- FireFly Health Raises $10M for Tech-Enabled Concierge Medicine, Former athenahealth CEO Jonathan Bush Appointed Executive Chairman- Firefly Health raises $10.2M in Series A funding for technology-powered concierge medicine service led by F-Prime Capital and Oak HC/FT.- athenahealth Co-Founder and former CEO Jonathan Bush appointed as Executive ChairmanFirefly Health, a technology-powered concierge medicine service for average Americans, announced today it has closed $10.2 million in a Series A
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UnitedHealthcare Accelerator + Techstars Unveils Inaugural 2019 Class of 10 Startups
- UnitedHealthcare Accelerator powered by Techstars unveils 2019 class of 10 health tech startups focused on innovation in digital health and wellness. - Final group of 10 was narrowed down from hundreds of startups from 33 different countries across the globe. - Three-month accelerator will provide mentorship and access to capital to help iterate on their business models.UnitedHealthcare Accelerator powered by Techstars, today announced inaugural 2019 class of ten health tech startups focused
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Why the Healthcare CIO Holds the Greatest Potential for Change
Consumers expect every brand interaction they have, whether at the doctor’s office or with their health insurer, to mirror the ones they have with companies like Amazon and Google: personalized, connected, and convenient. The healthcare industry, however, isn’t nearly ready to deliver on these connected experiences — not while data remains siloed across departments and organizations.
The need for interoperability — getting discrete systems and software applications to connect, exchange, and
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4 Areas Where Big Data is Transforming Healthcare Right Now
Leveraging technology in the right ways can make or break the future of healthcare. One of the ways that healthcare will become more efficient, more affordable, and save more lives is through the use of big data.
What is Big Data?
Big data refers to a large amount of information being digitized, consolidated, standardized, analyzed and modeled. In healthcare, big data uses specific statistics from a population or an individual to research new advancements, reduce costs, and even cure or prevent
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Aledade, The Physicians Integrated Network Forms Value-Based Care Collaboration in Greater Philadelphia
- Aledade ACOs and the Physicians Integrated Network (TPIN) join forces to improve care coordination, quality of care, and patient health outcomes
- Under the value-based care agreement, and TPIN’s leading network of independent specialists have agreed to a care compact and intend to explore additional opportunities for clinical collaboration across all payers.
- TPIN’s network is made up of 700 physicians practicing in 24 clinical specialties throughout greater Philadelphia, Delaware
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Eden Health Earns NCQA Patient Centered Medical Home Recognition
- Eden Health earns National Committee for Quality Assurance’s (NCQA) Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) recognition.- PCHM recognition underscores Eden Health’s trailblazing role as a tech-enabled primary care delivery model.- PCMH is widely regarded as the highest quality recognition that exists for primary care.Eden Health, which delivers primary care in the workplace, near the workplace and virtually, announced it has earned the National Committee for Quality Assurance’s (NCQA) Patient
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Top 5 Factors Impacting the US Population Health Management Market
The North American Population Health Management (PHM) reached the $4 billion milestone for the first time in 2018, despite growth slowing for the second consecutive year. With the US provider market consolidating and vertical integration increasing, vendors are having to adapt their offerings to keep up with changing needs. Here is our take on the five trends that will impact market growth over the coming years:
1 – A Market Still Maturing
As the market has evolved, providers are taking
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American Well Integrates Telehealth App with Epic EHR Via Epic App Orchard
Telehealth provider American Well today announced it has joined the Epic App Orchard marketplace. As part of the joining the Epic App Orchard marketplace, American Well’s Telehealth Clinical app now makes video visits available from directly within Epic MyChart, enabling health systems' providers to incorporate video as part of care delivery.Importance of Telehealth Integration with EHRs and Patient PortalsTelehealth integration within the EHR and patient portals is more critical than ever, as
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ResApp Awarded CE Mark for Smartphone-Based Diagnostic Test for Respiratory Disease
ResApp Health, the developers of the world’s first smartphone-based diagnostic test for respiratory disease where one simply coughs into the phone and the machine learning-based algorithm diagnoses the underlying respiratory disease, has received CE Mark certification as a Class IIa medical device.Significance of CE Mark CertificationCE Mark certification indicates that ResAppDx-EU meets the essential requirements of all the applicable European regulations as a medical device and allows for the
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More Logins, More Problems, Lack of Integration Biggest Frustration for Providers
Out-of-hospital healthcare providers are feeling the pain from a lack of integrated technology between systems in their offices. In fact, according to the 2019 Healthcare Technology Report: More Logins, More Problems just released by Updox, an all-in-one healthcare collaboration platform, survey respondents ranked lack of integration as their most frustrating health IT challenges – as well as the technology pain-point most impacting their businesses. More Logins, More ProblemsOf the more than
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