The impact of the coronavirus crisis is shining a bright light on many of the challenges facing the U.S. healthcare system.
So much more than a lack of primary care physicians and hospital beds, the all-hands-on-deck approach to combating the spread of COVID-19 has forced patients fearful of engaging with the healthcare system for needs unrelated to the virus to put elective procedures, routine care and timely treatment for chronic or critical conditions on the back burner.
Compounding
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Designing A Digital Experience to Drive Revenue and Patient Engagement
With the rise of healthcare consumerism, people are looking to hospitals, health systems, and physician practices to deliver the same user-friendly, digital experiences they receive from other industries. A recent survey found that more than 80% of consumers surveyed believe “shopping for healthcare should be as easy as shopping for other common services.” Specifically, they want streamlined access points online where they can shop for and purchase healthcare, easily make appointments,
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Nuance Advances Virtual Assistant Tech for Customers Using Epic EHR
What You Should Know:
- Nuance advances conversational AI with Dragon Medical virtual
assistant for Hey Epic! virtual assistant in Epic Hyperspace.
- Building upon Nuance’s Dragon Medical solution already
used by more than 550,000 physicians, this integration with Hey Epic! enables
clinicians to conversationally navigate the EHR, search for information, place
orders, and seamlessly switch hands-free between voice assistant and dictation.
Nuance®
Communications, Inc., today
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Change Healthcare Acquires Cloud-Native Imaging Platform Nucleus.io
What You Should Know:
- Change Healthcare acquires Nucleus.io to create the first of its kind end-to-end, cloud-native Enterprise Imaging to integrate Change Healthcare’s next-generation medical imaging platform.
- The acquisition will accelerate Change Healthcare’s
timeline to implement a complete cloud-based, end-to-end Enterprise Imaging
solution with customers by leveraging the 7,500+ organizations Nucleus.io
currently serves.
Change Healthcare (Nasdaq: CHNG) today announced the
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Cerner Technology to Support COVID-19 Testing for HBCUs Nationwide
What You Should Know:
- Cerner announces a commitment to help expand COVID-19 testing at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) across the U.S through a partnership with Testing for America.
- As part of the partnership, Cerner will serve as the national technology partner for a return to school effort led by the Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF) and The United Negro College Fund (UNCF). The strategic initiative aims to support HBCUs in their COVID-19 testing of
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Fighting COVID-19 Pandemic: It Starts With Cleaning Our Devices
The importance of handwashing has never been more obvious than in recent months, but as experts continue to share information on the spread of the virus, there’s a need to disinfect more than just our hands. In healthcare settings where the spread of infectious diseases is not just a possibility, but a likelihood on any given day, healthcare leaders are examining the best methods to clean devices, such as mobile computers.
According to a recent study by the Healthcare Infection Society,
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CurieAI Launches AI-Driven Platform for COVID-19 Respiratory Monitoring and Management
What You Should Know:
- SRI Ventures spin-off CurieAI announces the launch of
its AI-driven COVID-19 case management platform
- The Curie solution has been deployed to monitor
inpatients and outpatients at San Carlos Apache Healthcare Corporation (SCAHC).
CurieAI, a Menlo
Park, CA-based healthcare startup spun-off from SRI
Ventures, the corporate venture arm of SRI International, today announced
the release of CurieAI’s first-of-its-kind AI-driven
platform specifically designed for
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Memorial Health Deploys Chatbots to Virtualize Waiting Room Experience
What You Should Know:
- Memorial Health System selects LifeLink Conversational
AI technology to virtualize the waiting room experience for patients
- Mobile chatbots to automate intake for telehealth and
in-person visits, while maintaining COVID-19 social distancing and safety
protocols.
Memorial Health System
, a community-based, not-for-profit corporation serving the people and
communities of central Illinois through five hospitals has selected LifeLink to deploy advanced
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Cone Health to Merge with Sentara Healthcare Totaling $11B in Assets
What You Should Know:
- Cone Health has signed a letter of intent to merge with
Norfolk, Virginia-based Sentara Healthcare for a combined $11B in assets.
- The merger creates one large health system totaling of
17 hospitals – 11 Sentara hospitals in Virginia and one in Elizabeth City,
N.C., and five Cone Health hospitals in the area surrounding Greensboro.
Cone Health has signed a letter of intent to merge with Norfolk, Virginia-based Sentara Healthcare. The merger will
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4 Ways Businesses Will Adapt Their Healthcare Landscape
The coronavirus pandemic has affected every aspect of our lives, from how we work to how we get our health care. The crisis has put the creativity of many small businesses to the test after being forced to move operations online once social distancing became the norm. As economies reopen, many aspects of our life that changed in response to the virus will likely return to the way they were.
However, we have the opportunity to emerge stronger from this crisis if the salient shortcomings from
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