What You Should Know:
- Fresenius Kidney Care, the dialysis services
division of Fresenius Medical Care North America, rolled out CommonWell health
data exchange services to its dialysis facilities nationwide.
- This initiative is a significant stride towards better-coordinated care for patients requiring life-sustaining dialysis for kidney failure and will enable the real-time exchange of critical patient health information--allowing healthcare providers to access the most
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How Low-Code Solutions Reduce Headaches for Healthcare CIOs
Twenty years ago, technology consultants started advising CIOs to build less. That’s when the movement towards Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) began.
Today, there are many shops, especially those in small and medium-sized organizations, with few programmers who build new applications from scratch.
Yes, they have programmers who configure, script, and integrate various applications but very little is built. For the provider community, we have a habit of either sourcing our
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Revel, NovuHealth Merge to Create Largest Healthcare Member Engagement Platform
What You Should Know:
- NovuHealth and Revel merge to bring together NovuHealth’s
personalized healthcare loyalty programs with Revel’s applied behavioral
research and health action technologies.
- Together, Revel and NovuHealth work with more than 50
healthcare organizations, including seven of the top 10 largest health insurers
in the United States representing more than 65 percent of all members in
government programs such as Medicare and Medicaid.
Revel and NovuHealth, two
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TrustHCS, Visionary RCM, T-System, RevCycle+ Merge to Form New Entity CorroHealth
What You Should Know:
- CorroHealth – a newly-formed entity – combines the services and technologies of TrustHCS, Visionary RCM, T-System, and RevCycle+.
- Under this new entity, CorroHealth is committed to
helping clients navigate regulatory compliance complexities, ease physician burdens
and improve financial outcomes.
Today, four revenue cycle management services and technology organizations have merged together as a newly-formed entity—CorroHealth. TrustHCS, Visionary RCM,
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Is Glucometrics The Missing Data in the Fight Against COVID-19?
Glucometrics – the system-wide analysis of inpatient glucose data – should be of fundamental interest for hospital administrators striving to improve the outcomes of their patients.
Why is this data so important? Proper glycemic control has been linked to improved outcomes and decreased length of stay time and time again across a myriad of conditions – whether it’s someone recuperating from a heart attack, battling pneumonia, or recovering from surgery.
The U.S. health system lacks
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Updox, Redox Partner to Expand Network of Integrated EHRs, Deliver Seamless Telehealth
What You Should Know:
- Updox partners with healthcare integration platform
Redox to integrate with any EHR, deliver seamless telehealth to health systems
- Updox is expanding its network to include the largest
inpatient EHRs in order to supply healthcare professionals with solutions that
support in-person and virtual care.
As virtual care
continues to increase in demand, Updox,
a provider of care
coordination across both in-person and virtual care, announced today a
significant
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U.S. Airforce Awards $1.5M Contract to NeuroFlow to Increase Mental Healthcare Access
What You Should Know:
- The U.S. Air Force has awarded NeuroFlow a $1.5M contract to leverage its digital integrated behavioral health solutions that will help counselors manage symptoms -- like trauma, depression, anxiety -- of Airmen remotely and in real-time. using journals and self-reported data insights.
- The technology will support Air Force Medical Service (AFMS) in an effort to digitally enhance and reinforce the mental health of service members. It will also involve the 'risk
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HHS Launches Initiative to Measure Office-Based Physician Use and Burdens of Health IT
What You Should Know:
- HHS launches an initiative to measure how office-based
physicians use health IT, including key measures on interoperability and
burden.
- ONC awards a three-year cooperative agreement to the American Board of Family Medicine to develop key measures related to health IT use and the interoperability of health information, etc.
Today, the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) launched an initiative to
measure health
information technology (health
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Rambam Opens Largest Underground COVID-19 Facility in Israel
What You Should Know:
- Rambam opens the largest COVID-19 facility in Israel for COVID-19 patients hospitalized in a fortified underground emergency hospital.
Due to the increase in COVID-19 cases in Israel, Rambam Health Care Campus has opened the largest COVID-19 treatment center in Israel. COVID-19 patients at Rambam Health Care Campus are now being hospitalized in the Sammy Ofer Fortified Underground Emergency Hospital, which opened earlier today for the first time since its
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Vanderbilt University Medical Center to Create A Precision Medicine Trial Network Focused on Critical Illness
What You Should Know:
- Vanderbilt University Medical Center inks a strategic
partnership with Endpoint Health to create the world’s first precision medicine
trial network focused on critical illness.
- Late-stage interventional trials will evaluate
personalized approaches to existing care and novel targeted therapies.
Vanderbilt University
Medical Center (VUMC) and Endpoint
Health, the first targeted therapeutics company focused on integrated
solutions for critical illnesses, today
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