What You Should Know:
- KLAS asked 16 prominent members of the healthcare community with broad HIT expertise to read 42 KLAS reports on emerging technology and rate their perception of the solutions based on their potential to impact the Quadruple Aim of Healthcare: to improve outcomes, reduce the cost of care, improve the patient experience, and improve the clinician experience.
- The new report by KLAS (1) ranks these emerging solutions by their ability to disrupt the
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Report: The State and Science of Value-Based Care
What You Should Know:
- Providers believe 96% of payment is now value-based in some capacity, and 58% believe their EHR vendor won’t be able to support the data strategies required to thrive under value-based care, according to a new study conducted by Morning Consult and Innovaccer.
- The 37-page national research study uncovers key IT infrastructure issues healthcare leaders said are impeding or essential for progress towards accelerating their transformation to value-based
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Imaging Strategy and Digital Mastery in Healthcare IT
How you handle imaging says a lot about your organization’s digital maturity
The ongoing digitalization of industry continues to disrupt business and service models in every sector. Even though U.S. healthcare has traditionally lagged behind other fields in technological adaptation, there has still been a broad and tremendous shift in how healthcare functions, which is driven by IT infrastructure.
From the slow and often frustrating rise of the EHR to the lightning fast rollout of
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Report: State of Healthcare Staffing Impact & Trends in 2022
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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Ypsomed & Sidekick Health Partner to Improve Therapy Outcomes
What You Should Know:
- Ypsomed and Sidekick Health today announced a collaboration to extend Ypsomed’s device and SmartServices offering by implementing a self-injection module in Sidekick’s proven digital therapeutics solution.
- The combination of Ypsomed’s devices with Sidekick’s digital health, behavioural economics and gamification expertise will form a unique solution delivering an engaging and personalized patient experience to people with chronic conditions, as well as a turn-key,
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Capital One Leads $2.3B Financing for R1 RCM
What You Should Know:
- Capital One Commercial Bank just announced it served as a joint lead arranger for an amended and restated credit facility for R1 RCM, a leading provider of technology-driven revenue cycle management (RCM) solutions for the healthcare industry.
- This $2.3 billion financing will help RI RCM tackle the industry’s labor and reimbursement challenges and help healthcare provider organizations reduce costs, increase revenue, and improve the patient
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Techstars Relaunches Healthcare Accelerator in Los Angeles
What You Should Know:
- Techstars, a global investment business that provides access to capital, one-on-one mentorship, and customized programming for early-stage entrepreneurs announces today the relaunch of Techstars Healthcare sponsored by Cedars-Sinai, Point32Health, UCI Health, and UnitedHealthcare.
- The consortium-led accelerator program will be based in Los Angeles and select 12 high-growth startups to participate in its intensive 13-week program. Startups will receive capital,
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Harnessing Healthcare Data: How the Right Low-Code Solution Empowers Clinicians & Improves Patient Experience
The healthcare industry has been slowly adopting new technology solutions to improve efficiency and patient care, but it’s still largely known for paper-based processes, and for having massive amounts of data1. To make matters worse, it’s estimated that 80% of the data in the healthcare industry is unstructured, in the form of discharge summaries, medical images, and clinical notes.2
Even though the industry has started to adopt technology tools to get better insights and
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How Service Line Alignment Can Improve Cost Savings for Health Systems
Healthcare leaders continue to face new and complex challenges in a constantly evolving landscape, including staffing and capacity constraints, product shortages, and rising costs. These shifting demands change the expectations put on hospitals when it comes to both patient care and financial performance. As we’ve observed, this uncertainty was further amplified by the COVID-19 pandemic, which shined a light on many opportunities for improved financial and clinical operations across the
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Why There’s Renewed Interest In The Cloud for Healthcare
From the development of the EMR to the growth of telehealth, the digital environment for healthcare has evolved tremendously over the last few years. So, it’s no surprise that IT spending is set to increase by 12.3% for cloud computing, 9.7%, for digital transformation, and 9.7% for security software this year. Though healthcare organizations have historically been slower to adopt cloud, we’re now seeing renewed interest.
Has the pandemic caused a reaction among IT leaders to
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