WEDI, a leading authority on the use of health IT to create efficiencies in healthcare information exchange has issued an educational issue brief on an Introduction to Telehealth Codes. This issue brief was developed by the WEDI Innovative Encounters Workgroup with the intention to provide introductory information on codes for telehealth services by individual health care providers. The Innovative Encounters Workgroup is planning to develop a separate issue brief on the payer perspective of
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Aledade Lands $20M to Expand Value-Based Care Network
Aledade, Inc., a provider of in value-based care has raised $20 million in funding that will accelerate Aledade’s efforts to grow its provider network as well as expand partnerships with commercial and Medicare Advantage health led by Biomatics Capital. The round also included participation from new investors including GV (formerly Google Ventures) and the Maryland Venture Fund, and existing investors Venrock and ARCH Venture Partners.Aledade ACO network now includes more than 200 independent,
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DirectTrust: 5 Health IT Trends to Watch in 2017
DirectTrust, a health care industry alliance created by and for participants in the Direct exchange network used for secure, interoperable messaging of personal health information (PHI) has released their list of of five health IT trends to watch in 2017. The five health IT trends outlined by DirectTrust President and CEO David C. Kibbe, MD, MBA are his thoughts about what he expects could develop over the next year that would shape the ecosystem of health IT as an industry.“One has to begin any
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IBM Watson, Illumina Partner to Simplify Genomic Data Interpretation
IBM Watson Health and Illumina are teaming up to standardize and simplify genomic data interpretation by integrating Watson for Genomics into Illumina's BaseSpace Sequence Hub and tumor sequencing process. Genome sequencing has increased in recent years following two decades of research demonstrating the promise of precision medicine. However, access to these advances has been limited by the significant time and expense required to interpret the genomic data.By integrating Watson for Genomics
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Novo Nordisk, Glooko Team Up to Develop Digital Diabetes Solutions
Pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk and Glooko, a remote patient monitoring platform for diabetes are teaming up to develop digital health solutions for diabetes. As part of the non-exclusive collaboration, both companies will work together to create co-branded digital health solutions that will deliver personalized, digital services to support people with diabetes in areas including treatment adherence and blood glucose management.For Novo Nordisk, the integration of these offerings within its
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Endotronix Nabs $12M to Expand Wireless Pulmonary Artery Sensor
Endotronix, Inc., a digital health medtech company providing innovative solutions for patients with advanced heart failure, today announced that it has entered into a $12 million term loan agreement with Silicon Valley Bank (SVB). The financing comes after a successful $32 million Series C round last July that included BioVentures Investors, SV Life Sciences (SVLS), Lumira Capital, Aperture Venture Partners, OSF Ventures, existing investors, and a corporate strategic investor. The startup plans
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Inovalon Extends Multi-Year Partnership with Anthem to Maximize Value-Based Care
Inovalon, a technology company providing advanced, cloud-based platforms empowering a data-driven transformation from volume-based to value-based models across the healthcare ecosystem has announced a multi-year extension of its partnership with health benefits provider Anthem, Inc. The collaboration enables Inovalon and Anthem to leverage the strengths of the two organizations and years of data from working together to maximize value and impact to consumers. Applying an integrated set of
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Rock Health: Digital Health Funding Tops $4.3B in 2016, Down 8% from 2015
Digital health funding reached $4.2B in 2016, down 8% from 2015, representing a compound annual growth (CAGR) from 2011-2016 of 30%, according to the 2016 Year End Funding Report report from digital health venture firm Rock Health. 2016 The annual report reveals 2016 was a strong year for digital health, but it also served as a reality check for founders and investors due to the election and uncertainty around the future of the ACA.In comparison to StartUp Health's digital health funding
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Welltok Expands Partnership with Watson Health for Consumer Engagement
Health optimization platform Welltok has expanded its partnership with IBM Watson Health to leverage new new Watson Health capabilities to deliver comprehensive solutions for engaging populations in health and well-being. As part of the expanded partnership, Welltok's CaféWell Health Optimization Platform® will provide health managers with the ability to extend beyond care management and drive additional value by creating a holistic, seamless consumer experience.Adding IBM Watson Health's broad
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Health Network of Missouri to Deploy Cerner’s Population Health Platform Enterprise-wide
The University of Missouri Health Care announced it will extend Cerner's HealtheIntentSM population health management platform across the Health Network of Missouri (HNM) to coordinate and manage care for residents of rural Missouri communities. HNM is a collaborative of six independent health care organizations that use different EHR systems. The HNM network, which includes an academic medical center, state employer and a group of hospitals, serves patients throughout central, northeast and
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