What You Should Know: Solera Health, the premier technology platform for connecting people seamlessly and easily to health solutions that work, announces a multi-year strategic partnership with Horizon Healthcare Services, New Jersey’s largest health insurer with more than 3.6 million members.Through this strategic partnership, Solera will provide its technology platform to connect Horizon members to a personalized experience of innovative and effective curated networks of digital
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Exec Hires: Clinical Trials Marketplace SubjectWell Appoints New CEO
What You Should Know: - SubjectWell, the largest engagement platform for matching patients with chronic health conditions to new care options, announced that clinical industry veteran Fred Martin has joined SubjectWell as CEO. - Fred will joins SubjectWell during a time of growth following the company’s Series B funding in November 2022, with the goal of accelerating technical solutions and building investor relations. Fred Martin Bio Fred brings more than 25 years of experience in
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Bicycle Health, Wellpath to Provide Opioid Use Disorder Treatment to Federal Bureau of Prisons
What You Should Know: - Bicycle Health, a telehealth provider of integrated medical and behavioral health treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD) is teaming up with Wellpath, the premier provider of localized, compassionate care to vulnerable patients in challenging clinical environments, and the Federal Bureau of Prisons (FBOP). - The collaboration will enable patients to access Bicycle Health’s evidence-based, life-saving clinical care model delivering virtual Medication for
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Wellstar Expands Enterprise Virtual Reality Training with Moth+Flame
What You Should Know: - Wellstar Health System extends its partnership with Moth+Flame to further utilize its virtual reality (VR) training technology. - The VR emotional intelligence training encourages Wellstar's employees to build composure and gain practical experience in a highly realistic scenario by navigating difficult conversations and testing resiliency in an emotionally charged environment. - The experience helps Wellstar's workforce development
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Epic, Impact Advisors, Nordic, Chartis Named 2023 Overall Best in KLAS® Awards
What You Should Know: Epic, Nordic, Impact Advisors and The Chartis Group won the 2023 Overall Best in KLAS® awards. Epic was named the top Overall Software Suite for the thirteenth straight year in 2023 Best in KLAS – Software & Services report, released, which reports on the top vendors for 2022. Epic was also named the top Overall Physician Practice Vendor. Epic won thirteen other Best in KLAS awards in various market segments. - Impact Advisors tied with Nordic to be a
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Opioid Use Disorders Cost U.S. Hospitals More than $95B Annually
What You Should Know: - Based on prevalence estimates from PINC AI™ data during 2017-2022, an estimated 66 million emergency department (ED) outpatient visits and 760,000 inpatient admissions in the U.S. annually are for patients with the diagnosis of opioid use disorders (OUDs). - Patients with an OUD diagnosis had 32.5 percent higher cost per ED visit and 8 percent higher cost per inpatient visit than those without an OUD diagnosis. The annual total cost of care for OUD-associated ED
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Metaverse Operating Room Simulates Surgery on Cleft Lip & Palate
What You Should Know: - Smile Train and BioDigital launched the first-ever cleft surgery virtual reality (VR) platform experience at the IMSH Conference in Orlando, Florida. - The platform utilizes a “metaverse operating room” to simulate surgery on cleft lip and palate, a common birth condition that occurs when a baby’s lip or mouth does not form properly during pregnancy. The condition can cause difficulty with breathing, eating and speaking. If left
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C2i Genomics & AstraZeneca Partner to Advance Cancer Therapy
What You Should Know: - C2i Genomics, a cancer intelligence company, today announced a strategic collaboration with AstraZeneca, a global life sciences and pharmaceutical leader. - The two companies have collaborated to evaluate the potential of whole-genome minimal residual disease (MRD) testing across solid cancers. - Expanding on a completion of AstraZeneca’s accelerator BeyondBio SCALE program for start-ups and successful technology validation, C2i Genomics and AstraZeneca
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Simulation Training is Vital in Nursing Education and Addresses the Shortage of Nurses
Ebbs and flows in the need for nurses and the number of students entering nursing programs are common, but the COVID-19 pandemic caused a more severe nursing shortage than has been previously experienced. At the height of the pandemic, nursing schools suspended in-person classes and were essentially closed. At the same time, many experienced nurses chose early retirement. These factors came together to create the global nursing shortage we are currently facing. Simulation, the use of
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Wellframe and Linkwell Health Launch Wellsquared to Close the Gap Between Health Plans and their Members
What You Should Know: - Wellframe and Linkwell Health have announced the launch of Wellsquared, a new product designed to deepen engagement with members and help health plans deliver the modern healthcare experience members expect. - Wellsquared is a partnership between Wellframe, the market leader in member experience solutions for health plans, and Linkwell Health, the premier consumer engagement technology and content company serving health plans and health services
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