- The American Medical Association (AMA) and direct investment platform RedCrow are teaming up to promote physician insight-powered healthcare innovation. The American Medical Association (AMA) and RedCrow, a direct investment platform for healthcare innovation, today announced a collaboration to drive engagement between physicians and entrepreneurs that fosters innovative healthcare startups with insight, guidance, and funding to help grow promising companies. Building on a shared conviction
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Grand Rounds Launches Population Health Solution to Address SDoH
- Grand Rounds announced the launch of Premium Navigation, the company’s new and most comprehensive population health solution to address social determinants of health (SDoH). Users now have a single entry point for all their healthcare needs, clinical and beyond.- Premium Navigation simplifies the ever-complicated healthcare experience. It connects members with their clinical care team for case management while guiding them around clinically appropriate benefits and advocacy support. Grand
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HealthStream Launches Virtual Reality-Based Education Pilot Program to Improve Resuscitation Outcomes
- Healthstream launches an innovative virtual reality (VR)-based education pilot program through the HealthStream Resuscitation Innovation Lab. - Unique program focuses on leadership capabilities of the clinical team leader in improving resuscitation outcomes, a largely overlooked, critical component of training for code blue events.HealthStream announced today that CHSPSC, LLC (CHS), an affiliate of Community Health Systems, Inc., one of the nation’s leading operators of general acute care
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Definitive Healthcare Analytics Firm PatientFinder to Expand Data Insights
- Definitive Healthcare acquires software analytics firm for life sciences PatientFinder to expand contextual data and insights within a business’s end-to-end commercialization effort.- With this acquisition, Definitive Healthcare will add an enormous new set of data fields through an acquisition that will dramatically change the views and analytics possible for patient care.Definitive Healthcare, a provider of data, insights, and analytics on the healthcare provider market has acquired
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Cerner Extends On-Site & Near-Site Health Center Experience with 24/7 Digital Primary Care
- Cerner selects HealthTap to further extend healthcare experiences beyond on-site and near-site health and pharmacy centers through HealthTap’s comprehensive digital primary care, including text and video visits and searchable content written by physicians. - Cerner clients using HealthTap’s digital primary care physician network can offer their employees the ability to connect with a U.S.-based, board-certified physician 24 hours a day, seven days a week, on-demand. Cerner Corporation is
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GHX Acquires Lumere to Advance Clinically Integrated Supply Chains
- Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX) announced it has acquired Chicago-based Lumere, a provider of evidence-based data and analytics solutions that enable healthcare organizations to build clinically integrated supply chains and optimize medication formulary management. - As reimbursement models move from fee-for-service to fee-for-value, GHX believes Lumere’s capabilities will extend its value to more directly improve patient outcomes at the lowest cost by empowering customers to make
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R1 RCM Acquires Patient Engagement Company SCI Solutions for $190M in Cash
- R1 RCM announced the expansion of its tech platform capabilities through the acquisition of SCI Solutions, Inc (SCI). This acquisition enables healthcare providers to automate ordering, scheduling and authorization processes.
- SCI’s capabilities integrated into R1’s revenue cycle solution will offer the broadest and deepest tech-enabled patient intake solution available.
R1 RCM Inc, a provider of technology-enabled revenue cycle management (RCM) services to healthcare providers,
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Lifepoint Informatics Launches App for DrChrono EHR Users to Manage Lab Reports
- Lifepoint leveraged DrChrono’s API to create an app that works seamlessly with its EHR platform to easily order and process lab reports and results. - Medical professionals can place their orders directly within DrChrono EHR via Lifepoint’s app and it will transmit orders electronically.DrChrono Inc., the company enabling the medical practice of the future announced today a new partnership with Lifepoint Informatics, a leader in healthcare IT focusing on laboratory outreach connectivity,
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Healthgrades Acquires Consumer & Physician Engagement Company Evariant
- Healthgrades acquires Evariant, a leading healthcare consumer and physician engagement company to create the most comprehensive consumer website to help educate consumers and connect them with a physician.- The acquisition signals a major shift in our industry, where health systems are moving towards a more consumer-centric system of care. Healthgrades, a Denver, CO-based resource that connects consumers, physicians and health systems, today announced it has acquired Evariant, a Farmington,
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How Machine Learning Can Support Early Intervention for High-Risk Patients
U.S. healthcare costs have skyrocketed over the last decade and show no sign of slowing down. We currently spend $3.5 trillion a year on healthcare—about $11,000 per person, more than twice the average per-person spending in other developed countries. And healthcare costs are expected to nearly double to $6 trillion by 2027, further adding to the financial burden on patients, plans, and providers.
Healthcare organizations are exploring a wide range of options to help contain costs while ensuring
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