What You Should Know: - Anthem, Inc. today announced a collaboration between Happify Health to bridge the gap between the unique physical and mental health concerns women face. - The collaboration will add to its ongoing support of the whole health of women with the addition of a new a digital-first solution in select markets. Enhance Maternal Health with New Digital-First Solution It is part of Anthem’s early and consistent support of women throughout the entirety of their maternal
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Why Health Plans Must Have Next-Gen CAPS Technology for Digital Transformation
Core Administrative Processing Systems (CAPS) operate as the brains behind a health plan’s business. These systems are critical to the smooth functioning of a health plan. Today, many payers run on decades-old CAPS systems built on legacy technologies. This can be a serious drawback. Legacy systems may have been efficient based on the technology and best practices of decades past, but have aged beyond their time. They often require an increasing number of workarounds and fixes to try to
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Next Generation of Risk Adjustment: Uniting Health Plans and Providers
Up until now, risk adjustment has been addressed as a mechanism to accurately represent the overall risk profile of a health plan’s membership. A function that will still facilitate a health plan’s payment for taking on at-risk populations is about to go through its first major transformation – the use of risk adjustment data to drive value-based program initiatives. Now that the functional aspects
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Time and Goals Should Drive Your Post-COVID-19 Care Management Strategy
COVID-19 forced many health systems to reassess and reconfigure their care management processes and staffing models so that clinicians could better manage more of their acute, complex, and otherwise healthy patients remotely to limit in-person care. During this time, health systems likely learned quite a bit about remote care management and discovered that they could still deliver high-quality care without their patients needing to visit their providers in-person as often. With two
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NeuroFlow Partners with Wounded Warrior Project for Remote Behavioral Health Support
What You Should Know: - During National Caregivers Month, Wounded Warrior
Project and NeuroFlow are joining forces to raise awareness and access for
mental health by providing access to new technology tools and care options - There are 53 million Americans who are unpaid
caregivers to family, friends, neighbors and spouses. This shared burden is
also widespread in the military community as many veterans and their caregivers
battle silent burdens. NeuroFlow, the leader in
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How Care Coordination Technology Addresses Social Isolation in Seniors
Senior isolation is a health risk that affects at least a quarter of seniors over 65. It has become recognized over the past decade as a risk factor for poor aging outcomes including cognitive decline, depression, anxiety, Alzheimer’s disease, obesity, hypertension, heart disease, impaired immune function, and even death. Physical limitations, lack of transportation, and inadequate health literacy, among other social determinants of health (SDOH), further impair access to medical and mental
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Unite Us, CVS Health, Humana & Ochsner Health Partner to Expand Social Care Throughout Louisiana
What You Should Know: - Unite Us today announced its Unite Louisiana
network has partnered with CVS Health, Humana, and Ochsner Health in an effort
to expand and improve community health and social care throughout the state. - New partners will enable Unite Louisiana, the statewide
social care network, to further expand into more parishes and broaden access to
care in response to COVID-19 challenges. Unite Us, the technology company
building coordinated care networks
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VHA, Ontrak Launch 3-Year AI Study to Help Prevent Veteran Suicide
What You Should Know: - The Veterans Health Administration has selected Ontrak
in collaboration with Harvard Medical School and Brown University to transform
suicide prevention care for veterans. - Leveraging AI developed by a Harvard Medical School
professor and the core analytics of the Ontrak platform, the three-year study
will look at the effect of intensive care coaching in addition to the standard
of care for veterans at high risk of suicide after inpatient hospitalization at
a
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The Future of the ICU? How Clinical Decision Support Is Advancing Care
Without a doubt 2020 has been a devastating year for many; the impact of COVID-19 on both personal lives and businesses has had long-term consequences. At the end of September, the number of COVID-19 cases fell just short of 350 million, with just over 1 million deaths reported. The expectation of a second peak in many countries exposed to the deadly illness is being handled with care, with many governments attempting to minimize the impact of an extreme rise in cases. COVID-19
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Change Healthcare Launches New AI Model to Extract Diagnostic Data from EHRs for Case Management
What You Should Know: - Change Healthcare launches a new artificial intelligence model that automatically extracts diagnostic data from clinical notes to increase the efficiency of automated medical necessity reviews by over 20%. - The new Change Healthcare AI models are trained using
clinical data and are honed by expert physicians. Change Healthcare unveils new innovative new Artificial Intelligence models, trained by expert physicians, which extract meaningful diagnostic
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