Payers and providers share goals around emerging healthcare delivery models such as value-based care and accountable care organizations (ACOs). But inadequacies in current payer/provider communication often disrupt the flow of timely care and lead to unnecessary hospital readmissions and poor outcomes. What’s needed in this partnership is the standardized, fluid, real-time exchange of data to help both parties become even more efficient and effective at providing members the proper care at the
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Improvements in Data Quality Could Yield Up to $42.1M for Healthcare Organizations
What You Should Know:
- InterSystems and Sage Growth Partners announced research that reveals just how much healthcare organizations could save from investing in higher quality data - including up to $42.1 million over the course of three years.
Report Background
According to the respondents from 100 C-level leaders from top healthcare organizations, hospitals, and healthcare systems are using inefficient practices that can impose a significant financial burden. The research found that
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Atlantic Health System Expands Online Scheduling to Patients Via Kyruus
What You Should Know:
- Atlantic Health System, a leading non-profit health system in New Jersey, has expanded its use of the Kyruus ProviderMatch® platform to offer consumers convenient online scheduling on its website. The health system has seen rapid adoption from both new and existing patients with thousands of appointments booked online in the first five months.
- The organization has already leveraged Kyruus’ provider directory platform for five years
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Turning Health Data Deluge Into Actionable Healthcare Analytics
At the time, the 2009 HITECH Act and the introduction of the Meaningful Use program represented a momentous step in healthcare’s digital transformation. With billions of dollars in government investment and incentives in nearly two years’ time, over 77 percent of hospitals had reached Stage 3 of the Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (EMRAM), or gone even further, pulling millions of data points into newly-established EMRs.
Over the next 10 years, as EMRs grew into a broader and
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Innovaccer Offers Public Health Command Center at No Cost to Assist with Omicron Surge
What You Should Know:
- Innovaccer has launched Public Health Command Center, an innovative solution designed to help hospitals fight the pandemic more effectively at scale. It seamlessly integrates Innovaccer’s proven COVID-19 Command Center with a COVID-focused version of Innovaccer’s new Patient Relationship Management solution. And it’s available at no cost to public health departments and hospitals for the first three months of use.
- Powered by the Innovaccer Health
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HeyRenee Raises $4.4M for Care Concierge Platform
What You Should Know:
- HeyRenee, the newest health-tech innovation from Dr. Renee Dua and Nick Desai, the founders of Heal, today announced an oversubscribed $4.4M Seed II funding round led by Quiet Capital, with participation from City Light Capital, Fika Ventures, Global Founders Capital, Mucker Capital, SaaS Ventures, and Tau Ventures. HeyRenee has raised a total of $8.2 million and tripled its valuation in just five months.
- Set to launch in early spring 2022, HeyRenee aims
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Hidden Vulnerabilities in Clinical Workflow Put PHI at Risk
If you’re a healthcare CIO or CISO, you already know that cybercriminals are targeting protected health information (PHI). A recent report shows that stolen PHI can sell for as much as $1,000 per record on the Dark Web. The value of patient records has driven a surge of attacks targeting healthcare organizations. 2020 saw a 25% increase in healthcare data breaches, with more than 29 million records exposed. It’s no longer a question of if you will face a breach, but when.
I’ve had hundreds of
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PerfectServe Acquires AnesthesiaGo to Enhance OR Case Scheduling
What You Should Know:
- PerfectServe, a clinical communication and provider scheduling provider, today announced the acquisition of AnesthesiaGo, creator of the only solution on the market that automatically matches available anesthesia staff with the best daily case schedule.Los Angeles-based AnesthesiaGo went live in 2021 after extensive research and product testing. Creating daily anesthesia case assignments is almost always a complex, stressful, and time-consuming affair, and the duty
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Aledade Acquires Advance Care Planning Company Iris Healthcare
What You Should Know:
- Aledade acquires Iris Healthcare, a provider of advanced care planning solutions for tens of thousands of patients across the country. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.
- As Aledade continues to grow exponentially, the company plans to integrate new patient care solutions to help extend the capabilities of its partner primary care practices.
When individuals face a serious illness, healthcare becomes central to their life. In a crisis,
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Revenue Cycle Management Can Help Advance The Cybersecurity Mandate
Holding steady in the No. 1 spot, the healthcare industry has held the top rank in IBM’s Cost of Data Breach report for the past 11 years. It’s a lead that seems secure. In just a year from 2020-2021, the average total cost for healthcare for an event increased 29.5%, and now sits at $9.23 million.
Even amidst that threat landscape, the percentage those in the healthcare space spend on cybersecurity hasn’t climbed out of the single digits. Only 6% or less of the IT budget is typically
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