As with so many other conditions, in vascular health, patients often need to be seen within a few days or weeks, but current referral systems drag on for many weeks and months.

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There are plenty tools and data sharing standards available to foster a more cohesive and integrated approach to healthcare interoperability. However, providers aren’t really adopting these tools, experts said during a recent panel.

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Guidehealth, a nascent value-based care enablement startup, acquired Arcadia’s value-based care service division. Acquiring this business unit allows Guidehealth to provide health systems with a platform that helps them succeed in value-based care arrangements while still maintaining their patient volume levels.

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Unite Us will integrate NowPow’s tools and community partners into its closed-loop referral system, which can be used to screen for social factors that negatively affect health, like food or housing insecurity, and then electronically refer patients to resources in their community.

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Healthcare information exchanges could provide the missing link between providers, payers and community-based organizations working to address social determinants of health. Efforts in Nebraska and Ohio show the ways in which HIEs could advance care coordination and interoperability.

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Founder and CEO Hedieh Safiyari talks about the Canadian healthcare startup on a mission to revolutionize the health and wellness experience.

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The solution will connect providers with social services organizations, enabling the secure exchange of messages, referrals and personal health information. The FHIR-based technology can help providers factor in social determinants of health when caring for their patients.

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The pandemic has slowed referrals to skilled nursing facilities as Covid-19 concerns result in longer transfers. An analysis by CarePort Health found that referrals to skilled nursing facilities were down by more than 17% in the fall.

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