In recent years, digital health technologies (DHTs) have significantly changed the way we collect data within clinical trials. This is partially due to the overarching industry shift toward patient-centricity, but in some cases, it is also due to the commercial availability of powerful technology solutions not previously feasible for use in medical devices. In the past, nearly all patient data have traditionally been acquired by purpose-built machines manufactured by relatively small-scale
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Get Well’s Remote Monitoring Program Improved COVID-19 Outcomes
What You Should Know:
- Get Well, a global digital health company, released a new study that found patients who used its digital care management solution for COVID-19 had a 32% lower rate of being hospitalized.
- The study published in the Journal of the American Medical Associate Network Open also found that patients who were hospitalized had stays that were on average 2.7 days shorter and spent fewer days in intensive care.
Digital Solutions for COVID-19
Patients using a remote
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Welcoming Patients Through The Digital Front Door
When patients contact their healthcare providers, they look for efficiency, convenience, and compassion. But often, the reality is far more clunky and impersonal when they find that an out-of-date phone system or a long hold queue are their only options.
The secret to giving patients a more user-friendly experience and increasing engagement is to take a page from the corporate playbook. Emulating the modern conveniences patients get in other parts of their lives can help ensure
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A Hybrid, Technology-Driven Approach to Overcome Coding and RCM Staff Shortages
Exacerbated by pandemic-induced burnout, resignations, and even terminations1, chronic coding and revenue cycle management (RCM) staffing shortages have healthcare organizations struggling to find ways to keep revenue flowing despite a lack of qualified professionals to handle critical processes. It is a situation that has been brewing for years, as too few qualified professionals are entering professions that are expanding more rapidly than ever before.
According to the American Hospital
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Dear Digital Healthcare: Let’s Do Better
Digital transformation has increased healthcare access, but quality and consistency are lagging behind. A human touch – and some innovative thinking – can get us where we need to be.
We weren’t prepared. But can you blame us?
The healthcare industry has gone digital faster than anyone could’ve expected. Digital health options like telemedicine and online pharmacies existed before the pandemic. At some point, they would’ve naturally risen to prominence. COVID-19 forced us to stuff a
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athenahealth Alums Launches Fold Health: Digital Health Tech Stack For Primary Care
What You Should Know:
- A team of serial health tech entrepreneurs who sold their mobile EHR app to athenahealth has announced the launch of ed Fold Health, the first interoperable digital health tech stack for primary care.
- Fold Health closed a round of $6M from former athenahealth CEO Jonathan Bush, SkyFlow CEO Anshu Sharma, Saama Technologies CEO Vivek Sharma along with Anand Chandrasekharan from General Catalyst, Mohanjit Jolly from Iron Pillar, Gokul Rajaram from Firebolt Ventures,
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Indegene Partners with Amwell to Customized Digital Patient Engagement
What You Should Know:
- Indegene, a technology-led healthcare solutions provider, today announced a partnership with Amwell to facilitate life sciences organizations to connect patients to better quality care and drive better health outcomes.
- This partnership will facilitate Indegene to enable life sciences organizations to drive virtual care automation and patient companionship to advance longitudinal care, behavioral health, and other specialty and chronic care segments. It will help
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Analysis: Is Oracle Cerner Planning to Build A National EHR?
Earlier this month Oracle closed its $28.3B acquisition of Cerner and shortly after Oracle founder and CTO, Larry Ellison, outlined Oracle’s vision for Healthcare IT post-acquisition. The key elements of this vision included:
- Developing a solution for a national EHR database.
- Leveraging this solution, and similar smaller-scale connected EHR initiatives, to provide life science, pharma and other users with a rich environment for research, clinical trials and drug
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TDS Acquires PrescribeWellness from Tabula Rasa HealthCare in $140M Deal
What You Should Know:
- Transaction Data Systems (TDS), the leader in pharmacy software solutions has acquired PrescribeWellness from Tabula Rasa HealthCare in a deal worth up to $140M.
- Further, TDS’s plans to accelerate product innovation will create solutions to further optimize pharmacy workflows, support real-time clinical interventions and expand patient engagement opportunities to clients.
Acquisition Benefits for TDS
TDS connects community pharmacies through its
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SnapLogic Launches Amazon HealthLake Accelerator to Store, Share Patient Data
What You Should Know:
- SnapLogic, a provider of Enterprise Automation, today launched the SnapLogic Accelerator for Amazon HealthLake, which enables healthcare and life sciences organizations to easily ingest a range of raw data into Amazon HealthLake, powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS), and transform it into healthcare-related insights and actions.
- This new Amazon HealthLake-dedicated integration and automation accelerator will help organizations looking to quickly connect systems,
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