Majority of clinicians (51%-53%) believe the EHRs are not sufficient enough for coordinating care, while 78 percent of office managers believe the EHR is sufficient, according to new survey by PerfectServe. The survey conducted by Nielsen looks at perspectives on HIPAA, organizational readiness for population health and challenges in care coordination from nearly 1,000 clinicians (including hospital and office-based physicians, nurses, specialists), case managers and practice
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New Patient Monitor Automates Patient Data Transfer to EMRs
Welch Allyn, a provider medical diagnostic device company, announced it has developed a new patient monitor for physician’s offices that fully automates vital signs capture and wireless data transfer to your EMR. The solutions aligns with the population health management objective to keep a patient population as healthy as possible, reducing the need for more expensive tests, procedures and office visits that add additional costs to the system. In order to do this effectively, data automation
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Continuum Health Alliance Selects Caradigm for Population Health
Caradigm, a provider of enterprise population health, today announced that Continuum Health Alliance, a physician enablement company providing practice management, population health and community care services to provider groups, has selected Caradigm as part of its population health strategy.
Continuum provides a next-generation health platform, enabling independent physician organizations, hospital-based physician groups, commercial accountable care organizations (ACOs) and MSSP ACOs to
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ZeOmega Acquires HealthUnity To Close Gaps in Interoperability
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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