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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BlackBerry Lands $20M VA Contract for Secure Enterprise Crisis Communication Network
BlackBerry has been awarded a $20 million multi-year contract to support the VA's Notification System (VANS) and VA Personnel Accountability System (VA-PAS), courtesy of its subsidiary AtHoc. The recently acquired AtHoc networked crisis communication system will support 600,000 VA personnel as well as expanding scope and functionality of the system.
VA's Notification System (VANS) Overview
The VANS system enables alerting across telephones, text, pagers, fax, desktops, smartphones, as
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Philips Unveils Mobile Medical Alert Service for Senior Emergency Care On-the-Go
This week, Royal Philips announced the availability of Philips Lifeline GoSafe, its mobile medical alert sthat is part of Philips suite of solutions that connect care across the health continuum. Featuring the power of up to six location technologies, GoSafe gives seniors the assurance to get up and go while being protected by the 24/7, Canada-based emergency call response centre which protects more seniors than any other medical alert service.
“When seniors feel less confident, anxious or
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CHIME Launches $1M Initiative To Solve Patient Mismatching
The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) today launched the CHIME National Patient ID Challenge, a $1 million crowdsourcing competition aimed at incentivizing new, early-stage, and experienced innovators to accelerate the creation and adoption of a solution for ensuring 100 percent accuracy in identifying patients in the U.S. For the challenge, CHIME has teamed with HeroX, co-founded in 2013 by XPRIZE CEO Peter Diamandis, to run the year-long
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Captricity Raises $35M For Cloud-Native Data Capture Platform
Oakland-based startup Captricity Inc. that gives customers in regulated industries fast and easy access to customer data trapped in handwritten forms has raised $35 million in Series C funding led by White Mountains Insurance Group, LTD. Existing investors Social Capital and Accomplice also participated in the round. The latest round of funding brings Captricity's total funds raised to $49 million.
Captricity's cloud-native data capture platform captures data from any from all points of
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Welkin Health, Minnesota Children’s Hospital Partner to Deliver Better Diabetes Care to Children
Welkin Health, a San Francisco-based digital health company specializing in patient relationship management, has been chosen by Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota as a partner for a multi-year study aimed at improving care for children with type 1 diabetes. Children’s Minnesota is using the configurable Welkin software to improve its care team’s efficiency when communicating with patients and their families remotely.
Diabetes Study Details
The Children’s study is designed to
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