Allied Physicians Group. a Long Island, N.Y., physicians group of 150 pediatricians has selected Dimensional Insight, a developer of business intelligence (BI) solutions to use its Diver Platform to attain valuable insights on revenue cycle management and clinical and financial operations initiatives. Allied Physicians Group was in need of a well-designed, flexible and easy-to-use analytics platform that would span across its 35 office locations. The health network also wanted a solution that
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GE, Boston Children’s Partner to Develop App for Pediatric Brain Scans
Boston Children's Hospital and GE Healthcare has formed a joint venture to develop and commercialize digital health tools to advance the diagnosis and treatment of specific childhood brain diseases. The first project of the collaboration involves developing an app that will improve diagnostic accuracy in pediatric brain scans by providing real-time contextual information at the time and place the radiologist needs it.As part of the collaboration, both organizations will leverage GE Health Cloud
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nThrive Acquires Clinically Integrated Revenue Cycle Provider Adreima
nThrive, an Alpharetta, GA-based provider of revenue cycle solutions has acquired Adreima, a Downers Grove, Ill.-based provider of patient-centered, clinically-integrated revenue cycle services that help patients find coverage and meet their financial obligations, while partnering with health care providers to optimize revenue cycle functions. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. For nThrive, the acquisition strengthens it's patient-to-payment roadmap that are essential to
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What Does The Recent Election Mean for Predictive Analytics in Healthcare?
The outcome of the recent election caught many people, and many forecasters, by surprise. How could their predictions have missed the mark so significantly? Granted, there were a number of people who predicted the outcome more accurately, but many of those who used data models to analyze the likely outcome are left now with head-scratching and postmortem analysis in order to improve their methods.In their book Superforecasting, The Art and Science of Prediction, authors Philip Telock and Dan
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Call to Action: Organizing for Patient Care
On November 8th America elected a President who ran on a promise to restore government of the people, by the people, for the people (among other things). However, we cannot expect such government to be given to us on a silver platter, no matter who resides in the White House. We must build it ourselves, by definition. Government of, by, and for the people requires the people to stand up and do more than just vote every four years, do more than author clever blogs, do more than compose brilliant
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Ottawa Hospital Taps SeamlessMD for Bariatric Patient Engagement
The Ottawa Hospital and the Bariatric Medical Institute have partnered with SeamlessMD’s patient engagement platform to extend their support for bariatric surgery patients into its patients’ homes. By using the SeamlessMD platform, the care teams at both The Ottawa Hospital and Bariatric Medical Institute will be able to deliver more coordinated care for their patients while they prepare and recover in the community.The Bariatric Centre of Excellence of The Ottawa Hospital currently performs
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WEDI Appoints 4 New Board Members to Advance Use of Health IT
The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI), a nonprofit authority on the use of health IT to create efficiencies in healthcare information exchange, announced today the election of four new board members to its Board of Directors, as well as the re-election of eight previous board members to serve two-year terms.The WEDI Board of Directors represents a diverse cross-section of the industry including payers, providers, government regulators and industry vendors. This group of executives
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Massachusetts Governor Launches Digital Healthcare Council
Governor Charlie Baker has announced the launch of a Digital Healthcare Council, a comprehensive public-private partnership that will advise the administration on the future of the Commonwealth’s digital healthcare industry. The council convenes leaders across the digital healthcare industry, including technology, healthcare delivery, insurance, medical devices, the life sciences, academia, and government, to advise on ways new digital technologies can improve healthcare in the Commonwealth,
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Operating Room Equipment Market to Reach $1.1B by 2023
The global operating room (OR) equipment market, which covers OR tables, OR lights, and surgical boom units, is set to rise from just over $920 million in 2016 to around $1.1 billion by 2023, representing a compound annual growth rate of 2.6%, according to research and consulting firm GlobalData.The company’s latest report states that this modest growth can be attributed to rising numbers of surgical procedures in numerous specialties, rising numbers of laparoscopic and computer-assisted
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New Partnership Builds Real-Time Network Between ED and County Jail
Dallas, TX-based Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute (MMHPI) has selected Loopback Analytics, a care transitions management platform provider to develop a comprehensive network connecting area hospital emergency rooms, law enforcement and behavioral health providers. The network will work to coordinate real-time referral and follow-up for mental health patients to ensure they receive appropriate, long-term treatment to reduce emergency room visits, law enforcement detention and recidivism,
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