Brian Robertson, CEO at VisiQuate,
There have been many memorable “where were you?” events since the 21st century began. But few can match the COVID-19 pandemic, at least from a healthcare perspective.
The effect on healthcare (and healthcare executives) has been particularly profound since our industry is in the center of everything. From the search for personal protective equipment (PPE) to setting up secure wings and field hospitals to instantly redeploying nurses from other
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RUSH, R1 Launch Innovation Lab to Drive Value-Based Care & Advanced Analytics
What You Should Know:
- Rush University System for Health (RUSH) and R1 RCM Inc. launches a joint Innovation Lab to deliver solutions to improve the quality of care for patients.
- The Innovation Lab is expected to commercialize its
solutions beginning in 2021.
Rush University
System for Health (RUSH) and R1 RCM Inc.,
a provider of technology-enabled revenue cycle
management (RCM) services to healthcare providers, announced the launch of
a joint Innovation Lab to deliver solutions
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DAS Health Acquires Managed IT Services and CyberSecurity Company Technology Seed
- Both companies’ clients will gain an increased depth of IT and security support, and Technology Seed’s healthcare clients will now have a substantially improved value proposition
DAS Health Ventures, Inc., a provider of health IT and management, announced today it completed the acquisition of Technology Seed, LLC, a managed IT and cybersecurity services company based in Salem, NH. This acquisition strengthens DAS’ position in the MSP sector and significantly advances its growth strategy to
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HGP Semi-Annual Health IT Market Review: 6 Key Trends to Know
Healthcare Growth Partners, an
Investment Banking and Strategic Advisory firm exclusively focused on the
transformational health
IT market, today announced the release of its Semi-Annual Health IT Market
Review report that summarizes M&A and private equity activity across health
IT, health information services, and digital health.
Report Background/Methodology
This edition of the report includes feedback from our survey
of private equity professionals and their response to
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Banner Health to Implement Cerner Revenue Cycle Management Across Enterprise
What You Should Know:
- Cerner and long-time client Banner Health announced
a new deal to implement a comprehensive suite of revenue cycle management
solutions as part of a long-standing strategic alignment to use health care
technology to drive population health improvement.
- The revenue cycle integration will take place across
Banner Health’s entire system, including 28 hospitals and clinics in six
states.
Banner Health and Cerner,
today announced it is expanding
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Post COVID-19: Medical Billing Finally Realizes the Value of Text-to-Pay
Bird Blitch, CEO, and co-founder at Patientco
Contactless payments were on the rise even before COVID-19 hit. But now, health systems should see them as essential. Consumers are increasingly wary of touching a credit card terminal that others have used, a perfect conduit for spreading germs. For consumers, text payments serve as a convenient contactless way to pay, but there are other unique benefits when this method of payment is applied in a healthcare setting.
Let’s look at how text
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Top 4 Disruptions Healthcare Providers Should Prepare to Address
Shawn Yates, Director, Product Management, Ontario Systems
The past few years have been particularly interesting for the healthcare landscape. We’ve seen a surge in telemedicine and retail clinics, increasing use of personal healthcare devices such as watches and fitness trackers, aggressive attempts to dismantle the ACA, the growing influence of private equity investment firms, and massive mergers with disruptive enterprise market entries such as Amazon. As the ground beneath them continues
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SwitchPoint Ventures Spins Out AI-Driven Health IT Startup Polaris Health
What You
Should Know:
- SwitchPoint (made up of veteran healthcare leaders with experience at Intermedix/R1 RCM and others) launches a new technology venture, Polaris Health that leverages AI to predict patient demand and create efficient clinician schedules that align with this demand.
- Polaris Health’s solution utilizes
proprietary machine learning algorithms to predict provider demand, distribute clinician resources to meet that
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MTBC Acquires RCM Vendor Meridian Medical Management
What You Should Know:
- MTBC acquires Meridian Medical Management, a former GE
Healthcare IT company to enhance its cloud-based healthcare IT solutions and
services.
- Meridian Medical Management has been providing revenue cycle
management solutions to the ambulatory medical practice management marketplace
for over 20 years.
MTBC, Inc., a Somerset,
NJ-based provider of cloud-based
healthcare IT solutions and services announced it has acquired
Meridian Medical Management
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R1 Acquires Cerner RevWorks to Extend Revenue Cycle Capabilities
R1 RCM Inc., a provider
of technology-enabled revenue cycle management services to healthcare providers,
today announced that it will acquire
Cerner RevWorks services
business and commercial, non-federal client relationships. R1’s electronic health record-agnostic
revenue cycle
platform seamlessly complements a healthcare organization’s infrastructure,
quickly driving transformative improvements to net patient revenue and cash
flows while reducing operating costs.
Integration
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