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Khue Tran, chief strategy officer at Azalea Health, shares how the company's products for rural health systems, including EHR and practice management software, RCM automation and touchless charting, drive efficiencies and boost reimbursement rates.
Carolyn Metnick, partner and Healthcare and Privacy & Cybersecurity team member at Sheppard Mullin, recommends that healthcare organizations follow basics such as following HIPAA security rule compliance and doing a security risk analysis.
Payments and revenue cycle-management company Sift Healthcare, nursing-scheduling and management platform In-House Health, and analytics and risk-stratification company OptMyCare also secured funding.
Clover Health reports first-time profitability on an adjusted EBITDA basis in the first quarter.
The company notified the SEC of a data breach after discovering an unauthorized party stole consumers' sensitive information, including patient health data.
Dr. Hunter Cherwek, VP of clinical services and technologies at Orbis International, highlights the VR experience Orbis and FundamentalVR co-created to help students in low- and middle-income countries learn to perform surgery for cataracts.
The quarter marks the first time the company reported profitability on an adjusted EBITDA basis.
Increasing yield and reducing cost to collect are among the reasons hospitals outsource their RCM, says Ensemble Health Partners CTO Grant Veazy.
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Dr. Olga Kagan, consortial faculty and associate adjunct professor at CUNY School of Professional Studies and 2024 HIMSS Changemaker award recipient, believes nursing schools' greatest challenge is preparing nurses to master rapidly evolving technology.
The company, which tailors cybersecurity offerings to health systems and providers, also appointed its first chief executive officer, Geyer Jones.