Western Maryland Health System has selected Artifact Health, a mobile platform that streamlines the physician query process to make it fast and easy for physicians to answer queries that improve the quality of patient records, ensure full reimbursement for services, and increase collaboration between clinical documentation improvement (CDI) and coding staff.With the implementation of Artifact Health’s mobile query platform, WMHS physicians can respond to a query compliantly in under a minute
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Pitt Launches Innovation Center for Advanced Surgical Technologies
The University of Pittsburgh opened a unique high-tech research, training and innovation center yesterday for industry partners focused on advancing surgical techniques.Called Pittsburgh CREATES, or Collaborative Research Education and Technology Enhancement in Surgery, the center will work directly with companies to address their challenges and advance minimally invasive approaches to surgery across disciplines. Leveraging its ties to both the University of Pittsburgh and UPMC, Pittsburgh
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Health Innovation Center Forms Working Group to Explore Data-Driven Solutions to Address Opioid Epidemic
The Global Center for Health Innovation (Global Center) and Accenture have formed a working group to explore data-driven solutions that better integrate the continuum of addiction services (first responders, ER and inpatient, outpatient, behavioral health) to improve treatment and move toward prevention. Announced at the Global Center’s second Executive Briefing, The Role of Private Capital in Attacking the Opioid Crisis, the working group will collaborate with key stakeholders to recommend a
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Wyoming, Medicity to Develop Statewide Health Information Exchange
Today Medicity and the Wyoming Department of Health (WDH) announced its new partnership to form a statewide, medical community-owned health information exchange (HIE). This collaborative approach will allow WDH to meet the needs of its population’s health, providing physicians throughout Wyoming access to a single, de-duplicated, comprehensive Continuity of Care Document (CCD) to safely, securely and electronically share patient’s data, further identifying care gaps and streamlining quality
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White Paper: An Introduction to Valuing Telemedicine
As patient demand increases and the availability of healthcare providers shrinks, hospitals are seeking alternative solutions to traditional healthcare models to meet the needs of the communities they serve. “An Introduction to Valuing Telemedicine,” PYA’s white paper, explores one such arrangement—telemedicine—which affords greater access to necessary health services, while maintaining reasonable costs with limited providers. The paper is an adaptation of a chapter from theBVR/AHLA Guide to
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Digital Health Could Serve As Valuable Asset for Pharma Industry
Digital health is proving to be a valuable asset for the pharma industry, as it points to a more streamlined and more cost-effective drug development process, according to GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company.Recent years have seen a large increase in investment towards digital health – a multifaceted segment of the industry that can combine software-based therapies into various aspects of the drug development process.Rahael Maladwala, Healthcare Analyst at GlobalData, notes:
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Tea Leaves Health Launches Decisionology Platform
Tea Leaves Health, a Welltok company and leading provider of a SaaS-based analytics and marketing technology platform, today announced the launch of its new high-growth platform, Decisionology. Decisionology is a new enterprise-level healthcare business development and market intelligence platform that empowers and informs hospital and health system executives’ strategic business decisions. Decisionology gathers all of a health organization’s critical data in one place to clearly identify
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Ciox Health, NextGen Partner to Streamline Medical Record Retrievals
Ciox Health , today announce its partnership with NextGen Healthcare to streamline medical record retrievals, reducing faxes and phone calls needed. The technology-driven healthcare company has joined forces with NextGen Healthcare to boost efficiency of medical record release and deepen integration of health plan requests, laying the foundation for further use of advanced technologies in the way health information is exchanged.The joint service, Ciox Clinical Extract Service with NextGen Share,
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Report: Automated Patient Experiences Will Transform the Delivery of Care
World Business Research (WBR) and Conversa Health have released a new report, “Healthcare 2020: How Automated Patient Experiences Will Transform the Landscape”. Based on direct interviews and survey responses from 134 leading healthcare executives, the report explores how healthcare executives view automated healthcare technologies, their use cases and planned adoption.Survey respondents reported wide-ranging benefits related to automated healthcare, uses of patient generated health data, and an
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HIMSS18 Day 3 Coverage Highlights & Summary
Health Insurer Cigna to Acquire Express Scripts for $67 BillionCigna Corporation has acquired Express Scripts Holding Company in a cash and stock transaction valued at approximately $67 billion, including Cigna’s assumption of approximately $15 billion in Express Scripts debt. The acquisition is expected to be completed by December 31, 2018.The combined company will be named Cigna. Cigna’s headquarters in Bloomfield, Connecticut, will become the headquarters for the combined company, and
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