athenahealth has received an unsolicited proposal from Elliott Management to acquire the Company for $160 per share in cash that could be worth about $7 billion, including debt, CNBC first reports.In a letter sent to athenahealth’s management, the activist firm stated, “It is clear to us and becoming clear to many others that Athenahealth’s potential will never be realized without the kind of operational change that the company seems unable to deliver.” The letter also states that Elliot
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Capital Region Medical Center to Implement Cerner EHR and Revenue Cycle Solution
Capital Region Medical Center (CRMC) has selected Cerner, a global leader in health care technology, to implement an integrated electronic health record (EHR) and revenue cycle management solutions to support improved health outcomes and optimized revenue functions. University of Missouri (MU) Health Care will extend its Cerner Millennium® domain to CRMC. As an affiliate of MU Health Care since 1997, the domain extension to CRMC will further the health system’s well-established collaboration
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DrChrono and Cliniconex Integrate to Provide Enhanced Mobile EHR Experience to Urgent Care Practices
DrChrono Inc., the company enabling the medical practice of the future, today announced a partnership with Cliniconex to bring more modern and mobile benefits to urgent care practices. The Cliniconex and DrChrono integration provides an enhanced mobile EHR experience for urgent care practices.Cliniconex easily integrates with DrChrono’s cloud-based EHR platform and daily workflow processes. Cliniconex’s automated patient communication, and reporting software not only streamlines pre and
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mPulse Mobile Lands $11M, Launches Activation Intelligence Solution to Drive Behavior Change
mPulse Mobile, a provider of mobile solutions to drive healthy behavior change has raised $11 million in Series B funding led by SJF Ventures including existing investors HLM Venture Partners, EchoHealth Ventures, OCA Ventures, and Bonfire Ventures. That latest round brings the company’s total funding to date to over $25 million. In addition to the Series B funding, the company announced the launch of its Activation Intelligence product, which delivers on the promise of personalized health
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EMR Workflow Optimization: The Lynchpin to Ameliorating Physician Burnout
Healthcare have been transformed over the last decade as electronic medical records have been rolled out across America. Unfortunately, information technology has not yet fulfilled its immense promise. To a great extent, this is because most EMRs were designed primarily as giant billing systems. They were not conceived as patient care systems, and efforts to use them for patient care have been compromised by issues of usability and efficiency. Of equal concern have been the effects on morale
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98point6 Launches AI Driven, On-Demand Primary Care Service in 10 States
After three years of R&D and a year of beta, 98point6 has announced the launch of its on-demand primary care service to deliver personalized consultation, diagnosis and treatment to patients across the country. The on-demand primary care platform combines innovative AI technology with board-certified physicians to deliver affordable and high-quality care right to a patient's smartphone. On-Demand Primary Care with Digital Platform Primary care is a necessity for all, serving as the front
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Study: AI Mobile Platform Performs Better than CDC’s Diabetes Program
A new study in this week’s Journal of Medical Internet Research finds that a mobile platform using artificial intelligence helps diabetics and obese people better than the federal government’s National Diabetes Prevention Program. The pilot study, “Weight Loss Using a Novel Mobile Diabetes Prevention Program Delivery Platform With Human Coaching: 65-Week Observational Follow-Up,” published yesterday followed diabetics and obese people over the course of 65 weeks. Participants logged their
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Change Healthcare Adds Front-End Patient Access to Revenue Cycle Analytics
Change Healthcare has unveiled a new version of Acuity Revenue Cycle Analytics that adds front-end patient access analytics to expand its revenue cycle intelligence portfolio. Available now, hospitals and health systems using Acuity Revenue Cycle Analytics can more readily understand the interdependencies and influences across the revenue cycle from the first moment they touch a consumer all the way through claims submission, processing, billing, and payment.One reason why revenue cycle managers
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Allscripts to Acquire Mobile Patient Engagement Platform HealthGrid for $60M
Allscripts has signed a definitive agreement to acquire HealthGrid Holding Company, a mobile enterprise patient engagement platform business for $60 million. Once the The acquisition will expand the Allscripts FollowMyHealthplatform portfolio, the company’s patient engagement solution focused on connecting patients with providers. The added functionality will enable providers to reach 100% of their patient populations without requiring patients to sign up for a portal. Instead, the new
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HHS Launches KidneyX to Drive Innovation in Kidney Disease Treatment
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is teaming up with American Society of Nephrology to launch the Kidney Innovation Accelerator (KidneyX), a a public-private partnership to accelerate innovation in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of kidney diseases. KidneyX will engage a community of researchers, innovators, and investors to enable and accelerate the commercialization of therapies to benefit people with and at risk for kidney diseases through a series of prize
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