Despite holding the promise of delivering superior patient outcomes while lowering healthcare costs, many providers remain reluctant to embrace value-based care (VBC) reimbursement models. Progress toward VBC adoption hasn’t achieved its potential yet, hovering around 60% of all payment models from 2018 to 2021, with the remaining 40% comprised of traditional fee for service (FFS). Though some providers simply are hesitant to abandon the FFS model that has served them well, others are leery
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Study Reveals EHR Data Can Identify Patients Who Are Frail
What You Should Know: - AHRQ conducted a study to address the operational gap between CFIs and EFIs. This project focused on validating an established CFI using linked claims-EHR databases of multiple large health systems. The project provides a systematic approach that health systems can use to examine the quality of the EHR data and prepare it for the application of EFI measures. - The findings demonstrated that structured EHR data can be used by healthcare providers to identify frail
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Prisma Health Moves to the Innovaccer Health Cloud
What You Should Know: - South Carolina’s largest health system, Prisma Health selects the Innovaccer Health Cloud to be its primary value-based care platform for analytics, workflow, and Snowflake data platform management. - With the Innovaccer Health Cloud’s data and analytics platform, Prisma Health can integrate disparate EHRs and other healthcare systems to create a unified patient record. Primsa Health Background Prisma Health provides healthcare services to nearly
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AHI Acquires Canadian-based wellteq Digital Health Inc.
What You Should Know: - Advanced Health Intelligence Ltd acquires Canadian health technology company wellteq Digital Health Inc. This transaction follows the acquisition of South Africa based Vertica Health (Pty) Ltd in August, a biomathematical health risk modelling platform. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. - The 3-company combination creates the only company globally capable of offering biometric health screening, health risk stratification, triage into
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HLTH22: Bamboo Health Launches Real-Time Care Intelligence Platform
What You Should Know: - Today at HLTH, Bamboo Health unveils its new Real-Time Care Intelligence™ platform and Smart Signals™ care coordination network to drive whole person care across the spectrum of physical, behavioral and social health needs. - The network improves more than 1 billion patient encounters a year across more than 2,500 hospitals, 8,000 post-acute facilities, 25,000 pharmacies, 32 health plans, 50 state
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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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Viz.ai Receives Clearance for New Algorithm for Pulmonary Embolism
What You Should Know: - Viz.ai, a provider of AI-powered disease detection and intelligent care coordination, today announced it has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance for an automated RV/LV ratio algorithm, a seamless new component of the Viz PE Solution (launched in November 2021). - The algorithm is designed to quickly and accurately measure the diameter of the heart's ventricles to provide the ratio of the maximum right ventricle (RV) diameter versus that
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Adventist HealthCare to Deploy Innovaccer Health Cloud for Value-Based Whole-Person Care
What You Should Know: - Adventist HealthCare has selected Innovaccer Inc., the Health Cloud company to be their next-generation population health management and value-based care partner. - Innovaccer will help Advent HealthCare create a unified data platform to help deliver deeper insights into community health and network operations. Supporting Value-Based Whole-Person Care One of the longest-serving health systems in the Washington, D.C. region, and one of
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Curana & Innovaccer Partner to Improve Outcomes for Senior Living Communities
What You Should Know: - Today, Innovaccer Inc., the Health Cloud company, announced that Curana Health is partnering with Innovaccer to build a leading edge value-based care solution to support delivery of exceptional care quality at the lowest possible cost for one of healthcare’s highest risk populations: residents in senior living communities across the country. - Together, Curana Health and Innovaccer will build an industry-leading value-based-care toolkit using the Innovaccer Health
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AWS Awards Arine Grant to Develop Solutions to Reduce Health Inequity
What You Should Know: - Intelligent medical optimization company Arine has been awarded has been selected for Amazon Web Services' (AWS) $40M global program supporting organizations that are developing solutions to reduce health inequities. The latest funding will be used to support NotiSphere's hiring to expand adoption across the industry and enable scalability to support the rapidly growing number of users. - Arine’s proprietary tech platform analyzes comprehensive data from across the
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