What You Should Know:
- Health technology leader WellSky has agreed to acquire
CarePort Health to power coordinated care transitions for acute and post-acute
care patients for $1.35B.
- By providing end-to-end visibility across the
continuum, WellSky and CarePort can improve outcomes, lower costs, and increase
patient satisfaction.
WellSky, a global health, and community care technology company, announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement with Allscripts to
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Geisinger, OSF, Presbyterian Double Down on Digital Transformation with AVIA
What You Should Know:
- AVIA, a healthcare innovation network comprised of 50+
health systems and other healthcare stakeholder groups, today announced that
Geisinger, Presbyterian Healthcare Services, and OSF HealthCare have renewed or
expanded their partnerships with the organization to accelerate digital
transformation within their individual systems.
- While hospital spending has steeply declined due to the
COVID-19 pandemic, today’s announcement indicates that AVIA Members value
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Cerner Launches AI-Powered Command Center Dashboard for COVID-19 Response
What You Should Know:
- Cerner launches a new Command Center dashboard to help organizations visualize and optimize operations in a centralized location by leveraging real-time data and predictive analytics to provide situational awareness and decision support during COVID-19.
- Powered by AI and predictive models, helps organizations align patient needs, staffing, and resources to improve care and operational efficiency.
Healthcare IT leader Cerner recently launched a new tool to
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Waystar Acquires Medicare RCM Company eSolutions at $1.3B Valuation
What You Should Know:
- Revenue cycle management provider Waystar acquires eSolutions, a provider of Medicare and Multi-Payer revenue cycle management, workflow automation, and data analytics tools at a $1.3B valuation.
- The acquisition will create the first unified
healthcare payments platform with both commercial and government payer
connectivity, resulting in greater value for providers.
Waystar, a provider of healthcare payments software, today
announced a definitive agreement
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Verisk Launches EHR Triage Engine to Help Speed Approval of Life Insurance Apps
What You Should Know:
- Verisk launches its new EHR Triage Engine, a tool that
uses data from consumer-authorized electronic health records (EHRs) to help
life insurers fast-track many applications for coverage.
- The EHR Triage Engine bypasses manual workflows,
leveraging advanced predictive analytics and automation to digitally ingest and
analyze EHRs and the tool can evaluate 95,000 impairments in five minutes or
less.
Verisk, a data
analytics provider, announced today the launch
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VA, Philips to Create World’s Largest Tele-Critical Care System for Veterans
What You Should Know:
- U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs selects Philips to create the world’s largest tele-critical care system, further integrating tele-health and delivering quality care for veterans.
- The ten-year contract, which enables
VA to invest up to $100 million with Philips for
tele-critical care technology and services, leverages Philips history of innovation, including research into
technologies that can better support veterans, telehealth,
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Philips Rolls Out Mobile ICUs in India to Tackle COVID-19, Can Be Deployed in 1 Day
What You Should Know:
- Philips introduces first-of-a-kind mobile ICUs in India
to tackle COVID-19 and other emergencies with each ICU unit capable of being
deployed in one day.
- Each mobile ICU comes pre-equipped with a state-of-the-art critical-care infrastructure, such as independent patient cubicles, plus anti-bacterial paint and high-end washrooms with a self-disinfection facility to avoid cross-contamination.
- Next to the mobile ICUs Philips is also offering a
dedicated
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Mayo Clinic to Automate Patient Triage in ED to Reduce Physician Burden, Optimize Emergency Room Visits
What You Should Know:
- Mayo Clinic has inked a partnership Diagnostic Robotics
to automate their patient triage system – allowing Mayo Clinic to make quicker,
smarter decisions for patients when limited medical resources are available.
- The new AI-driven platform will supplement the
physician decision-making process in real-time by assisting with the clinical
intake of patients – analyzing a simple questionnaire filled out by patients
and rapidly determining their symptoms, test
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Predictive Analytics: Preventing the Aftershocks from COVID-19
Right now, the world’s attention is focused on COVID-19. This is most appropriate as it has hit the world like a global earthquake, disrupting lives on an unprecedented scale.
However, there will come a day when the immediate danger has passed. At that point, it’s very likely that the healthcare system will begin to feel the significant aftershocks of COVID-19 in the form of neglected chronic condition management throughout the pandemic.
The Centers for Disease Control
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Unite Us Acquires SDoH Data Analytics Company Staple Health to Expand Capabilities
What You Should Know:
- Unite Us acquires social determinants of health (SDoH)
analytics company Staple Health to greatly expand its valuable predictive data
analytics capabilities.
- Predictive analytics and outcome data are essential as
Unite Us supports local communities, addressing needs and providing proactive
social care infrastructure where it is lacking.
- The acquisition of Staple Health brings 10 years of
data experience and a database of 270M individuals, with notable
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