What You Should Know:
- Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Virginia and Aledade, the nation’s largest network of independent primary care, today announced an expansion of their collaboration to provide more Virginians with access to high-quality primary care.
- The expanded strategic partnership will impact more than 80 practices, 15 health centers, and 25 rural health clinics across Virginia and covers Medicare Advantage, commercially insured, or Medicaid members.
- Aledade is
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Technology
Embracing SDOH Data Monitoring for Transformative Healthcare
Understanding the multifaceted dimensions of patient wellness goes beyond the medical symptoms presented in a clinical setting. In order to maximize positive patient outcomes, healthcare providers must examine and monitor the social factors and life circumstances, or the Social Determinants of Health (SDOH), that significantly influence population health. These determinants – encompassing aspects of life such as access to care and technology, food or housing insecurity, core demographics and
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NextGen’s Value-Based Care Solutions Unlocks $82M in Medicare Savings
What You Should Know:
NextGen Healthcare, Inc. a leading provider of innovative, cloud-based healthcare technology solutions, today announced that its clients participating in the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) leveraged NextGen® Population Health to achieve a cumulative $82 million in total Medicare savings last year.The MSSP incentivizes hospitals, associations of physicians, and other healthcare facilities to form accountable care organizations (ACOs) that
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M&A: UpHealth Sells Cloudbreak Health Business to GTCR for $180M
What You Should Know:
UpHealth, Inc. has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its wholly-owned subsidiary, Cloudbreak Health, LLC, to private equity firm GTCR for $180 million in cash.
The sale will allow UpHealth to reduce its debt and focus on its growing behavioral health business, TTC Healthcare. The sale is expected to close in the first half of 2024.
CloudBreak Health Background
Cloudbreak Health, known for its Martti translation offering, provides telehealth and video
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NCQA Launches Virtual Care Accreditation Pilot
What You Should Know:
- The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) has initiated the Virtual Care Accreditation Pilot program, a significant step in developing a quality improvement framework for organizations offering care through telehealth or digital platforms.
- NCQA has selected 18 pilot organizations from a pool of over 100 applicants. These organizations are based in 12 states and Puerto Rico and represent various entities, including health plans, health systems, Federally
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Cone Health, Helix Launches 5-Year Population Genomics Testing Initiative
What You Should Know:
- Cone Health, a non-profit healthcare network in North Carolina, and Helix, a population genomics company, have partnered to launch a five-year research study that will enroll and track 100,000 healthy people.
- The study will use Helix's population genomics platform to provide medical insights for Cone Health patients and help identify people at risk for certain diseases and conditions.
Study Enrollment & Benefits
Enrollment in the program is optional and
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CareAbout Health Selects Innovaccer to Scale VBC for Expanding Provider Network
What You Should Know:
- CareAbout, a healthcare management services company, has selected Innovaccer's data platform and analytics solutions to help its providers achieve their clinical and financial goals.
- The partnership between CareAbout and Innovaccer will help CareAbout's providers achieve their clinical and financial goals in a value-based care environment.
- Innovaccer's platform will provide CareAbout's providers with actionable insights into quality, performance, and cost
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Alarming Wait Times and Persistent Inequities Obstructing Early Autism Diagnosis, Study Exposes
What You Should Know:
Cognoa, a leading child development and behavioral health company, today published a new report, The State of Pediatric Autism Diagnosis in the U.S.: Gridlocks, Inequities and Missed Opportunities Persist, that underscores the longstanding waitlist crisis for children and their families seeking a diagnosis of developmental delays and autism evaluation. The report assesses results from 111 specialty centers across the U.S.On average, children and their families are
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ApolloMed & Wider Circle Partner to Deliver Patient-Centered Care in California
What You Should Know:
- Wider Circle and Apollo Medical Holdings, Inc. (ApolloMed) are partnering to provide Enhanced Care Management (ECM) to high-need Medicaid members in California as part of the California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal (CalAIM) initiative.
- The collaboration aims to deliver patient-centered care and ECM by combining Wider Circle's community-based engagement model with ApolloMed's clinical care management expertise and technology platform.
ApolloMed
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Telemedicine Increases EHR Documentation Burden for Physicians, Study Reveals
What You Should Know:
- A recent study reveals that telemedicine is related to increased EHR time for physicians in the ambulatory setting, primarily due to documentation of visits, and may require adjustments in productivity expectations and strategies to address EHR documentation burden for physicians in healthcare systems.
- The longitudinal cohort study of 1052 ambulatory physicians conducted at UCSF Health analyzes the time physicians spent working in the EHR during patient scheduled
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