Teladoc Health and Livongo Merge The combination of Teladoc Health and Livongo creates a global leader in consumer-centered virtual care. The combined company is positioned to execute quantified opportunities to drive revenue synergies of $100 million by the end of the second year following the close, reaching $500 million on a run-rate basis by 2025. Price: $18.5B in value based on each share of Livongo will be exchanged for 0.5920x shares of Teladoc Health plus cash consideration of
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CIO: 3 Rules for Meeting ONC/CMS Interoperability, While Improving Cybersecurity
Healthcare data security has been a growing concern for CIOs for the last year or so, as hackers are increasingly targeting health information. Now, with a global pandemic forcing a shift to telemedicine and remote work, and new rules from the ONC and CMS introducing more regulatory burden, healthcare CIOs have more to manage than ever. Fortunately, it is possible to roll out new capabilities while simultaneously improving cybersecurity by following these three rules: Rule 1: Think Like an
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HealthStream Acquires Change Healthcare’s Staff Scheduling Business for $67.M
What You Should Know: - HealthStream acquires Change Healthcare’s staff scheduling business for $67.5M in cash which includes the ANSOS™ Staff Scheduling (“ANSOS”) platform and related products. - The acquisition will help establish HealthStream as a market leader in healthcare workforce scheduling business. HealthStream, a leading provider of workforce and provider solutions for the healthcare industry has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Change Healthcare’s
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Change Healthcare Unveils Social Determinants of Health Analytics Solution
What You Should Know: - Change Healthcare launches national data resource on social determinants of health (SDoH) for doctors, insurers and life sciences organizations to better understand the connection between where a person lives and how they live their life to the care a patient receives and their health outcome. - 80% of U.S. health outcomes are tied to a patient’s social and economic situation, ranging from food, housing, and transportation insecurity to ethnicity. Change
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CommonWell Enables Payer Access to Nationwide Interoperability Network
What You Should Know: - CommonWell Health Alliance enables payer access with the addition of a new service provider, DataFile Exchange to support the operational services specific to the Payment and Health Care Operations use case. CommonWell Health Alliance today announced it is extending its interoperability services to enable additional use cases beyond treatment and patient access, starting with Payment and Health Care Operations data requests. Data File Exchange
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Change Healthcare Launches Solution to Enable Pharmacies to Manage COVID-19 Test Billing
What You Should Know: - Change Healthcare launches a new solution that simplifies billing to bring more COVID-19 testing options to consumers. - New service enables pharmacies to manage COVID-19 test billing within their traditional Rx claims processes, driving the potential to dramatically expand U.S. testing capabilities. Change Healthcare, announced a new solution, MedRx that makes it easier for consumers to get COVID-19 testing in their local pharmacies. The company’s
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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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Designing A Digital Experience to Drive Revenue and Patient Engagement
With the rise of healthcare consumerism, people are looking to hospitals, health systems, and physician practices to deliver the same user-friendly, digital experiences they receive from other industries. A recent survey found that more than 80% of consumers surveyed believe “shopping for healthcare should be as easy as shopping for other common services.” Specifically, they want streamlined access points online where they can shop for and purchase healthcare, easily make appointments,
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Change Healthcare Acquires Cloud-Native Imaging Platform Nucleus.io
What You Should Know: - Change Healthcare acquires Nucleus.io to create the first of its kind end-to-end, cloud-native Enterprise Imaging to integrate Change Healthcare’s next-generation medical imaging platform. - The acquisition will accelerate Change Healthcare’s timeline to implement a complete cloud-based, end-to-end Enterprise Imaging solution with customers by leveraging the 7,500+ organizations Nucleus.io currently serves. Change Healthcare (Nasdaq: CHNG) today announced the
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Report: Modern Revenue Integrity Solutions Driving Payment Performance
What You Should Know: - New Chilmark Research report on revenue integrity in healthcare reveals a transitional market making strides to address the new burdens of modern care economics. - The ongoing COVID-19 public health emergency underscores the imperative need for automation and reduced administrative costs even clearer. Revenue cycle has and continues to be one of the most difficult challenges in healthcare. These issues manifest in the claims process of submission,
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