Healthcare organizations across the country are under enormous pressure to improve health outcomes, where the notion of “population health management” has suddenly evolved from a “nice-to-have” to a necessity. This prominent care initiative involves grouping patients together based on certain characteristics - age, gender, chronic conditions come to mind, just to name a few - and working to improve the health status of that group by monitoring, analyzing and improving the health of the
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DSS, Jvion Partner to Enhance AI-Driven Health Outcomes for Veterans
Document Storage Systems, Inc. (DSS, Inc.), a provider of health information technology (HIT) solutions for federal, private and public healthcare organizations, today announced a partnership with Jvion, Inc., developer of an artificial intelligence (AI) solution. The partnership will deliver patient-specific risk propensity and clinical action recommendations that will improve the health of Veterans.With the combined power of Jvion’s Cognitive Clinical Success Machine and DSS’s implementation
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StratiFi Health Taps Innovaccer to Advance Population Health Initiatives
StratiFi Health, a physician services and population health organization, is further advancing their population health management initiatives in partnership with Innovaccer, a leading San Francisco-based healthcare platform company. StratiFi Health’s Population Health division now leverages Innovaccer’s Care Intelligence System, Datashop, to enhance care outcomes through accurate identification of at-risk StratiFi Health deploys its care management and utilization strategies through a team-based
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Philips, Nuance Integrate to Bring AI Directly into Radiology Reporting
Philips and Nuance Communications, Inc., a provider of intelligent voice and language solutions has announced an integration partnership bringing artificial intelligence-based (AI-based) image interpretation and reporting capabilities to radiologists. The initiative will leverage assets from Philips Illumeo with adaptive intelligence and Nuance PowerScribe 360 to help reduce discrepancies, and improve radiology reporting, accuracy and standardization.Announced at RSNA 2016, Philips Illumeo, an
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Change Healthcare Acquires Credentialing Tech Docufill to Improve Administrative Efficiency
Change Healthcare is once again shifting the paradigm for dental practices and payers alike. Today the company expanded its capabilities and product offerings with dental provider credentialing software technology acquired from Docufill, LLC. The cloud-based technology allows providers to use a single shared form across the organization to streamline the otherwise administratively complex and redundant credentialing process, resulting in cost reduction and the freeing of resources for patient
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Why GE Won’t Sell its Health IT Business
As John Flannery, the new CEO of GE takes on the task of sweeping cost-cutting at the industrial behemoth, recent market speculation has suggested he may be looking to offload GE’s Healthcare IT business. Here's why we think this won’t happen.Crumbling, but not to the coreGE's health IT portfolio has been compiled from many acquisitions, creating a complex and sometimes disjointed product set. At its center is a core set of software and services focused on clinical IT. GE’s products that support
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PeerWell Launches PreHab Program for Same-Day Surgery Patient
PeerWell, a healthcare technology company helping patients prepare and recover from orthopedic surgery, announced an extension to their platform for outpatient joint replacement centers. Previously the platform had only been available to inpatients. Experts estimate that the demand for orthopedic surgeries will grow by 77 percent over the next 10 years with a predicted 50 percent or more of these cases completed in an outpatient setting. The PeerWell outpatient pre-operative preparation
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drchrono Offers iPad Pro to Physicians as Part of EHR Bundle Program
Mobile EHR provider drchrono Inc., today announced that it is the first company to offer an iPad Pro to every physician as part of its new iPad and EHR bundle program. drchrono is launching this new program to help medical practices by providing doctors with a complimentary iPad Pro when they sign up for a qualifying subscription for the drchrono EHR and medical billing platform.drchrono committed to building EHR on iPad since the day it launched in April 2010. The company has supported every
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Patient of the Future: 8 Digital Health Transformation Trends to Watch
Infographic created by Site Santé Médecine illustrates eight digital health transformation trends to watch
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Merck Subsidiary Acquires Mobile Infectious Disease Analytics Solution Teqqa
ILÚM Health Solutions, a provider of innovative technology and services to support infectious disease management (created by Merck’s Healthcare Services and Solutions (HSS) division), today announced it has acquired Teqqa LLC, which provides precision analytics for infectious disease management. Teqqa has been a development partner with ILÚM since the latter’s founding; this acquisition formalizes and strengthens the ongoing relationship. Financial details of the acquisition were not
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