Choice can be a double-edged sword—we all want more of it, but with too many choices paralysis can set in. Choosing a physician or hospital, for example, in an urban or suburban area without some kind of recommendation can truly be a daunting task.But it beats having few or no choices. Increasingly, that’s the situation rural Americans find themselves in as the number of hospitals decreases and specialists stay in the cities.While this may have been the trend in rural healthcare over the past 10
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Verato Lands $12.5M for Cloud-based Identity Matching Platform
Verato, Inc., a leading provider of cloud-based identity matching and Master Patient Index (MPI) solutions has raised $12.5 million in Series B funding led jointly by Bessemer Venture Partners and Columbia Capital. The McLean, VA-based company plans to utilize the funding to to support continued growth and to accelerate technology development. In addition to the funding announcement, Verato has signed on five new healthcare organizations as customers which includes a national payer organization,
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Innovaccer Unveils End-to-End MIPS Reporting, Performance Optimization Platform
Innovaccer Inc., a healthcare analytics company has unveiled its holistic MIPS Platform designed to enable providers deliver better clinical outcomes by helping them monitor performances, understand population, efficiently manage data, and easily submit it to CMS. The platform has the capability to ingest Clinical, Claims, ADT, Scheduling, Immunization, Medication, and Labs data from disparate sources in one single longitudinal patient view. Through intuitive dashboards in the platform,
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Career Step Acquires Panacea Healthcare Solution’s Revenue Cycle Management Divisions
Career Step, LLC, a portfolio company of Revelstoke Capital Partners, a Denver-based private equity firm has acquired the Revenue Capture and Coding and Documentation Divisions of Panacea Healthcare Solutions. After completion of the acquisition, Career Step and Panacea will now provide end-to-end education, consulting and data analytics solution to the revenue cycle and healthcare financial marketplaces. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.For Career Step, the acquisition
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Comprehend Systems Lands $15M to Expand Clinical Trials Data Platform
Comprehend Systems, Inc., a provider of Clinical Intelligence solutions has raised $15 million in Series C funding led by Eminence Capital, with participation by existing investors Sequoia Capital and Lightspeed Venture Partners.The company plans to utilize the funding to aggressively expand sales and engineering to meet a growing demand for Comprehend's cloud-based software that enables Clinical Research teams to deliver an order of magnitude improvement in the speed and quality of trial
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Cota, Hackensack Meridian Integrates “Digital Map of Cancer” Into Epic EHR
Hackensack Meridian Health (HMH), a New Jersey-based integrated health care system and Cota, a leading data and technology platform for value-based precision medicine has teamed up to improve clinical and cost outcomes for cancer patients.As part of the partnership, HMH will integrate Cota Nodal Addresses™ (CNAs) directly into its Epic EHR to help support decision-making by oncologists at the point of care. CNAs are generated by a unique, patented digital data classification methodology that
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Black Book Rankings: Allscripts Named Top EHR Vendor with Population Health Solution
Black Book Rankings has named Allscripts as the top EHR vendor with a comprehensive population health management solution earning the highest rank in 10 of the 18 individual criteria.For Black Book Ranking 2017, Black Book crowd-sourced nearly 7,000 responses on eighteen key performance, satisfaction and usability indicators from physicians practice, hospitals, health systems and chains, ACOs, IDNs and IPAs in the first quarter of 2017.Allscripts CareInMotion is a population health management
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Beacon Health System ACO Taps Koan Health for Value-Based Analytics
CHA ACO — a federally recognized accountable care organization (ACO) owned by Beacon Health System has tapped Dallas-based Koan Health to provide comprehensive healthcare analytics, risk management and performance improvement services for multiple CHA ACO and Beacon initiatives. As part of the agreement, CHA ACO and Beacon will have access to Koan Health's proprietary analytic tools and consulting services that analyze and target areas for improvement in population health and specific episodes
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Report: Federal Health IT Spending Expected to Reach $1.7T by 2025
Federal health IT spending is expected to grow 86% to $1.7 trillion by 2025 to combat increases in federal expenditures for health, according to a new report from Deltek. The report, Federal Health Information Technology Market, 2016-2021 reveals that health IT investments aimed at digitizing, sharing, analyzing and securing health information will drive strong federal spending in this market segment over the next five years from $6.0 billion in FY 2016 to $6.4 billion in 2021 at a Compound
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Jupiter Medical Center to Implement Watson for Oncology for Data-Driven Cancer Treatment Decisions
IBM has announced that Jupiter Medical Center will implement Watson for Oncology's platform to provide physician insights to deliver personalized, evidence-based cancer treatment. The announcement marks Jupiter as the first U.S. community hospital to adopt Watson for Oncology, which is scheduled to go-live at the beginning of March.Trained by Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK), Watson for Oncology provides information to oncologists to help them deliver evidence-based treatment options by analyzing
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