Quality collaboratives are comprised of multiple teams working together from different domains within the healthcare industry. Payors and providers have shown success in working together as a collaborative team sharing the same mission, improving healthcare outcomes in patients within the network each team serves. These collaborative efforts bring focus on improving medical services throughout in-network hospitals under contract with payors whose members are receiving care.
Below are five key
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Value-Based Care| VBC-Related News, Analysis, Insights - HIT Consultant
DispatchHealth Expands Service Line, Offers Hospital-at-Home Care
- DispatchHealth expands its on-demand acute care services to offer Advanced Care and Extended Care in the home.- The new services allow patients who previously required an expensive hospital stay to be treated at home. In a partnership with two health systems, DispatchHealth will offer patients a 24/7 dedicated medical team, remote monitoring, an emergency call button, and daily visits.DispatchHealth, a provider of tech-enabled in-home health care, today announced the launch of two additional
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Medtronic to Leverage Lumeon’s Care Pathway Management Platform to Deliver Value-Based Care in Europe
- Lumeon and Medtronic form strategic partnership to support Medtronic’s European healthcare provider customers in their transition to efficient, value-based care models.- Medtronic’s Integrated Healthcare Solutions (IHS) business will leverage Lumeon’s CPM Platform to operationalize care pathways for surgery optimization and chronic disease management.Lumeon, a provider of Care Pathway Management (CPM), today announced that it has entered a strategic partnership with medical technology provider
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3 Underfunded Areas Essential To The Success of Value-Based Care
- Third annual Top of Mind for Top Health Systems survey from the Center for Connected Medicine (CCM) reveals value-based care depends on three underfunded technologies. - KLAS Research shows patient engagement, data analytics, and precision medicine drives better treatments, but barriers remain.As healthcare continues to shift toward value-based care, technology that boosts patient engagement, harnesses all available data for informed decision-making and enables more effective treatments will
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Innovaccer Appoints Former Kaiser Permanente CTO Mike Sutten as Chief Digital Officer
- Innovaccer appoints Mike Sutten as their new Chief Digital Officer to refine Innovaccer’s strategy to build on the mission of a connected care continuum that ensures patient data is available to providers across the care experience.
- Sutten brings more than 25 years of technology leadership with Kaiser Permanente, Fortune 500 organizations and the Central Intelligence Agency.
Innovaccer Inc., a healthcare technology company has appointed Mike Sutten as their new Chief Digital Officer to
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Humana, Epione Health Form Value-Based Care Agreement for Humana Medicare Advantage Members
- Humana and Epione Health team up to offer a patient-centered experience for Humana Medicare Advantage members in Oklahoma. - Humana Medicare Advantage HMO and PPO plan patients will benefit from this relationship as the support offered by Humana enables Epione’s doctors to focus on patient care.Humana Inc., today announced it has collaborated with Epione Health of Oklahoma, LLC on a value-based care agreement designed to offer a coordinated, patient-centered experience to help Humana Medicare
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Q/A: UnitedHealthcare Executive Talks Investment in Telehealth Innovation
Are
telehealth innovations the future of care delivery? Pat Keran, vice president
of product and innovation for UnitedHealthcare shared his insights and what’s
to come from the integration of telehealth innovations in the healthcare
landscape.
It’s should be of no surprise that in today’s app-fascinated world that telehealth services are becoming increasingly popular both for consumers and employers. According to a recent report from the National Business Group on Health, 39 percent of
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Pipeline Health Upgrades to Cerner Millennium EHR Across Network
- 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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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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