Sara Radkiewicz, Head of Product, CarePort Health
Thanks to technological innovation in the industry and CMS’ push for interoperability, today there’s more patient health data being collected than ever before. The problem is that the data is either not easily accessible to providers or it’s claims based and therefore not timely. The lag time between the collection and sharing of health data makes it difficult, and in some cases impossible, for providers to get a complete picture of their
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HLTH & ATA Partner Up to Highlight Telehealth Solutions, Virtual Care Adoption
HLTH, the largest and most important conference for healthcare innovation announced a new partnership with ATA, the premier organization working to accelerate the adoption of telehealth, to showcase innovations in virtual care that will change the way care is ultimately delivered.Telehealth solutions include digital health, artificial intelligence (AI), virtual care, remote monitoring, and digital therapeutics (DTx), as well as 'store-and-forward' or asynchronous technologies that securely
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Rite Aid’s New CEO, CommonSpirit Health Appoints First Chief Information and Digital Officer, Geisinger’s Chief Nursing Exec, Other Health IT Appointments
Rite Aid Corporation appoints Heyward Donigan as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and a member of the Board, effective immediately. John Standley will step down from his role as chief executive officer. Prior to joining Rite Aid, Donigan served as the president and chief executive officer of Sapphire Digital (formerly Vitals), which designs and develops omnichannel platforms that help consumers choose their best-fit healthcare providers.
Since 2015, Donigan lead Sapphire Digital's strategy and
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Connecticut Launches State-Wide Hospital Quality Scorecard & Cost Estimator
The Connecticut Office of Health Strategy (OHS) has launched a state-wide online hospital quality scorecard and cost estimator solution called Healthcare CT to assist residents in making informed decisions concerning their healthcare among healthcare providers. The website has interactive tables and graphs that allow consumers to search, sort, and filter by entity, quality measure, health topic, and rating. In addition, the solution promotes cost transparency in healthcare improves access to
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M&A: Experian Acquires Care Coordination Platform MyHealthDirect
Experian has acquired MyHealthDirect, a developer of digital care coordination solutions based in Nashville that optimizes scheduling and care planning for providers, payers and consumers. The move gives Experian’s health business a strategic boost as it continues enabling clients to meet the changing demands of consumers – in particular, demands around removing complexity and increasing transparency in healthcare. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. Growing Importance of
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4 Reasons Why Healthcare Executives Are Less Eager to Invest in Health IT
Stephanie Kovalick, Chief Strategy Officer at Sage Growth Partners
Hospital and health system C-suite executives recognize that technology will play a central role in helping their organizations meet quality and cost objectives. Yet that’s not necessarily translating to a market that’s more fruitful for health IT companies. In fact, if your healthcare system is taking a more conservative approach to health IT investments in 2019, it’s not alone.
A recent survey of 100 C-suite leaders
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Research: July Digital Health IPOs, M&A Activity, Public Company Performance Summary
Summary of Health IT/digital IPOs, merger & acquisition (M&A) activity, and public company performance during the month of July.
Digital Health IPOs in July
Source: Healthcare Growth Partners (HGP)
Breaking the digital health IPO drought, there were four initial public offerings (IPOs) during a five-week period from late June to late July, including Livongo, Health Catalyst, Phreesia, and Change Healthcare. The last health IT companies to reach IPO were iRhythym Technologies and
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DrFirst Integrates with Epic’s Real Time Prescription Benefits Prescribing Workflow
DrFirst, a provider of e-prescribing, price transparency, and medication management solutions announced today that it has entered into an integration agreement with leading EHR provider Epic to make DrFirst’s myBenefitCheck (real-time benefit check) service available to clients in Epic’s RTPB (Real-Time Prescription Benefits) prescribing workflow to help doctors and patients understand the cost of the drugs and drive medication adherence.How myBenefitCheck WorksVia myBenefitCheck, prescribers
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Medicare Advantage Plans Struggle With Internal Challenges to Keep Pace With Growth
Many Medicare Advantage health plans (35%) struggle with internal challenges in keeping pace with growth, including technology and infrastructure limitations, according to results of its latest Voice of the Market Survey. In addition, 33.8% struggle with a lack of IT staff or resources to make necessary changes and 29.4% lack the in-house Medicare experts necessary to implement adjustments in response to business fluctuation.The survey was commissioned by HealthEdge and conducted by Survata, an
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CVS Uses Analytics to Expand Transform Diabetes Care Program
More than two years since its launch, pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) CVS Caremark’s Transform Diabetes Care program has helped PBM members better control their diabetes through a combination of highly personalized member support and coaching focused on improving medication adherence and better control of HbA1c. In fact, more than 50 percent of members with uncontrolled diabetes who enrolled in the program have moved to a controlled status and, on average, members have improved HbA1c by 1.2
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