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Nov 21, 2024 · Healthcare Innovation provides news and information on the policy, payment, operational, and strategic information technology issues facing senior leaders of hospitals, medical groups, and health systems.
How Patient Empowerment Can Improve Health Outcomes
May 19, 2020 · Engaged patients are healthy patients. For most providers, improving patient health and satisfaction is at the center of their practice. Providing patients with access to their data leads to better communication, superior chronic disease …
Favorite Quotes of the Year: Health Equity Edition
Dec 22, 2021 · Policy decisions have also affected access to and quality of health services available to racial and ethnic groups. There is no question that healthcare services are an important source of observed inequities.”. — David Blumenthal, M.D., president of the Commonwealth Fund. • “Equity work is fundamentally quality work.
After Purchase From IBM, Watson Health Becomes Merative
Jul 7, 2022 · David Raths. Investment firm Francisco Partners has completed the acquisition of IBM’s Watson Health business announced in January and rebranded it as a new standalone company called Merative. IBM had built the business in part through acquisitions such as Truven Health Analytics, Phytel, Explorys, and medical imaging company Merge Healthcare ...
HHS Names First Six QHINs to Participate in TEFCA
On Feb. 13, the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services announced the first six organizations approved as Qualified Health Information Networks (QHINs) under the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA), a 21st Century Cures Act requirement to create a “network of networks” for sharing health data across the country.
Federal Judge Approves UnitedHealth Group’s Change Healthcare ...
Sep 21, 2022 · As Bloomberg ’s Leah Nylen wrote on Monday afternoon, “UnitedHealth Group Inc. won court approval for its $7.8 billion acquisition of Change Healthcare Inc., defeating a Justice Department lawsuit that sought to block the deal. The decision by a Washington federal judge Monday is a win for UnitedHealth Group, which has sought to diversify ...
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Maryland Law Solidifies CRISP’s Role as Health Data Utility
Sep 23, 2022 · “This designation to operate as a health data utility will amplify the invaluable outcomes sharing health data can have on state public health goals and improving clinical care coordination all while reducing the total cost of care for the state and securing data at the personal level,” said Craig Behm, who was recently named president and CEO of CRISP, in a statement.
Signify Health Announces It’s Acquiring Caravan Health
Feb 10, 2022 · Caravan Health has been very active in organizing ACOs; indeed, as Senior Editor David Raths noted in a Feb. 4 report, “Caravan Health is expanding its footprint in the Medicare Shared Savings Program by adding 25 new health systems and four existing ACOs into its collaborative ACO model.Collaborative ACOs combine providers with anywhere from 500 to 15,000 attributed Medicare lives into a ...
Curana Health Formed to Drive Value-Based Care in Senior Living
May 11, 2022 · The Curana Health Medical Group is comprised of more than 400 physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants that provide primary care, post-acute care and other clinical services in senior living communities, including skilled nursing facilities, life plan communities, assisted living facilities, and memory care facilities.