Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
Investors continue to pour money into generative AI startups and Abridge is riding this wave as it rapidly scales its technology across U.S. health systems. | Along with the funding round, Abridge also announced an enterprise agreement with Connecticut-based Yale New Haven Health System to give thousands of clinicians access to its AI-powered clinical documentation technology.
Health Care Dive
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
The UnitedHealth-owned healthcare technology company disconnected its systems after detecting an “outside threat,” according to a status update page.
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Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
Change Healthcare is mitigating a "cybersecurity issue" that began Wednesday, and details remain scant. | Change Healthcare is mitigating a "cybersecurity issue" that began Wednesday, and details remain scant.
Health Care Dive
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
A mental healthcare provider didn’t have sufficient protections in place before a ransomware attack exposed the protected health information of more than 14,000 people, according to the HHS’ Office for Civil Rights.
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Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
Fourteen organizations representing providers, payers, consumer technology companies and employers are teaming up to cut through the noise and raise higher standards for finding digital health | Fourteen organizations representing providers, payers, consumer technology companies and employers are teaming up to cut through the noise and raise higher standards for finding digital health solutions that work and are worth the investment.
Healthcare It News
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
Launched to help address health equity challenges facing Black cardiology patients, ChristianaCare said its digital medication adherence platform, developed with Story Health, has delivered significant improvements in outcomes for patients with hypertension and heart failure – two to three times in some key metrics. The health system plans to expand access to more patients.
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Healthcare It News
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
Change Healthcare, a software and data analytics vendor that offers revenue cycle management, clinical decision support and other operations tools, announced Wednesday it took its systems offline due to a cyber incident. "Once we became aware of the outside threat, in the interest of protecting our partners and patients, we took immediate action to disconnect our systems to prevent further impact," the company said in an online incident report.
Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
Digital chronic condition management company DarioHealth is buying Twill to expand its capabilities into mental health and boost revenue. | Digital chronic condition management company DarioHealth is buying Twill to expand its capabilities into mental health and boost revenue.
Health Care Dive
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
The deal, which Dario says will boost revenue and speed profitability, comes as the digital health sector could see increased M&A activity this year.
Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
Through a partnership with Story Health, ChristianaCare has been able to improve care for Black patients living with heart failure and plans to expand the collaboration to other patients. | Story Health extends clinical care teams by integrating with EHRs and offering virtual coaching to help patients stay on track with their treatment plan. At ChristianaCare, patients saw a significant improvement on several key metrics, including readmission rates.
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Health Care Dive
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
The closures fully exit VillageMD from one of its largest markets, and one that’s often a key target for value-based primary care chains.
Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
After a recent Alabama Supreme Court ruling on the legal status of embryos has led the state’s largest healthcare system to halt its in vitro fertilization (IVF) services, medical organizations are | A state medical association and a national infertility association warned that similar decisions to limit IVF services among other providers will likely follow.
Health Care Dive
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
A lack of autonomy and gender inequity at work are correlated with women’s burnout, according to the new research.
Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
Below is a roundup of payer-centric news for the week of Feb.19, 2024. | This week, voters said they are worried about insurance premium costs in a new poll, Cigna invests nearly $10 million in 9amHealth, Waltz Health enters the Medicare market and more.
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Health Care Dive
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
The announcement comes about a week after the telehealth vendor said it had reduced its headcount by about 10% since the end of 2023.
Fierce Healthcare
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
Nestled at the heart of a patient's diagnostic journey, the laboratory plays a critical role across the continuum of care. | Investing in the future of hospital labs unleashes their full potential, creating stronger revenue streams and a healthier community.
Home Health Care
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
This article is a part of your HHCN+ Membership Artificial intelligence is likely to be a society- and business-altering technological development. But, just like the advent of the internet before it, AI’s emergence will undoubtedly lead to as many empty promises from business leaders as it does actual use cases. That’ll particularly be the case in the early innings of AI, which I believe we are currently in.
Healthcare Highways
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
Colorectal cancer is a prevalent and potentially life-threatening condition that affects the colon or rectum. It is the third most common cancer diagnosed in both men and women worldwide. New research shows that colorectal cancer is rising in people younger than 55 years old. Despite its p revalence, awareness and understanding of colorectal cancer are crucial for early detection and effective treatment.
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Home Health Care
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
Axle Health — a scheduling and workforce management software for home-based care providers — has raised $4.2 million. The funding round was led by Pear and Trac VC. This latest round of funding will help Axle Health beef up its software and machine learning engineering team. Axle Health allows providers to arrange home-based care visits through its dashboard for communication and scheduling, specifically around coordinating appointments and routing clinicians to various homes.
The Rand Blog
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
The strength of air and missile defense in Ukraine has abetted the stalemate in the ground war. Its weakness has led to immense human suffering and infrastructure damage. As the war continues, air defense could become even more salient.
HIT Consultant
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
Cynthia Horner, M.D., Chief Medical Officer at Amwell What You Should Know: – Amwell , a provider of hybrid care enablement solutions, has appointed Cynthia Horner, M.D., FAAFP, as its Chief Medical Officer. – Dr. Horner will also assume the role of President of Amwell Medical Group (AMG), the company’s clinical partner and a nationwide network of virtual care clinicians exclusively on the Amwell platform.
Health Populi
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
In the U.S., national news media, Federal statistics, dozens of business leaders and the Federal Reserve Bank have been talking about an historically positive American economy on a macro level. But among individual residents of the U.S., there is still a negative feeling about the economy in a personal context, revealed in the Kaiser Family Foundation Health Tracking Poll for February 2024.
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HIT Consultant
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
What You Should Know: – DarioHealth Corp. (Nasdaq: DRIO) announced the acquisition of Twill, Inc., a leader in digital-led chronic care management, in a move that positions Dario as a major player in the digital health market. – This strategic acquisition will create a comprehensive platform addressing a wide spectrum of chronic conditions, from emotional health to diabetes and heart disease.
Healthcare ECONOMIST
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
More people want to expand ACA vs. repeal it. What is a person’s social cost of being corrected by AI ? Guidance on the promise and pitfalls of using AI in healthcare. “… people systematically misremember their past policy preferences regarding how to best fight the Covid-19 pandemic” Consequentialists vs.
Home Health Care
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
Carewell — an ecommerce platform for caregiving products — has closed a $24.7 million series B funding round. The funding round was led by the principals of MBF Healthcare, with participation from existing investors Sageview Capital and Headline, among others. This latest round of funding will drive Carewell’s goal of streamlining access to home health products.
HIT Consultant
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
What You Should Know: RhythmX AI , a generative AI-native company driving revolutionary physician intelligence for whole-person care through cutting edge predictive and generative AI, announced a strategic partnership with Virginia-based Sentara Health, one of the top 20 largest not-for-profit integrated health care delivery systems in the country. Together, RhythmX AI and Sentara are building the next generation of hyper-personalized primary care for clinicians and patients.
Speaker: Dr. Ugo Uwaoma, MD, MBA
Due to the impact of COVID-19, integrating telehealth software into practices and organizations has become the new normal. In turn, this has increased the effectiveness of collaborative healthcare by strengthening communication amongst healthcare workers and helping combat the woes of burnout. Communication between patients and healthcare providers has also improved, allowing patients to reach their providers easily and decreasing turnaround time.
NASHP
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
States have begun making historic changes to the Medicaid program to support the health and well-being of individuals returning to the community from correctional facilities. Much of this work is spurred by groundbreaking new Medicaid policy changes at the federal level, which create a new opportunity to coordinate existing programs across correctional, public safety, public, and behavioral health and social support systems.
HIT Consultant
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
What You Should Know: – Axle Health , a provider of scheduling and workforce management software for home healthcare, today announced the closing of an additional $4.2M in seed funding, bringing its total raised to $4.4M. – This latest round, led by TRAC VC with participation from existing investor Pear VC , will fuel Axle’s mission to address the critical staffing shortage in the home healthcare industry through innovative technology solutions.
HIStalk
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
Top News Change Healthcare disconnects its systems after detecting a.
Meditech
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
Anyone following the world of health information technology (HIT) over the past decade knows there’s been tremendous work behind the scenes to advance interoperability and data sharing. Our efforts are finally coming to fruition as we move beyond the era of static document sharing into a new era of more intelligent data usability.
Speaker: Matt McBride, CEO and Co-Founder of Mend
Patient engagement happens before, during, and after interactions. Consumer research has found that in 2021, 64% of US households reported using Telehealth services. In addition 34% of patients would prefer Telehealth visits to in-office visits. Accessible patient engagement technology can help you improve your relationships with your patients while also improving your KPIs.
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