Editor’s Note: Santosh Varughese is the President of Cognetyx, a provider of ‘Ambient Cognitive Cyber Surveillance’ to protect information assets against cyber security threats, data breaches and privacy violations. Welcome to 2017, the writing is on the wall and it didn’t take long to get there. Earlier this month Atlanta’s Emory Healthcare was hacked by the Harak1r1 the 0.2 Bitcoin Ransomware. A database from the facility’s Brain Health Center containing data from more than 200,000 patients
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DirectTrust: 5 Health IT Trends to Watch in 2017
DirectTrust, a health care industry alliance created by and for participants in the Direct exchange network used for secure, interoperable messaging of personal health information (PHI) has released their list of of five health IT trends to watch in 2017. The five health IT trends outlined by DirectTrust President and CEO David C. Kibbe, MD, MBA are his thoughts about what he expects could develop over the next year that would shape the ecosystem of health IT as an industry.“One has to begin any
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PeraHealth Raises $14M for Predictive, Real-Time Clinical Surveillance
PeraHealth, a Charlotte, NC based provider of predictive, real-time clinical surveillance solutions has raised $14 million in funding from Mainsail Partners, a growth equity firm. As the healthcare industry progresses toward value-based care, high costs surrounding chronic diseases and infections continue to escalate. For example, sepsis kills 258,000 people in the U.S. every year and costs the U.S. healthcare system nearly $24 billion annually, according to the Sepsis Alliance. PeraHealth is
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Inovalon Extends Multi-Year Partnership with Anthem to Maximize Value-Based Care
Inovalon, a technology company providing advanced, cloud-based platforms empowering a data-driven transformation from volume-based to value-based models across the healthcare ecosystem has announced a multi-year extension of its partnership with health benefits provider Anthem, Inc. The collaboration enables Inovalon and Anthem to leverage the strengths of the two organizations and years of data from working together to maximize value and impact to consumers. Applying an integrated set of
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7 Healthcare Trends to Watch in 2017
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.2017 is here! As much as the last year was packed with surprises for the healthcare industry, a lot of them are expected this year too. President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office, the 21st Century Cures Act is law and MACRA redefines the terms of the healthcare
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Welltok Expands Partnership with Watson Health for Consumer Engagement
Health optimization platform Welltok has expanded its partnership with IBM Watson Health to leverage new new Watson Health capabilities to deliver comprehensive solutions for engaging populations in health and well-being. As part of the expanded partnership, Welltok's CaféWell Health Optimization Platform® will provide health managers with the ability to extend beyond care management and drive additional value by creating a holistic, seamless consumer experience.Adding IBM Watson Health's broad
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Arcadia Healthcare Solutions Raises $30M to Expand Data Analytics Platform
Burlington-based Arcadia Healthcare Solutions has raised $30 million in capital growth from the Merck Global Health Innovation Fund, GE Ventures, and existing investors Peloton Equity, Zaffre Investments, and Morgan Stanley Alternative Investment Partners. The EHR data aggregation/analytics company will utilize the funding to to accelerate its robust product development plans in the core Arcadia Analytics platform and expand population heath management market activities.Founded in 2002, the
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Health Network of Missouri to Deploy Cerner’s Population Health Platform Enterprise-wide
The University of Missouri Health Care announced it will extend Cerner's HealtheIntentSM population health management platform across the Health Network of Missouri (HNM) to coordinate and manage care for residents of rural Missouri communities. HNM is a collaborative of six independent health care organizations that use different EHR systems. The HNM network, which includes an academic medical center, state employer and a group of hospitals, serves patients throughout central, northeast and
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Piedmont Healthcare Taps Kyruus to Enhance Patient-Provider Matching
Piedmont Healthcare, a seven hospital system serving nearly two million patients in Georgia, has selected Kyruus to deploy its full suite of patient-provider match solutions. The implementation of Kyruus ProviderMatch suite and KyruusOne will enhance patient access and deliver a consistent patient experience across the entire organization.jIn addition, the system selection ensures Piedmont Healthcare will have an accurate and comprehensive provider database, providing visibility into the scope
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SnapMD Joins athenahealth’s ‘More Disruption Please’ Program
Telemedicine technology innovator SnapMD has joined athenahealth’s ‘More Disruption Please’ (MDP) program to offer its private-label, cloud-based telemedicine platform available on the athenahealth® Marketplace. A comprehensive telemedicine offering, SnapMD will now be integrated with athenaClinicals® (EHR) and athenaCollector® (revenue cycle management) services. The end-to-end VCM platform enables a network of more than 85,000 healthcare providers to offer telehealth services to their
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