eClinicalWorks®, a leading ambulatory EHR provider has announced free hospital interoperability of Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) data using a query-based exchange with Cerner, Epic, McKesson, Meditech and Siemens, and is extending this integration to all hospital systems in the industry. Available now to customers, this seamless data transfer between systems facilitates coordination of care between inpatient and ambulatory settings to enable complete, accurate and relevant information at
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Twiage Selected As Finalists for Cleveland Clinic’s 2015 New Ventures Healthcare Challenge
Atlanta-based Twiage (Twitter for Triage), a Blueprint Health company that enables seamless EMS to ED care transitions using mobile technology has been selected by Cleveland Clinic Innovations as one of the four finalists for its prestigious New Ventures Healthcare Challenge. The challenge is a part of Cleveland Clinic's commitment to cultivating the next early-stage digital health companies that will disrupt the market and streamline the delivery of better care to patients everywhere.
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Report: System Integration Key to Global Telehealth Success
Telehealth technologies are advancing quickly, but their ability to improve access to healthcare depends on a wide range of enabling factors, including communications infrastructure, skills, regulation and culture, according to new report by the Economist Intelligence Unit. The report finds that global telehealth success is largely dependent upon system integration to ensure that new telehealth systems work seamlessly with those already in place, to avoid medical specialties having ‘one-off’
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Mayo Clinic, Viewics Partner to Use Data Analytics Serve Lab Clients and Patients
Viewics, Inc., a provider of health care analytics solutions, and Mayo Clinic recently signed an agreement that will use the Viewics analytics platform to drive key initiatives for safety, service, costs, and quality.
As part of the agreement, Viewics will deploy its data platform Viewics Health Insighter across various divisions within Mayo’s Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, including the health care organization’s reference laboratory Mayo Medical Laboratories. The Viewics
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North American Health IT Market to Reach $104B by 2020
The North American health IT market is expected to reach $104 billion by 2020 at a CAGR of 13.5% during the forecast period of 2015 to 2020, according to a recent report by MarketsandMarkets. A majority of this growth is attributed to the growing adoption of various healthcare IT solutions by healthcare providers in order to meet the heightened regulatory requirements for patient care and safety, increasing need to curtail the soaring healthcare costs, and growing need to improve the quality of
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Georgia Connects With Alabama to Support Health Information Exchange
Georgia Health Information Network (GaHIN), Georgia's statewide health information exchange (HIE), and Alabama's One Health Record® today announced the success of an electronic connection between the two networks. This is the second state-to-state health information exchange (HIE) connection for GaHIN, which connected with the South Carolina HIE in 2014, and is one of only a few interstate connections in the nation.
"Healthcare doesn't stop at the state line, so we need to ensure that
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23andMe Scores $115M to Maximize Its Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Tests
Genetics startup 23andMe, Inc., has raised $115 million in Series E funding led by Fidelity Management & Research Company to expand its FDA-approved direct-to-consumer genetic tests. New investors in the round include Casdin Capital, WuXi Healthcare Ventures and Xfund, as well as existing investors including Illumina (ILMN), New Enterprise Associates, MPM Capital, and Google Ventures. The latest funding round brings its total funding to date at $241 million, Forbes now values the company at
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3 Medicare Reforms That Could Keep Seniors Healthier, Wealthier
Empowering seniors to take control of their own health spending and rewarding the doctors who coordinate patients’ care, as well as the providers that reduce patients’ costs and improve the quality of their treatment, could vastly improve the health of seniors on Medicare, according to a new report by National Center for Policy Analysis Senior Fellow Devon Herrick. Medicare reform requires empowering seniors to manage more of their own health care spending using Medicare Health Savings Accounts
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Physician Practice Guide to Accurate EHR Software Pricing
The expected benefits of any EHR systems are to improve patient care, lower administrative costs and improve billings and collections. The primary measures of effectiveness are:
- The claims collection rate;
- The number of patient visits per day;
- The amount of time spent managing faxes and paper charts and
- The direct costs of paper charts (cost of materials, storage, destruction etc.).
EHR system costs will vary widely and depend primarily on the size of the physician
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Geisinger Health System to Utilize Cerner’s HealtheIntent PHM Platform
Geisinger Health System has announced it will collaborate with Cerner to use Cerner'sHealtheIntent℠ population health management platform to further extend Geisinger's data-driven population health capabilities. In a proof-of-concept project, Geisinger leveraged HealtheIntent's system-agnostic platform that normalizes data from any source, to aggregate clinical and financial data from its core EHR and other sources, such as its insurance company.
Coming off the heels of the positive proof of
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