Yesterday, representatives from IBM visited Oregon Health & Science's Simulation Center that could play a key role in the $11B DoD EHR bid IBM, Epic is vying for, The News Tribune reports. If IBM, Epic wins the 10 year $11B federal contract, OHSU's Simulation Center in the new Collaborative Life Sciences Building would provide a state-of-the-art training environment for DoD clinicians. Additionally, Tacoma’s MultiCare Health Systems has been selected as the pilot installation site due to
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Healthcare Leadership Council Joins the Coalition for ICD-10
The Healthcare Leadership Council, a coalition of healthcare chief executives from all disciplines within the U.S. healthcare industry, is the latest organization to join the Coalition for ICD-10 and advocate for U.S. adoption of the ICD-10 coding standard in 2015. The Coalition for ICD-10 promotes the critical importance of ICD-10 to improving quality measurement, public health surveillance, clinical research, and healthcare payment through research, education, and advocacy.
Representing
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HIMSS Analytics Honors MultiCare Hospitals with Stage 7 Awards
The HIMSS Stage 7 Awards honors ambulatory facilities operating in a paperless environment and representing best practices in implementing EHR
HIMSS Analytics awarded MultiCare Allenmore Hospital and MultiCare Tacoma General Hospital with Stage 7 Awards, and over 100 of its associated ambulatory clinics, located throughout Washington, with Stage 7 Ambulatory Awards.
Stage 7 Award: HIMSS Analytics developed the EMR Adoption Model in 2005 as a methodology for evaluating the progress and
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Home Care: Samsung Canada to Power 5000 Remote Healthcare Workers
Samsung Canada, a provider of enterprise innovation and technology, today announced a landmark partnership with Saint Elizabeth, one of the largest health care providers in Canada to power the future of home care. More than 5000 remote health care workers from coast to coast will be equipped with powerful Samsung mobile technology, including GALAXY Tab S LTE connected tablets.
Initiative Details
Saint Elizabeth helps 18000 people daily across Canada delivering more than 6 million visits a
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Healthcare Leaders Praise Bipartisan Support for Increasing Meaningful Use Flexibility
Strong, Bipartisan Support for Increasing Meaningful Use Flexibility
Healthcare leaders praised the reintroduction of the Flexibility in Health IT Reporting (Flex-IT) Act of 2015, a bipartisan bill granting the nation’s healthcare providers additional flexibility in meeting Meaningful Use (MU) requirements through a shortened reporting period in 2015. Swift action by Congress is needed to help providers already in the 2015 reporting year for Meaningful Use, several healthcare organizations
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Medisafe Raises $6M to Expand Mobile Health Medication Management
MediSafe™, global medication management platform that reminds patients to take their medications via smartphones and tablets, announced today that it has raised a $6 million Series A Round led by Pitango Venture Capital. Others participating in the round include 7wire ventures, as well as investors from previous rounds, including lool Ventures, TriVentures and Eyal Gura. The company reportedly turned down an acquisition offer of $25 million by a medical data company, according to
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Medalogix Unveils Predictive Analytics Platform for Home Health
Nashville-based healthcare technology company Medalogix has added a product called Touch to its toolkit of predictive analytic workflow solutions. Touch identifies at risk patients and then enhances and automates a home health clinical team’s patient touchpoints. The application's predictive risk ranking and automated calling features enable home health agencies to better identify and manage their most at-risk patients and complete more fully reimbursable episodes without transfers.
Touch
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Sharecare Partners with HCA to Create Digital Patient Engagement Solution
Sharecare, an online health and wellness engagement platform, today announced at the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference a strategic collaboration with HCA to accelerate innovation through the creation of new patient engagement solutions. HCA also made a financial investment in Sharecare during 2014, and the companies are exploring opportunities to create a joint innovation lab. Financial terms of the investment were not disclosed.
Sharecare and HCA first began working together in December 2013,
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HIMSS Analytics Honors Children’s Hospital of Orange County With Stage 7 Award
HIMSS Analytics awarded Children’s Hospital of Orange County (CHOC Children's Hospital) in Orange, Calif., with a Stage 7 Award. The award represents attainment of the highest level on the Electronic Medical Records Adoption ModelSM (EMRAM), which is used to track EHR progress at hospitals and health systems.
HIMSS Analytics developed the EMR Adoption Model in 2005 as a methodology for evaluating the progress and impact of electronic medical record systems for hospitals in the HIMSS
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25 Best Health Tech Infographics of 2014
Annual yearly recap of the best health tech infographics created in 2014
Over the past 12 months, HIT Consultant has covered some of the most in-depth and well designed healthcare technology related infographics in this industry. Infographics provide a great way to display complex information or research data in a visually appealing format. Themes this year covered the gamut of healthcare technology including trends transforming health IT (EHR, meaningful use), mobile healthcare, patient
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