What You Should Know:
- CorroHealth – a newly-formed entity – combines the services and technologies of TrustHCS, Visionary RCM, T-System, and RevCycle+.
- Under this new entity, CorroHealth is committed to
helping clients navigate regulatory compliance complexities, ease physician burdens
and improve financial outcomes.
Today, four revenue cycle management services and technology organizations have merged together as a newly-formed entity—CorroHealth. TrustHCS, Visionary RCM,
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Amwell, Tyto Care Expand Partnership to Power Augmented Virtual Care Experiences
What You Should Know:
- Tyto
Care and Amwell® announced an expanded partnership, allowing
the companies to develop new integrations to enhance virtual care offerings for
providers.
- By pairing Tyto Care’s TytoHome device and platform
with Amwell’s platform, the two companies will together provide patients
and providers with augmented virtual care experiences and
broadly enrich the capabilities and satisfaction with healthcare organizations’
virtual
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Is Glucometrics The Missing Data in the Fight Against COVID-19?
Glucometrics – the system-wide analysis of inpatient glucose data – should be of fundamental interest for hospital administrators striving to improve the outcomes of their patients.
Why is this data so important? Proper glycemic control has been linked to improved outcomes and decreased length of stay time and time again across a myriad of conditions – whether it’s someone recuperating from a heart attack, battling pneumonia, or recovering from surgery.
The U.S. health system lacks
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Updox, Redox Partner to Expand Network of Integrated EHRs, Deliver Seamless Telehealth
What You Should Know:
- Updox partners with healthcare integration platform
Redox to integrate with any EHR, deliver seamless telehealth to health systems
- Updox is expanding its network to include the largest
inpatient EHRs in order to supply healthcare professionals with solutions that
support in-person and virtual care.
As virtual care
continues to increase in demand, Updox,
a provider of care
coordination across both in-person and virtual care, announced today a
significant
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Centene Becomes First Payer to Join AVIA’s Medicaid Transformation Project
What You Should Know:
- AVIA announces that Centene Corporation has become the first payer to join the Medicaid Transformation Project (MTP), which aims to transform healthcare and related social needs for vulnerable populations through digitally-enabled care models and new technology solutions
- Led by AVIA and
former CMS chief Andy Slavitt. Collaboration among Centene, 30 health systems,
and provider-sponsored health plans in MTP will enable these stakeholders to
improve outcomes
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The COVID-19 Data Challenges Facing Payers
Both payers and providers can benefit from the same or similar high-quality data and can work together to provide the best possible services to patients with COVID-19 while avoiding overloading the healthcare system. The key is to use combined payer, clinical, and social data plus technology such as telehealth and artificial intelligence (AI).
Payer Perspective on COVID-19
The overriding concern for payers during the COVID-19 crisis is the need to support member health. During an
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PreferredOne Becomes First Health Plan to Cover Prescription Digital Therapeutics
What You Should Know:
- PreferredOne teams with Pear to provide its members
with covered access to two prescription digital therapeutics (PDTs) for the
treatment of substance use disorder (SUD) and opioid use disorder (OUD)
- PDTs are a new therapeutic class that uses software to
directly treat disease. Like traditional medicines, PDTs are tested in
randomized controlled trials demonstrating safety and effectiveness, evaluated
and authorized by regulators like FDA, and used under the
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How Parkland Leverages Machine Learning, Geospatial Analytics to Reduce COVID-19 Exposure in Dallas
What You Should Know:
- How Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation developed a machine learning-driven predictive model called the COVID-19 Proximity Index for Parkland Hospital in Dallas.
- This program helps frontline workers to quickly identify which identify patients at the highest risk of exposure to COVID-19 by using geospatial analytics.
- In addition, the program helps triage patients while
improving the health and safety of hospital workers as well as the friends
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Corindus Vascular Robotics CEO Departure, UPMC Enterprises’ New President, Nordic Consulting’s New CIO, Other Health IT Hires
Mark Toland, CEO of Corindus Vascular Robotics (acquired by Siemens for $1.1B last year), has announced his departure and will be joining BioStar Capital, a health-tech venture capital group focused on cardiovascular and orthopedic medical devices. As a partner and entrepreneur in residence, Mark will help to identify and develop innovative companies leveraging AI, deep learning, robotics, and other transformative technologies that address a wide range of unmet needs. The BioStar team has
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ApolloMD Partners with Cedar to Implement Optimized Online Patient Billing Experience
What You Should Know:
- ApolloMD, a multispecialty clinical services provider for hospitals and health systems partners with patient engagement and financial technology platform Cedar to enabled an improved online billing experience for patients.
- With Cedar, ApolloMD can now provide a digital billing
experience built for patients, leading to better engagement.
ApolloMD, a
multispecialty clinical services provider for hospitals and health systems, and
Cedar, a leading
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