What You Should Know:
- Walmart and Oak Street Health ink a partnership to
launch three joint health clinics in the Dallas-Forth Worth, TX area this year.
- Each clinic will offer value-based primary care and urgent
care services with a focus on adults on Medicare.
Retail leader Walmart
announced a partnership with Oak
Street Health, a value-based
primary care network for adults on Medicare to launch three joint health
clinics the Dallas-Forth Worth, TX area.
The new Oak Street
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Humana Taps Salesforce to Power its Enterprise Clinical Operating Model
What You Should Know:
Health insurer Humana has selected Salesforce to deliver
a more connected, personalized healthcare experience for its members.
- Through a new multi-year agreement, Humana will
capitalize on infrastructure and capabilities offered by Salesforce Health
Cloud to create an integrated health experience for its members.
Health insurer Humana has inked a new multi-year agreement with Salesforce to deploy Salesforce Health Cloud to help power its Enterprise Clinical
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How The Cloud Will Revolutionize Your Healthcare Network
Advances in medical devices have greatly improved healthcare but many of these devices are not living up to their full potential. As things stand, too many of these devices only help to provide care. Instead, they must be integrated with cloud computing to upload valuable data to hospital networks, where practitioners and management teams can access it to gain context, make better decisions, further enhance patient care and improve return on investment (ROI).
Adding objective context
No
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Blue Shield of CA Launches Digital “Neighborhood Health Dashboard” for Public
What You Should Know:
- Blue Shield of California and mySidewalk unveil innovative
“Neighborhood Health Dashboard” to help improve community health across the state.
- The Neighborhood Health Dashboard uses data intelligence from dozens of sources to create a comprehensive picture of a community’s health including health outcomes, preventative health care, utilization and access, health behaviors, social risk factors, and environmental and economic health conditions.
Blue Shield of
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IBM Watson Health, OrbitalRX Launches Solution to Combat U.S. Drug Shortage
What You Should Know:
- IBM Watson Health and OrbitalRX launches an integrated solution to assist hospital pharmacy providers in managing drug shortages.
- Joint offering pairs pharmacy supply chain management
capabilities with evidence-based drug content, designed to help hospital pharmacy
teams manage drug shortages.
- OrbitalRX with Micromedex will create a single source
for healthcare providers and pharmacists to access the latest evidence-based
clinical information alongside a
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Cerner Appoints William Mintz As Chief Strategy Officer
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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