To assist organizations facing the challenge of fragmented data and limited insights, Silicon Valley-based Innovaccer today announced the launch of their Population Health and Networks Analytics Solution, InGraph today. Built on our healthcare data platform, InGraph provides holistic population health and network analyses and offers a strong foundation to power efficient care management and cost-effective quality improvement.Efforts to improve care for a population or system have driven care
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Illinois Rural Community Care Organization to Implement Cerner HealtheIntent
Illinois Rural Community Care Organization (IRCCO) has selected Cerner, a global leader in health care technology, to implement Cerner HealtheIntent, its big data and insights platform for population health management, across its accountable care organization (ACO) to coordinate care for Medicare patients throughout the state of Illinois.Clinicians at IRCCO will have actionable health data at their fingertips to support improved patient care and coordination. Cerner HealtheIntent analyzes
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Survey Reveals Telemedicine Platforms Frequently Lack EMR Integration
Healthcare providers indicated that their telemedicine platform is frequently inadquate due to lack of EMR integration, according to the results of the REACH Health 2018 U.S. Telemedicine Industry Benchmark Survey. Conducted between December 2017 and January 2018, REACH Health asked more than 400 healthcare executives, physicians, nurses and other professionals on their priorities, objectives and challenges, telemedicine program models and management structures, clinical specialties, service
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Synzi Partners with ClearDATA to Safeguard its Virtual Care Platform
Virtual care company, Synzi, announced a new partnership with ClearDATA, to ensure the security, privacy and compliance of its virtual care platform — which offers on-demand telehealth in addition to email and SMS messaging. By leveraging ClearDATA’s HIPAA-compliant and HITRUST-certified solution, Synzi will ensure the security of its technology and its continued regulatory compliance.Synzi offers a patient program management framework that combines video, email and secure messaging
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BioIQ Lands $26.5M to Expand Population Health Measurement Platform
BioIQ, an Atlanta, GA-based platform for population health measurement has raised $26.5M in funding led by HealthQuest Capital, with participation from Arboretum Ventures and select insiders. The company will use the funds to to expand its reach into new markets and accelerate product growth and innovation. The company plans to use the latest round of funding to expand into new markets and accelerate product growth and innovation.Founded in 2005 by Justin Bellante, BioIQ provides tools that
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White Paper: An Introduction to Valuing Telemedicine
As patient demand increases and the availability of healthcare providers shrinks, hospitals are seeking alternative solutions to traditional healthcare models to meet the needs of the communities they serve. “An Introduction to Valuing Telemedicine,” PYA’s white paper, explores one such arrangement—telemedicine—which affords greater access to necessary health services, while maintaining reasonable costs with limited providers. The paper is an adaptation of a chapter from theBVR/AHLA Guide to
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UMMC Selects SnapMD as Virtual Care Technology Partner
SnapMD, a full-service telehealth technology innovator and solutions provider, announced that the National Center for Telehealth at the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) has chosen SnapMD’s Virtual Care Management (VCM) software as its system-wide telehealth technology platform. As a telehealth trailblazer that has been providing high-quality health care through virtual visits for over 14 years, UMMC brings deep experience and knowledge to the telehealth marketplace, specifically
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Why Medicaid Needs to Lead the Charge in Remote Patient Monitoring
In a system that is straining under the pressure of an increasingly sick and aging population, the benefits of digital healthcare are indisputable. Technology has played a crucial role in the industry’s continued transition to value-based care, driving costs down while increasing access to personalized care.[1] But despite the rapid gains that technology has affected, policy-makers have been slow to catch up. Until recently, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) enforced rules
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Using Telephonic Nurse Advice to Reduce Avoidable ED Visits
Delivering care in the right setting at the right time is a well-accepted tenet of value-based, population health management. Directing patients or members to the most clinically appropriate level of care promises not only to reduce costs but also to improve the member experience. Take, for instance, the emergency department (ED). While EDs are vitally needed facilities that save countless lives, the experience can be stressful for patients given that ED staff are often rushing to care for
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Accenture: 61% of Consumers Have Used Virtual Health Assistants
Consumers are increasingly using a variety of digital self-service tools for managing their health, according to results of a survey from Accenture 2018 Consumer Survey on Digital Health released this week at HIMSS18.The survey of 2,301 U.S. consumers reveals that consumers are becoming more accepting of machines — ranging from artificial intelligence (AI), to virtual clinicians and home-based diagnostics — having a significantly greater role in their overall medical care. For example, one in
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