PR Boasts, CEO Balks: One AI Firm’s Quest to Prove Value
Ada Health's CEO declined to comment on a bold PR pitch. He contends the company is profitable and at least one health system executive is satisfied with Ada's AI symptom checker.
Should More Doctors Be on TikTok? This One Says Yes
Gastroenterologist Dr. Austin Chiang has about a decade of experience as a physician influencer on social media. During a conference in Chicago, he encouraged more providers to share their expertise on social media. By having a presence on these platforms, healthcare professionals demonstrate their commitment to meeting patients where they are, he said.
Health Executives on Digital Transformation in Healthcare
Hear executives from Quantum Health, Surescripts, EY, Clinical Architecture and Personify Health share their views on digital transformation in healthcare.
Healthcare Moves: A Monthly Summary of Hires and Layoffs
Here is a selection of recent executive hires, promotions and layoffs occurring across the healthcare industry.
Ada Health Deploys Its Symptom Assessment & Care Navigation Tech Across Jefferson Health
Ada Health recently announced that Jefferson Health is deploying its technology across its entire enterprise as part of a digital front door initiative. The Berlin-based company’s AI-powered symptom assessment and care navigation tools helps health systems achieve a robust digital front door, which means staff members don’t have to spend as much time triaging patients or helping them navigate the process of finding care.
StartUPDATES: New developments for healthcare startups
Read about news from Seven Bridges, HealthMine, Redi.Health, Xealth, and more.
Jefferson Health, CommonSpirit Health CEOs to retire
CommonSpirit Health CEO Lloyd Dean is retiring next summer, while Jefferson Health CEO Dr. Stephen Klasko will step down at the end of the year. The longtime leaders have led their respective systems through several highs and lows, including the turbulent first 18 months of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The Funding Model for Cancer Innovation is Broken — We Can Fix It
Closing cancer health equity gaps require medical breakthroughs made possible by new funding approaches.
Jefferson Health-backed Tendo Systems gains $50M to digitize patient journey
Tendo Systems, a company that is co-developing a digital engagement platform with provider organizations like Jefferson Health, raised $50 million in a new funding round. The funds will be used to advance the development of the platform, which aims to be the "OpenTable" of healthcare.
Einstein Healthcare Network, Jefferson Health to merge after FTC drops challenge
The Federal Trade Commission is no longer opposing the proposed merger between Einstein Healthcare Network and Jefferson Health. Nearly three years after it was first announced, the deal can now move forward uncontested and will result in an 18-hospital system.
How Jefferson Health is caring for chronic disease patients amid a pandemic
Providing care for chronic disease patients during a one-in-a-century pandemic is full of challenges, but health systems like Jefferson Health are finding ways — with help from technology — to make sure their patients are getting the care they need.
As hospitals ramp up virtual care amid Covid-19, are physicians trained? If not, here’s where to go
Telemedicine tools are now one of the sharpest arrows in our quiver as the nation prepares for a peak in Covid-19 cases but are doctors trained in performing the routine physical exam remotely?
Reducing Clinical and Staff Burnout with AI Automation
As technology advances, AI-powered tools will increasingly reduce the administrative burdens on healthcare providers.
Will telehealth limitations hamper these states’ responses to Covid-19?
As health systems prepare for Covid-19 outbreaks, many are turning to telehealth and triage tools as a first line of defense. How will hospitals with limited telehealth infrastructure prepare?
StartUPDATES: Read about NeuroFlow’s work with Jefferson Health in academic health center collaboration
NeuroFlow has expanded its collaboration with Jefferson Health while Solve.Care inked a partnership with Uber Health and GNS Healthcare closed a new round of funding.
Debate: Is the consumerization trend in healthcare overhyped?
At MedCity INVEST in Chicago, Jefferson Health's Dr. Stephen Klasko argued that we're on the brink of a consumer revolution, while CareMore Health's Dr. Sachin Jain believes we need to move to a system that proactively identifies patients' needs.
Seven more heath systems join Medicaid Transformation Project
The initiative, which aims to pinpoint, develop and scale solutions to assist underserved patient populations, now has a grand total of 24 health system participants.
INVEST 2019 will feature Esther Dyson, a debate between Dr. Stephen Klasko & Dr. Sachin Jain and much more
Influential healthcare executives such as Esther Dyson, angel investor par excellence; Dr. Stephen Klasko, president and CEO of Jefferson Health and Thomas Jefferson University; and Dr. Sachin Jain, president and CEO, CareMore Health will be speaking at INVEST 2019 and sharing their vision.