What You Should Know:
- AMA
announces new CPT codes for multi-virus tests to detect COVID-19 and flu for
immediate use.
The American Medical Association (AMA) today published an update to the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) code set that includes new code additions and editorial revisions for reporting medical services sparked by the public health response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The update to the CPT code set was approved by the CPT Editorial Panel, the
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Curation Health Raises Series A Funding for Clinical Decision Support Platform
What You Should Know:
- Curation Health raises an undisclosed Series A round of funding to accelerate the adoption of its advanced clinical decision support platform.
- Curation Health provides an advanced clinical decision
support platform for providers and health plans that aids in managing risk
contracts and improving quality performance.
Curation Health, an Annapolis, MD-based advanced clinical decision support platform for value-based care, today announced the completion of
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New Jersey Urology Launches First-Ever Urologic-Centric Epic EHR
What You Should Know:
- New Jersey Urology (NJU) becomes the first urology-only group to launch a urologic-centric Epic electronic health record (EHR).
- NJU is the largest urology practice providing complete
urologic care and comprehensive individualized treatment at more than 60
convenient locations, including six state-of-the-art Cancer Treatment Centers.
New Jersey Urology ("NJU"), the leading urology service provider in New Jersey, and Urology Management Associates
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Fresenius Kidney Care Rolls Out National Data Exchange Network
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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