Medicare Advantage plans need more than consumer-centric design, payer/provider alignment, and strong connections across the continuum of care to drive value. The high-value performance also depends on their ability to use data to make a meaningful difference in members’ health.
With 11,000 people aging into Medicare daily, proficiency in managing Medicare Advantage populations is critical for demonstrating value in a competitive market. Enrollment in these plans is growing significantly,
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Aledade Raises $64M for Value-Based Care Network of Physician-Led ACOs
What You Should Know:
- Aledade raises $64M in Series C funding led by OMERS Growth Equity to expand its national network of more than 500 physician-driven accountable care organizations (ACOs) across 27 states.
- To date, Aledade’s ACOs care for more than 840,000 patients and manage more than $7.5 billion in health care spending through 38 Medicare and 42 other value-based contracts.
Today, Aledade announced
it has closed a $64 million Series C funding round following the
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Value-Based Care’s Story Will Turn in the 2020s
Value-based care initiatives matured in recent years thanks to exciting new technology and influential policy changes. But the coming decade will see transformative changes that will eventually lead to a uniform realization of value-based care across the entire healthcare continuum.
Specialty pharmacy represents one area of healthcare that is wholeheartedly welcoming a discussion about value. With the costs of six-figure specialty drugs and the number of patients using them continuing to
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athenahealth Launches COVID-19 Dashboards Tracking Lab Test Orders & High-Risk Patients
What You Should Know:
- athenahealth launches two real-time COVID-19 dashboards for the healthcare community that enable users to track and predict which hospitals may need more support based on the number of tests being performed and the number of people at risk of developing severe illness from COVID-19.
- athenahealth’s COVID-19 high-risk populations dashboard identifies concentrated areas of high-risk patients, enabling local hospitals and clinicians to prepare for the
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AHA, AVIA Launch Free COVID-19 Digital Response Pulse to Support Members on Front-Line
What You Should Know:
- Today the American Hospital Association (AHA) and AVIA, a digital transformation partner for healthcare organizations across the country, announced the launch of the COVID-19 Digital Response Pulse.
- This online tool, free to AHA members, will enable 5,000 hospitals across the country to determine the types of digital tools they need immediately to confront COVID-19 clinically and operationally and provide guidance on how they can scale the new solutions they
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CarePort Launches COVID-19 Solution for Care Transitions
What You Should Know:
- Allscripts subsidiary CarePort launches a solution built for the COVID-19 epidemic that will make transitioning patients between health care providers safer.
- The COVID-19 Transitions of Care Hub will provide visibility into COVID-19 hospitalizations across CarePort’s 1,000 hospitals with 180,000 post-acute providers. It will also help hospitals find nursing homes and post-acute care for COVID-19 patients – an issue that has created a bottleneck in hospitals as
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Innovaccer Launches Free COVID-19 Management System to Support Early Community-Based Triage
What You Should Know:
- In order to assist providers in managing their influx and connect with more patients, Innovaccer has launched the free ‘COVID-19 Management System application with free telehealth services and analytics to assess risk profiles and triage the influx at medical practices and primary care clinics
- The application is designed to assist government and healthcare organizations in providing immediate assistance to patients through remote assessments, monitoring,
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Vivify Health Launches COVID-19 Screening, Self-Isolation and Monitoring Pathways
What You Need to Know:
- Vivify Health has announced that availability today of new COVID-19 Screening, Self-Isolation and Monitoring Pathways for Vivify+Go mobile solution to providers at non-cost.
- This enables low-risk patients or those with mild symptoms to use their mobile devices to self-screen for COVID-19 by answering a series of questions that follow the current Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines.
- The self-screening helps providers scale their
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CTA Releases Virtual Care Guiding Principles, Led by Livongo, Validic, Others
What You Need to Know:
- Consumer Technology Association (CTA) released a new set of industry-led guidelines on virtual care, convening health tech leaders like Doctor on Demand, Livongo, Validic, and BioIntelliSense.
- The virtual care principles offer core guidelines and practices across patient engagement, standards of care, quality, continuity of care, prescribing and privacy and security.
- While virtual care is not a panacea, in the midst of an outbreak, evaluation, triage and
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RubiconMD Lands $18M to Expand eConsult Platform for Primary Care Clinicians
What You Need to Know:
- Leading eConsult platform RubiconMD raises $18M in Series C funding led by Deerfield Management Company to expand its product offerings to better serve primary care clinicians.
- RubiconMD’s eConsult platform enables primary care clinicians to easily and quickly discuss their eConsults with top specialists, so they can provide better care–improving the patient experience and reducing costs.
RubiconMD, an NYC-based eConsult platform providing access to
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