A recent national study of state government programs finds more than 40 states strategically invested in value-based payment models, 23 with targets or mandates, and just 7 states trailing the trend. The study commissioned by Change Healthcare reveals 23 states have value-based targets or mandates that payers and providers agreed to achieve, 17 have or are considering adoption of ACOs or ACO-like entities, and 12 have or are considering episodes of care programs. Just 7 states have little to no
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UnitedHealthcare and Qualcomm Integrate Samsung, Garmin Wearables Into Wellness Program
UnitedHealthcare and Qualcomm Life have integrated wearable devices from Samsung and Garmin International, Inc., into UnitedHealthcare Motion. UnitedHealthcare Motion is a national wellness program that provides eligible plan participants access to activity trackers and enables them to earn more than $1,000 per year by meeting certain daily walking goals.The Samsung Gear Fit2 Pro and Gear Sport, and the Garmin vívosmart 3, have been integrated and validated with Qualcomm Life’s 2net platform for
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NextGen Unveils Product Enhancements to EHR-agnostic Mobile Suite
Quality Systems, Inc., known to its clients as NextGen Healthcare, today announced significant product enhancements to its EHR-agnostic Mobile Suite, a tool equipped with more than 800,000 unique clinical concepts and 1.8+ million synonyms, that brings physicians closer to that goal by ensuring the accurate capture of physicians’ narrative and integration with EHR terminology. This platform upgrade is the first major product enhancement from Entrada following its acquisition by NextGen
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CHIME Suspends National Patient ID Challenge After 2 Years
The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME), today announced that CHIME Healthcare Innovation Trust has decided to suspend the National Patient ID Challenge after nearly two years of work. Despite the suspension, CHIME did emphasized that finding a national patient ID solution that accurately identifies a patient 100% percent of the time will remain a top priority.Launched in 2015, CHIME National Patient ID Challenge is a $1 million global competition aimed at
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Unified Signal, BurstIQ Expands Partnership to Offer Blockchain-based Health Data Management Layer for Mobile Crypto-Wallet
Jefferson Health Selects Kyruus to Optimize Patient-Provider Matching
Jefferson Health, a leading academic health system in Pennsylvania and New Jersey has selected Kyruus, a leader in provider search and scheduling solutions to build a comprehensive provider directory and optimize patient-provider matching. Jefferson Health recently completed some significant expansion activity and needed a way to consolidate information about its providers from various sources to improve patient-provider matching. With Kyruus’ solution, Jefferson can create a robust, accurate
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Bernoulli Health, GE Healthcare Partner to Enable Data Interoperability for Medical Devices
Bernoulli Health, the developer of the advanced Bernoulli One clinical surveillance, medical device integration (MDI), and real-time data analytics platform, announced today collaboration with GE Healthcare on the new CARESCAPE Connect data aggregation solution. The data integration partnership between GE Healthcare and Bernoulli Health to increase volume, fidelity and resolution of data captured from GE Healthcare monitors and other third-party medical devices; to build sources of data that are
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Partners Healthcare Closed $171M Innovation Fund for Life Sciences Startups
Partners HealthCare System has closed a $171 million innovation fund to invest in early stage life sciences startups. The innovation fund includes $66.1 million in outside capital for Partners Innovation Fund II and a $105 million commitment from Partners institutions to Partners Innovation Fund to focus on medical innovation created in the Partners system. The capital commitments to Partners Innovation Fund include two $50 million commitments each from The Brigham and Women’s Hospital and
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Research Reveals AI Health Coaches As Effective as In-Person Professionals for Diabetes Prevention
New peer-reviewed findings published in JMIR Diabetes reveals that an artificial intelligence (AI) health coaches is just as effective as in-person weight loss programs, such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-led National Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP), a clinically-proven weight loss program focused on type 2 diabetes prevention.The peer-reviewed research suggests AI has comparable results to the Diabetes Prevention Program by observing Lark, an AI chronic disease platform
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drchrono Leverages Face ID on iPhone X to Unlock EHR for Physicians
Mobile EHR provider drchrono Inc., today announced that it has leverage Face ID on iPhone X for physicians to unlock electronic health records (EHRs). By simply launching the drchrono app, Physicians can save time using new Face ID recognition technology to log into the drchrono EHR.On iPhone X, doctors now can simply raise their phone to login to the EHR app, unlike using Touch ID, a passcode or entering a username and password. drchrono has thousands of medical professionals and over 10
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