Unifying health records remains a challenge, but the benefits of integrating disparate data could transform the industry Healthcare payers, providers and agencies have traditionally struggled with unifying health records, but no longer is that a viable reason to put off what can be achieved today. It’s time more healthcare organizations seize the opportunity to create a strong data foundation that's consolidated, transparent, secure and easily accessible. Many healthcare organizations face
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How Healthcare Facilities Can Prepare for Expanded Inclusion Criteria for Telehealth and RPM Solutions in Value-Based Care Settings
As legislation, engagement and positive results continue to push digital patient care solutions forward, many healthcare organizations are not yet prepared for the increased adoption of these technologies. While general interest in telehealth remains somewhat lukewarm, the proof of viability for clinically-driven remote patient monitoring (RPM) is undoubtedly there and will become table stakes as positive results and legislation continue to progress. As a healthcare provider, how can you best
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Healthcare Data & Analytics Platforms: Shifting from Siloed Capabilities
Historically, analytics capabilities for healthcare organizations have been offered in siloed solutions. These solutions provide quick insights but not the longitudinal patient, financial, and operational views organizations need to truly move the needle in their efforts to improve care and reduce costs. The good news is that as organizations’ analytics needs have expanded, so have vendor offerings. A number of vendors now offer consolidated, end-to-end platforms that provide a wide variety of
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Providence St. Joseph, Anthem Accelerate Value-Based Care with Vim
What You Should Know: - Anthem Blue Cross and Providence St. Joseph Health are accelerating value-based care by using a new technology partner, Vim. The partnership enables the organizations to scale their tech solutions for better payer-provider collaboration to ultimately improve healthcare performance in California. - Vim offers an EHR-integrated application suite that includes Digital Scheduling, Care Gaps, and Referral Guidance solutions, and more. Together, these applications
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Nemours Children’s Selects Innovaccer Health Cloud to Support Value-Based Whole-Person Care
What You Should Know: - Innovaccer Inc., the Health Cloud company, announced a partnership with Nemours Children’s Health, one of the nation’s largest clinically integrated pediatric health systems, to create a unified data platform designed to accelerate Nemours’ mission to transform children’s health through a holistic care model. - The partnership will integrate and activate clinical and claims data from across the health system to enable intelligent point-of-care analytics that
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Healthcare at the Crossroads: Value-Based Care and Interoperability
Amid the difficulties of the last year, a bright spot has emerged that may provide a strong indication of renewed movement toward the transformation of the healthcare industry that we know today. Value-based care, a model that rewards better patient health outcomes, has experienced a surge in interest amid heightened consumer awareness and among payers seeking to lower costs and stabilize reimbursement. This interest, along with the recent mandate from the Centers for
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Why Family Caregivers Need Help from the Healthcare Establishment
I recently spoke with a woman whose husband contracted a serious, chronic illness that requires long-term use of a peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC) line. As her husband’s primary caregiver, this woman is responsible for cleaning and flushing the PICC line three times a day. And while she knows how to carry out these functions, she nonetheless remains fearful of inadvertently introducing bacteria into the line and the consequences that could result. For this woman, the
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axialHealthcare Rebrands as Wayspring, Raises $75M for Value-Based Care Solution
- Wayspring, formerly axialHealthcare, announced today its new name and a $75M investment from Valtruis, Centene Corporation, CareSource, HLM Venture Partners, and existing investors Highmark Ventures, .406 Ventures, the Blue Venture Fund, and Oak HC/FT. Wayspring will use the capital to scale its value-based care solution, a full-risk medical home model for substance use disorder (SUD). - Using data analytics to drive high-touch, high-impact outreach to the most at-risk
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NANI Makes Equity Investment in Strive Health for Risk Payment
What You Should Know: - Strive Health, the national leader in value-based kidney care, and Nephrology Associates of Northern Illinois and Northern Indiana (NANI), the nation’s largest independent nephrology group, today announced a strategic partnership to jointly pursue and manage global risk payment models. - This partnership will benefit people with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and end stage kidney disease (ESKD) through a “whole patient” approach that enhances lives and communities
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Saint Luke’s Health System Deploys Innovaccer Health Cloud
What You Should Know: - St. Luke's Health System, one of the largest health networks in Kansas City, has adopted Innovaccer Health Cloud to support its initiatives around the Primary Care First and commercial value-based care models. - St. Luke's Health System turned to the Innovaccer Health Cloud and it’s Data Activation Platform to unify claims and clinical data from its EHR and disparate HIT systems. Doing so provides a unified patient record that enables comprehensive, actionable
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