News 8/23/24 – HIStalk
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Home testing kit vendor LetsGetChecked will acquire pharmacy fulfillment company Truepill in a deal worth $525 million.
The acquisition involves just $25 million in cash for Truepill, which was once valued at nearly…
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EPtalk by Dr. Jayne 8/22/24 – HIStalk
I’ve spent a fair amount of my career working with the underlying datasets and codes that make EHRs work, including ICD-9, ICD-10, SNOMED, LOINC, RxNorm, CPT, DSM, and HCPCS. Normally I’m not that excited…
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Healthcare AI News 8/21/24 – HIStalk
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Epic R&D SVP Seth Hain, MS gives UGM attendees an idea of how the company is thinking about AI use cases. His example was an AI-initiated outreach call to a recovering wrist surgery patient…
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News 8/21/24 – HIStalk
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Providence will hire an additional 2,000 staff at its IT hub in India by the end of 2025, bringing its total headcount to 3,500.
Providence India manages a variety of enterprise IT applications…
Curbside Consult with Dr. Jayne 8/19/24 – HIStalk
Nearly every health system has some kind of telehealth initiative in place even though rates of growth are much slower than they were during the height of the pandemic. Many of them are cautiously…
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Monday Morning Update 8/19/24 – HIStalk
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Epic expects all of its customers to go live on TEFCA by the end of 2025 using its Epic Nexus QHIN.
The company says that all of its hospitals use Carequality, but national…
News 8/16/24 – HIStalk
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The private equity owner of healthcare consulting firm Chartis sells a majority stake to private equity firm Blackstone.
Insiders say that the deal values Chartis at about $1.4 billion.
The 23-year-old Chartis has…
EPtalk by Dr. Jayne 8/15/24 – HIStalk
Bain & Company recently released study findings looking at how patients perceive generative AI in healthcare. Long story short is that patients are more comfortable with AI tools taking notes during office visits or…
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Healthcare AI News 8/14/24 – HIStalk
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Google launches the Pixel Watch 3, whose health-related features include workout biometrics, cardiac tracking, planning and guiding tools for runners, and loss-of-pulse detection that can contact emergency services. The watch costs $350 for the…
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News 8/14/24 – HIStalk
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Global conglomerate Hearst will acquire healthcare workforce management software vendor QGenda in a deal that is valued at up to $3 billion.
Insiders say the deal gives seller Francisco Partners a 15x return…