eviCore healthcare, a Bluffton, SC-based company enabling better outcomes for patients, payers and providers through advanced medical benefits management, announced that it has acquired Boston-based QPID Health. The company has raised more than $16.3M to date backed by Matrix Partners, Partners Innovation Fund, Massachusetts General Physicians Organization and Cardinal Partners. QPID Health will continue to maintain its offices in Boston, MA and Carlsbad, CA and will retain its name. Financial
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TigerText Study: Hospitals Overpay by 45% for Antiquated Pagers
Even in the age of smartphones, an astounding number of pagers are still used throughout the healthcare industry. New research shows hospitals overpay by 45% for antiquated paging technology, according to a new study sponsored by TigerText. The study reveals how significantly U.S. hospitals are overpaying to maintain legacy paging services. The HIMSS Analytics research in which 200 hospitals were surveyed, revealed that 90% of these organization still use pagers and on average spend around
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Commonwell Expands Cross-Vendor Interoperability to Post-Acute Market
CommonWell Health Alliance is expanding its cross-vendor interoperability services to the post-acute market with vendors Brightree, Cerner and McKesson among the first CommonWell members committed to deploying these services nationwide in 2016. The not-for-profit association is the first and only national network to facilitate patient-centric identification, record location and query and retrieval of clinical chart data, planned to expand the reach of its services to enable real-world exchange
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HCI Group Named HIMSS First EMRAM Global Education, Certification Provider
Health IT consulting firm, The HCI Group [HCI] has announced a partnership with HIMSS to become the organization’s first official Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model [EMRAM] Global Education provider.HIMSS Analytics has been providing maturity models for more than 10 years, focusing on important areas of healthcare advancement including the Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model, or EMRAM. The EMRAM model is used globally as a measurement of the maturity of healthcare facilities as they
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Nuance Unveils Voice-Driven Clinical Documentation Platform for Physicians
The issue of technology bogging down physicians’ daily routines—and getting in the way of the physician/patient relationship—is reaching a fever pitch. Healthcare technology should support their workflow, not interrupt it. To help overcome this problem, Nuance Communications today unveiled Dragon® Medical One, a universal and secure cloud-based platform that provides unified voice-driven clinical documentation for physicians, whether they are dictating into EHR or a growing list
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MediPortal Joins CommonWell Health Alliance for Interoperability
MediPortal announced today it is joining CommonWell Health Alliance as a contributing member. CommonWell, a non-profit trade association, is dedicated to the simple vision that health data should be available regardless of where care occurs. Provider access to this data must be built-in health IT at a reasonable cost for use by a broad range of health care providers and the people they serve.
CommonWell and its members are producing and deploying real-world, cross-vendor interoperability
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Allscripts, Cerner Named Most Loyal EHR Vendors by Hospitals, Physicians
As the EHR replacements, provider consolidations and meaningful use uncertainties come to resolutions this year, the client loyalty spectrum discernably ranges from those hospitals with high EHR and HIT satisfaction, clinician usability and business analytics, to other hospitals unmistakably stuck with systems nominally operative, trapped with vendors due to huge capital investments, and in deep debt.
This week, Black Book Rankings unveiled its HIT Loyalty Index, a framework for measuring
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New App Helps Consumers Save Up to 85% on Prescriptions
Nearly one-third of prescriptions written are never picked up by patients because they can't afford them. To solve this, Blink Health is launching a free mobile app and website that provides anyone the lowest prices on generic prescription drugs. Available to everyone regardless of insurance status, Blink Health can save consumers up to 85% on their prescriptions at over 60,000 pharmacies, including Walgreens, CVS, Rite Aid, Wal-Mart,Duane Reade and most independent pharmacies.
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Infographic: The Sick State of Healthcare Data Breaches
1 in 3 Americans were victims of healthcare data breaches, attributed to a series of large-scale attacks that each affected more than 10 million individuals, according to Bitglass’ 2016 Healthcare Breach Report. Among the most significant findings of the report was that in 2015, 98 percent of record leaks were due to large-scale breaches targeting the healthcare industry. These high-profile attacks were the largest source of healthcare data loss and indicate that cyber attackers are increasingly
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Skagit Regional Health to Spend $72M on Epic EHR Implementation
Skagit Regional Health, a Northwest Washington-based provider of healthcare services has selected Epic as its strategic partner for a single, integrated EHR across its continuum of care, including Skagit Valley Hospital, Skagit Regional Clinics, Skagit Valley Hospital Regional Cancer Care Center and Skagit Valley Kidney Center. The Epic EHR implementation is expected to cost $72M over the next five years that will improve system interoperability, connectivity with patients, access to
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