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4 Key Focus Areas to Measure Your Digital Health Strategy

by Angie Stevens, Chief Strategy Officer, Iron Bow Healthcare Solutions 10/10/2022 Leave a Comment

4 Key Focus Areas to Measure Your Digital Health Strategy

The promise of digital healthcare is profound. Moving from today’s transactional encounters to a convenient and continuous connection between patients and clinicians can greatly improve both relationships and overall care. The responsible collection of data from a digital platform can also lay the foundation for better, more personalized care. Perhaps most importantly, consumers are no longer tethered to a physical location and are able to receive quality care regardless of where they live or
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The True Value of Human-Centered Research Within Medical Technology

by Hollie Johnston, Principal and Human Sciences Capability Lead at PDD 10/06/2022 Leave a Comment

The True Value of Human-Centred Research Within Medical Technology

With recent statistics suggesting that 70% of all projects fail, it’s vital that we do all we can to set ourselves up for success when we set out on a new design or development of a product. Every day, we are surrounded by products and services that don’t work as we expect them to. Whether it is a hard-to-follow set of instructions for a new medical device or a convoluted setup process, people are constantly forced to develop workarounds to compensate for poor design.The practice of
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Patient Engagement: 3 Lessons Learned from Consumer & Service Industries

by Alison Budor, Consultant, Freed Associates 05/11/2022 Leave a Comment

What Healthcare Can Learn about Digital Tech from Consumer and Service Industries

If there’s been a constant in healthcare the past two years, it’s been in the rapidity of change, largely in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Suddenly, healthcare needed to adopt new work models and technologies to provide proper patient care. No wonder healthcare ranked atop all other industries in “new ways of working and processes,” “new tech tools and infrastructure,” and “new staff wellbeing practices,” in a recent survey of 1,200 business leaders. Inevitably, healthcare organizations
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Ease of Access: Applying the “911” Principle Across Healthcare

by Mandana Varahrami, Chief Product Officer, CipherHealth 03/11/2022 Leave a Comment

Ease of Access: Applying the “911” Principle Across Healthcare

The fastest way to access healthcare in the United States isn’t through a primary care physician or urgent care or orchestrated referrals processes. It comes through three taps of a button: Nine, one, and one.  Dialing 911 during a medical emergency is a straightforward process: Callers are routed to the correct dispatcher, resources are deployed quickly and effectively, and patients are transported to the correct facility to receive care. Through three simple numbers, you are whisked
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Virtual Care in the Post-COVID World: How to Prepare Your Healthcare Environment

by Nicole Muehlenhaus, Senior Product Manager, Ergotron 02/04/2021 Leave a Comment

Virtual Care in the Post-COVID World: How to Prepare Your Healthcare Environment

As the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated telehealth adoption, many patients and providers supported the remote-friendly technology. While the big spikes of usage may slow, adoption is still far ahead from where it was pre-pandemic, and we expect that to remain. In fact, the global telehealth market is projected to reach $559.52 billion by 2027, and estimates indicate that up to $250 billion of the current U.S. healthcare spend could potentially be virtualized.  Organizations were forced to
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Blue Cross NC Launches No-Cost Virtual Programs to Quit Smoking and Reverse Diabetes

by Jasmine Pennic 10/20/2020 Leave a Comment

Blue Cross NC Launches No-Cost Virtual Programs to Quit Smoking and Reverse Diabetes

What You Should Know: - Today, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina partners with Carrot Inc. and Virta Health to help address two of the largest ongoing health issues facing Americans today - smoking and type 2 diabetes. - Virta and Carrot’s programs will be available to individual under-65 members and fully insured group members beginning November 2020. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (Blue Cross NC), today announced it is teaming up with Carrot Inc. and Virta
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Magellan Health and Livongo to Co-Market Behavioral Health Services

by Jasmine Pennic 09/09/2020 Leave a Comment

Magellan Health and Livongo to Co-Market Behavioral Health Services

What You Should Know: - Magellan Health announced a strategic relationship with Livongo, making Livongo for Behavioral Health the new digital entry point to a wide range of solutions for Magellan Health customers and their members. - As part of the strategic relationship, Magellan and Livongo will co-market behavioral health services and collaborate on product innovations. Magellan Health, Inc., today announced a strategic relationship with Livongo the leading Applied Health
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Cohere Health Launches with $10M to Increase Transparency Across Care Journey

by Fred Pennic 07/16/2020 Leave a Comment

Cohere Health Launches with $10M to Increase Transparency Across Care Journey

What You Should Know: - Boston-based health IT start-up Cohere Health announced the official launch of its company with a $10 million Series A funding round led by Flare Capital Partners. - The company’s patient journey-focused platform improves the notoriously difficult prior authorization process and replaces an existing patchwork of legacy, siloed processes, and antiquated technologies that contribute to the enormous administrative burden for physicians and health plans. - The end
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American Telemedicine Association, Others Join AVIA Partner Network to Confront COVID-19

by Fred Pennic 05/18/2020 Leave a Comment

AVIA Lands $22M to Expand Healthcare Innovation Network to New Markets

What You Should Know: - AVIA has added the American Telemedicine Association (ATA); Conifer Health Solutions, a healthcare industry leader in financial optimization and revenue enhancement; and Gensler, a global firm focused on human-centered design to the AVIA Partner Network, which also includes organizations such as HFMA, Cerner, and Deloitte.- As hospitals face extreme clinical, operational, technological, and financial challenges due to COVID-19, healthcare leaders across the country can
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Cerner Acquires Strategic Health IT Consulting & Engineering Firm AbleVets

by Fred Pennic 10/18/2019 Leave a Comment

Cerner Acquires Strategic Health IT Consulting & Engineering Firm AbleVets

- Cerner announced it will acquire strategic health IT consulting and engineering firm AbleVets as a wholly-owned subsidiary. - The acquisition will help Cerner expand its scale and expertise in implementing health IT modernization solutions in the federal market.Today, Cerner Corporation announced a definitive agreement to acquire AbleVets—a strategic health IT consulting and engineering firm—as a wholly-owned subsidiary. Through its work with civil and defense health agencies, AbleVets
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