M*Modal, a provider of clinical documentation and Speech Understanding™ solutions, announced that it expects to emerge from Chapter 11 within three weeks following today's confirmation of the Company's Plan of Reorganization by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York. The Plan provides for restructuring of the Company's debt, and has the support of substantial majorities of its lenders and bondholders.
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IDC Health Insights: Imprivata Cortext: Secure Communications Platform for Healthcare
White paper sponsored by Imprivata, presents key findings of interviews with three healthcare IT executives regarding the deployment of Imprivata Cortext, a secure communications platform.
Executive Summary
At the heart of excellent patient care is good communication between care team members. However, a highly mobile workforce and multiple communications channels voice, landlines, mobile devices, email, and paging make it challenging for clinicians to communicate
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Symplur Unveils Social Healthcare Intelligence Platform, Symplur Signals
Today, Symplur, LLC unveiled their new social healthcare intelligence platform called Symplur Signals in Paris at the Doctors 2.0 & You conference last month and is targeting July 14th as the official launch date. Known was the highly popular Healthcare Hashtag Project, Symplur maintains the largest database of healthcare related Twitter conversations in existence.
Large healthcare organizations, academic institutions, and medical associations wishing to gain business intelligence or to
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Secure vs. HIPAA Compliant: What’s the Difference for Text Messaging?
White paper from DocHalo explores the differences between secure vs. hipaa compliant text messaging and what features make a secure texting solution truly HIPAA-compliant.
The need for physicians and other healthcare team members to be in constant communication with each other has never been higher. Secure texting applications seek to provide healthcare professionals a quick and convenient way to connect while complying with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability
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Infirmary Health Achieves Rapid Physician Adoption of its EHR using Nuance Cloud-Based Speech Recognition
Nuance Communications, Inc., announced today that Infirmary Health has achieved rapid success deploying Nuance clinical speech recognition technology embedded within Epic’s apps, which simplifies how physicians enter clinical information on mobile devices. Infirmary Health provides care for more than 100,000 patients annually across multiple hospitals and clinics in Alabama and has found Nuance’s voice-enabled clinical documentation speeds physician workflows on smartphones and tablets, expands
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The Imprivata Report on the Economic Impact of Inefficient Communications in Healthcare
Efficient communication and collaboration amongst physicians, nurses and other providers is critical to the coordination and delivery of patient care, especially given the increasingly mobile nature of today’s clinicians and the evolution of the accountable care organization (ACO) model.For healthcare IT leadership, the ability to satisfy the clinical need for more efficient communications technologies must be balanced with safeguarding protected health information (PHI) to meet compliance and
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HIEs: Transforming Clinical Workflows for Care Coordination
Improving care coordination has become a top priority for hospitals and health systems as they seek to meet Stage 2 meaningful use requirements and as the industry shifts from fee-for-service to pay-for-quality reimbursement models. Provisions under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) are driving the formation of accountable care organizations (ACOs), patient-centered medical homes (PCMHs) and other coordinated-care systems. All these models require participants to access and share vital patient
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MediSafe Releases 1st Medication Management App for Android Wear Smartwatches
MediSafe has expanded its leading medication management platform to include wearables, becoming the first mobile health app on Google’s just-announced suite of Android Wear smartwatches.
Users wearing either the LG Android Wear, Samsung Gear Live or Moto 360 smartwatches, who also have the MediSafe medication management solution installed on their Android smartphone or tablet, will automatically have a MediSafe “wearable app” loaded on their Android Wear and begin receiving medication reminders
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Validic Expands Digital Health Ecosystem by 44% with Infometers Acquisition
Validic, the healthcare industry's premier technology platform for accessing digital and mobile health data, announced today the acquisition of Infometers Inc., a Silicon Valley-based technology company that connects remote healthcare monitoring devices to the healthcare system.
With this acquisition, Validic's digital health ecosystem increases 44% enabling Validic clients – including hospitals, physicians, payers, pharma and wellness companies – greater access to key patient data from
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Methodology: 6 Key Stages of A Successful mHealth Project
New methodology created by Tony Kane Consulting Ltd outlines six key stages of a successful mhealth project.
Typically, mHealth has been held back by a lack of insight into the necessary factors to ensure a successful mHealth project. To address this issue, Tony Kane Consulting Ltd has developed a structured repeatable methodology supported by real life case studies and practical toolkits to help project sponsors successfully build the critical elements for success into their plans and
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