Edifecs, a global health information technology solutions company, today announced the availability of its Encounter Management solution for small and mid-sized Managed Care Organizations (MCOs) and Medicare Advantage Organizations (MAOs). The Encounter Management software-as-a-service (SaaS) model helps health plans facilitate the encounter data submission process in the transition from Risk Adjustment Payment System (RAPS) to the Encounter Data Process System (EDPS) with no infrastructure
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Cooper University Health Taps Bernoulli for Medical Device Integration into Epic EHR
Bernoulli Health, the developer of the advanced Bernoulli One clinical surveillance, medical device integration (MDI), and real-time data analytics platform, announced today that Cooper University Health Care (NJ) has selected Bernoulli for enterprise-wide medical device integration into their Epic EHR.Cooper will leverage Bernoulli across all critical care units, emergency departments, perioperative suites, select telemetry and oncology units, and off-campus surgical centers, replacing an
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Cigna Launches “Answers by Cigna” on Amazon Alexa
Today, Cigna announced it will be the first global health service company to offer a skill aimed at personalizing and simplifying health benefits information with the launch of “Answers by Cigna,” a skill for Amazon Alexa. “Answers by Cigna” is designed to educate and engage people about health care by providing instant and easy-to-understand answers to more than 150 commonly-asked health care questions.Nearly half of Americans are utilizing voice enabled devices and has the potential to change
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Cook Children’s Health Goes Live on Epic EHR Across Network
Cook Children’s Health Care System has announced their go-live on Epic’s electronic health record (EHR) on March 1. Epic’s EHR system will care to patients not only at the flagship medical center in Fort Worth, Texas, but more than 60 pediatric medical offices and specialty clinics throughout the state.Epic’s rollout at Cook Children’s includes several components affecting patient families, medical staff and referring physicians. A new and improved patient portal, known as MyChart, will allow
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Survey: 4 in 5 Physicians Believe Patient-Generated-Data Improves Care Quality
More than four in five (83%) physicians believe that increased consumer and patient-generated data from connected devices would benefit the overall quality of care and enable more personalized care plans, according to a new nationwide poll released by Ernst & Young LLP (EY).The report reveals both consumers and physicians are eager for increased digital engagement. More than half (54%) of consumers surveyed indicate a comfort level contacting their physician digitally, and express interest
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Philips and Samsung Partner to Connect Samsung’s IoT Platform to Philips HealthSuite Digital Platform
Philips and Samsung announced plans for a strategic partnership to connect Samsung’s ARTIK Smart IoT Platform to the Philips HealthSuite Digital Platform. This collaboration will ultimately allow the Samsung ARTIK ecosystem of connected devices to safely access and share information with Philips’ cloud platform. Healthcare application developers will be able to realize interoperable connected health solutions using integrated data sets and innovative HealthSuite services such as advanced health
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Nuance Integrates AI-Powered Virtual Assistant Platform with Epic EHR
Nuance and Epic have teamed up to integrate Nuance’s new artificial intelligence (AI)-powered virtual assistant platform with Epic’s EHR. With Nuance’s new virtual assistant technology, Epic’s EHR further improves caregiver productivity and efficiency across the continuum of care. Today’s announcement comes as new CHIME survey data1 reveals that 70 percent of hospital CIO’s surveyed would consider adopting virtual assistants with AI capabilities in the coming year.Nuance and Epic have worked
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Accenture: 61% of Consumers Have Used Virtual Health Assistants
Consumers are increasingly using a variety of digital self-service tools for managing their health, according to results of a survey from Accenture 2018 Consumer Survey on Digital Health released this week at HIMSS18.The survey of 2,301 U.S. consumers reveals that consumers are becoming more accepting of machines — ranging from artificial intelligence (AI), to virtual clinicians and home-based diagnostics — having a significantly greater role in their overall medical care. For example, one in
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Validic Launches Remote Monitoring Platform with Patient-Generated Health Data Integration
Validic, a Durham, NC-based provider of healthcare data connectivity solutions, today announced the launch of a new, lightweight remote monitoring platform. The new solution is built to integrate directly into existing clinical workflows and the EHR. Simply called Validic Impact, the platform will provide continuous access to patient-generated health data (PGHD) from nearly 400 in-home medical devices and wearables, offering a device-agnostic approach to managing chronic and post-acute
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Survey: 75% of Clinicians Feel Medication Management Process is Flawed
A new BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) survey conducted by HIMSS Analytics®, 2017 Medication Management and Safety Survey, found more than 75 percent of physicians, nurses and pharmacists surveyed described the medication management process as “flawed,” “fragmented,” “disjointed” and “primitive.” The survey of 153 physicians, nurses and pharmacists, and 1,131 patients and their family members sheds light on the current state of patient safety, patient perceptions toward medication management
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