What You Should Know:
- Healthcare technology company DrFirst has announced the
release of its next generation, patented SmartSig AI technology to improve the
quality of patient medication history when it is imported into hospitals’ and
health systems’ electronic health records (EHRs).
- Simple prescription instructions, called “sigs,” can
have hundreds of variations or be missing entirely from patients’ medication
histories when they are imported into hospitals’ EHRs. The missing
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Why COVID-19 Highlights Urgent Need to Humanize and Modernize The Patient Financial Experience
Florian Otto, MD, DDS, Co-founder, and CEO of Cedar
It’s no secret that COVID-19 and the
corresponding near-immediate economic catastrophe will be felt for
significantly longer than the few short months it took to wreak its initial
havoc. While losses hit businesses from “a to z” (...except maybe Amazon, ironically),
hospitals and health systems tasked with treating the victims of this pandemic
bear a particularly harsh dose of the financial fallout -- $72 billion in CARES
Act hospital grants
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HHS Awards Morehouse $40M to Combat COVID-19, Advance Health Equity in Minority Communities
Source: Morehouse School of Medicine
What You Should Know:
- Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) partners with the
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on a three-year project to combat
COVID-19 and advance health equity in minority communities.
- The
initiative – the National Infrastructure for Mitigating the Impact of COVID-19
within Racial and Ethnic Minority Communities – is a three-year project
designed to work with community-based organizations across the nation
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Somatus Lands $64M to Expand Value-Based Kidney Care Model
What You Should Know:
- Somatus raises $64M in Series C funding led by Longitudinal
Capital to fuel the expansion of its value-based kidney care model.
- Somatus will use the funding to continue to scale its
model nationally and invest in technology and product development to better
support patients and health plan partners.
Somatus, a McLean, VA-based provider of value-based kidney care, today announced it has completed a Series C funding round of $64 million led by Longitude
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Cedar Nabs $102M to Modernize Patient Financial Experience
What You Should Know:
- Cedar raises $102M to fuel the next phase of Cedar’s vision of evolving from a patient financial engagement solution to a comprehensive healthcare consumer engagement platform.
- Cedar combines healthcare, tech, and design to create a seamless financial experience for every patient. From pre-visit registration to post-visit billing, Cedar personalizes the care journey to take each patient to payment with ease.
- The company also announced it has partnered with
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Epic MyChart Helps Deliver COVID-19 Drive-Thru Tests at 1,000+ CVS Pharmacies
Source: CVS Health
As states cautiously re-open, convenient access to COVID-19 testing
is critical so that those who are infected can self-isolate quickly to minimize
its spread. EHR leader Epic is helping
deliver COVID-19 test results via MyChart as part of an effort to increase
nationwide testing capacity being led by CVS
Health.
Epic's software allows patients to access test results online in a timely and efficient manner. Patients registering for an appointment at the 1,000+ COVID-19
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Predictive Analytics: Preventing the Aftershocks from COVID-19
Right now, the world’s attention is focused on COVID-19. This is most appropriate as it has hit the world like a global earthquake, disrupting lives on an unprecedented scale.
However, there will come a day when the immediate danger has passed. At that point, it’s very likely that the healthcare system will begin to feel the significant aftershocks of COVID-19 in the form of neglected chronic condition management throughout the pandemic.
The Centers for Disease Control
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Verily Launches Healthy at Work Program for COVID-19 Screening & Testing
What You Should Know:
- Verily launches Healthy at Work Program providing
ongoing COVID-19 screening and testing for a healthy return to work and school
to communities across the nation.
- The Healthy at Work program combines symptom screening, testing services, and data analytics. Employees, students, or others designated to participate in the program can use the online interface to record health symptoms each day.
Today, Verily, an Alphabet
company, has announced a new Healthy
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MD Anderson, Philips Partner on Personalized Oncology Treatments, Clinical Trial Matching
What You Should Know:
- Philips and MD Anderson collaborate to facilitate
personalized oncology treatments and clinical trial matching based on genomic
markers.
- Philips connects oncologists and pathologists around
the world to MD Anderson’s Precision Oncology Decision Support (PODS) system of
actionable clinical information
Philips and The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer
Center today announced a collaboration to provide oncologists with
evidence-based therapy and clinical
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Carequality Releases Implementation Guide for Electronic Case Reporting
What You Should Know:
- Carequality releases an implementation guide for electronic case reporting that enables automated, electronic case reporting to public health agencies, including the CDC.
- Carequality worked closely with the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) in developing the new implementation guide.
- This is Carequality’s second implementation guide, the first being the Query-Based Document Exchange Implementation Guide, which was originally adopted in 2015
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