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Today in Healthcare: Paceline Card Links Health to Rewards, Blue Shield Teams With Google, Patient...
October 21, 2021

Today in healthcare, healthcare patients want better experiences, and Hackensack Meridian Health integrates with Google Workspace and Chrome OS devices to enhance patient care. Plus, Blue Shield and Google Cloud are working together on processing claims quicker, while the Paceline Health and Wellness Credit Card...

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Blue Shield of California, Google Cloud Team on Payment Digitization
October 20, 2021

Blue Shield of California is working alongside Google Cloud to debut a way to process payment claims in real time on a cloud platform, a press release says. Announced on Monday (Oct. 18), the release says the companies plan to utilize automated processing, artificial intelligence...

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63% of Patients Will Switch Healthcare Providers if Their Payment Experience Doesn’t Cut It
October 20, 2021

Consumers are used to ease and convenience when they check out online or in-store and “checking out” at the doctors is no different. In fact, PYMNTS data shows that nearly two-thirds of consumers will switch healthcare providers if they don’t get it. Modern patients act...

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Hackensack Meridian Fully Integrates With Google to Drive Patient Care Improvement
October 20, 2021

Hackensack Meridian Health is among the first medical care systems anywhere in the world to take the full leap into integrating with Google Workspace and Chrome OS devices to improve the overall digital ecosystem for patient care. The partnership will also tap Google Cloud services...

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Patients Are Empowered Consumers, and They Expect Personalized Payment Options
October 18, 2021

In “The Way Payments Are Now Done,” 33 payment executives discuss what payments’ “new normal” looks like. Alberto Casellas, EVP and CEO at Synchrony’s health and wellness platform, CareCredit is one of those contributors. He discusses how in the healthcare arena, patients are increasingly expecting...

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Sprinter Health Aims to Solve Healthcare’s Last Mile With On-Demand Lab Tests
October 18, 2021

Every service has a last mile – that final, physical meeting between consumer and provider. We tend to equate the “last-mile” concept with retail, with the delivery vans that move from distribution center to doorstep. But healthcare has its last mile – and its last-mile frictions,...

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Today in Healthcare: UHC and Walgreens Make Digital Advancements, U.K. HC Records at Heart of...
October 15, 2021

Today in healthcare, DeepMind gets hit with class-action lawsuit by U.K. patients. Plus, Walgreens rolls out a healthcare-focused business segment, and UnitedHealth Group reports healthy fiscal growth as it plans to expand. Walgreens Launches New Business Segment Focused on Healthcare  Walgreens now has a business...

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Best Buy to Acquire Current Health to Advance Tech-Focused Patient Care
October 12, 2021

Best Buy has agreed to buy care-at-home technology startup Current Health, according to a press release. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. With the acquisition, the electronics retailer will now own three healthcare companies, CNBC reported. Current Health specializes in integrating remote patient monitoring,...

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Today in Healthcare: Telehealth in Africa, AI vs. Payment Fraud, Transparency and Innovation
October 12, 2021

Today in healthcare, artificial intelligence is taking a bite of the $300 billion in fraud, waste and abuse in healthcare. Plus, the No Surprise Act is bringing transparency and innovation to healthcare payments, and African startups could thrive with telehealth. ‘No Surprise Act’ Could Bring...