Axial Healthcare, Inc., a pain care solutions company has raised $16.5 million in Series B funding led by Oak HC/FT, a venture growth-equity fund investing in healthcare services. 406 Ventures, BlueCross BlueShield Venture Partners, and Sandbox Advantage Fund, also participated in this latest round of financing. The company will utilize the funding to further drive expansion of axial’s suite of pain management capabilities, including a cloud-based, provider decision-support platform for pain
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Humans Are The Greatest Assets to Healthcare IT Security, Not Technical
Editor’s Note: D’Arcy Guerin Gue is a co-founder of Phoenix, with over 25 years of experience in executive leadership, strategic planning, IT services, knowledge leadership, and industry relations — with a special focus on patient engagement and federal compliance issues. She currently serves as the Director of Industry Relations at Phoenix Health Systems, a division of Medsphere SystemsYou know already that the biggest threat to healthcare IT security is the human element. But if human beings
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Infographic: Protecting Patient Records – the Risks and Costs of Data Loss
As National Cyber Security Awareness Month comes to a close, security software provider Safetica wants to remind healthcare professionals of the growing risks they face when handling a patient’s personal and financial records. Whether intentional or not, more than 200 data breaches involving individual records of at least 500 patients each—a total of approximately 100,000 records—took place last year in the U.S. Consider that the average cost to handle a data breach is $407 per compromised
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TrendShift Acquires Health Data Intelligence to Expand Capabilities in Population Health
Trendshift, a SaaS-based Decision Analytics and Risk Assessment company has acquired the assets of Columbus, OH-based Health Data Intelligence, LLC (“HDI”) for an undisclosed sum. The healthcare analytics and population health management company equips employers, benefit advisors, medical managers and payers with a cloud-based SaaS platform for more effective case management and concrete, risk-based intervention strategies and recommendations for clients.The Population Intelligence™ platform
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Kareo Integrates EHR with GoodRx to Reduce Prescription Drug Costs
Kareo, a cloud-based EHR provider for independent medical practices has launched Kareo Rx Saver, an integrated solution with GoodRx that seamlessly delivers prescription cost savings to patients of physicians. Prescription drug prices often vary significantly across pharmacies, making it difficult for a patient to select the least costly option. To address this problem, Kareo has integrated its clinical EHR with with prescription and drug savings provider GoodRx to present real-time cost
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Allscripts Acquires CarePort to Expand Population Health Platform
Allscripts has acquired CarePort, a Boston-based company that unlocks data from post-acute care providers to better manage care across the continuum. Due to the shift in healthcare reimbursement and legislation focused on delivering critical outcomes, managing post-acute care is now a necessary and integral component of population health strategy.The acquisition of CarePort's post-acute outcomes management platform will expand the capabilities of Allscripts comprehensive population health
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Tandigm Health to Implement athenahealth’s Population Health Solution
Tandigm Health, LLC, a value-based healthcare company supporting primary care physicians has selected athenahealth to implement its population health management tool to help advance population health management among its network of over 440 primary care physicians. As part of the implementation, Tandigm will utilize athenahealth Population Health for care management as well as analytics, risk stratification, and quality management to help facilitate patient-centered, value-based care.
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Midland Health to Implement Cerner’s EHR, Revenue Cycle, PHM Platform
Midland Health, a system of health care partners including Midland Memorial Hospital announced it will implement Cerner’s Millennium EHR, revenue cycle management and population health platform, HealtheIntent. As part of the implementation, Midland Memorial’s 474-bed hospital and affiliated community clinics will transition from various disparate systems to Cerner’s integrated digital platform. The new EHR system is designed to support an individual’s health care journey across the continuum –
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TigerText Launches Clinical Communications Platform for Value-Based Care
Clinical communication provider TigerText, today unveiled TigerFlow, a workflow-centric clinical communication solution that brings together an enterprise-wide platform, integration with clinical systems of record, an engaging user experience, and intelligent workflow mapping for better care team collaboration.The Next Evolution In Healthcare CommunicationsTigerFlow combines its mobile communications platform with data integration capabilities, end-to-end workflow consultation services provided
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Sutter Health, Validic Launch Patient-Generated Health Data Pilot Project
Sutter Health and digital health integration platform Validic has teamed up to launch a new federal pilot project to demonstrate how patient-generated health data (PGHD) can best be delivered to clinicians and researchers to improve patient care and outcomes. The pilot will focus on providing remote care and interventions using digital health devices to better manage and engage a population of individuals suffering from Type II diabetes. Results of this work will inform government policy and
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