Since 2012, Medicare accountable care organizations (ACOs) that participate in the Premier Inc. Population Health Management Collaborative (PHMC) have outperformed their peers in achieving cost and quality improvements. Nearly half of PHMC Medicare ACO participants received shared savings payments in performance year 2016 compared to 33 percent of all Medicare ACOs. In addition, since 2012 PHMC Medicare ACOs have performed 57 percent better on average in achieving shared savings.Premiere
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Practice Fusion EHR Achieves Quality Assurance (NCQA) Certification
Practice Fusion, the web-based EHR company, has achieved Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) pre-validation from the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) for NCQA’s PCMH 2017 Program. This status brings Practice Fusion’s customers one step closer to achieving PCMH recognition through the streamlined identification of potential health IT solutions. Practices that are able to attain PCMH Recognition reap a number of measurable benefits as well as maintaining and improving upon the
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3 Ways to Protect The Devices That Protect Your Health
These days, our smart devices are more than mere consumer electronics. They are an essential part of our routine health and fitness regimen. Recently, Apple and Stanford launched a study to identify irregular heartbeat via the Apple Watch. That makes the Apple Watch much more valuable than some disposable fitness tracker. That said, even cheap fitness trackers can make a positive impact on your health if it motivates you to exercise more.That makes it all the more vital that we protect those
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Healthcare Blockchain Startup Mint Health Unveils White Paper for Vidamint Tokens
MintHealth, a global decentralized health platform with a portable, secure, and self-sovereign personal health record (PHR) built on blockchain technology and designed to drive healthy patient behavior through the Vidamint™ token. MintHealth announces the immediate availability of the associated white paper behind a planned Vidamint (VIDA) token sale in Q1 of 2018. The company also announces the addition of Wyche “Tee” Green, III, founder and director of Greenway Health™, to the MintHealth Board
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Big Health, Castlight Health Partner to Offer Clinically-Proven Employee Mental Health Solution
Digital medicine company Big Health, today announced a new partnership with leading health navigation platform provider Castlight Health. Now through Castlight’s suite of digital health and wellness solutions, employers will be able to seamlessly deliver improved sleep and mental health to their employees with Big Health’s digital sleep improvement program Sleepio.Sleepio is clinically proven to help individuals overcome insomnia as well as improve anxiety and depression via a web and mobile
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Magellan Health Forms Collaboration for Cardiovascular Health
Magellan Health has announced a new collaboration with Accountable Cardiac Care of Mississippi (ACCOM) and Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Mississippi, leveraging a new, clinical best practice model in efforts to address cardiovascular health and improve cost, quality and outcomes for members in northeast Mississippi. Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in this state, accounting for more than one-third of all deaths.According to the Mississippi State Department of Health,
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PCHAlliance Releases New Guidelines for EHR-Integrated Patient Generated Health Data
The Personal Connected Health Alliance (PCHAlliance), a non-profit formed by HIMSS has released the latest version of the Continua Design Guidelines (CDGs) to enable the secure, private, reliable and accurate sharing of patient generated health data (PGHD) with healthcare providers, built-on HL7 FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) specifications. The Design Guidelines now support the integration of personal health data from 26 vital signs sensors and 40 health, medical and fitness
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Orion Health and Koble Group Form Multi-State Public HIE
The Iowa Health Information Network (IHIN) announced it has signed a Software as a Service agreement with the Koble Group, a Minnesota state-certified Health Information Organization (HIO) operating on a robust platform for sharing data, powered by Orion Health. The addition of IHIN to the Koble Group Amadeus platform is a significant step forward in Koble Group’s efforts to create a multi-state HIE that works to cost-effectively share resources and exchange crucial health information across
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Health IT Company ABILITY Network Raises $545M in Debt Financing
ABILITY Network (ABILITY), a health information technology company that simplifies the complexities of administrative and clinical processes has raised $545 million in debt financing. The proceeds will be used to replace existing debt at lower rates and extended maturities, fund cash to the balance sheet for growth and pay a dividend to shareholders. The new debt financing, along with ABILITY’s strong performance, returns leverage ratios to the same level as when Summit Partners and Bain
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ALKU Acquires Health IT Consulting Firm Holland Square Group
Specialized staffing firm ALKU has acquired Holland Square Group, a Nashville, TN-based provider of health IT consulting and staffing solutions to providers, payers, and suppliers of healthcare technology and services. The acquisiton will help expand and diversify ALKU’s specialized service offerings to the health IT market, as well as establish a market share in the health IT consulting market.“We immediately recognized the unique opportunity that combining with Holland Square Group represents
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