Today, McKesson Health Solutions (MHS) unveiled the McKesson Intelligence Hub, a new technology platform for enabling interoperability and sharing business intelligence among healthcare apps. The result of a multi-year development program, the Intelligence Hub is designed to connect MHS’s portfolio of automated reimbursement solutions and help streamline payment by making interoperability easy for customers, partners and vendors across the healthcare ecosystem.Moving Beyond Data
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Digital Health VC Funding: Where Do We Go From Here?
Editor's Note: Michael Greeley is the General Partner and Co-founder at Flare Capital Partners an early stage healthcare technology venture capital firm. Some of his existing and prior board seats include Explorys, HealthVerity, Iora Health, Predilytics, Taris, T2 Biosystems and Welltok. In addition Michael serves on several industry association boards including the Industry Advisory Board for the Cleveland Clinic and Boston Children’s Hospital, as well as the Executive Committee of the National
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HHS Awards Over $87M for Health IT Enhancements to Health Centers
On Thursday, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell announced it has awarded more than $87 million in funding for 1,310 health centers nationwide to support health IT enhancements to accelerate health centers’ transition to value-based models of care. The funding will improve efforts to share and use information to support better decisions, and increase engagement in delivery system transformation, according to the HHS announcement. The announcement marks the first
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Harvard Medical School Launches Digital Repository of Medical Evidence
Harvard Medical School is launching Library of Evidence, a publicly accessible digital repository of medical evidence to help practicing clinicians choose the most appropriate imaging test for each patient. Founded in collaboration with the Center for Evidence-Based Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, the library is a project of the HMS Countway Library of Medicine and representatives of other HMS hospitals and Harvard institutions. How it WorksThe Harvard Library of Evidence provides
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Huntzinger Management Group Acquires Next Wave Health Advisors
Huntzinger Management Group, Inc., a healthcare consulting firm providing advisory, managed services, implementation, and supplemental staffing services has acquired Next Wave Health Advisors, LLC for an undisclosed sum. As part of the acquisition, the Advisors will assist in providing healthcare advisory and managed services consulting engagements and collaborate with Huntzinger leadership to formulate services most needed by and beneficial to the healthcare IT market.The Advisors are
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HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius Joins Solera Health Advisory Board
21st Secretary of U.S. Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius has been appointed by Solera Health, an integrator of chronic disease prevention and management solutions to its advisory board. From 2009 -2014, Ms. Sebelius served in President Barack Obama's Cabinet as the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), leading the effort to pass and implement significant health reform through the Affordable Care Act. Prior to serving as secretary of HHS, Ms. Sebelius was the
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Nebraska Medicine to Implement Epic’s Population Health Platform
Nebraska Medicine, a large academic medical center announced that it will implement Epic’s Healthy Planet population health platform to support more affordable care across its clinically integrated network, Nebraska Health Partners. The Epic implementation will help expand data interoperability and integrate 1,100 physicians currently using different EHRs. Nebraska Health Partners will help private practice physicians work more collaboratively across the state to improve care, reduce costs,
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Predictive Analytics Saves Oklahoma HMO $10M in Annual Savings
Oklahoma-based HMO, GlobalHealth, recently published a case study analyzing the results of their proactive outreach program. The program, built on big data with predictive analytics platform ViterosHealth, finds members whose health was most likely to change for the worse and implements changes to prevent catastrophic health events. Since implementation, GlobalHealth has realized an 18 percent reduction in emergency room encounters and emergent hospital admissions, a 22 percent reduction in
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Carolinas Hospital Joins Mayo Clinic Care Network: 5 Things to Know
On Wednesday, Carolinas Hospital System and Mayo Clinic announced that Carolinas Hospital System has joined the Mayo Clinic Care Network of independent health care providers committed to working together to benefit patients and their families.Here are five things to know about the collaboration: 1. As part of the network, Carolinas Hospital System physicians will have access to Mayo Clinic expertise to benefit patients.2. Carolinas Hospital System will work with Mayo Clinic to share medical
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DICOM Grid Rebrands as Ambra Health, Raises $6M for Medical Imaging Cloud
DICOM Grid, makers of the leading cloud-based, medical image management suite has rebranded as Ambra Health and has raised an additional $6 million in funding led by Canaan Partners. The latest round of funding brings to the company's total funding to date to $39 million. Ambra plans to utilize the funding to accelerate its sales, marketing efforts and product development. "Medical imaging is undergoing a transformation well beyond its beginnings in DICOM-based x-rays, CT, MRI and the like,"
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