We all know the stark reality: rates of mental illness, substance use, and developmental disorders continue to rise in the U.S. and estimates show that 1 in 44 children are diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
Add to that the ongoing efforts to reduce stigma and it’s no surprise that the increased demand is overwhelming existing resources.
Improvements in both the efficiency and effectiveness of care and treatment are critical in addressing the crisis.
Doing so
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Value-Based Care| VBC-Related News, Analysis, Insights - HIT Consultant
What VBC Providers Demand From Their IT Solutions
Value-based care (VBC) is a healthcare delivery model that differs from traditional fee-for-service because rather than compensating providers based on the number of services provided, it ties the amount providers earn to the results they deliver for their patients. The quality of these healthcare services is measured by patient outcomes that are based on metrics such as rate of hospital readmission, timeliness of care, and overall patient satisfaction. This VBC model holds providers
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Emcara Health Taps Innovaccer to Accelerate Scale in Value-Based Care
What You Should Know:
Innovaccer Inc. announced that Emcara Health, PopHealthCare’s national value-based medical group that delivers advanced in-home primary care for seniors and vulnerable populations, has selected Innovaccer’s Best in KLAS data platform to accelerate its ability to drive growth and rapidly scale Emcara Health’s integrated care solution to more communities nationwide.The Innovaccer data platform will enhance Emcara Health’s ability to create unified patient records that
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Horizon Taps Solera to Deliver Members AI-Matched Solutions
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Solera Health, the premier technology platform for connecting people seamlessly and easily to health solutions that work, announces a multi-year strategic partnership with Horizon Healthcare Services, New Jersey’s largest health insurer with more than 3.6 million members.Through this strategic partnership, Solera will provide its technology platform to connect Horizon members to a personalized experience of innovative and effective curated networks of digital
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M&A: Kaiser Acquires Geisinger, Forms Risant Health
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Kaiser Foundation Hospitals and Geisinger Health are teaming up to launch Risant Health and a definitive agreement to make Geisinger the first health system to join Risant Health to expand access to value-based care in more communities across the country. Upon regulatory approval, Geisinger becomes part of the new organization through acquisition.Risant Health is a new nonprofit organization, created by Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, to expand and accelerate
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Rimidi Announces Integration with MEDITECH Greenfield
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Rimidi, a leading clinical management platform designed to optimize clinical workflows, enhance patient experiences and achieve quality objectives, today announced the company is now integrated with MEDITECH Greenfield.MEDITECH customers will now able to utilize Rimidi’s cloud-based software platform within their existing workflow, further enhancing efforts to support efficient models of care for chronic disease management through Fast Healthcare Interoperability
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Innovaccer Launches Self-Serve Conversational AI Assistant
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- Innovaccer is unveiling six new breakthrough solutions that help providers accelerate their success with population health, consumerism, and value-based care.
- Leading the lineup is Sara, the first conversational AI for healthcare analytics. Sara is a conversational AI assistant that literally puts the full breadth and depth of enterprise healthcare analytics into the hands of healthcare managers, physicians, and care teams. Anyone can ask Sara complex questions
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M&A: Vytalize Health Acquires IPA New York
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Today, Vytalize Health announced it has acquired Independent Physician Association (“IPA”) of New York, one of the nation's largest IPAs with more than 3,000 providers. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.The deal scales Vytalize's successful value-based care model to new payer arrangements and specialty care across the healthcare spectrum.Based in Suffolk County, IPA NY is one of the largest multi-specialty
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The Future of Digital Transformation in Hospitals
Hospitals are increasingly motivated to drive digital transformation in order to improve patient outcomes, reduce costs, meet regulatory requirements and stay competitive. Additionally, digital transformation can support medical research and drive innovation in healthcare, as well as generate new revenue streams. An increasingly important tool as hospitals undergo these transformations is federated learning, a technology that we will expand on later. Federated learning is a machine learning
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Value-Based Administration Enables All VBC Network Stakeholders to Benefit
Despite holding the promise of delivering superior patient outcomes while lowering healthcare costs, many providers remain reluctant to embrace value-based care (VBC) reimbursement models. Progress toward VBC adoption hasn’t achieved its potential yet, hovering around 60% of all payment models from 2018 to 2021, with the remaining 40% comprised of traditional fee for service (FFS).
Though some providers simply are hesitant to abandon the FFS model that has served them well, others are leery
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