On Tuesday, HealthPort and IOD today an agreement to merge that will create nation’s leading platform for secure clinical data solutions and help position the company for continued innovation and growth.
The proposed merger, facilitated by an investment from New Mountain Capital, will create a new company with combined revenues of more than $450 million and 6,000 professionals serving approximately 18,000 healthcare facilities across the U.S. The combination will significantly benefit all
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nVoq Partners with SyTrue on New Clinical Workflow Documentation Service
nVoq, a provider of cloud-based speech recognition workflow optimization solutions for the healthcare industry, today announced general availability for the company’s SayIt “Code Fast” service, available in collaboration with SyTrue. The Code Fast service provides real-time, point-of-care conversion of spoken narratives into structured data categorized with relevant ICD-9, ICD-10, SNOMED, LOINC, or other standards, using SyTrue’s Smart Data platform.
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Boehringer Ingelheim, Sutter Health Establish Digital Health Research Collaboration
Pharma giant Boehringer Ingelheim and Northern California-based health system Sutter Health has announced the start of a five-year research and health care innovation collaboration, which will explore and test the value of digital health solutions, mobile technologies, and insights from advanced data analytics in the delivery of health care.
The initiatives will combine Boehringer Ingelheim's research and development expertise in novel medications to address unmet therapeutic needs with
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KPMG Completes Acquisition Of Beacon Partners, Inc.
Big 4 firm KPMG LLP today announced today that it has completed the acquisition of all of the assets of Beacon Partners, Inc., a healthcare consulting firm that offers strategic management and clinical and information technology consulting services to healthcare providers. The closing follows the April 12, 2015 announcement of the transaction at the HIMSS15 conference, a leading healthcare IT industry event.
Based in Weymouth, Mass., Beacon Partners provides management consulting/advisory
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GMA Named 2015 HIMSS Ambulatory Davies Award Recipient
Grove Medical Associates of Auburn, Mass., has been named a 2015 HIMSS Ambulatory Davies Award recipient. Since 1994, the HIMSS Nicholas E.Davies Award of Excellence has recognized outstanding achievement of organizations that have utilized health information technology to substantially improve patient outcomes while achieving return on investment. The Davies Awards program promotes electronic health record-enabled improvement in patient outcomes through sharing of case studies and lessons
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14 Centers to Use IBM Watson for Cancer Genetics
Fourteen US and Canadian cancer centers announced it will used IBM Watson to compare a patient’s tumor genetic fingerprints to databases of cancer genes and findings of scientific papers and clinical trials on cancer in a matter of minutes, BI reports. Oncology is the first specialty where matching therapy to DNA has improved patient outcomes and has inspired President Obama’s “Precision Medicine Initiative” announced in January.
Typically, drugs targeting cancer-causing mutations can takes
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Gartner Names the “Coolest” Vendors for Healthcare Providers and Payers, 2015
New Gartner report highlights 2015's “coolest” innovative vendors for healthcare providers and payers.
What makes a healthcare vendor cool? Innovative solutions that solve real challenges for the healthcare C-suite and payer market, according to recent Gartner reports. Each year, Gartner carefully selects a list of “Cool Vendors” representing innovative technologies and business models.
For healthcare providers, these vendors offers provider CIOs, CMIOs and IT leaders offer innovative
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HomeCare Tech Provider eCaring Expands Into Private Pay Market
eCaring, a leading developer of award-winning Cloud-based home healthcare technology that has proven to save an average of over $4,000 per patient per month by reducing ER visits, hospitalizations and readmissions, substantially lowering patient costs while improving care quality.
This week, eCaring announced that LifeStyle Options, Inc., one of the Chicago’s leading home care companies, has signed an agreement with eCaring to provide its unique Cloud-based care and disease management
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Karen DeSalvo to Leave ONC Post, If Confirmed for Asst. HHS Secretary
On Wednesday, the White House nominated National health IT coordinator Dr. Karen DeSalvo to be assistant secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). If confirmed by the Senate, DeSalvo would leave her post as the as the acting assistant secretary for the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health Information Technology.
In a letter to HHS staff on Wednesday, HHS Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell wrote:
"I am pleased to share the news that earlier today the President
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4 Strategies to Building A Modern Healthcare Billing & Payment System
The U.S. healthcare industry’s billing and payment system is a horse-and-buggy in a world contemplating driverless cars. Consumers, shouldering higher costs, are frustrated by the system, which still largely relies on paper and telephone calls for billing and payment. The $2.9 trillion sector needs to transform the way it does business, creating a more transparent, seamless, convenient way to bill and collect money from its customers, according to “Money matters: Billing and payment for a New
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