What You Should Know: - Sharecare acquires WhiteHatAI to provide health plan and provider clients with additional capabilities to ensure healthcare payment integrity - WhiteHatAI’s ability to detect erroneous claims before they are paid will help Sharecare’s health plan partners reduce costs associated with FWA. - Sharecare will integrate WhiteHatAI’s capabilities to foster deeper engagement by enabling patients to both verify recent medical procedures and report
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How ADT-Based E-Notifications Can Enable Better Safety for COVID-19 Patients
As COVID-19 continues to impact the country, providers across the continuum face new challenges delivering care and ensuring safety for their patients and themselves. During this period, sharing real-time information about patients’ care encounters across provider types and care settings matter more than ever. In particular, hospitals sharing admission, discharge, and transfer (ADT) events with COVID-19 patients’ community-based providers is critical to ensure the best treatment course and
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Redox Adds Access to More Than 500k Carequality-Enabled Physicians
What You Should Know: - As a Carequality Implementer, Redox has added access to more than 500,000 Carequality-enabled physicians to its already extensive network. - Redox members can use the same patient search query to search all the participants in the Carequality framework as they would if they used a direct patient search API provided by an electronic health record (EHR) vendor. Redox Inc., the leading interoperability platform for healthcare data exchange, today announced that
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Call to Action: Restrictions Around Virtual Health Can’t Go Back to “Normal”
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal government has passed several stimulus packages with the goal of helping employers keep their business in operation while office volume is down and, in some cases, practices are physically closed. The CARES Act, which included the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and Provider Relief Fund, for example, has provided some relief to eligible healthcare providers, including low-interest rate loans to help providers pay staff salaries, rent, and other
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Virtually or In-Person, Automation Improves The Healthcare Experience
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused an unprecedented shift in the way consumers view and access a variety of goods and services—and healthcare is no exception. Recent studies show that many patients, including vulnerable populations like those living with cancer, are delaying recommended care and procedures—and will continue to do so for at least several months amid fears over the safety of in-person visits. In response, reports of providers adapting to offer care virtually are all the more
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Israeli Hospital Launches Innovative “Mega Lab” to Improve Lab Results & Patient Care
What You Should Know: - Israel’s Sheba Medical Center launches “Mega Lab” solution that improves patient care through lab technology advances that expedite lab test results and decrease human error. - The “Mega Lab” simultaneously processes routine as well as urgent tests, under world regulatory standards of the medical lab-specific ISO 15189. An automated system sorts tests according to urgency, performing 7-8 tasks simultaneously, including identifying the type of test tube and
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Cohere Health Launches with $10M to Increase Transparency Across Care Journey
What You Should Know: - Boston-based health IT start-up Cohere Health announced the official launch of its company with a $10 million Series A funding round led by Flare Capital Partners. - The company’s patient journey-focused platform improves the notoriously difficult prior authorization process and replaces an existing patchwork of legacy, siloed processes, and antiquated technologies that contribute to the enormous administrative burden for physicians and health plans. - The end
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Mayo Clinic Performs First Shoulder Arthroplasty Procedure Using Mixed Reality
What You Should Know: - Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN performed the first-ever shoulder arthroplasty procedure using Wright Medical’s groundbreaking BLUPRINT Mixed Reality Technology, which provides surgeons a 3-D holographic view of the patient’s pre-operative plan. - The Mixed Reality Application is the latest addition to Wright’s BLUEPRINT ecosystem and enables a surgeon to maintain a direct view of the surgical site and simultaneously visualize and manipulate a
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Banner Health to Implement Cerner Revenue Cycle Management Across Enterprise
What You Should Know: - Cerner and long-time client Banner Health announced a new deal to implement a comprehensive suite of revenue cycle management solutions as part of a long-standing strategic alignment to use health care technology to drive population health improvement. - The revenue cycle integration will take place across Banner Health’s entire system, including 28 hospitals and clinics in six states. Banner Health and Cerner, today announced it is expanding
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Wake Forest Baptist Health Launches Drone Delivery for Medicines, PPE for COVID-19
What You Should Know: - Wake Forest Baptist Health will establish a hospital drone delivery network to carry patient-specific time- and temperature-sensitive medicines and PPE for medical professionals treating COVID-19. - In partnership with Matternet and UPSFF today started operating on two routes from one location at Wake Forest Baptist Health to two other health system locations, marking one of the first hub-and-spoke operating models for the U.S. drone delivery industry. Wake
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