Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. 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
This year’s Customer Forum and Innovation Summit from Avel eCare will double as a celebration of their 30th anniversary!
PEP Health’s AI-powered Patient Experience Platform releases its first report offering quantitative and qualitative insights on the patient experience.
Claims on the community care program, Connect for Life (CFL), from Wider Circle preventing 8 ED visits per 1,000 members, saving $103 Per Engaged Member Per Month net savings for Medicare Advantage members, and more have been validated in a recent review from Milliman.
Medicomp Systems hits a milestone of directly mapping over 10 million clinical codes and concepts across more than 12 terminologies to its MEDCIN clinical relevancy engine!
Studies
The State of Health of Women in the Workforce, a study from Parsley Health finds 80% of women report delaying care until symptoms worsen or begin to affect their life before seeking care and 67% of women are having issues with getting a clear diagnosis – of which 25% are still waiting for diagnosis or gave up entirely, painting a bleak picture of the struggles women go through.
A recent study by Surescripts on prescribing trends found that non-physicians working outside of primary care prescribed nearly 20% more diabetes, high cholesterol, and hypertension medicines than they did in 2019. Meanwhile, primary care physicians prescribed these same medications 3.5% less than they did in 2019, suggesting that pharmacists could lead the way in filling the primary care gap.
In a time of high burnout levels, every decision can be critical to your organization – such as your healthcare operations software being on a single platform. symplr’s second annual Compass Survey report found that on average respondents said that single platform operations would let them redirect 20% more time to patient care – the equivalent of one full workday.
Particle Health and LifeMD teamed up to do a study on triaging patients for GLP-1 Treatment using clinical data. From the screening criteria, they were able to rule out 61 patients as potential candidates and determine 32 patients as a good fit out of their sample of 200 patients – proving that this will save a significant amount of time for physicians.
Ronin, the University of Texas, and MD Anderson Cancer Center had a study published recently detailing a model that predicts emergency room visits for cancer patients in a 30-day window, 41% to 64% of these visits could potentially be avoidable.
Provider Density Data from LexisNexis Risk Solutions finds the Vallejo-Fairfield, CA area had the largest net increase of primary care physicians (PCPs) clocking in at a 38.9% increase. On the flip side, the largest net decrease in PCPs was the Fayetteville, NC area – losing nearly 12% of their PCPs.
Essentia Health conducted a study by implementing their Telestroke program at several hospitals in the Midwest and found Telestroke drastically decreased the door-to-needle time from 61 minutes on average to 38 minutes on average.
Partnerships
- SmithRx and 9amHealth team up to offer SmithRx’s ecosystem of clients an affordable solution for their most prevalent conditions such as diabetes and obesity.
- Hyro and UST partner to get Hyro’s conversational AI assistants integrated into UST ContineoHealth’s hospital and health system clients.
- Seeking to improve the patient paying experience, TrustCommerce combines their TrustCommerce patient payments platform with athenahealth’s athenaIDX revenue cycle management (RCM) solution.
- Medisafe and Amazon Web Services (AWS) join forces to create Medisafe’s Digital Companion, powered by AWS, to support patients and caregivers throughout their entire treatment journey.
Products
- Zencape Health launches new subscription service for people with pelvic health conditions, offering members unlimited virtual access to a team of specialty physicians and support from a Care Coordinator.
- WellTheory tackles the hidden costs and productivity impacts of untreated autoimmune diseases with their new enterprise solution.
- DrFirst rolls out new medication management platform, Fuzion, reducing staff burden and increasing patient safety.
- Data creation can now be streamlined with Integral’s Privacy Workbench. This privacy analytics suite automates de-identification and compliance reports, ensuring the protection of this sensitive information.
- Ricoh USA, Inc. launches new end-to-end managed service, RICOH Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) Enablement, designed to fuel more efficient and sustainable RPM workflows
- H1 announces the launch of GenosAI, a new generative AI tool that they are embedding into their clinical trial intelligence platform, Trial Landscape.
- Atropos Health launched two new products this week geared towards advancing evidence generation, Geneva OS™ (Generative Evidence Acceleration Operating System) and ChatRWD™ (Real World Data).
Sales
- Health Gorilla gets 17 healthcare organizations to commit to joining their QHIN once designated!
- Banner Health, BJC Healthcare, Boston Children’s Hospital, Children’s Mercy Kansas City, Cottage Health, Novant Health, OSF Healthcare, and UVA Health join AVIA’s Generative AI Collaborative – making almost a total of 30 major health systems.
- Kaiser Permanente buys Nabla Copilot, a clinical AI scribe from Nabla, for 10,000 of the doctors in North Carolina.
- WellSpan Health utilizes Artisight’s Smart Hospital Platform in their Surgery and Rehabilitation Hospital in York, PA, with plans to expand the platform to their other hospitals in the future if all goes well.
- Accelecom was chosen as the provider of high-speed internet solutions in Horizon Adult Health Care’s 17 locations across the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
- Veradigm joins the FDB Vela™ ePrescribing network, officially being the first major EHR network to do so.
People
- Laudio hired two new people this week! Emma Smith has been hired as their very first Chief Marketing Officer and Michael Vipond as Executive Vice President of Sales.
- Monica Cepak was named Interim CEO at Wisp, making her their very first female CEO.
- Jennifer J. Canfield was appointed Executive Vice President of Sales at emtelligent.
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