The Ministry of Health in New Zealand has selected an Accenture and MartinJenkins consortium as their strategic partner to support the development of a two-stage business case for an EHR rollout, CIO New Zealand first reports. As part of the contract, Accenture will work the Ministry's EHR project team on the business case that will be presented to the Cabinet for approval in early June 2017. Accenture was selected after a competitive request for proposal (RFP) process with 7 other potential
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Kurbo Integrates With Fitbit to Enable Automatic Health & Fitness Tracking
Kurbo, a California-based mobile health-coaching program designed specifically to help children, teens and families lose weight and develop smarter eating habits has integrated with Fitbit. The API integration will enable automatic health and fitness tracking for teen and adults in the Kurbo app. Kurbo/Fitbit IntegrationStarting this week, Kurbo teen and adult app users who use a Fitbit fitness tracker, Aria® Wi-Fi Smart Scale, or the Fitbit app will be able to seamlessly and automatically log
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Penn State Health to Implement Cerner’s Clinically Driven Revenue Cycle
Penn State Health has selected Cerner Millennium Revenue Cycle to integrate with its existing Cerner EHR across the health system, including more than 60 clinics. As part of the implementation, Cerner will also extend the clinical and financial health information technology system to Penn State Health St. Joseph, previously St. Joseph Regional Health Network. Cerner's Clinically Driven Revenue Cycle is designed to support clinicians and staff to update the billing process throughout the
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Zipongo Nabs $18M to Expand Digital Nutrition App
Zipongo, a San Francisco, CA-based personalized digital nutrition platform has raised $18 million in Series B funding led Mayfield with participation from Excel Venture Management. The company plans to utilize the funding to expand its operations further enabling Nutriomics and behavior science to empower health providers and disease management systems to measurably leverage food as medicine.. Founded by Jason Langheier, MD, MPH in 2010, Zipongo provides a software-as-a-service platform that
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Apixio Unveils Risk Adjustment Solution to Strengthen Plans in Health Insurance Exchanges
Apixio Inc., the data science company for healthcare has unveiled its HCC Profiler for Commercial Risk, for more accurate and complete risk coding for health plans on the federal and state health insurance exchanges. Insurance exchanges are one aspect of the Affordable Care Act that has struggled with several large insurers including Aetna and Oscar opting to leave in 2017. Two key issues driving this are that exchanges are attracting individuals who are sicker than expected. And, insurers
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Janssen Taps StartUp Health for Three Year Health Innovation Program
Janssen Research & Development, LLC is teaming up with StartUp Health on a three-year collaboration program to connect its senior leaders more directly to digital health entrepreneurs, innovators and disruptors. As part of the three year deal, StartUp Health will provide Janssen’s leaders with ongoing insights on emerging technologies, business models and overarching trends in digital health. Additionally, it will create multiple pathways to help them more effectively collaborate with
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NantCare Unveils Solutions to Support CMS Oncology Care Model
NantCare, a member of the NantWorks will be providing community oncology practices with solutions and resources that will help these practices comply with the administrative and clinical requirements put forth by the CMS’ new Oncology Care Model (OCM). Typically only available at large cancer institutions, NantCare will provide access to clinical trials through facilitation of participation in Cancer MoonShot 2020’s QUILT Trials, eliminating the need for patients to travel to major cancer
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Inspira Health Network to Implement Cerner’s EHR, Population Health Platform
Inspira Health Network, one of southern New Jersey’s leading healthcare providers offering primary, acute and advanced care services has selected Cerner to implement network-wide health IT system. Named InspiraOne, Cerner's integrated health IT system will support the delivery of care across the full continuum of primary, acute and advanced services.As part of the implementation, Inspira Health Network will extend Cerner's EHR across Inspira's three hospitals and more than 100 ambulatory
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Cohero Health Raises $9M to Expand Connected Respiratory Disease Solutions
Cohero Health, a NYC-based digital health company developing connected health tools and technologies to empower respiratory patients and improve care through smart mobile devices, has raised $9 million in Series A funding. The funding round is led by Three Leaf Ventures, an affiliate of the Broe Group, with continuing participation from Zaffre Investments, the investment arm of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, and BioAdvance. To date, the company has raised $11 million in total
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Vital Images Acquires Clinical Imaging Exchange Provider Karos Health
Vital Images, a Minneapolis-based enterprise medical imaging and informatics company has acquired global healthcare informatics company Karos Health (Karos). Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. For Vital, the acquisition will provide its customers with a customer-centric, modular platform that allows hospital systems to solve a broad set of enterprise imaging challenges without requiring large-scale, disruptive PACS replacement of existing systems. In addition, the acquisition
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