What You Should Know: - Jvion Launches COVID-19 Community Vulnerability Map to identify the social determinants of health (SDOH) that put populations at greater risk, informing community planning and resource allocation to proactively mitigate the risk to vulnerable populations. - The Community Vulnerability Map allows users to search and drill down into communities to view populations most vulnerable for severe outcomes if infected with a COVID-like virus and the socioeconomic
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What Health IT Thought Leaders Say HIMSS20 Would Have Focused On—If It Had Happened
What You Need to Know: Health IT thought leaders share what HIMSS20 would have focused On—if It had happened. - Hot topics include health IT to address COVID-19; artificial intelligence; EHR interoperability and usability; and more. –Kuldeep Singh Rajput, CEO of Biofourmis, Boston, Mass., which provides digital therapeutics that power personalized predictive care “Remote monitoring platforms and clinical-grade wearables combined with artificial intelligence [AI]-based
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Jvion Launches AI-Powered Social Determinants of Health Solution
What You Need to Know: - Jvion launches Social Determinants of Health solution enabling healthcare organizations to align community resources to identify gaps and social barriers to care. - Jvion’s Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) solution is an analytics layer, featuring an interactive map built on Microsoft Azure. - Requiring only demographic data, healthcare organizations can drill down from zip code to census tract, block, and individual-level risk to better understand the
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CVS Health Adds Livongo, Hinge Health to its Point Solutions Management Offering
What You Need to Know: - CVS Health today announced five new health and well-being point solutions available through Point Solutions Management after a comprehensive clinical, security and business evaluation process. - These solutions address healthcare costs and support clinical outcomes in key areas, including chronic condition management, musculoskeletal health, stress reduction, and mental health management and caregiver support. - The latest offerings include apps like Livongo
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Clarify Health to use LexisNexis Risk Solutions’ Socioeconomic Data
What You Need to Know: - LexisNexis Risk Solutions, that it has partnered with Clarify Health to evaluate the predictive capability of social determinants of health and clinical data. - The collaboration’s approach will integrate individual-level SDOH data into Clarify Health’s clinical analytical models to evaluate the quality and efficacy of the data at the point of care to help drive care management decision-making. - Clarify Health’s analytical models help identify population
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Black History Month: Social Determinants of Health, The African American Experience
For the sake of history and, the auspices of a bountiful potential of a great people of a Great Nation may there be boldness and courage in the noble battle waged to address social determinants of health within US healthcare? History has revealed the health and well being of a Nation and its people is as important as matters of national security. Thus, stands the profound import of equitable access to good health and wellness within the United States of America and Nations around the world.
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Babyscripts, Amerigroup Partner to Improve Access to Care for Maternal Populations
- Virtual care company for managing obstetrics Babyscripts announced a partnership with Amerigroup, a Medicaid Managed Care Organization (MCO) to deliver pregnancy care solutions to George Washington University Hospital, Community of Hope and other local hospitals in the D.C. region. - The partnership will increase access to care for pregnant mothers, delivering the benefits of remote monitoring and virtual care through Babyscripts’ mobile and web-based solution. Babyscripts, the leading
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Cotiviti Launches Longitudinal Data Set in Healthcare
- Cotiviti has launched Caspian Insights, which represents the most comprehensive data set in healthcare and includes longitudinal data on 40% of Americans. - Unlike other platforms, Caspian unites financial and clinical information with other data types (i.e. social determinants of health, pharmacy, dental, and labs) creating a “single source of truth” never before seen in healthcare to this scale. - By offering an all-encompassing view of each member, Caspian gives health plans and
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Capital Rx Wins Top Award at Accenture HealthTech Innovation Challenge
- Capital Rx has been named first-place Innovation Champion and Carrot Health as second-place Top Innovator of the Accenture HealthTech Innovation Challenge. - Capital Rx’s clearinghouse model connects pharmacies and employers to establish a marketplace for drug pricing to reduce costs and create a better experience for both plan sponsors and patients. Capital Rx has been named Innovation Champion of the Accenture HealthTech Innovation Challenge, which recognizes innovative approaches
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NYC Health + Hospitals Launches $4.3M SDoH Programs to Address Food & Housing Insecurities
- OneCity Health is the NYC Health + Hospitals-sponsored Performing Provider System (PPS) launches two new programs worth $4.3M in total to address food and housing insecurities among patients of the City’s public health system. - As part of the initiative, OneCity Health will partner with NowPow to utilize their personalized community referral platform to enable community-based organizations to connect patients to available services that are traditionally fragmented and difficult to
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