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Premier Acquires Medpricer for $35M to Optimize Savings in Purchased Services

by Fred Pennic 10/29/2019 Leave a Comment

Premier Acquires Medpricer for $35M to Optimize Savings in Purchased Services

- Premier acquires Medpricer’s technology solution that enables purchased services savings across a total addressable acute care market of $160 billion. - Cloud-based platform provides purchased services management technology, including pricing benchmarks, RFP templates and other supplier data. - Acquisition enables healthcare providers to better manage third-party contracts to improve financial performance.Premier Inc., a healthcare improvement company, has acquired Medpricer, a
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eSolutions Acquires Medidal to Strengthen Its Position in Hospital Revenue Recovery

by Fred Pennic 10/27/2019 Leave a Comment

eSolutions Acquires Medidal to Strengthen Its Position in Hospital Revenue Recovery

- eSolutions acquires Medidal, a provider of Transfer DRG, Payer Search, and Pharmacy Reimbursement solutions for an undisclosed sum. - As healthcare reimbursement challenges continue to increase, eSolutions adds to its revenue cycle expertise with new capabilities that ensure providers are paid accurately. eSolutions, an Overland Park, KS-based healthcare technology company working to strengthen providers’ revenue health, announced that it has acquired Medidal, a provider of Transfer DRG, Payer
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CHG Healthcare Acquires Physician Credentialing Company Modio Health

by Fred Pennic 10/21/2019 Leave a Comment

Change Healthcare Acquires Physician Credentialing Company Modio Health

- CHG Healthcare has acquired physician credentialing company Modio Health for an undisclosed term. - Modio and CHG are combining forces to improve credentialing for CHG employees and the thousands of providers and healthcare facilities it works with, making the process faster, safer, and more cost-effective.Healthcare staffing company CHG Healthcare has acquired Modio Health, a San Francisco, CA-based physician credentialing provider. The acquisition will improve credentialing for Change
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7 Best Practices to Improve Professional Fee Revenue Cycle for Better ED Bottom Lines

by Weaver Hickerson, CEO, LightSpeed Technology Group 10/21/2019 Leave a Comment

7 Best Practices to Improve Professional Fee Revenue Cycle for Better ED Bottom Lines

Most healthcare organizations partner with physician services groups for niche coverage. While outsourced medical services are available across all specialties, common areas for external physician support include anesthesia, radiology, wound care, and emergency medicine. However, when outsourced physician services are used, challenges to ensure accurate reimbursement for both components of care—the hospital portion and the physician’s professional fee—increase.  Snafus are largely attributable
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Top Global Digital Health/Health IT VC Funding Categories in Q3 2019

by Fred Pennic 10/18/2019 Leave a Comment

Top Global Digital Health/Health IT VC Funding Categories in Q3 2019

Global venture capital (VC) funding in digital health/health IT, including private equity and corporate venture capital, reached $2B in funding across 156 deals in Q3 2019, according to market research firm Mercom Capital Group. The 9M & Q3 2019 Digital Health (Healthcare IT) Funding and M&A Report reveals global venture capital reached $7.2B over 474 deals in the first nine months of 2019 compared to $8B in 556 deals in 9M 2018. In Q3 2019, Digital Health companies raised $2B in 156
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Microsoft, Nuance Partner to Develop Ambient Clinical Intelligence to Combat Clinician Burnout

by Fred Pennic 10/17/2019 Leave a Comment

Microsoft, Nuance Partner to Develop Ambient Clinical Intelligence to Combat Clinician Burnout

- Nuance and Microsoft have joined forces to accelerate the delivery of ambient clinical intelligence (ACI) technologies that will power the exam room of the future where clinical documentation writes itself. - Strategic partnership's focus is to reduce clinician burnout by enabling doctors to focus on patients, while AI focuses on administrative tasks. Today, Microsoft and Nuance Communications announced a strategic partnership to accelerate the
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American Samoa Medical Center Authority Extends Contract with Medsphere and CareVue EHR/RCM Solution

by Jasmine Pennic 10/17/2019 Leave a Comment

American Samoa Medical Center Authority Extends Contract with Medsphere and CareVue EHR/RCM Solution

- American Samoa Medical Center Authority (ASMCA) and the American Samoa Department of Health (DOH) extends their contract with Medsphere and CareVue EHR/RCM Solution- South Pacific island group’s safety-net healthcare system signs on for seven more years plans to implement Medsphere enhancements of CareVue platformMedsphere Systems Corporation, a provider of affordable and interoperable healthcare IT platform solutions, today announced that the American Samoa Medical Center Authority (ASMCA)
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Amazon Textract Is Now HIPAA Eligible, Extracts Text/Data From Scanned Docs

by Fred Pennic 10/11/2019 Leave a Comment

Amazon Textract Is Now HIPAA Eligible, Extracts Text/Data From Scanned Docs

- AWS announced that Amazon Textract, a Machine Learning (ML) service that automatically extracts text and data from scanned documents, is now HIPAA-eligible.- Amazon Textract will make it easy for customers to accurately and securely process millions of documents in a matter of hours, saving time and lowering processing costs.- Cerner, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and The American Heart Association are already exploring new ways use the power of ML to automate their current workloads
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Report: Poor Digital Experiences Are Driving Consumers to Switch Providers

by Fred Pennic 10/09/2019 Leave a Comment

Report: Poor Digital Experiences Are Driving Consumers to Switch Providers

- Consumer frustration is driving more than 2 in 5 U.S. people to consider switching their providers over the lack of digital engagement.- Outdated provider billing processes and a lack of digital payment options & plans are major contributing factors to late/missed payments, and the overall digital transformation of healthcare administration has been a major sore spot within U.S. healthcar- Younger healthcare consumers are significantly more frustrated, more likely to stop seeing providers
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How Video Remote Interpretation (VRI) Boosts Acute Care Quality

by David Fetterolf, President of Stratus Video 10/08/2019 Leave a Comment

David Fetterolf, President of Stratus Video

Imagine traveling to another country on vacation, only to get terribly ill after consuming seafood at dinner. You experience chills, your hands are curling up and you feel faint all over. Getting to the hospital is a challenge, as you do not speak the native language there. When you arrive at the hospital, all of the medical staff is speaking another language and no one can understand you when you try to tell them your symptoms. You have no understanding of your condition, diagnosis or treatment
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