AI-powered customer engagement company Qualtrics has agreed to acquire healthcare market research firm Press Ganey for $6.75 billion, the Financial Times reported Oct. 6. Press Ganey, currently owned by investor Ares Management and private equity firm Leonard Green & Partners,…
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When patients in Colorado’s remote Yampa Valley needed to see a specialist, the trip often meant a daylong journey to Denver: hours on the road, time off work, child care arrangements and the cost of gas. Now, they can log…
Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic launched Mayo Clinic Platform_Orchestrate, a program aimed at helping biopharma and medical device companies accelerate clinical development. The program offers collaborators access to Mayo Clinic’s de-identified clinical data, advanced AI tools, physician-scientist expertise and international partner…
Hospitals are investing heavily in artificial intelligence, digital assistants and new documentation tools. Yet the success of these innovations does not hinge on the software itself. It depends on whether frontline clinicians believe in them — and more often than…
Health systems have had to scramble to discharge or move their hospital-at-home patients as CMS reimbursement for the program lapsed with the federal government shutdown. Healthcare organizations approved for the CMS waiver to provide acute hospital care at home had…
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Renton, Wash.-based Providence and Compassus have expanded their joint venture to provide home health, hospice, palliative and personal care services in California, creating a network of 19 locations across the state. The new entity will operate as Providence at Home…
Houston Methodist has partnered with Rice University to launch a three-year program aimed at expanding Texas’ digital health workforce. The initiative is supported by an approximately $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation and will run from Oct. 1…
A remote digital care program helped heart failure patients improve their medication compliance, according to a new study by Durham, N.C.-based Duke Health. In the clinical trial, 178 patients across seven health systems used blood pressure cuffs and scales connected…
Health systems continue to partner with Big Tech on AI and digital health projects. Here are 11 collaborations Becker’s reported on in the past month: 1. Cleveland Clinic is opening two practices with Amazon One Medical to continue expanding primary…
Los Gatos, Calif.-based AmplifyMD raised $20 million in a series B funding round to expand its AI-enabled virtual care platform. The funding round was led by Forerunner Ventures and included F-Prime, Greylock, Tau Ventures and Memorial Hermann Health System, according…