Every day, doctors and medical researchers are challenged to find new, improved drugs and courses of treatment for chronic disease. But, what if the answer to improving health outcomes for many patients was simpler than developing new drugs? What if it was as simple as ensuring more patients stick to their treatment regimens?Medical non-adherence is a massive challenge all over the world. According to the World Health Organization, half of patients in long-term treatment for chronic illnesses
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Complete HealthCare Solutions, Inc. Acquires PDQ Billing Services
Complete HealthCare Solutions, Inc. has announced the acquisition of PDQ Billing Services, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Founded in 1993, PDQ Billing Services provides revenue cycle management and credentialing services to the ambulatory healthcare segment. Complete HealthCare Solutions, Inc.'s offering includes a robust set of clinical and financial solutions supporting the full scope of care delivery processes — including Revenue Cycle Management Services, Credentialing, Patient Pay Solutions,
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Evolent Health Partners with SOMOS IPA to Accelerate Transition to Value-Based Care
Evolent Health, a company providing an integrated value-based care platform to the nation's leading provider organizations, today announced it has partnered with SOMOS IPA to accelerate value-based care in New York. The partnership will focus first on supporting the performance goals of New York's Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment (DSRIP) program for approximately 300,000 New York residents and will serve as a platform to expand to other value-based care arrangements.Evolent is supporting
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Imprivata Names Former Sutter Health Executive Wes Wright as CTO
Health IT security company Imprivata, today announced the appointment of former Sutter Health executive Wes Wright to Chief Technology Officer (CTO) to lead the company's global technology strategy. As part of his new role as CTO, Wright will provide technical leadership across all areas of Imprivata’s overall business plan and strategic vision. Prior to Imprivata, Wright most recently served as CTO of Sutter Health where he was responsible for the technical services strategies and operational
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Reimbursify Launches New App for Out-of-Network Reimbursement Claims
Reimbursify, a healthcare-focused technology company providing app-centric solutions for consumers, healthcare providers & businesses has launched a new app that gives patients a quick and easy way to file out-of-network reimbursement claims with their insurance company in less than 60 seconds. Users can also monitor their current, pending, and past claims from the app. Reimbursify is currently being used by patients in 21 states as well as Puerto Rico."Visits to healthcare providers who
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Innovaccer Raises $25 Million to Expand Unified Healthcare Data Platform
Innovaccer Inc., a Silicon Valley-based healthcare data platform company, announced today that it has raised $25 million capital in its Series B round of funding led by Westbridge Capital with participation from Lightspeed Ventures. This brings the total capital raised by Innovaccer to $41 million. Innovaccer plans to use the funds to continue building on its industry-leading suite and go-to-market capabilities.This includes enhancing its data platform by doubling down on its machine learning
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Mayo Regional Hospital to Implement Cerner Integrated EHR
Mayo Regional Hospital has selected Cerner to implement a new integrated electronic health record (EHR) and revenue cycle solutions across its acute and ambulatory facilities. This agreement provides the hospital with sophisticated health care technology that will support Mayo doctors, nurses and staff as they work to streamline operations and improve patient care. With Cerner’s Clinically Driven Revenue Cycle™ solutions, Mayo clinicians will be able to view clinical and financial data in one
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AdvancedMD Launches Rhythm, Unified Workflow Automation Solution
AdvancedMD, a pioneer in cloud technology for independent physician practices, launches a complete cloud platform, known as AdvancedMD Rhythm, featuring a new smart EHR dashboard and flexible patient cards that transform clinical workflow. Through seamless data flow in the cloud between clinical, patient and billing applications and built-in analytics, the Rhythm platform provides the tools for prioritizing clinical workflow, treating patients successfully, and optimally meet the needs of
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Redox Launches FHIR API for Health Data Exchange on Redox Network
Health integration platform Redox, today announced that they will now offer developers and healthcare organizations the option to use FHIR®, Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resource, for health data exchange over the Redox Network: R^FHIR. R^FHIR expands the capabilities of the Redox Platform by offering developers the choice to interact with a singular FHIR® implementation while still benefiting from the standardization and normalization provided to the network of organizations using Redox
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MEDITECH EHR Expands Global Presence to United Kingdom & Ireland
MEDITECH Holdings announce it is expanding its global presence and launching MEDITECH UK in the United Kingdom and Ireland. In partnership with MEDITECH in the United States, MEDITECH UK will deliver the web-based Electronic Patient Record (EPR) platform Expanse to customers in the UK and Ireland for the first time. MEDITECH Expanse is an integrated, web-based EPR designed for mobile, tablet-based navigation with a familiar web-user interface. Created collaboratively with consultants and
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