What You Should Know: - South Carolina’s largest health system, Prisma Health selects the Innovaccer Health Cloud to be its primary value-based care platform for analytics, workflow, and Snowflake data platform management. - With the Innovaccer Health Cloud’s data and analytics platform, Prisma Health can integrate disparate EHRs and other healthcare systems to create a unified patient record. Primsa Health Background Prisma Health provides healthcare services to nearly
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Edifecs Launches Solution to Automate Prior Authorization at the Point of Care
What You Should Know: - The full automation of prior authorization at the point of care leads to improved member experiences, enhanced outcomes, ongoing compliance, and reduced administrative burden. Edifecs’ automated prior authorization solution integrates with electronic health records (EHR) and leverages artificial intelligence (AI), natural language processing (NLP), and industry standards such as FHIR to instantly deliver authorization. - This innovation comes on the heels of
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St. Peter’s Health to Deploy Innovaccer Health Cloud for Optimized Care Management
What You Should Know: St. Peter’s Health, a regional nonprofit healthcare system in Helena, Montana, is moving to the InnovaccerⓇ Health Cloud's Data Activation Platform to support its mission of providing exceptional and compassionate care that treats the whole person and improves the health, wellness, and quality of life for the communities it serves. The health system, an integrated network with more than 100 providers, a 99-bed acute care hospital, physician and urgent care
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ScionHealth Signs 10-Year End-to-End RCM Partnership with R1 RCM
What You Should Know: - Today, R1 RCM, a leading provider of technology-driven revenue cycle management (RCM) solutions, is announcing a 10-year end-to-end partnership with ScionHealth, a new Louisville-based health system comprising nearly 80 hospitals, to provide exclusive enterprise RCM services to its long-term acute care hospitals. - ScionHealth joins healthcare systems including Ascension, Intermountain Healthcare, LifePoint Health, Penn State Health and more that have chosen R1 to
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WellSky Acquires CarePort Health from Allscripts for $1.35B
What You Should Know: - Health technology leader WellSky has agreed to acquire
CarePort Health to power coordinated care transitions for acute and post-acute
care patients for $1.35B. - By providing end-to-end visibility across the
continuum, WellSky and CarePort can improve outcomes, lower costs, and increase
patient satisfaction. WellSky, a global health, and community care technology company, announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement with Allscripts to
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Holon Integrates with Cerner’s HealtheIntent PHM Platform for Value-Based Care Insights
What You Should Know: - Holon and Cerner announced a partnership
to advance the delivery of relevant patient insights to providers when they
need it most. - Holon and Cerner will deploy patented
technology that automatically delivers contextually relevant patient information
from Cerner’s HealtheIntent® population health platform, which
is EHR-agnostic, directly to clinicians in their workflow to inform care
decisions. Holon
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R1 RCM Acquires Patient Engagement Company SCI Solutions for $190M in Cash
- R1 RCM announced the expansion of its tech platform capabilities through the acquisition of SCI Solutions, Inc (SCI). This acquisition enables healthcare providers to automate ordering, scheduling and authorization processes. - SCI’s capabilities integrated into R1’s revenue cycle solution will offer the broadest and deepest tech-enabled patient intake solution available. R1 RCM Inc, a provider of technology-enabled revenue cycle management (RCM) services to healthcare providers,
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SCI Solutions Acquires Mobile Patient Data Collection & Payments Platform Tonic Health
- SCI Solutions (SCI) acquires patient data collection and payments platform Tonic Health to meaningfully engage consumers at every step in their digital healthcare journey. - The acquisition will allow SCI to offer a comprehensive suite of patient self-service technologies to deliver maximum value to their combined client base. SCI Solutions (SCI), a Seattle, WA-based EHR-agnostic online care coordination marketplace, today announced it has acquired Tonic Health, a leading SaaS-based digital
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Geisinger Inks 10-Year Deal to Make Cerner Its Preferred Data Platform
- Geisinger announced a 10-year deal with Cerner to expand its use of the HealtheIntent population health platform and make it the health system’s preferred data platform. - Geisinger plans to use the platform to gain actionable insights and intelligence by bringing together data from across it's health system. - Geisinger and Cerner will also create an innovation team to discover, build and implement transformative health care solutions with AI and machine learning.This morning during the
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Why Real-Time Health Data Is a Requirement in Today’s Health System
Thanks to technological innovation in the industry and CMS’ push for interoperability, today there’s more patient health data being collected than ever before. The problem is that the data is either not easily accessible to providers or it’s claims based and therefore not timely. The lag time between the collection and sharing of health data makes it difficult, and in some cases impossible, for providers to get a complete picture of their patients’ health, to appropriately treat ongoing
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