Arizona Care Network (ACN) is a physician-led, physician-governed clinically integrated network has announced a strategic partnership with referral management provider par8o. As part of the partnership, ACN’s primary care doctors will utilize par80’s cloud-based software platform to refer patients to ACN specialists who share their commitment to improving care and outcomes. par8o's Care Compass dashboard produces a selection of in-network specialists based on each patient's insurance among other
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Nightingale Health Obtains CE Mark for Blood Analysis Platform
Finnish biomedical startup Nightingale Health has obtained CE marking for its blood biomarker analysis platform. The CE mark enables the clinical use of the analysis service and the analysed measures of creatinine and glucose in the EU region.Nightingale Health's blood biomarker analysis platform is based on NMR (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance) spectroscopy. It captures over 228 metabolic biomarkers from a single blood sample, transforming the possibility to understand molecular mechanisms and
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Cleveland Clinic Lands $3.4M NIH Grant to Develop Prediction Tool for Epilepsy Surgery
Cleveland Clinic has been awarded a $3.4 million 5-year grant from The National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop a prediction tool for individual outcomes in epilepsy surgery. Led by Lara Jehi, M.D., the project is five-year collaboration between the Cleveland Clinic Neurological Institute's Epilepsy Center and the Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute's Quantitative Health Sciences team with Mayo Clinic and the University of Campinas.Epilepsy currently affects 3 million people in the
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Fitango Health, Intersystems Partner to Develop Post-Acute Care Solutions
Fitango Health, an innovative provider of patient health management has partnered with Intersystem technologies to develop post-acute solutions for patients. Fitango Health has developed a Patient Health Management app, a post-discharge platform designed to improve recovery outcomes and reduce costs for providers and patients in the home setting.The platform enables patients to be guided through their recovery process through interactive action plans and supports a consistent connection to their
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Survey: Less Than 1 in 4 Physicians Are Well Prepared to Meet MACRA Requirements
Fewer than one in four physicians involved in decision making related to quality reporting (QPP) were well prepared to meet MACRA requirements this year, according a joint report from KPMG and the American Medical Association. The KPMG/AMA report is based on a survey of 1,000 physicians about MACRA and their overall readiness to comply with the law that will change how many doctors get paid. What is MACRA?January 1, 2017 marked the beginning of the first performance year of the Quality Payment
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PatientPoint Lands $140M to Expand Patient Education & Engagement Solutions
PatientPoint, a provider of patient and physician engagement solutions at the point of care has raised $140 million in funding from Searchlight Capital Partners and Silver Point Capital. The company plans to use the funding to expand the digital footprint of its point-of-care networks.PatientPoint programs provide engaging content through a host of delivery channels including digital waiting room screens in physician offices and hospitals and interactive touchscreens in the exam room. Unlike
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Zipnosis Forms Advisory Council to Establish Virtual Care Standards
Zipnosis, a virtual care-focused company has announced the formation of the Clinical Quality Advisory Council, a group of healthcare leaders across the U.S. that are committed to providing clinical and strategic guidance to the virtual care industry.The Council will perform reviews of Zipnosis’ current evidence-based clinical guidelines,support ongoing quality assurance efforts, and help to establish best practices for clinical quality for outpatient virtual care. During the inaugural meeting in
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CareSet Labs Releases Next-Gen Medicare Doctor Referral Dataset
CareSet Labs has announced the release of Root NPI Graph, a new version of the “shared Medicare patients in time” provider teaming dataset. The Root NPI graph is the next-generation version of the Doctor Referral teaming dataset commonly available from Medicare. The dataset can be used by data scientists, researchers and innovators including pharmaceutical companies to help decode Medicare claims data to guide new drug launches.Created by Fred Trotter through the Freedom of Information Act
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Glooko Raises $35M to Expand Diabetes Data Platform Internationally
Glooko, a Mountain View, CA-based provider of diabetes data management has rasied $35 million in Series C funding led by Georgian Partners with participation from Insulet Corporation, Mayo Clinic, Canaan Partners, Social Capital, Medtronic and Samsung NEXT. The company plans to use the funding to expand its’ commercialization efforts in France, Germany, the U.K., Asia and the Middle East, and further development efforts in data analytics and artificial intelligence to provide personalized
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Infographic: Bridging the Medication Reconciliation Gap
Adverse drug events (ADEs) cost up to $5.6 million each year per hospital, according to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. The same agency estimates that anywhere from 28 percent to 95 percent of ADEs can be prevented by reducing medication errors through computerized monitoring systems.With inpatient medication errors costing hospitals $16.4 billion each year, hospital leaders have turned their attention to identifying proven technologies and processes to help reduce the risk of
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