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Vendor Notebook: Salesforce extends AI to public health services, DrFirst acquires Myndshft

Healthcare It News

a software-as-a-service that focuses on automated prior authorization services for both medical and pharmaceutical benefits. DrFirst to speed up medication approvals Rockville, Maryland-based DrFirst announced that it purchased all assets of the Myndshft Technologies, Inc.

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Cardinal Health, Signify Health Get Together For At-Home Care Collaboration

Home Health Care

“Adding an in-home channel to our engagement model enhances the patient experience, and also boosts our ability to meet those health plans’ CMR goals,” Fran Gregory, vice president at Cardinal Health Outcomes, told Home Health Care News. “It’s Gregory said. Similarly, Rothman believes that the partnership is a “natural marriage.”

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Consumers and Cancer: 3 Patient-Focused Charts From IQVIA on the State of the Oncology in 2023

Health Populi

As the report calls out, simply put, “In all analyzed cancers but non-Hodgkin lymphoma, Black/AFrican American patients experience higher than the U>S. mortality rate. mortality rates.”

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Dollar General & CHPA Collaborate to Bolster Health Consumers’ Literacy and Access for OTC Pain Meds and Self-Care

Health Populi

Data from Qualtrics demonstrates more patients “distancing” themselves from healthcare due to cost than due to fear of exposure to COVID-19, Adrienne Boissy, Qualtrics’ Chief Medical Officer, explained. Or in my own take on this… the patient is the payor.

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The Racial Divide Due to COVID-19 Also Applies to Healthcare and Pharma Costs

Health Populi

The Gallup-West Health poll reveals yet another lens on the differences in health services for people of color in the Age of Corona: that is, the patient experience of cost for both medical services and prescription drugs. The pandemic has revealed many cracks in the U.S. Today’s news that the U.S.

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As Medical Cost Trend Remains Flat, Patients Face Growing Health Consumer Financial Stress

Health Populi

Even with moderating medical trend growth, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) expect that healthcare spending will account for 20% of the U.S. As with public sector healthcare spending (“entitlements” in the form of Medicare and Medicaid), healthcare spending crowds out U.S. economy by 2026.

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Healthcare Organizations Must Focus On Business Value & Not Chase The Technology Pendulum

HIT Consultant

To fill EHR performance gaps, many hospitals, health systems, and large provider groups began implementing point solutions, especially for patient-facing capabilities like scheduling, access, and payment. And real-world data is what helps pharmaceutical companies to accelerate research into drugs and medical devices.