NextGate, a provider of healthcare enterprise identification, and Life Image, a global network for sharing clinical and imaging data that is powered by industry leading interoperability standards, today announced a strategic partnership to meet the increasing demand for reliable imaging workflow integration.Global-Sharing Network of Clinical, Imaging, Medical Device and Pharmaceutical DataEliminating silos and ensuring that each patient has one and only one record, NextGate and Life Image will
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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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Care Management Platform VirtualHealth Closes Series B Round to Fuel Growth
VirtualHealth, a NYC-based care management platform, today announced it has closed a Series B financing round bringing the total amount raised by the company to more than $25 million. Led by Edison Partners and existing investors, the latest funding provides strategic capital to fuel the company’s rapid growth and product innovations.One Platform for the Entire Care TeamFounded in 2012, the VirtualHealth HELIOS solution is the first comprehensive care management platform purpose-built to provide
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3 Ways Health Plans Can Leverage Lab Data Analytics
Payers have long realized the value of leveraging disparate data sets to gain greater insight on patients, with popular data sources including claims, electronic health records, and surveys on social determinants and behavioral health.
More recently, health plans have begun to appreciate another source of data that can help them avoid missed revenues, predict emerging conditions and improve risk management: laboratory data. This category includes data on critical health factors such as
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CVS Health Partners with Big Health to Help PBM Clients Manage Health and Wellness Benefit Solutions
CVS Health today announced
the availability of Vendor Benefit Management, a new service developed to help
CVS Caremark pharmacy benefit management (PBM) clients more easily contract,
implement and manage their choice of available and emerging third-party health
and wellness benefit solutions – both digital and non-digital. This new service
offers clients a seamless way to access negotiated pricing, standardized member
eligibility verification in real-time, simplified billing and
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PE Firm Exploring Sale of HealthChannels’ Portfolio of 4 RCM Companies
Vesey Street Capital Partners (VSP), a strategic private equity firm with substantial and differentiated Healthcare Services sector and sourcing expertise is exploring the sale of its portfolio company HealthChannels. With 13,000 employees across 50 states and three countries, HealthChannels is comprised of four highly specialized revenue cycle management companies:- ScribeAmerica, the nation’s most frequently used medical scribe company, with a reach of over 30 million patients through more
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Innovaccer, Launches InAPI to Aggregate Healthcare Data for Providers, Payers, and Vendors
Healthcare organizations are riding the wave of digital disruption with increased adoption of applications to power patient centric-care, communications, and collaboration with peer organizations in the network. With this objective, they are seeking to integrate crucial information across the care continuum and establish interoperability among complex and disparate data systems- including legacy systems.Existing Interoperability ChallengesThere are over 200 EHRs in the US healthcare space,
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EMR Connects Patients to Digital Health Coaches, Increasing Adherence
Millions of Americans with chronic conditions rely on health coaches to manage and improve their conditions through diet, exercise, and medication management. However, the patient enrollment process for a health coach is currently outside of the clinical Electronic Medical Records (EMR) workflow, delaying the coordination between patient and coach to several weeks and months. This delay has significant potential to derail a patient’s initial introduction with their coach, oftentimes outside of
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Pillo Health Raises $11M to Expand Personal Home Health Robot
Pillo Health, a Boston-based digital health company improving longevity and quality of life for patients managing their health at home has raised $11M in Series A funding, led by Stanley Black & Decker’s corporate venture capital arm with significant participation from Samsung Ventures. Existing investors, including BioAdvance, Hikma Ventures – the corporate venture capital arm of Hikma Pharmaceuticals PLC – Hackensack Meridien Health System’s Innovation Center Fund and
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Innovaccer Launches Outreach Management Solution to Reinvent Patient-Provider Collaboration
Innovaccer Inc., a San Francisco-based data activation company, today announced the launch of its Outreach Management solution to enable organizations with effective outreach to their patients. The solution is aimed at enhancing patient-provider collaboration at every instance of care delivery by eliminating communication barriers that currently plague our healthcare system.Lack of Interaction in Care Delivery ProcessOver the years, involving patients in their care delivery processes has become
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