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This week's newsletter sponsored by: Ambience Healthcare Ambience Healthcare’s AI operating system has been deployed at UCSF, Memorial Hermann Health System, John Muir Health, The Oncology Institute, and Eventus WholeHealth. By partnering with Ambience, health systems reduce documentation time by an average of 78%, improve coding integrity, and achieve at least a 5x ROI. Their suite of AI applications includes: AutoScribe: An AI medical scribe tuned by specialty, including the ED AutoCDI: A...

This week's newsletter sponsored by: Sidebar Being a senior leader in healthcare can be lonely. Growing your career in this space requires making a lot of tradeoffs and placing bets on what you believe will have the most impact, then doubling or tripling down on that. As a result, it can be challenging to find time to grow a network of supportive peers. Sidebar is here to help change that. Their vetting process and matching engine pair you with a small group of supportive peers to lean on for...

This week's newsletter sponsored by: Elation Health Elation Health, whose primary care EHR and billing solution supports companies including Crossover Health and Firefly Health, is committed to supporting and advancing the interests of primary care organizations. Recently, Elation was among the coalition of companies advocating for G2211, Medicare’s new billing code that ensures PCPs are adequately compensated for their investment in longitudinal care for patients. Elation’s commitment to...

This week's newsletter sponsored by: Medallion As care delivery organizations onboard new providers, many organizations must write off new provider revenue for over 60 days due to lengthy enrollment processes. Given providers average nearly $2,000 in revenue per day, that delay can equate to a loss of $120,000 per provider. With Medallion, this doesn’t have to be reality. In their on-demand webinar, credentialing experts from Medallion will share practical strategies for achieving “day one...

This week's newsletter sponsored by: Strike Graph More and more customers are requesting SOC 2 compliance, leaving health tech companies with a critical question: isn’t HIPAA enough? While HIPAA compliance remains mandatory, SOC 2 certification offers a strategic edge and can be achieved simultaneously, saving time and reducing cost. If you’re evaluating compliance strategies, take a look at Strike Graph’s guide, explaining the benefits of aligning HIPAA and SOC 2 compliance efforts. 79% of...

This week's newsletter sponsored by: Candor Health If you’re operating in healthcare, chances are you’re leveraging provider data in some way. Whether you’re navigating referrals, managing provider rosters/networks, hiring clinical talent, or selling to providers, we’ve all experienced the issues that stem from poor provider data. Candor Health processes data from 600+ sources to offer quality, comprehensive provider data and insights via their AI-driven search platform, API, or Flat Files....

This week's newsletter sponsored by: Thoropass As a health tech organization, you know you need to achieve and maintain compliance, but do you know which combination of certifications or attestations makes the most sense for your unique needs? SOC 2, HIPAA, HITRUST, ISO or COSO? The folks at Thoropass have your back. They’ve pulled together a comprehensive resource to help unpack a multi-framework approach, find the right combination for your organization’s needs, and learn how to implement....

This week's newsletter sponsored by: Accorded Value-based specialty care models are the topic of discussion across the HTN community and the broader healthcare industry. Of course, these are complex and ranging care models - from cardiology to oncology to chronic kidney care - each with unique payment structures. To help bring clarity, we’ll be joined by leaders from Accorded and Oshi Health to discuss how Accorded is simplifying value-based contracting for emerging VBC specialty care models...

This week's newsletter sponsored by: Healthie As competitiveness in the startup care delivery landscape increases, the ability to rapidly launch, customize, and scale innovative models is increasingly the distinguishing element between companies, instead of core infrastructure capabilities. With limited resources, many companies are faced with the tradeoffs of ‘build vs buy’. Healthie’s API-first EHR platform makes it possible to achieve the benefits of building and buying at once. Join...

This week's newsletter sponsored by: Elation Health Elation, a unified EHR and billing software system designed to support value-based primary care, in a recent study with the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), found that family physicians with value-based payment models experience less burnout, but making the transition is no joke. When poorly implemented, the study indicated that VBC models have the potential to make physician burnout worse, requiring adequate infrastructure to...