Health Catalyst, a Salt Lake City-based provider of healthcare data warehousing, analytics solutions and outcomes improvement has raised $70M in Series E funding. The funding round was co-led by Norwest Venture Partners, the lead investor in three previous rounds, and UPMC, a world-renowned healthcare provider and insurer that is also a Health Catalyst customer. . Other contributors to the round were new investors Leerink Capital and existing investors Sequoia Capital, Sands
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HIMSS Launches Inaugural Annual Most Influential Women in Health IT Awards
Today, HIMSS unveiled its inaugural Annual Most Influential Women in Health IT Awards, an awards program recognizing influential women at all stages of their career progressions. Scheduled to kick off in Fall 2016, the award ceremony is part of a new HIMSS initiative dedicated to addressing the gender gap in health IT and the need for more recognition of women sector-wide.
The Most Influential Women in Health IT Awards features a judging panel of top female leaders who will define the
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Population Health in Early Stages Yet Adopters Making Moves in Chronic Disease
In December 2015, HIMSS Analytics released their Population Health Essentials Brief, offering insight from nearly 200 healthcare executives (C-Suite, administrators, directors & VPs) on their population health initiatives as well as their current and future plans for population health IT solutions. HIMSS Analytics has now released an addendum to the study that focuses on chronic disease management and preventive health and wellness, allowing for even deeper insight into the current practices
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Report: Only 1.6% of Claims Have Been Denied Post ICD-10
Of the $810 billion in claims processed by more than 2,400 hospitals and 630,000 providers using RelayHealth Financial clearinghouse, just 1.6% have been denied. This denial rate has remained unchanged since November and represents approximately $12.9 billion in denied claims since October 1st. The disclosed denial rate data from RelayHealth Financial is based on for more than 262 million claims processed between October 1, 2015 and February 15, 2016. A low denial rate indicates a healthy cash
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UPMC Invests $35M into medCPU for Clinical Decision Support
UPMC and medCPU Inc. has announced a strategic partnership in which UPMC, one of the nation’s leading integrated health systems, will take a majority interest in this technology innovator, become a customer of medCPU’s real-time decision support solutions and co-develop additional products with the goal of improving patient outcomes.
As part of this transaction, UPMC has commenced a tender offer to purchase stock from existing non-employee medCPU shareholders and expects to hold
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Salesforce Rolls Out Salesforce Health Cloud, Expands Ecosystem of Partners
Today at HIMSS16, CRM platform Salesforce announced the general availability of Salesforce Health Cloud, a patient relationship management solution enabling providers to deliver more personalized care starting at $150 per user, per month. Health Cloud puts all patient information in one place, including a Timeline view, demographic and family information and a functional diagram of the extended care team.
Health Cloud also integrates with EHRs to make real-time patient data easily visible and
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Surescripts Activates National Record Locator to Improve Healthcare Interoperability
To improve healthcare interoperability and patient safety, Surescripts has announced nationwide activation of its National Record Locator Service, a service that gives providers an effective way to obtain a more complete view of a patient’s health history. Surescripts’ National Record Locator Service includes 140 million patients and almost 2 billion, and growing, interactions between those patients and members of their care team.
CVS Health, Express Scripts, Epic and NextGen Healthcare are
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eviCore Acquires Partners HealthCare Spinout QPID Health
eviCore healthcare, a Bluffton, SC-based company enabling better outcomes for patients, payers and providers through advanced medical benefits management, announced that it has acquired Boston-based QPID Health. The company has raised more than $16.3M to date backed by Matrix Partners, Partners Innovation Fund, Massachusetts General Physicians Organization and Cardinal Partners. QPID Health will continue to maintain its offices in Boston, MA and Carlsbad, CA and will retain its name. Financial
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Cognizant Unveils Digital Health Platform for Increased Consumer Engagement
As the healthcare industry shifts from fee-for-service to value-based care models, healthcare organizations are looking for new ways to deliver consumer-centric care leveraging digital communication and access. To solve this, Cognizant has announced the development of Cognizant Health TranZform. The solution, developed with technology from Orion Healthcare, will aggregate data from multiple systems, including Cognizant’s TriZetto payer core administration platforms, physician practice management
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Cerner Appoints John Glaser SVP of Population Health
On Friday, Cerner appointed John Glaser senior vice president of Population Health and Global Strategy starting April 1st. In his new role, Glaser will focus on driving Cerner’s population health technology and product strategies, interoperability and government policy development, according to the press release.
“Cerner is committed to working with our clients to manage the health of populations, improve outcomes and reduce the cost of health care,” said Zane Burke, president, Cerner. “John
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