What You Should Know:
- Innovaccer, the Health Cloud company, introduced ACO Compare 4.0, the latest version of the company’s popular free tool that enables ACOs to analyze and compare their performance against national and regional benchmarks to help them enhance cost savings and increase the quality of care.
- The updated tool is available for ACOs to use at no charge and includes several new features that help providers identify cost drivers that can impact their risk-adjusted per
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Lumeris Launches Value-Based Care Accelerator for Practices
What You Should Know:
- Lumeris is launching Tribus, a value-based care accelerator for practices to convert from fee-for-service to value-based care using a community based-model.
- Under the direction of Dr. Chuck Willey, CEO of Tribus, who is a practicing internal medical physician in St. Louis, doctors will participate in physician-to-physician training and mentorship for anyone looking for a better way to deliver at-risk care for senior populations.
Why It Matters
The Medicare
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Diagnosis: EHR Avoidance Syndrome
If you’ve read the healthcare IT trade press recently, you’ve no doubt seen stories about the clinical usability of EHRs and how it can be improved. When you look at the issue closely there are, ultimately, two approaches to “breaking the usability barrier” of these systems:
1. Provide EHR users with instant access to relevant clinical information for any condition a patient presents. This information should be connected to clinically responsive workflows that mirror the way physicians and
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The Desire for Cost Savings Driving Key Trends in Healthcare Market
The healthcare market underwent significant changes during the pandemic as patients rethought how they received care, including opting for more telehealth and deferred elective procedures, but patient care is now normalizing as patients return to the office. However, payers are working to reduce the cost of care to reel in healthcare costs and keep premiums lower to remain competitive, driving key changes.
Ambulatory Surgery and Home Care
Surgeries are increasingly moving away from
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Arine, Gemini Health Partner to Optimize Medications While Lowering Prescription Drug Costs
What You Should Know:
- Arine - a next-generation medication intelligence company - and Gemini - a drug cost transparency platform - announced an integration that supports Blue Shield of California (Blue Shield) by combining each platform’s unique technology to deliver value-based care.
- The collaboration incorporates cost transparency information into Arine’s medication intelligence platform to empower care teams to provide highly personalized, data-driven medication consultations for
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Should I Get Another Booster? How Doctors Can Help Patients Navigate the Next Phase of COVID-19
The general consensus is that COVID-19 in some form is here to stay. As people come to terms with this reality, primary care providers may be getting more questions from patients – especially older and immunocompromised ones – asking for advice on how to handle different situations. Should I get another booster? Can I start traveling? Is it OK to go to a wedding next weekend? How cautious do I need to be in social settings?
The answers to these questions aren’t always clear. A lot depends on
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MEDITECH Taps Innovaccer to Advance Its Population Health Capabilities
What You Should Know:
- MEDITECH today announced it is extending its population health management offering with Expanse Population Insight, powered by the Innovaccer Data Platform.
- Population Insight leverages the power of the Expanse platform for providing care delivery and data analytics with proven expertise in data aggregation and curation.
Expanse Population Features
Expanse Population Insight aggregates data from claims, the EHR, and other sources to provide
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Quality vs. Quantity: The Case for Clinician-Centric Technology
Care providers continue to face mounting pressures – from increasing staffing shortages to balancing patient needs across in-person and virtual settings and managing pent-up patient demand. Rather than navigating through fragmented digital solutions that feed care providers disparate data, more and more clinicians now rely on connected technology to access the care context, i.e. the right patient data translated into reliable actionable insights at the right point in their workflow.
To truly
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NeuroFlow Secures $25M for Behavioral Health Integration Platform
What You Should Know:
- NeuroFlow, the market leader in behavioral health integration technology, has secured $25 million in growth capital, led by SEMCAP Health.
- With SEMCAP Health as a new strategic partner and investor, the company will continue to expand its groundbreaking referral network and deepen its relationships with payors and providers, determined to identify and triage individuals with behavioral health needs across the spectrum of care
Accelerating
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Healthfirst and MediSys Launch FHIR Platform, Hyphen
What You Should Know:
- Healthfirst and The MediSys Health Network announced today they are using Hyphen to connect longitudinal data from claims, quality measures and electronic health records (EHRs) to identify gaps in care, making it easier for clinicians to address patient needs in real-time.
- Hyphen is a cloud-based platform that uses Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resource (FHIR) standards to share member data directly into provider or hospital EHR systems, along with patient- and
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