Livongo Health, a consumer digital health company that is empowering people with chronic diseases to live better has raised $52.5 million in growth funding co-led by existing investor General Catalyst and international investment company Kinnevik. Singapore-based EDBI, American Investment Holdings LLC, and Microsoft Ventures also joined the round including participation from previous investors. The company plans to utilize the funding to expand its diabetes management to international markets
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Survey Reveals 2 Ways Hospitals Can Generate More Revenue from Referring Physicians
A survey of independent physician revealed that convenience and communication are critical attributes for deciding where they’ll send their patients. Functions like self-scheduling, assistance confirming insurance network participation and obtaining insurance authorizations are the patient-focused care coordination support physicians are looking for. SCI Solutions analyzed the findings from Reaction’s (formerly peer60) survey in the report, “Independent Physician Survey: The Referral Destination
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HMSA Rolls Out Sharecare’s Digital Health Platform Statewide
Atlanta-based Sharecare, the digital health company created by WebMD founder Jeff Arnold and Hawai‘i Medical Service Association (HMSA), an independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association has kicked off the rollout of Sharecare's digital health platform statewide. In addition to their expanded partnership, HMSA has made a separate undisclosed strategic investment in Sharecare.As part of the expanded partnership, Sharecare will provide the digital connectivity and messaging
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Mount Sinai Taps Salesforce Health Cloud to Coordinate & Manage Care of 350k Medicare Recipients
Mount Sinai Health System, an integrated health system announced it is using Salesforce Health Cloud to to coordinate and manage the care of 350k Medicaid recipients in its Performing Provider System (PPS) in New York City. Salesforce Health Cloud enables providers to get a more precise view of patient demographic, lifestyle and health information to better serve their needs. With Salesforce Health Cloud, more than 10,000 Medicaid service providers and 200 community organizations will gain
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Innovaccer Launches Free Tool to Help Care Teams Track, Monitor Medicare Advantage Plans
Innovaccer Inc., a Silicon Valley- headquartered healthcare analytics company has unveiled Payor Compare, a free tool for care teams to track, monitor and analyze their performance in the Medicare Advantage Plan and overall trends. Payor Compare tool assimilates comprehensive historical and current data from over 33,000 Medicare Advantage Plans spanned over 600 payors. The new tool compliments Innovaccer's recent tools such as ‘MIPS Calculator’, ‘Hospital Compare’ and ‘ACO Compare’ for free in
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GHX Report: Healthcare Supply Chain Market Growth
Global Healthcare Exchange, LLC (GHX) released fourth quarter 2016 data and 2016 results for distributed sales in both Medical-Surgical (Med-Surg) and Clinical Laboratory (Clin-Lab) product segments in healthcare. The new GHX Market Intelligence “By the Numbers” quarterly report revealed that the Med-Surg segment grew 5 percent year over year in the fourth quarter 2016 to $9.6B in volume and the Clin-Lab segment grew 12.4 percent year over year to $2.15B in the fourth quarter.The new report also
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Healthcare’s Password Prognosis
Editor’s Note: Dean Wiech is the Managing Director of Tools4ever, a global provider of access management and governance solutions. Dean has worked with healthcare organizations, educational institutions, municipalities for more than 20 years, helping them identify solutions that make their businesses and operations more secure, efficient and easier to manage. Passwords are everywhere. The headlines might tell us otherwise, but their death, and the exaggeration of such, means that they are and
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ECRI Institute Names Information Management in EHRs Top Patient Safety Concern for Healthcare Organizations
Information management in electronic health records (EHRs) has been named the top patient safety concern for healthcare organizations in 2017, according to the ECRI Institute. ECRI Institute's 2017 Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns for Healthcare Organizations report reveals that the troves of information to manage, and the advent of EHRs has brought significant presents significant challenges for healthcare providers. "But the object is still for people to have the information that they need to
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KLAS Report: Cerner & athenahealth Stumbling in Small Practice Ambulatory EMR/PM Market
Providers say GE is improving, while they also report that Cerner and athenahealth are stumbling over the past 2 years, according to a recent KLAS report on Small Practice Ambulatory EMR/PM market. The KLAS report reveals that small ambulatory practices (1–10 physicians) need cost-effective solutions that deliver the functionality required to comply with evolving regulations and that allow providers to properly care for and bill their patents. Additionally, they expect to get the support,
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The Importance of Risk Stratification in Population Health Management
Editor’s Note: Abhinav Shashank is the CEO & Co-founder at Innovaccer Inc., a datashop integrating complex data across multiple distributed sources to give healthcare organizations greater insights to provider better care.As value-based care becomes the primary focus of healthcare organizations, providers now need to broach population health management and to manage it with risk stratification with a delicate balance. It is now important for providers to focus on patients’ individual and
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