired Associated Home Care, the Personal Care division at Amedisys, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMED), a leading provider of home health, hospice, and high-acuity care.
- HouseWorks, in partnership with eCaring, joins the Amedisys personal care network and forms a care coordination partnership to deliver comprehensive, seamless care to the communities both
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Maribel Health Raises $25M to Create the Future of Advanced Care at Home
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- Maribel Health, a turnkey partner for health systems looking to design, build, and operate a full continuum of advanced home and community services, announced today the completion of a $25 million Series A funding round led by General Catalyst.
- The new funding will be used to accelerate growth with Maribel's initial partners, to attract and onboard the talent required to serve its collaborators worldwide and to support continued
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How Home Health Tech Can Solve a Stubborn $290B Healthcare Challenge
The good news on the medical front is that with advances in therapy, people with chronic diseases are able to remain in their homes and even live active lifestyles, which improves their quality of life and can save them, the government (Medicaid/Medicaid), and the insurance industry money. But -- and it’s a big one -- those savings can only be achieved if those patients adhere to their medication schedules.
Non-adherence first came to the forefront of awareness back in 2009, when the New
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Signify Health, Cardinal Health Partner to Offer In-Home Medication Therapy Management
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- Signify Health announced a partnership with Cardinal Health, a medical device and pharmaceuticals supplier, to provide in-home medication therapy management to Medicare members.
- In order to provide a more coordinated care experience and help members with their often-complex medication regimens, Signify’s mobile network of 11,000 credentialed clinicians will be able to offer medication management services for health plan members through in-home health evaluations
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