On Monday, population health management provider ZeOmega announced the acquisition of HealthUnity, a provider of interoperability solutions that enable providers, payers and public health organizations to streamline the secure exchange of patient data across disparate systems. HealthUnity offerings also include private and public HIE, master person index, referral management and patient consent to integrated delivery networks (IDNs), health systems, group practices and state collaboratives.
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Top 4 Population Health Management Challenges
As the healthcare delivery model shifts towards value based healthcare, the need for effective population health management solutions continues to grow. However, for many providers choosing the right PHM solution is still uncharted territory and the correct path isn't always clearly marked. According to a recent Chilmark Research report, healthcare organizations are currently struggling with evolving models of reimbursement while PHM vendors have yet to successfully build solutions to fully meet
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Can Esther Dyson’s Way to Wellville Challenge Improve Population Health?
It may not be a proper clinical trial, but the Way to Wellville is the beginning of something transformative for health. Esther Dyson explains.
Do you know the way to Wellville? If not, Esther Dyson hopes to point you in the right direction. Dyson, a journalist and technology investor turned wellness enthusiast, is on a mission to better health by rethinking and recreating the environment in which it can thrive. It’s a tall task, but Dyson isn’t doing it alone. In fact, she wants you to take
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Medsphere Adds Population Health Solution to OpenVista EHR
Medsphere Systems Corporation, the leading provider of affordable and interoperable EHR solutions, today introduced OpenVista® Population Health, a Windows-based solution that gives clinicians much greater flexibility in how they provide care for both individual patients and broader patient populations.
OpenVista Population Health enables breadth of information by giving clinicians the ability to create multiple panels for patients with common characteristics, i.e., age, diagnosis, community,
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Survey: Healthcare Executives See Population Health Management Investment Recouped Within 4 Years
More than half of healthcare managers surveyed expected to recoup their population health management investments within three to four years, according to a recent online survey conducted by KPMG LLP, the U.S. audit, tax and advisory firm. Population health management programs – an approach to medicine that encourages greater collaboration and integration among healthcare providers and their patients is largely being driven by growth in the number of accountable care type models,
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KLAS: Phytel Takes Lead in Population Health Vendor Market Race
Population health management is one of the hottest emerging markets in the health IT space and vendors are quickly racing to carve out market share.70% of providers report that they see tangible benefits to patient care when using certain population health vendors, according to KLAS. But with so many PHM vendors and very little data, healthcare providers are having a hard time identifying who is the best vendor to help them maximize the benefits of their population health efforts.
To
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Reports Finds Population Health Market Still Very Immature
Chilmark Research's latest report reveals the population health market is still in its infancy despite increasingly interest from healthcare organizations.
As the healthcare delivery model shifts towards value based healthcare, the need for effective population health management solutions continues to grow. Despite the surge in interest from healthcare organizations, the newest report from Chilmark Research, their 2014 Analytics for Population Health Management Market Trends Report, reveals the
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What Is The Role of the Payer in Advancing Population Health?
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“Healthcare organizations must prepare for an environment where doctors and other healthcare professionals will be compensated based on the value, not just the volume, of the services they provide. The push toward value-based compensation is getting stronger, so healthcare professionals must devise a strategy for their journey to a value-based role in the future and find a partner who supports their vision and principles,” advises Renee H.
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Acupera Raises Additional $4M to Scale Its Population Health Platform
Acupera, a provider of population health and workflow technology for health systems has secured an additional $4 million in financing from Lightspeed Venture Partners joined by The Whittemore Collection, Ltd, which supported the Series A funding. Acupera will use this latest funding round to scale its product development team and add to its customer implementation group.
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KLAS: EMRs Are First Source For Population Health Management Functionality for Providers
Enterprise EMR vendors are the number-one source for population health management functionality, according to the latest KLAS report. The latest KLAS report "Population Health 2014 Perception: Who Are Providers Betting On?" found that despite a veritable flood of new best-of-breed entrants into the marketplace, providers are having an increasingly hard time finding a one-stop PHM solution.
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