- Intermountain Ventures, the strategic investment arm of Intermountain Healthcare has invested in digital care leader Omada Health. - The announcement expands the relationship with Intermountain Healthcare that began five years ago in 2016 and comes off the heels of Omada’s recent $73M funding round. - The Omada Program became a covered benefit for Intermountain employees and their adult dependents in 2019.Today, Omada Health announced a milestone investment from Intermountain Ventures, the
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Evolent Health Achieves NCQA Population Health Program Accreditation
- Evolent Health becomes the first company ever to achieve Population Health Program Accreditation from NCQA with the status of Accredited–3 years. - The Population Health Program Accreditation is the third NCQA Accreditation Evolent has achieved in 2019, with Evolent having also earned 3-Year Accreditation in both Utilization Management and Case Management in 2019. - Three years is the longest accreditation time period NCQA designates for organizations.Evolent Health, a company providing an
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Geisinger Inks 10-Year Deal to Make Cerner Its Preferred Data Platform
- Geisinger announced a 10-year deal with Cerner to expand its use of the HealtheIntent population health platform and make it the health system’s preferred data platform. - Geisinger plans to use the platform to gain actionable insights and intelligence by bringing together data from across it's health system. - Geisinger and Cerner will also create an innovation team to discover, build and implement transformative health care solutions with AI and machine learning.This morning during the
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Cerner Designates ResMed’s Home Health & Hospital Platform As Its Preferred Solution
- Cerner forms a collaboration with ResMed to designate ResMed’s Brightree Home Health and Hospice platform as its preferred solution.- Cerner also plans to connect other ResMed digital health data platforms—including those that support 10 million-plus cloud-connectable sleep apnea and respiratory care devices—to its EHR and HealtheIntent population health platform.Cerner and ResMed, a world-leading digital health company, today announced a new collaboration agreement to help providers make more
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To Address Quality Reporting Challenges for Providers, Innovaccer Launches Web Interface Reporting Solution
- Innovaccer launches its GPRO reporting solution that aims to automate quality reporting and assists providers in closing the prevalent care gaps.- Build on top of the Data Activation Platform, the solution simplifies reporting by integrating data from multiple sites, automating quality measures evaluation, and delivering actionable analytics at a patient level. - The solution offers drilled down analytics at the patient level to evaluate performance for each measure and close the existing
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2 Healthcare Supply Chain Priorities Supporting Value-Based Care to Watch in 2020
- GHX Survey finds healthcare supply chain data and standardization key to accelerating healthcare’s shift to value-based care.- The survey highlights the role of healthcare supply chain data will play during the year(s) ahead in solving the cost-quality-outcomes equation.Global Healthcare Exchange, LLC (GHX), a healthcare business and data automation company has announced the results of a survey conducted among its Best 50 provider organizations regarding healthcare supply chain priorities for
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IPA, IHANY, Fidelis Care Partner to Address Social Determinants of Health in Upstate New York
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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5 Approaches to “Diagnose” The Deeper Causes of Physician Burnout
Rick Sheff, MD, Chief Medical Officer, The Greeley Company
The number of physicians experiencing symptoms of burnout continues to be unsustainably high. Physicians cannot contribute to delivering and improving quality patient care if physicians continue to burnout at this rate, leave practice, drop out of medical school, or take their own life. Characterized by emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and a reduced sense of accomplishment, burnout has a devastating impact on doctors and
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University Hospitals Health System to Deploy NextGen Population Health Platform
- University Hospital Health System has selected NextGen to deploy their population health platform to help enhance patient care. - NextGen Population Health platform aggregates and analyze patient data, and drive meaningful insights across clinical, financial and administrative data.University Hospitals Health System, a health system based in Northern Ohio has selected NextGen to deploy their NextGen Population Health platform that identifies gaps in care and enhances proactive patient health
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National Health IT Week: Embracing Non-Clinical Data Insights for Improved Patient Care
Lizzy Feliciano, VP, Market Insights, LexisNexis Risk Solutions, Health Care
There’s a crispness in the air that marks fall’s arrival. But autumn’s appearance isn’t the only thing on calendars across the U.S. this week: September 23-27 marks National Health IT Week. The 2019 theme focuses on supporting healthy communities, and what better way to support communities than to learn more about the people in them?
Decision-makers who analyze healthcare data have a habit of focusing on numbers,
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