What You Should Know:
- Innovaccer has recently partnered with CareSignal to
address healthcare’s urgent need amidst the COVID-19 pandemic: to create and
maintain solid, clinically actionable relationships with patients in a new set
of predominantly virtual care.
- CareSignal offers evidence-based end-to-end support services for chronic medical conditions such as asthma, CHF, COPD, diabetes, depression, hypertension, and hospital discharge support, and maternal health monitoring.
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Holon Integrates with Cerner’s HealtheIntent PHM Platform for Value-Based Care Insights
What You Should Know:
- Holon and Cerner announced a partnership
to advance the delivery of relevant patient insights to providers when they
need it most.
- Holon and Cerner will deploy patented
technology that automatically delivers contextually relevant patient information
from Cerner’s HealtheIntent® population health platform, which
is EHR-agnostic, directly to clinicians in their workflow to inform care
decisions.
Holon
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Healthify, Ride Health Partner to Offer SDOH-Driven Transportation to Vulnerable Populations
What You Should Know:
Healthify, a social determinants of health company
(SDOH), announced a national partnership with Ride Health to offer
transportation to medical and non-medical services for people faced with
transportation barriers.
- Each year, an estimated 3.6 million Americans do not
obtain medical care due to transportation issues such as cost, lack of access
to vehicles and inadequate public transportation. These barriers are
particularly prevalent among poor communities,
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7 Day Moving Average for COVID-19 Cases Is Up 148% Nationwide
What You Should Know:
- Nationwide, the seven-day moving average for COVID-19
cases is up 148% from June 7th to July 7th. In many states across the country,
the “curve” never flattened. Since June there hasn’t been a flattening effect,
but rather a significant spike in the number of COVID-19 cases.
- States hit hardest with new waves of COVID-19 cases
like Arizona, California, Texas and Florida have the highest percentage of
hospital beds occupied by patients with COVID-19. If there are
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Change Healthcare Offers Providers Free Access to Lab Orders/Results for COVID-19 Tests
What You Should Know:
- Change Healthcare offers healthcare providers free
access to lab orders and results for COVID-19 tests through one of the nation’s
largest lab networks and adds in-home testing.
- The Change Healthcare Clinical Network expands test
ordering through one of the nation’s largest lab networks and adds in-home
testing.
- Providers can choose labs from one of the nation’s
largest lab networks, with over 1,400 lab testing sites, of which over more
than 100 are
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Emtiro Health Taps Innovaccer to Leverage the FHIR-Enabled Data Activation Platform
What You Should Know:
- Emtiro Health, an
innovative population health company in North Carolina has selected Innovaccer
to deliver data-powered solutions to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness
of care delivery.
- Powered by Innovaccer’s FHIR-enabled Data Activation
Platform, Emtiro Health will create unified patient records that drive
comprehensive, whole-person care management, no matter where they are on the
care continuum. The FHIR-enabled Data Activation Platform will also
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Walgreens to Invest $1B in VillageMD to Open 500 to 700 Full-Service Doctor Offices
- Walgreens will invest $1 billion in
equity and convertible debt in VillageMD to open 500 physician-led primary care
clinics in more than 30 U.S. markets in the next five years.
- VillageMD and Walgreens also recently announced the
availability of Village Medical telehealth providers on Walgreens Find Care™,
which is an online platform that connects patients with a wide range of health
services.
Walgreens
Boots Alliance, Inc. and VillageMD
announced today that Walgreens will be the
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Intermountain’s Castell Taps Arcadia to Elevate Value-Based Care
What You Should Know:
- Intermountain’s Castell has selected Arcadia Analytics
as the healthcare technology and analytics foundation to support its
comprehensive approach to helping organizations accelerate the transition from
volume- to value-based systems of care.
Castell, the new comprehensive healthcare platform company from Intermountain Healthcare that elevates value-based capabilities for providers, payers, healthcare systems, and accountable care organizations (ACOs) has
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56% of Health Leaders State Their Current PHM Solution Falls Short, Fails to Address Current Needs
What You Should Know:
- More than half (56%) healthcare leaders say their current population health management (PHM) solution doesn’t meet their needs, according to a new survey from Persivia.
- Almost two-thirds (62%) say a lack of clinician
engagement is the top reason they’re looking to replace their PHM solution.
This was followed by the inability to convert data to action (48%), and
inability to engage patients (43%) or perform sufficient analytics (43%) tied
for third.
- The
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HHS Awards Morehouse $40M to Combat COVID-19, Advance Health Equity in Minority Communities
What You Should Know:
- Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) partners with the
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on a three-year project to combat
COVID-19 and advance health equity in minority communities.
- The
initiative – the National Infrastructure for Mitigating the Impact of COVID-19
within Racial and Ethnic Minority Communities – is a three-year project
designed to work with community-based organizations across the nation to
deliver education and information on resources
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