St. Joseph’s Health Enhances Provider Communications with careMESH’s Healthcare Directory and User-Friendly Messaging Services New Jersey-based St. Joseph’s Health partners with careMESH to significantly expand the health system’s clinical communications reach to all community physicians, including digital access to electronic medical records. Using careMESH, St. Joseph’s will focus on several key areas, including: Streamlining external communications with community physiciansReducing
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Elevating Workplace Safety to Combat Healthcare Violence Against Workers
The healthcare workforce is in crisis. From devastating staffing shortages to unmanageable levels of stress and burnout, today’s healthcare workers are desperate for some relief. Unfortunately, exacerbating these already significant challenges is an increasing rate of workplace violence in healthcare. According to the results of a study published recently in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, about one-third of public healthcare workers have experienced at least one incident
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M&A: Kaiser Acquires Geisinger, Forms Risant Health
What You Should Know: Kaiser Foundation Hospitals and Geisinger Health are teaming up to launch Risant Health and a definitive agreement to make Geisinger the first health system to join Risant Health to expand access to value-based care in more communities across the country. Upon regulatory approval, Geisinger becomes part of the new organization through acquisition.Risant Health is a new nonprofit organization, created by Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, to expand and accelerate
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FDA & Cerner Enviza Collaborate to Develop AI Tools for Drug Safety
What You Should Know: - Cerner Enviza, an Oracle company, and FDA’s Sentinel Innovation Center are teaming up to develop AI tools to extract and assess clinical notes to better understand drug safety. - Teaming with John Snow Labs, Cerner Enviza will use AI and NLP to develop tools to extract information from clinical notes within the EHR to better aid in better understanding the effects of medicines on large populations. The project known as the Multi-source Observational
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3 Public Health Messaging Failures: What Went Wrong and How to Fix It
Public health crisis communications plans have the power to improve outcomes, reduce long-term healthcare costs, and save lives. These plans should convey crucial health information to impacted groups with recommendations on how and when to seek care and reduce spread. The consequences of ineffective, inconsistent, or absent public health messaging in times of crisis are grave, leading to the mistrust of healthcare institutions, stigmatization of impacted groups, and decreased likelihood of
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Surgo Health Launches RWD-Driven Socio-Behavioral Analytics Platform
What You Should Know: - Surgo Health, a new healthcare technology company dedicated to personalized care announced its official launch in Washington, D.C. - Formed as a public benefits company (PBC), Surgo Health is building on the analytics and proprietary data assets from Surgo Ventures and is developing a revolutionary socio-behavioral analytics platform and generating novel, real-world data to enable a greater understanding of the complex factors that influence how individuals engage
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Addressing the Diversity Challenge in Clinical Research Through Patient Advocacy
Diversity is paramount to the success of clinical research, both ethically and scientifically. Without adequate representation of racial and ethnic minorities, investigators lack an understanding of the safety and efficacy of novel treatments within those groups. From a scientific standpoint, an incomplete dataset hinders drug delivery and the development of breakthrough therapies – but from an ethical standpoint, underrepresentation creates a barrier to treatment options for populations that
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Grow Therapy Announces Multi-State Expansion, Increasing Access to Quality Mental Healthcare
What You Should Know: - Grow Therapy, a provider-centric mental health group using technology to make high-quality mental healthcare accessible and affordable to all Americans, today announced the expansion of its services to multiple states across the U.S. - The expansion includes availability in 22 new states, making Grow Therapy services now available in 36 states. The expansion also means the addition of 601 new therapists being added to the Grow Therapy marketplace (285 in the newly
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Edifecs Partners with Empowered-Home to Deliver Automated Prior Authorizations
What You Should Know: - Edifecs and Empowered-Home announced a partnership to provide automated prior authorizations to medical associations, Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), Independent Physician Associations (IPAs), medical groups, and home health care agencies. - The Edifecs prior authorization solution combined with the clinical decision support system of patient management software company, Privis Health, forms the backbone of Empowered-Home’s ecosystem. Empowered-Home is
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ChristianaCare Partners with Hims & Hers to Expand In-Person Healthcare Access in 4 States
What You Should Know: Health system ChristianaCare is partnering with Hims & Hers Health, a consumer-first platform focused on providing modern personalized health and wellness experiences to consumers to expand access to healthcare services. - The partnership will help ChristianaCare create a more seamless patient journey for patients in Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and expands the Hims & Hers’ partnership network with providers to now include 10 states and
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