What You Should Know:
- MEDITECH today announced it is extending its population health management offering with Expanse Population Insight, powered by the Innovaccer Data Platform.
- Population Insight leverages the power of the Expanse platform for providing care delivery and data analytics with proven expertise in data aggregation and curation.
Expanse Population Features
Expanse Population Insight aggregates data from claims, the EHR, and other sources to provide
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Population Health Management (PHM)
Why Data is at the Heart of Value-Based Care Success
The saying “you cannot manage what you cannot measure” applies to all aspects of healthcare delivery, but it is especially true in value-based care. After all, payers, providers, and the patients they care for need to know what high-value care looks like at an individual level – and how it can be applied at the population level.
Delivery and technology infrastructure. All too often, data is captured in disparate systems, forcing administrative staff – or, worse, physicians and nurses – to
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Fitbit & Google Cloud Launches Device Connect for Fitbit
What You Should Know:
- Today, Fitbit Health Solutions and Google Cloud are introducing Device Connect for Fitbit, which empowers healthcare and life sciences enterprises with accelerated analytics and insights to help people live healthier lives.
- Fitbit data from their consenting users is made available through the Fitbit Web API, providing users with control over what data they choose to share and ensuring secure data storage and protection. Unlocking
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Report: The State and Science of Value-Based Care
What You Should Know:
- Providers believe 96% of payment is now value-based in some capacity, and 58% believe their EHR vendor won’t be able to support the data strategies required to thrive under value-based care, according to a new study conducted by Morning Consult and Innovaccer.
- The 37-page national research study uncovers key IT infrastructure issues healthcare leaders said are impeding or essential for progress towards accelerating their transformation to value-based
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Epic Integrates with Milliman MedInsight for its Value-Based Performance Management Module
What You Should Know:
- Epic forms strategic partnership with Milliman MedInsight to offer advanced analytics to Epic customers.
- As part of the strategic partnership, Milliman MedInsight will integrate with Epic’s new Value-Based Performance Management module.
- Epic customers will be able to leverage the unparalleled expertise of two leading healthcare technology companies to build the foundation for population health improvement strategies. Epic's new Value-Based Performance
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Why Now is the Time to Double Down on Virtual Care
For an industry that traditionally embraces change at a glacial pace, the pandemic has been a wake-up call for healthcare. Once COVID-19 struck, the shift to video, telephone engagement and remote patient monitoring spiked seemingly overnight.
This surging demand for virtual care resulted, in many cases, in increased provider efficiency, provider-patient interactions, and satisfaction. One national telehealth organization covering 2,000 hospitals and 81,000 doctors, for example,
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Why Health Systems Need a New Transition Strategy to APMs
There is an adage that change in healthcare moves at the speed of tectonic plates. The slow adoption of Alternative Payment Models (APMs), the central feature of value-based care, is a good example of constraint despite immense pressure to control costs.
Data from 2020 demonstrate almost zero change from 2018 in the proportion of straight Fee-for-Service (FFS) reimbursement. Other results show a slight uptick in APMs with or without downside risk at 34.6 percent. However,
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AI-Powered Pop Health and SDOH – The Good, The Bad and The Best Practices
Artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a powerful tool for making population health analytics more accurate and interventions more effective. Not all AI-powered pop health tools are created equal, and while many still exhibit different types of bias that limit their ability to accurately identify issues affecting certain populations, we have learned a lot about the sources of bias in AI and how to eliminate them. AI shortcomings aside, pop health analytics have advanced to the point that we
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Olio Health Raises $13M for Post-Acute Engagement for Health Systems
What You Should Know:
- Olio Health, an Indianapolis, IN-based workflow and collaboration platform for the post-acute care and population health industry, raised $13m in Series A funding.
- The round was led by Fulcrum Equity Partners with participation from Mutual Capital Partners. The company intends to use the funds to further accelerate its growth through product development and key hires across multiple departments.
- Led by Ben Forrest, CEO, Olio provides a platform for
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eClinicalWorks Invests $100M in Microsoft Azure
What You Should Know:
- McKinsey reports that cloud capabilities have the potential to generate a value of $100 billion to $170 billion for healthcare companies in 2030. The cloud enables healthcare companies to innovate, digitize and realize their strategic goals.
- eClinicalWorks is currently investing over $100M in Microsoft Azure cloud services to accelerate innovations in digital healthcare.
Technological Solutions For Improving Patient Care and Health
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