David Chou

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

As healthcare retail chains continue to expand their services deeper into healthcare, another potential mega-merger is on the horizon. Bloomberg reports that VillageMD, which is majority owned by Walgreens Boots Alliance, is exploring a potential deal to merge with Summit Health, the parent company of urgent care clinic chain CityMD. If the acquisition goes through, it will value the combined entity at between $5 and $10 billion.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

While consumers’ satisfaction with inpatient care experiences improved a few points over the past year, health insurance and hospitals still fall in the bottom-third of all industries with which people interact, according to the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) Insurance and Health Care Study 2021-2022. “With visitor restrictions relaxing and more elective procedures going forward, hospitals are slowly coming out of a COVID-induced satisfaction slump,” the study pres

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Mobi Health News

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The pre-seed will be used to expand the startup's clinical operations and research as well as improve its proprietary clinical protocols.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

People who need people aren’t just the luckiest people in the world: they derive greater benefits through monitoring their health via apps that make it easier to make healthy choices. Channeling Barbra Streisand here to call out a key finding in new consumer research from Kantar on Connecting with the Health & Wellness Community. Kantar polled 10,000 online consumers in ten countries to gain perspectives on health citizens’ physical and emotional health and the role of technology

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Mobi Health News

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The wearable tech company’s deal with Best Buy marks its entry into brick-and-mortar retail.

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Mobi Health News

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The company will expand its team by 300% by 2023 and expand the rollout of its services in the U.S. market.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

In recent years, the biggest challenge faced by Happy Kids, a six-clinic pediatric practice based in Phoenix, Arizona, was a detrimental loss of business during the COVID-19 pandemic. Patient volume dropped nearly 40% at its worst point. THE PROBLEM. The practice was on a disastrous path. The situation – having the same overhead and not enough patients – would have forced the practice to close its doors.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

So many really want to help older adults – yet so often ‘help’ can be elusive. Look at the ludicrous amount of time it took to officially enable buying hearing aids over the counter. Look at the ten years or more between the first wave of useful sensor tech for seniors (2005 with GrandCare Systems ) until the newer collection of offerings. And not least, look at the shortage of workers in the care industries and the obvious but elusive pay raise that would match the market of possible workers.

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Electronic Health Reporter

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. The aesthetics industry is constantly evolving, requiring you to keep up with trends. Your capability to provide your clients with treatments that use the latest and most effective technology is crucial for your practice’s financial […]. The article 5 Ways To Leverage Technology In Your Aesthetics Practice appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Effective collaboration among all care team members is critical to delivering better patient outcomes. A key element to achieving effective collaboration is through the implementation of a clinical communication and collaboration platform. In a fast-paced, high-stress and critical environment, people tend to do whatever gets the job done. Therefore will scramble and use the systems, people, or processes around them to get an outcome more quickly - which can often be at the expense of quality.

TheraNest

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Reading Time: 5 Minutes. Seasonal depressive disorder (also known as seasonal affective disorder) is a type of depression that occurs during certain seasons, typically winter. Symptoms can include decreased energy, sadness, and problems with focus and concentration. While the cause of seasonal depressive disorder is unknown, some theories suggest that it may be related to changes in light exposure.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Financing will be used to accelerate and further diversify COTA’s oncology real-world data products and services. COTA, Inc. , an oncology real-world data and analytics company, announced its latest financing by an investment fund managed by Deerfield Management , a healthcare investment firm. Deerfield invests across the life science, medical device, diagnostic, digital health, and health service industries at every stage of evolution.

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LeanIX

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The SaaS industry has seen explosive growth in recent years — Gartner reports that SaaS is currently the top-used public cloud service worldwide (surging ahead of both infrastructure and business process services earlier this year), and its market size is expected to nearly double by 2026. The average company now uses hundreds of software applications, with the largest 10% using a whopping 3400.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Discharge planning (DP) is the development of a personalized plan to ensure the smooth transition of a patient from a health organization such as a hospital to wherever the patient is going next such as a home, residential care, palliative care, or somewhere else. The aim of DP is to reduce length of stay, lower unplanned readmissions, and to improve the coordination of services following discharge.

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Ambiq®, a leading developer of ultra-low-power semiconductor solutions that deliver a multifold increase in energy efficiency, introduces HeartKit, its latest addition to neuralSPOT. This optimized AI model enables running various real-time heart monitoring applications to help users and their healthcare providers quickly identify any irregular events to take necessary actions.

ACA Times

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Open enrollment for the 2023 plan year kicks off today, November 1, and will run through January 15 of next year. As employers begin to prepare healthcare options for their…. The post ACA Open Enrollment for 2023 Plan Year Begins Today first appeared on The ACA Times.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Scheduling physicians is complex. There are many rules, guidelines and personal preferences that need to be considered. Manually creating the physician schedule can lead to an unbalanced workforce and general unfairness which can lead to turnover. Using a robust scheduling tool that can accommodate a multitude of input factors can help ensure a more equitable schedule with much less effort.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The following is a guest article by Alexander Chiu, MD at Telemedicine911. The COVID-19 pandemic brought a quick pivot to telehealth, where patients in any location can connect with a provider from any location. The rapid adoption of telehealth and virtual provider brought light to the following question – What happens during a telehealth visit if the provider recognizes that the patient needs urgent help due to an emergent situation?

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