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CVS Health to purchase Signify Health for $8B

Healthcare It News

In order to further CVS's healthcare services strategy, the acquisition of Signify Health adds clinicians that assess patients at home. The deal also provides CVS Health with a value-based care platform that connects payers to providers and providers to each other to lower costs and improve patient outcomes. Email: afox@himss.org.

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Unique Factors to Consider When Selecting Enterprise Data Platforms for Virtual Healthcare Apps

HIT Consultant

Developing virtual healthcare solutions is a daunting task. As a healthcare technology solution provider targeting the remote care market, you’re required to have both the clinical and the technological expertise needed to design, build and integrate a complete solution that can address the challenges with virtual patient care and monitoring.

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Vendor Notebook: new tools and acquisitions from OptumRx, ScionHealth, others

Healthcare It News

It's a new year, and healthcare technology vendors are rolling out their latest innovations, market approvals, acquisitions and staffing shake-ups. In October, Optum, UnitedHealth Group's pharmacy services company, merged with data clearinghouse Change Healthcare. Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.

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FHIR: The Three S’s of Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources

HIT Consultant

We have to be careful with our data. That’s why the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standard was established. Even standard everyday care is seeing these benefits. Issues with care deserts and lack of community access will be things of the past thanks to new technology. Standardization.

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Dear Digital Healthcare: Let’s Do Better

HIT Consultant

Digital transformation has increased healthcare access, but quality and consistency are lagging behind. The healthcare industry has gone digital faster than anyone could’ve expected. Digital options are known to increase healthcare access and convenience for patients. Quality and consistency of care are just as important.

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TytoCare & Carilion Clinic Partner to Expand Telehealth Offerings

HIT Consultant

Rural communities comprise two-thirds of areas suffering from a shortage of primary care physicians in the United States. Carilion provides quality care for nearly one million Virginians, many in rural communities, and through its partnership with TytoCare, the healthcare organization will expand primary care access for its patients.

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CIOs' 5-year plans for precision medicine and emerging technologies

Healthcare It News

One of the next big shifts in patient care will be precision medicine will be "an emerging approach for disease treatment and prevention that takes into account individual variability in genes, environment and lifestyle for each person," as the Precision Medicine Initiative describes it. A lot of new challenges.