EMV Capital, a London-based early-stage venture investor announced the acquisition and investment in Wanda Inc., a San Francisco-based digital health startup commercializing advanced clinical decision support software powered by machine learning and real-time patient data analysis. EMV Capital’s investment will enable Wanda to accelerate its growth in the North American market, as well as to enter the UK and European markets.Wanda Inc. BackgroundWanda Founded in 2011 from the results of eight
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Value-based Care in America: A Table View of State-by-State Initiatives
Value-based care programs are flourishing across the U.S., with a seven-fold increase in the number of states implementing such initiatives in the past five years, according to a new Change Healthcare report. The report, Value-Based Care in America: State-by-State is the second national study of state healthcare payment programs that reveal 48 states have now implemented value-based care or payment programs, 50% of those programs are multi-payer in scope, and just four states have little or no
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Diameter Health Raises $9.6M to Expand Clinical Data Integration Platform
Strategic Investment Made by Optum Ventures Will Support Product and Marketing for Clinical Data Integration Platform
Diameter
Health, a Farmington, CT-based provider of clinical data integration
solutions has raised $9.6 million in Series A funding led by Optum Ventures. Optum
Ventures joins existing Diameter Health investors Activate Venture Partners, Connecticut Innovations, Excelerate Health Ventures and LRV Health.
Brining Order to Complex Clinical
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Chilmark Report: 2017 State of the ACO Value-Based Model & Its Market Evolution
Successfully enabling an Accountable Care Organization is extremely challenging: There isn’t one standard ACO model; there isn’t one single ACO national policy; there isn’t one specific map to follow to build an ACO nor measure its success. There are few if any best practices readily available for healthcare organizations to adopt and make a successful transition to value-based care (VBC) within an ACO model. This has created a strong market need for high-service solution vendors that can guide
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Innovations in Health Care Delivery
Video panel discussion on innovations in health care delivery from the latest episode of Deloitte Insights
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How Health Information Exchanges Will Drive ACOs
Editor's Note: This Q-and-A features Mark Caron, Senior Vice President and CIO of Capital BlueCross. SearchHealthIT.com HIT reporter Don Fluckinger sat down with Caron to discuss how health information exchanges (HIE), a significant component of meaningful use stages 2 and 3, fits into the changing landscape of health care payment models
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Report: Automate Population Health to Manage Patient Care
Population health management is fundamental to every major health care reform initiative today, and is most visible in the Patient-Centered Medical Home and Accountable Care Organization. Although providers now have the incentive to implement Electronic Health Record (EHR) technology, EHRs alone are not sufficient to manage populations effectively. Provider groups and health systems that automate the spectrum of population health functions will be best positioned to succeed.
Purpose:
The
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Are We on the Verge of a Primary Care Renaissance?
Written by Madelyn Young, Associate Content Writer at CareCloud.
Twitter’s power as an information-sharing tool has made it today’s strongest measuring stick for emerging trends. If you visit the
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Infographic:Healthcare Reform Readiness
The healthcare industry faces a confluence of challenges with rising costs, inconsistent quality and access to care. The three key principles that will drive industry transformation are:
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HIT Interoperability with Cameron Deemer, President at DrFirst Pt. 2
In this second part interview podcast, HIT Consultant speaks with Cameron Deemer, President at DrFirst provides an overview of their several offerings as part of their integrated HIT platform. This is part 2 of a 3 part podcast series with Cameron Deemer.
Part 2 Key highlights include:
Medication Reconciliation overview
Patient Innovations overview
EPCS Gold 2.0 Overview
Partnership with EHR Advisor
Interoperability vs. Fragmentation in the HIT Industry
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