John Erwin, CEO of Carenet Health A common thread throughout my conversations at ViVE was the increased competition for health consumers. Larger health systems are continuing to be fragmented by smaller specialties, like Northwell Health, which reported their outpatient care volumes are continuing to rise. Free-standing surgery centers, ER, urgent care, primary care, imaging centers and so on, are monitoring large healthcare systems looking for ways to extract the most profitable arms and business from them. As this continues to play out in tandem with the losses caused by the pandemic, t ..read more

What You Should Know: – Kahun, an evidence-based clinical reasoning tool for physicians announced it is integrating its AI chatbot for physicians with ChatGPT, an open-source AI chatbot platform to build on the advanced Large Language Model’s (LLM) ability to engage in human-like conversation with patients. – By integrating ChatGPT, Kahun builds on the language model’s text fluency to boost patient engagement pre-visit, cutting the time needed for the healthcare provider to conduct the clinical interview and optimizing patient visits. Why ChatGPT? ChatGPT’s ability to converse with human ..read more

What You Should Know: The goal of the Arch Collaborative is to help organizations understand not just how to make the EHR usable but how to help clinicians embrace it as a tool essential for delivering great care. To that end, this report examines the responses of over 3,000 highly satisfied EHR users to identify what they do differently from less satisfied peers. Their insights reveal specific areas that other users and organizations can focus on to improve their own satisfaction. Successful User’s Guide to High EHR Satisfaction The Arch Collaborative is a group of healthcare org ..read more

Mike Szczesny, Owner and VP of EDCO Awards & Specialties Hiring and retaining top-quality candidates in the healthcare sector has been a significant challenge. Aside from the risk of working around patients infected with diseases, as we saw during the COVID-19 outbreak, they are also faced with several difficulties. The healthcare industry needs effective and efficient retention strategies because of a talent shortage, high turnover rates, and heavy competition for top candidates.  Healthcare workers have a complex routine of responsibilities. They serve an incredibly different group ..read more

What You Should Know: – Today, Verizon announced it was awarded a 12-year contract worth $2.5 billion to help the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) modernize its network – Verizon is driving $700 million in cost savings for HHS through the Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions (EIS) contract. This contract covers all 10 of the agency’s operating components and its Office of Secretary. – The EIS contract vehicle accelerates HHS’s transition to advanced networking technologies by combining both voice and data technologies into one EIS task order.  ..read more

What You Should Know: – Phenomix Sciences (Phenomix), a precision medicine biotechnology company that brings data intelligence to the treatment of obesity, announces today the launch of its first therapy selection test, the My Phenome Hungry Gut test. – This is a first-of-its-kind obesity test and will determine if a patient’s phenotype is Hungry Gut (Satiety) or feeling hungry shortly after eating a meal. If a patient is Hungry Gut phenotyped, providers are able to more precisely and accurately make a treatment plan which would include a diet intervention specific to Hungry Gut, GLP-1 (gluca ..read more

What You Should Know: Uber Health, Uber’s healthcare arm, today announced same-day prescription delivery on its HIPAA-supported, centralized platform. For the first time, those using Uber Health—including healthcare providers and health plans—will be able to manage prescription delivery from any pharmacy in their service area through the same platform they already use to coordinate transportation for patients. This launch enables providers to offer a full suite of care solutions that extend beyond the four walls of a clinic and is designed to improve patient experiences and health outco ..read more

Eric Bacon, President at AMD Global Telemedicine, Inc The adoption of virtual health has increased dramatically since March 2020, with 150 million telehealth claims in less than two years. Like other revolutionary innovations throughout history, healthcare innovation is necessitated by time — and unmet needs. So many struggled to create virtual care solutions during the pandemic, and many technology companies jumped into the telehealth space because of the unmet needs of patients. But the pandemic era is soon coming to an end, leaving telehealth to settle into a new normal. The healthcare indu ..read more

What You Should Know: Solve.Care, a healthcare platform company that leverages blockchain technology to deliver better care, has announced the launch of Care.Chain, a decentralized Layer-2 network infrastructure. Care.Chain is a significant step towards Solve.Care’s mission to improve healthcare access, delivery, management, and payments for both healthcare institutions and consumers through the benefits that blockchain technology provides. Providing the Necessary Base Infrastructure to Fully Decentralize Healthcare While many existing Layer-2 blockchains are built from the bottom up seekin ..read more

What You Should Know: Hint Health, the company powering the Direct Primary Care (DPC) movement, today announced the release of its newest product, Hint All-in-One. The all-encompassing EMR platform made exclusively for DPCs integrates Hint’s existing membership management platform with a new clinical platform that was purpose-built by and for DPC physicians. Now, delivered within the targeted 6-month deadline, the solution enables DPC physicians to get back to what they love to do – care for patients. An All-Encompassing EMR Platform to Improve Efficiency The COVID pandemic pushed many ..read more