- NYC-based Healthify raises $16M led by SV Health to fuel the company’s growth to integrate social determinants of health in the era of value-based care. - Healthify provides an intuitive SDoH referral platform that enables collaboration between network partners.- The funding will support the company’s rapid growth as it continues to bring healthcare and social service organizations together in accountable networks.Healthify, an NYC-based company integrating the social determinants of health
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Value-Based Care| VBC-Related News, Analysis, Insights - HIT Consultant
88% of Hospitals Plan to Invest in Remote Patient Monitoring Solutions to Support Value-Based Care
- 88% of health systems and hospitals surveyed have invested or plan to invest in remote patient monitoring solutions to support their organizational transitions to value-based care, according to the latest Spyglass Consulting Group report. - Healthcare provider investments in RPM solutions are being driven by several underlying market factors including exploding healthcare costs, a rising aging baby boomer population, the increased prevalence of chronic disease, and continuous healthcare
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DAS Health Acquires Health IT Company Automated Medical Systems
- DAS Health acquires health IT company Automated Medical Systems to strengthen its position in the U.S. health IT market. - The acquisition enhances its product offerings, including adding Henry Schein’s MicroMD® to their Electronic Health Records (EHR) portfolio.DAS Health, a Tampa, FL-based provider of health IT and management solutions announced the acquisition of Automated Medical Systems, a healthcare IT company based in Valdosta, GA, with clients in Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Texas and
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Provider Credentialing: A Problematic Process Driving Costs and Delays
On a typical day, the average physician sees about 19 patients for roughly 22 minutes each. That’s a busy day and anything that interrupts that schedule is a problem for them and their staff.
One of the things that does disrupt that rhythm is payer paperwork, which is a significant driver of administrative burden and waste in healthcare. Administrative transactions between providers and payers include a wide range of tasks performed by many different entities, but one piece of the puzzle
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Premier Acquires Medpricer for $35M to Optimize Savings in Purchased Services
- Premier acquires Medpricer’s technology solution that enables purchased services savings across a total addressable acute care market of $160 billion. - Cloud-based platform provides purchased services management technology, including pricing benchmarks, RFP templates and other supplier data. - Acquisition enables healthcare providers to better manage third-party contracts to improve financial performance.Premier Inc., a healthcare improvement company, has acquired Medpricer, a
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Medecision Acquires Population Health Platform GSI Health
- Medecision acquires health delivery system transformation pioneer GSI Health, a cloud-based population health platform to optimize value-based care. - The acquisition expands Medecision's expertise and solutions for Medicaid beneficiary management, member engagement in community care settings.Today, Medecision, an integrated health management solutions provider that supports the health and care of more than 50 million consumers nationwide, has acquiredPhiladelphia-based GSI Health, a SaaS
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How Value-Based Care is Changing the Way You Build Digital Health Companies
After years of talk, fee-for-service payment models are finally being challenged in a real way. With value-based care, providers are reimbursed based on patient health outcomes rather than the number of patients they see, which has begun to pass the burden of cost from insurers and employers to providers and patients.
Fundamentally, value-based care requires vendors as well as providers to operate differently, but new revenue models and a new approach to hiring deserve special consideration. In
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Data: The Foundation For Collaborative Leadership To Deliver High-Value Care
The move to a healthcare system that rewards the value delivered to patients vs. the volume of services performed is no easy task. Healthcare providers, including hospitals and physicians, face decreasing reimbursements as both commercial and government payors implement new payment models designed to more closely align the activities of various organizations and practitioners involved in patient care. Better coordination has been found to both improve the quality and lower the cost of care,
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How Digital Health Solutions Can Help Hospitals Eliminate Opportunities for Error
For many hospitals and health systems, creating a culture of high reliability is a priority. As healthcare shifts toward value-based care models that reward strong clinical outcomes, using repeatable, standardized processes to avoid errors and deliver safe, high-quality care is vital.
Despite dedicated efforts, however, the healthcare industry still struggles to achieve consistent, widespread quality. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), nearly 1.7
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Intermountain Ventures Invest in Omada Health to Expand Relationship
- 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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