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ACO Investment Model Reduced CMS Expenditures by $48M

by Fred Pennic 07/15/2019 Leave a Comment

Revenue Integrity Dysfunctional Patient Billing Major Distraction for Patients & Clinicians 6 Metrics to Improve Hospital Revenue Cycle ROI_revenue cycle makret

The Accountable Care Organization (ACO) Investment Model (AIM) saved the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) more than $48M in its first year while promoting improved health care in rural and underserved areas, according to a new study from Abt Associates.The new study reveals that after accounting for the $82.4 million provided to ACOs, AIM reduced CMS expenditures by $48.6 million. Decreases in the number of hospitalizations and use of institutional post-acute care contributed
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Innovaccer Launches Data Solution to Enable ACOs’ Seamless Transition to Value-Based Care

by Fred Pennic 07/09/2019 Leave a Comment

Innovaccer Launches Data Solution to Enable ACOs’ Seamless Transition to Value-Based Care

A survey suggests that 71% of accountable care organizations would rather quit the Medicare Shared Savings Program than assume down risks. Although ACOs are leading the transition from volume-based care to value-based care, a lot of them face the lack of confidence in meeting the quality and cost benchmarks. When ACOs don’t have adequate knowledge and control over the network, earning shared savings can be quite challenging. Data from disparate sources such as EHRs, payer claims, PMS and HIEs
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Signify Health Launches Social Determinants of Health Solution Signify Community

by Jasmine Pennic 06/25/2019 Leave a Comment

Signify Health Launches Social Determinants of Health Solution Signify Community

Signify Health, a provider of technology-enabled in-home care and complex care management services, has announced the launch of Signify Community, the first and only social determinants of health (SDOH) solution that ties social interventions to quality, satisfaction, and financial outcomes—including 30% reductions in readmissions and 46% reductions in post-acute care spend for high-utilizer safety net populations.Understanding SDoHSocial determinants of health (SDOH) are complex and
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Plum Healthcare, Netsmart Partner to Develop Integrated Care Solutions for Senior Living

by Jasmine Pennic 04/24/2019 Leave a Comment

Plum Healthcare, Netsmart Partner to Develop Integrated Care Solutions for Senior Living

Plum Healthcare Group, a skilled nursing provider has inked a 10-year strategic partnership with health IT company Netsmart to develop integrated care solutions to enhance care delivery for senior living. This joint innovation-based partnership between a technology partner and a senior living provider will be a key component to support Plum as it expands into new service lines and offerings across more than 50 facilities throughout California and Nevada.Plum Healthcare/Netsmart Partnership
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EMV Capital Acquires Predictive Adverse Events Platform Wanda

by Jasmine Pennic 04/17/2019 Leave a Comment

EMV Capital Acquires Predictive Adverse Event Platform Wanda

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

by Fred Pennic 04/16/2019 Leave a Comment

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

by Jasmine Pennic 04/09/2019 Leave a Comment

Diameter Health Raises $9.6M to Expand 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 Data Founded in 2013 by former Allscripts executives Eric Rosow and John D'Amore, Diameter Health’s scalable clinical data
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Value-based Care Success: 7 Stages of the Health Data Life Cycle

by Richard A. Royer, CEO at Primaris Healthcare Business Solutions 09/24/2018 Leave a Comment

Value-based Care Success: 7 Stages of the Health Data Life Cycle

Back in the day – the late 1960s, when social norms and the face of America was rapidly changing – a familiar public service announcement began preceding the nightly newscast. “It’s 10 p.m. Do you know where your children are?” Today, as the healthcare landscape changes rapidly with a seismic shift from the fee-for-service payment model to value-based care models, there’s a similar but new clarion call for quality healthcare: “It’s 2018. Do you know where your data is?”Compliance with the
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NHS’ Salford Royal Trust, Validic Partner to Integrate Patient-Generated Health Data Into EHR

by Jasmine Pennic 03/02/2017 Leave a Comment

NHS’ Salford Royal Trust, Validic Partner to Integrate Patient-Generated Health Data Into EHR

The Royal Salford Trust of the NHS and digital health integration platform Validic have announced a partnership centering around innovation with health data, research & remote care services. The partnership will enable the integration of patient-generated health data from in-home medical devices, wearables and consumer health apps into the EHR. The goal of this initiative is to identify how the integration of this data yields a measurable difference in patient care, outcomes and
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Black Book: 94% of Physicians Find Digital Health Data Overwhelming, Redundant

by Jasmine Pennic 01/04/2017 Leave a Comment

Increasing Patient Face Time by Decreasing Physician Screen Time

94 percent of physicians find all that digital health data overwhelming, redundant and unlikely to make a clinical difference, according to Black Book’s recent consumer survey. Conducted from September through December 2016, the survey asked 12,090 adult consumers to evaluate the technology they were exposed to, know of or interacted with as an active patient in the last twelve months.The report revealed that 94 percent of consumers with health or activity trackers said their physician informed
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