This week at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco, Andy Slavitt, Acting Administrator of CMS publicly put the meaningful use program on its death bed.
"The Meaningful Use program as it has existed, will now be effectively over and replaced with something better.""As any physician will tell you, physician burden and frustration levels are real. Programs designed to improve often distract. Done poorly, measures are divorced from how physicians practice and add to the cynicism
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Devin Jopp Steps Down As President & CEO of WEDI
Devin Jopp, Ed.D, President and CEO of Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) is stepping down from the post after four years at the Reston, VA-based not for profit organization. The WEDI Board of Directors has formed a search committee to help identify a replacement for Dr. Jopp.
During his four-year tenture, Dr. Jopp coordinated the development of the 2013 WEDI Report, which serves as an industry consensus roadmap for the next generation of healthcare data exchange. Additionally,
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ApolloMed Acquires Healarium’s Population Health Management Platform
Apollo Care Connect, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Glendale, Calif.-based ApolloMed has acquired has acquired the population health management technology and operating platform of Healarium, Inc. The acquisition will help expand the company's medical management and care coordination capabilities to meet the new challenges in the evolving world of value-based reimbursements. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
Founded in 2009 by Amnon Keynan, Healarium's cloud and
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Report: Healthcare M&A Preferred Growth Strategy for Execs in 2016
41 percent of healthcare executives expect healthcare M&A transactions to be their preferred growth strategy for 2016, outpacing organic growth through revitalizing and updating existing offerings, according to a Capital One Healthcare survey. The Capital One survey conducted shortly before this week's 34th Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference, found enduring optimism for the healthcare industry, although at lower levels than previous years.
Key findings of the survey include:
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Philips, Marin General Hospital Form $90M, 15-Year Partnership to Transform Care
Philips and Marin General Hospital Health have formed a $90 million, 15-year strategic partnership to improve patient care and encourage innovation in healthcare. This partnership, as with some of the Philips’ past collaborations with Mackenzie Health, the Westchester Medical Center Health Network in New York’s Hudson Valley, and Georgia Regents Medical Center in Augusta, GA, shows a growing need for strategic partnerships as a way to continue building out the healthcare continuum.
Strategic
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2016 HIMSS Value of Health IT Survey: 6 Trends to Know
On Monday, HIMSS released the 2016 finding of its Value of Health IT survey that reflects the feedback from 52 senior IT leaders representing HIMSS Analytics EMRAM Stage 6 or 7 hospitals and HIMSS Davies winners, during the Summer/Fall 2015. The survey found that found that 88 percent of organizations with advanced EHR environments identified at least one positive outcome from their use of an EHR.
Survey highlights include:
Treatment/Clinical: 83 percent indicated that their
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Talix Spins Off Healthline Network, Raises $14M for Patient Data Analytics
Talix, Inc., a health tech subsidiary of Healthline Networks, announced that it is spinning off as an independent company and has secured $14 million in funding led by Summit Partners. This capital will be used to fund the growth of the company’s core risk adjustment product, Coding InSight, and support the development of future applications in its planned suite of patient risk management products powered by Talix’s proprietary HealthData Engine.
Dean Stephens will serve as the new Chief
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UPMC, Health Catalyst Partner To Develop Cost Management Solution
UPMC and Health Catalyst are teaming up in a strategic partnership to develop a cost management solution that will measure and analyze the true cost of healthcare delivery for each patient. The partnership is the first of its kind that builds upon an activity-based cost management system developed by UPMC for commercial use and Health Catalyst's Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) infrastructure, analytics expertise, and professional services. Financial details of the partnership were not
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QPID Health Integrates With Epic EHR at Partners Healthcare
QPID Health, which helps hospitals and medical groups achieve their quality goals by generating actionable patient facts from EHR has signed an expanded enteprise-wide software and services agreement with Partners HealthCare. Over the next two years, QPID Health will integrate with Partner's Epic-based EHR system including legacy systems across all 10 of its hospitals and associated physician organizations.
QPID Health's clinical reasoning software combines advanced natural language
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5 Population Health Management Predictions for Providers in 2016
Beyond the hype, what’s to come from the population health management? Wellcentive’s CEO Tom Zajac gives predictions and pointers for those pursuing PHM in 2016.
Population health management (PHM) may be losing its novelty buzz but it’s still gaining serious popularity in healthcare. PHM, and its various definitions, has many providers talking about reducing costs and improving care. But it’s not how you define PHM that matters, it’s how you execute it. Talk is always
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