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Elation Health Announces $50M Series D for Innovative Primary Care

Healthcare IT Today

Generation Investment Management and Ascension Ventures co-led the round for Elation’s primary care platform supporting practices in new payment models and more than 12.8 Elation Health , the clinical-first technology company powering innovation in primary care, today announced a Series D financing round of $50 million.

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Value-based Care is Less Than 15% of Practice Revenues

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in primary care, and 14.7% Value-Based Care. When VBC programs were expanded as part of the Affordable Care Act in 2010 and the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) in 2015, there was hope that the existing fee-for-service model would begin to decline. in surgical specialties, 6.7%

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Telehealth may help reduce medicine's carbon footprint

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

As the study notes, the healthcare sector is a "significant source" of greenhouse gas emissions. From 2010 to 2018, emissions from the U.S. healthcare industry increased by 6 percent. " Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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New AMA blueprint seeks to tap the full potential of digital health

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

More than $100 billion of venture funding has been invested in digital health companies since 2010, but that investment has not addressed healthcare's greatest needs, according to the AMA report. " Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS publication. THE LARGER TREND.

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AHRQ program seeks provider organizations to help improve hybrid telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The program aims to improve the cancer diagnostic process in telemedicine-enabled primary care settings by strengthening safety culture and helping practices to close the loop on care transitions and other vulnerable processes along the cancer diagnostic pathway. Dr. Hardeep Singh is principal investigator.

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Integrated EHR enables shift to virtual post-discharge follow-up

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"Timely availability of clinical information during health care transitions, in a setting with robust telemedicine access, can shift the method of care delivery without adversely affecting patient health outcomes," wrote the researchers. Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. WHY IT MATTERS.

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A booming digital health market, and an elusive trifecta

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

There is unprecedented opportunity for digital health solution providers, arising from the digitalization of core care delivery services. The opportunity is big enough to justify the mushrooming of digital health startups (more than 5000 deals funded since 2010, by one estimate ).