Tandigm Health, LLC, a value-based healthcare company supporting primary care physicians has selected athenahealth to implement its population health management tool to help advance population health management among its network of over 440 primary care physicians. As part of the implementation, Tandigm will utilize athenahealth Population Health for care management as well as analytics, risk stratification, and quality management to help facilitate patient-centered, value-based care.
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Midland Health to Implement Cerner’s EHR, Revenue Cycle, PHM Platform
Midland Health, a system of health care partners including Midland Memorial Hospital announced it will implement Cerner’s Millennium EHR, revenue cycle management and population health platform, HealtheIntent. As part of the implementation, Midland Memorial’s 474-bed hospital and affiliated community clinics will transition from various disparate systems to Cerner’s integrated digital platform. The new EHR system is designed to support an individual’s health care journey across the continuum –
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TigerText Launches Clinical Communications Platform for Value-Based Care
Clinical communication provider TigerText, today unveiled TigerFlow, a workflow-centric clinical communication solution that brings together an enterprise-wide platform, integration with clinical systems of record, an engaging user experience, and intelligent workflow mapping for better care team collaboration.The Next Evolution In Healthcare CommunicationsTigerFlow combines its mobile communications platform with data integration capabilities, end-to-end workflow consultation services provided
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Sutter Health, Validic Launch Patient-Generated Health Data Pilot Project
Sutter Health and digital health integration platform Validic has teamed up to launch a new federal pilot project to demonstrate how patient-generated health data (PGHD) can best be delivered to clinicians and researchers to improve patient care and outcomes. The pilot will focus on providing remote care and interventions using digital health devices to better manage and engage a population of individuals suffering from Type II diabetes. Results of this work will inform government policy and
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3 Trends Driving Healthcare Data Analytics Over The Next 3-5 Years
The road to improving healthcare is paved with analytics, but where exactly will all that data take providers? LexisNexis Health Care’s Jeff Klein shares his insights.Data—it’s the undeniable force disrupting and changing everything in healthcare. Still, the question remains: how will investing in HIT to make use of all that data pay off for providers? Well, for one thing, it will prevent providers from having to pay the ultimate price of doing nothing. However, not just any old data platform
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Healthcare IT VC Funding Tops $1.25B in Q3 2016: 10 Trends to Know
Healthcare IT VC funding topped $1.25 billion in 177 deals in Q3 2016 compared to $1.6 billion in 140 deals in Q2 2016, according to the latest report from Mercom Capital Group. The report, Q3 2016 Healthcare IT / Digital Health Funding and M&A Report reveals that overall funding is on pace to eclipse 2015’s total and the trend from last quarter continued as there was again increased funding activity in Healthcare IT outside of the United States, especially in China. Here are ten key trends
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Johns Hopkins to Launch 8 Precision Medicine Centers of Excellence
Johns Hopkins inHealth, the precision medicine effort at Johns Hopkins has announced plans to launch eight precision medicine centers of excellence (COE) this year to highlight areas where the newest technologies and measurement tools can be applied to greatly improve patient care. As part of the effort, Johns Hopkins Medicine has identified several similarly challenging conditions for which precision medicine centers of excellence will improve efficiencies and patient outcomes, while fostering
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Mount Sinai Taps CloudMedx to Use Predictive Analytics for CHF Patients
Mount Sinai Hospital and CloudMedx, today announced a collaborate on congestive heart failure to improve workflows and patients care management. As part of the collaboration, Mount Sinai will leverage intelligent predictive insights from CloudMedx in order to identify patients who are at higher risk of CHF and use evidence based care interventions to improve their outcomes such as reduced readmissions and overall well-being.Mount Sinai wanted to combine evidence based digital medicine technology
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3M 360 Encompass System Expands with Professional Fee Coding
3M Health Information Systems is expanding its 3M 360 Encompass System platform to introduce encounter-based professional fee coding solution. The new solution brings the power of 3M’s computer-assisted coding, physician query capability and reporting to coding and billing for physician services, helping professional coders improve productivity, boost compliance and decrease claim denials.The University of New Mexico Hospitals (UNMH), a five-hospital system and New Mexico’s only academic medical
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Olathe Health System to Integrate Cerner Revenue Cycle With EHR
Olathe Health System, one of the largest providers in the Midwest announced it will integrate its existing enterprise-wide EHR with Cerner Revenue Cycle. The relationship expansion will deliver advanced integration between Cerner’s clinical and financial solutions enables streamlined coordination of care across inpatient and outpatient facilities, as well as independent physician practices. It also is designed to enhance the patient billing experience by enabling data to flow through the system
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