What You Should Know:
- Today, Sharecare announced the launch of Smart Omix, Sharecare's new scalable SaaS-based solution to empower independent researchers, clinicians, and academic institutions to conduct digitally enabled clinical research studies
- Smart Omix is made for researchers by researchers and purpose-built to address technological, economic, and talent barriers to remote observational studies more commonly encountered by
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EMPI/MPI: An End-to-End Approach to Patient Data Integrity
Maintaining patient data integrity is more complicated than ever; cybersecurity threats loom, patients are taking more ownership of their care (self-registration, for example) and health system merger activity is on the rise. It can make the quest for the ever-elusive 1% maximum duplicate rate seem, at times, unattainable.
But a secure, accurate, and duplicate-free MPI/EMPI can be achieved. It just requires a multi-pronged approach to protect data throughout its journey into a health system
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Analysis: 2022 Semi-Annual Health IT Market Review
Executive Summary
Act III of COVID: Navigating the Crosscurrents of Post-Inflation
2022 ushered in Act III of the market’s latest transitionary period: The Post-Inflation Era. Since 2008, the US economy functioned with remarkably low inflation and interest rates. As the cost of capital went lower and lower during the decade, valuations steadily rose. Between 2010 and 2020, the NASDAQ experienced a 17.1% annual growth rate, with no small share of the growth a result of expanding valuation
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ClaimLogiq Acquires SyTrue for Better Clinical, Coding, & Medical Reviews
What You Should Know:
- Payment integrity tech provider ClaimLogiq acquires SyTrue, a provider of healthcare natural language processing (NLP) technology. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.
- The acquisition combines the premier payment integrity platform with the leading NLP technology solution to transform how health plans address payment integrity, risk adjustment and data management. By combining their technologies, the market will have a new seamless and cohesive
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Medidata Launches New Clinical Operations Technologies
What You Should Know:
- Today, Medidata, a Dassault Systèmes company, is announcing technology enhancements that address key issues in clinical trial management and oversight.
- These enhancements are to Medidata Detect and Rave CTMS (Clinical Trial Management System), which will improve both data oversight and reporting for sponsors and contract research organizations (CROs) in two meaningful ways: how they comprehensively monitor their trial data, and how they
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Unlocking Interoperability with a Blockchain-Powered Network
Achieving fluid data interoperability has been a complex and challenging goal for the U.S. healthcare system. The result of which has led to excessive administrative costs, delays in providing care, and significant patient frustration.
According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S. healthcare spending grew 9.7% in 2020, reaching $4.1 trillion, or $12,530 per person. This is forecasted to grow to $6.2 trillion by 2028, which will only exacerbate the current spending
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4 Steps for Operationalizing the FDA’s Call To Improve Health Outcomes for All Patients
In April, FDA Commissioner Dr. Robert Califf laid out areas of challenge and opportunity when it comes to improving health outcomes, restoring public trust in science, and making the most of our ongoing investments in data analytics and clinical research. More specifically, Califf made clear that our current healthcare system is “very well aligned to improve outcomes for some people and not others.”
Califf went on to note that we need better mechanisms for evidence generation
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Reproducibility, Trust, and the Digital Laboratory
Over the last decade, there has been an increasing recognition that results published in scientific journals often cannot be reproduced by other scientists. This has been called the “reproducibility crisis” and has been described in a number of studies. A 2016 Nature article reported that more than 70% of surveyed researchers tried and failed to reproduce another scientist's experiments, and more than half have failed to reproduce their own experiments. A 2021 study reported that fewer than half
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Olive Partners with Magenta to Revolutionize Risk Adjustment Process
What You Should Know:
- Olive, the automation company creating the Internet of Healthcare, today announced its partnership with Magenta Care Continuum, a HIPAA-compliant health records vault that includes care gap analytics.
- Through the Olive Library, payers and providers can access Magenta's solutions to help close care gaps, improve billing and claims occurrence and ensure compliance and revenue integrity for value-based population management.
Automating the Risk
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Vivalink Expands Use of its Biometrics Data Platform
What You Should Know:
- Vivalink, a leading provider of digital healthcare solutions, has expanded its Biometrics Data Platform - which delivers uninterrupted streams of real-world physiological data - to enable faster algorithm development for disease detection and diagnosis.
- More than 100 digital healthcare application companies and customers in 32 countries are already developing a wide range of medical applications for remote patient monitoring and clinical trials based on the
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