America should be a global leader in healthcare. Instead, we rank last among our peers, and outmoded regulations are holding us back. 

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Executives at the ViVE Payer Insights event earlier this year discussed prior authorization, AI, value-based care and the role of tech to help achieve their goals.

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The conference is the premier boutique healthcare investment event in the U.S. and is scheduled for May 21-22 in Chicago at the Ritz Carlton hotel.

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A new eBook from HLTH and MedCity News captures how health insurers and their partners are using health tech to improve the patient experience, hea

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Check out news from Alpha Sophia, Handl Health, Alaffia Health, and Summer Health

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Former U.S. CTO Aneesh Chopra will moderate a webinar on April 16 at 1pm ET on eConsent and interoperability with DocuSign, Velatura, Mid-State Health Network and Southwest Michigan Behavioral Health.

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The MedCity INVEST conference is scheduled for May 21-22 at the Ritz Carlton hotel in Chicago. In addition to panel discussions around some of the hottest topics in healthcare transformation, there is also a startup pitch contest, a presentation on government funding for startups and networking opportunities.

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Here is a list of some of the biggest funding rounds in the payer/employer space that were announced this month.

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A new EY survey found that while 86% of health executives say that digital health solutions have the potential to reduce costs, 70% said they haven’t seen a return on investment so far.

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Equal parts networking and curated panels covering the latest trends in healthcare investment, MedCity INVEST 2024 is the ideal event to discuss health tech, biopharma, devices and diagnostics investment opportunities. Register today!

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Check out news from Health Wildcatters, Rivia Health, Apella, and more.

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Check out news from Alpha Sophia, Wisedocs, Swift Medical, and Isaac Health.

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A preview of ViVE 2024 offers a sneak peek at the agenda and how the Payer and Provider Connect meeting platform initiatives have been revamped to maximize the quantity and quality of meeting for healthcare executives.

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Each track will spotlight a different specialty area including: oncology, cardiology, women’s health and preventing burnout/supporting operational efficiency.

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Check out news from Kismet Health, the University of California at Berkeley’s life science startups, and the companies presenting at the Consumer Technology Association’s pitch contest at CES.

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In a recent webinar, Dr. Christopher Newman of Mary Washington Healthcare discussed how utilizing the principles of informed awareness has transformed staff experience and facilitated a more productive, efficient, and engaged workforce.

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MedKitDoc Founder Dorian Koch shared the journey of the startup, which wants to transform the way patients receive healthcare.

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Check out news from Harmony Health Foundation, Gratia Health, Pathway, Fortuna Health, and more.

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OmniLife Health’s initial focus with its complex care coordination platform is organ transplant care.

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HealthBook+ provides a way for individuals to aggregate and use their personal health information safely and securely to power AI engines that direct people to their next best health action. Importantly, it also gives employers predictive insights to help them provide the most relevant benefits for their employees.

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In the second part of the Heard at HLTH series, executives from BrightInsight, Iodine Software, Intelligent Medical Objects, Carrum Health, Clarify Health and Trayt Health shared new developments across their businesses and perspectives on value-based care at the HLTH 2023 event.

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The FDA’s digital health advisory committee will discuss technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning, virtual reality, and digital therapeutics as well as topics like decentralized clinical trials and patient-generated health data. Committee member nominations are due in December.

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Health tech to support care for seniors and track the progression of conditions such as Parkinson’s disease and heart failure were on display at HLTH 2023. The National Institute on Aging also added a startup boot camp leading up to HLTH.

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At HLTH, Bessemer investors Sofia Guerra and Steve Kraus detailed four predictions about where they think the digital health world is headed in 2024. One of these was that “services-as-software” will emerge as a new category of healthcare AI. Another was that some healthcare technology vendors will have to rethink their distribution models and rely on indirect monetization strategies.

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HLTH 2023 introduced a new program focused on technology trends for and perspectives from payers in a series of conversations around AI, health equity and healthcare innovation.

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The report maps out the health tech sector’s current position in the innovation hype cycle, which business models are most resilient, and how the industry can move out of the trough of disillusionment. It also offered predictions for health tech trends in 2024.

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Investment trends will be a big theme at the HLTH event at the Las Vegas Convention Center October 8-11. In the runup to the conference, investors from Bessemer Venture Partners, Cleveland Clinic Innovations, Third Culture Capital and Intuitive Ventures offered their takes on 2023 investments.

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By leveraging technology and strategies used within the gig economy—and even tapping into the talent pool of gig workers themselves—healthcare organizations can address staffing shortages, retain and motivate more workers, and ultimately deliver better patient care.

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The Peterson Health Technology Institute will function as an “independent evaluator” of digital health solutions. It will analyze solutions’ clinical effectiveness, how they’re affecting healthcare costs, their ability to improve health equity, and their privacy and security capabilities. 

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Health tech experts explained the nuances of healthcare data management and ways in which patient data can be cleaned, converted, standardized and harmonized across systems

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