The move to a healthcare system that rewards the value delivered to patients vs. the volume of services performed is no easy task. Healthcare providers, including hospitals and physicians, face decreasing reimbursements as both commercial and government payors implement new payment models designed to more closely align the activities of various organizations and practitioners involved in patient care. Better coordination has been found to both improve the quality and lower the cost of care,
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WellVia Integrates with Health Gorilla’s FHIR API to Enable Clinical Data Exchange
- Health Gorilla and WellVia partner to enable new data exchange capabilities to power clinical record retrieval and lab ordering. - Through this collaboration, WellVia can control its user experience while using Health Gorilla’s APIs on the back-end to power new product functionality.Today, Health Gorilla, a provider of clinical data APIs, and WellVia, a telehealth company announced a partnership that enables new data exchange capabilities within the WellVia telehealth platform. As part of the
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CHG Healthcare Acquires Physician Credentialing Company Modio Health
- CHG Healthcare has acquired physician credentialing company Modio Health for an undisclosed term. - Modio and CHG are combining forces to improve credentialing for CHG employees and the thousands of providers and healthcare facilities it works with, making the process faster, safer, and more cost-effective.Healthcare staffing company CHG Healthcare has acquired Modio Health, a San Francisco, CA-based physician credentialing provider. The acquisition will improve credentialing for Change
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Avera Awarded $4.3M Grant to Establish National Telehealth Certificate Program
- Avera eCARE has been awarded a $4.3M grant to develop and launch a national telehealth certificate program to standardized quality of care through telehealth platforms. - Physicians, advanced practice providers, medical residents and administrators will be able to earn a certificate in telehealth as a delivery model for healthcare as well as a specialty certificate for telebehavioral health.Avera eCARE, a Sioux Falls, S.D.-based telemedicine network, today announced it has received a $4.3
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The Innovation Studio at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Unveils 5 Winners for Digital Health Lab Demo Day
- The Innovation Studio at Children's Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) announced the winners of its first-ever Digital Health Lab Demo Day. - Winning VR, AR, and gaming innovations will receive $20,000 each in seed grants and be piloted at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.The Innovation Studio at Children's Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) announced the winners of its first-ever Digital Health Lab Demo Day, the culmination of a six-month venture to develop, incubate and implement virtual reality (VR),
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DrChrono Launches EHR Services Directory for Medical Practices
- DrChrono launches new EHR Services Directory that will allow providers and medical practices to connect with third-party companies to outsource their business tasks. - Medical professionals will be able to find services in the directory such as third-party developers to help build on the DrChrono healthcare API, expertise on technology configuration to maintain a local network, etc.Today, DrChrono announced the launch of a new EHR Services Directory with third-party companies that will allow
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7 Best Practices to Improve Professional Fee Revenue Cycle for Better ED Bottom Lines
Most healthcare organizations partner with physician services groups for niche coverage. While outsourced medical services are available across all specialties, common areas for external physician support include anesthesia, radiology, wound care, and emergency medicine. However, when outsourced physician services are used, challenges to ensure accurate reimbursement for both components of care—the hospital portion and the physician’s professional fee—increase.
Snafus are largely attributable
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MaxQ AI Integrates With Philips CT System for Hospitals & Radiology Departments
- MaxQ AI’s ACCIPIO® ICH and stroke software will be integrated on Philips CT systems and will be available to hospitals and radiology departments throughout the U.S. and E.U.MaxQ AI, an Israeli-based medical diagnostic AI company announced that the company’s Accipio intracranial hemorrhage (ICH) and stroke software will be integrated on Philips’ computed tomography (CT) systems. MaxQ AI will be demonstrating the company’s full suite of Accipio solutions during the upcoming Radiological Society
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Microsoft, Nuance Partner to Develop Ambient Clinical Intelligence to Combat Clinician Burnout
- Nuance and Microsoft have joined forces to accelerate the delivery of ambient clinical intelligence (ACI) technologies that will power the exam room of the future where clinical documentation writes itself.
- Strategic partnership's focus is to reduce clinician burnout by enabling doctors to focus on patients, while AI focuses on administrative tasks.
Today, Microsoft and Nuance Communications announced a
strategic partnership to accelerate the
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Fitbit, BMS-Pfizer Alliance Partner to Address Gaps in Atrial Fibrillation Detection
- Fitbit and the BMS-Pfizer Alliance are collaborating on a multi-year effort to accelerate the detection and diagnosis of atrial fibrillation (AFib) to reduce the risk of life-threatening events, like stroke.- The companies will use their combined resources and expertise to help identify and support people at increased risk for AFib, notably those 65+. The Bristol-Myers Squibb-Pfizer Alliance and Fitbit today announced a multi-year collaboration to help drive timely diagnosis of atrial
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