Does provider competition improve health care quality and efficiency?: expectations and evidence from Europe
European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies -Provider competition is a feature of several European health systems but policy-makers are split on whether it improves health care quality and efficiency. This briefing finds that the evidence on provider competition in Europe is growing, but it remains limited and clustered in a few countries. It suggests that the proximity to provider remains the main driver of patient choice of hospital. It also looks at other areas of study such as activity-based payments, hospital mergers and the involvement of private providers in the provision of publicly funded hospital care.Pol...
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - November 17, 2022 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Competition and choice NHS performance and productivity Source Type: blogs
CitiusTech Acquires Wilco Source, Expands Specialized Salesforce Capabilities for Healthcare & Life Sciences- M & A
Strategic acquisition of industry leading Salesforce services and solutions company to expand CitiusTech’s Salesforce offerings in the areas of Member experience, Care management, Digital Front Door, Patient Services and REMS programs
CitiusTech, a leader in healthcare technology and consulting services, today announced that it has acquired Wilco Source, one of the world’s leading providers of Salesforce consulting and implementation services for healthcare and life sciences companies.
As organizations increasingly adopt digital technologies to transform care delivery, strengthening patient and member experienc...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - November 15, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: AI/Machine Learning Health IT Company Healthcare IT IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops Bhaskar Sambasivan Care Management CitiusTech Configure Price Quoting CPQ CRM Digital Front Door Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare M&A Kedar Relang Source Type: blogs
AngelEye Health Announces Series B Funding to Support Company ’s Rapid Growth
Latest Round of Investment in the Family Engagement Technology Company Led by Bradford Whitmore and Mountain Group Partners, with Participation by SeedtoB Capital and the Rash Family Office
AngelEye Health (AngelEye or the Company), a leading provider of patient and family engagement solutions for hospital neonatal, pediatric intensive care, and nursery units, today announced the completion of its Series B funding, bringing the Company’s funding to date to approximately $20M. The new financing will be used to accelerate the organization’s rapid expansion, including growing its team of talent and expanding its product r...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - November 14, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring AngelEye AngelEye Health Brad Whitmore Byron Smith Christopher Rand Eller Kelliher Emily Rash Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Source Type: blogs
Weekly Roundup – November 12, 2022
Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. We hope this gives you a chance to catch up on anything you may have missed during the week.
CIO Insights from CHIME’s Fall Forum. John Lynn attended the CHIME Fall Forum and tuned in to the CIO panel, where longtime and interim CIOs shared their thoughts on how the CIO role has changed, how CIOs can help to address burnout, and how to guide their organizations into the future. Panelists also talked about the path forward for digital innovatio...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - November 12, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup Source Type: blogs
What Duplicate Patient Notes Reveal About Health Care and Its Records
Bloat in patient notes has been alarming doctors for some time. The American Medical Informatics Association began a project to reduce patient documentation to 25% of its current volume by 2025. This task won’t be solved by any single organizer or sector; the AMIA calls on providers and health systems, Health IT vendors, and policy and advocacy groups to join the effort.
A recent study in a JAMA publication, “Prevalence and Sources of Duplicate Information in the Electronic Medical Record,” helps drive discussion of bloat forward by focusing on one manifestation: the duplication of text from one patient n...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - November 11, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: AI/Machine Learning Ambulatory Clinical EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT AdvancedMD Amazon Comprehend Medical AMIA billing CipherHealth Cloudticity Cumberland Heights Foundation Donna Pritchard Doug McGill EHR Document Source Type: blogs
Patient empowerment movement, definitely has a good intention , but …
The definition & intended purpose of patient empowerment
WHO defines empowerment as “a process through which people gain greater control over decisions and actions affecting their health” and should be seen as both an individual and a community process.1
Four components have been reported as being fundamental to the process of patient empowerment: 1) understanding by the patient of his/her role; 2) acquisition by patients of sufficient knowledge to be able to engage with their healthcare provider; 3) patient skills; and 4) the presence of a facilitating environm...
Source: Dr.S.Venkatesan MD - November 11, 2022 Category: Cardiology Authors: dr s venkatesan Tags: cardiology-ethics Medical education ethics in medicine patient empowerment Source Type: blogs
The Future of Healthcare M & A with Rahul Rekhi from Lazard
There have been a lot of different factors recently that have led us to live in such uncertain times. First it was the pandemic leaving us to figure out how to stay safe. Then there was burnout leading to a major shortage in the workforce. Entering another recession is just another item in a long list of events that we are now trying to scramble and figure out how to endure. So how are companies meant to continue on and how does it affect the future of M&A?
With the recent recession, an air pocket has been created in macroeconomics around M&A. It has become a lot harder for large buyouts to be able to raise the kin...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - November 10, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Regulations Healthcare IT Video Interviews Healthcare M&A Lazard Macroeconomics Mergers & Acquisitions Rahul Rekhi Recession Strategics Source Type: blogs
VillageMD Acquires Summit Health-CityMD, Creating one of the Largest Independent Provider Groups in the U.S.
With Investments from WBA and Evernorth, the Combined Company Will Deliver a Unique and Comprehensive Patient Experience for Optimal Individual and Community Outcomes
VillageMD announced today it has entered a definitive agreement to acquire Summit Health-CityMD, a leading provider of primary, specialty and urgent care. The transaction is valued at approximately $8.9 billion with investments from Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. (Nasdaq: WBA) and an affiliate of Evernorth, a subsidiary of Cigna Corporation (NYSE:CI).
Together, VillageMD and Summit Health-CityMD will create a multi-payor platform to deliver quality, afforda...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - November 10, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Ambulatory Health IT Company Healthcare IT CIGNA Cigna Corporation CityMD Eric Palmer Evernorth Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare M&A Jeff Alter Patient Experience Roz Brewer Summit Health Summit Health-CityMD Tim Barry Vil Source Type: blogs
Hint Health Acquires AeroDPC to Offer End-To-End Platform for Direct Primary Care Providers
The company also welcomes Dr. Brad Brown from AeroDPC as the new Medical Director
Hint Health, the company powering the direct primary care (DPC) movement, today announced the acquisition of AeroDPC, a practice management and Electronic Medical Record (EMR) designed for DPC clinics. This elevates Hint from being a trusted enrollment, membership management, and billing platform, to a comprehensive solution that provides everything a DPC doctor needs in one innovative platform.
The existing U.S. healthcare system, which operates on a fee-for-service insurance infrastructure, is leading to increased provider burnout, patient...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - November 8, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Communication and Patient Experience EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT AeroDPC Direct Primary Care Dr. Brad Brown Electronic Medical Records Equal Health Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare M&A Hint Connect Hint Health Hint S Source Type: blogs
MediQuant Completes Acquisition of Knowledge Based Systems (KBS)
Tuck-in Acquisition Provides Immediate Value Through Channel and Market Expansion
MediQuant, LLC, a leading provider of enterprise data archive technology for the healthcare industry and creator of DataArk®, is pleased to announce the acquisition of Knowledge Based Systems, Inc. (KBS), a privately held company located in the Dulles Technology Corridor of Washington, D.C.
Since its founding in 1988, KBS has maintained a singular focus of solving the data access challenges in healthcare. Their track record of success comes from the KBS flagship KB_SQL product offering for VARs as well as a diverse set of enterprise client...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - November 7, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Analytics/Big Data Health IT Company Healthcare IT DataArk Dave Middleton Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare M&A Jim Jacobs KB_SQL KBS Knowledge Based Systems Knowledge Based Systems Inc. MediQuant MediQuant LLC VARs Source Type: blogs
Weekly Roundup – November 5, 2022
Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. We hope this gives you a chance to catch up on anything you may have missed during the week.
Celebrating 100 Episodes of the Healthcare IT Podcast. John Lynn and Colin Hung took a trip down memory lane and recapped the first 100 episodes of the Healthcare IT Today podcast. Listen to their take on the most memorable topics, trend, and announcements in health IT over the last four years – and hear what they think will be in store for the nex...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - November 5, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup Source Type: blogs
CheckedUp Acquires Health Media Network
Acquisition Creates One of the Nation’s Largest Specialty-Focused, Digital Point of Care Advertising Networks
CheckedUp (or the Company), one of the leading providers of 100% digital healthcare solutions at the point of care, announced today that it has acquired Health Media Network (HMN), a provider of digital healthcare solutions and wellness content to health venues across the country. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. CheckedUp is backed by Rockbridge Growth Equity (Rockbridge), a partnership-oriented middle market private equity firm with a differentiated approach to building and growing compani...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - November 4, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Care Advertising Networks Carmody Torrance Sandak & Hennessey CheckedUp Comvest Covington Associates Dr. Richard Awdeh Greenberg Traurig Health Care Networks Health IT Acquisitions Health Media Network Source Type: blogs
Epion Acquisition Helps Kyruus Push Deeper into the Patient Journey
The acquisition of Epion by Kyruus continues the company’s push to encompass more of the patient journey. The combined company can now offer healthcare organizations a more complete patient access solution. Patients can now search easily for a provider, book an available appointment, fill out all the necessary paperwork electronically ahead of that appointment and check-in online.
Healthcare IT Today caught up with Scott Andrews, General Manager of Health Systems at Kyruus at the recent Medial Practice Excellence: Leaders Conference (#MPEL22) to get more details about the acquisition and discuss how it fits into the over...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - November 3, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: Ambulatory Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System appointment check-in Appointment Reminders Digital Front Door Epion Epion Health Find Care Everywhere Kyruus patient access Source Type: blogs
A View Into the World of LTPAC at the PointClickCare Summit
As we continue our ongoing coverage of Fall Health IT conferences, I’m happy this week to finally being able to attend the PointClickCare Summit. I’ve been invited for a long time, but the timing never worked out. If you’re not familiar with PointClickCare, then you probably don’t work in the LTPAC space. They’re kind of like the Epic of LTPAC. I’m excited to be educated on the unique realities that LTPAC faces. Although, after hearing today’s opening keynote, many of the issues in LTPAC are very similar to acute care with slight twists.
Here’s a look at some of the...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - November 2, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: C-Suite Leadership Communication and Patient Experience EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Interoperability LTPAC Audacious Inquiry Collective Medical COVID-19 Dave Wessinger LTPAC Referrals Mike Wessinger PointClickCare S Source Type: blogs
Nextech Announces Acquisition of TouchMD, Enhancing Specialty Practice Patient Experience
Nextech, the market leader providing a single, comprehensive specialty practice solution including Electronic Health Record (EHR) and Practice Management (PM) functionality, is pleased to announce its acquisition of TouchMD, a visual consultation, marketing, and imaging software platform for plastic surgery, medspa, dermatology, and ophthalmology practices. With this acquisition, TouchMD combined with Nextech’s platform enhances both the digital and in-person patient experience and clinical experience for specialty practices.
“Acquiring TouchMD was an easy decision,” said Bill Lucchini, CEO at Nextech. “Our cus...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 25, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Bill Lucchini EHR Electronic Health Record Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare M&A Kary Smith Nextech Patient Journey pm Practice Management TouchMD Visual Consultation Source Type: blogs
