Kaiser Permanente announced one of the biggest mergers in recent hospital M&A history on Wednesday. The California-based integrated health system, which owns 39 hospitals, said it plans to acquire Pennsylvania-based Geisinger Health. The financial…
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What You Should Know: Kaiser Foundation Hospitals and Geisinger Health are teaming up to launch Risant Health and a definitive agreement to make Geisinger the first health system to join Risant Health to expand…
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Lindsay Zimmerman, PhD, MPH VP, Bartosch Patient Activation Institute · Upfront Healthcare ServicesOver the last decade, the healthcare industry has experienced an explosion of digital innovation. Simultaneously, shifting consumer preferences around convenience and access…
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Increasing telehealth practices and sophisticated data collection methods have left the healthcare industry with a surge of critical patient data. Many hospitals and health systems have begun rushing to adopt a multi-cloud strategy to help…
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At KLAS, we’ve observed that the relationship between payers and providers in healthcare is becoming increasingly challenging. Many stakeholders, including patients, health systems, and health plans, have expressed that collaboration is becoming more difficult….
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The healthcare sector accounts for 8.5% of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions. In order for the Biden Administration to meet its goal of reducing emissions 50-52% by 2030, health systems will need to get…
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In the rush to open their digital front doors, some health systems have forgotten to include a crucial component — digital options for care payment.
The failure to do so could lead to slower collection…
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Providence Health spinoff DexCare is bringing eCommerce best practices to healthcare to make it easier for all consumers to get convenient access to care. Its approach takes lessons learned from successful online retailers and…
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What You Should Know:– Chiefy, a NYC-based cloud platform that helps surgical teams seamlessly embed quality and communication best practices, today announced it has raised $4.2M in seed funding led by LionBird, with participation from…
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Research by Kaufman Hall created for the American Hospital Association states that financial reserves are essential for not-for-profit hospitals and health systems to maintain their operations and serve their communities. The report emphasizes that…
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