Even though providers and payers don’t always get along, they need to come together now more than ever. In the post-pandemic landscape, the healthcare industry won’t be able to maintain care quality and protect patient access without strong collaboration between these two parties, health system leaders said during a virtual panel.

Penn Medicine recently published a study on the economics of providing telemedicine — it showed that when the health system began offering virtual urgent care services to its employees, the visits ended up being 23% less expensive to conduct than in-person appointments.

A transformation is underway in medical coding as automation permeates revenue cycle management, raising questions such as: How will automation affect how medical coders work? How advanced is coding automation currently? What kind of skill sets will be needed for these new types of coding?

The webinar, Coding for the Future: Lessons Learned, Emerging Technologies & Future Opportunities, scheduled for October 19 from 1-2 pm ET and sponsored by Nym Health, will explore how medical coding has evolved and the skills that will be necessary to prepare the next generation of medical coders. Register today!

The Penn Medicine-Wharton Fund for Health, Penn’s venture fund focused on social determinants of health, recently announced investments in its fifth and sixth companies. The fund invested in two Philadelphia-based startups, Fabric Health and Stimulus, bringing its total amount of invested capital to $1.35 million.

Penn Medicine CEO Kevin Mahoney will be part of a panel discussion on health equity at the MedCity INVEST conference March 28-30 at the Ritz Carlton hotel in Chicago. Register today!

The medical transportation startup helps hospitals coordinate rides for their patients. By giving patients access to reliable transportation, Ride Health hopes to reduce costly no-shows and delayed hospital discharges.

Dr. Shreya Kangovi has created a successful, scientifically-validated community health workers program in which people, not technology are the cornerstone in trying to improve the outcomes of specific patient groups.

Health tech applications in the realm of cancer treatment will be a major theme of the CONVERGE conference in Philadelphia June 19 in Philadelphia, from improving the patient experience to AI. Register now!

The MedCity CONVERGE conference at the University City Science Center June 19 in Philadelphia will be the scene of a dynamic series of conversations around cancer treatment, precision medicine, value-based care and investment trends. It will spotlight industry experts, presentations from innovative startups and collaborations.

In a phone interview, chief innovation officer Roy Rosin discussed how Penn Medicine is approaching behavior change, allowing clinicians to receive needed patient data and helping patients get to the best site of care.

The duo will utilize Babyscripts’ remote monitoring tech along with information gained from Penn Medicine’s Heart Safe Motherhood program.

Salt Lake City, Utah-based Intermountain Healthcare has opened a virtual hospital called Connect Care Pro, which brings together the system’s 35 telehealth programs and over 500 providers and caregivers. All of Intermountain’s 22 hospitals use Connect Care Pro’s services.

Philadelphia-based Penn Medicine’s new Center for Connected Care brings together the health system’s telehealth-related activities, including the Penn E-lert ICU and the Home Telehealth program.

During a recent phone interview, Penn Medicine CIO Michael Restuccia discussed the system’s precision endeavors and how technology plays a role in achieving success.

Last month, Brian Wells, who previously held various positions at Penn Medicine, took on a new role at Merlin International. In a recent interview, he discussed his new gig.

Eight healthcare startups, half of them led by women, offered myriad approaches to solving specific healthcare challenges from more efficient nurse training to remote monitoring for home infusion and diabetic neuropathy.

Ostiio has developed a distractor device used in distraction osteogenesis to increase bone for children with craniofacial defects.

For nurses in the NICU, two of their most important tasks are making sure new mothers are pumping enough breast milk and matching the right milk to the right baby. It’s a task easier said than done.

Lung cancer patients often end up in the ER and with this project, Penn Medicine is using Big Data to predict who is at risk and intervene before they show up in the emergency room.

For Dreamit’s inaugural 2016 cycle, the accelerator has accepted 25 new companies – twice the number it usually accepts and the first class to be part of its evolved new program.