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

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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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GLP-1 Revolution, Non-Traditional Delivery, and Telehealth Expansion

HIT Consultant

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that obesity accounts for $147 billion in annual healthcare costs, an amount which could be greatly lowered through use of the new drugs. GLP-1 medications have also been shown to improve outcomes for patients with diabetes, heart disease and other chronic conditions.

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Consumers Are Feeling Their Healthcare Cost of Living – Research from Qualtrics

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26% delayed routine or preventive care, such as screenings or check-ups, and. Qualtrics’ data bolsters our understanding of health care costs baked into the patient financial experience and, more broadly, the overall patient experience. adults chose to defer health care in 2022, split by.

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Why #CES2022 Will Be Keynoted By A Health Care Innovator for the First Time

Health Populi

That a pharmaceutical company executive is speaking on the main stage at CES speaks to digital health’s mainstreaming beyond elite athletes and smartwatches that track activity.

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Rethinking Big Data in 2024: How Healthcare Can Leverage Workforce Intelligence to Improve Care

HIT Consultant

Typically, when healthcare and big data are mentioned in the same sentence, it’s in reference to patient data. When attempting to maximize the patient experience, patient data is a logical first step in addressing the needs of patients.

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Partnering Up in the Health Care Ecosystem to Drive Transformation – for Organizations and Health Consumers Alike

Health Populi

And that data will be generated from many sources, frequently siloed and decentralized which can prevent aggregation, mash-up, and analysis. We’re talking about a team sport here — to most effectively benefit patients’ outcomes from prevention through diagnosis and treatment.

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McKinsey’s Six Shifts To Add Life to Years — and One More to Consider

Health Populi

This led the team to identify six shifts that, implemented together, could add those 45 billion more years of quality life to extended life expectancy: those shifts are, To invest more and disproportionately on prevention and health promotion.