CareDash.com, an online doctor review and rating portal has secured nearly $1 million in venture debt financing and an additional $1 million line of credit led by Link Ventures, a Cambridge-based investment firm focused on internet and technology companies. With this new investment, the Cambridge, MA-based company plans to increase consumer awareness of the brand as a resource dedicated to transparency in the doctor review industry with a steadfast promise to reject payments from doctors seeking
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Dimension Data Unveils New Clinical Mobility Solution to Improve Healthcare Patient Safety & Caregiver Efficiency
Dimension Data, a global IT services and solutions provider has unveiled its Clinical Mobility Solution, designed to improve healthcare patient safety and caregiver efficiency, while minimizing institutional operating expenses. The solution – a framework to help healthcare organizations develop, execute and evolve their mobility strategies – draws on Dimension Data’s experience serving hundreds of healthcare institutions across the world. With 90 percent of healthcare professionals using mobile
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San Juan Regional to Implement Cerner EHR Platform to Replace 75 Health IT Applications
San Juan Regional Medical Center has selected Cerner to implement it's Millennium EHR, revenue cycle management and population health management platform to displace more than 75 health IT applications. The integration of Cerner’s Millennium® EHR and revenue cycle management solutions combines clinical and financial information within a single platform to support an individual’s health care journey across the continuum. The Cerner implementation will result in a Clinically Driven Revenue Cycle™
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Innovaccer Unveils End-to-End MIPS Reporting, Performance Optimization Platform
Innovaccer Inc., a healthcare analytics company has unveiled its holistic MIPS Platform designed to enable providers deliver better clinical outcomes by helping them monitor performances, understand population, efficiently manage data, and easily submit it to CMS. The platform has the capability to ingest Clinical, Claims, ADT, Scheduling, Immunization, Medication, and Labs data from disparate sources in one single longitudinal patient view. Through intuitive dashboards in the platform,
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Comprehend Systems Lands $15M to Expand Clinical Trials Data Platform
Comprehend Systems, Inc., a provider of Clinical Intelligence solutions has raised $15 million in Series C funding led by Eminence Capital, with participation by existing investors Sequoia Capital and Lightspeed Venture Partners.The company plans to utilize the funding to aggressively expand sales and engineering to meet a growing demand for Comprehend's cloud-based software that enables Clinical Research teams to deliver an order of magnitude improvement in the speed and quality of trial
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Black Book Rankings: Allscripts Named Top EHR Vendor with Population Health Solution
Black Book Rankings has named Allscripts as the top EHR vendor with a comprehensive population health management solution earning the highest rank in 10 of the 18 individual criteria.For Black Book Ranking 2017, Black Book crowd-sourced nearly 7,000 responses on eighteen key performance, satisfaction and usability indicators from physicians practice, hospitals, health systems and chains, ACOs, IDNs and IPAs in the first quarter of 2017.Allscripts CareInMotion is a population health management
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Report: Federal Health IT Spending Expected to Reach $1.7T by 2025
Federal health IT spending is expected to grow 86% to $1.7 trillion by 2025 to combat increases in federal expenditures for health, according to a new report from Deltek. The report, Federal Health Information Technology Market, 2016-2021 reveals that health IT investments aimed at digitizing, sharing, analyzing and securing health information will drive strong federal spending in this market segment over the next five years from $6.0 billion in FY 2016 to $6.4 billion in 2021 at a Compound
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Concept Plus Acquires Federal Health IT Management Services Firm Thao, Inc.
Concept Plus, LLC (Concept Plus), a professional services firm specializing in the comprehensive design, implementation, and maintenance of IT initiatives for the Federal Government has acquired health IT management firm Thao, Inc. (THAOINC). THAOINC provides health IT services and program management support exclusively to federal healthcare customers through its highly skilled staff. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. Founded in 2010 by Thao Sofo, THAOINC offers
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Common Sensing, Welkin Health Partner to Develop Innovative Insulin Adherence Program
Insulin adherence remains a significant challenge with approximately 62 percent of patients discontinuing insulin in the first three months and 82 percent in the first year. To resolve this challenge, Common Sensing and Welkin Health have partnered to develop an innovative new program aimed at improving insulin adherence for people living with diabetes. A first-of-its-kind initiative, the program will combine insulin dosing data, wirelessly transmitted from Common Sensing’s Gocap™, real-time
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McKesson to Acquire Prior Authorization Network CoverMyMeds for $1.1B: 5 Things to Know
On late Wednesday, McKesson has agreed to acquired Columbus, OH-based CoverMyMeds, the nation’s largest prior authorization (PA) network for $1.1 billion. Founded in 2008, CoverMyMeds’ electronic prior authorization (ePA) service automates and accelerates the prescription approval process, which otherwise is manual and time consuming. By ensuring appropriate access to medications, CoverMyMeds helps customers avoid administrative waste and unnecessary medical spending caused by prescription
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