by SI Transformation Team | Aug 14, 2018 | Consulting, EP2, Practice Transformation
Medicaid Eligible Professional Program (EP2) – Meaningful Use
Are you ready to attest for 2017 Medicaid Meaningful Use (Promoting Interoperability) and receive your incentive from CMS? Eligible providers will only have until October 15, 2018 to collect their supporting information and attest for achieving 2017 Promoting Interoperability and prepare for 2018 and future attestation.
Eligible providers can receive an $8500 per year incentive for each of up to four years of participation. Grant-funded free technical services are available from Strategic Interests (www.strategicinterests.com) to assist with your current and future attestations for Stages 2 and 3.
These free services include:
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- Readiness Assessment
- Project/Program Support
- Audit Readiness and Preparation
- HIE Connectivity
SI is currently enrolling eligible providers and will share information and answer questions at the September meeting. For more information or to enroll, send an email to EP2@strategicinterests.com or visit the EP2 section of the SI website at https://strategicinterests.com/nyshealthcare/
by Brett Kinsler | Aug 3, 2017 | Consulting, innovation, Practice Transformation
According to an AMA/KPMG survey in 2017, only 23% of physicians feel they are “well prepared” to meet MACRA/MIPS requirements. Strategic Interests is working with the New York eHealth Collaborative to assist practices in their adoption and development of quality improvement strategies. Many of these programs are fully funded by government grants. Programs include:
- BHIT: SI helps agencies providing home and community based services to Medicaid patients to select and implement EMRs as part of the NYS DOH Behavioral Health Information Technology (BHIT) Program.
- EP2: SI helps specialists service Medicaid populations with administrative processes to attain Meaningful Use.
- APC: Help for primary care providers in small practices to prepare for payment reform with transformation and ongoing education and support through the Advanced Primary Care Program.
- PTN: SI is assisting doctors and other providers to gain the strategic, business, operational and technical capabilities to prepare for the value based payment environment with the Practice Transformation Network program.
“Reimbursement changes are eminent, even if the specifics of the payment criteria have not been clearly defined and even if they will probably change. Proactive practices are utilizing this program (PTN) to determine their shortfalls and making operational changes to be prepared, regardless of how the specifics end up shaking out.” — Bill Lavoie, SI Project Manager
See the article in WNY Physician for more information: https://issuu.com/westernnyphysician.com/docs/buffalo_vol_3_-_7-13_final/22
Contact Strategic Interests to see if your practice is eligible: nysptn@strategicinterests.com
by Brett Kinsler | Jul 3, 2017 | Consulting, innovation
DayTwo, a leader in microbiome-health management, announced it has completed a $12.0 million Series A round of financing through Johnson & Johnson Innovation – JJDC, Inc. (JJDC), Seventure Partners’ Health for Life Capital fund, Mayo Clinic, co-founder Marius Nacht, and other private investors.
Strategic Interests has been integral in helping DayTwo create strategy and business plans, connect to their first US research partner, developed Segment-Specific Market Attack Plan (S2MAP), and we are helping to launch the business in the US. We are fortunate to have the opportunity to work with such a talented team, and thrilled to know we helped them reach this significant milestone.
Link: DayTwo Secures $12M Series A Financing Round
by Brett Kinsler | Feb 14, 2017 | Consulting
Partnership between CDI-Negev and Strategic Interests accelerates U.S. market penetration for Israeli health it start-ups
Pilots in Rochester and Johns Hopkins laying foundation for success
FEBRUARY 14, 2017, Rochester, NY & Tel Aviv, Israel – CDI-Negev, the Center for Digital Innovation, an Israel-based innovation center dedicated to supporting entrepreneurs develop health-related technologies and Strategic Interests, LLC (SI), a Rochester-NY based consulting firm helping stakeholders collaborate, improve care and enhance financial performance, teamed up to help several innovative Israeli healthcare IT start-up companies bring their solutions to the U.S.
“Strategic Interests is pleased to work with CDI-Negev to help their members determine the most appropriate segments for their solutions, find opportunities to demonstrate value with U.S. providers and payers, and develop and execute segment-specific market attack plans to succeed in the dynamic and growing U.S. healthcare marketplace” said Al Kinel, President of SI.
Ambassador Ido Aharoni, Global Distinguished Professor at NYU and Former Consul General of Israel in New York, played a key role in linking CDI with SI. “While the U.S. healthcare market is attractive to Israeli start-ups, it’s difficult to avoid costly missteps while navigating the complex environment,” stated Aharoni. “A partner such as SI can leverage experience and long-standing relationships to help Israeli health tech companies succeed here in the U.S. Al and I share the same desire to help accelerate one of Israel’s most precious exports and it’s exciting to see how he is bringing this to fruition.”
Transforming caregivers’ ability to remotely monitor patients suffering from chronic health conditions, SI connected Datos Health, a CDI mhealth company, with Rochester, NY-based Ridgeview Internal Medicine Group, LLP. In Datos’ first U.S. pilot, Ridgeview’s primary care physicians and care managers are remotely monitoring patients suffering from hypertension. The Datos platform enables caregivers access to clean, validated, Patient-Generated Health Data (PGHD) for use within their electronic medical record (EMR) and existing workflow, for improved disease management and outcomes, at a fraction of the current cost. The U.S project follows multiple pilot programs run by Datos monitoring diabetes and high blood pressure within long-term and post-acute care organizations in Israel.
To make the road to recovery more efficient, cost effective, and fun, Israel-based BG Ventures developed the BioGaming Artificial Intelligence-based platform to help patients accurately perform rehabilitation exercises using virtual trainers and games while monitoring their progress with pinpoint precision. Founded in 2016, BioGaming has been categorized as an FDA-approved medical device and is demonstrating success with users in US, Israel and Latin America, where a project at Johns Hopkins is proving current benefits and future promise.
“Process automation, in-clinic utilization and increasing adherence are the main goals in the world of physical therapy today” said Ken Johnson, Director, Rehabilitation Therapy Services Outreach of Johns Hopkins. “BioGaming’s platform digitizes physical therapy. By providing automatic assessments, an in-clinic virtual trainer application and a mobile app to easily manage and monitor patients’ process, BioGaming achieves efficient resource allocation for physical therapy clinics—reducing costs for clinics, providers and payers.”
“Each of our young companies has unique capabilities and needs,” stated Ziv Ofek, Founder and CEO of CDI and Founder of dbMotion. “Working with SI during the past 8 years, I am keenly aware of the depth and breadth of experience that Al’s team possesses to properly support our member companies on the road to commercial success—they are in good hands with SI.”
Additional CDI companies looking to SI for U.S. traction in 2017
As leaders in data science and artificial intelligence (AI), Israel’s most promising digital health startups provide real value in the existing clinical workflow through the introduction of new and more effective capabilities to increase accuracy and improve quality outcomes in less time. Here are a few companies to watch in 2017:
- Aidoc helps radiologists analyze imaging and clinical data more effectively to produce highly accurate scan anomaly detection.
- DiACardio provides FDA-cleared tools that fully automate the evaluation of medical imaging using a new image processing technology based on pattern recognition and machine learning.
- Healthy.io uses computer vision and artificial intelligence to turn embedded smartphone cameras into clinical grade medical devices and bring digitized core diagnostic tests from the lab into the hands of patients.
- Mediseen (A subsidiary of Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.) Developed DDI+, a cloud-based patient-specific decision support system for managing patient’s Drug Related Problems (DRP).
- Ziv Ofek’s startup, MDClone, introduces a new healthcare data paradigm with a big data platform unlike anything on the market today, unleashing the power of healthcare data for analysis with zero-risk to patient privacy.
About CDI-Negev:
CDI-Negev is a leading-edge, novel, non-profit innovation center located in Beer-Sheba, Israel— the growing ‘Silicon Valley’ of the Middle East. CDI works in the areas of digital healthcare, social welfare, with a focus on healthy aging, education and smart cities. In partnership with Ben-Gurion University, CDI brings together start-up companies, experienced entrepreneurs, innovators, researchers in the public sector and investors with a personalized support system and a dedicated network of industry thought leaders committed to overcoming barriers for global success.
Visit www.cdi-negev.com for more information.
For PR & Media Inquiries: Lital Shnaiderman | lital@cdi-negev.com | +972 (58) 621-7014
About Strategic Interests:
Strategic Interests (SI) offers advisory and implementation services to help healthcare stakeholders collaborate, improve care and enhance financial performance. As trusted experts in transformation, SI combines vision, deep technological understanding and innovative thinking to each customized, pragmatic client engagement. Using our proven framework, our team of results-oriented, experienced thought-leaders—each with years of experience in various areas of healthcare including management, clinical, analytical, technical, and marketing—delivers on the specific needs of each project, ensuring our clients’ objectives are met and their expectations are exceeded.
Visit www.strategicinterests.com for more information.
For PR & Media Inquiries: Kate Kolbrener | kkolbrener@strategicinterests.com | 412-310-0617
by Strategic Interests News | Jan 31, 2017 | Consulting
Digital Rochester is a non-profit organization that focuses on people and companies who are associated with established and emerging technology in the greater Rochester Region. The group provides relationship development and educational opportunities to promote collaboration and drive personal, business, and community growth. This month, they did a spotlight on Strategic Interests.
http://digitalrochester.com/spotlight-strategic-interests/
by Brett Kinsler | Jan 12, 2017 | Consulting, Electronic Health Records, innovation, Interoperability
When it comes to EHR (electronic health records) improvement projects cited among healthcare organiation executives, the plan to improve connectivity with other systems topped plans for 2017. According to Healthcare IT News’ recent survey of 96 respondents, sixty percent of those polled are planning or are already in the midst of an interoperability initiative. Most of these projects (65%) involve connecting to external databases or health information exchanges (HIE).
These executives recognize that there can be challenges to interoperability, listing the lack of industry standards, EHR vendors themselves, the “culture of hoarding,” and financial concerns.
“The Year Ahead in Health IT” survey also identified emerging technologies many organizations had plans to invest in this year. This included prescriptive analytics, artificial intelligence, genomic tools and machine learning, cognitive computing, and blockchain.
Where is your organization on the path to interoperability and leveraging technology to improve quality of care, save costs and become more efficient? A seasoned healthcare technology consulting firm can be your guide to strategy, design and implementation while helping you navigate the tricky areas of vendor management and balancing internal change management.
Source: http://www.healthcareitnews.com/slideshow/survey-results-look-ahead-healthcare-it-2017?page=1
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