Doctor On Demand, an on-demand video medicine provider has appointed former Zynga Chief Marketing Officer Jennifer Nuckles as the compnay's new CMO. In her new role, Nuckles will work to expand Doctor On Demand’s customer engagement and growth efforts. The former Chief Marketing Officer at Zynga, Nuckles has 20 years of extensive experience driving customer growth and engagement with products — from consumer goods, to enterprise channels, to social games, to eCommerce platforms.Alongside her
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American Well Adds Psychiatry Services to its Telehealth Offering
Telehealth provider American Well has added psychiatry services to its core telehealth offering through its clinical partner, The Online Care Group with plans to roll it out across all States in the U.S. by end of 2016. American Well has provided has provided behavioral health services as part of its core telehealth offering since Summer 2014. American Well's psychiatry program is available to adults ages 18 and above. Currently more than 400 credentialed therapists see patients across the
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Nebraska Medicine to Implement Epic’s Population Health Platform
Nebraska Medicine, a large academic medical center announced that it will implement Epic’s Healthy Planet population health platform to support more affordable care across its clinically integrated network, Nebraska Health Partners. The Epic implementation will help expand data interoperability and integrate 1,100 physicians currently using different EHRs. Nebraska Health Partners will help private practice physicians work more collaboratively across the state to improve care, reduce costs,
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LA County Dept. of Health Services to Implement Cerner’s Population Health Platform
The Los Angeles County Department of Health Services (LACDHS) announced today it will implement Cerner's population health platform, HealtheIntent. The deal makes it Cerner’s 100th HealtheIntent client.HealtheIntent’s system-agnostic platform that normalizes data from any source, to aggregate clinical and financial data from its core EHR and other sources. Once live, HealtheIntent will enable thousands of LACDHS clinicians to make more informed decisions by providing a comprehensive profile of
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Surescripts Rolls Out Medication History Service for Population Health Management
Surescripts, a health information network, is expanding to support population health management with its Medication History for Panel Management service for health systems, accountable care organizations (ACOs) and analytics vendors. The service, Medication History for Panel Management Service, comes at a time when managing population health is a top priority for care providers, especially in light of value-based payment models. Key features of the service include: · Delivers fresh, accurate
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Cordata Healthcare Lands Nearly $3M for Care Coordination Platform
Cordata Healthcare Innovations, a Cincinnati, OH-based provider of specialty care coordination platforms has landed nearly $3 million in Series A funding led by Chicago-based First Health Capital Partners (FHCP) with participation from CincyTech. The company plans to utilize the funding to build on market momentum and scale the capabilities of its multi-specialty platform for care coordination.Founded in 2014, Cordata Healthcare Innovations offers specialized software applications for effective
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Cardinal Health Quietly Acquires Telepharmacy Startup TelePharm
Healthcare services provider Cardinal Health quietly acquired TelePharm, a Iowa City-based telepharmacy startup in July for an undisclosed amount, according to The DesMoines Register. Founded in 2012 by Roby Miller, a University of Iowa graduate, TelePharm's cloud-based software helps pharmacies streamline workflow and communication in order to strengthen their patient relationships.Integration DetailsAs part of the acquisition, all of TelePharm's 18 employees including its founder will maintain
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3M Integrates with Cerner’s HealtheIntent Population Health Platform
3M Health Information Systems has entered an agreement to integrate 3M Patient-focused Episodes Software, a risk adjustment tool for analyzing episodes of care with Cerner’s HealtheIntent℠ population health management platform. The integration will allow providers to view the landscape of a patient’s documented conditions to help define an episode of care, while analyzing costs and expected resource use. Moving Towards Patient-Centric Episode ApproachThe conventional approach to defining an
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Avizia, Kno2 Integrate to Roll-Out Turnkey Telehealth to Rural Hospitals
Telehealth solution provider Avizia has announced a partnership with patient document exchange Kno2 to provide interoperable telehealth to specialist and primary care in rural hospitals. The integration of both platform will enable seamless delivery of telehealth and document exchange to facilitate continuity of care by connecting patients to providers, regardless of disparate locations.Partnership DetailsAs part of the integration, Kno2's cloud-based, interoperable document exchange platform
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Salesforce Rolls Out Telhealth Features to Health Cloud via Mobile Device
On Thursday, Salesforce has announced the addition of new telehealth features to Health Cloud, enabling two-way video chat that gives patients the ability to connect face-to-face with their care teams from any mobile device. As the global telehealth market expands over the next five years at an annual growth rate of 24 percent, these new features will assist healthcare providers looking to keep up with these new industry standards and patient expectations.Salesforce Health Cloud Two-Way Video
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