What You Should Know:
- DrChrono Inc., an EverHealth® solution that is developing an essential platform and services for modern medical practices, today announced an integration partnership with Solv, an app that delivers everyday healthcare on-demand, equipping providers with the technology they need to improve patient access to quality healthcare, virtually or in person.
- The integration aims to ultimately provide a simple, friendly, and transparent experience that increases
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ONC Publishes the Trusted Exchange Framework and the Common Agreement
What You Should Know:
- The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) and its Recognized Coordinating Entity (RCE), The Sequoia Project, published the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA), creating the baseline legal and technical requirements that will enable secure, nationwide information sharing across different health care entities, completing a critical 21st Century Cures Act requirement.
- The release of TEFCA today marks the beginning of the
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Vibrent Health Accelerates Clinical Research through EHR Integration
What You Should Know:
- Vibrent Health today announced the integration of EHRs into its Digital Health Solutions Platform, enabling health researchers to immediately access a wealth of data – such as diagnoses, treatments, medications and lab results – that can provide a fuller, more accurate picture of a research participant’s health than data collected manually by researchers.
- Vibrent Health supports leading FHIR-enabled EHR vendors such as Epic and Cerner to ensure
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3-Step Ransomware Recovery Strategy for Healthcare Organizations
At some point, the chances are high that ransomware will pierce the defenses you have tried to put in place at your healthcare organization. When that occurs, your healthcare organization needs a ransomware recovery strategy, which enhances your typical backup and recovery processes. Below is a three-step program for ensuring that you can recover from an attack.
Step 1 - Frequent Backups
Ransomware, unlike any other disaster, can strike anywhere. No data center is safe. It can also hit at
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How Will AI Continue to Shape Healthcare in 2022? 9 Predictions to Watch
Digital health executives share their predictions on how artificial intelligence (AI) will continue to shape the healthcare industry in 2022.
Diana Nole, EVP and GM of Healthcare at Nuance Communications, Inc.
AI will find more game-changing use cases – According to Optum's fourth annual survey on AI in healthcare, 96% of respondents said AI plays an important role in increasing health equity, and 94% said they have a duty to ensure AI is used responsibly in healthcare. As healthcare
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Virtual Primary Care Reimagined With A Virtual First Health Plan
The promise of primary care on improved health outcomes has been proven over time. At the core of this equation is a robust and longitudinal patient-provider relationship. These positive relationships often improve patient satisfaction, yielding higher engagement and utilization of primary care services. However, recent studies suggest people are not engaging with primary care.
In fact, internal Teladoc Health data has shown that 80% of members do not have a strong relationship with a
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Verana Health Raises $150M to Expand Real-World Data Network
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Verana Health, a digital health company that delivers quality drug lifecycle and medical practice insights from an exclusive real-world data network, today announced a $150 million Series E funding round led by Johnson & Johnson Innovation - JJDC, Inc. (JJDC) and Novo Growth, the growth-stage investment arm of Novo Holdings.
- Existing Verana Health investors GV (formerly Google Ventures), Casdin Capital, and Brook Byers also joined the round, as well as notable
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Wolters Kluwer Launches Workflow Solution to Support Evidence-Based Practice
What You Should Know:
- Wolters Kluwer Health announced the launch of Ovid® Synthesis, a suite of applications to power evidence-based workflows in hospitals and health systems.
- The first application is called Clinical Evidence Manager, developed in collaboration with Duke Health, WVU Medicine and other healthcare organizations, to provide a holistic view of all quality improvement research projects across an institution.
Streamlining the Research Process
Providers are
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3 Ways Real-Time ADT Notifications Will Benefit Payers’ Businesses
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
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- 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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