What You
Should Know:
- Revint,
a leader in technology-enabled revenue integrity solutions for healthcare
providers, announced they will be merging with Triage Consulting Group, one of
the nation’s premier healthcare revenue integrity companies.
- With this merger, Revint continues to invest in its technology and product solutions that recover revenue through a guaranteed ROI model that hospital systems can depend on.
Revint Solutions, a leader in
technology-enabled revenue integrity
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Raising the Bar for COVID-19 Data Integrity and Disease Surveillance
Just a few weeks ago, the mood among technologists in the Coronavirus pandemic remained cautiously optimistic about reopening society with the help of testing data, contact tracing apps, and other IT-enabled resources. But the recent spike in illness – 1.9 million new US cases in July, more than double any other month – is a sobering reboot on a crisis we now understand needs far more IT and data coordination than previously recognized.
The emerging consensus among epidemiologists is that
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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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Equality Health Launches Social Determinants Program to Tackle Health Disparities
What You Should Know:
- Equality Health launches Social
and Cultural Risk Assessment (SCRA™) program to address social determinants of health
(SDoH)
- With Equality Health’s SCRA program, social determinants act as any other quality metric, with a far less
burdensome reporting process.
Equality Health, a whole-health delivery
system, has pioneered a comprehensive cultural care program that enables
providers to identify and
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Finland, Cerner to Co-Develop Health and Social Services Digital Platform
What You Should Know:
- Finland regional leadership has selected Cerner to
establish a new healthcare and social services digital platform to support four
regions in Central Finland.
- The co-design digital platform will support Aster, a co-operational organization across four of Finland’s nineteen regions; including Central Finland, Ostrobothnia, South Savo, and North Karelia.
Today, Cerner announced it has been selected by Finland regional leadership to deliver more coordinated
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AmWell IPO and Google Deal – Five Key Takeaways to Know
1) COVID-19 Has Driven Revenue Up 77%
The headline revenue data (summarised below) provides very positive news for AmWell and its new investor, Google. Notably:
- Even prior to COVID-19, the company was growing well with revenues increasing by 31% in 2019 compared to 2018.
- This rate of growth has accelerated in 1H20, with overall revenue up 77% in the same period in 2019.
- The 2019 growth was partly driven by a small increase in the number of health plan subscription customers and
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Magellan Health and Livongo to Co-Market Behavioral Health Services
What You Should Know:
- Magellan Health announced a strategic relationship with
Livongo, making Livongo for Behavioral Health the new digital entry point to a
wide range of solutions for Magellan Health customers and their members.
- As part of the strategic relationship, Magellan and
Livongo will co-market behavioral health services and collaborate on product
innovations.
Magellan Health,
Inc., today announced a strategic relationship with Livongo the leading Applied Health
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TruePill Raises $75M to Launch At-Home Lab Testing Network
What You Should Know:
- Truepill raises $75 million in Series C funding To expand platform services and launch an at-home lab diagnostics network.
- The company plans to use the funds to expand Truepill’s ecosystem of direct-to-patient capabilities, which includes the Truepill Health telehealth network, pharmacy fulfillment, a custom-built EMR, and more.
Truepill, a San Mateo, CA-based building world-class patient experiences through its API-connected healthcare infrastructure,
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How the Simple Telehealth Visit Will Revolutionize Care Delivery and Disease Management
The impact of COVID-19 on the healthcare industry’s ability to innovate has been stunning. We have seen FDA emergency authorizations and relaxed regulatory guidelines enable the development of radical new ventilator ideas, accelerated timelines for vaccine development, and an extraordinary transition to telehealth services. Many of these actions were a response to the exposure of weak spots in our healthcare system, but even as those weaknesses have been shored up (in large part due to public
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Walmart, Oak Street Health to Launch 3 Health Clinics in Dallas-Fort Worth Area
What You Should Know:
- Walmart and Oak Street Health ink a partnership to
launch three joint health clinics in the Dallas-Forth Worth, TX area this year.
- Each clinic will offer value-based primary care and urgent
care services with a focus on adults on Medicare.
Retail leader Walmart
announced a partnership with Oak
Street Health, a value-based
primary care network for adults on Medicare to launch three joint health
clinics the Dallas-Forth Worth, TX area.
The new Oak Street
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