When patients contact their healthcare providers, they look for efficiency, convenience, and compassion. But often, the reality is far more clunky and impersonal when they find that an out-of-date phone system or a long hold queue are their only options.
The secret to giving patients a more user-friendly experience and increasing engagement is to take a page from the corporate playbook. Emulating the modern conveniences patients get in other parts of their lives can help ensure
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Patient Portal
3 Barriers to Advance Care Planning for Sexual and Gender Minority People
What You Should Know:
- In a national survey and in interviews, sexual and gender minority people reported experiencing discrimination in healthcare and concerns about support for their end-of-life decisions
- Advance care planning (ACP) can help support patients in making decisions and promoting better care at the end of life. But sexual and gender minority (SGM) patients are likely being left out of conversations around ACP, a new study suggests.
Eliminating Fear and
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AmerisourceBergen Launches EHR-Integrated Digital Therapeutics Platform
What You Should Know:
This week, AmerisourceBergen announced plans to launch DTx Connect, a fully integrated ordering, dispensing and fulfillment platform that aims to facilitate patient access to physician-ordered digital therapeutics and diagnostics.
- Several developers plan to pilot DTx Connect, which aims to reduce barriers that physicians and patients face across the ordering and fulfillment of digital therapeutics and diagnostics.
Digital Therapeutics Market
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LumaPay Launches for Patients to Pay Med Bills in An SMS Text
What You Should Know:
- Luma Health today announced the launch of LumaPay, a new service for healthcare systems that provides patients a better and more transparent financial journey.
- LumaPay™ lets patients pay bills from anywhere via text as the inaugural module of LumaFinancial, which provides better, simpler, and more transparent financial journeys
Offering Patients an Easy to Pay Their Bills
LumaPay enables healthcare organizations to offer patients an easy, text-first way to
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HIMSS22 Day 2 Roundup: Google Partners with MEDITECH, Microsoft’s Health Cloud Strategy Expansions
Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) Activity
OptimizeRx Acquires EvinceMed, a Specialty Drug Prescription Initiation Platform
OptimizeRx, a provider of point-of-care technology solutions helping patients start and stay on therapy announced a definitive agreement to acquire the EvinceMed platform and related assets. EvinceMed is a provider in delivering end-to-end automation for specialty pharmaceutical transactions. The acquisition includes the full Market Access Management Platform
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MEDITECH Expands Expanse Ambulatory to Independent and Physician-Owned Practices
What You Should Know:
- MEDITECH today announced the availability of Expanse Ambulatory in independent and physician-owned practices, without requiring an Expanse EHR in the hospital setting.
- The subscription-based solution lives in the cloud, so there is no significant IT footprint required.
Expanse Ambulatory’s Practice Management
Expanse Ambulatory’s Practice Management solution offers efficient office workflows and intuitive features like drag-and-drop scheduling, automated
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Cardinal Health and Deep Lens Collaborate for AI-based Oncology Clinical Trial Matching
What You Should Know:
- Today, Deep Lens and Cardinal Health announced a strategic collaboration that will integrate Deep Lens’ AI-based clinical trial matching solution, VIPER, into community-based oncology practices throughout the Cardinal network. VIPER will be a part of Cardinal Health’s new Navista advanced suite of technology solutions designed to help oncologists improve outcomes, provide high quality care at the best possible cost and select the right care plan at the onset of
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MEDITECH, WELL Health Partner to Enhance Digital Patient Engagement
What You Should Know:
- MEDITECH recently announced Expanse Patient Connect, powered by WELL Health, a contemporary, mobile solution enabling bidirectional, communication between healthcare organizations and their patients. Available through the MEDITECH Cloud Platform, the solution leverages WELL Health’s automated patient interaction functionality to improve provider efficiency and keep patients and their families connected to their care in the most convenient way
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DrChrono’s Open FHIR API Enables Patients to Transfer Records to Apple Health
What You Should Know:
- DrChrono announces today that its open FHIR API is now live enabling its patient members to securely transfer their available health records out of DrChrono into the Apple Health app on the iPhone so their medical information is consolidated and always with them.
- The Health Records feature is part of the Health app, which also shows activity, heart rate, nutrition and other health data consolidated from iPhone, Apple Watch and HealthKit-enabled third-party
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Experian Health, Epic Partner to Address COVID-19 Identity Verification Challenges
What You Should Know:
-Experian Health is partnering with Epic to expedites access to Precise ID® for Epic customers to address COVID-19 identity verification challenges.
- Collaboration aims to accelerate vaccination efforts with swift implementation and touchless identity proofing for high volume immunization programs.
As part of its ongoing efforts to assist the healthcare industry with pandemic-related challenges through the power of data and
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