Having a structured clinical taxonomy system in place is key to ensuring healthcare consumers are successfully finding care in the way they’re actually seeking it. The patient experience is enhanced when patients are able to find the right doctor and the right location for their individual health needs.
By their nature, taxonomies and their associations are dynamic, and so is the way people conduct digital searches. This article will explore a few ways
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Virtual Reality Therapy May Serve as Effective Adjunct To Anesthesia For Surgical Procedures
What You Should Know:
- The results of a clinical trial using software from XRHealth, developer and operator of virtual treatment rooms in the metaverse, published in PLOS ONE demonstrated that virtual reality therapy may serve as an effective adjunct to anesthesia for surgical procedures. The trials were conducted with XRHealth’s immersive virtual reality software.
- The results of the trial showed that the majority of patients (13/17) using the XRHealth VR technology did not need
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It’s Time to Give Patients “Admin Access” to Manage Their Healthcare
While the entire healthcare industry is inching toward giving people more autonomy to manage their care, we can’t seem to hand over the keys just yet.
The latest KLAS data on patient preferences shows that most individuals interacting with the healthcare system want greater control, especially over their care visits. That’s because the capabilities patients value most—including appointment scheduling, prescription refill
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Scratch Financial Raises $35M for Patient Financing Solution
What You Should Know:
- Today Scratch Financial, an LA-based financial technology company connecting patients andmedical practices in the care now, pay later economy announced it has raised $35M in Series C funding led by Norwest Venture Partners.
- Scratch, a business-to-business buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) fintech company helps patients focus on what’s most important - caring now - for themselves or for their pet - and paying later in a way that better meets their needs.
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Report: 2022 KLAS Emerging Solutions Top 20
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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