Apollo Care Connect, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Glendale, Calif.-based ApolloMed has acquired has acquired the population health management technology and operating platform of Healarium, Inc. The acquisition will help expand the company's medical management and care coordination capabilities to meet the new challenges in the evolving world of value-based reimbursements. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
Founded in 2009 by Amnon Keynan, Healarium's cloud and
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5 Population Health Management Predictions for Providers in 2016
Beyond the hype, what’s to come from the population health management? Wellcentive’s CEO Tom Zajac gives predictions and pointers for those pursuing PHM in 2016.
Population health management (PHM) may be losing its novelty buzz but it’s still gaining serious popularity in healthcare. PHM, and its various definitions, has many providers talking about reducing costs and improving care. But it’s not how you define PHM that matters, it’s how you execute it. Talk is always
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Geisinger to Utilize Cerner’s Population Health Management Platform
Geisinger Health System is collaborating with Cerner to utilize Cerner's HealtheIntent population health management platform to further extend Geisinger’s data-driven population health capabilities.
Geisinger leveraged HealtheIntent, a system-agnostic, near real-time platform that normalizes data from any source, to aggregate clinical and financial data from its core EHR and other sources, such as its insurance company, in a proof-of-concept project. Given the positive outcome of the
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Population Health Management Market Set to Top $32B by 2020
According to a new report from Tractica, the global market for population health management market is expected to more than double in size during the next 5 years, increasing from $14.0 billion in 2015 to $31.9 billion by 2020. The report, “Population Health Management Software and Services”, focuses on the main apps for PHM software, including care coordination and patient interaction, care plan development and management, analytics, and data management, along with PHM services such as
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Indegene Acquires Population Health Analytics Platform SmartCare
Indegene, a global healthcare solutions for life sciences companies, payers and providers, today announced it has acquired SmartCare®, a population health analytics platform from Connecticut-based Vantage Point, Inc. This acquisition further strengthens Indegene’s ATOM (analytics, technology, operations and medical) offering which is designed to support U.S. companies in navigating changes associated with the Affordable Care Act. Financial terms of the acquisition were not
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Wellcentive Named 2015 “Emerging Company of the Year”
Atlanta-based population health solution provider Wellcentive, has been announced as winner of the Health IT Leadership Summit's annual Phoenix Awards for the category of "Emerging Company of the Year." Presented annually by Metro Atlanta Chamber in conjunction with the Health IT Leadership Summit, the Phoenix Awards recognize individuals and companies that have made an outstanding contribution to the growth of the HIT industry in Georgia.
Founded in 2005 by Paul Taylor, M.D., a practicing
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Report: Population Health Management Has Yet to Reach Critical Mass
69% of healthcare leaders say that they are either fully committed to or have a pilot program underway for population health management, according to new HealthLeaders Media report. The report, Population Health: Investing in a Risk-Based Future, sponsored by McKesson includes data from a survey of HealthLeaders Media’s 8,000-plus member executive research panel.
While on the surface it appears that providers are fully engaged in population health initiatives, one of the key indicators is the
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3 Population Health Management Myths & Realities for Providers
Population health management requires a huge amount of effort and work, operating at scale, to drive results: calling patients to get them in for care, pre-registering and pre-certifying them before their appointments, ensuring optimal scheduling and referral patterns among physicians, and so on. Therefore, executives and administrators should seek partners that integrate services with technology—in short, partners able to deliver not just reports but measurable results. Working with these
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Geisinger Health System to Utilize Cerner’s HealtheIntent PHM Platform
Geisinger Health System has announced it will collaborate with Cerner to use Cerner'sHealtheIntent℠ population health management platform to further extend Geisinger's data-driven population health capabilities. In a proof-of-concept project, Geisinger leveraged HealtheIntent's system-agnostic platform that normalizes data from any source, to aggregate clinical and financial data from its core EHR and other sources, such as its insurance company.
Coming off the heels of the positive proof of
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Partners HealthCare, Health Catalyst Partner to Create Population Health Center of Excellence
Partners HealthCare and Health Catalyst have established a $30 million initiative strategic collaboration aimed at fostering and accelerating the adoption of population health management (PHM) strategies and practices nationally to improve the quality of health care and lowering costs while meeting the needs of patients, providers and payors. The new population health center of excellence is designed to enable the development and testing of innovative PHM strategies at Partners and, in
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