What You Should Know: The future of healthcare depends on access to digital-first solutions rooted in diagnostic insights that support individuals along their health journey. Everly Health, isn’t just enabling a better lab testing experience, they’re enabling a better diagnostic experience through innovative products and clinical services that are insightful and actionable, leading to more comprehensive treatment with speed that offers overall better outcomes.Additionally, Everly Health
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17 Execs Share How Health IT Can Address Clinician Burnout, Staffing, & Capacity
Clinician shortage has reached a new level of urgency as we face rising demand and healthcare costs, according to a recent Accenture report. Healthcare workers are increasingly burned out and leaving the industry altogether in droves. Those who remain to do the work are overburdened. We ask seventeen healthcare IT executives for their insights on how health IT solutions could potentially help address clinician burnout, clinician staffing shortages, and deal with capacity. Staffing levels
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Are Hospitals Ready for Alzheimer’s Treatment Approval?
The FDA’s recent accelerated approval of Leqembi was welcome news across the Alzheimer’s community. However, few health systems, medical practices, or providers are prepared for the extraordinary public interest in a treatment for Alzheimer’s disease – especially not one targeting mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and early dementia due to Alzheimer’s disease – that is likely headed their way soon. The unprecedented scale of the public health and marketing campaigns, the high prevalence of MCI in
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Intermountain Study Finds Follow-Up Care with Medication, Testing After Heart Attack Can Prevent 94% of Patients from Having Second Cardiac Event or Death
What You Should Know: - A recent study by researchers at Intermountain Healthcare in Salt Lake City finds that following up a cardiac event, such as a heart attack, with a statin prescription and cholesterol-measuring blood test, prevents 94% of patients from having or dying from a second cardiovascular event during the next three years. - Having one cardiac event, like a heart attack or stroke, puts a person at high risk of having a second one. One in five people who have a heart
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ObvioHealth Launches Decentralized Clinical Trial for Migraine Treatment Device
What You Should Know: - ObvioHealth and Mi-Helper, Inc. announce a partnership to conduct a decentralized clinical trial for a non-invasive neuromodulation device for the treatment of migraines. The randomized controlled trial will be fully remote, enabling data capture from home—where the device is intended to be used. - Mi-Helper has been developed to meet a massive unmet need for effective, targeted, and drug-free pain management of migraines, a condition which impacts 1 billion
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5 Key Trends Driving Purchasing Decisions in Healthcare IT
As the healthcare industry continues to evolve and transform with providers facing increasing financial burdens and dynamic patient expectations, Signify Research has had the opportunity to speak to 100s of C-suite health IT executives and departmental decision-makers. Our conversations with these healthcare leaders have provided greater insight into their organizations’ technology and business strategies. It has also illuminated their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. Here are
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Steps for Preventing Medical Malpractice Risks
Doctors and other healthcare professionals are entrusted with the responsibility of safeguarding the health and well-being of their patients, ensuring they receive the highest quality of care. While healthcare professionals are expected to provide a certain standard of care, any deviation from that standard that results in harm or injury to a patient may leave them exposed to a medical malpractice claim. The consequences of medical malpractice can be severe, and in some cases, can result in
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ECRI Names Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns for 2023
What You Should Know: - The pediatric mental health crisis is named the number one patient safety concern, according to ECRI’s 2023 list of most pressing patient safety concerns. - The nation’s largest nonprofit patient safety organization notes that, while rates of depression and anxiety in children have increased since 2017, the COVID-19 pandemic has elevated the situation to crisis levels. Here are
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ReKlame Health Joins Cigna In-Network, Reducing Psychiatric Care Barriers for BIPOC Communities
What You Should Know: - ReKlame Health, a provider of culturally competent, affordable and empathetic behavioral healthcare for BIPOC communities, announced that it has joined Cigna as an in-network mental healthcare provider in New York, New Jersey, and Florida. - ReKlame is now in-network with all of the nation’s leading insurance plans, including Optum, United Healthcare, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Aetna, Oxford and Oscar. The Black-founded and Black-led company brings high-quality
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Improving The Digital Experience – for Both Patient and Employee
It’s a tired, old saw: Healthcare organizations are woefully behind when it comes to technology, automation and digital experiences. Leaders are sick of hearing it. But that doesn’t make it any less true. Current market pressures, however, compel hospitals, health systems and medical practices to reconsider their hesitancy in embracing these innovations. A combination of consumer demand and acute, unrelenting labor shortages force leaders to explore the practicality of leveraging
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