Private equity firm Apax Partners LLP is exploring a sale of health IT company TriZetto Corp for a reported $3 billion including debt, Thomson Reuters reports. JP Morgan Chase & Co has been hired by the firm to run the auction hoping to cash in on the wave of payors and providers seeking technology solutions to cut costs. TriZetto is also targeting information technology consulting company Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp as potential buyers.
TriZetto provides information technology
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Onlife Health Partners With Validic to Integrate More Than 50 Wearables and Devices to Track Wellness Progress
Onlife Health, Inc. announces a partnership with Validic to integrated more than 50 wearables and devices empowering individuals to reach their personal health and wellness goals.
Onlife Health, Inc., a national wellness company dedicated to transforming lives through healthier living, today announced that its members will soon be able to access their wellness data along with incentives across more than 50 popular wellness devices and apps. Powered by Validic, the mobile health industry's
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What Is The Role of the Payer in Advancing Population Health?
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“Healthcare organizations must prepare for an environment where doctors and other healthcare professionals will be compensated based on the value, not just the volume, of the services they provide. The push toward value-based compensation is getting stronger, so healthcare professionals must devise a strategy for their journey to a value-based role in the future and find a partner who supports their vision and principles,” advises Renee H.
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Wake Forest Selects Tonic Health’s Mobile Data Collection Platform to Enhance Patient Experience
Tonic Health today announced that it has been selected by Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center to provide an iPad- and web-based patient data collection platform to enhance the patient experience. By leveraging Tonic Health’s innovative and easy-to-use data collection platform, Wake Forest Baptist can more effectively register, screen and manage their patient populations over time.
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Is the ED Best Area to Track and Measure the Patient Experience?
66 percent of healthcare leaders agree that the ED is a critical area tool to track and measure the patient experience, according to a new independent HealthLeaders Media Premium report. The report includes data from a survey of the 7,000-member HealthLeaders Media Council exploring how leading organizations are applying rigor to patient experience reporting and refocusing efforts on patient values.
The other top areas identified as the most important to positive patient experience score
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Baylor College Of Medicine Signs On To Regional Health Information Exchange
Healthconnect announced today that Baylor College of Medicine has joined the regional health information exchange (HIE). Baylor’s entry is an important step in the integration of health information technologies that enable clinical faculty within an academic setting to enhance transitions of care by easily communicating with both referring physicians and patients. Baylor, which utilizes the Epic electronic health record (EHR) system, will utilize Healthconnect’s Direct Messaging services to
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Connected Digital Fitness Trackers Will Top 22 Million in 2014
The number of connected digital fitness trackers sold worldwide rose from 6.6 million in 2012 to 13.6 million in 2013 and will double again in 2014 to exceed 22 million, according to new digital health research from Parks Associates.
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Acupera Raises Additional $4M to Scale Its Population Health Platform
Acupera, a provider of population health and workflow technology for health systems has secured an additional $4 million in financing from Lightspeed Venture Partners joined by The Whittemore Collection, Ltd, which supported the Series A funding. Acupera will use this latest funding round to scale its product development team and add to its customer implementation group.
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Average Frequency of Digital Health Consumer Activities
Parks Associates responds to criticism with more context on the average frequency of digital health consumer activities
Last week, Parks Associates released an infographic illustrating the top digital health consumer activities of U.S. broadband consumers over the past 12 months. Based on the key findings from a survey fielded to heads-of-broadband-households in the U.S. in Q4 2013, the survey found:
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Infographic: Top Digital Health Consumer Activities of U.S. Households
Consumers are gaining increasingly active roles in their healthcare services. Spending is shifting from employers to employees, and personal technologies give consumers the ability to make informed decisions about their healthcare. Nearly 60% of U.S. broadband households own some kind of personal health and wellness device, such as a digital weight scale or glucometer, and new designs and form factors, such as smart watches, have generated considerable consumer interest. This infographic created
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