Vree Health Signs Choice Agreement to Provide Care Transition Management Services to Amerinet

Vree Health, a company that combines technology with direct personal patient engagement to influence positive behavioral change and help improve outcomes, has a new, choice agreement to provide care transition management services to Amerinet, a leading healthcare solutions organization. Under the agreement, Amerinet members, which include acute and non-acute care hospitals, surgery centers, long-term care […]

PerformRx Launches New Specialty Pharmacy Company

PerformRx (www.performrx.com), a URAC-accredited, full-service pharmacy benefits manager with industry-leading clinical programs, announced today the launch of PerformSpecialty, a new specialty pharmacy focused on care management for patients with chronic and complex conditions. The company, which is expected to create more than 80 jobs, is headquartered in Orlando, FL. “PerformSpecialty is structured to provide medications […]

Geisinger Finds Telemedicine Cuts Readmissions, Costs for Heart Failure Patients

Heart failure patients participating in a Geisinger Health Plan telemonitoring program were significantly less likely to be readmitted to the hospital, according to a study to be published in the December issue of Population Health Management. The researchers calculated the program saved $3.30 for each dollar spent to implement the program. There were 541 participants […]

M2M Harnessing the Power of Connected World

The world is currently moving into an era of ubiquitous connectivity, which is transforming the operating styles and communication channels of an enterprise. Machine to machine (M2M) communications, a solution that allows automated communication between connected devices over a wireless network, has aided enterprises in their progress to ascertain constant connectivity and real time monitoring […]

BD to buy CareFusion in $12.2 billion deal

Medical technology company BD has agreed to pay $12.2 billion in cash and stock to buy CareFusion, which sells products and services intended to improve healthcare safety. Franklin Lakes, N.J.- based BD said the deal would give it a product portfolio that addresses the full spectrum of medication management—beginning with preparation in the pharmacy and […]

National Science Foundation Releases SBIR Phase I Solicitation

Program Announcement The National Science Foundation has just released its SBIR Phase I solicitation. NSF Phase I awardees will receive a grant of up to $150,000 for a 6-month development/feasibility project. Phase I awardees may then compete for a second grant of up to $750,000 over a 2 year period, with the aim of advancing […]

Healthcare Analytics

Informatics Specialists Working to Develop and Improve Population Health Management Population Health Management(PHM) efforts generally focus on two basic forms of healthcare analytics. The first involves real-time analytics, or the clinical data provided at the point of care that affect prescriptive decision-making during patient encounters. Real-time systems rely on two or more pieces of patient […]

Omnichannel is a Top Priority for Many Retailers

Retailers are using omnichannel to create a seamless shopping experience for consumers – and drive customer retention and revenue growth. Seventy percent of retailers say they have adopted an omnichannel strategy to link shoppers’ in-store experiences with e-commerce, mobile and social media platforms. The strategy is meant to create a seamless shopping experience for the […]

Wellframe Raises $8.5M to Build Out its Mobile-enabled Therapy Platform

Congratulations to Boston-based patient engagement and care management company Wellframe on raising $8.5 million. Wellframe’s platform includes a web-based clinician dashboard and a patient-facing mobile app, which is available for Apple and Android devices. The offering includes two-way, HIPAA compliant messaging and a care plan that the company says aims to amplify, not replace, therapeutic […]

Why the Slow Adoption of Healthcare Analytics?

In our last post, we spoke of efforts to define effective quality metrics, yet that is only half the battle. Once physicians have collected data on the care they provide, they need to be able to run advanced analytics on that data in order to get any useful information. On this count, providers have yet […]

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