CredSimple, the a NYC-based cloud-based healthcare credential verification organization, has raised $14 million in Series B funding led by Questa Capital. The round also included participation from existing investors including Windham Venture Partners who led the company's Series A round and Primary Ventures who co-led its seed investment.Outdated Credentialing ProcessTraditionally, credentialing has run on outdated systems, spreadsheets, and repetitive manual work that only increases work,
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Diameter Health Raises $9.6M to Expand Clinical Data Integration Platform
Strategic Investment Made by Optum Ventures Will Support Product and Marketing for Clinical Data Integration Platform
Diameter
Health, a Farmington, CT-based provider of clinical data integration
solutions has raised $9.6 million in Series A funding led by Optum Ventures. Optum
Ventures joins existing Diameter Health investors Activate Venture Partners, Connecticut Innovations, Excelerate Health Ventures and LRV Health.
Brining Order to Complex Clinical
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Carisk Integrates with Valera Health to Optimize Care Coordination
Carisk Partners (Carisk), a specialty risk transfer and care coordination company, and Valera Health, a digital health startup have announced a strategic partnership to deliver an intuitive behavioral healthcare experience for patients. Valera Health leverages analytics and mobile tools that monitor, engage, and connect patients with care coordination teams. As part of the partnership, Carisk plans to utilize Valera technology to provide its care coordination teams with tools to optimize care
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HIMSS19 Day 2 Announcements & Summary
Accenture: Millenials & Gen Z Are Shifting to Virtual, Retail, Clinic, Digital CareMillennial and Gen Z consumers in the U.S. are rapidly adopting non-traditional care models, such as retail clinics, virtual and digital services, according to results of an Accenture survey of 2,000 consumers.Key findings of the survey study include:- When considering traditional in-person care, millennials (ages 22 to 38 in 2019) were two to three times more likely than baby boomers (ages 55 to 73) to be
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Video: AHA’s CEO Rich Umbdenstock Speaks on the Accountable Care Era
January 2012 marks the start of CMS's accountable care organization experiment, in addition to the many private partnerships hospitals are forging using the ACO model. AHA (American Hospital Association) President Rich Umbdenstock talks to Hospital & Health Networks senior online editor Haydn Bush about the challenges and opportunities hospitals face in the new era of accountability.
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NCQA Accountable Care Organization Accreditation Overview
The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) is launching a new accreditation program for Accountable Care Organizations on November 21st. ACO accreditation is an independent evaluation of healthcare delivery organizations' ability to coordinate the high quality, efficient, patient centered care expected of ACOs. I decided to write a brief comprehensive overview based on the presentation and white paper provided by NCQA.
Why ACO Accreditation Matters:
Variation in capabilities
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