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OHSU to Become First Health System in Oregon to Implement Kyruus ProviderMatch®
Kyruus, a leader in providing search and scheduling solutions for health systems, announced that OHSU in Portland, Oregon, a nationally distinguished research organization, will use the Kyruus ProviderMatch® platform to enhance patient access to providers and services across the OHSU health system. OHSU is building a...
Do you forget your passwords? Imagine what it’s like being me, says BONNIE ESTRIDGE in her latest despatch on life with Alzheimer’s
Health and lifestyle journalist Bonnie Estridge has been a reporter all of her adult life, and that hasn’t stopped since she was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. In a recent article she wrote for London’s Daily Mail, she lamented that tasks like remembering passwords have gone from difficult to impossible since...
Walgreens offers new tool for chronic care management
Walgreens is expanding the services available on its Walgreens Find Care digital platform to include chronic care management. The company is now offering connected devices and digital therapeutic solutions for asthma and COPD management from Propeller Health, and diabetes management from Dexcom on the platform. Since...
5 hospital marketing trends to watch: data personalization, chatbots & more
Health systems are transitioning toward a value-based model of care, and so too must their marketing. Rather than just highlighting available services, health system marketers must also promote improved patient outcomes. Here, according to Evariant, are five data-driven, digitally minded trends that will help...
How digital health apps are leading the fight against diabetes
Chronic conditions like diabetes require constant monitoring between regularly scheduled doctor visits. Livongo, the first digital health company to go public after a years-long drought, is hoping to prove that technology can help better manage costly chronic illnesses. The platform analyzes data to build a picture...
How artificial intelligence can detect hidden diseases
As the field of medicine advances, new connections leading to the diagnosis of rare illnesses are being made. Komodo Health’s artificial intelligence algorithms are sifting through a decade of data about health conditions across several hundred million Americans, many scenarios that once were the stuff of imagination...
9 Digital Health Startups that Could Join the IPO Wave
Large companies like Lyft, Pinterest, and Uber have made big-splash IPOs in 2019, and Slack and Airbnb are expected to join them. But behind the headline-making companies is a wave of digital health startups that have been transforming the health industry for close to a decade or more—and they are either announcing...
On Amazon Prime Day, What Could Health Care Look Like?
Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, author of the book HealthConsuming, recently wrote on the Health Populi website about how we could “Amazon-ize” health care to increase its benefit to consumers. In the U.S., patients have been morphing into health care consumers—a trend that has been accelerated by the growth of high-deductible...
AI for all that ails American health care. But how smart is that?
Health technology investment and research company Rock Health reports that from 2011 to 2017, 121 digital health companies earned $2.7 billion in venture funding to apply artificial intelligence (AI) to 19 areas ranging from drug research and development to clinical-decision support to health benefits administration....
Adam Boehler, Who Championed Value-Based Care, to Leave HHS
Adam Boehler has stepped down from his position as head of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation to take a position in the world of foreign aid. In addition to his CMMI role, Boehler served as a senior advisor to Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar on value-based care. The idea behind value-based...
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SHYFT Analytics Appoints Joseph Tyers to Chief Revenue Officer
Leading cloud analytics company SHYFT announced today that Joseph Tyers will be its new Chief Revenue Officer. Tyers’ previous experience as Senior Vice President of Sales, Value Management and Commercial Operations at Medidata will provide SHYFT with a wealth of...
Piedmont Healthcare Selects Kyruus’ Suite of Patient-Provider Matching Solutions
Piedmont Healthcare, a nonprofit healthcare organization located in Georgia that serves nearly two million people, has selected Kyruus’ ProviderMatch™ Product Suite to make its system more user-friendly and accessible to patients. Piedmont Healthcare, which operates a...
Saint Thomas Health Offers Virtual Care Clinic Anytime, Anywhere in Tennessee
Saint Thomas Health has partnered with telemedicine company Carena to offer virtual health care that is accessible and affordable for everyone. The newly introduced service—called Saint Thomas Health On Demand—is available 24/7. A flat fee of $49 allows patients to...
Physician Productivity Startup Augmedix Secures $23 Million
Augmedix, a leader in smartglass-based physician productivity platforms, has announced its recent acquisition of $23 million in funding from McKesson Ventures and OrbiMed. Augmedix’s services are based on the idea of increasing the amount of time physicians have to...
UAB Medicine Selects Kyruus for Patient-Provider Matching and Provider Data Management
On Monday, Kyruus added UAB Medicine to its long list of prestigious clientele. UAB Medicine, one of the largest academic medical centers in the U.S., will be implementing two new programs designed by Kyruus. The first program, called ProviderMatchTM for Access...