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Truveta
Fourteen health systems are building their own health-tech startup.
They ll use big tech for some things, but also build special software to sift through provider data.
Truveta s leaders told Insider there are certain healthcare skills big tech has yet to master.
Fourteen health systems, including four of the nation s 10 largest, are forming a new company, Truveta, to learn from their patient data.
The idea behind Truveta, now headed by Microsoft veteran Terry Myerson, is about two years in the making, Rod Hochman, the CEO of Providence St. Joseph Health, told Insider. In 2019, Providence made $25 billion in operating revenue across 51 hospitals and more than 1,000 clinics in seven states.
Memorial Hermann, Houston, Texas
Houston-based Memorial Hermann Health System had a problem: Its providers often were not documenting all the diagnoses managed in the acute care setting.
Coders and clinical documentation-improvement specialists spend several hours each week educating physicians on the implications of missing or nonspecific diagnosis. Over the last several years, the informatics division partnered with CDI specialists in the acute care venues to design and implement interruptive EHR alerts that prompt physicians to enter diagnoses when specific criteria are met.
Clinical documentation improvement queries The predominant method for capturing the missing or incomplete diagnoses in our organization is CDI queries that often are several days after the condition was managed; the CDI query process is not within the physicians workflow, and the newly entered diagnosis rarely gets propagated to future physician documentation, explained Dr. Nnaemeka Okafor, vice preside
Miserable winter weather is still hitting Texas and it s spreading to the East Coast
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Steve Almasy, Jason Hanna and Madeline Holcombe, CNN
Published Feb 19, 2021 4:44:48 PM
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endIndex: As Texans continue to cope with the effects of deadly cold weather, much of the eastern half of the country was dealing with snow, ice or rain. (FILE PHOTO)
(CNN) As Texans continue to cope with the effects of deadly cold weather, much of the eastern half of the country was dealing with snow, ice or rain.
The storm system that took shape this week in the South will continue to bring significant impacts from the Mid-Atlantic to Northeast US (Thursday), according to the National Weather Service. Significant ice accumulations and heavy snowfall are expected.