Virtual care company Zipnosis, today announced the launch of Surgical Care, the latest platform expansion that allows patients to receive post-operative care from the comfort of their homes. This module represents a new direction for the overall platform, which still maintains a focus on episodic, urgent care conditions, and is the next step toward growing the solution to meet a wider variety of clinical needs while continuing to improve access to care.Zipnosis Surgical Care OverviewSurgical
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Change Healthcare Integrates with Doctor on Demand for Lab Orders
Change Healthcare has announced an integration partnership with on-demand telehealth provider Doctor On Demand’s patient geo-location technology, allows physicians to order lab work based on patient’s location—giving consumers the power to choose the most convenient and cost-effective facility. As part of the collaboration, Doctor On Demand is now using the Change Healthcare Intelligent Healthcare Network to empower consumers to choose the most convenient and cost-effective lab for tests ordered
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Kern Medical to Implement Cerner Millennium EHR & PHM Platform
Kern Medical, a 222-bed acute care teaching center based in Bakersfield, California, has selected Cerner to implement the Cerner Millennium EHR and Cerner HealtheIntent big data and insights platform for population health management. Kern Medical's transition to Cerner Millennium EHR is designed to support an individual’s care journey across the continuum – from the doctor’s office to the hospital and outpatient clinics – with consistent patient engagement.Kern Medical made the choice based on
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Chilmark Report Reveals Adoption Challenges for Patient Relationship Management Solutions
Enterprise healthcare organizations (HCOs) striving to improve patient engagement increasingly turn to solutions that can be described as patient relationship management (PRM) – but, as the latest report from Chilmark Research describes in detail, it’s much more than a rebranding of customer relationship management (CRM) for healthcare.The Market Scan Report, Patient Relationship Management: Higher Stakes Than CRM, describes why HCOs are interested in solutions that promise more targeted patient
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Innovaccer Launches InGraph to Transform Healthcare Analytics
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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