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Plastiq | December 09, 2021

Plastiq, the smart payments platform that enables businesses to better manage payments and cash flow, and PayGround, a patient payment app that allows payment to any medical provider, announced its strategic partnership to provide patients with an integrated solution to manage and pay all of their healthcare bills in one app. Plastiq Connect APIs enable PayGround to seamlessly integrate Plastiq's payments capabilities into its mobile app, allowing patients to create their PayGround Digita...

Humana, NQF | April 22, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic is putting a spotlight on why it’s critical for population-based models to consider the impacts of patients’ social needs, experts say. William Shrank, M.D., chief medical officer at Humana, and Shantanu Agrawal, M.D., CEO of the National Quality Forum, co-authored an analysis this week that argues social risks should be weighed alongside clinical risks in population-based payment models. Shrank said that the coronavirus pandemic is further highlighting the impa...

Medcity News | April 13, 2020

Apple and Google revealed on Friday that the two tech rivals are collaborating to launch a contact-tracing app for Covid-19. The system would use a Bluetooth signal that would bounce between users’ mobile phones to trace who they had been in contact with recently. If that person disclosed they had been diagnosed with Covid-19, everyone they had been in contact with would receive an alert.Contact tracing, or the process of tracing down people that might have come into someone who had ...

Health Technology

Change Healthcare | April 26, 2021

Change Healthcare today announced the release of InterQual® 2021, the newest version of the company's flagship clinical decision support solution. The latest version includes four new Medicare criteria modules, as well as a slew of evidence-based content upgrades and improvements, such as fresh guidelines on caring for COVID-19 patients, discussing social determinants of health, and using telehea...