- Pipeline Health selects Cerner to upgrade to a single, integrated EHR across 7 hospitals, 25 clinics, and 12 free-standing emergency departments within the Pipeline Health network. - Pipeline Health will gain access to the Cerner Millennium EHR, including clinical, revenue cycle, ambulatory, and value-based care solutions through a remote-hosted model. - Cerner will replace multiple disparate EHR systems across the Pipeline Health network. The new platform will be rolled out during a
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Value-Based Care| VBC-Related News, Analysis, Insights - HIT Consultant
EMR Replacement: Abstraction or Data Migration?
Most healthcare organizations have already managed the transition from paper to electronic medical records. It was time-consuming, challenging and nerve-wracking. But with the first-generation of EMRs approaching the end of their usefulness, with mergers and acquisitions requiring the adoption of new systems (most incompatible with the legacy systems), with the advent of new government standards, more rigorous legal requirements and higher expectations associated with “value-based care” and
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Holon Solutions Appoints Jon Zimmerman As New CEO
- Healthcare IT leader Jon Zimmerman has been named CEO of Holon Solutions to accelerate their transition to value-based care through the adoption of purpose-built technology that solves their biggest challenges.
- Value-based care executive selected for his nearly 30 years’ experience in enhancing healthcare interoperability and proven track record in scaling growth-stage companies.
Holon Solutions, an Atlanta-based healthcare IT company that liberates healthcare data, today announced it has
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Research: October Health IT M&A Activity, Public Company Performance
- Healthcare Growth Partners (HGP) summary of Health IT/digital health merger & acquisition (M&A) activity, and public company performance during the month of October 2019
During the month of October, Health IT continued its evolution into an amorphous market that is increasingly trending away from a specialized niche of healthcare and into a key component of larger sectors such as Enterprise Software, HR Administration, Insurance, Care Delivery, Suppliers, and BioPharma.
The
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Heathify Raises $16M to Expand Social Determinants of Healthcare Platform for Value-Based Care
- 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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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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