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Virtual Reality: 4 Ways Mixed Reality Helps Pediatric Patients

by Inga Shugalo, Analyst at Itransition 10/08/2018 Leave a Comment

Cedars-Sinai Unveils Therapeutic Virtual Reality to Enhance Patient Experience

Hospitals can be depressing, scary or boring, making people feel isolated and out of the loop. But this experience is several times more challenging for children, especially those in need of prolonged treatment. There can be unpleasant tests and procedures, strict visiting rules, and not so many available activities to entertain or distract young patients.Thankfully, technology is ready to alleviate hospital stay for the youngest patients, as mixed reality gradually integrates with pediatric
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eCLINICALWORKS Unveils Health Information Search Engine to Create Longitudinal View of Patient Record

by Fred Pennic 10/05/2018 Leave a Comment

eCLINICALWORKS Unveils Health Information Search Engine to Create Longitudinal View of Patient Record

Health information search engine Prizma presents data from various networks to create a complete longitudinal view of the patient recordeClinicalWorks, a provider of healthcare IT solutions, today announced the debut of Prizma, a health information search engine, to facilitate care across networks. By coordinating information from interoperability networks, such as CommonWell and Carequality, as well as payers such as CMS Blue Button® 2.0 API, Prizma will establish one longitudinal view to
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Can Bots Take the Patient Experience to the Next Level?

by Aditya Bansod, CTO and co-founder at Luma Health 10/03/2018 Leave a Comment

Can Bots Take Patient Communications to the Next Level?

In today’s mobile-first environment, it’s somewhat surprising that nearly 30 percent of healthcare providers still use phone calls — and only phone calls — to ensure patients make it into their scheduled appointments. While fewer Americans tend to answer their phone calls, they do use their phones for text messaging. In healthcare, the benefits of text message appointment reminders are increasingly recognized and on the rise, but this is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to providing a
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Innovaccer’s Healthcare Data Platform Helps ACOs Save More Than $264M Annually

by Fred Pennic 10/02/2018 Leave a Comment

Revenue Integrity Dysfunctional Patient Billing Major Distraction for Patients & Clinicians 6 Metrics to Improve Hospital Revenue Cycle ROI_revenue cycle makret

Innovaccer, a San Francisco-based healthcare data platform company, proudly announced the success of its partner accountable care organizations (ACOs) that achieved over $264 million in savings across 1 million managed lives. The data has been gathered from different commercial insurance providers and the Medicare Shared Savings Program performance data for 2017.According to CMS’ results, ACOs in P.Y. 2017 have achieved about $314 million in Medicare savings. More than 60% of the 472 ACOs
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Patient Engagement: 9 Ways to Engage Patients on Their Own Terms

by Peter Borden, Chief Digital Officer, Healthcare, Cognizant, and Charlotte Vangsgaard, Partner at ReD Associates 09/17/2018 Leave a Comment

Patient Engagement: 9 Ways to Engage Patients on Their Own Terms

Prioritizing measurable clinical outcomes, defining an evidence-based, codified patient journey, and incenting strict adherence to treatment plans have been the base for many patient engagement initiatives. These seem to be logical ways to improve outcomes, reduce costs and encourage patients to follow post-care plans mapped to a journey designed to yield specific clinical measures. Yet despite the industry’s focus on patient centricity, the healthcare industry is still struggling to realize the
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Greater Houston Healthconnect to Provide HIE Services for 12M Patients via InterSystems

by Jasmine Pennic 08/24/2018 Leave a Comment

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Greater Houston Healthconnect announced their partnership with InterSystems HealthShare to power the region’s interoperability and care coordination initiatives. GHH, serving a total of 24 counties and 12M patients in Southeast Texas, is now able to integrate data from all EHRs in the region to enable a unified patient record which will improve care quality, patient safety, and efficiency. Longtime InterSystems partner J2 Interactive handled the migration of Greater Houston Healthconnect to
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UCSF and Dignity Health to Develop Digital Patient Experience Platform

by Fred Pennic 07/19/2018 Leave a Comment

UCSF and Dignity Health to Develop Digital Patient Experience Platform

Dignity Health and UCSF, announced a collaboration partnership to develop a digital patient experience platform that will provide information and access to patients when and where they need it as they navigate primary and preventive care, as well as more acute or specialty care. The new platform will utilize Dignity Health’s cloud-based infrastructure for its 40 hospitals, while UCSF will contribute its extensive knowledge of the patient experience in specialty care.Collaboration DetailsDuring
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Innovaccer Unveils Potential Savings Advisor for Accountable Care Organizations

by Jasmine Pennic 07/11/2018 Leave a Comment

Innovaccer unveils Potential Savings Advisor for Accountable Care Organizations

Despite the numerous interventions by the government to reinforce value-based care, the transformation of the healthcare ecosystem has been slow. As of 2018, there are around 400 ACOs under Medicare Shared Savings Programs alone and only 31% of them could generate shared savings.Additionally, ACOs are under immense pressure with an increased shift towards assuming more financial accountability. The reality is that every year ACOs end up leaving money on the table due to lack of awareness about
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Partners Healthcare Taps Circulation to Bring On-Demand Medical Transportation to Patients

by Fred Pennic 06/19/2018 Leave a Comment

Partners Healthcare Taps Circulation to Bring On-Demand Medical Transportation to Patients

Circulation Health, a on-demand medical transportation exchange that coordinates transportation logistics for health organizations, today announced an agreement with Partners Healthcare, an integrated, not-for-profit health system with facilities in Massachusetts and New Hampshire.As part of the collaboration, Partners will utilize Circulation's on-demand ride technology, which interfaces with Lyft, to move patients to and from their appointments.  The relationship also allows for expansion to
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Deloitte Integrates Patient Engagement Solution with Apple to Improve Adherence to Treatment Plans

by Jasmine Pennic 06/18/2018 Leave a Comment

Deloitte ConvergeHEALTH Patient Connect Integrates with Apple HealthKit, CareKit and ResearchKit

Deloitte, today announced it has integrated its ConvergeHEALTH Patient Connect product with Apple HealthKit, CareKit and ResearchKit frameworks, enabling patients to improve adherence to treatment plans while supporting connectivity to clinical research. This is the latest in a series of innovative additions to the ConvergeHEALTH product portfolio. ConvergeHEALTH is a group of products engineered and built by Deloitte to enable life sciences clients to respond to the shift to
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