What You Should Know:
- Bamboo Health™ recently announced that HealthTeam Advantage (HTA), the business name of Care N’ Care Insurance Company of North Carolina, Inc., has integrated Bamboo Health’s Pings™ solution.
- The Pings rollout delivers real-time admission, discharge, and transfer (ADT) e-notifications for HTA’s 15,000 North Carolina PPO and HMO Medicare Advantage plan members.
Using Real-Time E-Notifications to Lower Costs and Improving High Quality Care
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Ion and Houston Methodist to Open Healthcare Innovation Tech Hub
What You Should Know:
- Houston Methodist joins the Ion as its first healthcare-centric partner in its growing innovation hub.
- The hospital will build out a space at the Ion modeled after Houston Methodist’s Center for Innovation Technology Hub located at its flagship hospital in the Texas Medical Center to showcase the latest in healthcare innovation.
Opening a New Window Into the Future of Healthcare
The Ion anchors a 16-acre innovation district, the epicenter for
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How Actionable Data and Expert Analysis Supports Service Providers, Fosters Better Care and Ensures Financial Benefits
Approximately 42% of Medicare beneficiaries are enrolled in Medicare Advantage plans—a segment projected to reach 46% by 2025. Due to rapid growth of the 65-and-older portion of the population, Medicare expenditures are forecast to reach $1,559.4 billion in 2028, with spending per enrollee reaching $20,751.
Key trends are influencing this growth, including:
- An aging population
- Continued increase in overall Medicare costs
- Government support and benefit flexibility (e.g.,
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Availity to Acquire Diameter Health to Expand Clinical Data Interoperability
What You Should Know:
- One of the nation’s largest real-time health information networks Availity announced an agreement to acquire Diameter Health, a national leader in clinical data quality and interoperability.
- This strategic deal expands Availity’s clinical portfolio to deliver the strongest integrated clinical and claims data network and interoperability platforms in healthcare.
Streamlining Clinical Data Interoperability
Founded in 2013, Diameter
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Adventist HealthCare to Deploy Innovaccer Health Cloud for Value-Based Whole-Person Care
What You Should Know:
- Adventist HealthCare has selected Innovaccer Inc., the Health Cloud company to be their next-generation population health management and value-based care partner.
- Innovaccer will help Advent HealthCare create a unified data platform to help deliver deeper insights into community health and network operations.
Supporting Value-Based Whole-Person Care
One of the longest-serving health systems in the Washington, D.C. region, and one of
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The Infrastructure Needed to Meet Health Interoperability Needs
For most patients, it has always been extremely difficult to their personal health and medical data electronically. However, with the CMS Interoperability and Patient Access Final Rule, consumers, specifically Medicaid members, there is a greater push to give access to, and ownership of, this data.
With this move towards interoperability comes new requirements healthcare organizations must meet and adhere to under the rule. To meet many of these federal interoperability requirements,
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Executive Roundtable: Can Innovation Alleviate Clinician Burnout?
The U.S. Surgeon General’s recent advisory about clinician burnout cited numerous societal, cultural, structural, and organizational causes—including excessive workloads, administrative burden, and lack of organizational support. The potential fallout of this trajectory is alarming: The advisory cites the Association of American Medical Colleges’ estimate on clinician demand outpacing supply, with an anticipated shortage of between
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5 Anti-Aging Solutions Aided by Healthcare Technology
Displaying signs of aging is a natural part of getting on in the years. But it doesn’t automatically mean that you can’t do anything to minimize or lessen the effects of aging on your face and your body. Looking and feeling youthful can have a number of obvious and not-so-obvious benefits, including staying fitter for longer and advancing your career. Thanks to the rapid advancement in healthcare technology in the last few years, there are now a number of safe ways in which you can maintain a
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Path to Predictive Patient Data: Silencing The Noise of Healthcare
As the healthcare industry is experiencing major changes in the wake of the pandemic, how do we cut through the noise of beeping monitors and the constant influx of data each patient produces in a given moment to ensure optimal care, especially for critically ill patients? Instead of adding a new beep or silencing the existing ones, why not build a path through the noise with data?
The Path to Predictive Data
Nearly every advancement in healthcare has been centered around data, with
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Analysis: How Will The Roadmap for Diagnostic Cardiology Devices Develop?
Like most healthcare markets, the diagnostic cardiology market has had a bumpy ride in recent years. The COVID-19 pandemic saw global revenues for Resting ECG devices increase in 2020, whilst ECG Management Systems, Stress ECG and Traditional Holter ECG solutions saw a market decline. Country lockdowns resulted in reduced cardiology services during the peak of the pandemic, as non-urgent appointments were delayed. 2021 showed relief for cardiac facilities as providers started to deal with the
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