What You Should Know: - Former athenahealth founder and CEO Jonathan Bush, today announced the launch of Zus Health (“Zus” pronounced Zoos like the father of Athena) focused on creating the industry’s first shared development platform backed by a shared data record. - The company is launching with the close of $34M in Series A funding led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), F-Prime Capital, Maverick Ventures, Rock Health, Martin Ventures and Oxeon Investments also participated in
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What Population Health Management Providers Need to Know About HITRUST CSF Certification
Healthcare companies continue to implement value-based care and population health management initiatives to coordinate healthcare delivery and improve the quality and value of patient care. These initiatives depend on the ability to access, aggregate, and analyze massive amounts of patient data, often coming from hundreds of source systems. Critical system interoperability and data-sharing agreements enable healthcare organizations to aggregate data and build massive data assets to support their
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CAQH, EHNAC Partner to Provide Incentives for FHIR App Developers to Become Accredited
What You Should Know: - CAQH and the Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission (EHNAC) have partnered to provide incentives for application developers participating in the CAQH Endpoint Directory to become accredited through the Trusted Dynamic Registration and Authorization Accreditation Program (TDRAAP) from EHNAC and UDAP.org, publisher of the Unified Data Access Profiles. - TDRAAP accreditation affirms an app’s technical
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UCSF, Philips Partner to Enhance Digital Patient Experience & Interoperability
What You Should Know: - Today, Philips announced its collaboration with the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) to develop technology that will enable a more streamlined patient experience and set a new standard for healthcare delivery. - As part of the strategic collaboration, UCSF will use Philips HealthSuite Digital Platform to enable patient care personalization and make it easier for patients to select providers, access their health information and receive virtual
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Anthem, Epic Integrates Bi-Directional Data Exchange with Affiliated Health Plans
What You Should Know: - Healthcare insurer Anthem has announced a data sharing collaboration with Epic to facilitate secure, bi-directional exchange of health information between healthcare providers and Anthem’s affiliated health plans. - Epic’s Payer Platform will be integrated with Anthem’s Health OS, which is Anthem’s operating system to enable seamless health plan-provider collaboration. - The integration will enable Anthem to capture consumer health information
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CommonHealth Integrates with 150 Providers to Power Secure Access to Personal Health Records
What You Should Know: - The Commons Project Foundation announced this morning that more than 150 new hospital providers have joined CommonHealth, the Android equivalent of Apple Health, including the VHA, Mass General Brigham, ChristianaCare, and UC San Diego Health. - CommonHealth, which is free and available for download on the Google Play Store, was developed by The Commons Project Foundation in collaboration with UCSF, Cornell Tech and Sage Bionetworks to give people more control over
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Why Healthcare Data Won’t Magically Create Value-Based Care
The conversation about transitioning the American healthcare system from fee for service (FFS) to value-based care (aka, pay for performance) has been going on for more than 15 years. Still, it felt like time travel to come across a Health Affairs book review from 2006 by the late Princeton Professor Uwe Reinhardt that could have been written last month. In evaluating what he describes as the “utopian vision” laid out in Michael Porter and Elizabeth Teisberg’s Redefining Health
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Particle Health Expands Beta Program API to Consumer Digital Health Providers – Enabling Instant Access to Patient Records
What You Should Know: - Particle Health announces the launch of its Beta Program that will enable consumer applications such as PHRs and other providers instant access to patient records stored across health exchanges - using its single API. - The Beta Program is aimed at helping developers deliver next-gen healthcare solutions that have now been enabled with the recent passing of the Anti-Information Blocking Rule in the CURES Act. - Now the Anti-Information Blocking Rule is in
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Top 3 Ways to Justify Interoperability Spend & Power Your Physician Alignment Strategy
For decades, interoperability has been a dirty word for hospitals and health systems. No matter how much they have worked at it, paid for it, and thrown IT resources at it, return on investment has been difficult to prove. This has been especially true when executing a community physician alignment strategy to expand care collaboration with unaffiliated physician groups to drive new referrals and revenue into the hospital. The first step in many physician alignment programs is to formalize
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Innovation, Interoperability Accelerated Healthcare Digital Transformation in 2020
What You Should Know: - In the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, the digital transformation of healthcare accelerated in 2020 with increased adoption of interoperable tools to support innovations in care management, price transparency and specialty medications, according to the Surescripts 2020 National Progress Report. - The data, which represents 98% of the U.S. population, reveals how the digital transformation of healthcare was expedited over the
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