What You Should Know:
- Phoenix-based HonorHealth has deployed Loyal’s Symptom Checker chatbot solution to assist with patient intake and triage. Symptom Checker leverages machine learning and natural language processing (NLP) to identify which clinical symptoms may be affecting patients – with the ability to handle multiple health conditions and access a clinical database of over 1,200 symptoms, 660+ conditions and 130+ risk
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VDI: Promising Approach for Healthcare IT to Ease Endpoint Management?
Healthcare IT has always faced unique challenges.
Among these challenges are the increasing mobility of healthcare workers. Healthcare providers are always on the move throughout hospitals. Still, they need to access the same apps and data, and their own unique workspace, wherever they are, quickly and securely.
Additionally, strict legal requirements and internal policies govern exactly how confidential patient data can be stored and accessed. Not to mention the need for
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4 Keys to Delivering A Retail-Like Patient Experience Journey
When it comes to the quality of their healthcare journey, patients, it seems, are losing patience with their healthcare providers.
In Cedar’s latest Healthcare Consumer Experience Study, for example, the share of consumers who said they won't pay a bill if they cannot understand the administrative experience tripled from 2020 to 2021, to 37%. A vast majority (93%) indicated the quality of the billing and payment experience is important to their decision to return to a healthcare provider in
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Forge Health Secures $11M for Value-Based Behavioral Health Model
What You Should Know:
– Forge Health, a White Plains, NY-based behavioral healthcare provider with a proven, national-payer-validated ability to drive clinical outcomes that span all areas of health, today announced an $11M growth funding round led by HC9 Ventures.
- Innovative behavioral health company works with payers and health systems to enable value-based care for mental health and substance use populations.
Transforming Addiction and Mental Health Treatment
Founded in 2016,
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The Need and Value for Connected Virtual Care
Patients today have more options than ever for accessing care outside of their traditional health systems and physician practices. While access to care has no doubt improved, the addition of new channels has
created new problems and exacerbated longstanding ones, notably with care coordination, consistency and continuity of care, patient and clinician satisfaction, and ensuring both HIPAA compliance and organizational privacy and security policies.
Telehealth is meeting the need for
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Hims & Hers & Carbon Health Partner to Expand Care Options for California Customers
What You Should Know:
- Hims & Hers & Carbon Health partnership adds the seventh U.S. state to the Hims & Hers provider network, which enables seamless care for a wide range of conditions.
- Collaboration advances Hims & Hers efforts to transform healthcare by adding another high-quality provider to its growing network of provider relationships.
Hims & Hers Health, the multi-specialty telehealth platform focused on providing modern personalized health and wellness
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Revenue Cycle Management Company nThrive Rebrands as FinThrive
What You Should Know:
- Healthcare revenue cycle management platform provider nThrive today announced it has rebranded, FinThrive™, which will be formally launched through a pending rebrand.
The new name signals the Company’s intention to break the cycle of inefficiency associated with traditional RCM technologies, while designing a modern software approach that empowers stakeholders across healthcare’s financial ecosystem.
FinThrive Focus
As FinThrive, the company will
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What The Finance Industry Can Teach Healthcare About Digital Transformation
The COVID-19 pandemic feels like a once-in-a-lifetime event for those of us involved in healthcare, but the patterns of how the crisis affected our industry feel familiar.
Stop me if you have heard this before: incumbent players in a broad industry made very slow and fragmented technological advances for years with no real threat to their business. Then, a sudden and transformational event catapulted direct-to-consumer technologies, forcing the incumbents to fundamentally alter their business
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Early Use of Diabetes Technology Drives Better Patient Outcomes in Kids
A recent study from Stanford found that pediatric patients with rapid access to continuous glucose monitoring soon after a type 1 diabetes diagnosis had healthier blood sugar values than an earlier group of patients who weren’t given the monitors near the time of diagnosis.
The research provides an example of how the healthcare industry is evolving to use technology: It provides more frequent touchpoints with caregivers, makes quality care available to a larger number of patients, and
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Canopy Launches Out of Stealth with $13M for Intelligent Care Platform for Oncology
What You Should Know:
- Today, Canopy announced it is launching out of stealth with $13 million in funding to work with leading oncology practices all over the country to help deliver high-quality care to cancer patients when they aren’t in the doctor’s office.
- Canopy works with leading oncology practices nationwide to drive the best possible outcomes for over 50,000 cancer patients.
Canopy, a Palo Alto, CA-based Intelligent Care Platform (ICP) for oncology, today
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