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Healthcare Transformation: Boosting Data Quality, Tackling Burnout, and Charting the Future
This on-demand webinar explores the impact of poor data quality and methods to improve patient data quality. It highlights technology that can improve workflows to help reduce workforce burnout.
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US Prescription Drug Costs More Than Double Those in Canada
Increasingly, patients in the U.S. look to Canada for more affordable prescription options since the Canadian government regulates drug costs. Some companies have noticed and are beginning to capitalize on the demand.
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Payer’s Place: Dawn Maroney
Dawn Maroney, President, Markets of Alignment Health and CEO of Alignment Health Plan, to discuss how they are using technology to provide better service and care to consumers.
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Health Services, Payers, Legal
Ohio Sues Express Scripts, Cigna, Prime Therapeutics and Humana Calling PBMs “Modern Gangsters”
The complaint alleges multiple violations of the Valentine Act, Ohio’s antitrust law, which prohibits price fixing, controlled sales and other agreements that restrain trade and hurt competition. David Yost, the attorney general decried the practices of PBMs saying that they hurt everyday Ohioans dependent on life-saving drugs like insulin.
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Report: nursing home quality of care declining, action and research needed
A report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine finds nursing home care to be subpar, despite regulations to prevent poor care; recommendations for improvement include funding research and offering customized, integrated, and culturally sensitive care.
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Study finds health system specialty pharmacies linked to reduced cost of care for MA patients
A study published in the Journal of Managed Care + Specialty Pharmacy found Medicare Advantage patients reduced their cost of care by using specialty pharmacies instead of mail order or retail pharmacies.
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Startup that equips medical and dental practices to provide OR-level care raises $9M
OFFOR Health brings mobile anesthesiologists and on-site clinical services to medical and dental practices such that certain procedures that needed to be done inside an operating room at the hospital can now be done in a doctor’s clinic. This leads to lower wait times for patients and reduced overall costs.
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Startup targeting at seniors and caregivers launches an online expert tool to help navigate their care
Earlier this month Honor launched its Honor Expert platform, an online tool for seniors, caregivers and family to ask questions and get answers about aging-related matters. The platform can also connect specialists to users and get them educational resources.
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How the health system failed me when I developed gestational diabetes
A firsthand account of one person’s journey through the healthcare system, the gaps in gestational diabetes care, and what can be done about it.
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Devices & Diagnostics, Artificial Intelligence
Can technology democratize obstetric ultrasounds?
A study from the New England Journal of Medicine found that AI coupled with Butterfly iQ, a handheld ultrasound device, can assess fetal gestational age as accurately as a trained sonographer with expensive, bulky equipment; the findings have implications for democratizing obstetric ultrasounds.
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Applying Remote Patient Monitoring to Surgery Prep and Recovery, Oncology and Women’s Health
Join us to learn about the latest trends in remote monitoring and how to extend its benefits beyond chronic conditions to more patients – all while using fewer staff resources.
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Could tech help to curb workplace violence in healthcare?
One company is addressing violence against healthcare workers with a panic button, which has been deployed in the psychiatric and addition services units at the Behavioral Wellness Center in Philadelphia.
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Report: Digital health funding tanks in the first quarter
A new CB Insights report found global digital health funding fell 36 percent in the first quarter of the year from that in Q4, 2021, with mental health and digital therapeutics suffering the greatest quarter-on-quarter decline.
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Diagnostic test determines if Covid-19 antibodies are from vaccination or infection
Pictor is partnering with Mobility Health to distribute Pictor’s novel Covid-19 antibody test, which can assess in one test if a person has antibodies to protect against Covid-19 and if that is due to infection or vaccination; Pictor also received a $6.1 million investment.
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Consumer / Employer, Health Tech, SYN
New technology integrated with EHR provides real time, comparative costs for oncology treatments
Through, Decision Path, Cardinal Health is offering cost and indication comparisons for oncology treatments, all within the EHR, for point-of-care use and help patients avoid financial toxicity.
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Penn Medicine has found a digital workflow solution that departments have eagerly adopted
Penn Medicine created a custom digital workflow platform designed to improve care and break down silos to improve patient care. a vast majority of departments voluntarily adopted the platform.
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Report: Increase in socially engineered, sophisticated cybersecurity attacks plagues organizations
A new report that showed a sharp increase in cybersecurity attacks in 2021 urged organizations to consider when, not if, they too will be under attack. Attacks are becoming more sophisticated and socially engineered making them harder to detect.