The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI), a nonprofit authority on the use of health IT to create efficiencies in healthcare information exchange, in partnership with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and other industry associations and partners, announced its searchable ICD-10 Issue Reporting Database– originally launched in early 2014 as part of its ICD-10 Implementation Success Initiative – will continue operation after the transition to ICD-10. Through this
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PerfectServe Pulls In $21M to Expand Clinician Secure Messaging Platform
PerfectServe, a secure messaging and collaboration platform for clinicians has raised $21 million in funding led by MemorialCare Innovation Fund (MCIF), a strategic investment fund associated with MemorialCare Health System. Additional investors from the round include incumbent investors CHV Capital, the strategic investment arm of the Indiana University Health System, Piper Jaffray and River Cities Capital Funds, along with new investor Ares Capital Corporation. The funding will accelerate the
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HealthTap Launches Enterprise App for Managing All Employees’ Healthcare Needs
HealthTap, a digital health company set to reinvent the way people all over the world take care of their health and well-being has unveiled their new enterprise app called Compass. The new HealthTap Compass will serve as a hub for managing all employees’ healthcare needs, from information to prescriptions and even lab test referrals and interpretations, and will replace the traditional “benefits card.” As part of the announcement, HealthTap has partnered with supply chain company Flex
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Is Meaningful Use a Roadblock to Achieving Interoperability?
This week, a study published by the Government Accountability Office (GAO), known as the “Congressional Watchdog,” revealed the Meaningful Use program is a roadblock to achieving EHR interoperability. Conducted at the request of congressional leaders, the GAO interviewed 18 groups outside of the federal government that specialize in EHRs and are working to achieve EHR interoperability. GAO asked the representatives of these groups to share their perspectives of the meaningful use” program.
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Leidos, Virginia Tech Partner to Study Big Data EHR Challenges
Virginia Tech and science and technology solutions company Leidos have teamed up to collaborate on student-conducted scientific research into the big data challenges of today’s EHRs with the aim of optimizing healthcare delivery. Leidos and Virginia Tech will use technical data from hospitals and physician offices to establish methods to improve quality of care and reduce the cost of healthcare, particularly for hospitals. This partnership is expected to prepare the Virginia Tech students for
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SERMO’s Social Network for Doctors Expands to Spain, Mexico
Social network for doctors SERMO has expanded its network to 260,000 Mexican and 232,000 Spanish doctors as it strengthen its footprint as the largest global social network exclusively for physicians available now in Australia, Canada, Ireland, Mexico, New Zealand, South Africa, Spain, the UK and the US. The Power of Medical Crowdsourcing SERMO is a unique resource for doctors serving as a place to consult with hundreds of thousands of peers from around the world on patient cases (medical
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Crowdfunding for Medical Devices Could Be A Passing Fad
While it is well established in other areas of business, crowdfunding for medical devices presents a new set of challenges and opportunities, and could become a passing fad rather than an encouraging new trend in the healthcare sector, says an analyst with research and consulting firm GlobalData. According to Shashank Settipalli, GlobalData's Analyst covering Medical Devices, although medical device regulatory agencies, such as the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), have not enacted
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Quest Diagnostics, Inovalon Launch Real-Time Analytics at Point of Care Solution
Quest Diagnostics is teaming up with Inovalon, a provider of cloud-based healthcare data analytics and data-driven intervention platforms to launch of Data Diagnostics™, a suite of hundreds of real-time patient-specific data analyses that clinicians can order individually, on demand at the point of care within their existing workflow to identify and address gaps in quality, risk, utilization and medical history insights. Under a five-year, exclusive, collaboration agreement between Inovalon and
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Iron Mountain, QuadraMed Partner to Improve Patient Identity Management
Iron Mountain Incorporated, a the storage and information management company, and QuadraMed®, a provider of healthcare technologies and services, have entered into a strategic relationship to provide enterprise master person index (EMPI) solutions to help healthcare organizations identify and eliminate duplicate and fragmented records within and across their various patient database(s). The partnership will help healthcare organizations strengthen their ability to meet regulatory compliance
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Nuance Unveils Next-Gen Computer-Assisted Physician Documentation for ICD-10
Today, Nuance Communications, Inc. has launched Dragon Medical Advisor, a next generation Computer-Assisted Physician Documentation (CAPD) solution that automatically provides real-time quality feedback to physicians while they are documenting patient encounters. This improves the completeness of clinical notes and helps provider organizations meet the impending ICD-10 requirements, justify medical necessity of care decisions, and support better patient care. Building on the work done in 2011
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