While there is a significant need and opportunity to address this overall spend with advanced AI tools that predict patient needs and readmission likelihood, intrinsic biases within these algorithms ultimately cause more harm than good and financial savings are being achieved at the expense of patient’s health.
Heather Cox, President of Insights & Empowerment at Zelis, talked about the company's care coordination tools with MedCity News Reporter Katie Adams.
Alan Murray on improving access for medical transportation.
Healthcare must be more than a transactional experience. The focus must be on relationships, continuity, and coordination.
The healthcare industry’s inability to coordinate care effectively and at scale is the single biggest issue in the sector, said Tampa General Hospital CEO John Couris.
Healthcare is a data-driven industry, but it's held together by incompatible, siloed data systems. Providers and payers need the ability to exchange data and update directories in real time; otherwise, they cannot ensure patients will access the high-quality care they deserve.
Watershed Health closed a $13.6 million funding round this week. The New Orleans-based company seeks to improve care coordination by connecting providers of all types across the healthcare system.
Greenway Health blends smart technology with human expertise to elevate revenue cycle.
As healthcare continues to evolve, discharge coordination software will play an increasingly important role in bridging the gap between hospital care and home care, ensuring that NICU graduates and their families receive the comprehensive support they need to thrive.
Team-based primary care is needed now more than ever as our “on-demand” and mobile lives, complicated by a primary care shortage crisis, have led to a more transactional and fragmented healthcare experience.
Even with my “VIP” access to the healthcare system as a physician who practiced in my community, I’m still struggling to coordinate my care as a cancer patient. I believe patients need more from their payers, providers, and digital health collaborators when it comes to care coordination and navigation.
Innovaccer announced a new suite of healthcare products. It comprises four different solutions — one for answering healthcare executives’ questions about their business metrics, one for automating care planning and documentation, one for generating clinical visit summaries, and one for streamlining workflows at contact centers.
In a recent interview, Esperion president and CEO, Sheldon Koenig talks about the reality of statin intolerance and his company’s expansion into new diseases
By more precisely improving care orchestration by reimagining patient flow across disparate care settings, health systems can improve demand, capacity, and throughput challenges.
The intentional use of specialty care coordination inside value-based, accountable primary care structures are necessary tools in the march to reward value and positive health outcomes over the volume of services rendered.
It’s time to fundamentally improve the cancer journey, while ensuring that resources are used more wisely. The pandemic showed that the healthcare system can respond and evolve when confronted by an existential threat
All health systems must do is remove the stigma often associated with automation and let technology do the care coordination grunt work currently overwhelming their valued clinicians.
CareHarmony, a virtual care coordination startup, recently raised $15 million in Series A funding. The company will use the funds to further the development of its platform, which uses AI to analyze patient data and provide targeted care plan recommendations.