OSF HealthCare, a health system that serves Illinois and Michigan, had a big challenge: Managing the high rate of patient readmissions from hospitals to skilled nursing facilities and eventually to home care.THE PROBLEM
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Obesity care company knownwell acquired one of its competitors this week, just six months after announcing its $20 million Series A funding round.
Boston-based Knownwell, which provides hybrid primary care and metabolic health treatment, bought…
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In the healthcare world, everyone wants to achieve better outcomes at lower costs. But this is much easier said than done, pointed out Dr. Patrick Runnels, chief medical officer at Cleveland-based University Hospitals.
“We’ve been…
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GE HealthCare and MediView XR, a med-tech company leveraging augmented reality, announced the first successful clinical use of their co-developed OmnifyXR Interventional Suite System.OmnifyXR, which the companies announced they were co-developing in 2022, pairs…
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Sleep monitoring has become widespread with the rise of affordable wearable devices. However, converting sleep data into actionable change remains challenging as diverse factors can cause combinations of sleep parameters to differ both between…
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What You Should Know:
– Talkiatry, a leading provider of high-quality, in-network psychiatric care raises $130M led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) with participation from Perceptive Advisors and debt financing from Banc of California.
– Talkiatry boasts…
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No clinical informatician should work in isolation. Bringing digital midwives into the wider digital team is better for everyone, writes Jennifer Mearns in the third of our four-part series on effective NMAHP teams Key…
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The healthcare industry needs change, whether through technological advancements or by improving trust among consumers. During a panel discussion last week at AHIP 2024, three executives shared their calls to action with other healthcare…
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Update applications with modern technologies previously unavailable to legacy systems. These may include containers for deploying a single application in multiple environments, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) for mining large data stores, and…
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Better Health, a platform for patients with chronic conditions, secured $14 million in strategic funding, which it will use to expand to more patients, the company announced Thursday.
San Francisco-based Better Health supports patients with…
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