Cambia Health Solutions, a total health solutions company announced a new collaboration with Visa to help transform the reimbursement experience for consumers. As part of the collaboration, Cambia Health will integrate Visa Direct technology into its payment platform, allowing consumers to receive health care reimbursements directly to their eligible debit cards, speeding up the payment process.What Is Visa Direct?Visa Direct is a card-based platform that can deliver funds in near real-time to
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VITL, Medicity Launch External Connection to Veterans Health Information Exchange
Vermont Information Technology Leaders, Inc. (VITL), operators of the Vermont Health Information Exchange (Vermont HIE), and Medicity, a provider of population health management solutions, announced that VITL has launched its external connection to the Veterans Health Information Exchange (VHIE).VHIE. The external connection to VHIE, , also known as the Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record (VLER) program will enable providers inside and outside the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to share
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Medullan to Offer Users Access to Harvard Health Publications for Consumer Health Insights
Medullan, a digital health firm that designs and builds powerful solutions that achieve high rates of adoption for payers, providers, life sciences, and pharma, announced a collaboration with Harvard Health Publications (HHP), a division of Harvard Medical School. This relationship will provide consumers access to Harvard’s consumer health information via the digital tools and mobile apps Medullan envisions, designs, and builds for its clients.HHP’s content covers thousands of health
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NexHealth and National Dental Partners to Improve Patient Experience
NYC-based provider group National Dental announced its partnership with NexHealth to complement its care with a seamless, digital experience that keeps patients engaged.Managing patient relationships has become increasingly difficult and time-consuming for healthcare providers, who often rely on manual labor and a patchwork of incompatible technologies to track and communicate with patients. For a large group like National Dental, which has 13 offices in the New York metropolitan area, this
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Modernizing Medicine Raises $231M to Expand Mobile Medical Specialty EHR
Mobile, cloud based, specialty-specific EHR provider, Modernizing Medicine announced that Warburg Pincus, a global private equity firm has made an investment of $231 million into the company to provide liquidity to existing shareholders, fund further expansion and support future strategic endeavors.With the latest round of funding, the Boca Raton, FL-based company plans pursuing certain strategic initiatives that may include automation of prior authorization workflows, deployment of an eCommerce
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Sense.ly Integrates Mayo Clinic’s Triage Algorithms To Enhance Their Virtual Nurse App
Sense.ly, a San Francisco, CA-based virtual medical assistant application for patient engagement and chronic disease monitoring has announced an agreement with Mayo Clinic. As part of the agreement, Sensely will integrate Mayo Clinic's triage algorithms and clinical expertise with Sense.ly's proven, empathy first, patient engagement platform to support of optimal health outcomes for individuals.The Sense.ly virtual medical assistant app combines innovative avatar-based technology, advanced
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5 Reasons Why the VA Should Not Replace VistA With A Commercial EHR
This post is sponsored by Medsphere Systems Corporation, the solution provider for the OpenVista electronic health record.The VA waitlist scandal of a few years ago was a dark period in the agency’s history. Fallout from the scandal reverberated through the media and claimed the job of VA Secretary Eric Shinseki.Now, three years on, the push to reform the VA and prevent a similar situation continues. Naturally, the healthcare information technology (IT) tools employees use, including the
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Chronic Care Management: Trends and Implications for Providers to Watch
Editor’s Note: Jas Grewal is the CEO of CareSkore, a population health management provider leveraging machine-learning to generate real-time predictive and prescriptive analytics to understand each patient risk profile for healthcare providers. Chronic care management (CCM), involving care for patients with 2 or more chronic conditions, is being thrust more and more into the spotlight due to evolving developments in reimbursements and changing demographics. While many services classified as CCM
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Penn Medicine Center for Healthcare Innovation Wins ECRI Institute Award for Innovative Dashboard and Clinician Alert Platform
Penn Medicine Center for Health Care Innovation in Philadelphia, PA, has been named the winner of the ECRI Institute 11th Health Devices Achievement Award. The award recognizes innovative and effective initiatives undertaken by ECRI Institute member healthcare institutions to improve patient safety, reduce costs, or otherwise facilitate better strategic management of health technology.The award recognizes Penn Medicine's Center for Health Care Innovation’s technology platform it designed for
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Optimizing Health IT Investments: The Key to Optimizing Care
Editor's Note: Dr. John Danaher is the President of Clinical Solutions at Elsevier, an information analytics company that helps institutions and professionals progress science, advance healthcare and improve performance. Prior to joining Elsevier, John was President of the Schools of Health Sciences and Nursing at Kaplan University. He brings a great depth of experience in digital media in health care and education from his time at Kaplan, Discovery Communications, and as executive vice
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