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How to Use Big Data to Improve Patient Engagement

Patient engagement remains an elusive goal in the healthcare industry, wrote Dr. William Disch, director of analytics at Evariant, in an article on DataInformed.com. But big data analytics can help, particularly with chronically ill patients. Because this population also has a problem with compliance regarding...

ClearCare Introduces New Online Management System

Home care industry leader ClearCare has developed a new software system for managing day-to-day healthcare operations. The system was built to save both time and money by automating simple office processes. Highlights of the new system include advanced scheduling tools, billing attributes, and HR capabilities....

Accolade Secures $70 Million in Series E Funding

Health concierge Accolade raised $70 million in investment funding. The start-up company will use the funding to expand its outreach efforts, which include: marketing, sales, research, and further developing its technological platform. Private American venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz led the fundraising...

PillPack Deploys PokitDok’s Pharmacy APIs for Real-Time Pharmacy Eligibility

PokitDok and PillPack are partnering up to improve patient experiences for more than 16 million Medicare Advantage Beneficiaries and 40.5 million Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Benefit Plan recipients. PokitDok, a McKesson Ventures portfolio company, is a cloud-based API platform that is designed to streamline...

Housecalls Are Back and Booming. Are They a Threat to PCPs?

McKesson Ventures Senior Vice President Tom Rodgers was recently interviewed by Medscape, a part of the WebMD Health Professional Network that offers integrated medical information and educational tools to users. The article released by Medscape discusses the current boom of startups offering medical housecalls, what...

Playing catch-up in hospital innovation

In a recent article on TechCrunch, Crunch Network contributor Mandira Singh argues that a big change is due in health care: more tech innovations to improve processes, deliver healthcare, increase accuracy, and ensure that patients are able to receive the care they need, when they need it. While we have over a...

Health Systems’ Integrated Virtual Clinics Improve Care Quality

In an article for Health IT Outcomes, Christine Kern explains how commercial telemedicine providers fall short in key quality measures—while integrated telemedicine services provide better continuity of care and meet the highest quality care delivery benchmarks. Kern’s claims are supported by a number of sources,...

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