What You Should Know:
- New offering is part of UnitedHealthcare Dental’s
comprehensive response to COVID-19, which also includes financial support for
customers and enhanced payments for network providers.
- Dental care ranks among the most frequently avoidable
ER visits, with the emergence of teledentistry providing a key resource to help
people make more informed decisions about where to go for care and avoid
potential exposure risks with in-person care facilities.
With
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56% of Health Leaders State Their Current PHM Solution Falls Short, Fails to Address Current Needs
What You Should Know:
- More than half (56%) healthcare leaders say their current population health management (PHM) solution doesn’t meet their needs, according to a new survey from Persivia.
- Almost two-thirds (62%) say a lack of clinician
engagement is the top reason they’re looking to replace their PHM solution.
This was followed by the inability to convert data to action (48%), and
inability to engage patients (43%) or perform sufficient analytics (43%) tied
for third.
- The
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Somatus Lands $64M to Expand Value-Based Kidney Care Model
What You Should Know:
- Somatus raises $64M in Series C funding led by Longitudinal
Capital to fuel the expansion of its value-based kidney care model.
- Somatus will use the funding to continue to scale its
model nationally and invest in technology and product development to better
support patients and health plan partners.
Somatus, a McLean, VA-based provider of value-based kidney care, today announced it has completed a Series C funding round of $64 million led by Longitude
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AbleTo Unveils Integrated Suite of Mental Health Solutions for Payers
What You Should Know:
- AbleTo, a provider of virtual mental health
services unveils an expanded suite of mental health solutions for payers to
address growing needs across America.
- The new solution set was specifically engineered
to establish an elevated standard of teletherapy through a combined approach
that is highly personalized, data-driven, and evidence-based.
AbleTo, Inc., a
leading provider of virtual mental health services proven to improve clinical
outcomes and lower
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Predictive Analytics: Preventing the Aftershocks from COVID-19
Right now, the world’s attention is focused on COVID-19. This is most appropriate as it has hit the world like a global earthquake, disrupting lives on an unprecedented scale.
However, there will come a day when the immediate danger has passed. At that point, it’s very likely that the healthcare system will begin to feel the significant aftershocks of COVID-19 in the form of neglected chronic condition management throughout the pandemic.
The Centers for Disease Control
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DrFirst, MARQUIS Med Rec Partner to Help Hospitals Improve Patient Safety Through Better Medication Reconciliation
What You Should Know:
- DrFirst and the Society for Hospital Medicine, through its MARQUIS Med Rec Collaborative forms partnership, to work with hospitals to reduce these discrepancies in the medication reconciliation process—one of the most important steps to improve patient safety during transitions of care.
- DrFirst will customize The Collaborative’s current
toolkit, illustrating how its MedHx solution—the healthcare industry’s broadest
source of medication history data available,
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Cardiology Improving Safety, Technology and Gender Equality
Women currently comprise more than half of all students enrolled in medical school, but gender inequality continues to mar some areas of medicine. In our field of interventional cardiology, men outnumbered women 95 to 5 as recently as 2019, but new technology, shifting attitudes and strategic recruiting have led to an influx of females in interventional cardiology that will alter the evolution of a field historically stunted by traditionalism.
Cardiovascular disease is the most common cause
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Unite Us Acquires SDoH Data Analytics Company Staple Health to Expand Capabilities
What You Should Know:
- Unite Us acquires social determinants of health (SDoH)
analytics company Staple Health to greatly expand its valuable predictive data
analytics capabilities.
- Predictive analytics and outcome data are essential as
Unite Us supports local communities, addressing needs and providing proactive
social care infrastructure where it is lacking.
- The acquisition of Staple Health brings 10 years of
data experience and a database of 270M individuals, with notable
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FDA Clears ICU Device That Predicts Respiratory Failure to Support COVID-19
What You Should Know:
- CLEW is awarded FDA Emergency Use Authorization (EUA)
for its predictive analytics platform in support of COVID-19 patients.
- CLEW is the only device authorized by the FDA to
provide early identification of patients who are likely to experience
respiratory failure of hemodynamic instability—both significant complications
associated with COVID-19.
- CLEW is already implemented in coronavirus units in two
Israeli hospitals, and being tested by several US
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5 Reasons Why Providers Need Electronic Support for Glycemic Management
It’s no secret hyperglycemia and hypoglycemia are associated with adverse outcomes in hospitalized patients. We’ve known for many years that hyperglycemia is widespread in the hospital, causes immune dysfunction, higher rates of infection, a longer length of hospital stay, complications, and even death.
Insulin has been the most effective therapy for hyperglycemia since it was first created almost 100 years ago, but it can also be dangerous if not managed properly. In fact, nearly 50% of all
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