NextGen Healthcare, a wholly owned subsidiary of Quality Systems, Inc. and a leading provider of healthcare information systems, services, and connectivity solutions, today has announced the launch of NextGen® Care, a new population health and care management solution designed to streamline the care team’s workflow, more effectively manage patient populations, drive better outcomes and decrease cost of care delivery mandated by evolving value-based payment models. The solution provides risk
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University of Michigan Pediatric Launches Telemedicine Program for Obesity
This week, the University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children's Hospital Pediatric is launching a new telemedicine program that will provide patients access to their evidence-based pediatric weight management program without the need for families to make frequent trips to Ann Arbor. Utilizing Fruit Street Health's HIPAA compliant video platform, clinicians will deliver individual and group sessions via video conferencing to collect activity and nutrition information from patients easily between
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TruClinic, Google Partner to Bring Telemedicine to Chromebooks
Utah-based TruClinic has announced a partnership with Google for Work that will bring TruClinic’s online telemedicine solution to Google Chromebooks. As part of the partnership, Google Chromebooks will come preloaded with TruClinic and other healthcare applications to better address patient needs throughout the entire care process to deliver large scale telemedicine coverage throughout provider networks.
How It Works
By utilizing Chrome OS, a referring doctor has real time capability of
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Population Health: New Era Requires Focus on Emergent-Risk
Today’s population health strategies currently used by health plans and employer groups are missing the mark when it comes to directly affecting healthcare’s number one health challenge: arresting the trajectory of compounding chronic conditions. The 25-35% of the U.S. adult population fall within the category of those with one or more pre-chronic or early-stage chronic conditions who, if not treated with the right solutions, can quickly become patients with multiple chronic conditions who will
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Mercy, Rockwell Opens Telehealth Clinic For Employees
MercyCare Community Physicians and Cedar Rapids, IA-based avionics and IT systems provider, Rockwell Collins has partnered to build a telehealth clinic at 5070 Rockwell Dr. NE, which is set to open on April 20, according to The Gazette. The telehealth clinic will provide on-site health care to employees and their families on the company health plan through telehealth visits with remote Mercy physicians from three area clinics — in Marion, Blairs Ferry and downtown Cedar Rapids.
Two Mercy
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Caradigm Broadens Its Portfolio of Population Health Apps
Caradigm, a provider of enterprise population health has announced its latest software release, which includes two new applications, Caradigm® Condition Management andCaradigm® Utilization Management Analytics.
These new applications help healthcare organizations improve quality and lower the cost of care for at-risk populations, and broaden Caradigm’s ability to deliver the market’s most comprehensive portfolio of enterprise population health applications. In addition, the release includes
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Majority of Clinicians Believe EHRs Are Not Sufficient for Care Coordination
Majority of clinicians (51%-53%) believe the EHRs are not sufficient enough for coordinating care, while 78 percent of office managers believe the EHR is sufficient, according to new survey by PerfectServe. The survey conducted by Nielsen looks at perspectives on HIPAA, organizational readiness for population health and challenges in care coordination from nearly 1,000 clinicians (including hospital and office-based physicians, nurses, specialists), case managers and practice
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Summa Health to Offer Robotic Telestroke Program for Stroke Patients
Summa Health System is developing a robotic telestroke program through a partnership with InTouch Health, a provider of telemedicine technologies. InTouch Health will be install one robot for Summa Akron City Hospital and another robot for Summa Barberton Hospital – that will allow neurologists to perform live real-time audiovisual consultations with emergency medicine teams. The goal of the robotic telestroke program is to speed the delivery of clot-busting drugs, such as tissue plasminogen
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Report: Regulatory Action May Strengthen Telehealth Adoption
On Tuesday, Price Waterhouse Cooper's Health Research Institute (HRI) released an industry brief on how recent regulatory action may be the catalyst to spur the fledgling telehealth market. In October 2014, the federal government expanded Medicare reimbursement for telehealth services, including remote chronic care management and an addition of seven new covered procedure codes for telehealth, including annual wellness visits, psychotherapy and prolonged services in the office.
Providers are
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New Patient Monitor Automates Patient Data Transfer to EMRs
Welch Allyn, a provider medical diagnostic device company, announced it has developed a new patient monitor for physician’s offices that fully automates vital signs capture and wireless data transfer to your EMR. The solutions aligns with the population health management objective to keep a patient population as healthy as possible, reducing the need for more expensive tests, procedures and office visits that add additional costs to the system. In order to do this effectively, data automation
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