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Industry Voices—9 strategies for integrating specialists into accountable care

Fierce Healthcare

Specialty care makes up a significant portion of healthcare spending, yet accountable care organizations (ACOs) often lack a specialty care strategy to lower costs and optimize specialty care.&nbsp

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CVS Health to purchase Signify Health for $8B

Healthcare It News

In March, Signify Health acquired Caravan Health , which serves Medicare beneficiaries through accountable care organizations. "We are both building an integrated experience that supports a more proactive, preventive and holistic approach to patient care." In 2023, those ACOs will represent 700,000 patients.

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Cerner CEO pledges to zero-out 'noise' from EHRs, population health and revenue cycle

Healthcare It News

" Feinberg acknowledged the challenges of accountable care. " He said the company's new RevElate technology, unveiled just this past week , could help simplify billing for patients and providers alike, making RCM "more integrated and seamless" for Cerner customers.

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Vendor Notebook: Epic and Microsoft showcase "copiloted" AI capabilities, Cerner adds Suki AI

Healthcare It News

Microsoft and Epic expand cloud-boosted AI integrations Out of the combination of Microsoft’s cloud and AI technologies and Epic’s clinical workflows and insights, the companies announced several conversational, ambient and generative AI technologies blossoming across the Epic electronic health record ecosystem.

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IT execs talk priorities and predictions for 2022

Healthcare It News

Progress toward accountable care is halting. "The transition to value-based care will only make this problem more acute and will require a new set of tools for clinicians," said Lareau. Data is everywhere, but not always available or decipherable to help manage myriad challenges. " Twitter: @MikeMiliardHITN.

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The next investment priorities for telehealth, RPM and connected health

Healthcare It News

Over the past 18 months, telehealth has emerged as an integral component of care delivery for many institutions, said Restuccia of Penn Medicine. "Our researchers are exploring the potential of incorporating telehealth in interventions to treat chronic pain, depression, anxiety and other chronic conditions."

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Cloud-based EHR helps NorthSight Recovery make big strides on SDOH

Healthcare It News

" NorthSight's facilities initially manually tracked outcomes and lacked an integrated data platform. This reality created analytical obstacles to answering basic operational and clinical questions. For example, social determinants of health drive as much as 50% of the county-level variation in health outcomes.