BlueCross Blue Shield of Western New York (BCBS) recently announced a partnership with Welltok Inc. to bring digital health and well-being tools to BCBS’ 800,000 members. The local health plan’s members now have access to a re-vamped, mobile-friendly well-being platform, MyHealth.Upon login to their member portal through bcbswny.com, BlueCross BlueShield members complete a free, digital health assessment and receive a snapshot of their current state of health. From there, the platform creates
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Scripps Health Selects Carrum Health to Streamline Bariatric Bundled Payment Process
The U.S. is home to one of the largest populations of obese adults representing one-third of the nation. With such a large population comes a large price tag with $1,429 or more in annual individual medical costs. Due to the growing concern and priority, Carrum Health, the first comprehensive bundled payment platform, has expanded their bundled payment offerings to bariatric surgeries.Carrum Health connects self-insured employers to top-quality regional healthcare providers through standard
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WellDoc, AADE Jointly Launch The Diabetes Digital Health Learning Network
WellDoc, a digital health company revolutionizing chronic disease management to help transform lives has announced the launch of ‘The Diabetes Digital Health Learning Network’ in collaboration with the American Association of Diabetes Educators (AADE). The Learning Network will support its members who are on the front lines of diabetes care and management by assisting diabetes educators in gaining next-generation skills in using digital health therapeutics to improve clinical care and outcomes
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Fruit Street Health Lands $3M to Expand Telehealth Platform for Lifestyle & Obesity Medicine
Fruit Street Health, a NYC-based provider of HIPAA-Compliant telehealth software for lifestyle and obesity medicine has raised $3M in funding led by Dr. Jeremy Tucker, a senior emergency medicine physician who sits on the board of directors of Fruit Street, with participation from other physician investors. The latest round brings the total number of physicians who have invested in the company to over 200.Founded in 2014, Fruit Street provides telehealth software to healthcare providers allowing
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Change Healthcare, Pegasystems Integrate to Help Payers Accurate Payment
Change Healthcare, one of the largest healthcare companies in the U.S., continues to make good on its pledge to invest in interoperability strategies that make it easier for health plans to bridge disparate systems and get claims paid. This week, the company announced that it has completed a major integration project with Pegasystems to help payers ensure fast, accurate payment, reduce costs, and stay compliant with internal and CMS medical policies.ClaimsXten™ and ClaimsXten™ Select now
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drchrono Launches FHIR-Enabled PHR API to Support 10 Million Patients
Mobile EHR provider drchrono has announced that it is the first cloud-based EHR platform enabled for Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR). With FHIR, drchrono is enabling its 10 million patients access to their data via the FHIR API through the patient health record (PHR), onpatient. The new API is designed to support the Precision Medicine Sync for Science Initiative and fulfills one of the requirements of Meaningful Use Stage 3 to enable a PHR API.The goal of FHIR is to solve
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Vail Valley Medical Center to Implement Spok Care Connect to Standardize Clinical Communications
Vail Valley Medical Center (VVMC), a 58-bed community hospital has selected Spok to improve workflows for its care teams and strengthen patient care. Since implementation, VVMC has started to automate manual and paper processes for on-call scheduling and code calls, and rollout secure mobile messaging to improve care team coordination. The hospital serves as the official medical provider for world-class athletes, including the U.S. Ski, Snowboarding, Free Skiing, and Climbing teams.As part of
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GHX Launches App for Healthcare Credentialed Supply Chain
Today, GHX announced the GHX Vendormate Credentialing mobile app, the first mobile solution available to both healthcare suppliers and providers to help drive increased vendor credentialing compliance. Delivering access to the credentialing solution via mobile app helps to streamline compliance for both providers and suppliers. The new GHX Vendormate Credentialing mobile app is available now through the Apple App Store and Google Play for Android devices.In the U.S. alone there are 244,000+
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Catholic Medical Center to Implement Integrated Suite of Allscripts Sunrise EHR
Catholic Medical Center, a 330-bed not-for-profit, full-service acute care hospital located in Manchester, NH has expanded its portfolio of Allscripts solutions to offer a fully–integrated suite of Sunrise EHR solutions to drive adoption of clinical decision support and improve patient outcomes. Built on an open platform with advanced clinical decision support, Sunrise provides immediate analysis and insights, extending across inpatient, ambulatory, emergency and other high-acuity care
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New Anthem Medical Data Breach Affects More Than 18,500 Members
A new medical data breach has exposed personal health information (PHI) of more than 18,500 Anthem Medicare enrollees, due to an employee’s involvement in identity theft. Consulting firm LaunchPoint Ventures discovered the data breach on April 12 that an employee had emailed a file with information about Anthem companies' members to his personal email address on July 8, 2016. The file contained more than 18,500 Anthem Medicare members' Social Security and Medicare identification data. The
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