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Persivia Acquires Alere Analytics to Expand Footprint in Population Health

by HITC Staff 05/28/2015 Leave a Comment

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Persivia, a chronic care and population health company has announced the acquisition of Alere Analytics to help build out its portfolio in chronic care, cancer, genetics and population health management.  Persivia CEO Mansoor and chief medical officer Dr. Fauzia Khan in 2012 originally sold DiagnosisOne to Alere, which was later renamed to Alere Analytics, before deciding to sell it for $600 million in 2014. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. The newly launched Persivia is
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Nuance Launches Evidence Based Computer-Assisted Reporting for Radiologists

by Fred Pennic 05/28/2015 Leave a Comment

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Nuance today announced the industry’s first integrated computer-assisted reporting solution at the point of clinical documentation for radiologists, PowerScribe 360® Reporting version 3.0. The solution uses the Nuance PowerShare Network’s cloud technology to push updated clinical guidelines from the American College of Radiology (ACR) directly to radiologists as they’re reviewing imaging procedures and making diagnostic decisions. By automatically triggering clinical decision support, the
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DPS Health Rebrands as Canary Health, Targets Emergent-Risk Population

by HITC Staff 05/28/2015 Leave a Comment

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As “population health” continues to be on the minds and priority lists of healthcare professionals and vendors alike, the conversation cannot take place without recognizing a new population – one requiring perhaps even more attention than the “very sick” or the “pretty healthy” populations because of the price tag attached. The “Emergent-Risk” population, if left untreated, could cost the U.S. healthcare system an additional $80-280 billion a year.  DPS Health, a provider of digital health
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Allscripts Expands Patient Admin System Presence in UK

by Jasmine Pennic 05/27/2015 Leave a Comment

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Allscripts is expanding its patient administration system presence in the United Kingdom with recent agreements from East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust and Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust to deploy Allscripts PASTM. As part of the agreement, the Allscripts PAS will replace the Trusts' existing system and will empower the health organizations to use a highly flexible and configurable solution to manage patient data. Allscripts PAS is currently used across the National
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How Accountable Is The Care Without Behavioral Health?

by Edmund Billings MD 05/27/2015 Leave a Comment

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Continuity of care, accountability of care, unlikely without Medicare Shared Savings and Meaningful Use health IT incentives for mental and behavioral health providers I could understand completely if many behavioral health providers and facilities feel like the proverbial red headed stepchild. All this energy and money poured into improving healthcare through comprehensive information technology (IT) systems and behavioral health is left holding an empty basket. Even with regard to
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Why Healthcare Is Incapable Of “Plugging-In” New Solutions

by David Brooks 05/26/2015 Leave a Comment

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  The first time I heard Par8o’s tagline “Healthcare’s Operating System,” I remember thinking to myself, “what the hell does that mean?” I now think I have a pretty good idea. Over the last two and a half years, my partners and I have been on a journey to transform the healthcare consumer experience. We began this journey by developing a patent-pending process for creating virtual health insurance cards. Beyond providing consumers real-time information on plan benefits, the
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CareFirst BCBS Target of Sophisticated Cyberattack

by HITC Staff 05/21/2015 Leave a Comment

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Health insurer CareFirst BCBS (CareFirst) announced on Wednesday it was the victim of a sophisticated cyberattack that may have collectively exposed 1.1 million current and former CareFirst members and individuals that have registered to use CareFirst’s websites prior to June 20, 2014. CareFirst first detected that cyberattackers gained limited, unauthorized access to a CareFirst database in June 2014 as part of the company’s ongoing Information Technology (IT) security efforts in the wake of
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Allscripts Eliminates 250 Jobs, Rebalances Team

by HITC Staff 05/20/2015 Leave a Comment

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Allscripts has eliminated 250 jobs in the United States representing about 3.5 percent of its global workforce of about 7,200, Chicago Tribune reports. The layoffs stem from the the company expanding its software development and operations to India that will enable it to respond "more efficiently and cost-effectively" to changes in software design and product development. "As a normal course of business, we are rebalancing our teams to ensure we have the right resources allocated to the right
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Welltok Acquires Predilytics to Enhance Personalized Health Platform

by HITC Staff 05/19/2015 Leave a Comment

Welltok

Health optimization provider Welltok has acquired Predilytics, a leading healthcare predictive analytics company to help enhance Welltok’s CaféWell Health Optimization Platform. The acquisition adds another powerful layer of consumer intelligence and analytical capabilities to Welltok’s CaféWell Health Optimization Platform, providing even more personalized guidance for consumers and delivering more value and insights to health plans, at-risk providers and other population health
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Healthways CEO Ben Leedle Steps Down, Appoints Interim CEO

by HITC Staff 05/19/2015 1 Comment

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Wellness program provider, Healthways, Inc. announced that Ben R. Leedle, Jr. has stepped down as Director, President & Chief Executive Officer. The Healthways Board of Directors has appointed Alfred Lumsdaine, Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer, to serve as interim Chief Executive Officer until it selects a successor. The process to identify a permanent CEO will be led by the Board's Nominating and Governance Committee, which will consider both internal and external
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