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3 Tips for Securing Private Healthcare Data

by Jim Cropper, Director of Sales, Brother International Corporation 10/04/2022 Leave a Comment

Technology is a dominant force in healthcare. During the pandemic, healthcare systems relied on technology to swiftly move to virtual care, remote work, and more collaborative communication and data management systems – and that will accelerate. As organizations speed up their digital transformation initiatives and increase their reliance on digital applications, growing concerns about data privacy arise. According to a 2021 HIMSS Healthcare Cybersecurity Survey of 167 healthcare
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Rippl Launches with $35M to Transform Mental Health for Seniors

by Fred Pennic 09/28/2022 Leave a Comment

Rippl Launches with $35M to Transform Mental Healthcare for Seniors

What You Should Know: - Rippl, a new mental health startup focused on caring for seniors with dementia and other neurocognitive conditions, launched today with $32M in seed round funding led by ARCH Venture Partners and General Catalyst. The round also includes investment from GV, F-Prime Capital, and Mass General Brigham Ventures. - Rippl will use its seed funding to hire and train a team of clinicians, build technology, and open a Washington state-based clinical support center to launch
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3 Steps to Powering Data Innovation with Analytics & AI

by Ryan Sousa, VP of Data, Analytics & AI (D2A), Pivot Point Consulting 09/28/2022 Leave a Comment

3 Steps to Powering Data Innovation with Analytics & AI

A hot topic we see and hear a lot in healthcare is leveraging big data. Little known fact, we don’t yet have big data in healthcare, so the industry hasn’t had the opportunity to use big data. Healthcare has been in the “little data” game because much of the healthcare experience has yet to be digitized. In addition, interoperability issues leave much data siloed on disparate databases across the healthcare ecosystem. This is all changing, and this change is accelerating. We’re quickly
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Zócalo Health Raises $5M to Launch Primary Care Services for Latinos

by Fred Pennic 09/19/2022 Leave a Comment

Zócalo Health Raises $5M to Launch Primary Care Services for Latinos

What You Should Know: Zócalo Health, a Latino-founded healthcare service designed for Latino patients, announced that it’s closed on $5M in seed funding to support its launch of virtual primary care services in California, Texas, and Washington this year. The seed funding was co-led by Animo Ventures, Virtue, and Vamos Ventures. The round includes other notable investors including Necessary Ventures, Able Partners, and angel investors Toyin Ajayi, Freada Kapor Klein, Nikhil
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Digital Senior Care Navigator Fair Square Medicare Raises $15M 

by Fred Pennic 08/26/2022 Leave a Comment

Digital Senior Care Navigator Fair Square Medicare Raises $15M

What You Should Know: - Digital senior care navigator Fair Square Medicare raises 15M in series A funding led by Define Ventures. The company, which is a YCombinator alum, has raised $19M to date. - With 10,000 people turning 65 every day, Fair Square Medicare helps seniors find the right Medicare coverage regardless of commission, and is building a full-service digital healthcare assistance platform for seniors. Care Navigator for Seniors Launched in 2020 out of YC, Fair Square
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UnitedHealthcare Awards $11M in Grants to Address Social Determinants of Health

by Fred Pennic 08/12/2022 Leave a Comment

DPHO, UnitedHealthcare Launch Accountable Care Program

What You Should Know: - Health insurer UnitedHealthcare has donated $11M in grants to nonprofit organizations across 11 states.  - These grants are part of our Empowering Health program focused on expanding access to care and addressing the social determinants of health (SDoH) for people in underserved communities. These grants assist individuals and families experiencing challenges from food insecurity, social isolation and behavioral health issues, and support local health
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Adventist HealthCare to Deploy Innovaccer Health Cloud for Value-Based Whole-Person Care

by Fred Pennic 08/03/2022 Leave a Comment

Adventist HealthCare to Deploy Innovaccer Health Cloud for Value-Based Whole-Person Care

What You Should Know:  -  Adventist HealthCare has selected Innovaccer Inc., the Health Cloud company to be their next-generation population health management and value-based care partner.  - Innovaccer will help Advent HealthCare create a unified data platform to help deliver deeper insights into community health and network operations.  Supporting Value-Based Whole-Person Care One of the longest-serving health systems in the Washington, D.C. region, and one of
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A Hybrid, Technology-Driven Approach to Overcome Coding and RCM Staff Shortages

by Cheryl Cruver, Chief Revenue Officer, AGS Health 08/03/2022 Leave a Comment

A Hybrid, Technology-Driven Approach to Overcome Coding and RCM Staff Shortages

Exacerbated by pandemic-induced burnout, resignations, and even terminations1, chronic coding and revenue cycle management (RCM) staffing shortages have healthcare organizations struggling to find ways to keep revenue flowing despite a lack of qualified professionals to handle critical processes. It is a situation that has been brewing for years, as too few qualified professionals are entering professions that are expanding more rapidly than ever before. According to the American Hospital
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Why Mental Illness Is Not the Cause of Gun Violence

by Irv Lichtenwald , CEO of Medsphere Systems Corporation 07/15/2022 Leave a Comment

Why Mental Illness Is Not the Cause of Gun Violence

I guess there’s just no way to have a sacred cow without also keeping a goat. Understand, I’m not talking about a GOAT, as in Tom Brady or Michael Jordan. I mean a goat, i.e, something or someone that takes the blame for an event, failed policy, etc., perhaps more commonly called a scapegoat. The sacred cow, in this instance, is the Second Amendment, which has become so sacrosanct in the national foundational myth of an inspired Constitution that it no longer means a great deal more than
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Racist Events Can Have Spillover Effects, Triggering Mental, Physical Health Responses Beyond Immediate Victim

by Kevin Dedner, MPH, Founder & CEO, Hurdle Health 06/01/2022 Leave a Comment

Racist Events Can Have Spillover Effects, Triggering Mental, Physical Health Responses Beyond Immediate Victim

This article is excerpted from the Hurdle Health Research Report “Voices of a Collective Experience: Vicarious Racism and its Effects on Black Mental Health.” In the Brooklyn mural, an American flag undulates behind him. The one in Gaza City, Palestine crowns him with two hands—one Black, one White—making the shape of  a heart. In Naples, Italy, he weeps blood, reminiscent of religious artwork of Jesus and the Virgin Mary. Another, in Los Angeles, drapes red tape with the words “I
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