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Large Pioneer ACO Outlines Role of Clinical & Business Intelligence in Value-Based Care

Posted on November 18, 2012 by David

CHICAGO (November 15, 2012) – As patient care models evolve to value-based care, clinical and business intelligence (C&BI) tools are playing a central role for organizations operating under new payment models. HIMSS Analytics published a new white paper titled “Banner … Continue reading →

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Legacy Health Selects Explorys as its Healthcare Big Data Platform for Value-Based Care Initiatives

Posted on November 5, 2012 by David

Explorys, an innovator of cloud-computing platform solutions for leveraging big data in healthcare, announced today that Legacy Health, one of Oregon’s premier multi-hospital health systems, has selected Explorys to power the healthcare system’s enterprise and community-wide value–based care initiatives, including … Continue reading →

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SAIC Acquires maxIT Healthcare for $473 million

Posted on July 18, 2012 by John

The news just came out that SAIC (NYSE: SAI) will pay $473 million to acquire maxIT Healthcare Holdings Inc. This acquisition brings an additional 1,300 employees to SAIC. That’s a large sum of money for a healthcare IT consulting company. … Continue reading →

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Health Plan and Employer PHR

Posted on April 6, 2012 by John

After the fall of Google Health, many had written off PHR (Personal Health Record) software as dead and gone. I can’t say that I had much hope for PHR software myself. Although, some of the recent moves by PHR vendor … Continue reading →

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CMS doesn’t get it? Can they ever?

Posted on May 26, 2011 by Dr. Michael West

Katherine Rourke gets another gold star from me for her May 16 post, “Health IT Expenses Burden ACO Startups, But CMS Doesn’t Get It”.  I have this funny suspicion that there are a lot of things that CMS doesn’t get, … Continue reading →

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