Healthcare facilities and their sprawling campuses can be overwhelming and challenging to navigate. In fact, facilities lose close to $800 million a year due to missed hospital appointments, and many physicians blame a significant portion of this lost revenue on the problems patients have navigating these facilities.
Figuring out where to park and finding the correct office can be stressful and negatively impact the patient’s experience. Making matters worse, most hospital staff members work
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ACO to Deploy Innovaccer’s FHIR-enabled Data Activation Platform Across Medicare Population
What You Should Know:
- MultiCare Connected Care announced it will leverage Innovaccer's FHIR®-enabled Data Activation Platform for the Medicare Track 1+ population.
- MultiCare Connected Care is an Accountable Care Organization and a wholly-owned subsidiary of MultiCare Health System based in the state of Washington, one of the largest, not-for-profit health systems.
MultiCare
Connected Care (MCC), one of the leading clinically integrated care
networks in the state of Washington,
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careMESH Raises $5M to Scale Healthcare Communications Platform
What You Should Know:
- careMESH raises $5M in seed funding to scale the adoption of its first-of-a-kind healthcare communications platform.
- careMESH is a single service for hospitals, health systems, and other healthcare delivery organizations which offers a National Provider Directory, patient event notifications, secure communications, and transition of care workflows.
careMESH, a Reston, VA-based healthcare communications platform announced it has raised $5M in seed funding
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5 Reasons Why Providers Need Electronic Support for Glycemic Management
It’s no secret hyperglycemia and hypoglycemia are associated with adverse outcomes in hospitalized patients. We’ve known for many years that hyperglycemia is widespread in the hospital, causes immune dysfunction, higher rates of infection, a longer length of hospital stay, complications, and even death.
Insulin has been the most effective therapy for hyperglycemia since it was first created almost 100 years ago, but it can also be dangerous if not managed properly. In fact, nearly 50% of all
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Solve.Care Launches Blockchain-Powered Global Telehealth Exchange
What You Should Know:
- Healthcare platform Solve.Care has announced the launch of the Global Telehealth Exchange (GTHE), a first-of-its-kind landmark deployment of blockchain and digital currency aimed at tackling the challenges facing the global healthcare system today.
- The GTHE, a decentralized care network, removes the physical and geographical barriers associated with accessing healthcare services while also providing administrative, payment, and care coordination for
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The DNA Company Acquires AI Digital Therapeutics App for $30M to Form My Next Health
What You Should Know:
- DNA Company acquires AI-based digital therapeutics app My Pain Sensei (MPS) to form My Next Health and is building a COVID-19 risk assessment platform to help people understand their risks of developing serious COVID-19 complications.
- The acquisition combines functional genomics with conversational AI for patient self-management apps and disease tracking tools designed to inform clinician-patient interactions.
Leading functional genomics provider The
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Leveraging Big Data for Real World Clinical Analytics
Recently, as the world has watched the coronavirus crisis unfold, the power of big data to track, illustrate, and inform has taken center stage. A compelling example is the near real-time map created by Johns Hopkins Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) that shows all the cases as the disease spreads across the globe.
With far-reaching implications for healthcare, big data enables deep analysis of data from a myriad of sources – electronic medical records (EMRs), claims,
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The Impending Artificial Intelligence Revolution in Healthcare
For at least a decade, healthcare luminaries have been predicting the coming AI revolution. In other fields, AI has evolved beyond the hype and has begun to showcase real and transformative applications: autonomous vehicles, fraud detection, personalized shopping, virtual assistants, and so on. The list is long and impressive. But in healthcare, despite the expectations and the tremendous potential in improving the delivery of care, the AI revolution is just getting started. There have been
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How AI-Driven Insight Could Fuel Medicare Advantage Success
Medicare Advantage plans need more than consumer-centric design, payer/provider alignment, and strong connections across the continuum of care to drive value. The high-value performance also depends on their ability to use data to make a meaningful difference in members’ health.
With 11,000 people aging into Medicare daily, proficiency in managing Medicare Advantage populations is critical for demonstrating value in a competitive market. Enrollment in these plans is growing significantly,
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COVID-19: Best Practices to Safeguard Organizations from Cybercriminals
While we may consider health largely a private concern in the United States, our nation depends on the continuity and availability of its healthcare system in a very public way, as evidenced by the current coronavirus outbreak. Our critical healthcare infrastructure is vulnerable at this time, no doubt, but it truly has been inspiring to see doctors, scientists, and other industry professionals from around the world come together to stop the spread of COVID-19. To fend off exploitative
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