- Charlotte-based health system Atrium Health announces it will replace Cerner electronic health system (EHR) with Epic EHR.
- The announcement marks the second health system to depart Cerner this month after AdventHealth announced it will replace Cerner and switch to Epic’s enterprise EHR and revenue cycle management system.
Atrium Health, one
of the nation’s most highly integrated not-for-profit healthcare systems based
in Charlotte, N.C. will replace their Cerner EHR system with its
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Cloudbreak Health Lands $10M for Unified Telemedicine Platform to Fuel Growth
- Cloudbreak Health raises $10M in funding from Columbia Partners Private Capital to expand its telehealth footprint.
- The company plans to use the funding will advance Cloudbreak Health’s operations and product innovations as it looks to expand nationwide throughout 2020.
Cloudbreak Health, LLC,
(“Cloudbreak”), a leading unified telemedicine
and video medical interpretation solutions provider, today announced it has
secured a $10 million investment from Columbia
Partners Private
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Taxi App Curb Integrates with Ride Health’s Patient Transportation Platform
- Curb and Ride Health partner to coordinate smarter transportation for every patient need, to power non-emergency medical transportation via licensed taxis.
- Uber and Lyft provide healthcare organizations with patient transportation services, but hospitals and health plans will soon be able to tap licensed taxis across the country to transport patients to and from medical appointments.
Curb, a New-York City-based leading mobility platform for licensed taxi and for-hire rides in North
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GHX Names 50 Best Healthcare Providers for Supply Chain Excellence
GHX Names 50 Best Healthcare
Providers for Supply Chain Excellence
- Today, GHX recognized the top 50 performing U.S. and Canadian providers for supply chain excellence chosen from a pool of more than 4,100 hospitals in the U.S. and Canada based on their operational performance, ability to drive down costs through the supply chain.
- After labor, the supply chain is the second largest cost for hospitals and health systems. Improving supply chain processes and
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Intermountain Healthcare, Cerner Extend Multiyear Expansion to Improve Innovation
- Cerner announced a multiyear expansion with Intermountain Healthcare to improve the safety, quality, and experience of healthcare for patients and caregivers.
- Through this expansion, Cerner will continue to increase the speed of innovation and help effectively address business and patient needs today and in the future.
- Intermountain will continue to provide guidance to Cerner that helps direct developments to improve experiences for caregivers, system operators and patients around
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Babyscripts, Amerigroup Partner to Improve Access to Care for Maternal Populations
- Virtual care company for managing obstetrics Babyscripts announced a partnership with Amerigroup, a Medicaid Managed Care Organization (MCO) to deliver pregnancy care solutions to George Washington University Hospital, Community of Hope and other local hospitals in the D.C. region.
- The partnership will increase access to care for pregnant mothers, delivering the benefits of remote monitoring and virtual care through Babyscripts’ mobile and web-based solution.
Babyscripts, the leading
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Scientists Develop Machine Learning Algorithms Using EMR Data to Predict Dementia
- Researchers develop and tested machine learning algorithms using EMR data to identify patients who may be at risk for developing Alzheimer's disease and related dementias.
- Researchers gathered data on patients from the Indiana Network for Patient Care using the information on prescriptions and diagnoses, which are structured fields, as well as medical notes, which are free text, to predict the onset of dementia.
Information gathered from routine visits to the doctor is enough to
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symplr Acquires Quality & Risk Management Platform The Patient Safety Company
- symplr, a leading healthcare governance, risk and compliance (“GRC”) software-as-a-service (“SaaS”) platform has acquired Patient Safety Company, a quality and risk management platform for healthcare organizations.
- The strategic acquisition further strengthens industry-leading healthcare governance, risk, and compliance software offerings.
symplr, a
leading healthcare governance, risk and compliance (“GRC”)
software-as-a-service (“SaaS”) platform, backed by Clearlake Capital
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PhysIQ Expands Patent Portfolio for Artificial Intelligence Analytics in Wearables
- PhysIQ awarded patents for a game-changing deep net approach to estimating functional capacity daily from continuous wearable sensor data.
- PhysIQ’s adds yet another patent to its extensive portfolio on personalized physiology analytics powered by the similarity-based modeling machine learning approach.
PhysIQ continues to
receive recognition for the novelty and value of its technology with the
announcement of two new patent allowances by the US Patent & Trademark
Office on
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Atrius Health to Deploy Kyruus to Enhance Patient Access Across Eastern Massachusetts
- Kyruus today announced that Atrius Health has selected the company’s solutions to enhance patient access across Eastern Massachusetts.- KyruusOne will serve as the backbone for Atrius Health’s future consumer-facing search offerings for its more than 745,000 adult and pediatric patients, as well as new patients to the system.Atrius Health, the Northeast’s largest non-profit independent medical group, has selected Kyruus, the leader in provider search and scheduling solutions for health systems
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