Definitive Healthcare, a provider of data, intelligence, and analytics on the healthcare provider market, announced today that it has acquired the vendor data services business of HIMSS Analytics, which includes the Logic, Predict, Analyze and custom research products. The acquisition will build on the Definitive's articulated growth strategy to deliver the most reliable and consistent view of healthcare data and analytics available in the market.“HIMSS Analytics has developed an extraordinarily
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Cerner Co-Founder & Vice Chairman Cliff Illig Announces Retirement
Cerner, announced today that Cliff Illig, company co-founder and vice chairman of the board of directors, has retired from Cerner to focus on outside interests. Illig co-founded Cerner in 1979 and has served on the board since 1980. He has been vice chairman since March 1999, except for July 2017 through February 2018, when he was chairman of the board and interim CEO. Illig previously served as the company’s chief operating officer until October 1998, and as president of Cerner until March
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7 Steps to Data Lake Success: What Payers Need to Know Before Diving In
There is a promising new trend in healthcare data science. Innovative health payers are beginning to complement their use of structured data with raw data – from healthcare transactions, physician notes, digital health applications, and more – to make decisions that affect population and individual member health.As payers have massive amounts of both types of data at their disposal, the concept of a “data lake” is gaining traction. A data lake stores both structured and unstructured data without
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Change Healthcare, Health Fidelity Collaborate to Offer NLP-Driven Risk Adjustment Solution
Change Healthcare today announced that it is collaborating with Health Fidelity to offer a risk adjustment solution that embeds natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning technology into its risk adjustment coding offering to help Medicare Advantage, ACA commercial, and Medicaid payers increase claim accuracy and better address compliance obligations.How AI Can Transform Risk AdjustmentIn today’s value-based environment, health plans are under mounting pressure to submit
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2018 Healthcare M&A in Review: 4 Trends Reshaping the Healthcare Landscape
The trend of mergers between large healthcare provider organizations continued in 2018, as the average size in revenue of sellers (defined as the smaller of two organizations in a transaction) reached $409 million, according to Kaufman Hall's new report, 2018 M&A in Review: A New Healthcare Landscape Takes Shape. This is the highest figure seen since Kaufman Hall began tracking this metric in 2008. It also represents a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of almost 14 percent in the average
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HealthStream Acquires Providigm for $18M in Cash to Drive Quality Outcomes
HealthStream, a provider of workforce and provider solutions for the healthcare industry, today announced that it has acquired Providigm LLC, a Denver-based company focused on quality assurance and performance improvement in healthcare, primarily serving skilled nursing facilities for approximately $18 million in cash. HealthStream adds to its workforce development solutions with a comprehensive quality management system created by Providigm, known as “abaqis,” which is the leading SaaS-based
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Halo Communications Launches Halo Patient Coordinator for Team-based Care Coordination
Halo Communications (formerly known as DocHalo), today announced the launch of Halo Patient Coordinator will give doctors and nurses the ability to focus mobile and collaborative care around individual patients by allowing teams to be created, managed and adjusted automatically — providing real-time updates, case-by-case EMR syncing, and much more.A product offering available within Halo’s Clinical Communication Platform, Halo Patient Coordinator allows patient care teams to be created, managed
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Cerner and Christiana Care Health System Work to Deliver Bariatric Services for Cerner Health Plan Members
Cerner has announced a strategic collaboration with Christiana Care Health System in Delaware to provide a weight loss surgery program designed to help members of Cerner’s health plan achieve their health goals. Together, they will focus on delivering high-quality, safe care with personalized support that helps members through each stage of the process. Following a yearlong, nationwide selection process, the health system was selected as the strategic collaborator to improve the long-term health
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Sharp HealthCare Expands Relationship with Cerner to Improve Patient Care
Sharp HealthCare, a leading health care provider in San Diego, has expanded its longstanding relationship with Cerner, a global leader in health care technology, with the goal to enhance care delivery throughout its regional health system. As part of the new agreement, Cerner associates will be part of a team in San Diego working side-by-side with IT staff and clinicians through this process to help drive new strategy and improved health outcomes across the organization. Expanded
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Verato Raises $10M to Eliminate Duplicate Medical Records with Patient Matching Technology
Verato, a McLean, VA-based provider of cloud-based patient matching and master patient index (MPI) technology, today announced that it has raised $10 million in Series C financing led by existing investors Bessemer Venture Partners and Columbia Capital with participation from Blue Heron Capital and California Health Care Foundation. The company plans to use the latest round of funding to accelerate the adoption of Verato’s revolutionary new technology by all segments within healthcare –
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