What You Should Know:
- In order to assist providers in managing their influx and connect with more patients, Innovaccer has launched the free ‘COVID-19 Management System application with free telehealth services and analytics to assess risk profiles and triage the influx at medical practices and primary care clinics
- The application is designed to assist government and healthcare organizations in providing immediate assistance to patients through remote assessments, monitoring,
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Patient Data Liberation: HHS Releases Final Interoperability & Patient Access Rules
What You Need to Know:
- HHS finalizes interoperability rules that will implement interoperability and patient access provisions of the bipartisan 21st Century Cures Act (Cures Act) and support President Trump’s MyHealthEData initiative.
- The ONC Final Rule identifies and finalizes the reasonable and necessary activities that do not constitute information blocking while establishing new rules to prevent “information blocking” practices (e.g., anti-competitive behaviors) by
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Hospital Execs Believe Their EMRs Will Fail to Meet Their Future Needs, Report Finds
What You Need to Know:
- New Sage Growth Partners report reveals more than a quarter (27 percent) of respondents believe their EMR will fail to meet their future needs. COOs are the most pessimistic (67 percent) followed by CEOs (37 percent), and CFOs (34 percent).
- Hospital Technology Forecast 2020 market survey report reveals hospital leaders’ top health IT investment priorities, challenges, and opportunities.
- 35 percent of hospital executives say if they could go back in time,
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MedBridge Partners with Redox to Expand Its Network of EMR Integrations
- MedBridge partners with healthcare integration platform Redox that will allow MedBridge users to quickly create and assign Home Exercise Programs, and more easily document within their EMR, without interrupting their workflow.
- MedBridge EMR integrated clients have already achieved savings of over $4,500 per clinician per year, by reducing five minutes of documentation time per patient.
MedBridge, the industry-leading continuing education and patient engagement solution that enables
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Sharecare Acquires Value-Based Care Platform Visualize Health
- Sharecare acquires Visualize Health, a Franklin, Tenn.-based population health and quality measure platform that enables payers and providers to close gaps in patient care to maximize value-based care.
- The acquisition will enhance Sharecare’s capabilities for medical records management and is the 14th acquisition since Sharecare was founded in 2010.
Sharecare, the digital health
company that helps people manage all their health in one place, today announced
its acquisition
of
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HealthLynked Acquires Cura Health & ACO Health Partners
- HealthLynked acquires Cura Health Management and its wholly-owned subsidiary ACO Health Partners LLC for $1.75M. - The acquisition is expected to contribute approximately $2.25M of revenue and $500k in EBITDA in year one, increasing HealthLynked's consolidated revenues by 47% and reducing the company's current annual cash burn by over 50%.HealthLynked Corp, a nationwide healthcare network focused on care management of its members and a provider of healthcare technologies that connect doctors,
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Atrius Health to Deploy Kyruus to Enhance Patient Access Across Eastern Massachusetts
- Kyruus today announced that Atrius Health has selected the company’s solutions to enhance patient access across Eastern Massachusetts.- KyruusOne will serve as the backbone for Atrius Health’s future consumer-facing search offerings for its more than 745,000 adult and pediatric patients, as well as new patients to the system.Atrius Health, the Northeast’s largest non-profit independent medical group, has selected Kyruus, the leader in provider search and scheduling solutions for health systems
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CarePort’s Epic-Built Referral Platform Launches in Epic App Orchard
- CarePort Health, a provider of care coordination and post-acute outcomes management, announces that CarePort Transition Extender is now available in the Epic App Orchard marketplace.
- With the Transition Extender, Epic EHR users can embed CarePort Transition, a post-acute referral management application, within their discharge planning workflow to streamline the creation, sending and management of post-acute referrals from directly within the EHR.
CarePort Health, a
pioneer in
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CareMount, Nuvance Partner to Expand Population Health Services in NY
- CareMount, New York's top Next-Gen accountable care organization, is partnering with Nuvance Health -- a system of seven hospitals that serve CT and NY -- to better share information for the purpose of providing improved population health services for both organizations.
- CareMount Health Solutions, a physician-owned management services organization, will deliver to Nuvance Health, a suite of population health management services including care coordination and clinical programs, data
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El Camino Health Offers Personalized Chatbot to Patients with COPD
- El Camino Health is now offering personalized virtual health assistant to patients suffering from COPD via Conversa Health partnership designed to improve respiratory care coordination and patient experience.
- Innovative 2 BREATHE (Be Resilient EAch Time after a Hospital Event) chat program leverages Conversa’s patient engagement platform assigns patients with a respiratory therapist and a pulmonary nurse practitioner for personalized treatment to help patients breathe easier.
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