- Epic account reps have notified their clients that they will not pursue further integration with Google Cloud, citing lack of interest among its healthcare provider customers. - The company plans to focus on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure as cloud providers. Account reps from Epic have started notifying their clients that they will not be pursuing further integration with Google Cloud as a service provider, according to a report from CNBC. CNBC reports that Epic cited lack of
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ChristianaCare Partners with Cedar to Personalize Patient Financial Experience
- ChristianaCare partners with Cedar, a patient engagement and payment technology platform to modernize and personalize the patient financial experience for ChristianaCare patients.- Beginning this spring, the new payment experience will be implemented for most ChristianaCare services, including its primary and specialty care, imaging, labs, rehabilitation services and more.ChristianaCare today announced a new collaboration with Cedar, a patient engagement and payment technology platform that
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MiHIN Partners with CarePort Health to Improve Care Quality Statewide
- Michigan Health Information Network Shared Services (MiHIN) is partnering with CarePort Health to lower costs of care, improve care quality and outcomes for Michigan’s state-wide patient population through better care coordination. - The partnership allows CarePort to leverage data flowing through MiHIN to provide higher quality data to participating payer and provider organizations, enabling more cost-effective management of patient populations. CarePort Health, a Boston, MA-based provider of
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Leveraging AI and Machine Learning to Advance Interoperability in Healthcare
(Left- Wilson To, Head of Worldwide Healthcare BD, Amazon Web Services (AWS) & Patrick Combes, Worldwide Technical Leader - Healthcare and Life Sciences at Amazon Web Services (AWS)- Right)Navigating the healthcare system is often a complex journey involving multiple physicians from hospitals, clinics, and general practices. At each junction, healthcare providers collect data that serve as pieces in a patient’s medical puzzle. When all of that data can be shared at each point, the puzzle is
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Medsphere Raises $40M to Expand Suite of SaaS EHR & RCM Solutions
- Medsphere raises $40M in preferred equity investment to fund the expansion of efficient, flexible, subscription-based software solutions. - Medsphere has grown subscription revenue by over 400% using a combination of organic growth and accretive acquisitions, achieving a compounded annual growth rate of over 50%. Medsphere Systems Corporation, the leading provider of efficient and interoperable healthcare information technology (IT) software solutions, and services, today announced new $40
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Definitive Healthcare Analytics Firm PatientFinder to Expand Data Insights
- Definitive Healthcare acquires software analytics firm for life sciences PatientFinder to expand contextual data and insights within a business’s end-to-end commercialization effort.- With this acquisition, Definitive Healthcare will add an enormous new set of data fields through an acquisition that will dramatically change the views and analytics possible for patient care.Definitive Healthcare, a provider of data, insights, and analytics on the healthcare provider market has acquired
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How Multi-Payer Portals Incent Providers to Better Manage Their Data
Mark Martin, Director of Payer Solutions for Availity
Value-based healthcare demands meaningful payer-provider collaboration. However, burdensome administrative processes and inefficient solutions stunt the ability of payers and providers to share data, manage risk, validate credentials, process claims, control costs and optimize the consumer experience.
These information bottlenecks are most acute in the area of provider data management (PDM). Each year, payers and providers spend more than
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Change Healthcare Unveils Breakthrough All-Payer Medical Claim Attachments Capability
- Change Healthcare unveils industry’s first nationwide solution that allows providers to submit documents and data, like claims attachments, electronically to all health plans in both the Medical and Workers’ Compensation market segments.- This new claim attachments solution also sets the stage for new additional uses of Artificial Intelligence.Today Change Healthcare announced major new enhancements to its medical claim attachments solution. These enhancements will create the industry’s first
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GHX Acquires Lumere to Advance Clinically Integrated Supply Chains
- Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX) announced it has acquired Chicago-based Lumere, a provider of evidence-based data and analytics solutions that enable healthcare organizations to build clinically integrated supply chains and optimize medication formulary management. - As reimbursement models move from fee-for-service to fee-for-value, GHX believes Lumere’s capabilities will extend its value to more directly improve patient outcomes at the lowest cost by empowering customers to make
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R1 RCM Acquires Patient Engagement Company SCI Solutions for $190M in Cash
- R1 RCM announced the expansion of its tech platform capabilities through the acquisition of SCI Solutions, Inc (SCI). This acquisition enables healthcare providers to automate ordering, scheduling and authorization processes.
- SCI’s capabilities integrated into R1’s revenue cycle solution will offer the broadest and deepest tech-enabled patient intake solution available.
R1 RCM Inc, a provider of technology-enabled revenue cycle management (RCM) services to healthcare providers,
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