Digital health content and services provider WebMD announced it has acquired technology and data analytics company Mercury Healthcare from private equity firm Vestar Capital Partners for an undisclosed sum.
Through the deal, Mercury will join WebMD Provider, the company’s business focused on consumer-physician engagement and clinical education. Mercury's analytics solutions are geared towards...
The use of telehealth to provide services for patients with severe mental illness (SMI) shows promise, but does not necessarily improve rates of intake for medication. It remains unclear whether an expansion of these services would improve quality of care.
These were among the results of a cohort study published in JAMA Network Open on June 27 that included 118,670 patients with schizophrenia or...
The widespread use of various smartphone apps launched during the COVID-19 pandemic, most notably contact-tracing applications, can be seen as a positive development.However, more research must be done to determine how these technologies can be refined for future use cases.
This was the key conclusion of a review paper published in Nature Biotechnology, whose authors said that, despite patient...
The adoption of a unified framework for the prediction of patient length of stay (LoS) could provide more reliable estimates of the LoS and lead to improvements in patient care, increased service efficiency and more closely controlled hospital costs.
These were the results of a study published in PLOS, which examined 93 studies from 1970 to 2019 to identify efforts to predict and reduce the LoS...
Studies using mobile health applications are hampered by significantly high participant dropout rates, although retention strategies can help maintain participant engagement, according to a study published in JMIR.
The adoption of mobile health (mHealth) apps has been increasing in the research sphere, and researchers have been able to monitor day-to-day fluctuations of a wide range of real-time...
Rey, an Austin, Texas-based mental health and wellness startup integrating immersive tools and digital interventions with teletherapy, announced the debut of its virtual mental wellness platform.
The platform, which is powered by OxfordVR, a spin-out of Oxford University, will initially be available across Texas with a road map to reach the rest of the U.S. in 2022. The initial pricing starts at...
Healthcare systems are increasingly turning to automated revenue cycle solutions, with nearly eight in 10 (78%) health systems currently using or in the process of deploying automation in their revenue cycle operations.
That's according to a survey conducted through the Healthcare Financial Management Association’s (HFMA) Pulse Survey program. The results were based on responses from nearly 400...
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