Ability Network has acquired Secure Bill Pay, an Eagan, MN-based healthcare payment software provider that provides an all-in-one set of tools to enable providers to facilitate patient payment throughout the revenue cycle. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. As part of the acquisition, all of the company’s employees will join the ABILITY team.ABILITY provides apps and analytics that are integral in helping with revenue cycle management, clinical management and performance
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5 Common Mistakes Providers Make With Healthcare Analytics
It’s a brave new world of big data analytics, but what does that mean for healthcare systems? Healthcare data is crucial to enhancing patient care and outcomes. However, the uncertainty of where to start and what tools to use can be overwhelming. On top of that, how to meaningfully use analytics to take action is another concern. There are five common mistakes providers make with healthcare analytics that can be easily avoided when you better understand the questions you need to answer and how
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Arcadia Healthcare Appoints Karl Stubelis As New Chief Financial Officer
Arcadia Healthcare Solutions, a electronic health record (EHR) and claims data aggregation and population health management technology company, has appointed Karl Stubelis as its new chief financial officer. Prior to Arcadia, Stubelis served as senior vice president and CFO at athenahealth. Under his new role at Arcadia, Stubelis will report to CEO Sean Carroll and will lead all financial operations while spearheading the company’s capital strategy in support of its growth plan.Stubelis has
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Quest Diagnostics Completes Acquisition of Med Fusion
Quest Diagnostics has announced the completed its acquisition of the laboratory businesses Med Fusion and Clear Point. Operating from a nearly 200,000 square foot facility in Lewisville, Texas, the two businesses form the basis for the company’s first national center of excellence in precision diagnostics for oncology. For patients with cancer, precision diagnostics, such as genomic sequencing of a tumor's DNA, may help a physician select a therapy or clinical trial and monitor response.In
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Mercom: Healthcare IT Funding Tops Record $4B in First Half of 2017
Health IT VC funding reached a total record of $4B in the first half of 2017, representing a 36 percent higher year-over-year, according to a new report from Mercom Capital Group. The latest report finds that there were a total of 90 Healthcare IT M&A transactions, compared to 110 in 1H 2016. M&A activity in the second quarter of 2017 was down with 41 M&A transactions (five disclosed) compared to the 49 M&A transactions (seven disclosed) in Q1 2017.Mercom’s comprehensive report
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Digitization beyond the Doc
Editor's Note: Paul Brient is the CEO of PatientKeeper, Inc., a provider of healthcare applications for physicians. Prior to joining PatientKeeper in 2002, Brient held senior executive-level positions at leading healthcare and consulting firms including McKesson Corporation, HPR, and The Boston Consulting Group.Healthcare IT has a long way to go before it delivers truly transformative benefits to providers and patients across the healthcare continuum. However, the incremental steps that already
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Mackenzie Health Goes Live on Epic End-to-End EMR in Canada
Mackenzie Health, a Canadian-based regional healthcare provider has announced the go-live of Epic across its enterprise, becoming the first full-suite Epic EMR to be implemented in a Canadian hospital.The new EMR implementation was a two-year process that involved significant software build, consultation with Mackenzie Health staff and physicians, testing and education. Two weeks prior to the launch, over 100 Mackenzie Health staff transitioned over 15,000 scheduled appointments, including for
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Led by BlueCross BlueShield, Healthify Raises $6.5M for Social Determinants Management Platform
Healthify, a NYC-based community referral and social determinants management platform, closed a $6.5m Series A funding round led by BlueCross BlueShield Venture Partners (BCBSVP). The round also included participation from existing investors Primary Venture Partners (PVP) and Activate Venture Partners (AVP).Healthify will use the funds from the financing to expand its care coordination product suite and grow its network of customers and social service partners. To date, Healthify has raised over
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NeHII Taps DrFirst to Aggregate Statewide Prescription Records
NebraskaHealth Information Initiative (NeHII) and the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services has selected DrFirst to capture state prescription information and deliver it to Nebraska’s enhanced Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP) which began January 1, 2017. Unlike some state PDMPs, the focus in Nebraska is primarily around patient safety and outcomes. The inclusion of complete prescription data in the PDMP database enhances patient safety and helps combat the abuse of opioids
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eClinicalWorks Launches healow Kids App to Connect Parents with Their Child’s Pediatrician
Today, eClinicalWorks has announced its healow Kids mobile app, which helps connects parents with their child’s pediatrician. The app, which is fully integrated with the eClinicalWorks Electronic Health Record (EHR), helps parents keep track of their child’s health and progress. Through the app, parents can access health records, lab results, send and receive secure messages to the pediatrician and book appointments. "As an experienced user of the healow Kids app, both professionally and
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