What You Should Know: - Health equity – or the lack thereof – is one of the biggest challenges facing US healthcare organizations today. - A new report from Accenture, US health inequity: beyond the statistics, analyzes the role US healthcare ecosystem participants can play in addressing health inequities due to race and ethnicity. The statistics are staggering. Analysing Key Trends Concerning Health Inequities To understand the human and economic
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Partners
AHN/RHS Partner with Unite Us to Support Integrated Behavioral Health and Social Care
What You Should Know: - Unite Us is partnering with Advance Health Network IPA and Recovery Health Solutions IPA (AHN/RHS), behavioral health independent physician association's (IPAs) operating in affiliation and comprised of 47 behavioral health and human service organizations serving the New York City and Long Island communities, to advance the integration and coordination of care for individuals with both behavioral health and social needs. - Through this relationship, AHN/RHS
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Halifax Health Partners with XSOLIS for Precision Hospital Utilization Reviews
What You Should Know: - Today, XSOLIS, the AI technology company creating a more efficient healthcare system, announced a new partnership with Florida-based Halifax Health to achieve greater efficiencies between its utilization management and physician advisor teams across its three hospitals. - XSOLIS’ CORTEX® platform will help Halifax solve administrative challenges and mitigate revenue risk associated with misaligned care level status. CORTEX’s advanced case management analytics
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athenahealth Updates its Marketplace Program with Enhancements
What You Should Know: - athenahealth, Inc., today announced it significantly upgraded the athenahealth Marketplace with new features and capabilities designed to help customers and partners further extend the value of athenahealth’s solutions. - Over the last year, athenahealth has evolved the Marketplace program’s infrastructure and app store to help healthcare practices easily discover and quickly implement innovative solutions that support their efforts to improve clinical and
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Healthcare in Denial: The State of Claims in 2023
How do you solve a persistent and growing problem like claims denials? It’s been a hot topic for revenue cycle management professionals for years that’s only getting hotter with the increasing pressures of staffing shortages, challenges with staff turnover and training and ever-changing policies and protocols at the government and payer levels. On the macro-economic level, denials contribute mightily to the growing problem of uncompensated care in America, currently estimated at $43
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Desert Oasis Healthcare Partners with Rimidi, Teva to Improve Asthma Management
What You Should Know: - Rimidi, a clinical management platform today announced that Desert Oasis Healthcare (DOHC), a regional medical group has implemented Rimidi’s new Respiratory Module. - Designed to give providers a more complete view of the patient in order to guide treatment decisions for those with respiratory diseases such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) or asthma, the Respiratory Module is enhanced by a collaboration with Teva Pharmaceuticals. - Data from
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MedArrive, Ouma Partner to Bring In-Home Maternal Care to Vulnerable Medicaid Members
What You Should Know: - MedArrive today announced its collaboration with Ouma, one of the most mission-driven maternal health companies in the nation, which has the largest DTC network of maternal-fetal medicine providers (and other care specialists). - The collaboration aims to improve the health of pregnant women and their newborns, especially those at high risk, by adding a vital service to MedArrive’s growing ecosystem of specialty care providers that managed
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Digital Health Exec Hires: Transcarent Appoints CMO, Carium, Tegria, Swift Medical, GoCheckKids, Others
Transcarent appoints Dr. Randy Hawkins as Chief Medical Officer (CMO) and will report to Transcarent Chief Executive Officer, Glen Tullman. As CMO, Dr. Hawkins will oversee the organization’s clinical quality initiatives and support the organization’s health analytics strategy. Swift Medical has appointed Brian Litten as its new Chief Executive Officer effective immediately. Litten brings decades of healthcare leadership experience across health plans, provider organizations, regulatory
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Accenture: Data Collaboratives Hold Great Promise for Accelerated Healthcare Progress and Precision Medicine
What You Should Know: - Accenture published Fast-Forwarding Healthcare through Data Collaboratives Report to discover how best health ecosystem players access data to fast-forward healthcare. - Data generated by technical and scientific advances, like connected health devices, consumer health and medical-grade digital apps, individual multi-omics profiling data and the move to cloud storage, holds great promise for accelerated healthcare progress and precision medicine, and data
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Zus Health Raises $40M, Partners with Primary Care EHR Elation
What You Should Know: - Zus Health, (pronounced "Zoose"), a next-generation shared health data platform bringing distributed patient data directly to the point of care, announced today that the company has closed a $40 million financing from JAZZ Venture Partners, F-Prime Capital, Maverick Ventures, and Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). - Zus is the only shared health data platform designed to accelerate healthcare data interoperability by providing easy-to-use patient data at the
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