Care coordination technology company aids its ACO provider network in achieving significant shared savings for 2017

BOSTON, Oct. 10, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — PatientPing, a health technology company that connects providers to seamlessly coordinate patient care, would like to congratulate its national network of Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) for generating more than $270 million in shared savings in 2017 in the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP). The care coordination technology company’s ACO network includes thousands of providers that participate in the MSSP and other innovative value-based-care delivery models.

“Patients transitioning across care settings are most at risk for readmissions, medication errors, and changes in providers, which can all lead to undesirable health outcomes and high costs,” said Denise Patriaco, Administrative Director at Hackensack Alliance ACO. “At Hackensack Alliance, we want to be sure that we keep a hand on the patient as they move from the hospital or ER to subacute care and then back home, with or without home health services. PatientPing has allowed us to keep track of a much larger segment of our population than we were able to before and has greatly assisted our ACO in decreasing overall readmissions.”

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BOSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Oct 9, 2018–Buoy Health, an AI health assistant that helps people from the moment they get sick start their care on the right foot, today announced they have been named to CNBC’s inaugural 2018 Upstart 100 list. The CNBC Upstart 100 list highlights technology-driven start-ups that are experiencing rapid growth due to their innovative products, apps, tools or services. From hundreds of companies nominated from across the country, CNBC selected Buoy Health and its innovative artificial intelligence (AI) health assistant platform as one of the 100 up-and-coming companies with the potential to revolutionize, transform, and disrupt its industry.

Patients using Buoy Health simply visit www.buoyhealth.com and engage in a conversation with its friendly AI health assistant in an exchange designed to mirror a conversation with a doctor. Patients are then prompted through a series of questions to enter their symptoms in detail. Buoy will then analyze the patient’s inputs in real-time and direct the customer to a recommended course of treatment.

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NORTH READING, Mass., Oct. 8, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — TraceLink Inc., the World’s Largest Track and Trace Network for connecting the life sciences supply chain and providing real-time information sharing for better patient outcomes, today announced that FAREVA has selected TraceLink’s serialization solutions to ensure compliance with the EU Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD). TraceLink and FAREVA will be at CPhI Worldwide, October 9 – 11 in Madrid, partnering together to provide education around EU FMD readiness and serialization.

A global pharmaceutical and API leading contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO), FAREVA produces various dosage forms and API as well as offers packing options. With over 1,000 customers, FAREVA operates 35 sites across Europe, Russia, Turkey and The Americas.

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BOSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Buoy Health, an AI health assistant that helps people from the moment they get sick start their care on the right foot, today announced they were awarded the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) Challenge Award for Patient Health Education at last month’s Health 2.0 Conference, held in Santa Clara, California. The award was the result of a year-long contest that asked companies to submit health-focused technologies incorporating AI. After being assessed against 250 competitors and advancing through multiple evaluation rounds, Buoy Health was chosen as one of three finalists. During a final live pitching session at the conference, the competition’s judges determined Buoy Health’s AI-powered chatbot technology to have the most impact, potential for adoption, creativity, scalability and design intuitiveness.

“We are honored to have received the AI Challenge Award from such a prestigious institution as the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Their recognition of Buoy Health’s AI health assistant as both a benefits tool for employers and a more helpful alternative for consumers that are prone to Googling their symptoms has emboldened us as we continue towards our goal of improving the patient journey,” said Dr. Andrew Le, CEO of Buoy Health. “Buoy was designed using real world data points based on trusted medical literature and guides patients to care by asking questions, just like a real doctor would. After a consumer answers questions for 2 to 3 minutes, we narrow the possible diagnoses and, through our employer, payer, and provider partners, show exactly what services exist for that particular ailment.”

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NORTH READING, Mass., Oct. 3, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — TraceLink Inc., the World’s Largest Track and Trace Network for connecting the life sciences supply chain and providing real-time information sharing for better patient outcomes, today announced that it now serves over 1,000 customers in 43 countries, delivering proven solutions for companies that are complying with U.S. Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA), EU Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) and additional track and trace requirements in Russia, India, South Korea, China and Brazil.

In the third quarter of 2018, TraceLink reached 1,016 customers, representing a 46 percent year-over-year increase in total customers, including:

• 63 percent representing pharmaceutical and contract manufacturers;
• 5 percent representing wholesale distributors and parallel importers; and
• 32 percent representing pharmacies, hospitals, clinics and health systems

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