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NextGen Healthcare, Inc. a leading provider of innovative, cloud-based healthcare technology solutions, today announced that its clients participating in the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) leveraged NextGen® Population Health to achieve a cumulative $82 million in total Medicare savings last year.The MSSP incentivizes hospitals, associations of physicians, and other healthcare facilities to form accountable care organizations (ACOs) that
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Cone Health, Helix Launches 5-Year Population Genomics Testing Initiative
What You Should Know:
- Cone Health, a non-profit healthcare network in North Carolina, and Helix, a population genomics company, have partnered to launch a five-year research study that will enroll and track 100,000 healthy people.
- The study will use Helix's population genomics platform to provide medical insights for Cone Health patients and help identify people at risk for certain diseases and conditions.
Study Enrollment & Benefits
Enrollment in the program is optional and
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CareAbout Health Selects Innovaccer to Scale VBC for Expanding Provider Network
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- CareAbout, a healthcare management services company, has selected Innovaccer's data platform and analytics solutions to help its providers achieve their clinical and financial goals.
- The partnership between CareAbout and Innovaccer will help CareAbout's providers achieve their clinical and financial goals in a value-based care environment.
- Innovaccer's platform will provide CareAbout's providers with actionable insights into quality, performance, and cost
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Alarming Wait Times and Persistent Inequities Obstructing Early Autism Diagnosis, Study Exposes
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Cognoa, a leading child development and behavioral health company, today published a new report, The State of Pediatric Autism Diagnosis in the U.S.: Gridlocks, Inequities and Missed Opportunities Persist, that underscores the longstanding waitlist crisis for children and their families seeking a diagnosis of developmental delays and autism evaluation. The report assesses results from 111 specialty centers across the U.S.On average, children and their families are
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ApolloMed & Wider Circle Partner to Deliver Patient-Centered Care in California
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- Wider Circle and Apollo Medical Holdings, Inc. (ApolloMed) are partnering to provide Enhanced Care Management (ECM) to high-need Medicaid members in California as part of the California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal (CalAIM) initiative.
- The collaboration aims to deliver patient-centered care and ECM by combining Wider Circle's community-based engagement model with ApolloMed's clinical care management expertise and technology platform.
ApolloMed
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Curana Health, Innovaccer Partner to Accelerate Value-Based Care for Seniors
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Today Innovaccer Inc. announced that Curana Health, an innovative, fast-growing healthcare organization on a mission to improve the health, happiness, and dignity of senior living residents, is expanding its partnership with Innovaccer to meet strong market demand for its services, and to support the expansion of its value-based programs for high-risk populations nationwide.Last year Innovaccer announced that Curana Health had
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How To Fight Candida Auris/Fungal Infections In Hospitals
Concerns about deadly fungal infections are growing nearly as fast as the outbreaks themselves. From popular television shows to recent articles in the Wall Street Journal and Fast Company, the attention has been swift and breathless.
Unfortunately, lost in the scramble to highlight their potency and develop a cure has been any agreement on an effective strategy for cutting into their spread. Over centuries of fighting diseases, humanity has developed a
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UnitedHealthcare Launches No Deductible Health Plan, Surest
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- UnitedHealthcare has announced the Surest™ health plan leads to more preventive care, improves satisfaction and lowers costs for members and employers.
- UnitedHealthcare’s Surest, which eliminates deductibles and offers upfront pricing information to people in advance of treatment, helps members more frequently access preventive care services and lower out-of-pocket costs, according to recent data.
- Hundreds of employers with a combined
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Ounce Raises $5.2M to Bridge the Gap Between Housing and Health
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- Ounce, a company bridging the gap between health and housing has raised a $5.2M seed round co-led by Meridian Street Capital and Flare Capital Partners with participation from Chelsea Clinton’s Metrodora Ventures Wilshire Lane Capital, Chris Nassetta (Hilton CEO), Taylor Justice (Unite Us cofounder), and others.
- Ounce Community Health Workers (CHW) currently serve more than 2,000 D.C. residents, helping them enroll in Medicaid, apply for energy assistance,
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5 Ways Federated Computing Can Reshape Public Health
Unlocking data silos using Federated Computing (FC) has the potential to achieve a positive impact across the healthcare industry, ranging from clinical care quality improvement and accreditation to population health management, precision public health and equitable drug development.
We define FC as the leverage of federated learning and edge computing technologies to enable federated data access, enabling analytics and Artificial Intelligence (AI), using linked, but not co-located, data. In
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