What You Should Know: - Accenture and Salesforce are investing in the development of Salesforce Life Sciences Cloud, focusing on innovation, assets, and accelerators powered by data and artificial intelligence (AI) to help life sciences companies create sustainable value and drive growth. - Building on their generative AI collaboration, Accenture and Salesforce will leverage their joint generative AI acceleration hub to develop new solutions and use cases for Salesforce Life Sciences
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Blue Shield of California Taps Salesforce to Enhance Member Experience
What You Should Know: Blue Shield of California and Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), the No. 1 AI CRM, today announced an expanded collaboration to meet members’ need for unified experiences by leveraging the agility and breadth of the Salesforce platform. With its adoption of Salesforce Health Cloud, Blue Shield of California will be able to expand and scale more in-depth care management services to its members, promoting higher quality care.Additionally, with Salesforce, Blue
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Analysis: Sharecare Poised for Re-Acceleration, 1Q Results
What You Should Know: On 5/10/23, BMO, Sharecare (SHCR) delivered what appear to be, good 1Q results. Revenue of $116.3M + 15.5% y/y, compares to BTIG / FactSet consensus of $111M / $110.9M and adjusted EBITDA of $2.1M compares to BTIG /consensus of $1.2M / $1.2M. 1Q revenue exceeded the guidance range of $111M- $113M.Given the top-line beat we are optimistic that revenue guidance is conservative. Management increased 2023 revenue guidance from $450-$460M to $452.5M-$460M and 2023 adjusted
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Salesforce Launches New Customer 360 for Health Capabilities to Deliver More Personalized Patient Experiences
What You Should Know: - Salesforce today announced new Customer 360 for Health capabilities that help healthcare providers deliver more personalized patient experiences and reduce operational costs. - Customer 360 for Health helps healthcare and life sciences organizations enhance the overall care experience with the full power of Salesforce technology, including real-time data from Data Cloud, Einstein AI, and automation with Flow. New Customer for
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Florence Launches Modern Healthcare Experience With $20M
What You Should Know: Florence, an innovator in healthcare enablement software, has launched out of stealth mode after raising $20 million in seed funding.The health tech startup’s round was led by Thrive Capital, GV (Google Ventures), and Salesforce Ventures with participation from Vast Ventures, BoxGroup and Atento Capital. Aspiring to Digitally Streamline Patient Access to Increase Efficiency Comprised of physicians and engineers from leading health systems and technology companies,
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39 Organizations Sign Global Heath Equity Pledge to Advance Health Equity Globally
What You Should Know: - Today, World Economic Forum announced that 39 organizations have signed the Global Health Equity Network Zero Health Gaps Pledge. - The pledge includes 10 key commitments all signatories have made to embed health equity principles throughout their operations, workforce and guiding philosophies. It marks the beginning of an historic journey to making health equity an integral part of business strategies globally and an important step towards a world without health
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The Patient Journey Tech Stack: 10 Pharma Predictions for 2023
The complexity of demands on Market Access teams has increased in recent years, between introducing innovative therapies targeting smaller populations and higher bars from Payers and PBMs. Now, drug manufacturers are bucking up. According to the IQVIA Institute, the prescription abandonment rate has reached 27 percent, or $76 billion annually, in specialty drugs alone. This squandered revenue has led manufacturers to increase their focus on the complex, nuanced patient journey. As a
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KLAS: Home-Based Post-Acute Care and Facility-Based Post-Acute Care Trends
What You Should Know: - The homecare market has surged as healthcare organizations have sought to maintain quality patient care throughout the pandemic and fulfill requirements for value-based reimbursement, according to the latest KLAS report. Organizations are looking to expand their homecare offerings; however, the pandemic has exacerbated staffing shortages and decreased bandwidth, making operations—let alone growth—difficult. To help organizations understand how peers are approaching the
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Does Data Hold the Key to Streamlining Provider Credentialing?
Provider credentialing is an essential part of healthcare. A provider cannot work or get paid without a proper license or credential, and yet this highly complex process is still done on paper (also sticky notes on file cabinets, Excel spreadsheets—you get the idea) by many healthcare organizations. Manually credentialing providers adds to an already lengthy process. One expired certificate or a delayed privileging request can prevent a provider from seeing patients for more than 60
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Salesforce Unveils Patient 360 for Health innovations to Improve Patient Outcomes
What You Should Know: - Today, Salesforce announced a new Patient 360 for Health innovations providing cost-saving automation, real-time data, and personalized intelligence for healthcare and life sciences organizations to deliver comprehensive patient engagement and equitable care with greater efficiency.- According to Salesforce’s 2022 Success Metrics Global Highlights study, healthcare and life sciences organizations using Salesforce are seeing an average of 25%* savings on operational
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