Consumer health management platform Welltok and HealthFitness, a provider of health management and corporate fitness solutions are collaborating on a multi-year strategy to bring an enhanced platform to HealthFitness’ clients and their program participants. The mutually beneficial partnership enables both companies to create more value for clients by integrating complementary capabilities to engage more individuals in sustainable healthy behaviors.
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Medtronic, Samsung Expand Alliance to Develop Solutions for Neuromodulation Patients
Medtronic, the global leader in medical technology and Samsung today announced a broad-based strategic alliance to accelerate the development of digital health solutions for the millions of people suffering from chronic pain, movement disorders, incontinence, and other conditions who could benefit from neuromodulation therapy.
The alliance will leverage Samsung's deep understanding of consumer technology and mobility to develop advanced tools, based on the Android operating system,
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Ascension Pumps $200M in Accretive Health: 6 Things to Know
Accretive Health and Ascension, faith-based healthcare organization have announced a long-term strategic partnership to renew, revise and expand their existing services agreement for a 10-year term. As part of the agreement, Ascension will serve as Accretive Health's sole revenue cycle provider to cover all of Ascension’s net patient revenue (NPR).
In addition, a newly formed investment vehicle owned by Ascension and TowerBrook Capital Partners has entered into a definitive agreement under
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TCS, Vanderbilt Partner to Fight Genetic Diseases
While an overabundance of health information can sometimes be controversial like in the case of the recent shift around early and aggressive universal breast cancer testing – for those with predispositions to genetic diseases, no amount of information seems to be enough. Predictive testing is quite possibly the most important defense against elusive and devastating diseases like Alzheimer’s, Cystic Fibrosis, Huntington’s Disease and many more.
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), as part of a
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IBM, Nutrino Unveils Watson-Powered Nutrition App for Expectant Moms-to-Be
IBM Watson Health today announced that it is partnering with Nutrino to offer a first-of-its-kind, Watson-powered nutrition app for expectant mothers-to-be. The Nutrino App combines Nutrino’s nutrition insights platform with Watson’s natural language capability and deep question and answer capability to offer personalized meal recommendations and 24/7 nutritional support.
The National Institutes of Health estimate that in the U.S. nearly four million women have babies each year. According to
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Express Scripts Commits $25M for Healthcare Innovation
Lewis & Clark Ventures, a Midwest-based venture capital firm, announced a $25 million multi-year commitment from Express Scripts to help source and support early stage healthcare innovation. The capital will supplement the company’s ongoing efforts to innovate smarter pharmacy solutions that deliver better outcomes for patients.
Lewis & Clark Ventures plans to fund between $3 to $7 million into companies that demonstrate disruptive innovation and are generating revenue. Lewis &
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Why Shared Care Plans Is the Future of Care Coordination
A recent study of healthcare organizations showed that most are not prepared to deliver standardized longitudinal care across multiple provider systems. Shared care plans will be the centerpiece of coordinated care delivery, incentivized by the move from fee-for-service to value-based care. In 2015, Medicare unveiled its plan to transition to quality-based payments via the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS), which will sunset and subsume earlier quality-encouraging programs, and move
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Adventist Health To Implement athenahealth’s EHR To Support 1,600 Physicians
Faith-based health care organization Adventist Health System has selected athenahealth's EHR solution to support 1,600 of its employed physicians. This partnership is designed to support Adventist Health System’s goal for its employed physician practice operations to rank nationally at the top quartile or higher.
“After an extensive evaluation that included stakeholders from clinical, operations, technology and other areas across our system, Adventist Health System selected
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Teladoc’s CEO Talks What Telehealth Means for the Future of Healthcare
What if access to quality healthcare services was just a click, tap, or phone call away? That was the premise that telehealth services were founded on. But beyond the appeal and consumer convenience, telehealth stands to create efficiencies for healthcare systems that are desperately in need of it.
Telehealth isn’t just about taking healthcare to the future—it’s about creating a better future for the patients and providers than can benefit from its use, especially in the wake of the
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DirectTrust: Meaningful Use Stage 3 Faces Bumpy Road in 2016
Meaningful Use Stage 3 faces a potentially uncertain future in 2016 and 2017, according to predictions from healthcare industry alliance DirectTrust. The nonprofit alliance states that MU program has alienated almost the entire provider community by overreaching for the final, Stage 3 version of its regulations.
Additionally, providers are particularly worried because the requirements of Stage 3 MU do not align well with MIPS and MACRA, the new rules under which Medicare will
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