The Paso del Norte Health Information Exchange, PHIX, an El Paso, TX-based health information exchange (HIE) has selected Innovaccer, Inc., a Silicon Valley-based healthcare platform company, to leverage its technology for data-driven value-based initiatives. As a Health Information Exchange, PHIX will provide access to patient's longitudinal health record from across the care continuum. PHIX’s goal is to improve efficiency, increase quality of care, and improve patient safety.To realize their
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Population Health Management (PHM) in Healthcare | News, Analysis, Insights - HIT Consultant
Report Reveals 2017 A Challenging Year for PHM Vendor Market
The first half of 2017 proved a challenging period for some North American population health management (PHM) vendors, according to recent data from Signify’s Research report “Population Health Management IT – Q3 2017.” The report reveals that after consistent quarter-on-quarter (QoQ) market growth over the past eight quarters, Q1 17 saw theNorth American PHM market decline for the first time since Signify Research started tracking themarket. Q1 2017 revenues were estimated to be down 7.1%
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HMC HealthWorks Taps Medecision to Enhance Clinical Workflows
HMC HealthWorks has selected Medecision, population health management solutions for risk-bearing entities to deploy new, automated clinical workflows, including utilization management. The implementation will significantly enhance the care of HMC HealthWorks’ participants and plan sponsors and improve operational efficiencies.Targeting meaningful behavior change through patient-centered care management workflows will help HMC HealthWorks strengthen clinical integration across its network,
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Catholic Medical Center to Implement Allscripts Population Health Platform
Catholic Medical Center, a Manchester, NH-based 330-bed not-for-profit, full-service acute care hospital has selected Allscripts to implement its population health management platform, CareInMotion. The agreement includes the purchase of Allscripts Care Management, Allscripts Care Director, CarePort Guide, CarePort Connect and CarePort Insight that will allow the provider to focus on population health and transitions to a new model of integrated care.Allscripts CareInMotion is a comprehensive,
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Despite ACA Uncertainty, 80% of Providers Believe in Future of Population Health Management
A recent Health Catalyst survey finds that despite uncertainty around the effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA), 80 percent of healthcare executives stand firm on their population health strategy to address the quality and cost of healthcare. According to a July survey of 199 US healthcare executives by Health Catalyst. Sixty-eight percent of healthcare executives reported that PHM is “very important” to their healthcare delivery strategy during the next two years, while
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Chilmark: New Prior Authorization Solutions Can Address Provider-Payer Friction
Prior Authorization is often viewed as the poster child for throwing the Quadruple Aim off balance with its pursuit of cost reduction at the expense of provider experience, but the latest research from Chilmark Research shows that new PA models and maturing PA technology solutions could benefit both providers and payers.Traditionally, primitive PA and its associated impacts account for the great divide in provider-payer relationships. The sheer volume of PA requirements is getting increasingly
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Providers: Do We Have To Define Population Health To Make It Useful?
Maybe the initial challenge of population health is deciding exactly what that phrase means.Well before it became a catchphrase in health IT, population health was the province of academics who devised predictably academic definitions like “… the aggregate health outcome of health-adjusted life expectancy (quantity and quality) of a group of individuals, in an economic framework that balances the relative marginal returns from the multiple determinants of health.”Originally created by and
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Carolinas Healthcare System to Implement Cerner’s Population Health Management Platform
Carolinas HealthCare System (CHS) has selected Cerner to implement their HealtheIntent population health management platform. The implementation will coordinate and manage care for its more than 12 million patient interactions each year across its health system and clinically integrated network, Carolinas Physician Alliance (CPA). Additionally, CHS will continue to use the Cerner Millennium® integrated EHR and will also extend its remote hosting relationship with Cerner.
HealtheIntent’s
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Chilmark: 2 Recommendations to Drive Speed to Value for PHM Strategies
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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