Validic, a Boston-based patient-generated health data integration, and analysis platform, today announced the release of Validic Statistics Engine that will offer new opportunities for patient-generated health data in care delivery and management. The Statistics Engine enables organizations to easily derive individual or population-level trends and anomalies from PGHD. Making Patent-Generated Health Data (PGHD) Actionable for CliniciansBeyond optical character recognition, there are many
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Health2047 Spin Out Launches with $2M to Build Platform for People Living with Prediabetes
Health2047 Inc., an American Medical Association-backed company that develops and commercializes solutions to transform healthcare at the system level, today announced the spin out of First Mile Care. With $2M in seed funding, First Mile Care is a preventive chronic care startup that is building an affordable, scalable and sustainable platform to improve the lives of people who have prediabetes. Development is already underway for First Mile Care’s initial platform offering is based on the
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HMS’ Jennifer Forster Talks Leveraging Social Determinants of Health to Improve Population Health Outcomes
HMS’ Jennifer Forster explains how payers can cut costs and improve population health outcomes by incorporating social determinants of health (SDoH) into the mix.While the future of precision medicine is often associated with advances in genomics, there is more to consider when it comes to developing personalized treatment and PHM efforts. In fact, considering social determinants of health (SDoH), a recent and growing trend in predictive analytics, is gaining traction.A new study in Population
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4 Benefits of Augmenting Your Integrated Care Strategy with Performance Management Analytics
Integrated care is a hot topic today – numerous studies have shown the value and benefit of integrated care costs, quality of care and patient satisfaction and engagement. To effectively execute on any integrated care strategy, you need not only great clinical initiatives but also a strong Performance Management Analytics solution to augment and enhance your clinical initiatives. Integrating both will significantly impact your time to value with any solution as well the financial and quality
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Caradigm Sale – The Final Step in GE’s Exit From PHM/Value-based Care?
- On 13th June 2018, cancer informatics and digital pathology workflow vendor, Inspirata, announced that it was purchasing GE Healthcare’s remaining population health management (PHM) interest, Caradigm- This follows the announcement in April 2018 that GE Healthcare was selling its ambulatory value-based care business to Veritas Capital- This latest announcement now means that GE Healthcare has exited the population health management market from both an enterprise and ambulatory perspective- It
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7 Reasons Why Claims Data Cannot Drive Patient Health Improvements
With the Department of Health and Human Services' decision to tie 90 percent of Medicare payments to value based models by this year, we can expect organizations to move even faster toward streamlining their population health management programs. But a survey from Managed Healthcare Executive notes that only 12% of survey respondents say their organization is using data “very well” and it’s making a “big impact” at their organization, the same percentage as 2016. Obviously there is still a steep
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The State of Value-based Care in 2018: 10 Key Trends to Know
Value-based care is bending the healthcare cost curve, reducing unnecessary medical costs 5.6% on average while improving care quality and patient engagement—effectively starting to achieve the long-sought triple aim. Despite easing or ending of federal mandates, commercial lines of business are investing in value-based innovation, accelerating the decline of pure fee-for-service faster than previously projected levels. Indeed, today nearly two-thirds of payment are now based on value.These
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The Often-Overlooked Role of Provider Data Management in Population Health
Editor’s Note: Erin Jospe, MD is the Chief Medical Officer at Kyruus, a leader in provider search and scheduling solutions, helping health systems optimize patient access enterprise-wide.Health systems today have access to a tremendous amount of data with which to understand their patient populations better. The population health movement represents a paradigm shift away from merely generating data, to now harnessing it as a means through which to understand the factors and determinants
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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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