What You Should Know: 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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Hybrid Healthcare and The New Normal: Biggest Adjustments for Healthcare Organizations
The adoption of virtual health has increased dramatically since March 2020, with 150 million telehealth claims in less than two years. Like other revolutionary innovations throughout history, healthcare innovation is necessitated by time — and unmet needs. So many struggled to create virtual care solutions during the pandemic, and many technology companies jumped into the telehealth space because of the unmet needs of patients. But the pandemic era is soon coming to an end, leaving telehealth to
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Uber Health Embeds Same-Day Prescription Delivery Into Its Care Platform
What You Should Know: Uber Health, Uber’s healthcare arm, today announced same-day prescription delivery on its HIPAA-supported, centralized platform.For the first time, those using Uber Health—including healthcare providers and health plans—will be able to manage prescription delivery from any pharmacy in their service area through the same platform they already use to coordinate transportation for patients. This launch enables providers to offer a full suite of care solutions that
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Aledade Expands Access to Value-Based Care for More Medicare Advantage Customers
What You Should Know: - Aledade is continuing its strong momentum today, announcing that Cigna Healthcare Medicare Advantage customers can now receive value-based care from Aledade’s network of independent primary care practices. - Participating practices can access Aledade’s cutting-edge data analytics, user-friendly guided workflows, and health care policy expertise, as well as integrated care services supported by AledadeCare Solutions. - This news comes shortly after Aledade
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Interoperability: Particle Health Launches Suite of Solutions to Wrangle Data
What You Should Know: - Particle Health, an interoperability platform that aggregates and delivers actionable patient data and insights to healthcare companies, announced today it has launched its Particle FOCUS (Filtered Outputs Curated for Usability + Simplicity) solution suite. - FOCUS data products are designed to streamline data by delivering comprehensive, simplified, and organized patient health information across seven disease states:
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PointClickCare Acquires Value-Based Care EHR Patient Pattern
What You Should Know: - PointClickCare Technologies, a healthcare technology platform enabling meaningful collaboration and access to real‐time insights at every stage of the patient healthcare journey, today announced the acquisition of Patient Pattern. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. - The combination of PointClickCare and Patient Pattern will further the companies’ shared vision of enabling better care and outcomes for high-needs populations and provide
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5 Key Trends Driving Purchasing Decisions in Healthcare IT
As the healthcare industry continues to evolve and transform with providers facing increasing financial burdens and dynamic patient expectations, Signify Research has had the opportunity to speak to 100s of C-suite health IT executives and departmental decision-makers. Our conversations with these healthcare leaders have provided greater insight into their organizations’ technology and business strategies. It has also illuminated their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. Here are
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Aledade and Humana Inks 10-Year Value-Based Primary Care Collaboration
What You Should Know: - Independent primary care provider Aledade and health insurer Humana announced a ten-year collaboration to connect independent primary care physicians in Humana’s network with the tools they need to thrive in value-based primary care. - Building on their existing relationship, the two companies plan to phase in the 10-year term for current and new state-wide agreements, which include a pathway to full risk. The collaboration with Humana will continue to grow as
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