What You Should Know:
- In the age of COVID-19, healthcare CIOs cite interoperability,
cybersecurity, and operationalizing SDOH data priorities as top three priority
areas, according to the third annual LexisNexis focus group of CHIME
executives.
- The survey results also highlighted the importance of
a team approach with support across the organization in helping CIOs
achieve the vision of connected healthcare.
The Health Care business of LexisNexis® Risk
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Cohere Health Launches with $10M to Increase Transparency Across Care Journey
What You Should Know:
- Boston-based health IT start-up Cohere Health announced the official launch of its company with a $10 million Series A funding round led by Flare Capital Partners.
- The company’s patient journey-focused platform improves the notoriously difficult prior authorization process and replaces an existing patchwork of legacy, siloed processes, and antiquated technologies that contribute to the enormous administrative burden for physicians and health plans.
- The end
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Intermountain’s Castell Taps Arcadia to Elevate Value-Based Care
What You Should Know:
- Intermountain’s Castell has selected Arcadia Analytics
as the healthcare technology and analytics foundation to support its
comprehensive approach to helping organizations accelerate the transition from
volume- to value-based systems of care.
Castell, the new comprehensive healthcare platform company from Intermountain Healthcare that elevates value-based capabilities for providers, payers, healthcare systems, and accountable care organizations (ACOs) has
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Lenovo Launches Virtual Care Solution with Voice Activated Digital Assistant
What You Should Know:
- Today, Lenovo launches Virtual Care solution to help healthcare
provider organizations remotely monitor, engage with and educate patients with
many of these chronic health conditions, including diabetes, COPD, congestive
heart failure (CHF), and hypertension.
- Easy to use, patients take the kit home, plug it in and
can immediately begin interacting with their care team. Patients are guided
through an individual daily care plan aided by biometric devices and
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Cedar Gate Technologies Acquires Citra Health Solutions to Expand Value-based Technology
Cedar Gate Technologies
(Cedar Gate), a Greenwich, CT-based value-based care
performance management company, today announced its acquisition
of Citra Health Solutions (Citra), a
provider of capitation management software solutions.
Expands Value-Based Care Technology Suite with Citra's Capitation
Management Solutions
By acquiring Citra, Cedar Gate expands its software and
services capabilities across the full spectrum of value-based care. By
combining Cedar Gate's existing capabilities in
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56% of Health Leaders State Their Current PHM Solution Falls Short, Fails to Address Current Needs
What You Should Know:
- More than half (56%) healthcare leaders say their current population health management (PHM) solution doesn’t meet their needs, according to a new survey from Persivia.
- Almost two-thirds (62%) say a lack of clinician
engagement is the top reason they’re looking to replace their PHM solution.
This was followed by the inability to convert data to action (48%), and
inability to engage patients (43%) or perform sufficient analytics (43%) tied
for third.
- The
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How Can eConsults Help Clinically Integrated Networks Deliver Better Care and Demonstrate Value?
A Clinically Integrated Network (CIN) strategy that leverages eConsult technology can help physicians and health systems deliver better care at a lower cost.
Physicians increasingly face pressure to deliver high-quality care efficiently while continuing to grow and sustain their practices. But lowering costs while sustaining growth often means giving up autonomy. The percentage of solo physicians in the U.S. fell to 17% in 2014, compared with 41% in 1983. Additionally, hospital ownership of
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Somatus Lands $64M to Expand Value-Based Kidney Care Model
What You Should Know:
- Somatus raises $64M in Series C funding led by Longitudinal
Capital to fuel the expansion of its value-based kidney care model.
- Somatus will use the funding to continue to scale its
model nationally and invest in technology and product development to better
support patients and health plan partners.
Somatus, a McLean, VA-based provider of value-based kidney care, today announced it has completed a Series C funding round of $64 million led by Longitude
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4 Ways Healthcare Leaders Can Use Data & Analytics to Prevent, Predict and Prepare for a Pandemic
COVID-19 has put a laser focus on how data and analytics are powerful tools for healthcare leaders to predict, prepare, and respond in a proactive and coordinated manner to a global health crisis. Throughout the pandemic, data has been used to document the spread of the virus, project the curve, and more.
Responses and actions to mitigate viral spread hinge on real-time data collection, governance, and analysis for instant decision making. The exchange of reliable, real-time data between
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ACO to Deploy Innovaccer’s FHIR-enabled Data Activation Platform Across Medicare Population
What You Should Know:
- MultiCare Connected Care announced it will leverage Innovaccer's FHIR®-enabled Data Activation Platform for the Medicare Track 1+ population.
- MultiCare Connected Care is an Accountable Care Organization and a wholly-owned subsidiary of MultiCare Health System based in the state of Washington, one of the largest, not-for-profit health systems.
MultiCare
Connected Care (MCC), one of the leading clinically integrated care
networks in the state of Washington,
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