Allscripts has eliminated 250 jobs in the United States representing about 3.5 percent of its global workforce of about 7,200, Chicago Tribune reports. The layoffs stem from the the company expanding its software development and operations to India that will enable it to respond "more efficiently and cost-effectively" to changes in software design and product development.
"As a normal course of business, we are rebalancing our teams to ensure we have the right resources allocated to the right
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Welltok Acquires Predilytics to Enhance Personalized Health Platform
Health optimization provider Welltok has acquired Predilytics, a leading healthcare predictive analytics company to help enhance Welltok’s CaféWell Health Optimization Platform. The acquisition adds another powerful layer of consumer intelligence and analytical capabilities to Welltok’s CaféWell Health Optimization Platform, providing even more personalized guidance for consumers and delivering more value and insights to health plans, at-risk providers and other population health
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How the Colossal Clash Will Disrupt the Digital Health Landscape (Infographic)
Pressures on the US healthcare system coupled with evolving consumer expectations have fueled the appetite for funding of digital healthcare startups and have ushered in a new era of industry innovation. A digital disruption in healthcare is being played out, as witnessed by the emergence of new business models and technology offerings that change social interactions, alter consumer expectations and ultimately improve health outcomes.
Billions of dollars are being poured into healthcare
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Healthways CEO Ben Leedle Steps Down, Appoints Interim CEO
Wellness program provider, Healthways, Inc. announced that Ben R. Leedle, Jr. has stepped down as Director, President & Chief Executive Officer. The Healthways Board of Directors has appointed Alfred Lumsdaine, Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer, to serve as interim Chief Executive Officer until it selects a successor. The process to identify a permanent CEO will be led by the Board's Nominating and Governance Committee, which will consider both internal and external
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Modernizing Medicine Integrates AUA’s Choosing Wisely Guidelines into Its EMR
Specialty practice EMR provider, Modernizing Medicine, Inc. has announced that it has incorporated the American Urological Association’s (AUA) 2013 Choosing Wisely® list in EMA Urology. EMA Urology was developed by urologists for urologists as a native iPad application with intuitive touch-screen functionality to give doctors a streamlined, efficient EMR system experience while improving the physician and patient relationship. It is the first urology-specific EMR system to incorporate the AUA’s
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Philips, Rhiza Foundation Pilots Mobile Health Clinic in South Africa
Philips South Africa and the Rhiza Foundation today launched their mobile health clinic project focusing on delivering basic primary healthcare to thousands of people living in townships that have little or no access to healthcare facilities.
A collaboration between Philips South Africa, Rhiza Foundation and corporate social investment partners Nozala Trust and the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC), the mobile health clinic is currently being deployed to service the
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Hospital to Create Emergency Experiences Using Virtual Reality
Next Galaxy Corp, a developer of fully immersive consumer virtual reality (VR) technology has inked a multi-year agreement with Miami Children's Hospital to help educate and train medical staff using VR. Next Galaxy will develop immersive virtual reality medical instructional content for patient and medical professional education. Per the agreement, Next Galaxy and Miami Children's Hospital will jointly work on creating creating VR instructionals on cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and other
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Cleveland Clinic, Human Longevity Partner to Accelerate Genomic Sequencing
Cleveland Clinic is partnering with Human Longevity, Inc. (HLI) to first sequence and analyze blood samples from Cleveland Clinic's GeneBank study of de-identified patients. As part of the agreement, the two organizations will apply whole genome, cancer and microbiome sequencing focusing on a subset of samples with the goal of discovering novel disease genes and disease pathways associated with heart disease.
"In medicine we are constantly exploring opportunities to better understand how
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5 Requirements of An Effective Revenue Cycle Management Solution
Considering that the first generation of healthcare IT systems centered primarily on billing technology, it’s interesting to note that for the past several years healthcare organizations have focused most of their attention on clinical transformations driven by national developments such as the Affordable Care Act and Meaningful Use (MU). But now that the MU “wave” is starting to subside, focus is shifting to back-end systems and processes.
While many organizations realize that a full
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Care Coordination Market to Reach 26.1% CAGR Between 2015 and 2020
The care coordination market is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 26.1 percent between 2015 and 2020, according to a recent Frost & Sullivan study. Among the three key market segments addressed in the study, care coordination software deployed by physicians in ambulatory practice is expected to be the fastest growing, at a CAGR of 43.2 percent. It is followed by the hospital market segment at a CAGR of 33.2 percent. Although the largest revenue for 2014 belonged to
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