Geisinger
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Geisinger Launches Heart Failure Monitoring Program Using Bodyport’s Smart Scale
Geisinger is launching a pilot program in partnership with virtual heart failure monitoring startup Bodyport. About 200 of the health system’s heart failure patients will be using Bodyport’s cardiac scale at home — the scale uses sensors to measure a person’s metrics of heart function and body fluid status after they stand on it for about 20 seconds.
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How Geisinger, UNC Health Are Deploying Predictive Algorithms
Executives from Geisinger and UNC Health discussed the most impactful ways they have deployed predictive AI across their health systems during a recent virtual panel. At Geisinger, these predictive algorithms are reducing avoidable emergency department admissions, and at UNC, they are helping to identify sepsis before it becomes severe.
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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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Hospital M&A Activity Caught Up to Pre-Pandemic Levels in Q2
M&A activity among hospitals and health systems increased in Q2 of 2023 — there were 20 deals in Q2 compared to 15 deals in Q1, according to a new report. This surge brought Q2’s M&A activity levels in line with those observed before the pandemic. Q2’s 20 deal marks the highest number of announced transactions for hospitals and health systems since Q1 of 2020.
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Consumer / Employer, Health Tech
Healthcare Moves: A Monthly Summary of Hires and Layoffs
Here is a selection of recent executive hires, exits, promotions and layoffs occurring across the healthcare industry.
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4 Reasons Hospitals’ Tech Investments Can Go Awry
Avia CEO Linda Finkel has had many conversations with health systems executives about why their technology initiatives haven’t gone as planned in the past. Based on these experiences, she has noticed four main reasons hospitals don’t see the results for which they were hoping — including not exercising enough scrutiny during the vendor selection process and failure to think about capability at scale.
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Health Tech, Hospitals, Payers, SYN
Geisinger CEO: Price variability won’t be solved unless payers & providers get on the same page
Price transparency data has revealed there is a high degree of price variance for healthcare procedures depending on patients’ insurance carriers and the location in which services are delivered. Jaewon Ryu, Geisinger’s president and CEO, said that the only way this variability can be addressed is by getting decision makers on the payment side much more aligned with the care delivery side of things.
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Why 2 top health systems chose AWS as their cloud vendor
Dr. Shafiq Rab and John Kravitz, executives at Tufts Medicine and Geisinger, said AWS will offer them better connectivity speed and business continuity than other cloud vendors.
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Dr. David Feinberg’s next act: CEO of Cerner
Feinberg comes to Cerner from Google Health, which he has led since 2019. The move comes amid news reports that Google plans to dismantle its health division, though the company denies any such plans.
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INVEST Digital Health preview: What’s the recipe for a successful social determinants program?
SDoH is just one of the topics at the MedCity INVEST Digital Health conference, a virtual event scheduled for September 20-23, in collaboration with Medical Alley.
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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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Geisinger rolls out platform for virtual monitoring of chronic disease patients
Developed by Noteworth, the ConnectedCare365 application will enable Geisinger clinicians to virtually monitor patient vital signs and intervene when needed. The platform will be used for several clinical initiatives, including chronic condition management and behavioral health.
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Health IT, Artificial Intelligence, Health Tech
Geisinger, Siemens strike 10-year partnership
Geisinger and Siemens Healthineers struck a 10-year partnership. The agreement will give Geisinger access to Siemens’ diagnostic imaging equipment and digital health tools.
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Liquid biopsy firm Thrive launches with $110M Series A round
The company has a 10,000-patient prospective trial with Geisinger fully enrolled to test CancerSEEK, a test developed at Johns Hopkins University.
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Google taps Geisinger CEO to oversee health efforts
As CEO David Feinberg heads to the tech giant, Geisinger executive vice president and CMO Jaewon Ryu will serve as the health system’s interim president and CEO.
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Andy Slavitt and AVIA oversee the Medicaid Transformation Project
A total of 17 health systems will take part in the effort, which is co-led by Slavitt, who was the acting administrator of CMS under the Obama administration, and AVIA, an innovation network for hospitals and health systems.
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Geisinger’s latest work: An upcoming patient transportation initiative and new insight on chronic liver disease
The Danville, Pennsylvania-based system plans to work with rabbittransit to help patients get to their appointments on time. Additionally, researchers from Geisinger and Regeneron Genetics Center recently found a gene variant that’s associated with a reduction in the risk for chronic liver disease.
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Payer’s Place: Dr. Anil Singh
Dr. Anil Singh shares his insights into the strategies employed by the organization to identify the most effective digital solutions for their members.
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Discover the Next-Gen Platform for Integrated Collaborative Care
Beyond EHRs and digital front doors, reducing the gaps in patient care journeys.
