Cambia Health Solutions (Cambia), a family of companies creating simple and personalized health experiences is teaming up with digital health company Pager to optimize care coordination and delivery for consumers. Pager's platform serves as the bridge between consumers and healthcare organization's solutions to ensure people can easily connect to low-cost, high-quality care.Delivering A Personalized Digital Healthcare ExperienceAs part of the strategic collaboration, Cambia and Pager will
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Pfizer & Concerto HealthAI Team Up on Precision Oncology Collaboration
Concerto HealthAI announced a deal
with Pfizer, through which Pfizer will
harness Concerto HealthAI’s eurekaHealth AI platform
and real-world data (RWD) to help identify new and more precise treatment
options as well as accelerate completion times for various outcomes studies. Concerto
HealthAI is comprised of the leading healthcare data scientists, health
economists, epidemiologists, and AI software engineers to advance flexible and
increasingly enterprise grade solutions for advancing RWE into
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Diameter Health Raises $9.6M to Expand Clinical Data Integration Platform
Diameter
Health, a Farmington, CT-based provider of clinical data integration
solutions has raised $9.6 million in Series A funding led by Optum Ventures. Optum
Ventures joins existing Diameter Health investors Activate Venture Partners, Connecticut Innovations, Excelerate Health Ventures and LRV Health.
Brining Order to Complex Clinical Data
Founded in 2013 by former Allscripts
executives Eric Rosow and John D'Amore, Diameter Health’s scalable clinical
data
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NVIDIA, American College of Radiology Partner to Accelerate AI for Diagnostic Radiology
NVIDIA and the American College of Radiology are teaming up to enable thousands of radiologists nationwide to create and use AI for diagnostic radiology in their own facilities, using their own data, to meet their own clinical needs. The announcement follows a successful three-month pilot program by both parties, ACR is integrating the NVIDIA Clara AI toolkit into the newly announced ACR Data Science Institute ACR AI-LAB.ACR AI-LAB BackgroundACR AI-LAB is a free software platform that will be
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DrChrono Launches EHR Consultant Network Program
DrChrono, an electronic health record (EHR) platform for medical practices, announced today its new EHR Consultant Network program. This program provides independent consultants a path to certification on the DrChrono EHR platform to assist physicians and medical practices with evaluation, implementation, training, and other important processes in acquiring or managing their EHR solution. The program is free to join and the qualified consultants will be offered complimentary tutorial materials
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4 Digital Health Adoption Barriers for Hospitals & Health Systems
Nearly two-thirds of healthcare providers rate themselves as being behind the curve on their digital health adoption initiatives, according to new research from Unisys Corporation. On behalf of Unisys, HIMSS surveyed 220 health IT decision makers/influencers at U.S. hospitals and health systems and asked them to rank their organization based on how they are leveraging digital and mobile technologies to improve the patient experience, lower the cost of care delivery and improve clinician/staff
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Carisk Integrates with Valera Health to Optimize Care Coordination
Carisk Partners (Carisk), a specialty risk transfer and care coordination company, and Valera Health, a digital health startup have announced a strategic partnership to deliver an intuitive behavioral healthcare experience for patients. Valera Health leverages analytics and mobile tools that monitor, engage, and connect patients with care coordination teams. As part of the partnership, Carisk plans to utilize Valera technology to provide its care coordination teams with tools to optimize care
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InstaMed Launches Blockchain App Prototype for Healthcare Payments
InstaMed, a healthcare payments network, announced that it released a blockchain app prototype to demonstrate how blockchain technology could be leveraged for the interaction points among providers, payers and consumers including claim submission, claim adjudication, claim payment, patient billing, and patient payment. InstaMed built the blockchain prototype on HL7 FIHR v4. Full Visibility into Full Lifecycle of A Patient EncounterProviders and payers nationwide are challenged to find ways to
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Livongo Adds HIPAA-Compliant Amazon Alexa Healthcare Skill for Diabetes
Livongo, the leading Applied Health Signals company, today announced the Livongo for Diabetes program will now leverage Amazon Alexa's voice service to offer its Members the ability to ask any of their Alexa-enabled devices to provide their blood glucose readings and health tips via the new Livongo skill. The integration marks Livongo as the first consumer digital health company to collaborate with Amazon Alexa on a new HIPAA-compliant healthcare skill, which builds on Livongo's efforts to make
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AHIMA, AHCA Partner to Train Skilled Nursing Facilities in ICD-10 Coding to Prepare for New Patient Driven Payment Model
The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) has announced a collaboration with the American Health Care Association (AHCA) to provide in-depth coding and clinical documentation improvement (CDI) training programs. The goal of the collaboration is to help professionals in skilled nursing facilities (SNF) prepare for the upcoming payment reimbursement change.New, Value-based Patient Driven Payment Model (PDPM) Beginning October 1, 2019, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
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