Population Health Management Weekly Wrap Up 7/31/16

Dorothy Fisher, MD (Sentara Quality Care Network) joins Forward Health Group as chief clinical officer.

Mihir Shah (Unitek Information Systems) joins Apollo Medical Holdings as CFO. In related news, California-based APCN ACO and Allied Physicians ACO select the company’s population health management services. The MSSP ACOs care for a combined 16,000 Medicare beneficiaries.

Chicago-based predictive analytics and employee engagement company Evive Health will double its office space to 16,000 square feet in August. The company anticipates immediately adding several new staff roles, and expanding to 70 employees by the end of the year.

Covenant Health (TN) chooses Cerner’s clinical, financial, and population health management systems.

Consumer health site Sharecare, founded in 2010 by Dr. Oz and WebMD founder Jeff Arnold, acquires the population health business of publicly traded Healthways. The business and its 1,700 employees will remain in Franklin, TN. Healthways announced in 2015 that it was exploring strategic alternatives.

Healthstar Physicians (TN) selects population health management services from Transcend to help it better care for Medicare Advantage patients across 14 locations in Knoxville.

The County of Renfrew Paramedic Services in Ontario implements the Philips Tailored Ambulatory Care Program to remotely monitor elderly patients from the home and reduce readmissions. The program includes fall-predicting wearables and tablets for patients, and corresponding monitoring an analytics software for physicians.

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