health systems
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Horizon Launches Suite of Behavioral Health Solutions for Health Plans, Health Systems
NovaWell, the behavioral health affiliate of Horizon Healthcare Services, is offering four solutions for health plans and health systems. The program was created from Horizon’s own success in New Jersey.
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What Health Systems Need to Understand About Home Care, per Medically Home’s CMO
Home care is no longer only for elderly patients who require a visiting nurse to come into their home and check on them post-discharge. Pippa Shulman, Medically Home’s chief medical officer, said that her company’s health systems partners need to be on board with the fact that hospital-level care is moving away from brick-and-mortar facilities. In her view, home care does a great job of humanizing patients and gives providers a window into how they live and maintain their health.
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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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Inflation’s impact on healthcare switchboards and call centers
Hospitals struggle to retain switchboard and call center staff, a situation exacerbated by inflation. Here’s how Parlance is leveraging its call automation tech to help address these needs and improve the caller experience.
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Hospitals, MedCity Influencers, Health Tech
How health systems can get innovation right: A winning strategy that creates real change
It’s common for health systems, which feel pressured to innovate but are unsure how to implement change, to choose flawed approaches. Having a thoughtful strategy for success can make all the difference.
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Survey: These are the risk-based payment models health systems are pursuing
According to a recent survey, 59% of hospital finance leaders are looking to advance into Medicare Advantage models next year. They still face obstacles in switching to risk-based models, including striking partnerships with payers and having the needed technical capabilities.
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Telehealth platform provider eVisit raises $45M
The company, which helps health systems operate virtual care programs through its platform, will use the new funds to scale its go-to-market efforts, invest in the development of new capabilities and hire new employees.
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Health IT, Hospitals, Patient Engagement
Report: 60% of top 20 US hospitals do not offer online scheduling for new patients
Not only do a majority of the top 20 hospitals on U.S. News & World Report’s 2020-21 Best Hospitals rankings not offer online scheduling, but about 65% also do not provide new patients the option to schedule a virtual visit online, despite strong consumer preference for digital access to healthcare.
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After Google, Microsoft struck out, can Apple get people to use its health records feature?
Apple has integrated with 700 providers for its health records app. But it faces a similar challenge to other health records projects that have failed in the past: patient uptake.
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Hospitals, Employee Benefits, Physicians
Survey: 40% of health systems ramping up hiring efforts amid workforce shortage
A majority of organizations (93%) said they are focused on both attracting and retaining top talent, a new survey from Aon shows. They are offering various benefits to do so, including onsite or near-site health clinics for employees.
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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.
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Provider-led data company Truveta raises $95M, adds 3 new health system members
Launched by 14 health systems in February, the data analytics company building a repository of de-identified data will use the funds to develop its platform that aims to support clinical decision making and drug development.
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Health IT, Hospitals, Artificial Intelligence
Provider-owned Innovation Lab partners with Olive to build automation tools
Innovation Lab, an incubator owned by six nonprofit health systems, is joining forces with Olive to co-develop technology that will automate operational and clinical workflows. The companies will leverage Olive’s AI platform, as well as Innovation Lab’s frontline access to its health system owners.
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Report: Hospitals, insurers, PE firms own nearly half of physician practices
The Covid-19 pandemic spurred the rate of physician practice acquisition by hospitals and corporate entities, like payers and private equity firms, a new report shows. As a result, by January 2021, about 48% of physician practices across the country were owned by one or the other entity.
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INVEST Video Conference: Interoperability Finally? How the Final CMS Regulations Empower Patients
Starting in April, long-awaited interoperability regulations go into effect where patients will have unprecedented access to their data. Learn from patient advocates, health systems and others how the changes affect them.
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Report: Fewer health system M&A deals in Q1 2021 offset by larger transactions
Though the number of merger and acquisition deals in the first quarter of 2021 fell below historical averages, the size of the deals was far bigger than the same period last year, a new report from Kaufman Hall shows. The total transacted revenue was $8.8 billion, the second-highest Q1 figure in the last five years.