What You Should Know:
- Healthify's social determinants of health (SDoH) infrastructure will be integrated into Altruista's GuidingCare® platform to support health plans in addressing the social needs of members.
- SDoH such as poverty, housing instability, and food insecurity can significantly impact health outcomes, so it is imperative that they are not overlooked.
Healthify, a
company that works with managed care organizations to integrate social
determinants
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Technology
Press Ganey Acquires Doctor.com, Acquires Majority Stake in Binary Fountain
What You Should Know:
- Press Ganey advances the healthcare consumerism movement with acquisitions of Doctor.com and a majority stake in Binary Fountain.
- Expanded technology platform enables industry-leading
management of providers’ online brand and seamless Web-wide patient acquisition
and loyalty strategies.
Press Ganey today
announced the expansion of its market-leading health care consumerism platform
with the acquisitions
of Doctor.com and a majority equity stake
in Binary
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UAB Medicine, Advanced ICU Care to Develop Tele-ICU Care Operations Center
What You Should Know:
- UAB Medicine has announced a large-scale, strategic
telemedicine partnership with Advanced ICU Care that will encompass the entire
health system, one of the top three largest public hospital facilities in the
U.S.
- The relationship initiates the development of a new
tele-ICU care operations center and envisions serving up to 750 ICU beds in
Alabama and surrounding states.
UAB Medicine, a nationally recognized leader in patient care, research and training and
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Tyto Care Launches AI-Powered Diagnostic Support Solution
What You Should Know:
- Today, Tyto Care announced the company’s evolution from
telehealth to tele-diagnosis with its AI-powered diagnostic support solution,
providing clinicians with advanced insights for informed remote diagnoses.
- The solution will improve the quality of remote triage
for common primary and chronic health issues – starting with wheezing and
stridor – grounded in Tyto Care’s industry-leading repository of remote exam
videos, sounds and images.
Tyto Care, a
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Innovaccer Unveils Risk Adjustment Solution For Improved Coding Accuracy
What You Should Know:
- Innovaccer unveils new risk adjustment solution to help providers better segment their population to refine the risk scoring process and improve coding accuracy and efficiency, thereby improving performance on risk-based contracts.
- The solution utilizes Artificial Intelligence (AI) and
Natural Language Processing (NLP) to make risk predictions.
Innovaccer, Inc., a
leading healthcare
technology company, has launched its Risk Adjustment
Solution. Leveraging
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3 Telemedicine Security and Compliance Best Practices
The coronavirus pandemic accelerated telemedicine exponentially as patients and doctors switched from in-person visits to remote consultations. Health providers rapidly scaled virtual offerings in March and April and traffic volumes soared to unprecedented levels, with practices “seeing 50 to 175 times the number of patients by telehealth than before the outbreak,” according to McKinsey. By early August, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services expanded the list of
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Is Your Community Ready For A Connected Community of Care Model?
This question initially brings to mind many possibilities such as connection to the latest 5G cellular service, a new super-fast internet provider, or maybe one of the many new energy suppliers jockeying for market share from traditional utility companies. While all of these might represent legitimate opportunities to improve one’s community, here we are talking about a different concept; specifically, whether your community is ready to have a Connected Community of Care (CCC) to advance
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Getting Beyond the Telehealth ‘Stop-Gap’ Mentality
Since COVID-19 emerged as a major health threat, virtual care has taken off. As many as 46% of patients reported in late April that they had used telehealth to replace a canceled healthcare visit in 2020, while 48% of physicians said they had started using telehealth to treat patients.
While a shift in care models was necessary to address business continuity amid the pandemic, these trends also represent positive movements as a growing body of evidence supports the real-life benefits of
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Value-Based Reimbursement Contracts Now Account for 26% of Hospital Revenue, KLAS Finds
What You Should Know:
- Value-based reimbursement (VBR) contracts now account
for 26% of hospital revenue, according to a new report from KLAS research and
CHIME.
- Report reveals providers are looking first to their
electronic health record (EHR) systems to drive PHM, and are most interested in
investing in new healthcare information technology (HIT) when they know there
is a clear ROI.
With value-based reimbursement (VBR) adoption slowing, healthcare providers are searching
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Amwell and Cigna Ranks High in Telehealth Patient Satisfaction, J.D. Power Finds
What You Should Know:
- Amwell ranks highest among direct to consumer brands
and Cigna ranks highest among health plans for telehealth patient satisfaction,
according to the J.D. Power 2020 U.S. Telehealth Satisfaction Study
- Though telehealth has been pitched as a solution to
improve access to healthcare for everyone, more than half (52%) of telehealth
users say they encountered at least one barrier that made it difficult to use
telehealth.
Patient satisfaction with
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