HealthiPASS, a Chicago-based healthcare payments company, today announced it has raised a $7.2 million in Series A funding round, led by FCA Venture Partners. The round also included participation from OCA Ventures, Healthy Ventures, HealthX Ventures, Waterline Ventures and a small group of strategic investors. As high deductible health plans become more and more prevalent and patient out of pocket burden continues to increase, HealthiPASS simplifies the payments experience for both patients
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VirtualHealth Lands $7M to Expand Integrated Value-based Care Platform
VirtualHealth, a New York City-based startup of population health management and care management technologies, has raised $7 million in funding led by Edison Partners. The company plans to utilize the funding to further develop its product suite, grow the team and expand its market share. Founded in 2012 by Adam Sabloff, VirtualHealth’s secure, cloud-based platform seamlessly integrates population analytics with market-leading care, disease, and
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Aptean Acquires Web-based Clinical Portal Connect to Expand Healthcare Offerings
Aptean, a global provider of mission-critical enterprise software solutions, has acquired the Connect division of Influence Health to add to its growing suite of products that serve the healthcare industry and public sector. As part of the acquisition, employees focused on the Connect product have joined Aptean and will continue to work in their current locations. Financial terms of the acquisition was not disclosed. Connect, a division of Influence Health, offers a web-based clinical portal to
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OptimizeRX, Modernizing Medicine Launches Real-Time Financial Messaging
OptimizeRx Corp., a provider of digital health messaging via electronic health record (EHR) systems, announces a new initiative with specialty-specific EHR provider Modernizing Medicine to help patients save money and be better educated about their prescriptions. As part of the partnership, OptimizeRx services will operate seamlessly within the Modernizing Medicine EHR system workflow to notify health care providers (HCPs) of potential prescription savings and support information for their
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50% of All Healthcare Providers Are Connected Electronically Through Carequality Interoperability Framework
During The Sequoia Project’s Annual Meeting taking place this week, one of its key initiatives, Carequality, reported tremendous growth since it became operational in July of 2016. To date, more than 1,000 hospitals, 25,000 clinics, and 580,000 healthcare providers are connected through the Carequality interoperability framework, representing more than 50% of all healthcare providers in the country. Carequality is a national-level, consensus-built, common interoperability framework to enable
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Steward Health Care System to Implement MEDITECH’s Web EHR At 8 Additional Hospitals
Steward Health Care, the largest private hospital operator in the United States, today announced it will implement MEDITECH's Web EHR at eight additional hospitals The implementation of MEDITECH's Web EHR reflects Steward's recent expansion in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Florida. A MEDITECH customer for 19 years, Steward recognized MEDITECH as a trusted EHR source for the newly acquired eight sites. While Steward values its success with MEDITECH's legacy platforms, the multi-faceted
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Healthx, mPulse Mobile Partner to Provide Personalized Text Messages for Payers to Their Members
Healthx, Inc., a cloud-based portal and digital engagement solutions for healthcare payers, and mPulse Mobile, a mobile health engagement provider, today announced a partnership to offer personalized text messaging, email and IVR solutions through the Healthx member engagement platform.Using a series of member-focused text message workflows, Healthx platform users can drive adoption and utilization, lift quality scores, and create a personalized member experience, while decreasing call center
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3 Roadblocks to Achieving Interoperability In A Value-based Care System
I am sure I am not the only one who has lost count of the times I’ve been asked “Why can’t the systems talk to each other?” or, in more technical terms, “Why don’t we have interoperability?”The numerous health IT solutions that we have around us today were meant to improve not just the delivery of care, but also enhance patient outcomes as the care continues across multiple practices. At the most basic level, I suppose we can define interoperability as two or more systems communicating with each
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Health Wizz Launches Blockchain-Powered Mobile Platform for Patients to Organize Their Medical Record Data
Health Wizz has announced it's token pre-sale and the launch of it's new mobile platform that leverages blockchain, mobile technologies and data management to help consumers aggregate and organize their medical record data, then use the blockchain to securely access and share their data. As consumers gain greater awareness, they have greater expectations. They expect to be in control of their health and their health data and this includes the ability to access their health information anytime,
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Mayo Clinic, sphingotec Collaborate for Evaluation & Use of Biomarkers to Improve Diagnosis
sphingotec GmbH , a biotechnology company that develops biomarkers for the detection and management of diseases, has recently signed an agreement with Mayo Clinic to collaborate on the evaluation and use of several biomarkers that may improve the diagnosis of certain disease states, including kidney disease, breast cancer, sepsis, and cardiovascular disease.As part of the agreement, Mayo Clinic will evaluate the biomarkers proenkephalin (penKid) and three others for research and potential
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