As retail disruptors like CVS, Walgreens and Amazon buy more and more provider groups, the healthcare industry is seeing an increased demand for physicians and advanced practitioners. In the case of advanced practitioners, this…
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By Hannah Nelson
August 10, 2023 – Aetna, a CVS Health company, has awarded Georgia’s state-designated health information exchange (HIE) $200,000 for a pilot project to drive social determinants of health (SDOH) interoperability.
The Georgia Health Information…
About 37 million people in the U.S. have chronic kidney disease, yet about 40% of people with severely reduced kidney function don’t know they have chronic kidney disease, according to the Centers for Disease…
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What You Should Know:
– Today, Signify Health announced the addition of a new comprehensive in-home kidney health testing/evaluation as part of their diagnostic and preventive service offerings.
– This is Signify’s latest diagnostic offering for…
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CVS Caremark, a pharmacy benefit manager and part of CVS Health, announced it is partnering with drug cost and telehealth company GoodRx to launch Caremark Cost Saver, providing Caremark’s members access to GoodRx’s lower-cost…
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Before COVID-19, healthcare worker burnout had reached crisis levels, research from the National Academies of Medicine shows. More than 330,000 U.S. healthcare professionals left the industry in 2021, with many remaining workers considering leaving,…
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Interoperability is one of the biggest and longest-standing challenges in healthcare. Government policymakers and private-sector companies of all shapes and sizes have been working on the problem for decades, offering all manner of approaches…
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It's been a week of endings for UK politicians, soccer coaches and tennis GOATs. And a big deal in health tech as CVS buys Signify Health for $8bn. Psych Hub raises $16m, 98point6 tacks…
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Primary and urgent care chain Carbon Health launches hands-free, AI-powered EHR charting across all of its clinics and providers.
Audio recordings of patient visits are analyzed with AWS Medical Transcribe, then processed with…
Kidney care company Strive Health scored a whopping $166 million in Series C funding led by NEA alongside strategic investor CVS Health Ventures. Existing investors CapitalG (Alphabet), Town Hall Ventures, Redpoint, Echo Ventures and Ascension…
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