The past few years have been particularly interesting for the healthcare landscape. We’ve seen a surge in telemedicine and retail clinics, increasing use of personal healthcare devices such as watches and fitness trackers, aggressive attempts to dismantle the ACA, the growing influence of private equity investment firms, and massive mergers with disruptive enterprise market entries such as Amazon. As the ground beneath them continues to shift, many providers are venturing into new territory to
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Intermountain’s Castell Taps Arcadia to Elevate Value-Based Care
What You Should Know:
- Intermountain’s Castell has selected Arcadia Analytics
as the healthcare technology and analytics foundation to support its
comprehensive approach to helping organizations accelerate the transition from
volume- to value-based systems of care.
Castell, the new comprehensive healthcare platform company from Intermountain Healthcare that elevates value-based capabilities for providers, payers, healthcare systems, and accountable care organizations (ACOs) has
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Lenovo Launches Virtual Care Solution with Voice Activated Digital Assistant
What You Should Know:
- Today, Lenovo launches Virtual Care solution to help healthcare
provider organizations remotely monitor, engage with and educate patients with
many of these chronic health conditions, including diabetes, COPD, congestive
heart failure (CHF), and hypertension.
- Easy to use, patients take the kit home, plug it in and
can immediately begin interacting with their care team. Patients are guided
through an individual daily care plan aided by biometric devices and
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Eliminating the Long, Cumbersome and Costly Diagnosis of Genetic Diseases
The answer to questions about human disease can be found in our genes. The difficulty in the past has been the testing process, a sort of trial and error approach of drilling down into the multitude of variants that can be found within the genes, variants that when analyzed in tandem with detailed clinical histories can actually tell the story and lead to a faster diagnosis.
Human beings carry around 20,000 genes and, of those, approximately 5,000 are somewhat understood, and those genes can
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Why COVID-19 Highlights Urgent Need to Humanize and Modernize The Patient Financial Experience
It’s no secret that COVID-19 and the
corresponding near-immediate economic catastrophe will be felt for
significantly longer than the few short months it took to wreak its initial
havoc. While losses hit businesses from “a to z” (...except maybe Amazon, ironically),
hospitals and health systems tasked with treating the victims of this pandemic
bear a particularly harsh dose of the financial fallout -- $72 billion in CARES
Act hospital grants barely serving as a band-aid to the financial
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Cedar Gate Technologies Acquires Citra Health Solutions to Expand Value-based Technology
Cedar Gate Technologies
(Cedar Gate), a Greenwich, CT-based value-based care
performance management company, today announced its acquisition
of Citra Health Solutions (Citra), a
provider of capitation management software solutions.
Expands Value-Based Care Technology Suite with Citra's Capitation
Management Solutions
By acquiring Citra, Cedar Gate expands its software and
services capabilities across the full spectrum of value-based care. By
combining Cedar Gate's existing capabilities in
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Black Lives Matter: Health IT Industry, Where Are You?
All lives truly matter. However, the world does not exist in a vacuum void of institutional racism, subconscious, and implicit bias. As a result, every life within America is not valued the same, as is evident by the recent George Floyd murder. When all lives are not treated with the same opportunities and respect, whether in matters of criminal justice, employment, housing, education, health, and healthcare evidence shows the result is that only some lives actually matter. One cannot change the
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AbleTo Unveils Integrated Suite of Mental Health Solutions for Payers
What You Should Know:
- AbleTo, a provider of virtual mental health
services unveils an expanded suite of mental health solutions for payers to
address growing needs across America.
- The new solution set was specifically engineered
to establish an elevated standard of teletherapy through a combined approach
that is highly personalized, data-driven, and evidence-based.
AbleTo, Inc., a
leading provider of virtual mental health services proven to improve clinical
outcomes and lower
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DrChrono Integrates with Rioch to Streamline Patient Onboarding & Reconciliation for Medical Practices
What You Should Know:
- DrChrono integrates with Ricoh’s Smart Integration
Healthcare add-on to enable a medical practice to easily scan a patient’s
driver license to auto-populate the corresponding fields into their EHR/PMS
system.
- The Healthcare add on also includes the ability to directly scan documents, such as referrals, patient history forms, or consent forms. This goes right into the patient record in the EHR, replacing the multiple steps of scanning, saving, and uploading
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Kaia Health Lands $26M to Expand AI-Driven Digital Therapeutics for MSK Conditions & COPD
What You Should Know:
- Digital therapeutics company Kaia Health raises $26M in
Series B funding to help grow its digital therapy solutions for musculoskeletal
(MSK) conditions, and expand into new conditions.
- The investment was led by Optum Ventures, Idinvest and
capital300, plus participation from Balderton Capital, Heartcore Capital and
Symphony Ventures, an investment partnership with world #1 golfer Rory McIlroy.
- Kaia Health’s smartphone-based
approach to managing chronic
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