On Thursday, 3M announced that it is exploring strategic alternatives for its global health IT business. These alternatives, all of which are focused on building upon the business’ strong foundation, could include:
- spinning-off its health IT business
- selling the health IT business entirely
- retaining and further investing in the existing health IT business within 3M.
3M Health Information Systems, a business of 3M Health Care, works with providers, payers, and government
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Clinovations GovHealth Awarded Subcontract for $4.3B DoD EHR Modernization Project
Clinovations Government + Health, a provider of technology services that span public sector and provider health domains, today announced that the company was a part of the Leidos Partnership for Defense Health team awarded a contract by the Department of Defense (DoD) to provide an electronic health record (EHR) for the U.S. Military. The team solution will include an off-the-shelf EHR with the associated services needed to deploy the EHR across the Military Health System.
DHMSM Contract
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Infographic: 10 Most Popular EHRs
IIt’s no secret that physicians look to their peers for information about EHRs before they purchase, yet the majority of rankings focus solely on overall revenue or total number of licenses sold. While these lists prove valuable in considering market share, for physician buyers, they lack that critical component of peer feedback.
The following infographic created by Software Advice illustrates the top ten most popular EHRs based on a proprietary survey of 576 frequent users, brand search
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IBM Watson Health Cloud Expands Capabilities to Bring Innovations to Doctors, Patients
After unveiling the IBM Watson Cloud earlier this year, IBM shows no signs of slowing down their market penetration in healthcare. To further expand their capabilities of Health Cloud, today it has announced the introduction of the IBM Watson Health Cloud for Life Sciences Compliance and the IBM Watson Care Manager.
IBM Watson Health Cloud for Life Sciences Compliance Overview
The IBM Watson Health Cloud for Life Sciences Compliance will help biomedical companies bring medical innovations
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Banner Health Scraps UA’s $115M Epic EHR for Cerner
Banner Health has announced plans to scrap Epic's $115 million EHR system at its two Tucson hospitals that went live in 2013 and will replace the system with Cerner's EHR platform, according to the Arizona Daily Star. The two hospitals — Banner-University Medical Center Tucson and Banner-University Medical Center South was apart of the former University of Arizona Health Network that was acquired by Banner Health March 1.
Currently all of Banner Health's 28 hospitals are already live on
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PainCareOS Leverages SyTrue’s NLP Platform to Automate Incoming Referrals
SyTrue, Inc., a healthcare data-refinement company, that specializes in natural language processing (NLP) solutions to translate unstructured clinical data into actionable clinical information, announced today, a partnership with PainCareOS™ to assist pain specialists with incoming complex referral documents. This processing promises to reduce costs and overhead, improve clinical understanding, and enhance throughput. Re-use of such captured data can help empower downstream functions such as
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Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi Earns HIMSS Analytics EMRAM Stage 6 Award
Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, part of Mubadala's network of world-class healthcare facilities, has achieved the HIMSS Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (EMRAM) Stage 6 award by HIMSS Analytics. This is an international benchmark for the use of advanced IT to improve patient care.
This award places Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi among an elite group of world-class healthcare facilities that have successfully deployed a high level of health IT to improve healthcare outcomes. Cleveland Clinic
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Infographic: Taming the Paperwork Monster in Healthcare with E-Signatures
Did you know that inefficient claims processing costs the healthcare industry up to $210 billion annually? Or how about that a single discharge plan can run as long as 30 pages? Known to many as the paperwork monster in healthcare, its impact can seriously impact a healthcare company's productivity and operating budget.
To get a better sense of just how much paperwork impacts the healthcare industry, the following infogrpahic created by e-signature provider, SIGNiX illustrates:
- The
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Google Doubles Its Health-Related Search Content to Over 900 Conditions
Earlier this year, Google introduced structured, curated, and verified health information information into its Knowledge Graph smart search algorithm. Initially, the feature was available for 400 conditions — but now Google has increased that number to over 900 conditions.
"We’re making sure to include neglected tropical diseases, a set of infections that affect over 1.5 billion people including 500 million children in poorer regions. We think it's important for people to have facts on these
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Future Role of Smartwatches in Personal Health (Infographic)
The release of the Apple Watch has heightened the conversation around wearable tech and the impact it could have in the future. One of the fields most interested in the potential benefits of wearable tech is that of medical technology. This has led to a surge in research focused on the health applications of smartwatches. Healthcare apps currently account for 4 percent of all apps on the market; however, that figure is set to explode with the rise of wearables and in particular, smart
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