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4 Ways to Improve Mental Health Through Digital Health

by Jill Seidman Vice President, Provider Solutions, AVIA 09/19/2019 Leave a Comment

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

by Jeff Carroll, Senior Vice President, Health Plans, Lumeris 09/16/2019 Leave a Comment

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

by Jasmine Pennic 09/13/2019 Leave a Comment

Top 10 Challenges, Issues and Opportunities for Healthcare Executives in 2019

- 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

by Jasmine Pennic 09/12/2019 Leave a Comment

Cerner Launches 2019 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

by Fred Pennic 09/11/2019 Leave a Comment

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

by Joel Landau, Founder at The Allure Group 09/09/2019 Leave a Comment

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

by Jasmine Pennic 08/21/2019 Leave a Comment

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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Signify Health, Remedy Partners Merge to Create Market Leading Value-Based Care Enablement

by Fred Pennic 08/20/2019 Leave a Comment

Signify Health, Remedy Merge to Create Market Leading Value-Based Care Enablement

Signify Health and Remedy Partners have signed a definitive agreement to merge to create a market-leading platform delivering value-based care enablement. Together, Signify Health and Remedy Partners both portfolio companies of New Mountain Capital LLC will leverage clinical, behavioral and social data amidst an accelerating market shift from fee-for-service toward value-based payments and arrangements based on the quality and total cost of care for a patient.Merger Creates Combined Revenue of
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Health2047 Spins Out Zing Health to Offer SDOH-Driven Medicare Advantage Plans

by Fred Pennic 08/20/2019 Leave a Comment

Health2047 Spins Out Zing Health to Offer SDOH-Driven Medicare Advantage Plans

Today Health2047 Inc. is launching Zing Health, community-focused, physician-led Medicare Advantage plan that addresses social determinants of health (SDOH). Co-founded by Health2047 with experienced entrepreneurs Dr. Eric Whitaker and Dr. Ken Alleyne, Zing Health will initially offer a Medicare Advantage plan built around community and member health outcomes to consumers in the Midwest. With significant seed funding, a passionate and seasoned founding team and major market interest in its
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Health Innovation Think Tank IV: Experts Share Key Takeaways

by Fred Pennic 08/14/2019 Leave a Comment

Health Innovation Think Tank IV: Experts Share Key Takeaways

The Health Innovation Think Tank, a diverse group of healthcare leaders, innovators and policymakers has announced the availability of key takeaways and actionable best practices for healthcare organizations from one of their five recent events. Health Innovation Think Tank Overview Formed in 2017 by Justin Barnes, the Health Innovation Think Tank includes nearly 200 cross-industry thought leaders. The group provides guest discussion catalysts, public policy updates, executive education
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