Population Health
Mergers & Acquisitions
The request extends the Hart-Scott-Rodino waiting period for the acquisition, but CVS Health continues to expect the deal will be completed in the second half of 2018, according to an SEC filing.
Patient Engagement
The group held its first meeting in hopes to encourage broader participation among its 2,500-plus members across U.S. and abroad.
Analytics
Intermountain Healthcare is poised to validate and launch several tests to identify genetic variants associated with hereditary cancers.
Electronic Health Records
Following its announced merger with Epic client Aurora, the health system says the single-platform will replace its mix of Cerner, eClinicalWorks and Allscripts.
Population Health
Ruben Amarasingham, a physician and Pieces Technologies's CEO, will present at HIMSS18 and HIMSS Machine Learning & AI for Healthcare conference on clinical augmentation for artificial intelligence.
Accountable Care
Text mining technology will help the accountable care organization close identifying at-risk patients to close gaps in care, said its chief medical officer.
Analytics
The tech giant said the cloud can serve as a home for patient records and enable a broader view at medical data to fuel value-based care.
Interoperability
The Olympic Healthcare Interoperability Initiative hopes to offer a seamless data exchange among 200 countries.
Accountable Care
The pop health-focused partnership will help health systems to see detailed claims data from CMS to better manage new payment models such as BCPI Advanced.
Patient Engagement
Harris County Public Health says remote care helped with cost savings critical to maintaining operations during and after major storms.