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Scene Health Secures $17.7 Million Series B Financing Led by ABS Capital Partners

Healthcare IT Today

Series B funding proceeds will enable Scene to further accelerate its ability to serve Medicaid and Medicare managed care plans, pharmaceutical companies, and clinical research organizations. This financing brings the total investment in Scene to over $25 million since its founding in 2014.

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Development and validation of mortality prediction models

Hinduja Global Solutions

The objective is to develop and validate a predictive model for 15-month mortality using a random sample of community-dwelling Medicare beneficiaries. Data source The Centres for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Limited Data Set files containing the five per cent samples for 2014 and 2015. million beneficiaries. krishna.ku.

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How Will the “New” Health Economy Fare in a Macro-Economic Downturn?

Health Populi

I had asked some years ago, “what is a pharmacy” anymore, when CVS Pharmacy dropped tobacco from its SKUs and aisles in February 2014, rebranding as CVS Health; and, when Amazon purchased PillPack in June 2018. ” Dr. Cosgrove based that sobering forecast due to changes in the U.S.

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Healthcare Fragmentation Isn’t So Bad, If It Comes with Better Outcomes

Healthcare IT Today

Healthcare providers maintain different systems than payers, as do government entities like Medicare and Medicaid. billion in 2014. Data, especially in an increasingly personalized healthcare system, is inevitably siloed. He was recently named to Business Insiders 30 Under 40 Changing the Healthcare Industry in 2022.

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The Tech Giants are Coming for Healthcare

Lloyd Price

In the first strategic partnership for Healthcare NExT, Microsoft worked with the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center to develop digital services intended to reduce drudgery for physicians and improve patientsexperiences. Participants will also be asked to use sleep sensors in their beds and to undergo mental health tests.

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2018 Year in Review: The Year’s Biggest Remote Care News & Developments

care innovations

2018 began with a bang, as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) officially “unbundled” CPT code 99091 to give eligible practitioners the ability to receive separate reimbursement for certain remote care services. In what ways does your company put your patients, users, or consumers first? "We Read more here.

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Review of Mobile Devices and Health by Ida Sim in the NEJM

mHealth Insight

57 A recent change in the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule that allows physician billing for time spent managing and interpreting data from remote monitoring (e.g., in the NHS where honest practical GPs are just doing innovative things and sharing news of what they’re doing (instead of paying to have a paper published in a journal).