Marybeth Farquhar, PhD, MSN, RN, URAC's Vice President for Quality, Research, and Measurement, has been appointed to a key National Quality Forum (NQF) committee helping to create national measures for future telehealth performance. Farquhar was named to the NQF’s Creating a Framework to Support Measure Development for Telehealth Multistakeholder Committee. Over a nine-month period, the committee is assessing existing and potential performance measures, identifying gaps in coverage, and
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Modernizing Medicine Unveils New Apple Watch App, Pop Health Platform
Specialty-specific EMR provider, Modernizing Medicine has unveiled data analytics and Apple Watch functionality to its specialty suite of products and services designed to improve quality reporting and increase physician mobility. Announced during the company's third annual user conference, MOMENTUM, the new analytics enhancements gives physicians near real-time population health data to help support the transition to value-based healthcare.Analytics Key FeaturesFrom patient check-in to
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Innovaccer Unveils MIPS Calculator to Estimate Payments Under New MACRA Rule
Innovaccer Inc., a Silicon Valley-based healthcare analytics company has unveiled a Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) Calculator, a free tool for healthcare providers to estimate the financial impacts of MIPS as per the latest MACRA rule. The MIPS Calculator has been designed with an aim to help all the providers planning to participate in MIPS in the coming year. With a clear and detailed analysis of all the dependent variables, it provides a breakdown of how each component of MIPS
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Lexigram Nabs $2M to Transform Unstructured Medical Data Through NLP
Lexigram, a Redwood City, CA-based clinical data intelligence company has raised $2 million in seed funding led by Storm Ventures and including RTA Ventures and the Stanford-StartX Fund. The digital health startup plans to utilize the seed funding to further mature the company's self-service and on-demand natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning analytics platform. As patients, we imagine that our medical data is readily available to all of our doctors, but that couldn't be farther
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Surescripts Expands Medication Management for Adherence Solution
Surescripts is expanding its medication management services to help providers address problems with a patient’s adherence to their medication regimen—a dangerous and costly issue for both patients and the healthcare system as a whole. Surescripts’ Medication Management for Adherence solution delivers real-time messages and alerts directly into the provider’s EHR software during the patient visit. Now, more than 6,300 care providers using software from Agastha, Aprima Medical Software,
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Dimensional Insight Selected to Deliver Business Intelligence Insights for Pediatric Population
Allied Physicians Group. a Long Island, N.Y., physicians group of 150 pediatricians has selected Dimensional Insight, a developer of business intelligence (BI) solutions to use its Diver Platform to attain valuable insights on revenue cycle management and clinical and financial operations initiatives. Allied Physicians Group was in need of a well-designed, flexible and easy-to-use analytics platform that would span across its 35 office locations. The health network also wanted a solution that
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GE, Boston Children’s Partner to Develop App for Pediatric Brain Scans
Boston Children's Hospital and GE Healthcare has formed a joint venture to develop and commercialize digital health tools to advance the diagnosis and treatment of specific childhood brain diseases. The first project of the collaboration involves developing an app that will improve diagnostic accuracy in pediatric brain scans by providing real-time contextual information at the time and place the radiologist needs it.As part of the collaboration, both organizations will leverage GE Health Cloud
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nThrive Acquires Clinically Integrated Revenue Cycle Provider Adreima
nThrive, an Alpharetta, GA-based provider of revenue cycle solutions has acquired Adreima, a Downers Grove, Ill.-based provider of patient-centered, clinically-integrated revenue cycle services that help patients find coverage and meet their financial obligations, while partnering with health care providers to optimize revenue cycle functions. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. For nThrive, the acquisition strengthens it's patient-to-payment roadmap that are essential to
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What Does The Recent Election Mean for Predictive Analytics in Healthcare?
The outcome of the recent election caught many people, and many forecasters, by surprise. How could their predictions have missed the mark so significantly? Granted, there were a number of people who predicted the outcome more accurately, but many of those who used data models to analyze the likely outcome are left now with head-scratching and postmortem analysis in order to improve their methods.In their book Superforecasting, The Art and Science of Prediction, authors Philip Telock and Dan
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Call to Action: Organizing for Patient Care
On November 8th America elected a President who ran on a promise to restore government of the people, by the people, for the people (among other things). However, we cannot expect such government to be given to us on a silver platter, no matter who resides in the White House. We must build it ourselves, by definition. Government of, by, and for the people requires the people to stand up and do more than just vote every four years, do more than author clever blogs, do more than compose brilliant
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