Cerner, today announced it has named William Mintz as the new Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) where he will work alongside company and client leadership to identify and develop new business opportunities, drive the strategic planning process and oversee the corporate strategy. Prior to joining Cerner, Mintz served as the Vice President of Strategy at Leidos where he was responsible for enterprise strategy, new product development, and commercialization.
“I’m thrilled to add Will to
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Carrum Health Adds Mayo Clinic to COE Platform for Cost-Effective Surgical Care
What You Should Know:
- Carrum Health, a digital health company that connects
employers and employees with hospital Centers of Excellence (COEs) to provide
more cost-effective surgical care announces the addition of Mayo Clinic to
Carrum's COE platform.
- As part of the collaboration, employees and covered
dependents at self-insured companies offering the Carrum Health surgery benefit
will now have access to Mayo Clinic providers with little or no cost.
- Self-insured employers,
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Elevate Health Taps Innovaccer to Automate Care Management Processes
What You Should Know:
- Innovaccer has recently partnered with Elevate Health
to strengthen care management in Washington. Innovaccer’s solution set will be
part of a broader population health stratification toolkit Elevate Health is
fashioning to achieve a comprehensive and data-agnostic ecosystem supporting
improved health outcomes.
- Elevate Health’s partnered care coordinators, in both
clinical and social services settings, will be able to use InCare, Innocaccer’s
automated care
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Patientco’s IVR Integration Joins Epic App Orchard, Selected by Baptist Memorial Health Care
Patientco, a
next-generation patient payment technology company, today announced that its
Interactive Voice Response (IVR) integration is now available in the Epic App
Orchard marketplace and has been selected by Memphis, Tenn.-based Baptist
Memorial Health Care.
As providers have cited a surge in patient calls resulting
from COVID-19
and billing concerns, Baptist Memorial wanted to lift the burden from its revenue cycle
management (RCM) team while also improving patient service and the
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HHS Appoints Perryn Ashmore Acting CIO After Arrieta Resignation
On Friday, August 28, the Department
of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that Perryn Ashmore, currently
Principal Deputy Chief Information Officer, will begin serving as Acting Chief Information
Officer (CIO) following the resignation of Jose Arrieta. Arrieta served as CIO after
serving the department since 2019 and following more than 15 years in federal
service including chief technology officer of
the General Services Administration's (GSA) Federal Acquisition
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How Contactless Technologies Can Propel Healthcare Towards the Future
With the continued spread of COVID-19, health organizations around the world are accelerating their adoption of tech solutions that mitigate the need for physical contact between healthcare providers and patients. Contactless innovations like automated robots and the Internet of Things (IoT) not only reduce the spread of disease in medical facilities, though; they also have the potential to improve overall organizational performance due to their advanced data-collecting and protecting
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Validic Launches New Remote Patient Monitoring Solution, Requires No EHR Integration
What You Should Know:
- Validic launches the newest version of its remote
patient monitoring (RPM) offerings, Validic Impact: Rapid Deployment.
- This new standalone version of Validic Impact requires
no EHR integration and can be used as a fully standalone solution.
Validic, a Durham,
NC-based provider of health data platforms and solutions for scaling remote
patient monitoring (RPM), has announced the release of a major update to its
remote patient monitoring
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Verily Forms New Subsidiary Focused on Employer Stop-Loss Through Precision Risk
What You Should Know:
- Alphabet’s Verily has established a new subsidiary,
Coefficient, with a mission to create value by combining innovative health
technology solutions with new insurance and payment models. Verily is the
majority shareholder and Swiss Re Corporate Solutions, an established player in
the employer stop-loss market, has a minority stake in the new company.
- Coefficient will enter a segment of insurance called
employer stop-loss. Employer stop-loss typically protects
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Dignity Health Management Services to Leverage Innovaccer’s FHIR-enabled Data Activation Platform
What You Should Know:
- Dignity Health Management Services (DHMSO), the largest
health system in the state of California to transform their network health data
into actionable insights.
- With this partnership, the organization will leverage
Innovaccer’s FHIR-enabled Data Activation Platform to better manage healthcare
services for its attributed patients.
Dignity Health Management Services
(DHMSO), a healthcare management company part of CommonSpirit Health, that helps
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Why International Expansion Must Remain a Priority for Cerner, Epic, Allscripts, MEDITECH
What You Should Know:
- How the top US acute EHR vendors, namely Cerner, Epic, Allscripts, and MEDITECH (+85% share of US acute market in terms of revenues), have progressed on international expansion.
As highlighted below, there is a significant variance amongst the big four in terms of revenue and share of business outside the US. Cerner has by far the highest revenue at more than $650M in 2019, representing 12% of its business. Whilst MEDITECH has considerably lower revenue than
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