On Thursday, Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell announced that Karen DeSalvo, M.D. is stepping down as National Coordinator, effective August 12. Vindell Washington, M.D., Principal Deputy National Coordinator at ONC has been appointed to replace DeSalvo. “During her tenure, ONC has worked with other federal partners and the private sector to update the Federal Health IT Strategic Plan and develop a Nationwide Interoperability Roadmap, both of which chart a person-centered path
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CareSkore Raises $4.3M for Predictive Population Health Management
CareSkore, a Y-Combinator backed startup has raised $4.3 million in seed funding for its predictive population health management platform that helps measure the clinical and financial risk of hospital patients based on their EMR and claims data. The seed round included a handful of investors including Cota Capital, Storm ventures, Rising Tide Fund, and Liquid 2 Ventures. Founded in 2014 by Dr. Puneet Dhillon Grewal, MD, an Internal Medicine physician and Cardiologist Jaspinder Grewal, CareSkore
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Medlio, PatientLink Enterprises Wins Allscripts Open API Patient Engagement Challenge
Today, Allscripts has named Medlio as the first place winner and PatientLink Enterprises the runner-up winner of the Allscripts Open API Patient Engagement Challenge. Allscripts launched the competition with Health 2.0 this summer with the goal of fostering innovation that will help healthcare organizations address the patient engagement through API connectivity requirements of Meaningful Use Stage 3. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid’s Meaningful Use Stage 3 (MU3) program requires
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UMass Memorial, PatientPing Partner on Interoperability Network Initiative
UMass Memorial Health Care is teaming up with PatientPing, a Boston-based national care coordination network that connects healthcare providers with real-time clinical event notifications on a data-sharing initiative in Massachusetts. The goal of the partnership is to foster higher quality care through better patient care coordination in a state whose efforts thus far have been challenged by competitive barriers. Early data shows that a significant number of patients who receive care at UMass
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Allscripts EHR Integrates With Hospital IQ’s Predictive Analytics Platform
On late Tuesday, Allscripts announced an integration partnership with healthtech startup Hospital IQ to integrate its operationally-focused predictive analytics platform with Allscripts’ Sunrise® EHR. The integration will empower Allscripts and EPSi customers to become more operationally streamlined, saving a huge chunk of time and money. Using the platform means they can align resources including staff, schedules and capacity with patient flow. Additionally, the integration will help Allscripts
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UAB Selects Navigant Cymetrix for Hospital Revenue Cycle Operations
University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Health System has signed a seven-year agreement with Navigant Cymetrix to manage revenue cycle operations. The collaborative contract encompasses physician and hospital revenue cycle operations and is intended to provide value and consistency across the health system.As part of its suite of comprehensive revenue cycle management solutions, Navigant Cymetrix effectively and efficiently manages the revenue cycle performance of its healthcare provider
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HealthStream Acquires Credentialing Software Morrisey Associates for $48M
HealthStream, Inc. has acquired Chicago-based Morrisey Associates, a provider of physician credentialing and privileging for approximately $48.0 million in cash. For HealthStream, the acquisition provides a robust set of credentialing and privileging solutions for healthcare professionals for its Provider Solutions segment. Morrisey Associates reported $12.8 million in revenues in 2015. As part of the acquisition, president of HealthStream’s provider solutions business, Michael Sousa will
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HealthTap Unveils Virtual Consultations with Live Translators
HealthTap, a Global Health Practice providing 24/7 immediate access to doctors via video, text or voice, has unveiled multi-participant Virtual Consultations, including medical translation and interpretation services for its users globally. Available now, this service removes language barriers and dramatically expands access to high-quality immediate care to HealthTap users in 174 countries around the world.Engage in Live Group ConsultsPowered by HealthTap’s proprietary Health Operating System
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Provider Performance Monitoring: When Verification Leads to Trust & Insight
Editor's Note: Rick Ingraham is the Director of Vertical Markets at LexisNexis Health Care. A Russian proverb, “Doveryai no Proveryai”, was adopted by President Ronald Reagan in 1986 as he was preparing for talks with Mikhail Gorbachev. “Trust But Verify”. The degree to which an era of trust, while verifying, worked politically goes beyond this writer’s training but I would argue that the healthcare industry might be well served to work toward a similar culture. It may indeed prove to be
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Study: Continuous Patient Monitoring Could Save Healthcare $15B
Continuous contact-free patient monitoring can save the US healthcare system up to $15 billion annually, according to peer-reviewed paper published in Critical Care Medicine. Conducted by researchers from Harvard School of Medicine, and a new Frost & Sullivan report, Finding Top-Line Opportunities in a Bottom-Line Healthcare Market, each hospital bed monitored with EarlySense enables hospitals to achieve a cost savings of approximately $19,940.The cited cost savings are attributed to
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