- The partnership allows health systems that don’t have their own transfer center to benefit from a comprehensive technology platform via Central Logic by outsourcing Access Center functions.
- Conduit Health Partners’ nurses have diverse clinical experience with adult and pediatric competencies, multi-state licensure, critical thinking skills, and clinical judgment skills.
- Client organizations typically achieve a 12-20% first-year transfer volume increase with sustained year over
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HMS Acquires Population Health Analytics Company VitreosHealth for $36M in Cash
- HMS Holdings Corp acquires VitreosHealth, the first Insights-as-a-Service delivery model for advanced population health analytics for $36M in cash. - HMS is currently using VitreosHealth’s technology as the predictive analytics engine for HMS’ Elli, a risk intelligence solution that is part of the company’s integrated Population Health Management (PHM) portfolio.HMS believes the integration of VitreosHealth will enhance our predictive modeling and analytics capabilities within its PHM
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Former Walgreens Executive Launches New Digital Health Startup, ATX Therapeutics
- ATX Therapeutics launches to create evidence-based digital therapeutic products to address specific chronic health conditions and associated risk behaviors
- ATX Therapeutics is founded by CEO Adam Falat, who previously led award-winning consumer digital health teams at Walgreens and athenahealth.
Former Walgreens executive Adam Falat today announced the launch of his new Austin-TX-based digital health company, ATX Therapeutics. The new company will create evidence-based digital
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Navigating Cancer Lands $26M to Expand Oncology Patient Relationship Management Platform
- Navigating Cancer raises $26M in Series D funding in an over-subscribed round (TTCP) for its comprehensive oncology patient relationship management solution.
- Navigating Cancer’s PRM platform helps providers manage patient interactions, improve the patient experience, and deliver value-based care more effectively – increasing the flow of communications between in-office visits, which, in turn, boosts patient engagement in their own care.
- Funding will enable NC to accelerate innovation of
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Novo Nordisk Integrates Smart Insulin Pens With Medtronic Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) Devices
- Medtronic and Novo Nordisk to develop solutions enabling dosing data from Novo Nordisk Smart Insulin Pens to be shared with Medtronic continuous glucose monitoring devices. - Non-exclusive integration collaboration reflects both companies′commitment to making diabetes management easier by integrating key health technologies. - Novo Nordisk expects to launch its durable smart insulin pens, NovoPen® 6 and NovoPen Echo® Plus, as well as its disposable, pre-filled injection solution starting in
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Why Medicare Advantage Will Lead the Way on Healthcare Consumerism
For years, the healthcare industry has been abuzz with the concept of “consumerism” and the potential implications to insurance companies, providers and patients. Stakeholders from across the industry have opined on what it means create a healthcare system more focused on consumers, often with little impact to actual consumer experience or outcomes.
One spot of genuinely consumer-centric innovation and execution is in the Medicare Advantage (MA) space, where select health plans can offer
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Top 10 Challenges, Issues and Opportunities Healthcare Executives Will Face in 2020
- The HealthCare Executive Group unveils its annual 2020 HCEG top 10 critical challenges, issues and opportunities healthcare executives expect to face in 2020.
- Over 100 C-Suite and director level executives were presented with a list of over 25 topics. Initially compiled from webinars, roundtables and the 2019 Industry Pulse Survey.
After 2.5 days of facilitated interactive discussions during
this week’s HCEG Annual Forum in
Boston, over 100 healthcare c-suite and director level
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Geisinger, IBM Develops Predictive Model Using EHR Data to Detect Sepsis
- Geisinger/IBM’s AI and Data Science team are working together to prevent sepsis, life-threating infection through early detection and research.
- Geisinger team used IBM Watson Studio open-source tools to build a predictive model that would ingest clinical data from thousands of de-identified sepsis patients spanning a decade.
- Geisinger uses IBM Watson Explorer to create a searchable index of thousands of medical publications for clinicians and researchers can now mine the journal
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Intermountain Launches New Kidney Care Center with Telehealth Care
- Intermountain Healthcare launches new Kidney Care Center that will provide at-home dialysis with telehealth-enabled video visits to patients.
- Patients will be able to schedule kidney dialysis treatments that fit their schedule.
- The Intermountain Kidney Care Center will also focus on pre-emptive transplants, where patients are matched with living kidney transplant donors prior to end-stage renal failure.
Intermountain
Healthcare in Salt Lake City announced it is launching 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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