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ScionHealth to launch RPM for chronic care at 79 hospitals

Healthcare It News

Louisville-based ScionHealth system, the combined LifePoint Health and Kindred Healthcare delivery network, and Cadence, a New York-based healthcare technology company, are implementing a remote patient monitoring platform starting with 18 community hospitals in 12 states. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND.

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Bedrock Healthcare at Home Leans On Technology To Keep Patients Out Of The Hospital

Home Health Care

Bedrock had a 9% readmission rate in its clinical practice. Meaning that our seniors are allowed to thrive at home — not be readmitted and bouncing back and forth from the hospital to home,” he said. “It’s The national average for readmission rates from 2021 to 2022 hovered around 33%.

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A ‘Persistence of Patient Harm’: Hospital Failures Highlight Need for Home-Based Care Investments

Home Health Care

The traditional brick-and-mortar hospital system is broken, often leaving patients in a condition that’s worse than when they first arrived. The findings throw further support for facility-based care alternatives, including the types of hospital-at-home models that lean heavily on home health and home care agencies.

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When Advancing a Medical Device, Be A Partner First & Seller Second to Hospital Systems

HIT Consultant

US hospital systems validate the safety, clinical utility, and robustness of newly FDA-approved devices, 510(k) cleared, before adopting them into clinical practice. Navigating this new reality is challenging for companies and hospital systems. Every six months, CMS puts out a compliance score for each hospital.

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Impact of hospital mergers on quality: a case study

Healthcare ECONOMIST

There is mixed evidence about whether hospital mergers improve quality. 2022) investigates the impact of a recent hospital merger on quality in New York. The merging hospitals were described as follows: NYU Langone Health (NYULH) is an urban academic medical system. A recent paper by Wang et al.

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Oncology Care Partners' digital transformation: AI, CDS and virtual care

Healthcare It News

Rariy is board certified in internal medicine and endocrinology, and is fellowship trained in clinical research at Harvard Medical School's Brigham & Women's Hospital and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, with a medical degree from Harvard.

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Oracle-Backed Cancer Startup Project Ronin Shutters

HIT Consultant

Project Ronin Background Founded in 2018, Ronin aimed to develop solutions that could rapidly analyze and interpret data within electronic health records systems used by hospitals.