Wellcentive, an Atlanta-based provider of value-based care solutions has launched a free tool to calculate the real cost of delaying the shift from public and private payer volume to value-based care (VBC) and reimbursement. The tool called the Cost of Inaction calculator helps organizations estimate the impact, based on national benchmark data for health services and the organization-specific data users submit, of delaying effective implementation and management of VBC practices.Why Now Is The
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Recent Digital Health Hires and Departures
Halle Tecco Steps Down from Rock Health Rock Health’s Founder and Managing Director Halle Tecco announced that she is stepping down from the full-service digital health fund via Twitter on Wednesday. 1/ After nearly six years of helping build @Rock_Health, I’ve made the difficult decision to move on.— Halle Tecco (@halletecco) May 4, 2016Apple Taps Google X founder to Lead Healthcare ProjectsApple has tapped Yoky Matsuoka, a cofounder of Google's experimental Google X division and former VP of
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Telehealth Startup WeCounsel Nabs $3.5M to Connect Mental Health Providers
WeCounsel, a HIPAA compliant turnkey telehealth platform that connects mental health providers to clients online has raised $3.5M in Series A funding led by Longmeadow Capital Partners, Point Judith Capital, and CVH Holdings. The company's solution serves as a turnkey virtual office for healthcare providers and businesses, complete with a custom video conferencing experience. We are fortunate to have seen so much success in the marketplace and to have translated that into a major investment from
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ResApp Nabs $12.5M For Smartphone App That Instantly Diagnose Respiratory Diseases
ResApp, a Australian-based digital health startup that has developed a smartphone app that can diagnose respiratory diseases based on the sound signatures of the coughs, announced it has raised $12.5 million in funding. The oversubscribed round was led by Jett Capital Advisors, Empire Capital Partners and CPS Capital Group. The company plans to use the funding to accelerate the FDA approval for its adult diagnostic test and expand US market access beyond telehealth into in-clinic use, including
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higi, IMPOWER Partner to Advance Behavioral Telehealth with Biometric Data
IMPOWER is a leading, non-profit mental health and child well-being has announced a partnership with telehealth kiosk company higi that will improve patient engagement and physician insights with the addition of real-time health stats in Central Florida. By leveraging the higi platform, IMPOWER patients can routinely track key biometric data, such as blood pressure, weight, pulse and body mass index.When patients opt in, they can share them with IMPOWER clinicians through a quick and
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Health Choice Network Selects Wellcentive for Population Health
Health Choice Network (HCN) has selected Wellcentive for population health management solutions and services to drive integrated care management and quality reporting across HCN's 46 health centers nationwide. The partnership will also include a collaborative effort for expanding quality measures, value-based insurance design (VBID) and financial analytics to track and demonstrate approaches to treating complex chronic care patients within underserved communities. Financial terms of the deal
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Population Health Provider Lightbeam Health Solutions Acquires Browsersoft
Lightbeam Health Solutions, Inc., an end-to-end population health management solutions has acquired Shawnee Mission, KS-based Browsersoft, Inc. Browsersoft is a health information exchange (HIE) solution provider for hospitals, health systems, states, communities and other stakeholders within the US and various global markets.Browersoft’s OpenHRE™ solution enables healthcare communities to exchange data from disparate systems enabling providers to have the most comprehensive, up-to-date patient
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Report: Top 5 Areas of Concerns for Health System Executives
47% of health system executives indicated that they were extremely interested in addressing the challenge of rising consumer expectations for service, according to The Advisory Board Company's Annual Health Care CEO Survey. Additionally, 45% of hospital and health system executives said they were extremely interested in identifying patient engagement strategies – a four-percentage-point increase over the previous year.For its Annual Health Care CEO Survey, The Advisory Board Company surveyed 209
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Ask the Doctor Launches Virtual Doctor Visits for Employers in Canada
Ask The Doctor, the world's most popular medical question and answer platform has selected Ontario to launch its Virtual Healthcare Platform for Employers, ATD Works. Starting today, Ontario employers can provide their employees with the benefit of immediate virtual access to a physician through email, SMS, phone or video chat on the Ask The Doctor App. Employees will not only have access to medical advice, they can also receive prescriptions conveniently filled at their nearest pharmacy. The
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Cerner Lands First First Global HealtheIntent Client with UK-based Wirral Partners
EHR giant Cerner, announced that Wirral Partners, an integrated primary and acute care system in the United Kingdom, will use Cerner's HealtheIntent℠ population health management platform to advance the Healthy Wirral program, an initiative focused on establishing new models of care for disease management and prevention. Wirral Partners through Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is Cerner’s first global HealtheIntent client.
HealtheIntent, a system-agnostic, near real-time
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