The adoption of virtual health has increased dramatically since March 2020, with 150 million telehealth claims in less than two years. Like other revolutionary innovations throughout history, healthcare innovation is necessitated by time — and unmet needs. So many struggled to create virtual care solutions during the pandemic, and many technology companies jumped into the telehealth space because of the unmet needs of patients. But the pandemic era is soon coming to an end, leaving telehealth to
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Hint Health Launches All-in-One EMR Platform for Direct Primary Care Practices
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Hint Health, the company powering the Direct Primary Care (DPC) movement, today announced the release of its newest product, Hint All-in-One.The all-encompassing EMR platform made exclusively for DPCs integrates Hint’s existing membership management platform with a new clinical platform that was purpose-built by and for DPC physicians. Now, delivered within the targeted 6-month deadline, the solution enables DPC physicians to get back to what they love to do – care for
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Uber Health Embeds Same-Day Prescription Delivery Into Its Care Platform
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Uber Health, Uber’s healthcare arm, today announced same-day prescription delivery on its HIPAA-supported, centralized platform.For the first time, those using Uber Health—including healthcare providers and health plans—will be able to manage prescription delivery from any pharmacy in their service area through the same platform they already use to coordinate transportation for patients. This launch enables providers to offer a full suite of care solutions that
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Genialis Raises $13M to Build Clinical Biomarkers that Predict Patient Response
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Genialis, a computational precision medicine company unraveling complex biology to find new ways to address disease, today announced it raised more than $13 million in Series A financing to transform the way diseases are diagnosed and treatment decisions are made.Taiwania Capital and Debiopharm Innovation Fund co-led the round, with participation from previous investors First Star Ventures, Redalpine Venture Partners, and Pikas. Other new investors include P5 Health
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Report: Razor Thin Hospital Margins Becoming The New Norm
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- Hospital finances are beginning to stabilize as razor-thin margins become the new normal, according to the newest data from Kaufman Hall. The National Hospital Flash Report draws on data from more than 900 hospitals from Syntellis Performance Solutions.
- The latest National Hospital Flash Report shows that the high level of variance that plagued hospital margins over the past
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5 AI-Driven Healthcare Trends and Solutions in 2023
Enterprise-level healthcare is a massive business sector with seemingly infinite moving parts. With patients’ lives at stake, liability is huge, leaving little room for error. Yet human error is common in healthcare, and minor mistakes can cost millions in legal fees and lawsuits, not to mention risks to patient health. Healthcare enterprises are quickly embracing artificial intelligence solutions to mitigate loss, streamline operations, improve efficiency, and enhance customer
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KLAS: Independent Ambulatory Patient Portals Performance 2023
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Patient portals (tools used by healthcare providers to engage with patients) can greatly influence a patient’s ability to seek and receive care. Since the outbreak of COVID-19, healthcare organizations have become keenly interested in technology that gives patients ownership of their health and enhances office efficiencies.Though KLAS has historically looked at how portals perform in the IDN setting, this report examines the experience of customers in the independent
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Rethinking Behavioral Health Support in the ED: 3 Keys for Innovation
About one out of five Americans with serious illness struggled to access care during the pandemic, and rates were significantly higher among disadvantaged populations, a 2022 study found. Now, as mental health-related visits in emergency departments (EDs) continue to rise, healthcare professionals must consider: “How can we create better behavioral health supports for people in crisis?”
It's a question that has significant implications for quality of care as well as cost.
The High Cost of
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Survey Reveals 94% of Leaders to Invest in Software/ 90% Admit to Lost Data
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Intelligent Medical Objects (IMO), a healthcare data enablement company, conducted a survey of more than 300 provider leaders who are responsible for implementing and purchasing technology at healthcare provider organizations. The survey, titled ‘Intelligent Insights: Data challenges, tech investments, and shifting provider priorities’ uncovered many surprising findings and some seemingly universal truths about the challenges U.S. provider organizations are facing and
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Key Challenges and Solutions to Enhance the Post-Procedure Experience
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- Abbott today released the latest installment in the company’s multi-year Beyond Intervention series of global healthcare market research designed to uncover challenges that arise within the patient journey of people living with cardiovascular disease and to identify opportunities for patient care improvement.
- The latest report stems from a survey of more than 2,000 patients, physicians and healthcare leaders, and reveals
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