What You Should Know: - Today, Health Cloud company Innovaccer, today unveiled its new Population Health Analytics solution, now available on the Innovaccer Health Cloud. - The new solution helps risk-based providers improve care management and delivery with AI-enhanced predictive analytics; performance assessments and benchmarking; and comprehensive, customizable dashboards that drive evidence-based decisions in real-time. - Among Innovaccer Population Health Analytics’
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HLTH21: Uber Health, Papa Partner to Improve Social Determinants of Health
What You Should Know: - Papa, a nationwide provider that pairs older adults and families with Papa Pals for companionship and assistance with everyday tasks, and Uber Health, Uber’s HIPAA-enabled solution for health care organizations, announced a social determinants of health (SDoH) partnership aimed at reducing barriers to transportation access. - Papa and Uber are working together to mitigate social isolation and negative health outcomes among Medicare and Medicaid recipients as
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Grand Rounds Health, Doctor on Demand Launch Coalition to Address Health Disparities in the Black Community
What You Should Know: - Grand Rounds Health and Doctor On Demand, the leader in integrated virtual care and navigation, today announced a solution designed to help remove barriers to care for the Black community. Developed using insights from an innovation coalition of Global and Fortune 500 companies, the product will be the first dedicated care concierge and healthcare navigation platform focused on improving the healthcare experience and advancing health equity for Black Americans. The
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Socially Determined, DataGen Partner to Bring SDoH Insights to Hospitals and Health Systems
What You Should Know: - Socially Determined, the Social Risk Intelligence™ company for organizations committed to addressing the social determinants of health, today announced it has entered into a strategic partnership with DataGen, the healthcare analytics company that 48 state hospital associations, and their members, trust to deliver insights on payment policy changes, value-based programs and market dynamics. Through this partnership, Socially Determined will enrich the insights and
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SDOH Strategies All Provider Organizations Should be Adopting Now
There is growing concern among many well-respected providers about the consequences of fewer preventive services over the past 1½ years as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. As patients slowly start to resume care throughout 2021 and into 2022, experts predict we will see a spike in the number of severe or late-stage diagnoses that normally would have been caught much earlier. As a result, we may face more complex situations and costlier treatments in terms of their economic, physical, and
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Unite Us Acquires NowPow’s Personalized Community Referral Platform
What You Should Know: - Unite Us, a New York City-based technology company connecting health and social care services, today announced the acquisition of NowPow, the Chicago-based referral platform grounded in science and community. - This combination will create the nation’s leading integrated health and social care network connecting people to the resources they need -- from food and housing assistance to counseling, caregiver support and more. Together, the combined company helps
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CVS Caremark Expands Efforts to Tackle Health Disparities
What You Should Know: - CVS Caremark announced an expansion of its efforts to address health disparities among patients, starting with certain conditions including sickle cell disease, HIV, and cardiovascular disease. - CVS Caremark is working with its clients to create health equity strategies for PBM members with certain conditions that disproportionately affect patients of color. The company will also use its broad reach and collaborate with community partners to determine the
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Leveraging SDOH in Post-Pandemic Risk Modeling to Overcome Distorted Care Projections for 2021 and Beyond
The uncertainty and risk created by pandemic-related disruptions in care have health plans in uncharted water when it comes to relying on claims data and utilization patterns to inform their risk models. But while these disruptions weakened the reliability of traditional risk models, they also created opportunities to deepen and enrich member data by leveraging consumer and other data related to social determinants of health (SDoH) that can deliver significant performance and accuracy
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Cerner Launches Social Determinants of Health Solution to Advance Health Equity
What You Should Know: - Cerner today announced a new solution, Cerner Determinants of Health, designed to help providers address healthcare inequities. - Cerner Determinants of Health is a dashboard and supporting set of tools, integrated into the Cerner electronic health record, to help clinicians pinpoint disparities and suggest goals and resources within the patient’s care plan to help target intervention opportunities. Leveraging SDoH to Advance Health Equity The
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WellSky Acquires Healthify to Enhance Social Determinants of Health
What You Should Know: - Seamless coordination between providers, community-based organizations, and payers is the key to delivering value-based care at scale. To better connect providers, identify social determinants of health, search for social services, and coordinate care with community partners, WellSky has acquired Healthify. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. - Together, WellSky and Healthify will connect
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