When people in healthcare use the phrase ‘patient engagement,’ they mean involving patients more in their own care, perhaps urging them to be more responsible for their own health.From a costs perspective, this makes sense. No one argues that the healthcare system is not rife with waste and duplication, and much of the treatment would be unnecessary if patients paid attention to their health well before dramatic efforts are the only remaining option. Also unarguable is the impact healthcare has
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10 Recommended Policy Principles to Build Momentum Towards Value-based Care
In a letter to Congress and the Administration, leading healthcare organizations today called for a renewed effort to move to value-based care, patient-centered payment models that reward improved quality and cost-effective care. Central to this effort is addressing the perverse incentives in the fee-for-service system, and antiquated laws and regulations that impede innovation and care coordination.The bipartisan journey toward value-based care began more than 15 years ago with pay for
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GetWellNetwork Acquires Mobile Patient Platform Seamless Medical Systems
GetWellNetwork®, Inc., a provider of Interactive Patient Care™ (IPC) solutions has acquired Santa Fe, New Mexico-based Seamless Medical Systems. The acquisition of Seamless extends GetWellNetwork's fully integrated cross-continuum patient engagement platform to more than 150 clinics nationwide. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. Founded in 2011, Seamless Medical Systems streamlines the patient journey through integrated digital patient intake and communications solutions
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Able Health Launches End-to-End MIPS platform for Reporting, Performance Improvement
Able Health is a health IT company dedicated to making value-based care work for providers has launched an end-to-end MIPS solution enabling providers to improve performance and submit data to CMS with less time, money, and stress. The new platform can ingest patient data from electronic health records and data warehouses, calculate any MIPS registry quality measure or eCQM, and provide a dashboard for administrators to track and improve a group or provider's MIPS Composite Performance Score.
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Why EHR Systems Are Not Enough to Fill the Patient Engagement Gap
Editor's Note: Rob Grant is the Co-Founder and Executive Vice President at Evariant, a healthcare CRM platform provider where he is responsible for advancing the company's market strategy, fostering new key business relationships and growing its customer base. He is a veteran of the healthcare and technology industries, with more than 20 years of executive experience in leading innovation, business strategy, new business development, sales, marketing, finance and operations.In today’s healthcare
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Innovaccer Unveils Free ACO Performance & Trends Tool for Providers
Innovaccer Inc., a Silicon Valley-Headquartered Healthcare analytics company has unveiled ACO Compare, a one of it’s kind free tool to track, monitor and compare the performances of Accountable Care Organizations. Created after extensive research on Accountable Care Organizations currently functioning in the US with performance and quality data as received from CMS, ACO Compare combines 33 quality reporting measures specified by the CMS serve as the basis of comparison which are divided into
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Aledade Lands $20M to Expand Value-Based Care Network
Aledade, Inc., a provider of in value-based care has raised $20 million in funding that will accelerate Aledade’s efforts to grow its provider network as well as expand partnerships with commercial and Medicare Advantage health led by Biomatics Capital. The round also included participation from new investors including GV (formerly Google Ventures) and the Maryland Venture Fund, and existing investors Venrock and ARCH Venture Partners.Aledade ACO network now includes more than 200 independent,
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Plotting the Roadmap to Value-based Reimbursements in 2017 & Beyond
Editor's Note: Mark R. Anderson, FHIMSS, CPHIMS is the CEO of AC Group and a member of Innovaccer’s Board of Advisor, a Silicon Valley-based healthcare analytics company. Previously, he is a former CIO for 5 IDNs, an interim CFO, and CEO of Rural Hospitals. Policymakers and private industries have been pushing for a change in healthcare reimbursement policy. Back in January of 2015, several of the nation’s largest health care systems and payers, joined by the purchaser and patient stakeholders,
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A Modern Industrial Revolution: Electronic Health Information Connectivity
Editor's Note: Buff Colchagoff is the CEO of RosettaHealth, a cloud-based health messaging and exchange platform. Colchagoff has over 16 years of health IT experience with large projects, including building the VA’s PHR MyHealtheVet, as operations manager for the Nationwide Health Information Exchange (NwHIN) which grew into the Sequoia Project. The industrial revolution has shaped life as we know it today. Historic inventors, explorers and entrepreneurs paved the way to economic and social
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What Does The Cures Act Mean for Mental Health Care? 5 Things to Know
Remember that the two things you don’t want to watch being made are sausage and law. Then recall that while the process for both may be unappealing and seem incongruous, the product is not always so. Take the 21st Century Cures Act, for example, which is a lengthy (996 pages) piece of legislation (summary here) that focuses primarily on health-related scientific research and medical devices. It also broadly outlines the terms for an upcoming drawdown of America’s strategic petroleum reserve,
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