What You Should Know:
- Proteus Digital Health launches a multi-year, Medicaid outcomes-based initiative with the state of Tennessee’s Medicaid program, TennCare.
- The Proteus initiative allows TennCare to continue strengthening its Hepatitis C treatment efforts through an innovative, value-based care outcomes approach.
Proteus Digital Health®,
Inc. announced today a multi-year, outcomes-based initiative with the state of
Tennessee’s Medicaid program, TennCare.
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Leveraging Big Data for Real World Clinical Analytics
Recently, as the world has watched the coronavirus crisis unfold, the power of big data to track, illustrate, and inform has taken center stage. A compelling example is the near real-time map created by Johns Hopkins Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) that shows all the cases as the disease spreads across the globe.
With far-reaching implications for healthcare, big data enables deep analysis of data from a myriad of sources – electronic medical records (EMRs), claims,
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CareCentrix Acquires Palliative Care Solution Turn-Key Health
What You Should Know:
- Home care leader CareCentrix announced its acquisition palliative care solution for health plans Turn-Key Health, a move that will help more vulnerable patients heal at home.
- The acquisition fully integrates Turn-Key’s palliative care solution into the CareCentrix platform and supports the company’s mission to meet patient needs through an entire episode of care.
- With Turn-Key’s data analytics and artificial intelligence, CareCentrix patients will
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Kaufman Hall Acquires Change Healthcare’s Connected Analytics Business
What You Should Know:
- Kaufman Hall Acquires Change Healthcare’s analytics explorer, performance manager, and other data capabilities to create the industry’s most robust EPM software, data, and analytics platform.
- The acquisition unites the strengths of two industry leaders in healthcare technology, empowering clients to improve operational, clinical, and financial performance.
Kaufman, Hall & Associates, LLC, a provider of enterprise performance management (EPM) software,
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The Rise of Teledentistry: Benefits, Use Cases & Adoption Challenges
Teledentistry is a relatively new practice on the rise for dentists. If you have oral health or dental problems, it can take a while to get an appointment that fits in with your schedule. So, with this new concept, you can quickly connect with a dental professional remotely, and receive access to advice and information.About TeledentistryTeledentistry falls under telehealth, which is a broad concept within professional healthcare delivery. Essentially, telehealth aims to provide patients with a
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Shoring Up the Healthcare Supply Chain: 4 Lessons From The COVID-19 Pandemic
In December 2019, the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response told a House committee that “supply chain issues were among the most significant challenges to preparing for an influenza pandemic as well as other infectious diseases.” A few months later, healthcare systems across the country and around the world are face-to-face with that harsh reality, as many of the largest healthcare suppliers are unable to fully meet the growing global demand for personal protective equipment
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Report: How the COVID-19 Pandemic is Changing Patient Communications
What You Should Know:
- Data from Luma Health reveals stark gaps in the volume and cadence of COVID-19-related messages sent between doctors and patients.
- California, one of the states hit early and hard by COVID-19, increased patient communications more than 91x over, with 206,000 messages broadcast between late January and March; New York saw a 16x increase over the same period (both states with approximately the same number of cases in early March).
- During the month of
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Fear of Changing EHRs? Here’s What You Should be Concerned About
Over the years, the EHR has developed a poor reputation as a time-waster, a source of frustration for staff and a significant contributor of burnout in the healthcare industry. A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that 59% of physicians said their EHR negatively impacted their time at work. This is because EHRs can be inflexible, hard to use and lack interoperability with other systems.
With so many problems surrounding the reputation of these tools, its
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Digital Health Contagion: How COVID-19 Accelerated The Positive Spread of Digital Solutions
Remember – just three short but world-changing months ago – when many of us were at the annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference. The date was January 13th, 2020. Coronavirus was a problem in China, of vague interest – perhaps like SARS, unlikely to have a big impact in the U.S. Our community of healthcare executives, investors, and entrepreneurs were once again gathering in San Francisco. And the adoption of digital health? Well, there was still more talk than action.
The arguments for
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COVID-19 Outbreak: The Opportunity & Importance of Health Informatics
Never before has health informatics played a greater role in public health than during the COVID-19 pandemic. While the Health IT industry is certainly challenged due to the overall disruption to the healthcare system, the pandemic undoubtedly underscores the opportunity and importance of health informatics, such as telehealth, remote patient monitoring, patient engagement, AI-based drug discovery, precision medicine, and clinical decision support, but nowhere more pressing than the fields of
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