What You Should Know:
- Intraprise Health acquires HIPAA One to create comprehensive integrated security risk management and compliance platform for healthcare.
Intraprise Health, a provider of cybersecurity services and solutions and the Protect™ risk management software platform, today announced that it has acquired HIPAA One, a provider of HIPAA compliance automation software. The merger allows Intraprise Health to offer an integrated set of cybersecurity and
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Cone Health Transforms Maternity Campus into COVID-19 Only Hospital in 28 Days
What You Should Know:
- Cone Health transforms its maternity campus into North
Carolina’s first designated COVID-19 hospital in 28 days.
Cone Health transformed
its former women’s health campus into a designated COVID-19
hospital in 28 days. Using teamwork and technology, the Cone Health Green Valley campus
in Greensboro, North Carolina became the area’s first specialized COVID-19
hospital, boasting the latest development in coronavirus
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DaVita & RenalytixAI Partner for Early Risk Identification to Help Slow Kidney Disease Progression
What You Should Know:
- RenalytixAI and DaVita announce a program partnership that
aims to slow kidney disease progression and improve outcomes for the nation’s
estimated 37 million adults with chronic kidney disease (CKD).
- This is the first clinical-grade program that delivers
advanced early-stage prognosis and risk stratification, combined with
actionable care management to the primary care level where the majority of
kidney disease patients are being seen.
- The program will use
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UCHealth Taps Conversa Health to Track COVID-19 Vaccine Effects on Frontline Healthcare Workers
What You Should Know:
- Conversa Health's COVID-19 programs now include patient monitoring pre- and post-vaccination, education on vaccines, and appointment reminders.
- Healthcare workers at UCHealth in Colorado are
receiving 24/7 monitoring of vital signs two days before and seven days after
receiving their vaccinations courtesy of Conversa Health.
Conversa Health, a Portland, OR-based automated virtual care and triage platform, has expanded its suite of COVID-19 programs with
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5 Post-Acute Care Industry Trends to Watch in 2021
What You Should Know:
- Healthcare technology company Forcura names the five
most significant trends for the post-acute care industry in 2021.
The post-acute care (PAC) sector saw some of its most
profound challenges this year, from deadly COVID-19
outbreaks in skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) to a suddenly accelerated need
for the services provided by home health and hospice. The biggest question now
is that what does the post-acute care future hold for all of us?
Forcura, a
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Regence, MultiCare Health System to Deploy HL7 Da Vinci Member Attribution List for Value-Based Care Arrangements
What You Should Know:
- Regence and MultiCare ink first-in-the-nation value-based
care partnership to deliver improved health outcomes at lower costs.
Health insurance provider Regence
and MultiCare Health System,
an independent accountable
care organization (ACO) have partnered to deploy a first-in-the-nation value-based model
that delivers better health outcomes to members at lower costs while
simplifying administration for health care providers. Regence serves
approximately 3.1
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Virginia Gov Announces $10M in CARES Act Funding to Create Statewide Coordinated Care Network
What You Should Know:
- The governor of Virginia announced that the state
will allocate $10 million from the federal CARES Act to
implement a statewide integrated technology platform, Unite Virginia designed
to connect vulnerable Virginians to crucial health and social services.
- Unite Virginia will utilize the Unite Us platform to create
a statewide coordinated care network to help government
agencies,
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Amazon, CVS Health, Thermo Fisher Scientific Form Alliance for Employer-based COVID-19 Testing
What You Should Know:
- Amazon, CVS Health, Thermo Fisher Scientific join forces to
promote employer-based testing As part of a comprehensive COVID-19 testing strategy.
- The coalition, named Workplace Employers Alliance for
COVID-19 Testing (WE ACT), believes
that employer-based testing programs are essential to keeping employees safe
during the current public health emergency.
- WE ACT aims to
advance a comprehensive national testing strategy that includes clear guidance
for the
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Humana Taps Vida Health to Power Virtual Diabetes Management for Kentucky’s Medicaid Population
What You Should Know:
- Humana Healthy Horizons™ in Kentucky announced it has selected Vida Health’s virtual diabetes management program to serve Kentucky’s Medicaid population.
- Vida’s diabetes management program
achieves lasting results for participants. Because chronic conditions like diabetes,
obesity, and hypertension often occur simultaneously, Vida’s unique program was
built from the ground up to treat multiple conditions at the same time.
- The new partnership, which will
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DoD Awards $2.8M to Philips & BioIntelliSense to Validate Wearable for Early COVID-19 Detection
What You Should Know:
- Philips and BioIntelliSense has been selected by the
U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command (USAMRDC) to receive nearly $2.8M
from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) to validate BioIntelliSense’s
FDA-cleared BioSticker device for the early detection of COVID-19 symptoms.
- Working with the University of Colorado Anschutz
Medical Campus, the clinical study will consist of 2,500 eligible participants
with a recent, known COVID-19 exposure and/or a
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