Health Tech
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Breaking Through Gridlock in the Mental Health Care System
For the gridlock in mental healthcare to be resolved, 100% of mental healthcare providers must practice measurement-based care, utilizing validated rating scales to monitor and measure longitudinal outcomes for every patient. And payers then must offer reimbursement that appropriately rewards providers for delivering high-quality, effective care, and incentivize proactive mental health management.
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The Challenges of Temperature Controlled Logistics and How to Overcome Them
MedCity News sat down with John Coleman, Business Unit Director at YSDS Life Science, to talk about the challenges of delivering temperature-sensitive goods and how to overcome them.
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3 Tech Investment Lessons From Houston Methodist’s Chief Innovation Officer
Roberta Schwartz, Houston Methodist’s chief innovation officer, has had years of experience overseeing technology adoption at her organization. At a conference, she highlighted how important it is for digital health tools to have strong EHR integrations and encouraged hospital leaders to not be afraid of starting various technology initiatives in unrelated areas.
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MedCity Influencers, Health Tech
How Femtech Is Filling Historical Gaps in the Postpartum Space
Postpartum Depression has been a recognized — but stigmatized — possibility during the so-called “fourth trimester of pregnancy” for generations. However, it is now being firmly addressed through femtech innovations.
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How HCA Is Integrating Google’s Generative AI Into Its Emergency Departments
This year, HCA Healthcare and Google Cloud have expanded their partnership by exploring ways to integrate Google’s generative AI into HCA’s workflows. The most developed project under this initiative is a pilot that began in February in which HCA’s emergency department physicians are testing a voice-enabled medical dictation tool to save them time on clinical documentation.
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CardioOne Secures $8M, Expands Cardiology Enablement Platform into New Markets
CardioOne, a startup built at Redesign Health, partners with independent cardiology practices to help them transition to value-based care. On Monday, the company announced it has raised $8 million in seed funding and has three new partners.
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Can AI Compose Clinical Documentation? Absolutely, but with Limits.
A recent academic study of the leading LLM AI models’ ability to read and interpret clinical information demonstrates the incredible power of these tools to support healthcare, but concludes that LLMs should be used as “a supplement to existing workflows rather than as a replacement for human expertise.”
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How care orchestration technology improves the perioperative care process
It is no longer a question of whether we should use automation for care orchestration. The technology for intelligent automation of care coordination is available now and can help providers reduce costs, generate revenue, and overcome understaffing.
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CMS Is Getting More Serious About Penalizing Hospitals For Price Transparency Noncompliance
CMS has fined two hospitals in September for alleged violations of its price transparency rule. This marks the third month in a row that the agency has issued fines against hospitals for price transparency noncompliance, following a yearslong period of light enforcement.
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Healthcare VC Jumpstart Foundry Now Accepting Applications for Fall Funding
Early-stage healthcare innovation fund Jumpstart Foundry is accepting Fall funding applications through September 30th. Read on to find out why Jumpstart Foundry could be the missing piece in your startup’s journey to making a lasting difference in healthcare.
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Consumer / Employer, Health Tech
GoodRx, MedImpact Launch Medication Savings Solution
MedImpact and GoodRx are teaming up to lower costs for MedImpact members. When eligible MedImpact members refill a generic prescription, the companies’ savings solution will compare the member’s benefit to GoodRx’s price and will automatically apply the lowest one.
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MedCity Influencers, Artificial Intelligence, Health Tech
How Health Tech is Squashing AI Biases and Leveling the Playing Field in Healthcare
By making large amounts of diverse data widely available, healthcare institutions can feel confident about the evaluation, creation, and validation of algorithms as they’re transitioned from ideation to use.
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The Gigification of Healthcare
By leveraging technology and strategies used within the gig economy—and even tapping into the talent pool of gig workers themselves—healthcare organizations can address staffing shortages, retain and motivate more workers, and ultimately deliver better patient care.
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Medicare Startup Prioritizing ‘Movement As Medicine’ Snags $17M
Bold, a Los Angeles-based company offering a healthy aging platform for older adults, closed a $17 million Series A funding round. The startup seeks to improve the health of Medicare Advantage beneficiaries through personalized exercise programs designed to prevent falls, decrease musculoskeletal pain and boost physical activity levels.
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Generative AI, RPM Were Among the Biggest Trends In Health IT Fundraising During Q2
Healthcare IT companies raised $1 billion in venture capital in Q2 — down slightly from the $1.3 billion raised in Q1 but up significantly from the $451.3 million raised in Q4 2022. Unsurprisingly, a lot of these investments were made in companies offering generative AI products. Another key trend was increasing cash flow to remote patient monitoring startups, likely caused by expanded reimbursement for these services.