According to a new survey report from executive firm Witt/Kieffer, 79% of healthcare executives feel that burnout is negatively impacting their organization. In fact, 79% of healthcare executives believe that their organization is not doing enough to reduce or prevent executive burnout. The survey report, The Impact of Burnout on Healthcare Executives surveyed close to 350 healthcare executives representing CEOs, CFOs, CMOs, Chief Nursing Officers and other executives at the C-suite, Vice
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Intermountain and MDClone Integrate to Transform Patient Data into Actionable Insights
Intermountain Healthcare, today announced it is teaming up with Israeli healthcare IT company MDClone to increase caregivers’ ability to transform patient data into information they can use to help people lead the healthiest lives possible. As part of the collaboration, MDClone will share a new approach to healthcare data access, analytics, and research with Intermountain. The new partnership will further transform its existing rich data sources into more meaningful information that will enable
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New Physician Burnout Initiative to Research 1 Million Physician Shift Hours in 2019
Pathology of Burnout Initiative led by Lightning Bolt aims to understand patterns in physician work schedules and burnout. Lightning Bolt Solutions, a provider of optimized physician shift technology announced they will work to identify the root cause of physician burnout by studying one million physician shift hours in 2019. The “Pathology of Burnout Initiative” starts with the simple act of asking physicians how they are doing. The data from this study will be key in determining how healthcare
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EBSCO Health Acquires Clinical Decision Support Tool HealthDecision
EBSCO Health, a provider of evidence-based clinical information tools has acquired HealthDecision, a decision support and shared decision-making tool for clinicians and patients. Founded in 2004, HealthDecision’s visual representation of medical outcomes is educational, easy-to-use and facilitates discussion between the clinician and patient to mutually agree on a personalized treatment plan.Developed by clinicians with subject matter expertise, HealthDecision integrates medical literature
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King’s Daughters Medical Center Implements MEDITECH’s Expanse Point of Care
MEDITECH's Expanse Point of Care software, the company's latest web-based, mobile technology for nurses and therapists to provide the best and most efficient patient-facing care, has been implemented at King's Daughters Medical Center (Brookhaven, MS). Accessible via a smartphone or a handheld mobile device, Expanse Point of Care features an optimized user interface for the company's Expanse Patient Care and Patient Safety solution.It has all the functionality needed to view charts, document,
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Philips and American Heart Association Partner to Increase Sudden Cardiac Arrest Survival Rates
Today, Philips and the American Heart Association (AHA) announced a partnership to increase sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) survival rates outside the hospital around the world. This first-of-its-kind initiative, known as the Connected Pulse program, combines education and training to heighten awareness around CPR, the use of AEDs and other new technologies that can improve the chances for survival from the moment an incident occurs to the patient reaching the hospital.Cardiovascular disease is a
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OnlyBoth Launches 3 AI-Based Healthcare Benchmarking Engines
OnlyBoth Inc. has launched three new evaluation engines, complementing its original benchmarking engine, designed to meet the healthcare industry and consumer demand for comprehensive provider comparisons. Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based engines enable distinct comparative searches for thousands of hospitals, nursing homes, dialysis facilities, long-term care hospitals, inpatient rehabilitation facilities, home health, and hospice agencies nationwide at www.benchmine.com. Four engine types,
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Chilmark Report Reveals Strategies and Tools for Bundled Payment Programs
Recent CMS rule changes have once again brought bundled payments into the national spotlight. Addressing established uncertainty amongst payers and providers on the future of bundled payments, Chilmark’s latest report analyzes the market trends shaping this space and describes available health IT solutions to help healthcare organizations (HCOs) adapt to these new value-based payment programs.Challenges to Bundled Payment ProgramsThe report, Bundled Payments: Current Strategies and Tools, starts
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Boston Children’s Hospital Partners With Patient Navigation Platform Medumo
Pediatric hospital Boston Children’s Hospital has partnered with Medumo, a patient navigation platform whose technology promotes better patient engagement and activation, to deliver a targeted pediatric care messaging service to improve access and patient experience. Loss-to-follow-up missed appointments, and improper procedure preparation or discharge follow up leads to worse patient outcomes and is a multi-billion dollar a year problem to hospitals.Exclusive License with DisCoWith this
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Healthcare Data Platform Innovaccer Closes $35M Series B Round
Silicon Valley-based healthcare data platform company Innovaccer, announced that is has closed $35 million in Series B funding, led by Microsoft’s investment arm M12 (formerly known as Microsoft Ventures), Westbridge Capital with participation from Lightspeed Ventures. The latest round brings the total capital raised by Innovaccer to $51 million. Founded in 2014, Innovaccer Inc. is on a mission to drive efficiency in healthcare by unleashing the power of data. Its leading healthcare data
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