Although the vaccine’s rollout is slowly underway, Covid cases worldwide are continuing to reach all-time highs as new mutations make the virus even more contagious than ever before. Not surprisingly, patients’ concerns about visiting their healthcare providers in the midst of this global pandemic persist, pushing demand for telehealth solutions that allow patients and their doctors to communicate without the need for in-person visits.
In fact, a recent report from McKinsey found that
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Vytalize Health to Acquire Patient Financial Experience Platform MedPilot
What You Should Know:
- Vytalize Health to acquire patient financial experience platform MedPilot to accelerate data-driven engagement technology to its ACO's Medicare population.
- An alumnus of the Cedars-Sinai Accelerator, MedPilot’s platform has already helped over 1 million patients to date and boasts a 97% patient satisfaction score.
Vytalize Health, a leading provider of value-based healthcare announced it is acquiring MedPilot, a Cleveland-based patient financial
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Healthcare UX- How Can We Optimize Adoption for Patients & Doctors?
Due to the pandemic, recent FDA guidance acknowledges that companies conducting trials may require to put new processes in place regarding their current protocols considering virtual patients, data management, and usability. This raises the question: How to ensure and optimize user experience (UX) for patients and doctors with faster digital health adoption?
We recently spoke with Facundo Navarro, Engagement Manager at intive, a digital transformation firm
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Why Labor Management Systems Are a Resource Healthcare Can Rely On
In 2021, the role of advanced technology solutions across the healthcare sector can – and should -- be expanded. They already have been applied in such areas as billing, administrative work, in prescription management and some staff position scheduling. But with the ongoing advances in digital capability and automated intelligence, now is the time to consider a more holistic approach for how to integrate digital systems and solutions.
The rate of employment in healthcare has been on a
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Holy Name to Offer Needle-Free Blood Draws for Inpatients, First Hospital in NJ
What You Should Know:
- Holy Name Medical Center announced that it is the first hospital in New Jersey among a growing number of health systems nationwide to offer needle-free blood draws for inpatients using the PIVO™ device from Velano Vascular.
- As part of this effort, Holy Name is deploying a new telepresence technology, also provided by Velano, to train staff virtually on the PIVO procedure in accordance with COVID-19 safety protocols.
- By adopting this new standard of care known
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Executive Hires: Walgreens Appoints New CEO, Cityblock Health, Innovaccer, Others
Walgreens appoints Rosalind (Roz) Brewer as the company’s Chief Executive Officer, effective on March 15, 2021. Brewer will also join the WBA Board of Directors upon assuming the role. She succeeds Stefano Pessina who, as previously announced, will transition to the role of Executive Chairman of the Board of WBA. Brewer, 58, will become the first Black woman to lead a Fortune 500 company.
Former Livongo President, Jennifer Schneider, has joined Cityblock Health’s Board of
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NexHealth Acquires Paperless Digital Forms Company Enlive
What You Should Know:
- NexHealth acquires integrated paperless forms company Enlive to expand its patient experience platform, making patient data collection easy and secure.
- Paperless forms solve long-standing difficulties that healthcare practices have faced with paper-based forms, including data entry, filing, shredding, and scanning patient paperwork. Enlive offers HIPAA-compliant online forms that seamlessly integrate with EHR systems such as Dentrix, Eaglesoft, and Practice
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How Automation is Key to the Future of Healthcare Operations
As the saying goes, necessity is the mother of invention. A similar correlation is seen in the quest to leverage innovation and out-of-the-box thinking to address key problems facing the healthcare industry. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has brought the immense pressure the U.S. healthcare system is under into sharp focus. Recent dynamics are compounded by the industry’s efforts to adopt newer ways of working and digitizing patient records, while implementing automation throughout their business
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Augmedix Launches National Roll-Out of Tech-Enabled Virtual Scribes to Assist Busy ED Clinicians
What You Should Know:
- Augmedix, a provider of
remote medical documentation and live clinical support launches the national
rollout of a transformative tech-enabled medical documentation service powered
by virtual scribes and created specifically for busy Emergency Department (ED)
environments.
- Augmedix trains remotely-located scribes in emergency
medicine documentation to alleviate the administrative burden for clinicians,
which is especially important today as these clinicians are on
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Transitioning from Traditional to E-Fax: How Healthcare Communications are Transforming Post-COVID
The majority of industries have decreased or eliminated their use of the traditional fax machine over the past decade, including aviation, retail, and even finance. While the healthcare industry is at the forefront of disease research and treatment, however, it is still heavily reliant on this aging technology.
Traditional fax has become ubiquitous in healthcare. It worked for health systems for many years, but the overwhelming volume of patient data and paper documents the healthcare
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