Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, a study found that almost half of Americans will experience an episode of mental illness in their lives, but may never get the diagnosis and treatment they need. In a more recent finding, over 25% of American adults now meet the criteria for a diagnosis of severe mental distress.
The looming impact on our collective mental health is concerning enough, but there are also serious implications for physical health. Left unaddressed, behavioral health issues
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Hospital IQ & Cerner Partner to Deliver Predictive Analytics for OR
What You Should Know:
- Hospital IQ and Cerner just announced a relationship to support health systems with predictive analytics to improve clinical and operational awareness.
- Together, the companies will provide health systems with near real-time analytics and predictive capabilities to gain insight into where resources are being used, where they may be needed, and how they can be deployed more efficiently.
- Health system operators, administrators, and clinical leaders can
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Net Health Acquires Wound Care Platform Tissue Analytics
What You Should Know:
- Net Health acquires wound care platform Tissue Analytics to expand Net Health’s leadership position in the wound care market.
- Tissue Analytics, Inc. deploys its wound management software via industry-leading SMART on FHIR integrations with Epic, Cerner, Allscripts, and others.
- Net Health plans to integrate Tissue Analytics app will be integrated with their WoundExpert EHR solution to add key capabilities for use within hospital outpatient
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AdhereHealth Launches COVID-19 Adherence Solution for High Risk Populations
What You Should Know:- AdhereHealth launches COVID-19 Adherence Solution to help protect high-risk populations and reduce unnecessary hospitalizations during COVID-19 pandemic.- The new solution combines predictive analytics, proactive outreach and home-delivered pharmacy services to help high-risk patients overcome SDOH challenges and continue taking their prescribed medications throughout the COVID-19 crisis. Nashville, TN-based AdhereHealth today announced the immediate availability of its
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5 Lessons from Past Epidemics and Shortages to Help Supply Chains Cope with COVID-19
If we don’t learn from history, are we doomed to repeat it? In 2009, as the H1N1 swine flu swept the globe, U.S. hospitals began to run out of test kits. Some had to set up tents to handle the rush of patients. Supplies of personal protective equipment including N95 respirator masks ran out in many places despite millions distributed from the national stockpile.
Today’s coronavirus crisis is exponentially worse yet eerily familiar. Hospitals in New York, the pandemic’s epicenter, are
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Chilmark Research: The Promise of AI & ML in Healthcare Report
What You Need to Know:
- New Chilmark Research report reveals artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) technologies are capturing the imagination of investors and healthcare organizations—and are poised to expand healthcare frontiers.
- The latest report evaluates over 120 commercial AI/ML solutions in healthcare, explores future opportunities, and assesses obstacles to adoption at scale.
Interest and investment in healthcare AI/ML tools
is booming with approximately
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Hong Kong’s Dept. of Health Taps Biofourmis’ Remote Monitoring Platform to Fight Coronavirus
What You Need to Know:
- Boston-based Biofourmis’ AI-powered digital therapeutics technology has inked a deal with The University of Hong Kong and Hong Kong’s Department of Health to leverage its wearable, AI-powered remote monitoring platform to provide new insights to fight COVID-19 in a national disease monitoring program.
- Biofourmis’ technology will remotely monitor coronavirus infected and suspected patients and apply personally predictive analytics to help patients and increase
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Clarify Health to use LexisNexis Risk Solutions’ Socioeconomic Data
What You Need to Know:
- LexisNexis Risk Solutions, that it has partnered with Clarify Health to evaluate the predictive capability of social determinants of health and clinical data.
- The collaboration’s approach will integrate individual-level SDOH data into Clarify Health’s clinical analytical models to evaluate the quality and efficacy of the data at the point of care to help drive care management decision-making.
- Clarify Health’s analytical models help identify population
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Waystar Launches AI/RPA Platform to Automate Revenue Cycle Processes
- Waystar Launches Hubble, an artificial intelligence and automation platform, Hubble that automates revenue cycle processes to help providers collect payment faster and more effectively.
- The platform uses AI to help providers fix outdated and inefficient billing processes -- helping hospitals that are struggling financially, as well as helping patients avoid issues like surprise medical bills, by improving accuracy and price transparency.
Waystar, a Chicago, IL-based provider of
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IntelyCare Raises $45M for Intelligent Nurse Staffing Platform to Address Solve Nationwide Workforce Shortage
- IntelyCare, a leading intelligent workforce management solution for post-acute facilities raises $45M in new equity and debt financing to solve nationwide nurse shortage.
- With this funding, the company will continue its viral expansion into new markets in dire need of better ways to pair facilities with open shifts and nurses looking for work.
IntelyCare, a leading intelligent workforce management solution for post-acute facilities, today announced it has completed the largest
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