Accountable care organizations are playing a pivotal role in the value-based ecosystem. Since their formation in 2012, MSSP ACOs have saved over $2 billion for millions of assigned beneficiaries. More importantly, the quality of care has improved drastically as a direct result of the collaborative efforts by ACOs. The average quality scores of 2016 are higher than ever, attesting that ACOs are instrumental in advancing value-based care.However, the overall results, as observed on ACO Compare, do
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OnlyBoth Launches Benchmarking Engine for Nursing Homes
OnlyBoth Inc., a provider of benchmarking insights that enhance understanding, transparency, and performance improvement, has launched a new, revolutionary benchmarking engine at https://www.benchmine.com. OnlyBoth delivers fully automated, comparative insights on nursing homes in straightforward English summaries, rich with context.Until now, no benchmarking tool has allowed an in-depth comparison of U.S. nursing homes at the scale needed to drive improvement broadly in nursing care and patient
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Orion Health Launches Rhapsody Integration Engine on Amazon Cloud
Orion Health, a provider of interoperability, population health management, and precision medicine solutions, today announced the global launch of Rhapsody as a Service (RaaS), a cloud-based integration solution, powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS).Offering a full-service model to healthcare organizations, Orion Health also announces RaaS’s global Integration as a Service (IaaS) capability to manage and maintain the entire integration engine for customers.Orion Health’s Rhapsody Integration
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TriNetX Develops Algorithm for Deducing The Chemotherapy Line of Treatment
TriNetX, the global health research network representing nearly 100 million patients, has developed a groundbreaking chemotherapy lines of treatment identification algorithm that understands treatment patterns to deduce the line of chemotherapy treatment a patient is undergoing. This information, up to now nearly impossible to obtain, is critical for biopharmaceutical companies striving to develop therapies for patients involved in care regimens beyond first line treatments.Chemotherapy lines
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AxisPoint Health, mPulse Mobile Launch Engagement Tool for Health Plans
AxisPoint Health, has partnered with mPulse Mobile, provider of insights-driven mobile engagement solutions for healthcare, to launch a new digital messaging tool to effectively engage health plan members in their care. As part of the company’s CarePoint care management solution, the new tool lets care managers engage in one-on-one conversations with members via SMS text, and also provides program managers a tool for broadcasting to entire populations or subsets of the population via SMS. This
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Children’s National Health Integrates Artifact’s Physician Query Process With Cerner EHR
Children’s National Health System has selected Artifact Health, a mobile app that streamlines the physician query process to improve the quality of patient records and ensure full reimbursement for services.Physician queries are vital for accurate medical coding, which factors into proper reimbursement and quality scores for the hospital and physician – but traditionally have been primarily a manual, multi-step process. Children’s National will integrate Artifact with its Cerner patient record
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DevSecOps in Healthcare: Solving the Security Issue in Digital Transformation
According to Forrester data, the healthcare industry is estimated to spend up to $66 billion in technology budgets in 2017. In fact, healthcare systems are expected to see the most growth in business technology application spending as the remit for software in the industry expands. While the prospect of increased investment in health IT is exciting, data also show that 70% of digital transformation projects are expected to fail by 2018. With such a high risk for failure, how can health IT safely
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Survey: 50% of Providers Are Not Using Social Determinants of Health
According to a LexisNexis survey, 88 percent of hospital CIOs say the ideal time for patient engagement is prior to admission through community health efforts. Collaborating with healthsystemCIO.com, the survey reveals that hospitals and health systems are using social determinants of health (SDOH) data to enhance patient engagement programs.When asked about using SDOH data, 50 percent of providers stated they are not using SDOH data in patient engagement; however, 42 percent say SDOH data is
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DrFirst Launches E-Prescribing App to Combat Opioid Over-Prescribing
DrFirst, a provider of in e-prescribing and medication management solutions, today announced the launch of iPrescribe, a mobile app that allows physicians to prescribe legend drugs and controlled substances while complying with state prescription drug monitoring program (PDMP) requirements. The iPrescribe app can be downloaded from the Apple App Store and Google Play Store.iPrescribe is the first mobile solution to optimize access to all the necessary tools physicians need to manage patients’
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Mount Sinai Researchers Use AI-Driven Algorithms to Help Doctors Diagnose Diseases
Researchers used machine learning techniques, including natural language processing algorithms, to identify clinical concepts in radiologist reports for CT scans, according to a study conducted at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and published today in the journal Radiology. The technology is an important first step in the development of artificial intelligence that could interpret scans and diagnose conditions.From an ATM reading handwriting on a check to Facebook suggesting a photo
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