Healthy Alliance Independent Practice Association, Innovative Health Alliance of New York, and Fidelis Care join forces to improve health by addressing social determinants of health.Starting October 1st, the new partnership will bring together medical providers and community based organizations (CBOs) to address safe housing, adequate nutrition, employment, and other social determinants of health.Healthy Alliance Independent Practice Association (IPA), Innovative Health Alliance of New York, LLC
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Molina Healthcare of Washington Launches $3M Community Innovation Fund
- Molina Healthcare of Washington launches $3M community innovation fund that will support Washington community-based organizations over the next three years.- The Molina Fund will support lower access barriers, close community-based care gaps and address the social determinants of health for Medicaid beneficiaries in regions of Washington State that have implemented Integrated Managed Care (IMC).- The Molina Fund will invest up to $1 million per year in Washington-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit
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Uber Health and Kyruus Partner to Boost Appointment Follow-Through
- Uber Health and Kyruus partner to help health systems enhance patient access and experience.- The partnership will empower agents using Kyruus ProviderMatch to not only match and book patients with the right providers. - The collaboration will help patients ultimately get to their appointments by making it easier to arrange Uber rides as part of the process.Uber Health and Kyruus, a provider of search and scheduling solutions for health systems, today announced a partnership to help health
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4 Ways to Improve Mental Health Through Digital Health
Mental health care is undoubtedly one of the most pressing challenges that our national health system faces. Years of insufficient payment, infrastructure erosion, provider deficits, and stigma have created a fragmented patchwork of weak, under-coordinated and under-reimbursed treatment capabilities. Meanwhile, communities face an expanding crisis:
- 44.7 million American adults – including 10 million adults covered by Medicaid – experienced a mental health illness as of 2016, a number that is
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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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Cerner Unveils 5 Finalists for code App Challenge to Advance Consumers’ Access to EHRs
- Cerner announces Baystate Health, Cerner ITWorks at Adventist Health, Intelliaide, Mindset Medical, and Optimize as the finalists for Cerner’s code App Challenge.
- The finalists will work directly with Cerner engineers at CHC, after which they will present a working demo of their app.
- The winning individual or team will receive a one-year membership to the code program, with Cerner engineers helping guide the app through the validation process.
Cerner has announced the five
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North Carolina Taps Phreesia for Social Determinants of Health Screening
- The North Caroline Department of Health and Human Services (NC DHHS) partners with Phresia on its Healthy Opportunities imitative to help address the factors that drive health among patients statewide.
- Healthcare organizations will now use Phresia’s platform to deliver North Carolina’s Social Determinants of Health screening questions to identify patients who have unmet social needs impacting their healthcare.
North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NC DHHS) has
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4 Areas Where Big Data is Transforming Healthcare Right Now
Leveraging technology in the right ways can make or break the future of healthcare. One of the ways that healthcare will become more efficient, more affordable, and save more lives is through the use of big data.
What is Big Data?
Big data refers to a large amount of information being digitized, consolidated, standardized, analyzed and modeled. In healthcare, big data uses specific statistics from a population or an individual to research new advancements, reduce costs, and even cure or prevent
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UTHealth, Cerner Opens Data Science Challenge Focused on Sepsis
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) School of Biomedical informatics (SBMI) with Cerner has announced the DII National Data Science Challenge. Leveraging Cerner Health Facts® and Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud support, this year’s challenge will focus on predictive accuracy for two tasks (tracks): sepsis onset and sepsis mortality. The most innovative solution (not necessarily the one with the best performance) to the above referenced tasks constitutes a third
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