Scripps Health and HIPAA-compliant clinical network provider Health Gorilla just announced a partnership to seamlessly & securely share EMR's across the Scripps network of ER's, radiologists, labs and doctors. Health Gorilla is already used by thousands of doctors to automate their practices through instant, easy electronic lab and medical imaging orders, referrals, and test results, including Scripps affiliated medical groups Scripps Mercy Physician Partners and Mercy
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Archives for 2015
Students Donate 3D Printed Hands to Children
Creighton University students Marc Petrykowski and Adam Carson are designing and 3D printing hand devices for children in their local area for free. Through a research project with the e-NABLE global network, Petrykowski and Carson utilized Ultimaker2 and Ultimaker2Extended 3D printers to create and donate a variety of functional assistive hand and arm devices to children in their local Omaha area and across the nation.
Since beginning their research project with e-NABLE, Petrykowski and
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SAP Unveils New Solutions to Advance Personalized Medicine
SAP SE announced SAP Foundation for Health and the SAP Medical Research Insights solutions built on the SAP HANA platform to realize the full potential of personalized medicine.
By unlocking patient data and uncovering insights in real time, the new solutions reveal the value of patient data, from biomedical data to EMRs to clinical trials. They facilitate data integration and provide real-time analysis and reporting that together lead to improved personalized medicine and patient care.
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PatientsLikeMe Awarded $900k RWJF Grant to Develop Healthcare Performance Measures
PatientsLikeMe, a patient network that improves lives and a real-time research platform that advances medicine has been awarded a $900,000 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) to help jumpstart changes that will amplify the patient voice in the measurement of healthcare performance.
A portion of the grant will fund a collaboration between PatientsLikeMe and the National Quality Forum (NQF) to develop, test and facilitate the broader use of patient-reported
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eClinicalWorks Pumps $30M to Fuel EHR Expansion to India, Build New Data Center
eClinicalWorks®, a leading ambulatory EHR provider is pumping $30 million in India to build a new data center and expand its footprint in India, reports The Hindu BusinessLine. The company currently employs 1,000 associates in India and plans to develop a new mobile app that provides a search portal matching doctors with patients and book appointments. Doctors using the app can diagnose symptoms and check for drug to drug interference to avoid reactions between medicines prescribed to
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Can We Balance Civil Liberties with Mental Health Treatment?
Editor's Note: Irv Lichtenwald is president and CEO of Medsphere Systems Corporation, the solution provider for the OpenVista electronic health record.
In January of this year, political analyst Norman Ornstein lost his 34-year-old son, Matthew, to accidental carbon monoxide poisoning. While Matthew’s death was a tragic blow to family and friends, it was not the kind of out-of-the-blue shock that comes with absolutely no forewarning. Matthew, as Ornstein says in a New York Times op-ed
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AbilTo Launches Tele-Behavioral Health Program for Veterans Returning to Civilian Life
AbilTo, Inc., a provider of tele-behavioral health programs, today launched its Military Transitions Program, designed specifically to help veterans address the personal, interpersonal and emotional challenges that often accompany return from service at any point during the readjustment period.
Military Transitions Program Overview
The goal of the Military Transitions Program is to improve mood management and practice action-oriented behavior that is goal and values driven. To achieve this, an
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Geisinger to Utilize Cerner’s Population Health Management Platform
Geisinger Health System is collaborating with Cerner to utilize Cerner's HealtheIntent population health management platform to further extend Geisinger’s data-driven population health capabilities.
Geisinger leveraged HealtheIntent, a system-agnostic, near real-time platform that normalizes data from any source, to aggregate clinical and financial data from its core EHR and other sources, such as its insurance company, in a proof-of-concept project. Given the positive outcome of the
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EPCS and Prior Authorizations: Prescriptions for Better Patient Care
Editor's Note: Stephen Beck, MD, FACP, FHIMSS, currently serves as Chief Medical Informatics Officer at Mercy Health .
In 2010, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) revised regulations to give prescribers the option to write electronic prescriptions for controlled substances (EPCS) such as opioids and ADHD medications, while permitting pharmacies to receive, dispense, and archive these e-scripts. EPCS increases patient and community safety, too. Doctors document everything discreetly
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Startup Launches First-Ever Medical Marijuana Telehealth App
On-demand medical marijuana technology startup Eaze has released the first of its kind medical marijuana telehealth app, EazeMD in both the iTunes and Google Play stores to make on-demand physician evaluations possible from any mobile device. For only $30, EazeMD's proprietary mobile technology platform enables new and renewing patients to connect with independent, board-certified physicians via video teleconferencing for medical marijuana evaluations.
Once evaluations are approved,
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