Morning Headlines 3/1/23
February 28, 2023 Headlines No Comments Local Leaders Announce Plan to Strengthen Health Services in Imperial County
UC San Diego Health considers sharing its EHR with El Centro Regional Medical Center as part…
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Medcity Pivot Podcast: Chronic Disease Management With an Interventional Cardiologist
MedCity News’ Pivot podcast is back with another episode in its Season 1, which focused on chronic disease management. This time we are talking with Steve Driver with Advocate Aurora Health. Driver is an…
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Is Exiting the Employer Insurance Market a Smart Move for Humana
Humana announced last week that it will exit the Employer Group Commercial Medical Products business, which includes fully insured plans, self-funded plans and Federal Employee Health Benefit plans. But is this the right move…
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Neuroimmune Modulation for Inflammatory Disease: Interview with Dr. Simhambhatla, President and CEO of SetPoint Medical
SetPoint Medical, a medtech company based in California, is developing a neuromodulatory device that is intended to treat rheumatoid arthritis. The overlap between the nervous and immune systems is increasingly appreciated, and this technology…
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How UPMC’s virtual-first healthcare model works
UPMC Central Pennsylvania, a hospital that in 2021 achieved Stage 7, the top of the HIMSS Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model, has been a leader in telemedicine, with more than two dozen robust virtual…
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NJ Health System Leverages AI, Robotics for Early Lung Cancer Diagnosis
By Shania Kennedy
February 28, 2023 – New Jersey-based AtlantiCare is deploying pre-operative artificial intelligence (AI) assessment tools and robotic bronchoscopy techniques to support early lung cancer diagnosis and treatment.
The health system will leverage…
Elation Health Acquires Medical Billing Company Lightning MD
Elation Health continues to expand its primary care offerings. The company recently announced the strategic acquisition of Lightning MD, a cloud-based medical billing and claims management company. The acquisition adds revenue cycle capabilities to…
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Consumers Prefer Telehealth to In-Person Visits While Traveling
What You Should Know:– New KeyCare survey finds nearly 7 in 10 (68%) of consumers who needed minor but urgent medical services while traveling in the prior year received care via telehealth visits with their regular physicians or affiliated members of their physicians’ care teams, outpacing…
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Samsung Medical Center achieves Stage 7 DIAM and EMRAM
Samsung Medical Center has achieved milestones in digital transformation as it has been validated for the highest stages of both the HIMSS Digital Imaging Adoption Model and the Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model.It is…
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Morning Headlines 2/28/23
February 27, 2023 Headlines No Comments Cerebral to Cut 15% of Staff in Fresh Round of Layoffs
Cerebral lays off 15% of its staff, part of the direct-to-consumer telemedicine company’s year-long plan to…