Apixio Inc., the data science company for healthcare has unveiled its HCC Profiler for Commercial Risk, for more accurate and complete risk coding for health plans on the federal and state health insurance exchanges. Insurance exchanges are one aspect of the Affordable Care Act that has struggled with several large insurers including Aetna and Oscar opting to leave in 2017. Two key issues driving this are that exchanges are attracting individuals who are sicker than expected. And, insurers
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NantCare Unveils Solutions to Support CMS Oncology Care Model
NantCare, a member of the NantWorks will be providing community oncology practices with solutions and resources that will help these practices comply with the administrative and clinical requirements put forth by the CMS’ new Oncology Care Model (OCM). Typically only available at large cancer institutions, NantCare will provide access to clinical trials through facilitation of participation in Cancer MoonShot 2020’s QUILT Trials, eliminating the need for patients to travel to major cancer
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Inspira Health Network to Implement Cerner’s EHR, Population Health Platform
Inspira Health Network, one of southern New Jersey’s leading healthcare providers offering primary, acute and advanced care services has selected Cerner to implement network-wide health IT system. Named InspiraOne, Cerner's integrated health IT system will support the delivery of care across the full continuum of primary, acute and advanced services.As part of the implementation, Inspira Health Network will extend Cerner's EHR across Inspira's three hospitals and more than 100 ambulatory
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Why Digitized Mental Healthcare is Better Mental Healthcare
If community hospitals are a general barometer of health in the surrounding area, the emergency room is the canary in the coal mine. Viral outbreaks, increases in violence, loss of health insurance from local layoffs—all are social ills that make their presence known first in the ER.Based on recent ER studies, the U.S. is on the cusp of a full-blown mental health crisis.According to a recent survey of more than 1,700 emergency physicians by the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP),
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Mount Sinai Launches RxUniverse for Physicians to Prescribe Health Apps to Patients
Mount Sinai researchers in the Sinai App Lab at the Icahn School of Medicine have developed RxUniverse, the first enterprise-wide digital medicine care delivery system that enables physicians to digitally prescribe evidence-based mobile health apps to patients at the point of care. With over 245,000 health apps in the Apple Store, it is hard for providers to select which ones to recommend to their patients.With RxUniverse, professionals can discover the right app from a curated, evidence-based
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Vital Images Acquires Clinical Imaging Exchange Provider Karos Health
Vital Images, a Minneapolis-based enterprise medical imaging and informatics company has acquired global healthcare informatics company Karos Health (Karos). Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. For Vital, the acquisition will provide its customers with a customer-centric, modular platform that allows hospital systems to solve a broad set of enterprise imaging challenges without requiring large-scale, disruptive PACS replacement of existing systems. In addition, the acquisition
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drchrono Upgrades Mobile EHR Platform to Meet Large Medical Practice Needs
drchrono Inc., an mobile EHR provider of practice management, revenue cycle management (RCM) and medical API platform on iPad, iPhone and web, has upgraded its platform to meet the needs of larger medical practices and provider groups.The upgrade includes a built an RCM team with its own RCM platform, RCM Pro, optimizing the workflow of coders, billers, and billing managers making managing multiple practices more fluid. Almost all RCM companies are service organizations that don’t build any
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Breg Taps Redox for EHR Integration, Patient Workflow
Breg, Inc., a provider of integrated solutions to help improve the quality and lower the cost of the orthopedic episode is integrating with Redox, an EHR integration platform, today announced a partnership. The integration enables Breg's Vision Cloud Connect software to connect quickly and easily to Epic, Cerner and all other EHRs using Redox's Application Program Interface (API) as a bridge between systems. Together, Breg and Redox integration will reduce the time needed to develop and
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Get Real Health Integrates with Validic’s Patient Generated Platform
Get Real Health, a Rockville, MD-based digital health company is partnering with Validic to integrate patient-generated data from digital health apps, clinical devices and wearables into its patient engagement products, InstantPHR® and CHBase. As part of the integration, Get Real Health will leverage Validic's digital health platform to provide healthcare organizations will be able to access actionable patient data through one easy connection that offers the 360-degree view essential for
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Report: Security, Care Team Coordination Tops CIO Priority Lists
Data security and care team coordination are the two top considerations for CIOs in healthcare today, according to a recent Spok survey. The report administered by CHIME surveyed more than 100 CIOs, who responded to questions about their big-picture goals, the use-cases driving their mobile app selections, and which common workflows they are focused on improving. When asked which business goals CIOs are focused on for the next 18 months, an overwhelming majority (81 percent) cited
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