In a newly released report from HIMSS Analytics examines the changes in a hospitals’ buying intent from 2014 through 2015. The report identified the following top 5 technologies hospitals plan to adopt in 2016:
1. CPOE
2. Physician Documentation
3. Nurse Staffing/Scheduling
4. Dictation with Speech Recognition
5. Data Warehousing/Mining – Clinical
Report Background
In early 2015, in a forward-thinking article on Healthcare IT News, HIMSS Analytics identified 18 technologies
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Teladoc Inks Deal to Provide Telehealth Services for Mississippi Volunteer Firefighters
Teladoc has inked a contract with the Mississippi Insurance Department to provide telehealth services statewide to the 13,000 Mississippi Volunteer Firefighters and their dependents. By offering telehealth consults to its volunteer firefighters, the Mississippi Insurance Department expects the Teladoc program to be used as a recruiting incentive as demographic changes decrease the pool of available firefighters.
The program with Teladoc will also benefit the state by increasing the
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CareSync Joins athenahealth’s ‘More Disruption Please’ Program
CareSync, a provider of software and services for chronic disease management is joining athenahealth’s ‘More Disruption Please’ (MDP) program. The partnership will link athenahealth’s growing network of more than 73k health care providers with the capabilities of CareSync to more efficiently meet billing requirements for CPT code 99490 and manage patient care, especially for those coping with chronic conditions.
“Through this partnership, providers already using athenaClinicals® can quickly
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InterSystems, Pulse InfoFrame Partner to Deliver ‘Patient Registry In A Box’
InterSystems has partnered with Pulse Infoframe, a collaborative research and patient registry solutions provider, to facilitate clinical research and population health studies. Leveraging the InterSystems HealthShare® health informatics platform for interoperability between clinical research systems and EHRs, physicians and researchers can easily capture, organize, model, store and share clinical research data through a secure, web-based application.
Healthie, the Pulse platform, is a
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EvergreenHealth Selects Wellpepper as Mobile Patient Engagement Solution
EvergreenHealth, an integrated health care system has selected Wellpepper, a clinically validated platform for patient engagement as the mobile engagement solution for all total joint replacement and musculoskeletal care plans. The project was made possible at EvergreenHealth with a generous donation from The Schultz Family Foundation, a private not-for-profit foundation founded by Howard Schultz, CEO of Starbucks Corporation, and his wife Sheri.
Patients with musculoskeletal issues that
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KLAS: 87% of Soarian Customers Planning/Considering to Rip & Replace
More than a year ago, Cerner acquired Siemens Health Services, which caused a shift in the marketplace as healthcare IT options would change. In a new KLAS report “Cerner/Siemens Acquisition: Soarian Migration in High Gear,” examines looked the impact the acquisition has had on customers from both companies. The report found that 87% of Siemens’ Soarian Clinicals customers are leaving or planning to leave and find a new EMR system by the end of 2016.
Customers Now View Soarian as an Orphaned
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4 Ambulatory EHR Market Drivers & Restraints
The ambulatory EHR market is expected to expand by 30 percent during the next five years, increasing at a compound annual growth rate of 5.3 percent until 2020, according to analysis from Frost & Sullivan. The report, US Ambulatory Electronic Health Record Market: 2015–2020 analyzes the ambulatory EHR market and identifies what to expect as the focus shifts from adoption to optimization in the market.
Overall, the overarching objective for providers is to position their EHR as a potential
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Report: The Digital Health Innovator’s Mini-Handbook
Enspektos, LLC, a New York-based innovation consultancy, has published The Digital Health Innovator's Mini-Handbook. This 40-page first-of-its-kind publication is designed to provide entrepreneurs, executives, medical professionals and others with strategies, insights and methods that can help them successfully develop, implement and scale digital innovations in health.
The mini-handbook features a number of resources, including:
- The Ages of Digital Health: A unique framework that
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Akili Interactive Labs Nabs $30.5M for Digital Medicine Gamification
Akili Interactive Labs, Inc. ("Akili"), a company focused on developing clinically validated digital medicine for cognitive assessment and personalized treatment through gamification has raised $30.5 million in new equity funding. The investments will be used to support the potential FDA clearance of its digital medicine platform across a variety of patient populations, including pediatric attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism spectrum disorder Participants in the round
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athenahealth, eClinicalWorks, Epic, NextGen Healthcare, Surescripts First to Adopt Interoperability Framework
Today, The Sequoia Project, an independent advocate for nationwide health information exchange, announced that athenahealth, eClinicalWorks, Epic, NextGen Healthcare and Surescripts are the first to adopt enhanced data sharing practices under the new Carequality Interoperability Framework. This big step is in alignment with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology’s (ONC) Connecting Health and Care for the Nation: A
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