What You Should Know: - Amwell launches new smart tv Carepoint device that enables hospitals to use televisions for telehealth in an effort to help hospitals scale and simplify access to telehealth by using devices that already exist in patient rooms. Intermountain Healthcare has already successfully deployed more than 1,200 units across nearly 50 locations. - Designed to further expand integrated telehealth connectivity via the Amwell platform, the new
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Shields Health Solutions, ExceleraRx Announce Specialty Pharmacy Merger – M&A
What You Should Know: - Shields Health Solutions and Excelera announce a major
specialty pharmacy merger that will form a combined company that consults with
700+ hospitals in 43 states, including Mass General Brigham, Yale New Haven,
Intermountain Healthcare and Henry Ford. - The network of hospitals is designed to improve patient
care through an infrastructure that helps with things like acquiring prior
authorization for specialty drugs and staying adherent to them. It can also
lower
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Intermountain Adds Omada’s Diabetes Prevention Program to At-Risk Patients
What You Should Know: - Omada’s diabetes prevention program will be available
to Intermountain’s at-risk patient population as part of a limited engagement
in 2020 and 2021. - Omada’s diabetes prevention program is personalized to
meet each participant’s unique needs as they evolve, ranging from diabetes
prevention, type 2 diabetes management, hypertension, behavioral health, and
musculoskeletal issues. Deepening a collaboration that began in 2016, Omada
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Intermountain, Sanford Health Signs Intent to Merge
What You Should Know: - Intermountain Healthcare and Sanford Health sign a letter of intent to merge that will created a combined health system employing more than 89k people at 70 hospitals and 435 clinics across seven states. Intermountain Healthcare and Sanford Health, one of the nation’s leading systems in rural health care delivery and clinical research, have signed a letter of intent to develop a strategic partnership. The boards of both not-for-profit organizations approved a
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Intermountain, Vynca Partner to Prioritize and Digitize Advance Care Planning
What You Should Know: - Intermountain Healthcare collaborates with Vynca, a national leader in advance care planning solutions to prioritize and digitize advance care planning. - The
collaboration enables integrated digital completion workflows and establishes a
single, centralized source of truth with built-in error prevention – enabling
the Intermountain Healthcare team to honor patients’ end-of-life
wishes, avoid unwanted healthcare utilization and reduce
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Intermountain to Deploy AI-Powered Digital Assistants Across Clinically Integrated Network
What You Should Know: - Intermountain Healthcare announced it will scale
Notable’s AI-driven platform across the health system’s clinically integrated
network to support thousands of providers, automate administrative workflows,
streamline the check-in experience for patients, and simplify provider
follow-up. - The Notable Platform uses intelligent automation to identify and engage more patients in need of care and enables staff and clinicians to better serve patients by eliminating
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Why Hasn’t A More Holistic Approach to Patient Care Become The Norm?
When food production technology made it possible, wheat flour processors started to eliminate the tough exterior (bran) and nutrient-rich core (germ) of the kernel to get at the large, starchy part (the endosperm) only. The bread produced from this process is white and fluffy, and it makes great PB&Js and takes forever to grow mold, but it is almost totally lacking nutritional value. Nutrition experts eventually pointed this out, of course, after which commercial bakers tried fortifying
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GYANT Raises $13.6M for AI-Enabled Digital Front Door Solution to Drive Patient-Doctor Engagement
What You Should Know: - GYANT raises $13.6M in Series A funding for AI-enabled digital front door solutions to drive meaningful patient-doctor engagement. - The investment will enable GYANT to scale up its product development to meet rapidly increasing market demand and support its exponential customer growth. - Current customers include Intermountain Healthcare, OSF
Healthcare, Adventist Health, Health First, Integris, etc. GYANT, a San Francisco, CA-based care navigation
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Intermountain’s Castell Taps Arcadia to Elevate Value-Based Care
What You Should Know: - Intermountain’s Castell has selected Arcadia Analytics
as the healthcare technology and analytics foundation to support its
comprehensive approach to helping organizations accelerate the transition from
volume- to value-based systems of care. Castell, the new comprehensive healthcare platform company from Intermountain Healthcare that elevates value-based capabilities for providers, payers, healthcare systems, and accountable care organizations (ACOs) has
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Intermountain Deploys COVID-19 Screener and Emergency Response Solution
What You Should Know: GYANT announced that Intermountain Healthcare is leveraging
its COVID-19 Screener and Emergency Response Assistant to support patients
during this frightening and uncertain time. GYANT’s COVID-19 assistant is allowing Intermountain
Healthcare to screen patients for symptoms and risk factors, as many people
aren’t sure if they should be tested for the COVID-19 virus. Based on the patients’ responses, the assistant directs patients
to the
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