What You Should Know: - A recent study published in JAMA found that conventional genomic tests commonly used for breast cancer tumors can be less accurate for Black women. This news comes at a time when Black women with breast cancer are experiencing mortality rates that are 41% higher than white women. - Dr. Nathalie Johnson, MD FACS and President of The American Society of Breast Cancer Surgeons is among numerous doctors who advocate for Agendia and its tests which look beyond race,
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Halifax Health Partners with XSOLIS for Precision Hospital Utilization Reviews
What You Should Know: - Today, XSOLIS, the AI technology company creating a more efficient healthcare system, announced a new partnership with Florida-based Halifax Health to achieve greater efficiencies between its utilization management and physician advisor teams across its three hospitals. - XSOLIS’ CORTEX® platform will help Halifax solve administrative challenges and mitigate revenue risk associated with misaligned care level status. CORTEX’s advanced case management analytics
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Interoperability: Particle Health Launches Suite of Solutions to Wrangle Data
What You Should Know: - Particle Health, an interoperability platform that aggregates and delivers actionable patient data and insights to healthcare companies, announced today it has launched its Particle FOCUS (Filtered Outputs Curated for Usability + Simplicity) solution suite. - FOCUS data products are designed to streamline data by delivering comprehensive, simplified, and organized patient health information across seven disease states:
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MedArrive, Ouma Partner to Bring In-Home Maternal Care to Vulnerable Medicaid Members
What You Should Know: - MedArrive today announced its collaboration with Ouma, one of the most mission-driven maternal health companies in the nation, which has the largest DTC network of maternal-fetal medicine providers (and other care specialists). - The collaboration aims to improve the health of pregnant women and their newborns, especially those at high risk, by adding a vital service to MedArrive’s growing ecosystem of specialty care providers that managed
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Are Hospitals Ready for Alzheimer’s Treatment Approval?
The FDA’s recent accelerated approval of Leqembi was welcome news across the Alzheimer’s community. However, few health systems, medical practices, or providers are prepared for the extraordinary public interest in a treatment for Alzheimer’s disease – especially not one targeting mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and early dementia due to Alzheimer’s disease – that is likely headed their way soon. The unprecedented scale of the public health and marketing campaigns, the high prevalence of MCI in
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Digital Health Exec Hires: Transcarent Appoints CMO, Carium, Tegria, Swift Medical, GoCheckKids, Others
Transcarent appoints Dr. Randy Hawkins as Chief Medical Officer (CMO) and will report to Transcarent Chief Executive Officer, Glen Tullman. As CMO, Dr. Hawkins will oversee the organization’s clinical quality initiatives and support the organization’s health analytics strategy. Swift Medical has appointed Brian Litten as its new Chief Executive Officer effective immediately. Litten brings decades of healthcare leadership experience across health plans, provider organizations, regulatory
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Study Reveals EHR Data Can Identify Patients Who Are Frail
What You Should Know: - AHRQ conducted a study to address the operational gap between CFIs and EFIs. This project focused on validating an established CFI using linked claims-EHR databases of multiple large health systems. The project provides a systematic approach that health systems can use to examine the quality of the EHR data and prepare it for the application of EFI measures. - The findings demonstrated that structured EHR data can be used by healthcare providers to identify frail
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Accelerating Clinical Trials Through AI-Enabled Precision Oncology
The American Cancer Society’s Cancer Statistics 2023 report highlighted a few major accomplishments within oncology, such as decreased cancer mortality rates and increased trial diversity. However, there is still much work to be done. Especially with the multiple types of new and ongoing challenges clinicians and staff members are facing - such as high turnover rates, decreased budgets and increased feelings of burnout - taking the necessary steps to enhance clinical trial procedures is crucial
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Intermountain Study Finds Follow-Up Care with Medication, Testing After Heart Attack Can Prevent 94% of Patients from Having Second Cardiac Event or Death
What You Should Know: - A recent study by researchers at Intermountain Healthcare in Salt Lake City finds that following up a cardiac event, such as a heart attack, with a statin prescription and cholesterol-measuring blood test, prevents 94% of patients from having or dying from a second cardiovascular event during the next three years. - Having one cardiac event, like a heart attack or stroke, puts a person at high risk of having a second one. One in five people who have a heart
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PointClickCare Acquires Value-Based Care EHR Patient Pattern
What You Should Know: - PointClickCare Technologies, a healthcare technology platform enabling meaningful collaboration and access to real‐time insights at every stage of the patient healthcare journey, today announced the acquisition of Patient Pattern. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. - The combination of PointClickCare and Patient Pattern will further the companies’ shared vision of enabling better care and outcomes for high-needs populations and provide
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