What You Should Know:
- Fresenius Kidney Care, the dialysis services
division of Fresenius Medical Care North America, rolled out CommonWell health
data exchange services to its dialysis facilities nationwide.
- This initiative is a significant stride towards better-coordinated care for patients requiring life-sustaining dialysis for kidney failure and will enable the real-time exchange of critical patient health information--allowing healthcare providers to access the most
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Nebula Gives Users Ownership Of Their Personal Genomic Data with Oasis Integration
What You Should Know:
- Nebula Genomics announces integration with Oasis Labs to give its customers full ownership and control of the data received from their comprehensive genome sequencing tests.
- Through Oasis Labs’ unique privacy solution Parcel, Nebula’s
users will be able to retain ownership and control of their personal genomic data.
Data remains confidential, and users can grant access to their data for
specific use cases such as generation of reports offered by Nebula or
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Molina Healthcare Acquires Affinity Health Plan for $380M
What You Should Know:
- Molina Healthcare acquires New York-based Medicaid managed care organization Affinity Health Plan for $330M in cash serving members in New York City, Westchester, Orange, Nassau, Suffolk, and Rockland counties.
- As of August 31, 2020, Affinity served approximately 284,000 Medicaid members. Affinity’s premium revenue for the trailing twelve months ended July 31, 2020, was approximately $1.3 billion.
- The net purchase price of approximately $380 million
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Independence Blue Cross, Signify Launches Social Determinants of Health Network in Philly
What You Should Know:
- Independence Blue Cross and Signify Health launches
social determinants of health network, CommunityLink to connect data from multiple
CBOs to integrate social directly into medical care in the Philadelphia area.
- CommunityLink represents one of the first examples
nationwide of combining in-home health with social care.
Independence Blue Cross
(Independence) and Signify Health
announce the launch of CommunityLink™, a social
determinants of health (SDoH)
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Anthem Expands Relationship with doc.ai to Power Digital Health Offerings
What You Should Know:
- Anthem extends the use of doc.ai's platform and portfolio of privacy-first technologies and artificial intelligence software services to drive the personalization of Anthem’s digital assets and create improved value for users.
- doc.ai’s product offerings are deployed on its cloud-agnostic and zero-trust infrastructure that lets clients like Anthem launch products faster and at lower costs.
Anthem, today announced it is extending its partnership with doc.ai,
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HHS Launches Initiative to Measure Office-Based Physician Use and Burdens of Health IT
What You Should Know:
- HHS launches an initiative to measure how office-based
physicians use health IT, including key measures on interoperability and
burden.
- ONC awards a three-year cooperative agreement to the American Board of Family Medicine to develop key measures related to health IT use and the interoperability of health information, etc.
Today, the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) launched an initiative to
measure health
information technology (health
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Rambam Opens Largest Underground COVID-19 Facility in Israel
What You Should Know:
- Rambam opens the largest COVID-19 facility in Israel for COVID-19 patients hospitalized in a fortified underground emergency hospital.
Due to the increase in COVID-19 cases in Israel, Rambam Health Care Campus has opened the largest COVID-19 treatment center in Israel. COVID-19 patients at Rambam Health Care Campus are now being hospitalized in the Sammy Ofer Fortified Underground Emergency Hospital, which opened earlier today for the first time since its
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Change Healthcare Launches Solution to Enable Pharmacies to Manage COVID-19 Test Billing
What You Should Know:
- Change Healthcare launches a new solution that simplifies
billing to bring more COVID-19 testing options to consumers.
- New service
enables pharmacies to manage COVID-19 test billing within their traditional Rx
claims processes, driving the potential to dramatically expand U.S. testing
capabilities.
Change
Healthcare, announced a new solution, MedRx
that makes it easier for consumers to get COVID-19 testing in their local
pharmacies. The company’s
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Embright Taps Innovaccer to Advance Population Health Initiatives
What You Should Know:
-Clinically integrated network (CIN) Embright selects Innovaccer to advance population health initiatives across its network.
- The clinically integrated network will leverage Innovaccer’s Data Activation Platform to track its overall performance and address patient healthcare needs.
Innovaccer, Inc., a healthcare technology company, today announced it has partnered with Embright, a Pacific Northwest-based clinically integrated network (CIN) founded by UW
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M&A: Anthem Reportedly in Negotiations to Acquire CareCentrix
What You Should Know:
- Health insurer Anthem
is in late-stage negotiations to acquire home healthcare benefits manager CareCentrix, according to PE Hub.
- PE Hub reports
that customer concentration issues have been a factor in negotiations; however,
the deal is far from certain.
- Backed by growth private equity firm Summit Partners, East Hartford, CT-based
CareCentrix provides specialty benefit management services to health plans,
improving quality and reducing costs in several
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