Apple is launching primary care clinics for the Apple employee population called AC Wellness this spring, CNBC first reports. The primary care clinics will initially only serve Apple's employees at its headquarters in Santa Clara County where it has two clinics.According to the site, the two clinics will offer a unique concierge-like healthcare experience for employees and their dependents. The company is advertising on its site, LinkedIn, Indeed and other job listing sites for doctors, health
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MEDITECH Unveils New Web-based EHR Platform: Expanse
MEDITECH, an Enterprise Health Record (EHR) vendor, is formally announcing its next-generation platform, MEDITECH Expanse. The web-based platform marks a major step in the company's mission of empowering healthcare organizations to extend their reach and connect patient care across the continuum.Designed for the post-Meaningful Use era, Expanse helps providers to see healthcare through a new lens. The web-based EHR navigates healthcare's wide-open, virtual landscape with clarity and confidence,
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Medfusion Creates Mobile App for MDVIP to Enhance Patient Experience
Medfusion announces that MDVIP, the national leader in affordable personalized healthcare, has implemented custom Medfusion mobile apps to drive better patient engagement and physician satisfaction.Medfusion, a leading provider of patient experience solutions, developed the MDVIP Connect app to deliver a secure patient experience and strengthen the provider-patient relationship, allowing MDVIP patients to be more involved in - and in control of - their health and wellness. Within the MDVIP
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Teladoc Earns Surescripts Certification for Medication History Services
Teladoc, Inc., a provider of virtual care delivery services, announced today that it has been certified as a trusted partner of Surescripts, the nation’s leading health information network. With this certification Teladoc expands its e-prescribing relationship with the organization, enabling Teladoc physicians to access the Surescripts Medication History and Eligibility & Formulary services. Real-time medication history validation and prescription benefit access at the time of consultation
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Sequoia Project eHealth Exchange, DSS Launch Health Data Sharing Pilot
DSS, Inc., today announced a DSS Direct Messaging pilot program on the nationwide eHealth Exchange health data sharing network. The pilot program is designed to bridge a gap for secure relevant data sharing with federal agencies using Direct Messaging. The pilot will increase the ability to coordinate care with community health facilities by reaching more rural community care / critical access hospitals and community health providers.When government entities choose to participate in this Pilot,
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Adventist Health System Forms First Accountable Care Organization
Adventist Health System (AHS) today announced that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS) has approved the formation of its first Accountable Care Organization (ACO) and its participation in the Medicare Shared Savings Program. The ACO provides the infrastructure for the Shared Savings Program, which cares for senior citizens across the state of Florida. Nearly 55,000 Medicare beneficiaries are expected to be part of the Shared Savings Program in the inaugural year.Approximately 1,500
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Cota Lands $40M to Accelerate Value-based Precision Medicine
Cota, a NYC-based healthcare data and analytics company bridging precision medicine to population health has raised $40 million in Series C funding led by QVIA and was contributed to by EW Healthcare Partners. Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center also participated in the round, along with existing Cota investors which include, Boston Millennia Partners, Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey, Hackensack Meridian Health and Atoc Holdings.The funding will go towards rapidly scaling its
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Innovaccer Unveils InData, a Unified Healthcare Data Platform
Healthcare organizations wrestle with enormous amounts of data ranging from clinical and claims records to billing and financial reports. Most struggle to generate meaningful insights from this fragmented and frequently inaccessible information. The inability to effectively manage healthcare data creates a tremendous amount of inefficiency leading to overworked teams, shrinking margins, and poor patient outcomes.Until today, the burden of overcoming this challenge has fallen upon care
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DirectTrust Founding President/CEO to Step Down At End of Year
DirectTrust today announced that founding President and Chief Executive Officer, David C. Kibbe, MD, MBA, will step down at the end of the year. The DirectTrust Board of Directors has launched a nationwide search for a successor. DirectTrust is a non-profit health care industry alliance created to support secure, identity-verified electronic exchanges of personal health information (PHI) between provider organizations, and between provider and patients, for the purpose of improved coordination
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Hashed Health, ODH Partner to Develop Healthcare Blockchain to Support Value-based Care
ODH, Inc., a health technology company providing data aggregation and analytics solutions, has teamed up with Hashed Health to develop blockchain and distributed ledger technologies for payers and providers with the goal of improving patient care. Hashed Health is a healthcare blockchain innovation company focused on building the new digital infrastructure for healthcare to develop new solutions to better secure patient data and enable greater payment efficiency for healthcare organizations and
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