- Change Healthcare unveils industry’s first nationwide solution that allows providers to submit documents and data, like claims attachments, electronically to all health plans in both the Medical and Workers’ Compensation market segments.- This new claim attachments solution also sets the stage for new additional uses of Artificial Intelligence.Today Change Healthcare announced major new enhancements to its medical claim attachments solution. These enhancements will create the industry’s first
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5 Key Factors for Developing A Customized Tool for Capital Project Planning
Off-the-shelf software, such as the kind used for basic accounting or word processing, is typically great for meeting standard business needs. It can be challenging to use commoditized software to assist with more complex calculations or decisions, such as those involving major capital projects, without significant thought, preparation and execution of utilizing higher-level functions.
Specialized, big-ticket and enterprise-critical projects that depend on software tool analytics and assistance
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Led by Cigna Ventures, Arcadia Raises $29.5M to Expand Population Health Management Platform
- Arcadia, a Boston-based population health management company announces that it has received $29.5 million in Series D funding, led by Cigna Ventures. - Arcadia’s population health management technology platform Arcadia Analytics was purpose-built to support economic success under value-based care. Population health management technology company Arcadia today announced at the 38th Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference has closed a fully-subscribed growth equity investment of $29.5M led by
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Valley Health System Becomes First Health System in New Jersey to Prescribe Enterprise-wide Digital Therapeutics
- Valley Health System becomes the first health system in New Jersey to prescribe enterprise-wide digital therapeutics in partnership with Mount Sinai Health System spinoff Rx Health. - The program will use Rx.Health's newly-launched RxStitch engine. Valley Health System (VHS) based in New Jersey announced it will be implemented RxHealth’s digital therapeutics prescribing platform EHR integrated RxStitch Engine to support episodes of care and enterprise-wide digital transformation at VHS. This
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Grand Rapids Launches Initiative to End Homelessness by Addressing Social Determinants of Health
- A new community-wide initiative focused on ending homelessness by addressing social determinants of health has launched in Grand Rapids, Michigan.- For the first time in the state, healthcare and social service providers will collaborate on Signify Health’s outcomes-proven social determinants of health platform, Signify Community, to address the social needs of at-risk individuals, connecting them to community programs that contribute to homelessness, such as employment, financial stability,
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SubjectWell Expands Its Clinical Trials Marketplace to United Kingdom, Ireland, and South Africa
- SubjectWell announced it is expanding its risk-free clinical trials marketplace into the United Kingdom, Ireland and South Africa. - With 86% of clinical trials operating sites outside of the U.S., the company continues to develop a more streamlined and complete risk-free patient recruitment offering, now with global reach. SubjectWell, an Austin, TX-based risk-free clinical trials marketplace announced it has expanded its patient recruitment services into the United Kingdom, Ireland, and
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How Software Solutions Can Help ASCs Maximize the Revenue Cycle in 2020
In the modern health care environment, health care executives must be careful custodians of precious resources. Yet in December 2018, 26 percent of hospitals still lacked an effective healthcare revenue cycle solution. Other research has found that over 60 percent of hospitals and health systems are not realizing optimal value from their electronic health record (EHR ) system, causing the organizations to collaborate with other vendors and outsourcing companies to improve revenue cycle
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How Machine Learning Can Support Early Intervention for High-Risk Patients
U.S. healthcare costs have skyrocketed over the last decade and show no sign of slowing down. We currently spend $3.5 trillion a year on healthcare—about $11,000 per person, more than twice the average per-person spending in other developed countries. And healthcare costs are expected to nearly double to $6 trillion by 2027, further adding to the financial burden on patients, plans, and providers.
Healthcare organizations are exploring a wide range of options to help contain costs while ensuring
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7 Trends Impacting The Design of Healthcare Environments in 2020
SmithGroup one of the nation’s leading integrated design firms has tapped its broad network of 1,300 interdisciplinary design professionals to offer its predictions for the trends and challenges that the design industry will face in the decade ahead. Here are seven trends that are likely to impact the design of health care environments in the 2020s. 1. Adapting to the Climate Crisis“In the last couple of years, the impacts of climate change are increasingly viewed as a global crisis, and I
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In-app Chat: The Future of Secure Doctor/Patient Communications?
It has not been easy for technology to permeate the healthcare industry, primarily due to stringent regulations that protect patient privacy— specifically HIPAA and HITECH. These regulations are both good and necessary, pushing technology providers to become more secure and private in order to gain entry into a market that touches nearly everyone’s life in some capacity. The bar is high.
As such, it has taken some time for new technologies to take hold safely within healthcare. But
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