Aetna and Mount Sinai Health Partners – the clinically integrated network that includes the Mount Sinai Health System and a group of voluntary providers are teaming up to form the form an accountable care collaboration designed to enhance coordinated patient care and lower health care costs.
Accountable Care Alliance Details
Under the three-year agreement, members of Aetna commercial plans who receive care from Mount Sinai physicians will benefit from quality and cost efficiency improvements
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Protenus Raises $4M to Help Hospitals Protect Patient Privacy in EMR
Baltimore, MD-based Protenus, a provider of privacy protection solutions for EMRs has raised $4 million in Series A funding led by Arthur Ventures. The round also included particpation from LionBird Venture Capital, DreamIt Ventures, Cognosante, TEDCO, and the Baltimore Angels.
Protenus helps hospitals protect patient privacy in the EMR by using advanced analytics to detect HIPAA violations in real-time. The Protenus Privacy-as-a-Service platform consists of both a continuously-learning
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Healthcare Data: The New Prized Target for Hackers
Hackers are searching for their new targets and have landed on the health industry. People of all ages are using Mhealth, fitness tracking devices and wearables to improve their health but aren’t realizing that the personal information they share on those platforms aren’t as secure as you’d think.
While many people see high-profile data breaches in the news like The Office of Personnel and Ashley Madison, they still don’t take the appropriate actions to protect themselves. Each generation
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Health Partners New England Selects OpenVista EHR
Health Partners New England (HPNE) has chosen the Medsphere's OpenVista® EHR system for implementation in the organization’s new behavioral health treatment center in Devens, Massachusetts. HPNE also contracted with Phoenix Health Systems, a division of Medsphere, for additional support services related to OpenVista implementation.
Headquartered in the Boston area, HPNE enables hospitals to improve the quality and financial performance of psychiatric and substance abuse services for children,
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Jiff Adds Garmin, Glooko, Others to Enterprise Health Platform
The digital health space is growing rapidly, and more and more digital health solutions (wearables like Fitbit, telemedicine like Doctor On Demand, and chronic condition coaches like Omada) are reaching millions of consumers through their employers. Jiff, the company that helps employers offer all of these solutions in an easy-to-manage platform, is announcing today it's expanding its platform to include some major players in the health space: Garmin, My Dietitian, higi, and Glooko.
These
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HIMSS, eClinicalWorks, Modernizing Medicine, Others Join CommonWell Health Alliance
CommonWell Health Alliance today announced seven new members are joining its effort to enhance nationwide health data exchange regardless of health IT vendor, geography or setting of care. These new members augment the reach of CommonWell Services in the ambulatory market, increase its membership representation for provider-engagement, imaging and EMS solutions, as well as expand into the direct-to-consumer arena.
Here is a look at the seven new members:
eClinicalWorks joins CommonWell as
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Report: Wearables Poised to Dominate Medical Device Market Share
A new patent landscape report from iRunway reveals a tectonic shift in the medical devices industry, with new technology players poised to take significant market share from traditional medical device manufacturers in the non-invasive monitoring arena.
Medtronics, General Electric, Eli Lilly Company and others have long controlled sizable and lucrative healthcare monitoring markets, and they will likely continue to dominate invasive monitoring. However, Jawbone, Fitbit, Google, Garmin and
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Backed by UPMC, Mental Health Startup Lantern Raises $17M
Mental health startup Lantern that provides online programs that provide effective, affordable support for emotional well-being has raised $17M in funding led by Pittsburgh-based UPMC. Other investors in the round included participation from Mayfield Fund, SoftTech Venture Capital andStanford University. As a leading mental health provider and research organization, UPMC will partner with Lantern to leverage its platform within a myriad of clinical settings and conditions.
Proven Approach,
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SwervePay Raises $10M for Text-Based Patient Medical Bill Payment Platform
SwervePay, a cloud-based patient-centric payment platform that empowers patient to pay their medical bills on the go has raised $10 million in funding led by Chicago-based Garland Capital Group. The capital will be used to accelerate its channel partner network and hire additional talent to accelerate growth.
According to Accenture, 98 percent of patients will not use hospital/physician mobile apps and 64% won't use portals(Harris poll). Through SwervePay's portal free platform, Physicians
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FDB Releases CPOE-Ready Drug Database for EHR Canadian Market
First Databank, a provider of clinical drug knowledge that helps improve medication-related decisions and patient outcomes has released FDB OrderKnowledge®Canada, a pre-built medication ordering drug knowledge base specifically designed to help make computerized provider order entry (CPOE) applications more intuitive and user-friendly.
Although there has been significant federal investment since 2001 to spur EHR adoption across Canada, deployment of CPOE applications is still relatively low.
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