North Carolina Hospital Association (NCHA) is partnering with healthcare technology company PatientPing to state-wide, real-time patient care coordination in North Carolina. The implementation will enable providers across the continuum in North Carolina to strengthen collaborative relationships and improve patient health by more effectively guiding care protocol for at-risk patients with chronic health conditions, better utilizing appropriate community health resources, and reducing unnecessary
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Azalea Health, Prognosis Innovation Healthcare Merges to Strengthen Market Share in Rural Care Market
Azalea Health, a fully-integrated web-based healthcare solutions and services provider, today announced the merger of Prognosis Innovation Healthcare, a Houston, TX-based EHR provider to rural and community hospitals. For Azalea, the merger of Prognosis inpatient solution will expand its presence into critical access and small community hospitals, and effectively deliver a complete continuum of care platform to an expanded rural market segment.Azalea Health now services thousands of ambulatory
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Avizia Acquires Virtual Care Provider Carena to Boost Telehealth Market Share
Telehealth provider Avizia has acquired Seattle-based leading virtual care provider Carena to reinforces its position as the largest and most comprehensive telehealth solutions partner for health systems nationwide. Founded in 2000, Carena designs and operates virtual clinics for health systems and provides access to care for more than 35 million consumers. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. As part of the acquisition, Ralph Derrickson, president and CEO of Carena will
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StayWell Acquires MedHelp’s Health Engagement Platform
StayWell, a health solutions company, announced that it has acquired Silicon Valley-based MedHelp’s health engagement platform, apps and talent to expand its mobile health portfolio and support its corporate growth strategy. The acquisition will extend StayWell’s reach to MedHelp’s 3 million users, while offering more robust solutions to existing customers, during all stages of their health. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.MedHelp brings with it a number of award-winning
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KLAS Report: 12 Provider Insights from athenahealth Early-Adopters
With the acquisition of RazorInsights in 2015, athenahealth entered the underserved community hospital EMR market. Since then, provider interest has skyrocketed, with athenaOne for Hospitals and Health Systems being the third most frequently selected hospital EMR solution in the US in both 2015 and 2016. To learn more insights into the early-adopter experience for athenahealth customers, KLAS has published a new report that takes an in-depth early look at the progress athenahealth has made and
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eClinicalWorks EHR Now Supports OpenNotes, Enabling Clinicians to Share Notes With Patients
eClinicalWorks, a provider of healthcare IT solutions has announced that it now supports OpenNotes, an international movement dedicated to making healthcare more open and transparent. With this announcement, over 130,000 providers using eClinicalWorks will have the ability to share notes with their patients using the eClinicalWorks Patient Portal, further fostering stronger patient-provider relationships.By supporting OpenNotes, the eClinicalWorks cloud-based solution will help to improve the
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Texas Hospital Association, Nomad Health to Address Critical Physician Shortages
Texas Hospital Association is teaming up wih Nomad Health, an online marketplace directly connecting physicians with freelance clinical work to help Texas hospitals more efficiently and effectively fill temporary physician staffing positions. Nomad Health uses a simple and user-friendly digital platform to eliminate third-party recruitment brokers and directly connect physicians with the medical institutions that hire them. Both sides of the marketplace benefit from substantial time and cost
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Intermountain Healthcare to Deploy R1’s Revenue Capture Modular Solution Across System
Intermountain Healthcare has expanded its relationship with R1, a technology-enabled revenue cycle management and physician advisory services. As part of the relationship expansion, Intermountain Healthcare will deploy R1’s Revenue Capture Modular Solution across its system of 22 hospitals, 180 clinics, and a Medical Group with approximately 1,500 employed physicians and advanced practitioners.R1’s Revenue Capture module provides health systems with technology-enabled services designed to ensure
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eClinicalWorks Launches Virtual Assistant, healow VR, FHIR Cloud Service
eClinicalWorks, a leader in healthcare IT solutions has announced four new product enhancements and workflow improvements in front of a sold-out crowd of 4,500 on-site attendees at the 2017 National Conference and another 4,500 employees watching online. In addition, the company reported the strongest sales quarter of 2017, reaching $130 million in revenue, with over 3,750 providers.The four new features include:- V11 EHR, the latest version of our core EHR/PM solution, is set to further
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Atos Acquires 3 Health IT Consulting Firms to Expand Presence in Health IT Market
Global IT company Atos has acquired Pursuit Healthcare Advisors, Conduent’s Healthcare Provider Consulting business and Conduent’s Breakaway Group business to expand its presence in the digital health IT market. Following on from the acquisition of healthcare IT outsourcing company Anthelio Healthcare Solutions in 2016, these acquisitions will allow Atos to support provider groups and payers as they look to optimize clinical and financial performance. The acquisition will bring 400 healthcare
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