Ascension, the largest private, tax-exempt, nongovernmental health system in the United States, and Ramsay Health Care Limited, one of the top six private hospital operators in the world, are partnering in a new global supply chain joint venture. The new organization will combine the purchasing power of St. Louis-based Ascension, the world’s largest Catholic health system, and Sydney based Ramsay Health Care, which operates more than 230 healthcare facilities in six countries on four
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Highmark Health’s VITAL Innovation Program to Evaluate WellDoc’s BlueStar Mobile App for Type 2 Diabetes
The second largest integrated delivery and financing network in the nation, Highmark Health, today announced that through its VITAL Innovation Program, it will be evaluating WellDoc’s® BlueStar® mobile app, an FDA-cleared, proven digital therapeutic for individuals with type 2 diabetes. VITAL facilitates real-world evaluations of medical innovations through Allegheny Health Network (AHN), its physicians and patients who enroll—producing evidence related to patient experience, as well as
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Central Georgia Health Network selects Arcadia for Population Health Management
CIN Central Georgia Health Network announced that is has selected Arcadia.io for population health management to support over 1000 providers in delivering community care. CGHN, a large clinically integrated network, will use Arcadia to create a community-wide population health management system for greater Macon, Georgia that will enable more than 650 independent physicians and 400 allied providers to deliver better patient care.With its network continuing to grow, CGHN needed to more
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Teladoc Launches Behavioral Health Navigator in U.S.
Virtual care provider Teladoc, today announced the launch of Behavioral Health Navigator, bringing innovation to virtual care delivery and the diagnosis and treatment of behavioral health conditions. Behavioral Health Navigator is an integrated care service that provides specialized “navigation,” support and coordination, combined with virtual access to expert providers for those facing mental health conditions.More than 42 million Americans live with anxiety disorders, and more than 16 million
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Osler Health Selects Innovaccer to Leverage Healthcare Data Platform
New Jersey’s Osler Health, a nationally recognized leader in accountable care, has partnered with Innovaccer Inc. to elevate their ability to leverage data-driven healthcare and deliver high quality care more efficiently. Osler’s collaboration with the leading San Francisco-based healthcare data platform company aims to integrate disconnected datasets for data-driven insights.A network of over 200 providers, Osler Health, has consistently prioritized information transparency and interoperable
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Welltok Partners with Florida Blue to Create Personalized Wellness for Plan Members
Welltok partnered with Florida Blue to create a digital health and well-being program to help Florida Blue members get and stay healthy. Florida Blue has been focused on wellness programming for years and selected Welltok, recognizing the importance of creating personalized experiences for each member. Florida Blue rolled out the program to all employer groups and Medicare Advantage plan members in the state at the beginning of 2018.The program, “Better You Strides,” provides Florida Blue
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OptimizeRx Partners with EvidenceCare to Deliver Real-time Medication Messaging
OptimizeRx Corp., a provider of digital health messaging for the pharmaceutical industry, has partnered with EvidenceCare, a Nashville-based provider of a cloud-based clinical decision support (CDS) tool for individual clinicians, hospitals and clinics.EvidenceCare’s network consists of more than 5,000 users, including hospitals, that layer the EvidenceCare CDS tool onto electronic health records (EHRs). The partnership allows EvidenceCare to deliver OptimizeRx’s digital health messaging to
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Olympus Medical Systems Partners with InterSystems to Improve Care Coordination
InterSystems announced their partnership with Olympus Medical Systems, a global leader in designing and delivering innovative solutions for medical and surgical procedures. Olympus will use the InterSystems HealthShare platform to improve information sharing across hospital systems, particularly images taken during patient procedures.In the past, images taken during common procedures, like endoscopies, were stored on bulky external drives, adding to the time spent accessing the images and
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Integra Connect Launches Advanced Analytics Suite for Oncology Practices
Integra Connect launches advanced analytics suite to help oncology practices improve cost-efficiency and quality of value-based cancer careOncology is the leading driver of cost in the healthcare industry today, increasing 88% (a rise of $20.7 billion) in the last five years. It is for this reason that oncologists need to be able to pull and analyze disparate clinical and financial data in a united format in order to predict high-impact interventions at patient and population levels to curb
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BirdEye Integrates DrChrono EHR to Enable Practices to Auto-Send Reviews
Leading patient experience platform BirdEye today announced its partnership with DrChrono, the company enabling the medical practice of the future. With this new integration, DrChrono’s medical practice customers will be able to automatically send review requests to patients after an appointment.The healthcare industry is becoming increasingly competitive. According to Becker’s Hospital Review, nearly 80 percent of people across demographics now rely on online reviews and physician ratings when
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