What You Should Know:
What You Should Know:
- Palo Alto Networks (NASDAQ: PANW) announced Medical IoT Security — the most comprehensive Zero Trust security solution for medical devices — enabling healthcare organizations to quickly and securely deploy and manage new connected technologies. Zero Trust is a strategic approach to cybersecurity that secures an organization by eliminating implicit trust by continuously verifying every user and device.
- As healthcare providers use digital
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New Liquid Biopsy Detects Breast Cancer at Its Earliest Stages
What You Should Know:
- Exai Bio and researchers at UCSF released data demonstrating that Exai’s novel, RNA-based liquid biopsy platform accurately detected breast cancer at the earliest stages and smallest tumor sizes.
- Earlier detection of breast cancer is crucial for optimal patient outcomes but cannot always be achieved based on symptoms or mammography.
Non-Invasive Blood-Based Platform Delivers Promising Data on Detecting Breast Cancer At It’s Earliest Stages
Exai Bio is a
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KLAS: Home-Based Post-Acute Care and Facility-Based Post-Acute Care Trends
What You Should Know:
- The homecare market has surged as healthcare organizations have sought to maintain quality patient care throughout the pandemic and fulfill requirements for value-based reimbursement, according to the latest KLAS report. Organizations are looking to expand their homecare offerings; however, the pandemic has exacerbated staffing shortages and decreased bandwidth, making operations—let alone growth—difficult. To help organizations understand how peers are approaching the
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Driving Healthcare Operational Efficiency with IoT Sensing as a Service
Amid widespread staffing shortages across the healthcare sector, the need for IoT-enabled digital transformation in hospitals and patient care facilities is increasingly clear. For the first time since 2004, a lack of staffing has overtaken financial volatility as the No. 1 concern among healthcare CEOs in the American College of Healthcare Executives’ annual survey. Meanwhile, from canceled appointments to delayed surgeries, more than half of all U.S. patients report reductions in care quality
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UpStream Raises $140M to Expand Value-Based Care Model Nationwide
What You Should Know:
- Value-based care provider UpStream raises $140M in Series B funding co-led by Coatue and Dragoneer with additional participation from other top healthcare and technology investors, including Avidity Partners, Define Ventures and Mubadala. This round brings its total funding to nearly $185M to date.
- UpStream supports physicians operating under full-risk, value-based arrangements who are providing care to seniors on Medicare with an integrated platform that
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M&A: NextGen Healthcare to Acquire TSI Healthcare for $68M
What You Should Know:
- NextGen Healthcare today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire TSI Healthcare, a privately held value-added reseller located in Chapel Hill, NC. The acquisition will expand NextGen’s presence in specialties including rheumatology, pulmonology and cardiology.
- TSI Healthcare® is a national leader in the sales and support of customized NextGen® Practice Management and Electronic Health Record software. TSI Healthcare delivers innovative,
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How to Empower Patients With Price Transparency
The evolution of e-commerce – led by Amazon – has created an intensely savvy consumer population. Amazon’s platform allows users to easily compare products from different vendors to get the best price. People travel to retail stores to try on clothes and shoes, only to purchase them online for less. Even the longest running game show in television history awards points for knowing how much consumer products cost.
Healthcare, on the other hand, does not engender the same kind of
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Does Data Hold the Key to Streamlining Provider Credentialing?
Provider credentialing is an essential part of healthcare. A provider cannot work or get paid without a proper license or credential, and yet this highly complex process is still done on paper (also sticky notes on file cabinets, Excel spreadsheets—you get the idea) by many healthcare organizations. Manually credentialing providers adds to an already lengthy process. One expired certificate or a delayed privileging request can prevent a provider from seeing patients for more than 60
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Nuance Announces Strategic Collaborations at RNSA22
What You Should Know:
- Nuance Communications announced a series of strategic partnership announcements at RNSA 2022.
- Nuance announces that Kentucky-based Baptist Health and Pennsylvania-based Einstein Healthcare have joined the Nuance Precision Imaging Network (PIN). The addition of these healthcare systems will empower collaborative care teams with AI-powered insights from diagnostic imaging at the point-of-care.
- Perspectum, a global medical technology company,
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RSNA: Couchbase on AWS Enables Arthrex to Improve Patient Outcomes with IoT Data
What You Should Know:
- Couchbase, Inc., the cloud database platform company, today announced that Arthrex, a global leader in minimally invasive surgical technology, selected Couchbase on Amazon Web Services (AWS) to improve patient outcomes.
- Embedded in the Arthrex Synergy product family, Couchbase is used in customer hospitals and operating rooms to manage the capture, sync and storage of patient data, surgical data and media metadata, including captured images and videos from Arthrex
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