Uniguest Expands Presence and Capabilities in Healthcare through Acquisition of pCare
Nashville-Based Uniguest Acquires pCare, a Leader in Interactive Patient Engagement Systems
Uniguest, a global leader in digital engagement technology to multiple end markets, has announced the acquisition of pCare, a New York-based provider of interactive patient engagement systems designed to improve patient outcomes and experience while making the work of healthcare teams safer and simpler.
Delivering solutions for over 70 years, pCare is a specialist in supplying connected technology solutions in healthcare and hospital environments. Partnering closely with clients, pCare understands that each provider has its own uniq...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - November 3, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Bunch Enterprise CPI Global Dave Bennett Eversound Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare M&A JANUS Displays Matt Goche MediaStar Systems Otrum AS pCare Planet eStream Sagely UCView Uniguest Vol Source Type: blogs
Helping Healthcare Professionals Evaluate AI Offerings
Steve Weber
AJ Grotto
The following is a guest article by Steve Weber, Professor of the Graduate School at UC Berkeley, and AJ Grotto, Director, Program on Geopolitics, Technology, and Governance at Stanford University
Generative artificial intelligence technologies promise to improve healthcare in large part by enabling healthcare professionals to utilize massive troves of health-relevant data. They will fuel improvements across the healthcare value chain, starting with a better understanding of physiology and disease, to efficiencies in disease management, treatment protocols, and even billing and reimbursement. The tech...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 31, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: AI/Machine Learning EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops Security and Privacy AJ Grotto Cybersecurity Data Breach Epic Epic EHR Generative AI Health Data Healthcare Mono Source Type: blogs
WellSky Acquires Corridor, Expands Commitment to Offering Best-in-Class Coding, Revenue Cycle Management Services for Post-Acute Industry
The Combined Companies will Work Together to Bolster Providers’ Ability to Improve Financial Performance and Succeed in Value-Based Care Arrangements
WellSky, a leading health and community care technology company, announced today that it has acquired Corridor, an end-to-end tech-enabled services platform designed for the post-acute care industry’s toughest challenges, from HealthEdge Investment Partners, a healthcare-focused private equity firm. By adding Corridor to its portfolio, WellSky will expand its medical coding and revenue cycle management (RCM) offerings to help care providers increase efficiency and improv...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 30, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Bill Miller Corridor Des Varady Experience Care Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare M&A HealthEdge Investment Partners Lincoln International WellSky Source Type: blogs
Bonus Features – October 29, 2023 – 66% of patients prefer email or text for reminders about medical bills, 94% of clinicians said lack of timely access to insights within EHR impacts patient care, and 28 more
This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.
News
CMMI released the 2022 performance results for the direct contracting value-based care model, which has since been redesigned and renamed the ACO REACH Model. All told, participating entities achieved net savings of more t...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 29, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT 1upHealth ACO REACH AGS Health Avenda Health Bluefin California HHS Carestream Dental CB Insights Cedar Gate Technologies CMMI CORE eClinicalWorks Fivetran Found Freshpaint FutureRx GSR Ventures Healthcare Source Type: blogs
I Am Not Really Sure Just Why This Is Happening.
This was
announced last week:
Epic to supply NSW patient record system
Technology
By Amanda
Sheppeard
23
October, 2023
The
worst-kept secret in digital health is finally confirmed with news global
health software giant Epic has signed up to deliver the NSW government ’s
promise of a single digital patient record.
The
government’s eHealth NSW department announced late last week that the (Source: Australian Health Information Technology)
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - October 29, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Y2Q and You
By KIM BELLARD
Chances are, you’ve at least somewhat concerned about your privacy, especially your digital privacy. Chances are, you’re right to be. Every day, it seems, there are more reports about data beeches, cyberattacks, and selling or other misuse of confidential/personal data. We talk about privacy, but we’re failing to adequately protect it. But chances are you’re not worried nearly enough.
Y2Q is coming.
That is, I must admit, a phrase I had not heard of until recently. If you are of a certain age, you’ll remember Y2K, the fear that the year 2000 would cause computers ev...
Source: The Health Care Blog - October 26, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech Kim Bellard Quantum Encryption Y2Q Source Type: blogs
The Djokovic saga: Vaccination policies revisited
No matter your politics or judgment on the COVID-19 vaccine, we can agree that the visuals of the world’s number one tennis player being detained and treated like a criminal when he went to the Australian Open last year were unsettling, and the Australian government should have better handled his case. To recap, Mr. Djokovic
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The Djokovic saga: Vaccination policies revisited originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 25, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Dinesh Arab, MD Tags: Conditions COVID Infectious Disease Source Type: blogs
Health > Care, Border Runs
November will mark the beginning of the 24th year of this blog. While my posts are far from frequent, I hope that each one is helping others in some way.
That’s always been my goal. Along these lines, I’ll offer the answer to a question I was asked by a start-up health IT company yesterday, and will also outline the process for the Costa Rica ==> Nicaragua ==> Costa Rica border run, which is both necessary and relatively easy.
Health > Care
“Dr. Reider – why are you interested / willing to help out little company?”Some context – and then my response. (After – ...
Source: Docnotes - October 21, 2023 Category: Primary Care Authors: Jacob Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Weekly Roundup – October 21, 2023
Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. We hope this gives you a chance to catch up on anything you may have missed during the week.
Driving Patient Behavior and Connecting Patients With Care Teams. Patients are embracing the notion of monitoring their health every day, but health systems aren’t, John Lynn discovered in a chat with Rich Steinle and Scott Pradels at Carium. The conversation also covered how to remove barriers to adoption of remote monitoring technology. Read more...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 21, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup Source Type: blogs
Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: Specific Types of Help
This is the final article in a series about social determinants of health (SDoH). Previous articles covered the definition, collection, sharing, and use of SDoH. I’ll finish with a look at some specific areas of intervention.
We’ve seen the importance of personal interventions, through interviews and evaluating SDoH, to solve problems. In rural areas, where it might be daunting either to travel to a doctor or to schedule an online visit with poor Internet access, home visits fill the gap. Conduit Health Partners is one organization that does so. A patient can speak to a nurse immediately—as opposed to calling...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 20, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: Analytics/Big Data C-Suite Leadership Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Case Management Cheryl Dalton-Norman Clara Lambert Conduit Health Partners Genpact Health Link Adviso Source Type: blogs
Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: Collecting Data
This article shows how organizations are collecting it.
Andrew Eye, CEO of the healthcare data science company ClosedLoop, estimates that about 15% of physicians collect SDoH-related data from patients and use it to assess their needs. The percentage is much higher in some areas.
Data can be spotty, according to Eye, who says for instance that data from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) often lacks racial identifications.
He also says that collecting and processing the data is labor-intensive, because it can be hard to persuade patients to talk openly about financial and logistical problems. At the institu...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 18, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: Analytics/Big Data C-Suite Leadership Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Andrew Eye Arick Morton Carta Healthcare Case Management Casetivity CDC Clinical Archictecture Cl Source Type: blogs
Amazon In Healthcare: Disruption, Data Nightmares And Digital Health Dreams
A little while ago we explored Amazon’s initial forays into the healthcare sector, a move that positioned the tech behemoth alongside traditional players in the industry. Amazon’s initial focus was evident: disruption. From obtaining drug distribution licenses in over 10 US states, through acquiring the startup PillPack, to the launch of Amazon Pharmacy and Amazon Care, the company’s intent was clear – to reshape the healthcare landscape. For a detailed look into the first chapters of Amazon’s healthcare journey, click here.
Fast forward to today, and the landscape appears to have shifted d...
Source: The Medical Futurist - October 17, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: TMF Future of healthcare Amazon in healthcare tech giants in healthcare Amazon Clinic One Medical digital health Source Type: blogs
Your Insulin of the Future Could Be " Made in China " if Big PBMs Have a Say in the Matter
Back on June 16, 2022, I published an article on LinkedIn entitled "How the Civica Insulin Announcement May Be Disruptive to the PBM Kickback Scheme" (see the article athttps://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-civica-insulin-announcement-may-disruptive-pbm-scheme-strumello/ if you wish to read it) which predicted that a growing number of insulin biosimilars whose active pharmaceutical ingredients (API ' s) are cultured in offshore laboratories are forecast to hit the U.S. market in the next few years. According to the FDA and the individual companies whom I also follow on LinkedIn, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) typ...
Source: Scott's Web Log - October 15, 2023 Category: Endocrinology Tags: 2023 Congress insulin insulin prices lawmakers PBM Pharmacy Benefit Managers Source Type: blogs
All by myself … don ’ t wanna be
Throughout my career, I’ve been interested in how and why people see clinicians about their pain. I’m intrigued by the journey before, during and afterwards.
I’m interested in the social factors influencing choices in healthcare. If I’ve been gardening over the weekend and I wake up Monday with a sore back it’s easy to see a physio here in NZ. That visit is likely paid for by our accident compensation system (24/7 no-fault scheme paid for by taxes and levies). And the jolly joy germ in me thinks “Well at least that means people don’t have to see a doctor first” – but...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - October 15, 2023 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: BronnieLennoxThompson Tags: Back pain Chronic pain Coping strategies Interdisciplinary teams Low back pain Occupational therapy Physiotherapy Psychology Research Science in practice Health pain management Therapeutic approaches Source Type: blogs
Bloody Religion
“With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.”Steven Weinberg
In 2003, I started a web page that documented the horrors of the Iraq war. The title of the page was corrie.html, because one of the first entries was about Rachel Corrie. This was it.
On Sunday, 16th March 2003, a 23-year-old American peace activist, Rachel Corrie, was crushed to death by a bulldozer as she tried to prevent the Israeli army destroying homes in the Gaza Strip.
You can read here some of the emails that she ...
Source: DC's goodscience - October 15, 2023 Category: Science Authors: David Colquhoun Tags: Palestine war Gaza Israel Source Type: blogs
