Innovaccer Inc., a Silicon Valley-based healthcare analytics company has unveiled a Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) Calculator, a free tool for healthcare providers to estimate the financial impacts of MIPS as per the latest MACRA rule. The MIPS Calculator has been designed with an aim to help all the providers planning to participate in MIPS in the coming year. With a clear and detailed analysis of all the dependent variables, it provides a breakdown of how each component of MIPS
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VA, Flow Health To Build AI-Powered Med Knowledge Graph for Veterans
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has signed a five-year deal with San Francisco, CA-based Flow Health to build a medical knowledge graph with deep learning to inform medical decision-making and train artificial intelligence (AI) to personalize care plans. Flow Health is building the world’s largest knowledge graph of medicine and genomics from over 30 petabytes of longitudinal clinical data drawn from VA records on 22 million veterans spanning over 20 years. All patient information
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Surescripts Expands Medication Management for Adherence Solution
Surescripts is expanding its medication management services to help providers address problems with a patient’s adherence to their medication regimen—a dangerous and costly issue for both patients and the healthcare system as a whole. Surescripts’ Medication Management for Adherence solution delivers real-time messages and alerts directly into the provider’s EHR software during the patient visit. Now, more than 6,300 care providers using software from Agastha, Aprima Medical Software,
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Dimensional Insight Selected to Deliver Business Intelligence Insights for Pediatric Population
Allied Physicians Group. a Long Island, N.Y., physicians group of 150 pediatricians has selected Dimensional Insight, a developer of business intelligence (BI) solutions to use its Diver Platform to attain valuable insights on revenue cycle management and clinical and financial operations initiatives. Allied Physicians Group was in need of a well-designed, flexible and easy-to-use analytics platform that would span across its 35 office locations. The health network also wanted a solution that
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Ottawa Hospital Taps SeamlessMD for Bariatric Patient Engagement
The Ottawa Hospital and the Bariatric Medical Institute have partnered with SeamlessMD’s patient engagement platform to extend their support for bariatric surgery patients into its patients’ homes. By using the SeamlessMD platform, the care teams at both The Ottawa Hospital and Bariatric Medical Institute will be able to deliver more coordinated care for their patients while they prepare and recover in the community.The Bariatric Centre of Excellence of The Ottawa Hospital currently performs
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WEDI Appoints 4 New Board Members to Advance Use of Health IT
The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI), a nonprofit authority on the use of health IT to create efficiencies in healthcare information exchange, announced today the election of four new board members to its Board of Directors, as well as the re-election of eight previous board members to serve two-year terms.The WEDI Board of Directors represents a diverse cross-section of the industry including payers, providers, government regulators and industry vendors. This group of executives
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Massachusetts Governor Launches Digital Healthcare Council
Governor Charlie Baker has announced the launch of a Digital Healthcare Council, a comprehensive public-private partnership that will advise the administration on the future of the Commonwealth’s digital healthcare industry. The council convenes leaders across the digital healthcare industry, including technology, healthcare delivery, insurance, medical devices, the life sciences, academia, and government, to advise on ways new digital technologies can improve healthcare in the Commonwealth,
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Operating Room Equipment Market to Reach $1.1B by 2023
The global operating room (OR) equipment market, which covers OR tables, OR lights, and surgical boom units, is set to rise from just over $920 million in 2016 to around $1.1 billion by 2023, representing a compound annual growth rate of 2.6%, according to research and consulting firm GlobalData.The company’s latest report states that this modest growth can be attributed to rising numbers of surgical procedures in numerous specialties, rising numbers of laparoscopic and computer-assisted
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New Partnership Builds Real-Time Network Between ED and County Jail
Dallas, TX-based Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute (MMHPI) has selected Loopback Analytics, a care transitions management platform provider to develop a comprehensive network connecting area hospital emergency rooms, law enforcement and behavioral health providers. The network will work to coordinate real-time referral and follow-up for mental health patients to ensure they receive appropriate, long-term treatment to reduce emergency room visits, law enforcement detention and recidivism,
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Theranos Competitor Genalyte Nabs $35M for One-Drop Blood Test
Genalyt, a San Diego, CA based startup has raised $36 million in funding led by Khosla Ventures and Redmile Group to expand its one-drop blood test platform, Maverick™ Detection System.Founded in 2007, the Theranos competitor leverages proprietary silicon chip containing arrays of photonic microring sensors to simultaneously analyze multiple proteins/biomarkers from minimal sample volume, which can be utilized inside physician offices by offering laboratory test results in under 15 minutes.In
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