Cerner and CoverMyMeds are announcing this morning an agreement to integrate CoverMyMeds’ ePA within Cerner’s Millennium EHR. The advanced functionality will provide more than 350,000 e-prescribing end-users the ability to accelerate the prescription review process by removing manual processes and helping to reduce transaction costs. CoverMyMeds will provide Cerner physicians the capability to process requests electronically in seconds and receive notification of a patient’s authorization status
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Grand Rounds Nabs $55M for Connecting Patients to Expert Physicians
Grand Rounds, a care coordination startup that provides employees and their families expedited access to top physicians so they can achieve better health outcomes, has raised $55 million in Series C funding. The latest round includes global mutual fund investor, Greylock, Venrock, Harrison Metal and David Ebersman. The funding will be used to add additional staff, care team and accelerate its care coordination platform to improve hospitals’ contact with patients between visits.
Evidence-based
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Medisafe Integrates with Human API Enabling Users to Import Their Medication Lists
Medisafe, a mHealth platform for medication management with 1.9 million active users has announced integration with Human API data platform to import their medication lists from thousands of top hospitals and medical facilities. Starting now, users have the option to bring in their exact medication, with specifics including medication shape, color, dosage and frequency. Medisafe initially launched the medication import functionality via Human API on its iOS app, with Android to follow in a
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Children’s Health Deploys Telehealth to 57 North Texas Schools
After a successful telemedicine program pilot in 27 schools last year, Children’s Health will soon deploy telehealth in 57 schools across Dallas, Grayson, Collin and Tarrant counties, Dallas Business Journal reports. The school-based telehealth program will include lab consultations, providing nurses the ability to conduct strep and flu tests. The program makes Children’s Health the only North Texas health care system providing telemedicine to local schools.
How It Works
The program was
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Fitbit Launches Windows 10 App to Personalize Fitness Journey Across Windows Devices
Wearable fitness leader, Fitbit has launched Fitbit for Windows 10 app designed to provide a more engaging and fluid app design that lets users personalize the way they interact with key pieces of their health and fitness journey across all their Windows devices. Through new Windows 10 app features, people at all fitness levels can now more easily access and log their most important personalized data in real-time. Fitbit helps users track their steps, activity, exercise, food, weight
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Healthcare Natural Language Processing Market to Reach $2.67B by 2020
The global healthcare Natural Language Processing (NLP) market is expected to grow from $1.10 billion in 2015 to $2.67 billion by 2020, at a CAGR of 19.2%. According to a new market research report, "Natural Language Processing Market for Health Care and Life Sciences Industry by Type (Rule-Based, Statistical, and Hybrid NLP Solutions) - Worldwide Forecast and Analysis to 2015 - 2020", published by MarketsandMarkets, NLP technologies are gaining traction in healthcare and life sciences industry
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4 Types of Telehealth Solutions
Telehealth represents the next frontier in medical care, and it's something healthcare providers are already feeling the pressure from their digitally connected patients to provide. How much pressure? According to Logicalis Healthcare Solutions, the healthcare-focused arm of Logicalis US, an international IT solutions and managed services provider, that depends on the generation of patient being served.
While traditional communication channels remain popular among older patients, the next
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Capital One to Acquire GE’s Healthcare Finance Unit for $8.5B
Capital One Financial Corp. has agreed to acquire General Electric Co.’s health-care finance unit for about $9 billion to build its niche focus in the healthcare market. As part of the acquisition, Capital One get $8.5 billion of GE healthcare-related loans and its Healthcare Financial Services business for a 6 percent premium to par value of all receivables as of June 30, 2015. Capital One expects this acquisition to strengthen its footprint in the niche healthcare market and position its
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athenahealth Updates Its Patient-Centered Medical Home Accelerator Program
athenahealth a provider of cloud-based EHR services and mobile applications for medical groups and health systems has announced updates to its Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) Accelerator Program. Awarded an outstanding 35.25 automatic credits and 45.5 practice support points by the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA), athenahealth ® streamlines providers' pathway towards formal NCQA PCMH Recognition.
Practices using athenahealth's EHR, athenaClinicals ®, and patient
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5 Best Practices To Ensure A Smooth, Expedient ICD-10 Transition
The ICD-10 Compliance date is looming and it is imperative that healthcare providers be prepared to make the transition. It affects everything from claims processing, physicians’ workflow, and patients’ access to care. Many organizations may be rallying employees and resources in order to make the switch from the ICD-9 to the ICD-10 coding for medical diagnoses and inpatient hospital procedures before the implementation date of October 1, 2015.
To make matters worse, the transition is not
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