Diana Manos

The challenge, created in collaboration with Children's Hospital Los Angeles, will focus on mental health, access to care and social determinants of health.

The contest aims to influence positive change by strengthening outcomes and cutting costs, the American Hospital Association said.

The investment firm says it will combine athenahealth with Virence.

Trinity says the employees are being given better career opportunities because the EHR they worked on will no longer be in place.

New capabilities will help clinicians spot high-risk patients, prescribe opioids more safely and reduce harm, the company said.

Providence St. Joseph Health has launched a new population health company, Ayin Health Solutions. WHY IT MATTERS PSJH said the new venture will aim to help organizations “maintain stability in a shifting healthcare market,” and it will do so by offering services that can help organizations keep costs down, improve care and ease into population health management. Headquartered in Portland, Oregon, Ayin’s offerings will include a pharmacy benefits management service, risk evaluation tools, comprehensive reporting and employee health benefits service. Value-based competition is getting tougher, and providers are looking for a competitive edge that calls for more customized population health management programs, according to a new study by Frost & Sullivan. Traditional PHM solutions that focus on high-cost patient populations are giving way to more holistic and evidence-based approaches that cover both high-risk and at-risk patients. Providers want to focus on preventive care and target patients as consumers. Many population health technologies are evolving to provide a more granular understanding of a patients' social determinants, giving providers greater insight into how to approach care, according to Matt Hawkins, CEO of Waystar, a cloud-based revenue cycle management company. ON THE RECORD “These are tumultuous times for the healthcare industry and organizations are eager for proven strategies and solutions that will stabilize their business and guide their shift toward a new standard of care,” said Dr. Rhonda Medows, CEO of Ayin Health Solutions and president of Population Health at Providence St. Joseph Health.  Diana Manos is a Washington, D.C.-area freelance writer specializing in healthcare, wellness and technology. Twitter: @Diana_Manos Email the writer: dnewsprovider@gmail.com  

Researchers uncover a disconnect between what customers want and the top priorities of vendors.

HealthlinkNY and HealtheConnections will leverage best practices and team skills of both health information exchanges to improve care delivery, officials said.

Companies say cloud-based offering will help customers tap artificial intelligence tools for administrative, technical and physical safeguards.

Companies will show the new tech at HIMSS19.