VitalWare, a leading provider of revenue cycle SaaS solutions, today introduced ChargeAssuranceTM, a new solution with advanced features to add charge audit capabilities within the existing VitalAuditorTM mid-revenue cycle solution.

VitalAuditor™ gives our healthcare provider partners a granular view of their mid-revenue cycle performance through retrospective claims auditing and coding analytics. With the addition of the ChargeAssurance module, VitalAuditor now assists healthcare providers in building world-class charge assurance processes across inpatient and outpatient service lines. With our automated compliant charging and coding analytics, ChargeAssurance identifies missed charges and overcharges that can be tracked to the root cause level. The resolution of those charging issues leads to improved compliance, cost capture, and increased revenue. By adding ChargeAssurance, providers minimize revenue leakage, see less over- and undercharges, and impact coding and billing practices that lead to a more efficiently run mid-revenue cycle.

Kerry Martin, CEO of VitalWare, comments “I am very excited to add ChargeAssurance functionality to our VitalAuditor platform and assist our hospital clients in finding additional revenue to further their ability to care for patients.”

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Boston-based Iora Health, the care team-oriented Medicare Advantage primary care provider, this month secured $100 million in funding to support its growth and technology platform.

Rushika Fernandopulle, MD, co-founder and CEO of Iora Health, spoke with HealthLeaders Media about the provider’s plans for expansion, and the care model that he believes can transform healthcare delivery.

MADISON, Wis. — The Wisconsin Statewide Health Information Network (WISHIN), Wisconsin’s designated entity for Health Information Exchange (HIE), is pleased to announce an innovative partnership with PatientPing, the nation’s leading care-coordination platform, to improve care coordination across hundreds of hospitals, clinics, post-acute care facilities, ACOs, health plans and other community health care organizations throughout Wisconsin.

Through this partnership, participating payers and providers will benefit from access to PatientPing’s real-time patient information– “Pings” and “Stories” –to better coordinate patient care. These notifications, from 1,500 sites of care in WISHIN’s statewide network, plus thousands more in PatientPing’s national network, offer payers and providers increased visibility into patient encounters outside their virtual four walls, and even across state lines. This advancement of care-coordination technology is especially valuable as providers become increasingly responsible for patient outcomes and as the federal government continues to push for increased interoperability across the care continuum.

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Xconomy Boston — A global proliferation of subpar and fake prescription drugs is driving more investment into businesses combating the problem with new software-based systems for tracking the supply chain of pharmaceuticals.

TraceLink is one of those companies on the rise, and the North Reading, MA-based firm recently raised $60 million in a new venture capital round, according to a document filed with the SEC. That brings TraceLink’s total equity funding to at least $137.2 million, per SEC filings. Its investors include Goldman Sachs, FirstMark Capital, Volition Capital, and F-Prime Capital. TraceLink officials couldn’t be immediately reached for comment Monday morning.

TraceLink sells cloud-based software that enables companies in the pharmaceutical industry to perform various tasks around authenticating and tracking the drugs they work with. That includes meeting regulatory compliance standards, storing what can be a massive amount of data created by tracking individual packages of drugs, and interacting with other companies that use TraceLink (such as manufacturers coordinating with distributors).

As Xconomy has reported, the nine-year-old company aims to not only let customers track large amounts of data, but its software is also meant to let them exchange data on the platform, almost like a social network, co-founder and CEO Shabbir Dahod said in a 2015 interview.

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