What You Should Know: - Sutter Health extends its partnership to global digital health company Ada - creators of the world’s most popular symptom assessment app to integrate digital triage into the mental health service, Scout by Sutter Health™ to help deliver AI-powered mental health support to young people. - As many as half of all mental disorders begin by age 14. However, mental health concerns in
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Why There’s Renewed Interest In The Cloud for Healthcare
From the development of the EMR to the growth of telehealth, the digital environment for healthcare has evolved tremendously over the last few years. So, it’s no surprise that IT spending is set to increase by 12.3% for cloud computing, 9.7%, for digital transformation, and 9.7% for security software this year. Though healthcare organizations have historically been slower to adopt cloud, we’re now seeing renewed interest. Has the pandemic caused a reaction among IT leaders to
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Sutter Health Signs 10-Year Contract with R1 RCM for End-to-End RCM
What You Should Know: - Sutter Health, a not-for-profit integrated health system that provides high-quality care across Northern California has signed a 10-year agreement with R1 RCM to serve as their exclusive provider of enterprise revenue cycle management services. - The parties believe that the partnership will help improve Sutter’s overall financial performance with an estimated $400M in cost savings over the next 10 years, helping Sutter achieve more sustainable labor costs and
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Healthcare PE Firm Heritage Group Launches $300M Health Tech Fund
What You Should Know: - Healthcare private equity firm Heritage Group launches a $300M fund to invest in high-growth healthcare services and technology companies. - Heritage is backed by some of the leading healthcare organizations in the nation, including large provider systems, payers, and healthcare service providers. Heritage Group, a Nashville, TN-based healthcare-focused private equity firm, today announced the closing of over $300 million in its oversubscribed third fund, an
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COVID-19 Underscores Need for Identity Governance Administration
If you work in healthcare, chances are that the COVID-19 pandemic forced you to quickly scale up or move staff around to manage the onslaught of patients. The demand for clinicians and support staff grew alongside the spread of the virus, making organizations add clinicians or reassign employees with new or modified roles: Ambulatory nurses went down in the Emergency Department or Isolation Ward, revenue cycle folks started doing transport, and so on. In some cases, former staff or retired
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COVID-19 Pandemic Further Exposes Systemic Racism…
This will be ugly and sad. Racism has cost this country $16 trillion over the last twenty years according to a recent Citigroup report. Much of this loss ($13 trillion) was attributed to discriminatory lending practices and the 6.1 million fewer jobs created as a result, while disparity in wages ($2.7 trillion) and discrimination in housing policies and lost income due to restricted access to higher education accounted for the balance. The report estimates that if these gaps were to be
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Carequality Releases Implementation Guide for Electronic Case Reporting
What You Should Know: - Carequality releases an implementation guide for electronic case reporting that enables automated, electronic case reporting to public health agencies, including the CDC. - Carequality worked closely with the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) in developing the new implementation guide. - This is Carequality’s second implementation guide, the first being the Query-Based Document Exchange Implementation Guide, which was originally adopted in 2015
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NovuHealth Appoints Sutter Health Aetna Exec Steve Wigginton CEO
NovuHealth,
a consumer engagement company, announced that former Sutter Health|Aetna executive Steve
Wigginton has joined the company as its chief executive officer. Wigginton
succeeds company co-founder Tom Wicka, who has served as CEO since the
company’s inception and will move to the role of executive chairman. Wicka, as executive chairman, will be taking a strategic
role developing business markets, creating new partnerships, and working with
Wigginton and the board to drive M&A
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Suki Raises $20M to Expand AI-powered, Voice-Enabled Digital Assistant for Doctors
What You Need to Know: - Today, Suki announced a Series B funding round of $20 million, led by new investor Flare Capital Partners and including top investors like First Round and Venrock. - In just two years, Suki has established its product as a leading solution to address the urgent crisis of physician burnout and is already trusted by independent and group practices as well as leading systems like Sutter Health and Ascension. - Suki will use the funding to expand its user base
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Sutter Health, Lyft Partner to Improve Access to Care for Patients & Staff
- Sutter Health and Lyft announced a collaboration to provide patients and staff with improved access to care that will optimize the patient/provider experience. - Starting today, Sutter hospitals and care centers around Northern California will have the option to start implementing customized, individual transportation programs, and address social determinants of health. Not-for-profit network Sutter Health and transportation network company Lyft today announced a collaboration to power the
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