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Community Care of North Carolina Deploys Pop Health Platform to Transform Community Care

Posted in Client News Coverage on Tuesday, June 19, 2018.

By taking a more patient-centered approach, CCNC crafted a more proactive care management strategy.

 

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LogicStream Health Receives 2018 MedTech Breakthrough Award for Clinical Efficiency Innovation

Posted in Press Releases on Wednesday, June 06, 2018.

MINNEAPOLIS – June 6, 2018 – LogicStream Health, a leading clinical process improvement and control software provider supporting thousands of frontline clinicians at hospitals nationwide, announced today that it received the 2018 MedTech Breakthrough Award for Clinical Efficiency Innovation. The company was recognized for its software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform and solutions, which help provider organizations instantly gain the actionable insights needed to reduce healthcare associated conditions, control high-cost medication spending, and improve patient safety and quality.

VirtualHealth Recognized by Modern Healthcare as a 2018 Best Place to Work

Posted in Press Releases on Wednesday, May 16, 2018.

VirtualHealth, the leading SaaS platform for care management and population health, announced today that it has been selected by Modern Healthcare as a 2018 Best Place to Work in Healthcare. This award, which recognizes outstanding employers in the healthcare industry nationwide, is based on an assessment process that includes comprehensive employee surveys conducted in partnership with the Best Companies Group.

LogicStream Health Highly Rated* for Overall Performance in New KLAS Clinical Process Improvement Report

Posted in Press Releases on Thursday, April 26, 2018.

LogicStream Health, a leading clinical process improvement and control software provider supporting thousands of clinicians at hospitals nationwide, today announced the company is recognized for overall performance in a new KLAS report on clinical process improvement (CPI). The company is highly rated* for physician adherence to standards of care and the strategic guidance it provides to its customers, while exceeding the market average for its strength in identifying improvement opportunities.

CORE Higher Education Group Partners with VUCA Health to Integrate Informational Medication Videos into COREreadiness Online Courses

Posted in Press Releases on Tuesday, April 24, 2018.

VUCA Health and CORE Higher Education Group today announced that CORE Higher Education Group’s COREreadiness platform will integrate VUCA’s informational medication videos into its educational online courses to improve student pharmacists’ patient counseling and communication skills.

Chimes Deploys VirtualHealth Platform to Improve Care for Individuals with Developmental and Behavioral Disabilities

Posted in Press Releases on Tuesday, April 24, 2018.

VirtualHealth, the leading SaaS platform for care management and population health, announced today that Chimes will deploy its nationally-recognized platform to bolster care for members with developmental and behavioral disabilities in the state of Delaware. Chimes will initially leverage VirtualHealth’s extensive capabilities--including multi-source data integration, clinical assessments, behavior tracking and real-time analytics--within its vocational day programs and then extend the offering to its residential services.

The Top 6 Population Health Management Startups

Posted in Client News Coverage on Thursday, March 22, 2018.

The concept of pre-emptively caring for patients before an acute condition escalates into an expensive and risky procedure is not a new idea; yet, patients are often treated for their illnesses at the point of serious intervention. This is largely because physician have lacked the ability to gather and analyze important patient data.

 

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DoseDr Telemedicine Platform Expanded for Use Treating All Chronic Diseases

Posted in Press Releases on Tuesday, March 13, 2018.

Telemedicine provider DoseDr announced today its platform now supports treatment for all chronic disease—hypertension and related conditions including coronary artery disease, chronic kidney disease, stroke, and essential hypertension—tackling the problems currently unaddressed by the health care industry. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that 86 percent of the $2.7 trillion spent annually on health care goes toward chronic disease, more than half to cover costs associated with exacerbations and preventable complications. Realizing the motivation exists on both sides—patients want to take better care of themselves and doctors what to help them to do so—DoseDr was determined to close the gap by finally providing the tools needed to fix what’s broken with the health care system and save trillions of dollars in the process.

13 Value-based Solutions, Partnerships Unveiled at HIMSS

Posted in Client News Coverage on Tuesday, March 13, 2018.

Here are 13 value-based solutions or partnerships launched at the 2018 Healthcare Information Management Systems Society Conference in Las Vegas.

 

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Advancing Community Care Models

Posted in Client News Coverage on Friday, March 09, 2018.

The promise of community-based care management is not lost on today’s payers and providers. Networks designed to address the unique population health needs of a local region are realizing notable success with the implementation of such programs.

 

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Vendors Unleash Value-based Care Offerings at HIMSS18

Posted in Client News Coverage on Thursday, March 08, 2018.

VirtualHealth, a software-as-a-service platform for care management and population health, announced a new joint effort with SAS to support “whole person” care. The integration will blend VirtualHealth’s clinical workflows with SAS predictive analytics and visualizations in an effort to improve outcomes and reduce costs for government agencies.

 

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The Role of Telemedicine in Monitoring Blood Pressure

Posted in Client News Coverage on Monday, March 05, 2018.

Hypertension, or high blood pressure, is a leading cause of heart disease and stroke that has escalated to alarming rates in recent years, affecting nearly 1 in 3 adults in the U.S. In an attempt to reduce its prevalence, the Eighth Joint National Committee (JNC-8) released a set of hypertension management guidelines. However, various concerns arose regarding the recommendations and as a result, the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and the American Heart Association (AHA), along with nine additional specialty organizations, published an updated hypertension guideline in November 2017.

 

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North Carolina Association of Pharmacists Endorses VUCA Health’s MedsOnCue Medication Video Library Service

Posted in Press Releases on Tuesday, February 20, 2018.

VUCA Health announced today that the North Carolina Association of Pharmacists (NCAP), recognized as the essential organization representing pharmacy in North Carolina, has endorsed MedsOnCue video library service. NCAP will leverage the solution to provide members with medication counseling videos containing comprehensive information on medications through a convenient, digitally-accessible method.

Technology-Enabled TCM: Making The Most Of 30-Day Transitional Care Windows

Posted in Client News Coverage on Friday, February 16, 2018.

The hospital discharge process places patients in a precarious and perilous position. Industry data overwhelmingly backs this reality, fueling national initiatives to improve the outlook on readmissions and adverse events.

 

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Healthcare’s ‘Quiet Crisis’

Posted in Client News Coverage on Friday, February 16, 2018.

Value-based care is revealing a “quiet crisis” in health care today: the lack of capability enabling clinical teams to control, improve and standardize clinical processes in near real time.  

Without timely process control and standardization systems and tools, clinical teams are challenged in the delivery of consistent, high-quality and reliability care. As a result, outcomes and financial performance suffer.

 

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