What You Should Know:
- Cerner Corporation today announced with Xealth new
centralized digital ordering and monitoring for health systems, starting with
Banner Health, to foster digital innovation.
- Health systems can prescribe digital therapeutics, smartphones, and internet apps directly within the EHR to address areas such as chronic disease management, behavioral health, maternity care, and surgery prep.
Cerner, today announced it’s building on the recent collaboration with
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care teams
Cityblock Health Reaches $1B Valuation, Raises $160M to Address Systemic Healthcare Inequity
What You Should Know:
- Cityblock Health, a transformative, value-based healthcare provider focused on improving healthcare outcomes for marginalized communities, today announced a $160M Series C round, bringing its total raised to $300M.
- Cityblock is a care delivery trailblazer working to right the injustices of a healthcare system that cycles vulnerable communities through frequent ER visits and hospital stays. Its tech-enabled model delivers primary care, behavioral care, and social
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PointClickCare Acquires Collective Medical for $650M to Create to Largest Combined Acute and Post-Acute Care Network
What
You Should Know:
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PointClickCare announces its intent to acquire Collective Medical to create the
largest combined acute and post-acute care network in North America for $650M.
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Collective Medical’s platform connects more than 1,300 hospitals, thousands of
ambulatory practices and long-term post-acute care (LTPAC) providers, as well
as accountable care organizations (ACOs) and every national health plan in the
country, across a 39-state network.
- With the acquisition of
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5 Myth-Busting New Hospital ADT Notification Requirements
When doctors know their patients have been to the hospital, they can act fast to provide needed support. Widespread use of hospital event notifications is associated with all kinds of health benefits, including a 10 percent decrease in readmissions for Medicare beneficiaries. These event notifications are one of the simplest, easiest (most-bipartisan!), and most impactful changes we can make to improve patient outcomes in U.S. healthcare.
To this goal, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
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Amwell Launches New Offerings to Increase Doctor-to-Patient Virtual Connectivity
What You Should Know:
- Amwell just announced some new offerings Amwell Now, Touchpoint
Tablet software, and C500 to help increase doctor-to-patient virtual
connections as patient and doctor preferences change in light of the pandemic.
- The new solutions (a quick-to-deploy video visit offering, new tablet software, and a telemedicine cart) are designed to be easy-to-use but fully integrated in the provider’s systems and secure.
Amwell, a
national telehealth
leader, today announced
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M&A: RxVantage Acquires onPoint Oncology to Expand Offering to Oncology Practices
What You Should Know:
- RxVantage has acquired onPoint Oncology to provide cancer care teams with on-demand access to educational resources, reimbursement data, and analytics.
- The acquisition of onPoint Oncology builds on
RxVantage’s rapidly expanding digital offerings for providers. In April,
RxVantage launched Virtual Meetings to help providers reestablish access to
life science experts amidst the disruptions caused by COVID-19.
RxVantage, the
leading digital
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CMS Direct Contracting Model Options for Value-Based Care
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) created the Direct Contracting Model to expand opportunities for more diverse providers and healthcare organizations to participate in value-based care arrangements for Medicare fee-for-service (FFS) beneficiaries.
The goal of the new model is to create the next generation of risk-sharing arrangements to improve outcomes for patients, lower costs, and ensure high-quality care. In developing the Direct Contracting model and associated
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Innovaccer Launches AI-Enabled Patient Relationship Management Solution
What You Should Know:
- Innovaccer launches its artificial
intelligence (AI)-enabled patient relationship management solution to
streamline communication between patients and their care teams.
- The solution enables
providers and member teams to move beyond treating illness to facilitating
proactive care by building productive, long-term relationships with patients.
Innovaccer, Inc., a San Francisco, CA-based healthcare technology
company, today launched its artificial
intelligence
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Cerner Releases Open Call for EHR-Integrated Voice Assist Testing Partners
Cerner announces an open call for additional health systems to sign on as testing partners of their EHR-integrated Voice Assist technology. Voice Assist will allow clinicians to interact with the EHR by just using their voice. Clinicians will be able to issue voice commands to complete a range of tasks that can save significant time and reduce the administrative burden on care teams by replacing manual data documentation.
How Voice Assist Technology Works
Using the phrase
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Curation Health Raises Series A Funding for Clinical Decision Support Platform
What You Should Know:
- Curation Health raises an undisclosed Series A round of funding to accelerate the adoption of its advanced clinical decision support platform.
- Curation Health provides an advanced clinical decision
support platform for providers and health plans that aids in managing risk
contracts and improving quality performance.
Curation Health, an Annapolis, MD-based advanced clinical decision support platform for value-based care, today announced the completion of
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