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4 Steps to Improve Medical Device Recall Tracking
As of late February, there were 147 medical device recall events and 20 of them, or 13.6%, were Class I, according to a Modern Healthcare report.
4 Health Systems Team Up to Tackle Drug Development, Care Coordination and Billing
four prominent nonprofit health systems — Baylor, Scott & White Health, Memorial Hermann Health System, Novant Health and Providence — have banded together to form the for-profit entity Longitude Health to handle increasing access to complex drugs, care coordination within huge programs like Medicare Advantage and streamlining billing processes.
Anthem-Epic Data-Sharing Plan Could Boost Care Coordination
Anthem and Epic are collaborating to expand bidirectional data exchange. The partnership will integrate Epic’s payer platform into Anthem’s operating system while Anthem will add Epic’s information to its sources.
4 Principles to Guide Your Digital Health Strategy
A panel discussion with marketing and strategy leaders from 13 health systems and Gozio Health explored best practices, successes and challenges to engage communities in a digital strategy to maximize success.
3 Keys to CVS Health’s Growth Strategy
CVS Health’s strategic priorities are in care coordination and chronic-disease management, health IT and home health especially bear watching as the nation’s health system continues to transform.
Intermountain, Presbyterian and SSM Health Tackle Digital Transformation
Intermountain Healthcare, Presbyterian Healthcare and SSM Health recently founded a nonprofit company to tackle digital transformation challenges. Dubbed Graphite Health, the venture is modeled after Civica Rx, a nonprofit drug company formed by member hospitals to address drug shortages and reduce generic drug prices.
Alexa: ‘Will patients share their information with you?’
Amazon Alexa is now HIPAA compliant. The company recently launched six Alexa voice health tools built by providers, payers, pharmacy benefit managers and digital health coaching companies that allow organizations to securely transmit private patient information. The Alexa Skills Kit enables select covered entities and business associates subject to HIPAA to build Alexa skills so they can transmit and receive protected health information as part of an invite-only program.
How You’re Transforming: Partners HealthCare
Innovation labs and centers of excellence continue to take shape as health care organizations look for ways to speed delivery system transformation and control costs better. Partners HealthCare, the Boston-based nonprofit and physicians’ network, became the latest to step up its activity in this space.