United Health Group’s healthcare consulting and services unit, Optum has agreed to acquire The Advisory Board Company’s healthcare business for $1.3 billion, including the assumption of The Advisory Board Company’s debt. Based in Washington D.C., Advisory Board is a strategic healthcare advisory services firm that uses a combination of research, technology and consulting to improve the performance of more than 4,400 healthcare organizations.For Optum, the acquisition of the Advisory Board
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Bellin Health Taps PatientPing for Care Coordination Network
Bellin Health, an integrated healthcare delivery system based in Green Bay, WI has ) announced a new partnership with PatientPing, a Boston-based technology company building a national care coordination network. The new partnership will help Bellin Health collaborate on shared patients with other providers outside their network and across the care continuum, enabling a team-based, coordinated approach to patient care.Bellin is comprised of Bellin Hospital, Bellin Psychiatric Center, 32 Bellin
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Vidyo Integrates with Allscripts FollowMyHealth To Embed Telehealth Visits Directly Into Patient Portal
Vidyo, which is used by 295 U.S healthcare systems for telemedicine, today announced its integration with Allscripts’ FollowMyHealth patient engagement platform. The FollowMyHealth platform empowers patients for continuous engagement, while expanding their care team. The integration embeds virtual consultations directly into the patient portal, helping to create a system of connected care that is more accessible to more people.Modern, self-service video API platforms like vidyo.io (which was
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If MPIs are Dead, What’s Next For The Future of Patient Matching?
Healthcare technology continues to advance with ever greater sophistication and functionality. Yet one key component in the health IT toolkit has not kept pace with innovation. Patient matching technologies, including conventional master patient indexes (MPIs), hit a wall 10 years ago, and it’s time to admit it: conventional MPIs are a dying breed.The reason is that patient matching needs have grown exponentially at exactly the same time the underlying technology for patient matching solutions
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Intermountain Sets Goal to Reduce Opioid Prescribing by 40% Using EHRs
Utah-based Intermountain Healthcare has pledged to reduce by 40 percent the average amount of opioids prescribed per acute pain prescription at its 22 hospitals and 180 clinics by the end of 2018. To accomplish this 40 percent reduction, Intermountain will add prompts and default order sets into its electronic health records (EHRs) to help reduce the number of tablets prescribed. Intermountain has already provided training to about 2,500 caregivers within its system, with plans to expand
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iQor Partners with TytoCare to Deliver A Seamless Connected Health Experience
iQor, a global leader in customer experience and managed services for many of the world’s leading brands, will announce a partnership with Israeli connected health start-up, TytoCare. TytoCare, who offers patients a virtual medical examination experience via a diagnostic device and software platform, has selected iQor to provide its patient and physician support services.The iQor/TytoCare partnership is a prime example of innovative companies that are exploring ways to deliver on the connected
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Innovaccer Launches Clinical Documentation Improvement Solution
Innovaccer Inc., a Silicon Valley-based healthcare platform company, today announced the launch of their Clinical Documentation Improvement Solution. The solution has been specifically designed to help healthcare organizations maintain documentation integrity, improve documentation within the healthcare record, and through this capture missed savings opportunities.Clinical Documentation Improvement (CDI) has been built on Innovaccer’s proprietary platform ‘Datashop’ and enables clinicians and
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Xerox, PARC Partners with Innovation Lab to Develop Innovation Healthcare Solutions
Xerox Corporation and PARC, A Xerox Company are teaming up with Innovation Lab, an Innovation Institute company, to tackle health care challenges through collaboration in medical technology, engineering and robotics.The Innovation Institute works with physicians, employees, and industry partners to seek new products, ideas, and concepts that can be commercialized through the Innovation Lab. The Innovation Lab also works in alliance with Cleveland Clinic Innovations, Global Healthcare Innovations
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9+ Health Systems Switch to Nuance for Improved Radiology Reporting
Nuance Communications announced that nine U.S. healthcare organizations have adopted the company’s radiology solutions to enhance clinical collaboration as well as deliver more complete, timely and higher quality radiology reporting. Capital Health, City of Hope, Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula, Desert Radiology, LRGHealthcare, Medical University of South Carolina, Northeast Georgia Health System, Orion/Tower Imaging and Tennova Healthcare are representative organizations that have
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MedAware Raises $8M for AI-Powered Platform to Eliminate Prescription Errors
A new health IT startup focused on patient safety and real-time medication surveillance through advanced machine learning, MedAware, announced today that they have secured Series A funding. As a provider of algorithm-rich solutions for the detection and elimination of prescription errors, MedAware raised $8 million in Series A funding with participating investors including BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), Gefen Capital, OurCrowd and Yingcheng City Fubon Technology Co. In
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