Mary Bacaj, Ph.D., President of Value-Based Care at Conifer Health Solutions
Poorly managed chronic conditions—most of which are related to lifestyle—cost employers $36.4 billion each year in the form of absenteeism and poor productivity. Add…
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The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) issued a report on Thursday that laid out recommendations to improve patient safety across the nation. Some of these included creating federal leadership positions…
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Clinicians and consumers remain hopeful about a future of healthcare that is more personalized and personable, collaborative, and mindful of both provider and patient needs.
Recent GE HealthCare research identified six trends driving healthcare transformation:…
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What You Should Know:
– Philips Respironics, has reached an agreement to resolve all economic loss claims in the US Multidistrict Litigation (MDL) related to Philips Respironics’ voluntary recall of certain sleep and respiratory care devices.
– The agreement…
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This week, medical device giant Abbott announced its plans to acquire Bigfoot Biomedical. The deal is not that surprising given that the two companies have been collaborating for more than six years, but it…
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BOSTON – Cybersecurity is not just about technology and compliance frameworks, of course. At health systems large and small, it’s a human-scale challenge – with human factors still, always, the weakest link in a…
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Private equity firm Thoma Bravo will acquire NextGen Healthcare in a $1.5 billion take-private transaction, paying a 46% premium to the unaffected share price.
NextGen offers solutions for EHR/PM and interoperability.
The private equity…
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Today, OM1 announced the launch of its Parkinson’s Disease datasets, enhancing its Mental Health & Neuroscience Real-World Data Network.OM1’s Mental Health & Neuroscience Real-World Data Network, which already includes robust datasets focused on Major…
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Taiwanese medical AI startup AESOP Technology announced it is collaborating with conversational and generative AI platform SOAP Health to create a new platform dubbed Precision Patient Profiles, which merges the two organizations’ technologies to…
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Google’s video platform YouTube announced today it is launching two new initiatives for healthcare content creators: AI-enabled Aloud, which dubs videos in various languages, and THE IQ-Creator Program, which expands upon the Tackling Health…
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