Hackensack Meridian Health has announced a collaboration to pilot a combination of IBM Watson Health and Cota technology. This first-of-its-kind collaboration aims to empower value-based care and bundled payments.This will greatly reduce physician care variance and help ensure that patients receive the best possible treatment based on their specific cancer, down to the molecular level. Chemo vs. biomarker testing, X drug therapy vs. Y – these crossroads can now be decided earlier and with
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Infographic: 5 Stages of Patient Frustration & Satisfaction
Eliminating patient frustrations seems to be a constant battle for many hospitals and health systems. Hospitals that focus on improving patient satisfaction gain significant advantage over competitors.Centralized patient access is key for providing an ideal patient experience. Self-scheduling options keep common patient frustrations low – frustrations such as confusion, getting transferred back and forth on the phone, waiting, and being shocked by unexpected charges.SCI Solutions’ newest
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Mount Sinai Spinout Sema4 Launches to Revolutionize Clinical Diagnostics
Sema4, a new startup that has spun out of Mount Sinai Health System has officially launched today that aims to use genomic and clinical data to empower more informed health decisions and enhance care and wellness. Formerly the Mount Sinai Genetic Testing Lab at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Sema4 is constructing a more comprehensive picture of health by combining a wealth of clinical experience that informs the answers that patients and providers are seeking, the world-class
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eClinicalWorks to Pay $155M for Falsely Meeting Meaningful Use Certification
Westborough, MA-based eClinicalWorks has agreed to pay a $155 million to the federal government for civil fraud and kickback charges. Both the government and the whistleblower alleged that eClinicalWorks falsely represented to customers that its EHR system complied with Meaningful Use requirements. The settlement marks the first time an EHR vendor is being charged for the truthfulness and accuracy of representations made when seeking government certification of its EHR system and the government
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OneOme, Mayo Clinic Launches Nation’s Largest Population-Based Pharmacogenomics Study
Pharmacogenomic company OneOme is teaming up with Mayo Clinic and Baylor on the nation's largest population-based pharmacogenomics study. The study, developed and led by Mayo Clinic, is called the RIGHT 10K study and its purpose is to examine the health and economic outcomes of pharmacogenomics in 10,000 participants. The study will use the laboratory services at Baylor to sequence genomic data from participants recruited from the Mayo Clinic Biobank, along with OneOme's services to interpret
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Knowledge Management: The Key to Evidence-Based Medicine Adoption
Along with the rising costs and inequality in care access, difference in accepted clinical practices is considered the third major healthcare issue, which evidence-based medicine (EBM) is expected to tackle. However, EBM implementation is challenging both in clinical and technological realms.Evidence-based medicine (EBM) aims to provide a stronger scientific foundation for patient consulting and care through integration of clinical experience and analysis of patient vitals with up-to-date
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UK Provider Medvivo Acquires Clinical Decision Support App Expert 24
Medvivo, a UK-based health and care services provider has acquired Expert 24, a global developer of clinical decision support applications for some of the world’s largest healthcare providers, insurers and health information platforms including BUPA, AXA PPP Healthcare, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and WebMD.The acquisition strengthens Medvivo’s range of clinical technology products and services built up over the past 11 years; and will support Expert 24’s continued growth throughout the
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The Costs, Challenges and Drivers Of The Quadruple Aim
In 2008, Donald Berwick and colleagues outlined a new framework for the delivery of healthcare, the Triple Aim. The Triple Aim's framework served as a guide to the transition from service-based to value-based care and population health management. This framework is centered about three goals: 1. Improving the individual experience of care2. Improve the health of populations3. Reducing the per capita cost of healthcareToday, health systems are struggling with these challenges of improving the
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Kno2 Integrates with BlueStrata EHR to Enable Secure Electronic Patient Document Exchange
Kno2, the company that optimizes patient document exchange for everyone in healthcare, today announced a partnership agreement with BlueStrata EHR, a developer of affordable, cloud-based, software as a service (SaaS) clinical and financial EHR solutions for the long-term post-acute care (LTPAC) industry. BlueStrata EHR will integrate Kno2's interoperability platform into its EHR to enable swift, secure exchange of patient documentation between hospitals and their LTPAC provider clients. The
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Just How Much Healthcare Should We Afford?
One topic that has been missed in the ongoing debate about health insurance has been the level of care that is available today. There has been very little discussion about the fact that people are routinely surviving unscathed when suffering illnesses or injuries that would have been fatal even just a few decades ago.The point that could be made is that our high expectations of medical care today are a lot of the reason for the skyrocketing cost. The frontier doctor who would ride to a home on
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