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Population Health Management Weekly Wrap Up 9/17/17
Healthcare data and analytics company Cota hires Andrew Norden, MD (IBM Watson Health) as CMO and Thomas Gallucci (Cain Brothers) as CFO.
Equality Health names Shar Najafi (Southwest Behavioral and Health Services) SVP of behavioral health and Tomás León (AHA) SVP of marketing and strategy.
ONC publishes a report on how public health agencies could better use existing HIEs to collect information from providers. Two goals emerge in the report: the need to better streamline the number of connections and related costs for providers, HIEs, and public health agencies to share health data; and support providers in their attempts to meet public health requirements for Meaningful Use. ONC respondents don’t consider health IT developers to be a barrier to integrating public health information systems with HIEs, though there is “high frustration” with reporting that information via EHRs.
UL EHS Sustainability will add US Preventive Medicine’s wellness programs, including health coaching and management, to its Pure environmental sustainability, health, and safety software for the employee health and occupational medicine markets.
KeyCare, an offshoot of the New Jersey Primary Care Association, will implement I2I Population Health’s population health management technology and services across its network of 16 community health centers.
Boston Medical Center’s Housing Prescriptions as Health Care program will utilize Act.md’s care coordination technology as part of its efforts to connect families in need with housing, social, legal, and healthcare services.
Virtual Health integrates Wellth’s incentive-based disease management app with its population health and care management technology for managed care organizations.
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