What You Should Know: Healthcare providers face the difficult challenge of coping with an ever-increasing workload while still providing high-quality patient care and trying to retain their staff. As the CEO of CalmWave, Inc., Ophir Ronen is an expert in both patient outcomes and staff retention who understands the importance of leveraging AI technologies to reduce alarm fatigue and deliver more efficient quiet care. Delivering Efficient Care by Reducing Alarm Fatigue Alarm fatigue is
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M&A: eVisit Acquires Bluestream Health
What You Should Know: - eVisit, a virtual care operating platform for health systems and large, complex healthcare delivery organizations acquires Bluestream Health, a digital front door and virtual care workflow solution that manages patient and provider interactions throughout the care delivery process. - Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Acquisition Brings Virtual care to Patients eVisit augments its highly innovative capabilities with complementary digital
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Sagility Acquires Payment Integrity Provider DCI Consulting
What You Should Know: Sagility, a provder optimizing the member/patient experience and business process management acquires Chandler, Arizona-based Devlin Consulting, Inc. (DCI), an established healthcare technology services company with nearly 30 years of payment integrity experience.The acquisition represents Sagility’s first acquisition since unveiling its new identity as an independent U.S.-based company solely dedicated to the healthcare industry following the 2021 divestment from HGS.
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Report: Financial Pressures Drive Healthcare M&A in Q1 2023
What You Should Know: Operational and financial pressures drove mergers and acquisitions in the healthcare sector in Q1 2023, according to a new report from Kaufman Hall. In total, there were 15 announced transactions in Q1 resulting in $12.4 billion in total transacted revenue.The trend of fewer but larger transactions that characterized 2022 was maintained—the average size of the seller or smaller party in Q1 was $827 million, just below last year’s historic year-end average of
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TytoCare Receives FDA Clearance for AI-Powered Tyto Insights for Wheeze Detection
- TytoCare, a virtual care company enabling accessible, high-quality primary care from home, today announced that it received FDA clearance for its Tyto Insights for Wheeze Detection, paving the way for its rollout in the US. - The wheeze detection algorithm expands the company’s existing AI-powered Tyto Insights™ smart diagnostic capabilities, filling the quality gaps currently experienced with traditional telehealth and alleviating challenges imposed by the ongoing shortage of healthcare
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Q/A: Dr. Masturzo Talks Addressing Food Insecurity with Patients
Today, food insecurity affects more than 41 million Americans and is prevalent among children and the elderly population. Food insecurity is defined as the limited availability of nutritionally adequate and safe food or the inability to acquire these foods in socially acceptable ways. As a result, food insecurity can exacerbate medical conditions driving up hospital/health systems patient care costs. To learn more about how healthcare providers can address food insecurity, we sat down with Dr.
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Improving The Digital Experience – for Both Patient and Employee
It’s a tired, old saw: Healthcare organizations are woefully behind when it comes to technology, automation and digital experiences. Leaders are sick of hearing it. But that doesn’t make it any less true. Current market pressures, however, compel hospitals, health systems and medical practices to reconsider their hesitancy in embracing these innovations. A combination of consumer demand and acute, unrelenting labor shortages force leaders to explore the practicality of leveraging
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Maryland HIE to Expand Medicaid Redetermination Notification Project
What You Should Know: - CRISP, the nonprofit state-designated health information exchange (HIE) of Maryland, announced plans to expand its Medicaid Redetermination Notification project across the state to support care teams as they navigate redetermination for 1.6 million Medicaid enrollees. - The project is a collaboration across state agencies and began as a pilot supporting federally qualified health centers who expressed concerns about lacking resources that would contribute to
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Unintended Bias in AI-Driven Healthcare Applications
What You Should Know: - Over the past few years, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and more specifically, Machine Learning (ML) technology, have experienced rapid adoption in the healthcare space as tools for diagnosis and decision-making. Such tools are intended to address challenges in the healthcare system to both processes and put into practice the proliferating medical findings, and also to support delivery of the promise of personalized and precision medicine. - Unintended bias in AI and
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Pearl Health Raises $75M to Expand Value-Based Care Innovation
What You Should Know: - Pearl Health, a leading technology company focused on physician enablement and risk-bearing in value-based care, today announced that it has raised $75M in its oversubscribed Series B funding round, led by Andreessen Horowitz’s Growth Fund and Viking Global Investors, with participation by AlleyCorp, SV Angel’s Growth Fund, and other leading investors. This round brings Pearl’s total funding to date to more than $80M. Value-Based Care Innovation for
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