Hospital-acquired infections and data breaches may have vastly different causes, but they have one thing in common—they put healthcare organizations and patients at risk. The “pathogens” which cause data breaches originate both externally and internally—but practicing healthcare cyber hygiene can reduce or eliminate their “infection."Patient data has high value—to others. According to Verizon’s 2017 Data Breach Investigations Report, healthcare has the second highest number of breaches after
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Presence Health Taps R1 RCM for End-to-End Revenue Cycle Management
R1 RCM Inc., a provider of technology-enabled revenue cycle management (RCM) services to healthcare providers, today announced that Presence Health based in Chicago, Illinois has selected R1 to provide its end-to-end RCM services across the Presence Health system’s acute care hospitals and physician care settings.Presence Health has more than 150 locations in Illinois, including 10 hospitals. As part of the anticipated agreement to manage Presence Health’s $2.2B annual net patient revenue,
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Roche Acquires Oncology EHR Startup Flatiron Health for $1.9B
Roche has reached an agreement to acquire Flatiron Health, a NYC-based oncology EHR startup focused on accelerating cancer research and improving patient care for $1.9B. Under terms of the acquisition, Flatiron Health will continue its current business model, network of partnerships and overall objectives. The integrity of segregated patient protected health information will be preserved, as will dedicated sales and marketing, provider-facing and life science business activities. In addition,
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MetaLogics Joins StartUp Health’s Moonshot Academy for Digital Health Innovators
MetaLogics Corporation, a Minneapolis-based provider of products for health improvement and weight management, has been selected to join StartUp Health and its exclusive Moonshot Academy for digital health innovators. StartUp Health is organized around 10 Health Moonshots with the long-term goal to accelerate the pace of healthcare innovation and to achieve 100 years of progress in 25 years.MetaLogics provides scientifically validated solutions to improve health and to reduce the risks
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Innovaccer Launches ACO Compare to Analyze ACO Performance Trends
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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