Despite the numerous interventions by the government to reinforce value-based care, the transformation of the healthcare ecosystem has been slow. As of 2018, there are around 400 ACOs under Medicare Shared Savings Programs alone and only 31% of them could generate shared savings.Additionally, ACOs are under immense pressure with an increased shift towards assuming more financial accountability. The reality is that every year ACOs end up leaving money on the table due to lack of awareness about
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Medical Office AI Assistant Nimblr Integrates with Amazon Alexa
Nimblr, which offers the first AI assistant for medical appointments, announced today its platform integration with Amazon Alexa, enabling patients to book and reschedule appointments using voice commands, eliminating the need to pick up the phone. Other voice command platforms will follow in the near future. Nimblr’s Holly AI assistant is meant to automate medical practices’ appointment cycle, to help reduce no-shows, a huge problem that costs the industry up to $150B a year. It also
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Carepoynt Lands $2M for Health-Focused Rewards Platform
Carepoynt — a Newport Beach, CA-based health- and wellness-focused rewards company has raised $2 million in seed funding. The funding will be used to help Carepoynt continue to accelerate its innovative and disruptive shift of the status quo by offering its unique Rewardsware for Healthcare engagement program, platform and network to the massive Health & Wellness marketplace that is seeking more engaging experiences and rewarding results from a healthcare ecosystem that has become more
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Cerner and Lumeris Launch EHR-Agnostic Solution for Value-based Care
Cerner and Lumeris, a health plan and value-based care managed services operator, today announced a 10-year relationship aimed at eliminating inefficiencies in the current health care system. Under the relationship, the parties will launch a new offering, Maestro Advantage, for value-based arrangements, including Medicare Advantage (MA) and provider-sponsored health plans (PSHPs). The strategic relationship includes a Cerner investment in Lumeris’ parent company, Essence Group Holdings
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DrChrono EHR Integrates with Collectly to Automate Billing & Collections for Practices
DrChrono Inc., the company enabling the medical practice of the future, today announced a new partnership withCollectly, a fellow Y Combinator company that streamlines the billing and collection process for healthcare companies.Collectly digitizes paper bills and works with practices to send patient billing statements and collection notices electronically via text or email. Within the message is a link for patients to go straight to a patient portal to see their statement and instantly make a
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Rock Health H1 2018: Digital Health Funding Breaks $3.4B Across 193 Deals
Digital health funding reached a new record of $3.4 billion across 193 deals in the first half of 2018, according to Rock Health, a full-service venture fund dedicated to digital health.The 2018 Midyear Funding Review reveals a maturing market with an increasing number of digital health companies are hitting key validation milestones, creating a stable funding environment based on proven outcomes;investors are taking notice and rewarding companies with larger deals. The average deal size
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UMMC Selects Kyruus’ ProviderMatch for Access Centers to Improve Call Center Operations
Kyruus, a patient-provider matching health IT company, announced that the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) has selected the company’s ProviderMatch for Access Centers solution to improve call center operations and enhance patient access to UMMC’s network of 800+ providers in 170 locations across the state of Mississippi.ProviderMatch for Access Centers will make it easier for call center agents to identify the right provider for patients’ needs, enabling more precise
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Duke Health to Integrate Glytecc’s Insulin Management with Epic EMR
Duke University Health System has selected Glytec’s eGlycemic Management System to elevate the quality and safety of care for patients with diabetes and others who require insulin therapy. With national statistics indicating that one of every three hospitalized patients requires insulin therapy during their stay, administering the right dose at the right time in accordance with best practices is integral to safe, effective care and speedy recovery. By implementing Glytec’s FDA-cleared eGlycemic
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Banner Health Partners with Lyft to Offer Ride Sharing for Patients Across Health System
Lyft Business, today announced a partnership with Banner Health, one of the largest nonprofit health systems in the country to offer ride sharing for patients. Patients at Banner Health’s 28 hospitals, 46 urgent care sites and hundreds of centers, clinics and specialty care locations, will now be able to use Lyft to easily get to and from important medical appointments. In addition, Lyft and Banner will work toward creating innovative programs that could help increase access to health
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Konica Minolta Launches Portable Ultrasound for Optimized Clinical Workflow
, interventional guidance and outpatient centers. SONIMAGE MX1 delivers the power, ease-of-use and portability that physicians need to make a confident and efficient diagnosis at the point-of-care. Designed for MSK, anesthesia and pain management exams, the new ultrasound system provides high-resolution image quality and simplified workflow with an intuitive touchscreen interface. Developed with the MSK practitioner in mind to shorten the system learning curve, the easy-to-use MX1 System
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