The impact of COVID-19 on the healthcare industry’s ability to innovate has been stunning. We have seen FDA emergency authorizations and relaxed regulatory guidelines enable the development of radical new ventilator ideas, accelerated timelines for vaccine development, and an extraordinary transition to telehealth services. Many of these actions were a response to the exposure of weak spots in our healthcare system, but even as those weaknesses have been shored up (in large part due to public
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Public Health
Blue Shield of CA Launches Digital “Neighborhood Health Dashboard” for Public
What You Should Know:
- Blue Shield of California and mySidewalk unveil innovative
“Neighborhood Health Dashboard” to help improve community health across the state.
- The Neighborhood Health Dashboard uses data intelligence from dozens of sources to create a comprehensive picture of a community’s health including health outcomes, preventative health care, utilization and access, health behaviors, social risk factors, and environmental and economic health conditions.
Blue Shield of
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Report: Modern Revenue Integrity Solutions Driving Payment Performance
What You Should Know:
- New Chilmark Research report on revenue integrity
in healthcare reveals a transitional market making strides to address the new
burdens of modern care economics.
- The ongoing COVID-19 public health emergency underscores
the imperative need for automation and reduced administrative costs even
clearer.
Revenue cycle
has and continues to be one of the most difficult challenges in healthcare.
These issues manifest in the claims process of submission,
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9 Ways UX/UI Design Can Improve Digital Health Adoption for Seniors
Seniors have the lowest reported usage of telehealth of any age group. As many healthcare providers are increasing the use of telehealth, especially in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the implementation of new tools and technologies could impact seniors.
In my experience, this doesn’t indicate that older adults aren’t tech-minded, or that they are not using tech products currently. In fact, studies show that seniors use smartphones at the same rate as younger groups. Over 80 percent of
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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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Multi-Vital Ambulatory Monitor for COVID-19 Patients Launches in the U.S.
What You Should Know:
- VivaLink launches a new multi-vital ambulatory monitoring solution for infectious respiratory diseases is being debuted in America and Western Europe. This monitoring solution is currently deployed in Asia, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East to help monitor COVID-19 patients.
- Built upon VivaLink’s proprietary ambulatory medical wearable sensor platform, the solution can easily be set up and scaled in hospitals, nursing homes, and remote environments. Even pop-up
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HHS Announces Investments for STAR HIE Program to Support State and Local Public Health Agencies
What You Should Know:
- HHS Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) will award up to five 5 cooperative
agreements under the Strengthening
the Technical Advancement and Readiness of Public Health Agencies via Health Information Exchange
(STAR HIE) Program.
The U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services (HHS) today issued a Notice of Funding Opportunity to expand and
accelerate innovative
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FDA, Syapse Expand Research to Generate Real-World Data Related to COVID-19 and Cancer
What You Should Know:
The FDA and Syapse announce research collaboration expansion
to address urgent public health challenges including supporting FDA’s goal of
rapid understanding of COVID-19.
As part of the research, Syapse is partnering with FDA’s
Oncology Center of Excellence to investigate methods to derive RWD from
multiple sources including electronic health records, registries and molecular
data
Syapse, a real-world
evidence company accelerating the delivery of precision
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Patient Payment Strategies to Accelerate Cash Flow Amid COVID-19
In the past few months, the COVID-19 pandemic has shaken societies, economies, and human wellbeing to the core. While protecting public health and welfare are top priorities for hospitals, the harsh reality is that it takes cash to keep the doors open and serve patients effectively. Revenue is down significantly as a result of canceled elective surgeries, while the costs of medical supplies and in-demand personal protective equipment for workers have skyrocketed. Hospitals’ operating challenges
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Telehealth and COVID-19: Overcoming New Challenges for Providers and Payers
Telehealth has quickly transformed the healthcare industry. Rather than scheduling an appointment, waiting up to a few weeks, and going to a doctor's office or another healthcare facility, we can now access many types of care from the convenience of our smartphones.
However, telehealth has also brought in its own set of new challenges that must be overcome for it to be successful in the long term. Below, we explore five of the biggest issues telemedicine faces and offer insights on how
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