What You Should Know:
- Aledade raises $100 Million in Series D funding to help
more primary care practices thrive in value-based care.
- The new funding will power the growth of a nationwide network of more than one million patients by further expanding into Medicare Advantage Contracts.
Aledade,
a Bethesda, MD-based provider of value-based primary care, today announced it
has closed a $100 million Series D funding round following a year of
significant growth for its national
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UnitedHealth Rolls Out Employer Virtual Primary Care Plan
What You Should Know:
- UnitedHealthcare is rolling out a virtual primary care plan for employers that will be powered by telehealth platform Amwell, CNBC first reports.
- The virtual primary care plan will allow patients access
to physicians with low or no co-pays for routine care via phone or computer.
- The virtual primary care program will be available for employers in 11 states including Colorado, Texas, and Maryland, as well as Washington, DC.
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NeuroFlow Secures $20M for Tech-Enabled Behavioral Health Integration Platform
What You Should Know:
- NeuroFlow raises $20M to expand its technology-enabled behavioral
health integration platform, led by Magellan Health.
- NeuroFlow’s suite of HIPAA-compliant, cloud-based tools
simplify remote patient monitoring, enable risk stratification, and facilitate
collaborative care. With NeuroFlow, health care organizations can finally
bridge the gap between mental and physical health in order to improve outcomes
and reduce the cost of care.
NeuroFlow, a
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Is Your Connected Community of Care Truly Making a Difference?
Connected Communities of Care Definition: An innovative method for effective population health management using social determinants of health. A way to streamline effective coordination between medical, government, and community-based organizations.
We ask this type of question every day. For example, we may ask― “Is this product that I purchased making a difference?” or “Is this advanced training that I completed making a difference?” Implicit in this common question is the
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Meaningful Use of Genomics Requires Informatics Beyond EMRs
Electronic medical records (EMRs) are widely expected to serve as a cornerstone technology that drives the delivery of modern patient care.
But can the EMR alone support all the informatics capabilities required by an ever-evolving healthcare industry? The rapid growth of precision medicine, particularly the use of genetic and genomic information during clinical decision making, is a compelling example that functionality beyond the EMR is required. Not only does genomic data represent a
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DaVita & RenalytixAI Partner for Early Risk Identification to Help Slow Kidney Disease Progression
What You Should Know:
- RenalytixAI and DaVita announce a program partnership that
aims to slow kidney disease progression and improve outcomes for the nation’s
estimated 37 million adults with chronic kidney disease (CKD).
- This is the first clinical-grade program that delivers
advanced early-stage prognosis and risk stratification, combined with
actionable care management to the primary care level where the majority of
kidney disease patients are being seen.
- The program will use
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20 COVID-19 Predictions and Trends for 2021 – Executive Roundup
Dr. Justin Graham, Chief Medical Officer, GYANT
The rapid development of a COVID-19 vaccine is a monumental achievement, but it does nothing to address our extremely fragmented healthcare system. In 2021, policymakers must create and extend incentives to providers to work together to keep patients healthy rather than maximize profit. The pandemic has devastated the traditional fee-for-service budgets of many healthcare systems, and it isn't clear they will ever be able to catch up without
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12 Telehealth & Virtual Care Predictions and Trends for 2021 Roundup
Dr. Paul Hain, Chief Medical Officer of GoHealth
Telehealth is Here to Stay in 2021
Prior to the pandemic, telehealth was a limited ad-hoc service with geographic and provider restrictions. However, with both the pandemic restrictions on face to face interactions and a relaxation of governmental regulations, telehealth utilization has significantly increased from thousands of visits in a week to well over a million in the Medicare population. What we’ve learned is that telehealth allows
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How to Capitalize on Digital Health Momentum in 2021
As we re-examine the healthcare system in the wake of the pandemic, we are continually identifying opportunities to rebuild parts of the system to new and improved specifications. One critical facet is digital health, where we continue to struggle with what should really be table stakes: the ability to integrate data from disparate organizations and systems into a unified view of the whole person and take action.
During the height of the pandemic, telehealth made it possible to deliver care
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For Better Patient Care Coordination, We Need Seamless Digital Communications
A recent Advisory Board briefing examined the annual Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Readmission penalties. Of the 3,080 hospitals CMS evaluated, 83% received a penalty for payments to be made in 2021, based on expected outcomes for a wide variety of treated conditions. While CMS indicated that some of these penalties might be waived or delayed due to the impacts of the Covid pandemic on hospital procedure volumes and revenue, they are indicative of a much larger
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