Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.
News and Surveys
- More than half (52%) of provider organizations use entirely manual workflows for credentialing and network management, according to a survey from Medallion.
- A survey from Hakkoda found 92% of healthcare organizations need to modernize their data infrastructure. Though expensive, firms who make this investment reported an ROI of 124%.
- Though less than 37% of healthcare workers trust AI in healthcare, 85% believe AI can improve the patient experience and 77% say AI can solve the labor shortage, according to a Carta Healthcare survey.
- Forbes released its list of America’s Best Startup Employers, with six healthcare vendors among the Top 100.
Partnerships
- Microsoft and NVIDIA are expanding their collaboration through the integration of NVIDIA generative AI and Omniverse with Microsoft 365, Azure, and other products.
- TrustCommerce integrated its Cloud Payments platform with Practice Fusion.
- Availity announced a strategic alliance with Zelis aimed at streamlining payment processing workflows.
- Rimidi launched The Rimidi Care Network, a partnership program for remote monitoring clinical service providers.
Products
- Inovalon launched Converged Solutions to simplify encounter data submissions in support of risk adjustment programs.
- Real-world data vendor Komodo Health unveiled MapView, a no-code analytics application for the company’s Healthcare Map.
- DrFirst released TrueRx, a prescription monitoring product that provides standardized alerts to protect against prescriber identity and prescription fraud.
- Ribbon Health launched Ribbon Provider Data Platform, adding data management capabilities to its provider directory.
- Lindus Health launched another package of all-in-one contract research organization services, this time for CNS, neurology, and psychiatric clinical trials.
- AI platform Ubie launched Checkup, an app for helping patients manage their health and communicate with their care teams.
- Health assistant Together by Renee unveiled Together Companion, a personalized chatbot.
- Wellth launched Wellth Northstar to support Medicare Advantage plans aiming to motivate change in hard-to-reach members.
- Wellness app Welltory launched Today Screen, which analyzes Apple Watch data to help users reduce sedentary stress.
Sales
- Humana tapped DUOS to help the manage the health of veterans in Louisiana with chronic conditions enrolled in Medicare Advantage plans.
- MultiPlan selected HealthCorum to support provider network optimization.
- Arizona-based Integrated Medical Services implemented athenahealth EHR, RCM, and patient engagement tools.
- Tennessee-based Ardent Health selected Quantum Health and Imagine360 to support care coordination and price protection, respectively, in its employee health benefits offering.
- Laboratory QDx Pathology Services selected Proscia for digital and computational pathology technology.
People
- SE Healthcare, maker of data analytics for risk management, named Greg Coticchia as Chief Executive Officer.
- Consultancy Optimum Healthcare IT brought back founders Gene Scheurer as CEO and Jason Mabry as President.
- Virtual patient observation vendor Collette Health appointed Dr. Christine Gall as Chief Nursing Officer.
- FOLX Health, provider of LGBTQIA+ digital healthcare services, named Greg Sottolano as Chief People Officer.
- Patient intake vendor Phreesia named Jack Callahan as Chief Technology Officer.
- Cardiac care technology vendor PrepMD named Jack Collier as CTO.
- Metabolic health company Wondr Health named Rob Sutton as Chief Financial Officer.
- Reproductive health and genetic testing vendor Gattaca Genomics appointed Dr. Gary L. Harton as Principal Scientific Advisor.
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