Weekly 3 things you should know
Apple’s Health Records Feature
If you were asked to retrieve all of your past health records, how long would it take you to pull everything together? With many different electronic health record platforms in use today, Apple seeks to provide one platform where every record can be kept and accessed, quickly and efficiently, in one place. Apple Health Records not only increases patient and provider accessibility to past records, but also keeps patients more informed and involved in their health decisions.
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GE Healthcare Sells Value-Based Care Division to Veritas Capital for $1.05 Billion
Private equity firm Veritas has expanded further into the healthcare technology space through their acquisition of GE Healthcare’s value-based care division. The trio of businesses purchased by Veritas through the $1.05 billion deal include mostly workflow management and IT functions that will help to further modernize our current healthcare system.
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ONC Provides Online Resource for Accessing Health Data
Many patients choose to forego accessing their medical records due to various accessibility issues. The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has released an easy to follow guide with steps for obtaining, understanding and updating health records to alleviate these issues and allow users to get the most out of their records.
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BlueNovo Team Prepares Dinner for Local DC Shelter
BlueNovo team members give back to the community by preparing taco night for the residents of N Street Village in Washington DC. N Street Village empowers homeless and low-income women in Washington, D.C. to claim their highest quality of life by offering a broad spectrum of services, housing, and advocacy in an atmosphere of dignity and respect. We help women achieve stability and make meaningful gains in their housing, income, employment, mental health, physical health, and addiction recovery. Learn more about N Street Village at http://www.nstreetvillage.org.
Volunteering @ Our Daily Bread – Baltimore Catholic Charities
BlueNovo team members Naomi, Barbara, and Alijah volunteer at the Baltimore Catholic Charities.
BlueNovo @ Family Health Center of Baltimore’s Annual Golf Tournament
The mission of Family Health Centers of Baltimore is to provide quality and affordable primary health services to their community.
Learn more at www.fhcb.org
A Wider Circle Winter Donation
This year, BlueNovo participated in A Wider Circle’s Holiday Giving Program by collecting items such as clothes, books, toys for kids through high school. A Wider Circle is dedicated to helping individuals and families in need by providing basic necessities and hosting educational workshops. We were happy to help our local service organization in Silver Spring!
For more information, visit: http://awidercircle.org/
Lending a Helping Hand to the Senior Leaders
Along with senior leaders from WeAreFamily DC, we prepared 216 bags of groceries for the community! WeAreFamily DC was very appreciative of our volunteer efforts in support of their mission of providing food to seniors in need.
For more information, see: http://www.wearefamilydc.org/