Population health management (PHM) models are difficult to develop and replicate due in large part to unique, local market circumstances. This is forcing healthcare organizations (HCO) to begin their PHM journey from different starting points in a complex, diverse, and competitive market. The fragmented, regionalized nature of the healthcare market creates challenges for HCOs and their supporting vendors to deliver consistent, replicable PHM solutions that are scalable across the industry. The
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Cerner, Truman Medical Center Partner to Launch Remote Patient Monitoring Program for Chronic Conditions
Cerner and Truman Medical Centers (TMC) have teamed up to launch comprehensive disease management programs to engage patients in their health and improve outcomes for groups of individuals with high-risk chronic conditions. Through the initiative, Algorithms configured in Cerner’s HealtheIntent population health management platform identified select groups of TMC’s patient population with conditions like diabetes and chronic heart failure that could benefit from enhanced health monitoring.To
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Philips Unveils New teleICU Platform for Seamless Integration Between teleICU and Bedside Care Teams
Philips has announced the debut of its eCareManager 4.1 enterprise telehealth software that allows intensivists to provide more efficient care across a larger patient population, allowing for greater scale and potentially reducing operating costs. The new platform builds on Philips success in delivering population health management solutions to help combat shortages of critical care teams by providing actionable insights to help improve outcomes in the most complex patient cases.Designed to be
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Siemens Healthineers Acquires Medicalis to Expands Its Population Health Portfolio
Siemens Healthineers, today announced the acquisition of Medicalis Corporation, a provider of Clinical Decision Support (CDS) Solutions at the point of order entry, Imaging Workflow (IW) management, and Referral Management (RM). Financial terms of the transaction are not disclosed.For Siemens Healthineers—the separately managed healthcare business of Siemens AG— the acquisition will expand its Population Health Management (PHM) portfolio to enable healthcare providers to effectively bridge
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Mercy ACO Taps Innovaccer to Drive End-To-End Value-Based Care Initiatives in Iowa
Mercy Accountable Care Organization (ACO), one of the largest ACOs in the state of Iowa has selected Innovaccer Inc., a Silicon Valley-based healthcare analytics company to drive end-to-end value-based care initiatives statewide. As part of the selection, Mercy ACO will implement Innovaccer’s proprietary platform ‘Datashop’ which is an integrated data warehouse for all clinical, financial, lab, pharmacy, and immunization data and port data. This will enable Mercy ACO to manage all of their
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The Importance of Risk Stratification in Population Health Management
Editor’s Note: Abhinav Shashank is the CEO & Co-founder at Innovaccer Inc., a datashop integrating complex data across multiple distributed sources to give healthcare organizations greater insights to provider better care.As value-based care becomes the primary focus of healthcare organizations, providers now need to broach population health management and to manage it with risk stratification with a delicate balance. It is now important for providers to focus on patients’ individual and
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Humana’s Transcend Insights Unveils Analytics-as-a-Service for Population Health
Transcend Insights announced a new, cloud-enabled version of its enterprise analytics offering for population health: the Anvita Engine. The new offering will be one the industry’s first solutions available to health systems through a flexible, analytics-as-a-service model, providing health organizations with a more flexible and cost-effective way to deploy advanced analytics for population health.This service is powered by the proven Anvita Engine™, which is optimized for the cloud and
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CHIME Survey: EHR Optimization, Population Health Named Top Investment Priorities for Healthcare CIOs
EHR optimization and population health has been named the top investment priorities for healthcare CIOs over the next three years, according to a survey of College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) members conducted by KPMG LLP, the U.S. audit, tax and advisory firm. Other investment priorities for healthcare CIOs over the next three years include:• Consumer/clinical and operational analytics (16 percent)• Virtual/telehealth technology enhancements (13 percent)• Revenue
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CareSkore Unveils Population Health Management as a Service App (PHMaaS )
CareSkore, a provider of end-to-end personalized population health management, announced today the release of its Population Health Management as a ServiceTM (PHMaaSTM), providing direct access to its extensive machine-learning analytics engine to 3rd-party applications through an API.“PHMaaS completely changes the game for how organizations adopt population health management,” said Jaspinder Grewal, CEO of CareSkore. “We have too many proprietary application interfaces in health care. PHMaaS
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Black Book Rankings: Allscripts Named Top EHR Vendor with Population Health Solution
Black Book Rankings has named Allscripts as the top EHR vendor with a comprehensive population health management solution earning the highest rank in 10 of the 18 individual criteria.For Black Book Ranking 2017, Black Book crowd-sourced nearly 7,000 responses on eighteen key performance, satisfaction and usability indicators from physicians practice, hospitals, health systems and chains, ACOs, IDNs and IPAs in the first quarter of 2017.Allscripts CareInMotion is a population health management
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