Amazon has been steadily ramping up healthcare initiatives for its workforce this year while placing a distinct emphasis on digital connections and services.
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Telehealth services made available by private commercial health plans throughout the pandemic resulted in a 10-point Net Promoter Score gain in overall member satisfaction, according to consumer insight firm J.D. Power's 2021 U.S. Commercial Member Health Plan Study.
The first quarter of 2021 was digital health's most-funded quarter to date, and investors continued the trend in May by pledging high dollar amounts to technology-driven health startups.
University of California San Francisco teamed up with Phillips May 26 to develop technology to improve healthcare data interoperability and the patient digital experience.
Insurance software developer Majesco announced it will work with Cigna to develop a new digital platform for its supplemental health business.
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The Atlanta-based Morehouse School of Medicine on May 26 launched its Health Equity Tracker, a data platform showing the disparate effects COVID-19 has brought upon people of color and those with a lower socioeconomic status.
Cleveland Clinic is looking to expand its commercialization arm with the addition of a new digital health venture partner who will oversee the health system's innovations and creation of health IT startups.
Over the past year, the number of hospitals and health systems using automation technologies has tripled as organizations look to improve accuracy and reduce costs, according to a recent Healthcare Financial Management Association survey.
Over the past year, health systems have come to fully embrace digital patient engagement.
Intermountain Healthcare, Rush University Medical Center and the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston have joined a study backed by the National Institutes of Health to create an AI-based COVID-19 digital biomarker.