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Here We Go Again: The Historic Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 – Are You Ready for January 1, 2022?
Jun 30th, 2021On December 27, 2020, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 was signed into Law. As the enactment timing was during the holiday season, the Act could be compared to a fruitcake; you may want to avoid it because of the suspect dried fruit, but yet the yummy spirits-soaked cake pulls you in. Referred to as the fifth longest […]
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Optimize Operations: Lasting Transformation Beyond the C-Suite
May 26th, 2021“Move fast and break things” has never been healthcare’s motto. Pandemic pressure forced innovators, enterprises and investors to transform and reshape discovery, care delivery and whole-system approaches to improving one’s well-being faster than ever to meet consumer and business needs during a pivotal moment in time. As the pace of disruption accelerated, payers and providers […]
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Transform Care: Why Healthcare is Just Getting Started
Apr 28th, 2021The urgency of COVID-19 proved that the notoriously slow healthcare industry can swiftly remodel outdated ways of working to usher in change. With this newfound momentum, we’re finding that speed to market is becoming the priority as the red tape is being stripped away, and bureaucracy is bringing digital triage, virtual care and new patient-facing […]
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Want Your Health App To Succeed? Consider These 8 Behavior-Change Design Tips
Apr 15th, 2021If you want your health app to flourish, keep these tips in mind. These techniques have an important goal. They’ll get people to use your app for a long period of time. And that’s important when users are trying to achieve results in their health journeys. We recently examined a few reasons why so many digital […]
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Design-Led Engineering
Why Digital Health Apps Fail And What You Can Do About It
Apr 8th, 2021The global mobile medical app market is exploding. It was worth $4.2 billion in 2020. In 2027, that number is expected to reach $20.7 billion. Even with all that growth, many digital health apps aren’t effective at creating positive health outcomes in the lives of people. Here’s why. The digital health industry is booming, but […]
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Emids Acquires Quovantis Technologies in Latest Expansion of Human-Centered, Design-Led Product Development and Software Engineering Capabilities
Apr 8th, 2021NASHVILLE, Tenn. (April 8, 2021) – emids, a leader in digital engineering and transformation solutions to the healthcare and life sciences industry, today announced the acquisition of Quovantis Technologies.
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Engage Consumer: A New Foundation to Break the Mold
Apr 1st, 2021A decade ago, digital transformation in healthcare was focused on product features and large-scale transformation was often cost-prohibitive. Ideas were solved as engineering problems with technology tacked on, leading to wasteful spending and frequently failed initiatives. However, over the past two decades, growing consumerism and advances in technology have necessitated a shift in the status […]
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Accelerate Insights: Creating a Data-Driven Organization
Feb 23rd, 2021To deliver context-aware, technology-enabled healthcare in 2021, organizations must accelerate insights by establishing and implementing processes, tools and technologies to enable shared understanding of data and the information lifecycle. Transforming data into knowledge that can guide strategic decision making and help drive data as an enterprise-wide asset. Data will be the differentiator as we move from […]
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A Review of 2020 Rules Affecting 2021
Feb 9th, 2021In 2020, due to the public health emergency (PHE), the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) released several rules and provisions that relaxed the compliance and enforcement dates for regulatory requirements. As we head into 2021, and with the continuation of the PHE, we are providing you with a recap of the CMS rules and […]
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The Outlook for Digital Transformation – What 2020 Taught Us
Feb 3rd, 2021In the ever-evolving healthcare environment, change is always on the horizon. So how can companies stay ahead of the curve? 2020 brought seismic changes that left observers with few words but “unprecedented” to describe the movements that shifted many aspects of everyday life for a majority of the populace. The urgency of the pandemic accelerated […]
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Healthcare from Everywhere
Feb 3rd, 2021Delivering context-aware, technology-enabled healthcare in 2021 2020 brought seismic changes that left observers with few words but “unprecedented” to describe the movements that shifted many aspects of everyday life for a majority of the populace. The global pandemic birthed a global demand — an expectation, even — for context-aware, technology-enabled healthcare when and where people […]
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Emids Acquires Canadian Design-Led Software Engineering Firm Macadamian
Jan 28th, 2021NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Jan. 28, 2021) – Emids, a leader in digital engineering and transformation solutions to the healthcare and life sciences industry, today announced another step in its purposeful growth strategy, this time adding global design-led software engineering capabilities through the acquisition of Macadamian, one of the largest and most respected healthcare specialist firms of […]