FUTURE OF HEALTHCARE
Kaleida Health and Infor | June 15, 2022
Leading cloud company, Infor, announced that Western New York’s largest healthcare provider, Kaleida Health, has selected the company to help consolidate its locations under one enterprise. Infor’s cloud offerings will help Kaleida to leverage the healthcare expertise of the firm and eliminate workflow silos, streamline processes, and boost knowledge-sharing across the organization.
"Our organization has grown significantly over the years, which brought with it multiple technology platforms, and we knew it would soon become costly and unreliable to maintain these platforms as supply chains become increasingly more complex and workforce needs become more sophisticated. We decided to partner with Infor to upgrade processes to the cloud to increase agility, improve the ability to quickly scale if necessary, increase efficiency, provide more tools for employees and providers, and ultimately support our patients better."
Tom Hull, CIO of Kaleida Health
The integrated solution will equip Kaleida Health with in-depth visibility into its supply chain. This will allow users to view inventory levels in real-time and optimize resources to engage clinicians and improve inventory systems.
"Infor's modern cloud-based solutions help leading healthcare organizations, such as Kaleida Health, manage vital resources, including people, supplies, and financials, to better align the clinical side to the business side. In such a complex industry, where the numbers of mergers and acquisitions continue to increase, it's important that technology be leveraged to modernize and link operational systems to confidently empower business decisions from one source of truth."
Matt Breslin, Executive Vice President, Infor
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HEALTH TECHNOLOGY
Signify Health | November 27, 2020
Signify Health, a main supplier of innovation empowered medical services arrangements intended to keep individuals solid and cheerful at home has gained PatientBlox, an Atlanta-based innovation organization with profound aptitude in applying disseminated record innovation in medical care. The securing quickens Signify's imminent supplier installment abilities for scenes of care, supporting the organization's duty to propel esteem based consideration through novel installment and danger courses of action. Monetary subtleties of the procurement were not revealed.
Acquisition Will Accelerate Prospective Episode of Care Payment Models
The expansion of blockchain innovation empowers a further move away from customary charge for-administration models. By making installments to suppliers toward the beginning of the scene, suppliers are boosted to drive care upgrade on the grounds that there is shared estimation and responsibility at each progression of the cycle, which brings about improved consideration coordination, results, and cost reserve funds.
A scene of care is a medical services occasion — a condition or a therapy — that is set apart by an arrangement of collaborations between a patient and suppliers. The blockchain can catch every one of those cooperations and the patient's consideration achievements that trigger installments. The PatientBlox stage is intended to deal with these exchanges without depending on expense for-administration claims.
PatientBlox Integration Offers Payers/Providers Array of Payment Options
As a feature of the procurement, Signify will incorporate the PatientBlox innovation into its all around strong and adaptable worth based consideration stage, which upholds $6B in medical services go through every year connected with the national government's packaged installment program, BPCI-A, and scenes of care installment programs by wellbeing plans and managers.
The exclusive PatientBlox innovation is worked for-reason and exceptionally secure, empowering usefulness that encourages agreement and installment organization under an imminent installment model. Under its extended stage, Signify will offer payers and suppliers an assorted cluster of installment choices to meet them where they are in their worth based consideration venture.
“We combined our team’s healthcare, fintech, and supply chain experience with machine-learning and Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) to build the PatientBlox platform for administration and management of prospective bundles,” said PatientBlox Co-Founder and CEO Rahul Sharma. “Our DLT based platform enables collaboration between Healthcare Payers and Providers and provides real time data synchronization across entities thus enabling rapid scaling of prospective bundled payment programs. We are excited to work with Kyle and the Signify team and are proud to have the novel technology developed by the PatientBlox team be part of Signify’s leading platform, which is already driving real change in the healthcare industry.”
About Signify Health
Signify Health exists to drive more healthy, happy days at home. That’s why we’re committed to accelerating the movement to value-based care, transforming how care is paid for and delivered, and sharing accountability for driving better outcomes for the individuals and families we all serve.
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DIGITAL HEALTHCARE
Memora Health | January 06, 2022
Memora Health, a technology company offering an intelligent platform that simplifies how patients and clinicians navigate complex care journeys, was endorsed today by the Montana Hospital Association (MHA). The MHA is a hospital member organization that nominates vendors through a meticulous vetting process, sourcing revolutionary breakthroughs in healthcare solutions.
Memora Health first gained the attention of the MHA through their innovative partnership with Montana-based Frontier Psychiatry. The telepsychiatry practice uses Memora Health to connect patients to real-time care and follow-up using a comprehensive virtual visit and care coordination platform. "We are on a mission to improve access to care for Montanans, and bringing new technologies to our communities is a necessary part of that journey," said Dr. Reza Hosseini Ghomi, Frontier Psychiatry's Co-Founder and Chief Innovation Officer.
"Memora Health has proven that they can support the unique care needs of our rural population through their innovative platform," said Sean Becker, VP of Shared Services for the MHA. "The fact that Frontier Psychiatry realized 10x consultation growth in a mere few months caught our attention. We are excited to see how Memora Health can support other Montana sites to scale their complex care needs."
Over the last four years, Memora Health has enabled intelligent care journeys for over 50 healthcare organizations. Memora's platform has proven to deliver impressive value for both patients and clinicians as demonstrated by high satisfaction ratings (92% and 96%, respectively), a 91% patient retention rate, and over 2.5 hours saved per care team member per day.
"We applaud the MHA for its commitment to sourcing digital health solutions that can reach rural Montanans where they are. Our platform enables meaningful patient care using intelligent care pathways via secure two-way text, and solves for the geographic and financial barriers that can prevent patients from accessing their care teams today."
Memora Health CEO and co-founder, Manav Sevak
About Memora Health
Memora Health helps healthcare organizations digitize and automate complex care workflows, making them simple for patients and clinicians to navigate. Memora Health ingests existing data on clinical workflows, converts them into cohesive messaging journeys that guide patients through their care episodes, and automates the completion of simple follow-up tasks in the EHR. Memora's platform reduces care team notifications by nearly 40%, has an average NPS over 70, and improves clinical outcomes across various populations. Memora Health is headquartered in San Francisco, CA, with clients and team members around the world.
About Montana Hospital Association
The Montana Hospital Association (MHA) is a nonprofit organization with more than eighty members, including 100% of Montana's hospitals, that provide the full spectrum of healthcare services. This includes hospital inpatient and outpatient services, skilled nursing facilities, home health, hospice, physician services, assisted living, senior housing, and insurance services. MHA Ventures, Inc. is the for-profit subsidiary of MHA, created to deliver solutions that improve patient care, reduce operating costs and strengthen the financial viability of Montana's hospitals.
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