What You Need to Know
- Google has been secretly working with St. Louis-based Ascension on an initiative code-named “Project Nightingale” to gather millions of patient records across 21 states since last year, reports The Wall Street Journal.
- The collected data includes patient names, date of birth (DOB), lab results, doctor diagnoses and hospitalization records to provide a complete health history.
- After the WSJ article, Ascension officially announced its collaboration with
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Banner Health Launches Real-Time Online Scheduling for Consumers
- Banner Health is now offering consumers the ability to self-schedule appointments online with Kyruus ProviderMatch for Consumers.- With more than 10,000 comprehensive provider profiles searchable on the Banner Health website via the KyruusOne platform, Banner Health’s patients now have greater autonomy and flexibility in making their care decisions.Banner Health, one of the largest non-profit health systems in the US announced, has begun offering online scheduling for consumers through Kyruus
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Uber Health and Kyruus Partner to Boost Appointment Follow-Through
- Uber Health and Kyruus partner to help health systems enhance patient access and experience.- The partnership will empower agents using Kyruus ProviderMatch to not only match and book patients with the right providers. - The collaboration will help patients ultimately get to their appointments by making it easier to arrange Uber rides as part of the process.Uber Health and Kyruus, a provider of search and scheduling solutions for health systems, today announced a partnership to help health
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4 Ways to Improve Mental Health Through Digital Health
Mental health care is undoubtedly one of the most pressing challenges that our national health system faces. Years of insufficient payment, infrastructure erosion, provider deficits, and stigma have created a fragmented patchwork of weak, under-coordinated and under-reimbursed treatment capabilities. Meanwhile, communities face an expanding crisis:
- 44.7 million American adults – including 10 million adults covered by Medicaid – experienced a mental health illness as of 2016, a number that is
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TEAMFund Closes $30M Impact Fund to Invest in Medical Tech Startups Improving Patient Access in Low-Resource Settings
TEAMFund ("Transforming Equity and
Access for MedTech") closes $30M inaugural fund to invest in medical tech
startups that improve patient access in low-resource settings.
TEAMFund invests in
commercial-stage companies addressing non-communicable diseases in low-resource
settings, with an initial geographic focus in India and Sub- Saharan Africa.
TEAMFund has a 10-year horizon
and expects to have 8-10 portfolio companies in the Fund with up to 5 years to
commit the
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Central Logic, Conduit Health Partners Team Up to Improve Patient Care Access and Transfer Centers
- The partnership allows health systems that don’t have their own transfer center to benefit from a comprehensive technology platform via Central Logic by outsourcing Access Center functions.
- Conduit Health Partners’ nurses have diverse clinical experience with adult and pediatric competencies, multi-state licensure, critical thinking skills, and clinical judgment skills.
- Client organizations typically achieve a 12-20% first-year transfer volume increase with sustained year over
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TrialCard Acquires Digital Medication & Adherence Platform Mango Health
- TrialCard acquires digital medication management platform Mango Health to offer a best-in-class engagement and adherence solution to patients.
- The announcement marks the third acquisition for TrialCard in the past year.
- TrialCard Incorporated provides patient affordability, medication access and adherence, and patient support connecting over 30 million patients with nearly $12B in branded drug savings to date.
TrialCard
Incorporated announced it has entered an agreement to
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Baptist Health South Florida Launches Spanish and English Patient Access Solutions
Quick Glance- Baptist Health South Florida launches new online patient access experience for consumers with technology from Kyruus- Solution enhances digital capabilities for Both English- and Spanish-Speaking consumers in the greater Miami areaKyruus announced that Baptist Health South Florida is now leveraging its ProviderMatch for Consumers and ProviderMatch® for Consumers in Spanish solutions. As a result, English- and Spanish-speaking patients in the Greater Miami Area can easily search for
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Patient Engagement Platform Luma Health Nabs $16M to Optimize Patient Experience
Luma Health Patient Engagement Platform enables healthcare providers and health systems to maximize patient outcomes across the entire patient journey.Luma Health, a patient engagement platform, today announced $16 million in Series B equity funding, bringing total equity funding to $25.7 million. Led by PeakSpan Capital and with strategic investments from Cisco Investments, the Texas Medical Center, and continued investment from U.S. Venture Partners, Luma Health will use this round of funding
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10 Considerations for Success In A Post-MACRA Value-Based Healthcare Reality
The first two years of the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) Quality Payment Program (QPP) are in the books and many organizations are wondering if their strong performances will ever be met with a significant upside adjustment.
Year 1 (2017) enjoyed very high participation levels, 95% of eligible clinicians, but very low upside adjustments. Between the Test Pace option, artificially low bar (3 points) for an upside adjustment, and numerous opportunities to score
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