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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Population Health Management (PHM)
56% of Health Leaders State Their Current PHM Solution Falls Short, Fails to Address Current Needs
What You Should Know:
- More than half (56%) healthcare leaders say their current population health management (PHM) solution doesn’t meet their needs, according to a new survey from Persivia.
- Almost two-thirds (62%) say a lack of clinician
engagement is the top reason they’re looking to replace their PHM solution.
This was followed by the inability to convert data to action (48%), and
inability to engage patients (43%) or perform sufficient analytics (43%) tied
for third.
- The
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4 Ways Healthcare Leaders Can Use Data & Analytics to Prevent, Predict and Prepare for a Pandemic
Laura Craft, Vice President, Analyst at Gartner
COVID-19 has put a laser focus on how data and analytics are powerful tools for healthcare leaders to predict, prepare, and respond in a proactive and coordinated manner to a global health crisis. Throughout the pandemic, data has been used to document the spread of the virus, project the curve, and more.
Responses and actions to mitigate viral spread hinge on real-time data collection, governance, and analysis for instant decision making.
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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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ACO to Deploy Innovaccer’s FHIR-enabled Data Activation Platform Across Medicare Population
What You Should Know:
- MultiCare Connected Care announced it will leverage Innovaccer's FHIR®-enabled Data Activation Platform for the Medicare Track 1+ population.
- MultiCare Connected Care is an Accountable Care Organization and a wholly-owned subsidiary of MultiCare Health System based in the state of Washington, one of the largest, not-for-profit health systems.
MultiCare
Connected Care (MCC), one of the leading clinically integrated care
networks in the state of Washington,
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How Social Determinants of Health Will Impact the Future of Benefit Coverages
Kevin Riley, SVP and General Manager, Vlocity Health
Do you have access to healthy foods, transportation to a doctor, high-speed internet for telemed appointments, or a roof over your head? These are assumptions that most of us take for granted, and are not the questions that insurers usually take into consideration. But, as they look to increase member outcomes and foster long-term customer loyalty, considering the changing needs of many consumers in the face of today’s current affairs, it’s
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Backed by Northwell, Conversa Health Raises $12M for AI-Powered Chatbots
What You Should Know:
- Conversa Health raises $12 million in Series B funding
round to expand its AI-powered chatbots enabling health systems, payers and pharmaceutical
companies to engage patients and collect patient-generated health data and
patient-reported outcomes.
- Conversa plans to use the funding to scale its virtual
care and communication platform—97 percent of patients who have used its chatbots
say they can better manage their care with Conversa.
- Murray Brozinsky
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Arcadia Launches New COVID-19 Recovery Toolkit for Health Systems
What You Should Know:
- Arcadia launches COVID-19 Surveillance and
Engagement Toolkit with data and resources to help health systems in
value-based payment arrangements meet the demands of the pandemic.
- Since the introduction of Arcadia’s COVID-19 Surveillance
and Engagement Toolkit, more than a dozen health systems have used Arcadia Analytics
to reach patients via text message outreach and symptom screening tools, an
increase
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The New Normal: Rethinking Healthcare Delivery in a Post-COVID World
Mansoor Khan, Sc.D., co-founder and CEO of Persivia
It’s becoming clearer that, while we are all hoping that things are going to go back to the way things were at the beginning of the year, the COVID-19 crisis will result in a new normal. That’s especially true in healthcare, due to four issues that are being wildly amplified by the COVID-19 crisis. Namely:
1. The US government has huge deficits, and healthcare is a major driver of the unsustainable increase in these deficits.
2.
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Care Coordination Network PatientPing Raises $60M to Fuel Expansion
What You Should Know:
- PatientPing raises $60M in Series C funding to fuel expansion to new geographies and extends the capabilities of their care coordination network solutions.
- As the nation’s leading care collaboration and
patient event notifications (e-notifications) platform, PatientPing’s
comprehensive suite of solutions leverage real-time patient data and are used
by provider organizations, hospitals, health plans, governments, individuals
and the organizations supporting
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