What You Should Know: 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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Key Challenges and Solutions to Enhance the Post-Procedure Experience
What You Should Know: - 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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Accenture Report Reveals Staggering Health Inequities and the Role of US Healthcare Ecosystem in Addressing Them
What You Should Know: - Health equity – or the lack thereof – is one of the biggest challenges facing US healthcare organizations today. - A new report from Accenture, US health inequity: beyond the statistics, analyzes the role US healthcare ecosystem participants can play in addressing health inequities due to race and ethnicity. The statistics are staggering. Analysing Key Trends Concerning Health Inequities To understand the human and economic
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Vital Secures $24.7M for AI-Driven Solutions for Hospitals, Health Systems
What You Should Know: - Vital, an artificial intelligence (AI)-driven digital health company improving the patient experience, today announced that it has raised $24.7M in Series B funding to fuel expansion and support the rapid growth of its modern software. The investment round led by Transformation Capital, with support from Threshold Ventures, strategic health system investors and Vital CEO / Mint.com creator Aaron Patzer, brings Vital’s total funding to over
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5 Trends to Look for in Healthcare Cost Transparency
Over two years have passed since the hospital price transparency rule was enacted. Unfortunately, America still struggles with high, painfully opaque pricing across healthcare that hurts employers, workers, patients, and taxpayers. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services recently announced that in 2021, the nation spent $4.3 trillion on healthcare, nearly twice the average of other nations in the developed world. Noncompliance and price gouging still exist in a market where consumers are
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UR Medicine Taps DexCare to Power On-Demand Video Visits
What You Should Know: - UR Medicine, the clinical enterprise of the University of Rochester Medical Center, has selected DexCare’s technology to power its Get Care Now Program and provide more patients with on-demand video visits. - By choosing DexCare to offer On-Demand Video Visits, UR Medicine patients now have access to immediate, high-quality care from the comfort of their own homes. UR Medicine now serves patients across 24 counties in New York – beyond those where the health system
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Northwell to Deploy Epic Enterprise EHR Platform Across System
What You Should Know: - Northwell Health today announced an agreement with Epic to implement the health system’s next-generation EHR as part of its ongoing digital transformation to ensure a more seamless patient experience and team member experience. - The announcement marks the replacement of Allscripts and will result in one patient record across every Northwell venue of care and drive enhanced care coordination across 21 hospitals and about 900 outpatient facilities. -
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Digital Health Exec Hires: Transcarent Appoints CMO, Carium, Tegria, Swift Medical, GoCheckKids, Others
Transcarent appoints Dr. Randy Hawkins as Chief Medical Officer (CMO) and will report to Transcarent Chief Executive Officer, Glen Tullman. As CMO, Dr. Hawkins will oversee the organization’s clinical quality initiatives and support the organization’s health analytics strategy. Swift Medical has appointed Brian Litten as its new Chief Executive Officer effective immediately. Litten brings decades of healthcare leadership experience across health plans, provider organizations, regulatory
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Avaneer Health Launches its Decentralized Network and Platform
What You Should Know: - Avaneer Health, a secure digital network for healthcare, today announced that it has launched its private, peer-to-peer network with several leading healthcare organizations. With a single connection to the Avaneer Network™, participants can collaborate and share real-time data, streamlining healthcare administration and enhancing the healthcare experience for all stakeholders. - For decades, the healthcare industry has been challenged with fragmented
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Improving The Digital Experience – for Both Patient and Employee
It’s a tired, old saw: Healthcare organizations are woefully behind when it comes to technology, automation and digital experiences. Leaders are sick of hearing it. But that doesn’t make it any less true. Current market pressures, however, compel hospitals, health systems and medical practices to reconsider their hesitancy in embracing these innovations. A combination of consumer demand and acute, unrelenting labor shortages force leaders to explore the practicality of leveraging
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