Commercial insurers' practices, such as prior authorization and white bagging, are needed to reduce costs for patients, said Kristine Grow, senior vice president of communications at AHIP.
Payers are increasingly leveraging collaborative partnerships to develop AI models designed to improve early intervention for high risk patients. Health insurers are also interested in collaborating with providers to expand virtual care to not only provide more flexibility to members, but to also provide more effective platforms for triaging patients when they need care.
As part of itsEnvision U.S. Healthcare Summit, Microsoft conducted interviews with executives at Aetna CVS Health and Humana to highlight some of the ways these companies are adapting to consumerization of healthcare.
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By Stephanie Baum Wednesday, August 10, 2022 7:30 AM
In a recent webinar, Carta Healthcare CEO Matt Hollingsworth shared how his health tech business is using AI for data mining in healthcare to transform the patient experience.
Atropos Health, a startup spun out of Stanford University that provides point-of-care physician consults, recently raised $14 million in Series A funding. The company will use the money to further develop the oncology consult product it is building with ASCO, as well as grow its commercial team.
By Marissa Plescia Tuesday, August 9, 2022 4:49 PM
With the expansion, pending CMS approval, Long Beach, California-based SCAN will reach nearly 7 million potential customers across four states, including California and Arizona.
The Penn Medicine-Wharton Fund for Health, Penn's venture fund focused on social determinants of health, recently announced investments in its fifth and sixth companies. The fund invested in two Philadelphia-based startups, Fabric Health and Stimulus, bringing its total amount of invested capital to $1.35 million.
The trifecta of increasing consumerism, staff burnout, and deferred care is a fundamental and new challenge that every healthcare provider in the country must overcome. The solution needs to start at the very start of the care journey when patients are still formulating an opinion of their provider and the care they are likely to receive.
Merck is paying $25 million to kick off a research partnership with Cerevance, a startup that analyzes donor brain tissue to find novel targets for new neurological disorder drugs. While Cerevance's lead program is a Parkinson's disease drug, Merck is wants to see if the startup's technology can help it discover and develop new Alzheimer's disease drugs.
With cyber attacks on a steady incline, something needs to be done so that similar fates can be avoided and patient trust can be prioritized. There are four key best practices that, with the right data access technology in place, can protect healthcare companies from hacks and attacks
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