Providers and suppliers continue to look at the supply chain as the cornerstone for transforming their operations. One of their ongoing challenges in this area, however, is having the ability to fully understand the long- and short-terms risks and cost savings associated with those investments.
Healthcare supply leader, GHX has launched two new healthcare supply chain savings tickers that track actual and potential savings available to healthcare providers and suppliers. The new tickers are
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Archives for 2015
Medical Crowdsourcing Saves Child’s Life from Deadly E. Coli Infection
SERMO, a global social network exclusively for doctors and the home of medical crowdsourcing, helped save a girl’s life through collaboration across borders. The infection she was diagnosed with had killed her brother just two weeks earlier. Because of SERMO’s recent expansion to the UK, Canada, Australia, South Africa, Ireland and New Zealand, doctors from around the world were able to pool their collective wisdom online to recommend options for follow up testing and treatment, saving the
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Why Should Pharma Organizations Take a Holistic Approach to Supply Chain Management?
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In a discussion about pharmaceutical supply chain management, we must first discuss the challenges the industry faces. Take compliance. The pharmaceutical industry is highly regulated, and a single quality event or poor reporting could result in a recall or penalty. Pharmaceutical recalls have gone up tremendously in the last few years due to many factors, including the FDA cracking down on compounded pharmacies and enforcing GMP standards. According to the
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CHRISTUS Health Expands Partnership with Wellcentive to Manage Population Health in 4 States
CHRISTUS Health, an international, Catholic, not-for-profit health system has announced a significant expansion of its partnership with Wellcentive, which will now deliver solutions and services for value-based care and population health management (PHM) across the majority of its U.S. operations. One of the 10 largest Catholic Health systems in the U.S.
CHRISTUS Health initially contracted with Wellcentive in 2014 to manage risk for its newly launched health plan, enable
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FHIR Will Not Save Us: We Need National Patient Identifiers
Editor’s Note: Irv Lichtenwald is president and CEO of Medsphere Systems Corporation, the solution provider for the OpenVista electronic health record. Prior to joining Medsphere, he served as CFO of Advent Software, a leading provider of investment management solutions. Between 1995 and 2003, Irv led Advent through three public stock offerings.
Graham Grieve is a data architect who thinks like a mountain climber.
“You build a mountain, you stand on top of it and see a bigger mountain
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Marlin Equity Partners to Acquire AdvancedMD
AdvancedMD, a cloud-based EHR and practice management system dedicated to independent physicians has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by global investment firm Marlin Equity Partners for an undisclosed sum. Closing of the transaction is expected in the third or fourth quarter of calendar 2015 and is subject to customary closing conditions, including the expiration of the waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act.
AdvancedMD offerings includes a
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Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois to Launch New Value-based Care Model
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois (BCBSIL) has signed an agreement to launch an innovative new value-based care model with DuPage Medical Group (DMG), the largest independent physician practice in the Chicago area, with more than 425 doctors. Traditionally in a fee-for-service delivery model, reimbursement is based on specific services provided to patients; rewarding providers for the volume of services they provide. In value-based care, payment to providers is associated with meeting
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Doximity’s Social Network for Doctors Tops 500K Members
Doximity, the leading medical network, today announced it has crossed the 500,000 member milestone. In just over four years since launch, nearly two-thirds of US physicians have joined to Doximity to connect, collaborate, and collectively provide better care for their patients.
Benefits of Doximity's Medical Network
3 ways physicians are using Doximity's social network include:
1. HIPAA-secure communication
Dr. Sandeep Krishnan, cardiologist in California, used Doximity’s free
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FDA Unveils Open Source Platform for Genomic Sequencing Data
On Wednesday, the FDA announced the launch of an open source platform for community sharing of genomic sequencing data called precisionFDA. DNAnexus, the provider of cloud-based genome informatics and data management was awarded a research and development contract by the FDA to build the platform. precisionFDA is the FDA's answer to its role under the White House’s Precision Medicine Initiative is to review the current regulatory landscape and develop a streamlined approach to evaluating
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Health Catalyst Acquires Health Care DataWorks To Enhance BI in Healthcare
Health Catalyst, a provider of healthcare data warehousing, analytics and outcomes improvement has acquired Health Care DataWorks (HCD), a leading provider of business intelligence for health systems. The Columbus, OH-based company provides health systems with data warehousing tools to improve their quality of care and reduce costs. Terms of the acquisition was a cash-and-stock purchase that closed on July 31.
Health systems are increasingly using data warehousing and analytics to leverage
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