Today, Medtronic and UnitedHealthcare announced positive first-year results from their value-based relationship focused on improving health outcomes for people with diabetes. Results demonstrated cost-savings and reduced hospital admissions for UnitedHealthcare members with type 1 diabetes on Medtronic insulin pumps, when compared to other members on multiple daily injections (MDI) of insulin. Starting in 2016, more than 6,000 UnitedHealthcare members were given access to the Medtronic MiniMed
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How Blockchain Technology Could Help Prevent Medical Fraud
Most people know blockchain as the transaction ledger associated with cryptocurrency transactions. However, evidence suggests a specific use for it that applies to health professionals — reducing medical fraud. Blockchain’s Innate Characteristics May Cut Down on FraudIndividuals think blockchain shows promise for minimizing fraud in medicine because of some of the features it offers. For example, many fraudulent practices in the health industry and elsewhere begin when people manipulate or
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Change Healthcare Launches Consumer Payment Solution to Transform Their Financial Experience
This week, Change Healthcare unveiled Member Healthcare Payments, a consumer payment solution that enables health plans to display consolidated patient financial information in a single destination, and empower consumers to better understand and manage their healthcare finances. Additionally, Member Healthcare Payments helps health plans better support providers by collecting patient payments, which can eliminate the provider's need to collect those payments.The first health plan to utilize
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Cerner and Lumeris Launch EHR-Agnostic Solution for Value-based Care
Cerner and Lumeris, a health plan and value-based care managed services operator, today announced a 10-year relationship aimed at eliminating inefficiencies in the current health care system. Under the relationship, the parties will launch a new offering, Maestro Advantage, for value-based arrangements, including Medicare Advantage (MA) and provider-sponsored health plans (PSHPs). The strategic relationship includes a Cerner investment in Lumeris’ parent company, Essence Group Holdings
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AdvancedMD Acquires NueMD to Expand Footprint by 27%
AdvancedMD, today announced it has acquired Marietta, Georgia-based Nuesoft Technologies (“NueMD”), a SaaS platform providing practice management, clinical and medical billing applications to simplify all aspects of running an independent practice. Post acquisition, AdvancedMD’s North American footprint will increase by 27%, expanding the total number of medical practice clients and practitioners to 11,000 and 33,000, respectively. AdvancedMD will retain NueMD offices in Marietta,
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DrChrono EHR Integrates with Collectly to Automate Billing & Collections for Practices
DrChrono Inc., the company enabling the medical practice of the future, today announced a new partnership withCollectly, a fellow Y Combinator company that streamlines the billing and collection process for healthcare companies.Collectly digitizes paper bills and works with practices to send patient billing statements and collection notices electronically via text or email. Within the message is a link for patients to go straight to a patient portal to see their statement and instantly make a
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Cleveland Clinic Adds EHR Data to Apple Health Records on iPhone for Patients
On Tuesday, Cleveland Clinic announced that patients can now access their personal health data via the Apple Health Records on iPhone feature. The new functionality provides another convenient way for patients to access their personal health data in addition to using the Epic MyChart via computer or downloading the app. Both ways provide patients the ability to access:- Allergies- Conditions- Immunizations- Lab Results- Procedures & Vitals- Organized medical information from various
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Caradigm Sale – The Final Step in GE’s Exit From PHM/Value-based Care?
- On 13th June 2018, cancer informatics and digital pathology workflow vendor, Inspirata, announced that it was purchasing GE Healthcare’s remaining population health management (PHM) interest, Caradigm- This follows the announcement in April 2018 that GE Healthcare was selling its ambulatory value-based care business to Veritas Capital- This latest announcement now means that GE Healthcare has exited the population health management market from both an enterprise and ambulatory perspective- It
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The 3 F’s for Care Innovations— Flow, Feasibility, Flexibility
Recently, I came across a story on a high-end care facility situated in Philadelphia. The said center was equipped with highly advanced machines, served high-income patients, and their services were fairly ‘integrated.’ A patient could visit a PCP on one floor and get diagnostic imaging done on another. However, any two systems did not connect. An X-ray image had to be first printed, faxed, and then again scanned in the physician’s desktop— taking a fair amount of time, and image quality was
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UMMC Selects Kyruus’ ProviderMatch for Access Centers to Improve Call Center Operations
Kyruus, a patient-provider matching health IT company, announced that the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) has selected the company’s ProviderMatch for Access Centers solution to improve call center operations and enhance patient access to UMMC’s network of 800+ providers in 170 locations across the state of Mississippi.ProviderMatch for Access Centers will make it easier for call center agents to identify the right provider for patients’ needs, enabling more precise
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