Healthcare IT Today

MAY 5, 2021

NASDAQ: RCM), a leading provider of technology-driven solutions that transform the patient experience and financial performance of healthcare providers, today announced a definitive agreement to acquire VisitPay, the leading digital payment solution provider for approximately $300 million in cash. R1 RCM Inc.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 29, 2023

As part of the partnership, R1 has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the Acclara business for $675 million in cash and warrants to purchase 12.2 About R1 RCM R1 is a leading provider of technology-driven solutions that transform the patient experience and financial performance of hospitals, health systems, and medical groups.

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Health Populi

MAY 22, 2023

“It seemed like an odd pairing: shampoo and a throat swab,” observes a new report on the growth of retail health from Definitive Healthcare. But retail clinics are no longer, as the paper explains, “an experiment of a few grocery stores… they’re becoming a major force in the U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 14, 2022

NASDAQ: RCM) (“R1”), a leading provider of technology-driven solutions that transform the patient experience and financial performance of healthcare providers, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Cloudmed, a leader in Revenue Intelligence™ solutions for […].

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 19, 2021

Enhancing the patient experience. The information from all these care experiences then needs to get integrated into the system to help create a holistic experience for the patient, according to Snyder. “We’ve definitely seen. Creating personalized patient experiences.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 27, 2024

What’s great about this decision is that Complete Dental Care was able to meet the insurance requirement while improving the patient experience at the same time. Leveraging Technology One of the keys to this improved patient experience was leveraging the WellReceived mobile app together with a 24/7 medical receptionist.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

CMS is now building on its learnings from patient experience measures and incorporating patient reported outcomes measures (PROMs) into recent value-based care models. Goldsack says that well-designed inclusion efforts always have an enormous payoff for the insurer, employer, and patients using the digital interventions.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

” An additional definition of the verb is, “ to feel or exhibit anger or revulsion.” ” If you’ve been a patient facing a diagnosis of an illness, whether rare or common, you may well have felt these various feelings stirring inside your self.

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Health Populi

MAY 5, 2022

When it comes to peoples’ relationship to consumer packaged goods (CPG), the public health crisis has indeed impacted consumers’ purchasing behaviors and definition of “value,” based on IRI’s latest analysis of CPG shifts in 2022 and 2023. and better-for-you ingredients and functional benefits.

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Digital Health Wire

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

CMS hospital star ratings for 2023, which measure performance along five key areas (mortality, safety of care, readmission, patient experience, timely/effective care), showed slight declines across the board. The looming restructuring negotiations are going to be painful. That directly translates to worse reimbursement.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Remember Merriam-Webster’s definition of the noun and holiday we celebrate in America ever fourth Thursday of November, every year. The Thanksgiving meal in America is a time where we are surrounded by the people we love most: family, friends, our close-in communities and social networks.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

I’ll be the first to admit that I didn’t know the history of the stethoscope and definitely didn’t understand how it worked. Although, we certainly all know how iconic the stethoscope is in healthcare. It’s been a fixture in medicine that hasn’t really been innovated on in years. At least until now.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 5, 2023

Language access plans (LAP) provide organizations with a roadmap to ensure access and connection that alleviate these disparities and improve patient experience. Healthcare organizations can improve efficiencies and optimize the patient experience by incorporating the latest tools and technologies into their LAPs.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

They are definitely ones to watch. Four organizations stood out at the recent Medical Practice Excellence Leaders conference (#MPE21) hosted by MGMA: Rhinogram, Greenway, DrChrono, and MGMA itself. All of them had new products/features to offer their customers and bold plans for 2022.

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Digital Health Wire

APRIL 2, 2023

Patient experience startup Florence emerged from stealth with $20M in seed funding to address what it views as the most significant constraint in care delivery: clinical capacity.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

JANUARY 17, 2024

SPM delivered three CLEs, one in Portland OR with Oregon Health and Science University and two in Boston MA, one in collaboration with the Patient Experience Symposium and the other in partnership with Northeastern University. We also held a shorter session we put on at the request of a sponsor.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 5, 2021

Patient engagement company further solidifies its standing as an industry leader by adding Radix Health’s data-driven platform, bringing scheduling optimization and patient engagement innovation together under one brand Today, Relatient, Inc.,

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Health Populi

AUGUST 2, 2022

When I talk about patient support programs (PSPs), I’m most often focused on supporting peoples’ access to medicines due to costs, bolstering health literacy, and addressing health citizens’ risks of drivers of health that can be obstacles to optimal health outcomes (those challenging social determinants of health).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 1, 2023

In New Jersey, meanwhile, Cooper University Health Care and Cape Regional Health System have also recently signed a definitive agreement to merge resources. Ryu will serve as CEO of Risant Health when the merger is approved. While neither has reported financial distress, many U.S.

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Health Populi

APRIL 19, 2023

People have expanded their definitions of health in 2023, with mental health supplanting physical health for the top-ranked factor in feeling healthy.

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Health Populi

JULY 24, 2023

in any one’s definition of value-based health care — most especially, a consumer’s. GNC has been partnering with PursueCare for their telehealth provider network. Health Populi’s Hot Points: That’s a lot of “free” for $39.99

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Hinduja Global Solutions

DECEMBER 11, 2019

This year’s Next Generation Patient Experience (NGPX) conference promised to unite America's best-and-brightest patient experience leaders to connect, inspire, and transform healthcare. Insight: Billing can ruin the healthcare experience. Healthcare is not too far removed from this definition.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

COVID-19 definitely highlighted many of the inequities that exist in healthcare. COVID-19 definitely highlighted many of the inequities that exist in healthcare. This is one of the most important topics we’ve been talking about lately.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

JANUARY 27, 2022

Let’s look back even further to 2013 to examine one definition of patient engagement: Health Affairs defines patient engagement as combining patient activation with interventions designed to increase and promote positive patient behavior, such as obtaining preventive care or exercising regularly, hopefully to lower costs.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Or an expanded definition of a “digital therapeutic” with the car as a delivery channel or vessel for care and information source. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Abbott’s CEO Ford joins two other industry executives keynoting #CES2022: Mary Barra of General Motors and Mike Sievert of T-Mobile.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 16, 2020

The definition of that “modern house call” is largely based on the model of care delivered by CareMore Health — a team-based approach that serves the whole person beyond their diagnosis. adults 23 years of age and over in September and October 2019.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Nasdaq: NXGN), a leading provider of innovative cloud-based healthcare technology solutions, today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire TSI Healthcare , a privately held value-added reseller located in Chapel Hill, NC. NextGen Healthcare, Inc. The acquisition shall be deemed effective 11:59 p.m. on November 30, 2022.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Were GWI to re-calibrate this landscape today, post-pandemic, I would guestimate that the mental wellness bubble would be much larger, with personal care and beauty definitely bolstered in and in the wake of the pandemic.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Or an expanded definition of a “digital therapeutic” with the car as a delivery channel or vessel for care and information source. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Abbott’s CEO Ford joins two other industry executives keynoting #CES2022: Mary Barra of General Motors and Mike Sievert of T-Mobile.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 26, 2022

By 2025, some 47% of healthcare workers plan to leave their positions by 2025, asserted in a report from Definitive Healthcare published in October 2022.

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Mend

APRIL 20, 2022

The idea of patient satisfaction is relative to each individual. But here at Mend, we have our own definition. We define patient satisfaction as the measure of how well a patient perceives the level of care they receive from you. There is a debate about the connection between the patient experience and health outcomes.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Here, I’m using the word “demand” in the economist’s definition: that is not just sheer “need” but “demand” in terms of a consumer’s willingness-to-pay for a service. When the patient faces a copayment or deductible obligation to meet, that’s real money to a consumer.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 23, 2021

together with its affiliates, “Clearlake”) and Insight Partners, announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire PatientPing, a leader in care coordination data and software […].

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Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2023

Start with the definition of patient access. You may not know that the company has a significant footprint in health care and financial technology. This results of the consumer and provider surveys combines those corporate interests, discussed in this report.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 1, 2023

Founded in 2006 by healthcare leaders, NYeC works to help New York State achieve the Triple Aim of improving the patient experience of care, delivering better health outcomes, and reducing costs.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

NYSE: AMN), the nation’s leading innovator in healthcare talent solutions and staffing services, today announced a definitive agreement to acquire Stratus Video for a purchase price of $475 million. AMN Healthcare Services, Inc. The acquisition is expected to be immediately accretive to AMN’s adjusted earnings per share.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

This isn’t the original definition or conception of so-called consumer-driven health care , but it’s absolutely a rational and normal response by the patient-as-payer, facing growing out-of-pocket costs for many shoppable health care services.

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