The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)Institute for Healthy Childhood Weight and Kognito (a client of The Drapin Group LLC) has teamed up again to launch an expanded version of its free Change Talk: Childhood Obesity app. Developed using Kognito's Conversation Platform, Change Talk: Childhood Obesity™ uses motivational interviewing techniques to evoke “change talk” to prepare pediatricians and other health care professionals to lead real-life conversations with children and their parents about
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Infographic: 3 Ways Hospitals Are Throwing Away Money
A study in Health Affairs shows more than half (55 percent) of U.S. hospitals lose money on each patient they serve. Why is this? SCI Solutions has highlighted three major areas where revenue and patient volume are often lost: ill-managed referral networks, unused scheduling capacity, and insurance authorization denials. Too often, healthcare organizations cling to outdated operations that actually create barriers for patients and referring providers, eating away at profit margins. The
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AMA Unveils MACRA Payment Model Evaluator for Physicians
With physicians facing the most notable changes in Medicare in a generation, the American Medical Association (AMA) has unveiled several online tools to help physicians through pending Medicare payment and delivery changes and to improve their opportunity for success under the new program that will go into effect in 2017.These new tools were designed to build on earlier, significant AMA efforts to ensure that physicians and their practices are prepared for MACRA: The MACRA webpage on the AMA’s
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Welltok Nabs $33.7M for CaféWell Health Optimization Platform
Health optimization platform Welltok has raised $33.7 million in Series E funding with participation from new and existing investors including securing a a new debt facility providing the company with $13 million of expanded borrowing capacity. The company plans to utilize the funding to accelerate development of its CaféWell Health Optimization Platform™ and complementary technology-enabled healthcare service offerings, as well as expansion into new market segments. The latest round brings the
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Startup Incubator 1776, Accenture Partner to Help Digital Health Startups
Startup incubator 1776 has teamed up with Accenture to provide guidance and insights to its growing roster of digital health startups. As part of the partnership, Accenture will assign some of its health consultants to the 1776 campuses in D.C. and New York to help evaluate new portfolio companies for future viability and advise and engage with these and other emerging digital health companies.Launched by co-CEOs Donna Harris and Evan Burfield and headquartered in Washington, D.C., with
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Andrew Mellin Named Chief Medical Officer for Spok, Inc.
Spok Holdings, Inc., a secure message provider for healthcare has appointed Andrew Mellin, M.D. its new Chief Medical Officer. In his new role, Dr. Mellin will be responsible for representing physician’s needs for communications software solutions to drive improvements in provider efficiency and patient care. Dr. Mellin joins recently appointed Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) Dr. Nat’e Guyton, in creating a clinical leadership team focused on using communication technologies to enable more effective
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Innovaccer Launches AI Assisted Care Coordination Platform
Silicon Valley-based Big Data Startup, Innovaccer Inc. has announced the launch of its artificial intelligence assisted Care Coordination Platform named ‘Datashop Care.' Built with direct input from more than 200 physicians and care coordinators, 'Datashop Care,' addresses the gaps in care and connectivity. Datashop Care will be an addition to Innovaccer’s proprietary product ‘Datashop,'which gives providers the capability of integrating claims, clinical and laboratory data and performing
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Hawaii Pacific Health Receives 2016 HIMSS Enterprise Davies Award
Hawai‘i Pacific Health, one of the largest healthcare providers in Hawaii, has been named a 2016 HIMSS Enterprise Davies Award recipient. Hawaii Pacific Health is only the second two-time winner of the Davies Enterprise Award of Excellence since the program’s inception.Since 1994, the HIMSS Nicholas E. Davies Award of Excellence has recognized outstanding achievement of organizations that have utilized health information technology (IT) to substantially improve patient outcomes while achieving a
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UC Health, United Healthcare Form New ACO & Clinically Integrated Networks
The University of California and UnitedHealth Group are teaming up to form a new accountable care organization (ACO) and clinically integrated network. As part of the 10-year strategic relationship, UC Health’s five academic medical centers will expand use of Optum’s clinically integrated network services and advanced data analytics services.UC Health Partners with Optum LabsIn addition, UC Health will become the first West Coast health care provider to partner with OptumLabs, an open,
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HITRUST Integrates with Dept. of Homeland Security for Cyber Threat Alerts
The Health Information Trust Alliance (HITRUST), an organization supporting the healthcare industry in advancing the state of information protection, has become the first healthcare information sharing organization to integrated and exchange sharing cyber threat indicators with the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Automated Indicator Sharing (AIS) Program.The HITRUST Cyber Threat XChange (CTX), the health industry’s Information Sharing and Analysis Organization (ISAO), is now fully
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