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Epic increases hospital market share lead, Optum laying off 129, closing Ohio facility + more · Becker’s Healthcare Digital Health + Health IT

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  This is Naomi Diaz with the Becker digital
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  health podcast.
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  Here's your daily industry news briefing for today,
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  May twentieth.
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  First,
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  The Fda has given Elon Musk Newer link,
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  the green light to implant its brain chip
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  into a second person. The Wall Street Journal
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  reported May twentieth
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  Their approval comes a few weeks after the
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  first patient experienced issues with the implant.
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  The company has proposed fixes to the issue,
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  including implant the device threads 8 millimeters into
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  the brain's motor cortex,
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  compared to the 3 to 5 millimeters
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  implanted into the first patient.
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  In March, Ne link introduced 29 year old
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  Nolan Bra as the first patient to have
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  received its brain chip implant. The neuro technology
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  company posted a video on mister Mu x
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  platform,
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  showing the patient who was left paralyzed after
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  a diving accident in 20 16,
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  playing chess on a computer, directing a cursor
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  to play the game by by thinking.
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  It may the company said that a number
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  of threads on the implant retracted from the
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  patient's brain causing the implant to lose part
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  of its functionality.
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  New hopes to implant a second patient sometime
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  in June and aims to implant 10 people
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  with a device this year.
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  Second,
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  Opt is closing a change healthcare facility in
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  toledo, Ohio, resulting in the termination of a
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  hundred and 29 employees located in Ohio or
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  working remotely.
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  The layoffs will occur in 3 waves from
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  July fifteenth to September 6, according to regulatory
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  documents filed with the Date on May sixteenth.
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  The 93000
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  square foot facility is located at a hundred
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  North Bran Road in Toledo, date In April
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  formal employees with Opt and its subsidiaries subsidiaries
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  took to social media, regarding a reduction in
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  force, they say occurred across the company.
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  Opt declined to provide more information about the
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  layoffs at that time, and it is unclear
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  if they are connected to the Toledo layoffs.
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  Opt also laid off an unknown number of
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  employees in August.
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  Affected facilities include the everett clinic and the
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  Poly clinic in Seattle.
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  And Med Express urgent Claire K as well
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  as well met.
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  Third.
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  Epic was the only Ehr vendor to experience
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  a net market share increase in 20 23,
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  according to a May seventeenth class research report.
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  Abbott picked up a hundred and 53 acute
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  multi special hospitals and 28788
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  beds last year, the analysis found.
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  77 hospital winds came from 3 health systems
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  switching to Epic.
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  The company now covers over half of acute
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  multi specialty hospital beds in the Us.
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  According to the report, quote, both current and
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  prospective large organization customers are drawn to Epic
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  because they see the vendor as a consistently
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  high performer that provides strong healthcare It, quality
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  relationships and the opportunity to streamline workflows and
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  improve clinician satisfaction.
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  Large specialty organizations have all turned to epic
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  to consolidate It systems and, quote.
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  Here was the acute care Ehr market share
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  in 20 23 per the report.
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  Percentage of hospitals, Epic stands at 39.1
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  percent. Oracle health stands at 23.4
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  percent, and meta tech stands at 16 percent.
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