The need to reduce costs while caring for an aging population has led to sweeping changes in everything from how patients choose insurers to how doctors are reimbursed and medical records are stored and shared. As a result, the pressures on today’s healthcare CIOs and the data centers they manage are building. Mergers and acquisitions are packing more technology into tighter spaces, growing computational demands are creating crowded equipment racks, and staggering power and cooling requirements
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Emdeon Closes $910M Acquisition of Altegra Health
Emdeon Inc. has closed its $910M acquisition of Altegra Health, a national provider of technology and intervention platforms that combine data aggregation and analytics with unique member engagement and reporting capabilities to achieve actionable insights and improved management for value-based healthcare. The acquisition combines Altegra Health’s risk adjustment and quality analytics platform with Emdeon’s Intelligent Healthcare Network™, revenue cycle technology and payment solutions,
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Dispatch Health Raises $3.6M for Mobile Healthcare Delivery
Mobile health delivery startup, Dispatch Health has raised $3.6 million in seed funding to expand its current services, as well as to administer onsite, advanced medical care, improve outcomes and reduce healthcare costs. The Denver, Colorado-based company uses mobile cars staffed by acute care clinicians, equipped with a CLIA-certified lab, medical equipment, medications and IV’s, WiFi connectivity providing access to the health information exchange, and a network of established mobile
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Accenture: Half of Digital Health Startups Fail Within 2 Years of Launch
While digital health and healthcare IT startup funding is accelerating at a record pace, more than half of digital health startups funded between 2008 and 2013 are not likely to survive longer than 20 months, according to a new report from Accenture. The report finds that the imminent rise of these "zombie digital health startups" will lead to larger healthcare companies acquiring these startups to help drive growth by infusing top talent, fueling innovation and
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Accenture, Duke Collaborate on Healthcare Analytics Research
Accenture and Duke University have formed an alliance focused on jointly developing new advanced analytics solutions to address real-world, client-specific business challenges. The Accenture and Duke University Analytics Research Program, which will have an initial focus on healthcare analytics research, aims to bring together data, modeling and analysis to achieve sustainable business and patient outcomes.
The relationship combines Accenture’s industry and analytics expertise with Duke
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Zobreus Launches Mobile Patient-Oriented EMR for Patients and Doctors
After successfully raising over $50k on Kickstarter campaign, Zobreus Medical Corporation announces that it has launched the Patient-Oriented Electronic Medical (POEM) Record™ v1.0 now available in the Apple App Store. The POEM Record™ allows patients to manage and control all of their healthcare data in a structured, mobile EMR so that the information is easily accessible to them and their doctors as needed.
POEM Overview
Unlike other patient health records, the POEM Record™ organizes
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New Scripps Health App Features Doctor Search, Patient Portal Access
Scripps Health has launched a new mobile health app that provides patients and visitors with instant access to information about physicians including Scripps hospitals and clinics now available on Apple and Android smartphones and tablets.
Scripps Health app
The Scripps Health app offers the same primary functions that are available on the Scripps.org website – physician searches, location searches and maps, a patient portal link and one-touch dialing for the toll-free 1-800-SCRIPPS
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Premier Inc. Acquires Healthcare Insights for $65M in Cash
Premier, Inc. (NASDAQ:PINC), a healthcare improvement company focused on reducing costs, improving the quality of care and boosting efficiency, today announced that it has acquired Healthcare Insights, LLC for $65 million in cash. Healthcare Insights is a Libertyville, Ill-based privately-held, integrated financial management software developer that provides hospitals and healthcare systems with budgeting, forecasting, labor productivity and cost analytic capabilities. The Healthcare Insights
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UnitedHealthcare Launches Health4Me App for Medicaid Beneficiaries in 17 States
UnitedHealthcare has launched its new mobile app Health4Me for Medicaid beneficiaries in 17 states, enabling plan participants to access important health information anytime, anywhere. Health4Me is now available to Medicaid and CHIP beneficiaries in the following states: Arizona, Delaware, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Washington and Wisconsin.
The new app enables people enrolled in
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Dave Schulte to Join McKesson Ventures as Managing Director
McKesson Ventures, the venture capital arm of McKesson Corporation, has appointed Dave Schulte as the new managing director, effective September 8, 2015. Schulte joins McKesson from Kaiser Permanente Ventures where he served as vice president and managing director. In his role at McKesson, Schulte will be responsible for co-leading the development and management of the McKesson Ventures portfolio alongside group leader Tom Rodgers.
McKesson Ventures, established in December 2014, has made
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