Huron Consulting Group, a provider of business consulting services, today announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Cloud62, a high-growth firm specializing in complex Salesforce.com implementations and related cloud-based applications. The addition of Cloud62 will expand Huron’s Salesforce.com offerings to clients across multiple industries, including healthcare, higher education, manufacturing, retail and financial services. Terms of the acquisition, which is expected to close
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Archives for 2015
Why EHR Data Blocking Is The Enemy of Collaboration
Note: Dr. Mark Crockett is the chief medical officer of Rise Health, a Best Doctors company. The company provides solutions to deliver the right care at the right time to the right patient.
Today’s healthcare headlines state the problem succinctly’: ‘EHR Data Blocking Hobbles HIT’; ‘EHR Data Blocking Still Rampant’ and more. Search ‘EHR data blocking’ on Google and you get 81,000 entries. Data blocking is clearly obstructing progress towards value-based care and is the enemy of
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Partners HealthCare, Health Catalyst Partner to Create Population Health Center of Excellence
Partners HealthCare and Health Catalyst have established a $30 million initiative strategic collaboration aimed at fostering and accelerating the adoption of population health management (PHM) strategies and practices nationally to improve the quality of health care and lowering costs while meeting the needs of patients, providers and payors. The new population health center of excellence is designed to enable the development and testing of innovative PHM strategies at Partners and, in
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3M to Consider Possible Sales Of Its Health IT Business
On Thursday, 3M announced that it is exploring strategic alternatives for its global health IT business. These alternatives, all of which are focused on building upon the business’ strong foundation, could include:
- spinning-off its health IT business
- selling the health IT business entirely
- retaining and further investing in the existing health IT business within 3M.
3M Health Information Systems, a business of 3M Health Care, works with providers, payers, and government
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HIMSS: 3 Health IT Policy Recommendations to Congress
The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) has released their annual top health IT policy recommendations to Congress. Under the guidance of the Public Policy Committee, HIMSS staff works closely with key congressional decision-makers, committees, and caucuses to advance improvements in the quality, safety and efficiency of healthcare through the use of IT and management systems.
Here are their top three health IT policy recommendations to Congress:
1. Support
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Clinovations GovHealth Awarded Subcontract for $4.3B DoD EHR Modernization Project
Clinovations Government + Health, a provider of technology services that span public sector and provider health domains, today announced that the company was a part of the Leidos Partnership for Defense Health team awarded a contract by the Department of Defense (DoD) to provide an electronic health record (EHR) for the U.S. Military. The team solution will include an off-the-shelf EHR with the associated services needed to deploy the EHR across the Military Health System.
DHMSM Contract
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Infographic: 10 Most Popular EHRs
IIt’s no secret that physicians look to their peers for information about EHRs before they purchase, yet the majority of rankings focus solely on overall revenue or total number of licenses sold. While these lists prove valuable in considering market share, for physician buyers, they lack that critical component of peer feedback.
The following infographic created by Software Advice illustrates the top ten most popular EHRs based on a proprietary survey of 576 frequent users, brand search
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IBM Watson Health Cloud Expands Capabilities to Bring Innovations to Doctors, Patients
After unveiling the IBM Watson Cloud earlier this year, IBM shows no signs of slowing down their market penetration in healthcare. To further expand their capabilities of Health Cloud, today it has announced the introduction of the IBM Watson Health Cloud for Life Sciences Compliance and the IBM Watson Care Manager.
IBM Watson Health Cloud for Life Sciences Compliance Overview
The IBM Watson Health Cloud for Life Sciences Compliance will help biomedical companies bring medical innovations
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New York Digital Health Accelerator Unveils 2015 Class of 6 Startups
The New York Digital Health Accelerator (NYDHA) has announced their 2015 class of six early and growth stage digital health companies that are developing cutting-edge technology products for healthcare providers and patients in the areas of care coordination, patient engagement, and workflow improvement. The four-month program run by the Partnership Fund for New York City (Partnership Fund) and the New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) will provide the digital health startups direct access to
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New Health Care Supply Chain Innovation Center Employs Internet of Things Approach
In an Internet of Things (IoT) approach to health care - where connectivity creates opportunities for improved economic benefit − Cardinal Health announced the opening of its Healthcare Supply Chain Innovation Lab, a research and development facility dedicated to reducing the $5 billion in waste in the health care supply chain for devices and implantables.* The new, 20,000 sq. ft. lab located in Concord, Mass., will serve as a hub for Cardinal Health to explore innovative approaches, such as
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