Innovaccer, a Silicon Valley-based healthcare platform company, today announced the launch of Datashop Beacon— a new product that offers extensively researched, benchmarked and structured datasets for healthcare organizations and researchers to gather actionable insights on healthcare trends.The datasets within Datashop Beacon were built keeping in mind the importance of having holistic care data, especially, in the era of healthcare information technology. But assimilating comprehensive care
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ConnectiveRx Acquires Specialty Pharma Startup Careform to Enhance Patient Engagement for Specialty Drugs
ConnectiveRx, a company helping patients with affordability, access and medication adherence messaging, has acquired Careform a Pittsburgh-based provider of technology-enabled “hub” services driving patient and provider engagement and support. The acquisition will enable both ConnectiveRx and Careform to improve patient outcomes by improving speed-to-therapy, and prescription compliance and persistence. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.ConnectiveRx delivers affordability
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CHIME Suspends National Patient ID Challenge After 2 Years
The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME), today announced that CHIME Healthcare Innovation Trust has decided to suspend the National Patient ID Challenge after nearly two years of work. Despite the suspension, CHIME did emphasized that finding a national patient ID solution that accurately identifies a patient 100% percent of the time will remain a top priority.Launched in 2015, CHIME National Patient ID Challenge is a $1 million global competition aimed at
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Unified Signal, BurstIQ Expands Partnership to Offer Blockchain-based Health Data Management Layer for Mobile Crypto-Wallet
Mississippi Division of Medicaid Goes Live on Real-Time Clinical Data Exchange With Hattiesburg Clinic
MedeAnalytics and the Mississippi Division of Medicaid (DOM) announced the second data exchange connection in the U.S. with the Hattiesburg Clinic, the first clinical data exchange was with the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC). The automated systems share clinical data in real-time, equipping clinicians with enhanced medical-history information about Medicaid patients within seconds. Thus far both DOM and Hattiesburg, have shared clinical information on 20,000 individual Medicaid
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Jefferson Health Selects Kyruus to Optimize Patient-Provider Matching
Jefferson Health, a leading academic health system in Pennsylvania and New Jersey has selected Kyruus, a leader in provider search and scheduling solutions to build a comprehensive provider directory and optimize patient-provider matching. Jefferson Health recently completed some significant expansion activity and needed a way to consolidate information about its providers from various sources to improve patient-provider matching. With Kyruus’ solution, Jefferson can create a robust, accurate
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Zebra Medical Vision Enables Radiology Algorithms on Google Cloud With AI1 All-in-One Offering
Zebra Medical Vision, a leading deep learning imaging analytics company, is announcing that all its current and future radiology algorithms will be enabled on the Google Cloud as part of its new AI1 offering to global health providers . A pioneer in the field of machine and deep learning for medical imaging, Zebra-Med is driving transparency in its business model to encourage faster global adoption of advanced tools that can improve health. With over 450 new petabytes per year in imaging data ,
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Don’t Let The Hype Fool You—AI in Healthcare Is Far From Perfect
Medicomp Systems’ Dr. Jay Anders explains what needs to change for machine learning to make a profound impact for providers and patients.Ever since IBM Watson wowed audiences with its superior knowledge on Jeopardy, the buzz around the potential and power of machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) has grown across industries worldwide. However, Medicomp Systems’ Dr. Jay Anders says don’t let the hype fool you—AI in healthcare is far from perfect.“The sad truth is that there is a long,
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MEDITECH Unveils Cloud-Based EHR Subscription Model for Critical Access Hopsitals
EHR vendor MEDITECH has announced the launch of MEDITECH as a Service (MaaS), a new private, cloud-based monthly EHR subscription model being offered initially to Critical Access Hospitals (CAH). MaaS will provide healthcare organizations with MEDITECH's latest EHR technology designed to improve organizational efficiency and ensure quality patient care. The integrated EHR solution is obtained through a monthly subscription, allowing organizations to quickly procure a cost-effective, modern EHR
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MACRA: The Yardstick for Quality that Health Systems Need
The number of quality initiatives is rapidly rising in the healthcare industry as stakeholders shift their focus toward the value of patient care. In addition, with the recent implementation of the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA), the rules surrounding healthcare reimbursement are being rewritten, incentivizing healthcare providers to prioritize the quality of patient visits over the quantity.Historically, it has been difficult to achieve consensus on defining quality;
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