Efficient data processing and data sharing are essential functions across healthcare—from patient care, clinical research, and health services planning to billing and government reporting for funding and research. But most of the data that the industry is processing is human-generated, meaning it’s messy and riddled with errors, and often manually inputted from Excel spreadsheets into various disparate platforms and technology systems. In some cases, our healthcare system is running on
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What The Finance Industry Can Teach Healthcare About Digital Transformation
The COVID-19 pandemic feels like a once-in-a-lifetime event for those of us involved in healthcare, but the patterns of how the crisis affected our industry feel familiar. Stop me if you have heard this before: incumbent players in a broad industry made very slow and fragmented technological advances for years with no real threat to their business. Then, a sudden and transformational event catapulted direct-to-consumer technologies, forcing the incumbents to fundamentally alter their business
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Uber Health Hires First Chief Medical Officer, Aledade’s New CEO, Other Digital Health Appointments
Uber Health, Uber’s healthcare arm, announced its first Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Michael Cantor. Dr. Cantor will enable Uber Health to continue building innovative solutions that address the needs of patients, clinicians, and care coordinators. As a board-certified geriatrician, his experience designing clinical programs for older adults and vulnerable populations gives him unique insights into the most pressing gaps in care–and how technology can provide the flexible solutions needed to
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CVS Health, Uber Health Collaborate to Advance Health Equity in Communities Nationwide
What You Should Know: - CVS Health (NYSE: CVS) announced a collaboration with Uber Health, Uber's healthcare arm, to provide free transportation through a new Health Zones initiative to people who need it most when seeking access to medical care, work, or educational programs. - CVS Health and Uber Health will help eliminate a critical barrier to care and overall well-being transportation which can limit a person's ability to receive medical care, to get to work or to job training and can
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3 Trends Impacting the Financial Health of Patients and Providers in 2022
It's an unfortunate reality of our times: Healthcare in the United States has become increasingly unaffordable, challenging patients, providers, and pharmacies alike. One in 5 adults reported they can’t afford quality care. Uncompensated care hovers around $40B annually. The COVID-19 pandemic continues to strain the resources of our healthcare system. What lies ahead? Against a backdrop of growing financial burden, these three trends tell the story of where healthcare affordability is
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HLTH21: Uber Health, Papa Partner to Improve Social Determinants of Health
What You Should Know: - Papa, a nationwide provider that pairs older adults and families with Papa Pals for companionship and assistance with everyday tasks, and Uber Health, Uber’s HIPAA-enabled solution for health care organizations, announced a social determinants of health (SDoH) partnership aimed at reducing barriers to transportation access. - Papa and Uber are working together to mitigate social isolation and negative health outcomes among Medicare and Medicaid recipients as
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COVID Exposed The Dire Need for Real-Time Healthcare Data Sharing
In a world where technology and Big Data can provide us with instantaneous access to our banking transactions, and our financial information and credit reports can be retrieved with a few keystrokes when applying for a mortgage -- trying to get access to our own healthcare data is exasperating. Beyond exasperating, is the frightening situation when the inability to access up-to-date and accurate information, can result in an aggravated medical condition or even death. Before the
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Uber, Moderna Partner to Increase Access to COVID-19 Vaccines
What You Should Know: - Moderna and Uber announced a partnership to work together initially to provide accessible, credible information on COVID-19 vaccine safety through Uber’s in-app messaging. - The two companies will also work with public health and
other organizations to identify additional opportunities to support ongoing
efforts to broaden access to COVID-19
vaccines. - Additional options being evaluated include incorporating
ride scheduling directly into the immunization
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30 Executives Share Top Healthcare Predictions & Trends to Watch in 2021
As we close out the year, we asked several healthcare executives to share their predictions and trends for 2021. Kimberly Powell, Vice President & General Manager, NVIDIA Healthcare Federated Learning: The clinical community will increase their use of federated learning approaches to build robust AI models across various institutions, geographies, patient demographics, and medical scanners. The sensitivity and selectivity of these models are outperforming AI models
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Human API CEO Talks Data Privacy Concerns in Employee Wellness Programs
A recent BBC article discusses the rise in employee health
tracking via wearable devices and highlights a number of concerns around data
privacy. To try and prevent health tracking schemes from crossing ethical
lines, and eroding trust between employee and employer, some industry figures
believe that organizations need to work with third-party vendors who specialize
in managing wellbeing data. These vendors would hold the data independently
under strict privacy rules, and work with employees
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