Revint Solutions, a Chicago-based provider of revenue integrity and recovery services for healthcare providers has acquired Health Check, a provider of Zero Balance Revenue Recovery services to over 100 healthcare providers. Founded in 1995, the Florida-based company has collected over $300M in underpayment recoveries with a successful track record working with all major payers and geographic areas.For Revint Solutions, the acquisition will expands the company's broad suite of revenue integrity
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Sen. Alexander: Getting EHRs “Out of Ditch” Is Critical to Future of Medical Innovation
Senate health committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) today said that “electronic health records are a critical piece to the future of medical innovation” during the first oversight hearing on the 21st Century Cures Act. Today, the committee held the first oversight hearing on the 21st Century Cures Act, which became law in December 2016 and was called “the most important legislation” of the year by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.“Last December, we passed the 21st Century Cures Act,
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Huamana Taps Revon Systems to Launch COPD Smart Symptom Tracker Pilot Program
Health insurer Humana is partnering with Revon Systems, a Louisville, KY-based digital health startup on a market-wide pilot for a select population of Medicare Advantage members diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Rveon has developed smart symptom tracking technology in asthma and COPD.Revon believes that early intelligent interpretation and feedback of data to patients leads to better control of chronic diseases that "flare up" or exacerbate such as COPD, Asthma and
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Partners Connected Health, Validic Partner to Provide Clinicians Access to Patient-Generated Data
Partners Connected Health has announced a new collaboration with Validic, a provider of data connectivity solutions for healthcare that will ultimately provide Partners HealthCare clinicians and researchers with access to patient-generated health data (PGHD). Currently in the testing phase, the full-scale service provides the integration of PGHD into care plans and the EHR from over 420 consumer and clinical health devices set to launch throughout the Partners HealthCare network in 2018.
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Medecision Launches 10 New Apps to Modernize Care Management Programs
Medecision, a provider of population health management solutions for risk-bearing entities, has launched ten new care management apps to help health plan, accountable care organization and health system customers manage the care and costs of their members. As health plans and care delivery organizations expand risk-bearing agreements and value-based contacts, a robust care management platform becomes central to their ability to control operational costs while zeroing in on preventable and costly
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Imprivata Acquires Caradigm’s Identity and Access Management Business
Healthcare IT security firm Imprivata has acquired the identity and access management division of Caradigm, a GE Healthcare company. Preventing fraud has become a top concern, and authentication demands are driving rapid adoption among healthcare organizations. Caradigm provides a range of Identity and Access Management solutions, including Governance, Risk Management and Compliance and Clinical and IT Efficiency solutions such as single sign-on and multi-factor authentication to over 100
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Cleveland Clinic, JumpStart Partner to Create Biotech/Digital Health-Focused Accelerator
Cleveland Clinic and JumpStart Inc. have announced a three-year partnership with Silicon Valley-based Plug and Play to create a new accelerator focused on biotech and digital health innovation in downtown Cleveland’s Global Center for Health Innovation.As part of the partnership, the three organizations will work together — with support from Ohio Third Frontier and additional institutions and corporations — to attract dozens of U.S. and international biotech/digital health startups to Cleveland
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Quest Diagnostics Acquires Cleveland HeartLab to Establish Cardiometabolic COE
Quest Diagnostics has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Cleveland HeartLab, a provider of innovative diagnostic services for managing cardiovascular disease. A spin-off of Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland HeartLab has created a specialized approach to identifying risk of heart disease, based in part on science published in more than 100 peer reviewed journals. As part of the acquisition, Cleveland HeartLab will serve as the base for Quest's first national center of excellence in
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BaseHealth Lands $8.5M for Predictive Analytics Platform to Uncover ‘Invisible Patients’
BaseHealth, a predictive, evidence-based, and data-driven population health management solution that targets the unknown risk by identifying the “Invisible Patients” has raised $8.5 million in Series C funding led by HBM Healthcare Investments. The Sunnyvale, CA-based digital health startup plans to use that latest round of funding to further develop BaseHealth’s analytics engine, which is based on peer-reviewed medical literature, curated by physicians and scientists, and enhanced with
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Orbita Unveils Enhancements to Amazon Echo-based Voice Assistants for Integrating Chatbots, AI into Healthcare Apps
Orbita, Inc. has unveiled major upgrade enhancements to its Orbita Voice platform that enables healthcare organizations and service providers to create and maintain powerful apps for voice-assistants and conversational AI platforms like Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant. Orbita Voice is the first healthcare-centric solution designed to easily create and manage intelligent, conversational skills for voice-powered assistants such as Amazon Echo and Google Home. Clinical trial investigators and
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