- Life Image launches Network Build Enterprise Solution to help healthcare organizations establish their own network connections to coordinate care and innovate. - Network Build allows healthcare organizations to create customized medical networks that can handle intensive data (e.g. diagnostic images, pathology, genomics, etc.) critical for advancing medical device development, clinical trials and more.Life Image, the world’s largest medical evidence network for clinical and imaging data,
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XIFIN Introduces Transformative AI-Enabled Revenue Cycle Platform
- The latest version of XIFIN’s flagship RCM platform optimizes cash collections, enables real-time connectivity and error correction, and provides enhanced self-service for patients and physicians.- Unlike other RCM systems that require manual efforts once the claims are denied, XIFIN RPM 11 reduces costs and delivers denials and appeals process automation, including automatic generation of payor-specific appeal forms and appeal letters.Today’s diagnostic laboratory leaders face more challenges
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CareMount, Nuvance Partner to Expand Population Health Services in NY
- CareMount, New York's top Next-Gen accountable care organization, is partnering with Nuvance Health -- a system of seven hospitals that serve CT and NY -- to better share information for the purpose of providing improved population health services for both organizations.
- CareMount Health Solutions, a physician-owned management services organization, will deliver to Nuvance Health, a suite of population health management services including care coordination and clinical programs, data
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CAQH CORE Approves Two-Day Rule to Accelerate Prior Authorization Process
- CAQH CORE participating organizations--consisting of healthcare providers, health plans, vendors, government entities, associations and standard-setting organizations--have come together to pass a national two-day time limit for plans to request additional info and make final decisions on prior authorization requests.
- Prior authorizations are the most costly, time-consuming administrative transaction for providers. And when the process takes too long, it can delay patient care.
- Over
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El Camino Health Offers Personalized Chatbot to Patients with COPD
- El Camino Health is now offering personalized virtual health assistant to patients suffering from COPD via Conversa Health partnership designed to improve respiratory care coordination and patient experience.
- Innovative 2 BREATHE (Be Resilient EAch Time after a Hospital Event) chat program leverages Conversa’s patient engagement platform assigns patients with a respiratory therapist and a pulmonary nurse practitioner for personalized treatment to help patients breathe easier.
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Lumos Diagnostics Raises $15M to Expand Point of Care Diagnostic Solutions Internationally
- Lumos Diagnostics raises $15M in Series A funding to support the international expansion of its point of care diagnostic solutions.
- Lumos provides assay development and manufacturing services for customized POC tests as well as directly develops, manufactures and will commercialize a suite of proprietary Lumos-branded POC tests that focus on the systemic host immune response.
Lumos Diagnostics, a Sarasota, FL-based health IT company, today announced it has raised $15M in Series A
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Norton Healthcare Fights Opioid Epidemic with PDMP Integration in Epic EHR
- Norton Healthcare, a health system serving patients in Kentucky and southern Indiana, is now deploying Appriss Health technology to integrate its prescription drug monitoring program (PDMP) with its Epic electronic health record (EHR). - The solutions enable Norton Healthcare providers to share PDMP information across state lines and provide advanced analytic insights to improve opioid stewardship and help identify, prevent and manage substance use disorder in patients. - This is helping to
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UAB Health System, TransformativeMed Partners to Streamline Clinical Workflows
- The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Health System will implement three TransformativeMed apps to increase workflow efficiency, enhance clinical communications and improve clinician experience- The TransformativeMed applications that UAB is implementing are fully integrated, enabling residents and staff to quickly extract, evaluate, document and take action on data from multiple sources, regardless of their location.TransformativeMed, a Seattle, OR-based provider improving the
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PatientPing’s Network of Next Generation ACO Partners Generates Over $150M in Savings
PatientPing’s national network of Next Generation Accountable Care Organizations (ACO) partners generated over $150 million in savings under the CMS Next Generation ACO for the year 2018. PatientPing's national network includes thousands of providers across hospitals, health systems, health plans, post-acute, and other entities, all of which are working together to collaborate with one another on their shared patients.PatientPing, a Boston, MA-based care collaboration platform announced that its
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Northwell Health Launches SMART on FHIR App to Monitor Premature Babies’ Development
- Northwell Health, New York’s largest private employer and healthcare provider, has released a new SMART on FHIR app to monitor premature babies’ development. - Powered by InterSystems and based on the Boston Children’s Hospital SMART on FHIR application, the app eliminates manual workflow so providers can more closely monitor Northwell Health patients.Northwell Health, one of the largest private health systems in the United States released a SMART on FHIR app that aggregates, normalizes and
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