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Lark Health Raises $100M for Digital Care Management & Prevention Platform

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What You Should Know: – Lark Health , a healthcare technology company aimed at delivering infinitely scalable, virtual chronic and preventative healthcare through conversational AI announced it has raised $100M in Series D funding led by Deerfield Management Company.

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How RTM is a potential game-changer for improving outcomes

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RTM can empower patients toward better health and reduce extra in-person visits, making it easier and less costly for people, such as those in rural areas, to receive care. It also can reduce unnecessary trips to the emergency room and hospital readmissions that cause healthcare costs to skyrocket. healthcare system.

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UConn Health squares away CMS audit trail and more with digital health platform

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Musculoskeletal care is a critical service line in healthcare. healthcare system. UConn Health sought to further enhance orthopedic care access and health equity for Connecticut citizens, particularly those in rural and underserved communities. More than 50% of the adult population in the U.S.

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Avoid losing 55% of your patients to poor digital communication

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If you aren’t already, pretend you’re the owner of a successful specialty healthcare practice. Or maybe you’re an administrator for a large regional healthcare system. As patients reaped its benefits, they demanded more digital touchpoints – allowing digital healthcare to emerge as an industry of its own.

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Remote therapeutic monitoring is reimbursable – here's what you need to know

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Force Therapeutics, vendor of a digital care-management platform, just received such a designation for its software. Providers now can get reimbursed for educating patients on how to use remote care management platforms. How do healthcare provider organizations go about this education?

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Virtual care system designed for COVID-19 grows into a multiuse digital health tool

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In 2019, Cleveland-based University Hospitals saw an opportunity to use automation and digital care technologies to improve patient engagement, clinical care and outcomes. The organization wanted to offer its patients tools and options that support their personal healthcare journeys in these ways.

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Laguna Health Launches App-Based Digital Care For Post-Hospital Recovery at Northshore

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healthcare system expects most patients to return home without professional support, enduring post-surgical pain, mental fog, hampered mobility, medication side-effects and emotional trauma — including anxiety about their ability to maintain income and livelihood. Yet research shows that at least half of all readmissions are preventable.