On Friday, the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) appointed Dr. Halee S. Fischer-Wright, MD, MMM, FAAP as the Association’s new President and Chief Executive Officer, effective March 23.
Dr. Fischer-Wright is a renown healthcare executive and physician leader currently serving as Chief Medical Officer at St. Anthony North Health Campus (Westminster, Colo.), which is part of the Centura Health System. Additionally, she started her own successful medical practice early in her
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Survey: 27 Recent PM Revenue Cycle Management Trends
NextGen Healthcare recently conducted a survey among practices across the nation to gain deeper insight into the current state of revenue cycle management (RCM) across various medical practices. Participating practices included both NextGen Healthcare clients and non-NextGen Healthcare clients, spanning varying specialties, staff size, and locations. The survey results reflect the operational and financial metrics provided by each of them. .
The RCM Survey Report: What’s Happening Behind
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MDOps to Deliver Voice-Controlled Instant Clinical Documentation for Allscripts Users
MDOps, a provider of dictation-based mobile apps for instant clinical documentation has joined the Allscripts Developer Program, a network of innovations featuring certified applications and devices for users of Allscripts Sunrise Acute Care. MDOps' certified application, MDLog enables intuitive access to Allscripts Sunrise Acute Care from the convenience of an iPhone or iPad, simplifying the clinical documentation and workflow for physicians and other medical staff.
Becoming an ADP-certified
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Cleveland Clinic, Cox Partner to Deliver Telehealth & Home Health Solutions
Broadband and cable TV provider, Cox Communications and Cleveland Clinic have announce the formation of Vivre Health, a strategic alliance to bring world-class healthcare to the home through innovative telehealth and home health solutions.
The joint venture will help further increase Cox's market footprint by expanding into healthcare to provide remote patient monitoring, telehealth visits and other in-home monitoring and treatment services via broadband. The cable TV provider already
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Epic Plans to Launch Its Own App Store
Verona, Wis.-based EHR leader Epic Systems is planning to launch its own app store called the "App Exchange", similar to Apple's iTunes store that would allow developers to create apps that integrate with Epic's EHR platform, Wisconsin State Journal first reports. Mark Bakken, co-founder and former chief executive of Nordic Consulting, the largest consulting firm working with customers of Epic first broke the announcement Tuesday during a luncheon meeting of the Wisconsin Innovation Network.
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Aetna, Newtopia to Bring Personalized Health Prevention to Employers
Newtopia, a personalized health company has signed a commercial agreement with Aetna to begin offering its enterprise health engagement platform to Aetna’s largest employer customers and their employees. Newtopia uses genetic testing and behavioral science to build highly personalized disease prevention plans.
Aetna/Newtopia Pilot Program
The partnership follows the successful pilot program completion with Aetna employees who had, or were at risk for, Metabolic Syndrome, a condition that
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AirStrip Expands Mobile Health Solutions to Australia and New Zealand
AirStrip® and Life Monitor Pty Ltd. have announced the formation of a strategic partnership to sell AirStrip solutions in Australia and New Zealand. Both the AirStrip ONE mobile interoperability platform and the Sense4Baby wireless fetal/maternal monitoring system will be available as part of the agreement.
Life Monitor streamlines connectivity across the healthcare sector, providing the Ideal Life Operating platform and associate peripheral devices to enable clients to remotely manage
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Top 4 Population Health Management Challenges
As the healthcare delivery model shifts towards value based healthcare, the need for effective population health management solutions continues to grow. However, for many providers choosing the right PHM solution is still uncharted territory and the correct path isn't always clearly marked. According to a recent Chilmark Research report, healthcare organizations are currently struggling with evolving models of reimbursement while PHM vendors have yet to successfully build solutions to fully meet
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Practice Fusion EHR Integrates with CoverMyMeds’ Integrated EPA
CoverMyMeds, the nation’s largest prior authorization (PA) network, and Practice Fusion, a cloud-based EHR for doctors and patients, today announced a partnership that will bring CoverMyMeds’ integrated electronic prior authorization (ePA) functionality to Practice Fusion’s 110,000 medical professionals who manage more than 100 million patient records. The integration will enable practitioners on the Practice Fusion platform to submit ePAs for medications to health insurance plans within their
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St. Clair Hospital Selected as 2014 HIMSS Enterprise Davies Award Recipient
St. Clair Hospital of Mt. Lebanon, Pa. has been named a 2014 HIMSS Enterprise 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.
St. Clair Hospital, an independent, 328-bed acute care facility that provides advanced, high quality healthcare to more than 500,000 residents of
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