New research on physician shift scheduling trends shows that emergency medicine departments in the U.S. balance the most complex sets of staffing rules and monthly requests of any specialty in the medical sector. The report, 2016 Physician Scheduling Complexity by Specialty, analyzed rules and requests used in 5,547 department schedules across 57 medical specialties.Physician schedules in emergency medicine departments apply an average of 62 repeating scheduling rules (i.e., physicians can’t
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Validic, Omnicom Health Group Partner to Develop Digital Health Strategies & Solutions
Digital health integration platform Validic and Omnicom Health Group, a global communications and healthcare strategy organization, today announced a partnership to develop new digital health communication strategies and solutions for healthcare companies. These new solutions are focused on integrating data from wearables, apps and clinical remote monitoring devices. Together, Validic and Omnicom will provide digital health strategies and technologies to healthcare organizations that enable them
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AMC Health Launches Remote Chronic Care Program in Midwest
AMC Health, a provider of virtual care solutions has launched a multifaceted remote chronic care program with a large independent regional health plan in the Midwest. The multi-year program is designed to monitor and treat the payor's Medicare populations with heart failure, pulmonary disease (COPD), and diabetes in their own homes to promote patient engagement, improve patient outcomes, and prevent costly acute episodes. The partnership marks AMC Health's third launch this year with a major
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MedData Acquires Revenue Cycle Company Cardon Outreach for $400M
MedData, a provider of patient-focused revenue cycle management services has acquired Cardon Outreach, LLC, an integrated revenue cycle management services provider for $400M. Once the acquisition closes, the combined companies will have 2,000 employees. Additionally, each entity will retain its brand and all current facilities will remain in place as they are today. Founded in 1996, Cardon Outreach provides revenue cycle management services and technology solutions focused on helping hospitals
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Philips, Texas A&M Partner to Develop Population Health Solutions
Philips and The Texas A&M University System Chancellor John Sharp has announced a joint project to drive innovation in population health management for Southern Texas, emergency medical service response and biosurveillance. As part of the Healthy South Texas pilot project, the joint project will create integrated Emergency Medical Services (EMS) technologies for more efficient and effective coordination of response efforts, and developing point-of-care diagnostics and biosurveillance to help
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RelayHealth Financial’s New Tool Takes the Mystery Out of EDI Claims Status Responses
RelayHealth Financial has introduced RelayAssurance™ Status Amplifier, a new software service that automatically tracks down, inspects, and reports accurate reasons for non-payment on claims. Receiving a 277 response means there’s an update on a claim but to find out what changed (approved? denied? payment pending???) providers have to manually go into each payer portal and dig around or call and sit on hold to find out the real status.Starting today, providers can quickly learn and act on
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Nuance Unveils Mobile Clinical Documentation App for Physicians
“In 2015, 65% of physicians were using desktops for clinical documentation with speech recognition saving them 2.5 hours of documentation for every hour they dictated. To improve on and allow even more flexibility for physicians, Nuance Communications has unveiled Nuance Velocity, a new mobile clinical documentation solution that allows physicians in ambulatory care settings to choose which type of documentation method they want to use (speech recognition, dictation or templates) and even shift
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Xerox: 61% of Americans Open to Receiving Virtual Care
With meaningful use incentives on the table and increasingly frustrated health exchange patients, healthcare providers both private and public are being urged to adopt more advanced health IT solutions. Like MUSC recently did with their telehealth adoption, more and more providers are looking for streamlined virtual health solutions that patients want, but more often than not don’t have.New research released today by Xerox indicates that while only 16 percent of Americans actually receive
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Fitbit Launches New Corporate Wellness Service, Fitbit Group Health
Wearable fitness leader, Fitbit, today announced the launch of a new corporate wellness service, Fitbit Group Health, which brings together offerings to corporate partners, weight management leaders, insurers, researchers. Additionally, the company introduced Wellness Insighter, a new service for its customers that helps corporate wellness leaders validate corporate wellness investments with data that can be compared against that of industry peers. These offerings were introduced as part of
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Humana, John Muir Partner to Offer Value-Based Care to Medicare Advantage Members
John Muir and Humana has teamed up to bring value-based care for Humana Medicare Advantage members in Contra Costa County. The partnership will offer a more proactive and wellness-focused health care experience for Humana’s Medicare Advantage members.Partnership DetailsAs part of the agreement, John Muir Health and Humana will develop strategies to improve the health of Humana’s Medicare Advantage members in Contra Costa County, lower costs, and manage the ongoing health needs of the
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