What You Should Know:
- Weave, the all-in-one customer communication and engagement platform for small businesses, today announced new research, The 2022 State of Healthcare Staffing, illustrating the negative impacts the Great Resignation and burnout have had on the healthcare industry and how staffing issues are impacting the patient experience.
- The survey looked deeply into how these staffing shortages are impacting different healthcare organizations, why their staff are leaving, and
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CVS Health to Acquire Signify Health for $8B
What You Should Know:
- CVS Health announced it will acquire Signify Health for $30.50 per share in cash, representing a total transaction value of approximately $8B.
- Signify Health's clinicians and providers can have an even greater impact by engaging with CVS Health's unique collection of assets and connecting patients to care how and when they need it.
Advancing CVS Health’s Value-Based Care Long-Term Strategy
Signify Health is a provider of Health Risk Assessments, value-based
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Upfront Raises Additional $10M for Automated Patient Navigation & Engagement Platform
What You Should Know:
- Upfront Healthcare, a leading omnichannel communication, and patient engagement platform raise an additional $10M co-led by Baird Capital, Echo Health Ventures and First Trust Capital Partners, with additional participation from existing investors including LRVHealth, Hyde Park Venture Partners, and Nashville Capital Network.
- As market demand surges for patient engagement solutions, the investment bolsters Upfront's trajectory of market leadership through
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KLAS: 7 Key Healthcare Trends in Microsoft Cloud Technologies in 2022
What You Should Know:
- A new report from KLAS focuses on healthcare-specific deployments of Microsoft Cloud Technologies, especially Microsoft Azure, which is receiving strong market interest.
- This study is meant to help organizations considering Microsoft Cloud technologies understand their current use, the overall customer experience, and the impact of the solutions.
Key Healthcare Trends in Microsoft Cloud Technologies in 2022
While still early, healthcare is gaining momentum
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eClinicalWorks Invests $100M in Microsoft Azure
What You Should Know:
- McKinsey reports that cloud capabilities have the potential to generate a value of $100 billion to $170 billion for healthcare companies in 2030. The cloud enables healthcare companies to innovate, digitize and realize their strategic goals.
- eClinicalWorks is currently investing over $100M in Microsoft Azure cloud services to accelerate innovations in digital healthcare.
Technological Solutions For Improving Patient Care and Health
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DeliverHealth Exec Talks Combatting Physician Burnout with Automation Tech & Data
Provider burnout has shown no signs of slowing down in the past couple of years - a fact proven by a recent report found that 45% of physicians have been experiencing burnout over the past two years. As providers and healthcare organizations continue to face burnout, staffing shortages and financial pressures, they must find a way to reduce administrative burdens while allowing for more time spent on patient care with an ultimate end goal of reducing burnout.
We recently spoke with
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New Report Reveals Behavioural Factors to Treatment Adherence
What You Should Know:
- Fullscript, the leading care delivery platform for personalized treatment planning, ongoing wellness support and education, and high-quality supplements released a report about behavioral change in integrative medicine as part of its mission to change how health is prescribed and help people get better. The findings indicated that while behavior or lifestyle change is challenging,
- The findings indicated that while behavior or lifestyle change is challenging, there
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EMPI/MPI: An End-to-End Approach to Patient Data Integrity
Maintaining patient data integrity is more complicated than ever; cybersecurity threats loom, patients are taking more ownership of their care (self-registration, for example) and health system merger activity is on the rise. It can make the quest for the ever-elusive 1% maximum duplicate rate seem, at times, unattainable.
But a secure, accurate, and duplicate-free MPI/EMPI can be achieved. It just requires a multi-pronged approach to protect data throughout its journey into a health system
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Upfront Acquires Patient Engagement Platform PatientBond
What You Should Know:
- Upfront acquires PatientBond, a digital patient engagement platform creating a single enterprise technology solution to drive patient acquisition and loyalty.
- The acquisition accelerates Upfront's delivery of their next-generation personalization platform. Combined with Upfront's omnichannel communications capabilities, PatientBond's robust consumer insights build and expand loyal patient-provider relationships to influence positive behavioral changes, resulting
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Rethinking Custom RTLS: Indoor Positioning Simplified as a Service
For healthcare facilities, real-time location services (RTLS) were initially established on premise for patient safety to later become a priority in mainstreaming operations, improving patient care and experience and employee satisfaction.
Originally introduced to the industry as a security-centric measure to protect newborns, and prevent infant abduction, RTLS was a simple solution that has been effective, and facilities began to see a number of additional benefits. But it required a
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