Hurricane Irma is expected to cause catastrophic destruction across Puerto Rico, Florida, and possibly other states, even as the Gulf Coast is working to recover from Hurricane Harvey. Many healthcare facilities and pharmacies are already unavailable for extended periods, and others soon will be. As the waters subside, patients in affected areas may be displaced, many care locations will be temporarily closed, and prescribing patterns could be disrupted due to evacuations, power outages, and
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MEDITECH Integrates NCCN Chemotherapy Order Templates with Web EHR
The National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) has announced collaboration with MEDITECH to integrate NCCN Chemotherapy Order Templates (NCCN Templates) into MEDITECH's Web Electronic Health Record (EHR) as standard cancer treatment protocols for use at point of care. As part of the integration, MEDITECH's Web EHR will provide clinicians direct access to the NCCN Templates and will link to NCCN.org and the corresponding NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology (NCCN Guidelines).The
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Surescripts, Allscripts to Offer TX, LA Pharmacists Free Access to Patient Medication History Data
In the wake of the devastating impact of Hurricane Harvey, Surescripts and Allscripts are collaborating to provide free access to patient-specific medication history data for pharmacists in Texas and Louisiana for a limited time.Pharmacists interested in utilizing the service should visit www.surescripts.com/harvey for instructions on how to become authorized to access the Allscripts application through which they can then obtain patient consent to see a 12-month view of a patient’s medication
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DispatchHealth Wins Adventist Health System’s 3rd Annual InnovationX Competition
DispatchHealth has been named the winner of Adventist Health System’s (AHS) third annual InnovationX competition. DispatchHealth presented an in‐home care delivery platform and triage system designed to provide right‐sized care, while addressing the health care needs of the consumer and the access challenges of the at‐risk patient.DispatchHealth is a provider of mobile and virtual health care that works to create an integrated, convenient, high-touch care delivery solution that extends the
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KLAS Report: Siemens, GE Healthcare PACS Vendor Performance Declining
The PACS market has changed significantly over the past few years—performance from historical PACS (picture archiving and communications system software) leaders has dropped, and newer entrants have begun to stand out and steadily expand into larger provider organizations, according to a new KLAS report.The KLAS report, “PACS 2017: Reconstructing for the Future,” reveals that enterprise imaging is changing the way providers think about vendors and future purchasing decisions. Since vendor
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FNFV Acquires ED Clinical Documentation & Coding Vendor T-System for $200M
Fidelity National Financial, Inc. has agreed to acquire to acquire T-System Holdings ("T-System"), a provider of emergency department clinical documentation and coding solutions for $200 million in cash.Founded in 1989 by physicians Woodrow Gandy, M.D., and Rob Langdon, M.D., T-System provides emergency department documentation to advance care delivery and financial outcomes for episodic care. Through clinically-driven services and documentation solutions as well as charge capture and coding
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Health Catalyst Launches Data Operating System to Leapfrog Traditional Data Warehousing
Health Catalyst, a provider of healthcare analytics, decision support and outcomes improvement has launched the Health Catalyst Data Operating System (DOS), a breakthrough engineering approach that combines the features of data warehousing, clinical data repositories, and health information exchanges in a single, common-sense technology platform. The solutions has already been deployed at two Health Catalyst sites.DOS is Health Catalyst's response to a simple truth: The future of healthcare will
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Caradigm, RightPatient Partner to Offer SSO & Biometric Patient Identification
Caradigm and RightPatient are offering a bundled solution that provides biometric patient identification services with identity and access management. The partnership is a response to the growing urgency for healthcare providers to reduce security and compliance risk, secure data, protect privacy and increase safety.The RightPatient/Caradigm partnership provides a unique bundle of healthcare solutions that combines the industry’s most versatile biometric patient identification service with the
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drchrono Integrates With Inferscience to Standardize Evidence-based Care Delivery
Mobile EHR provider drchrono has announced an integration partnership with Inferscience, a provider of point-of-care Clinical Decision Support and HCC Risk Adjustment technologiesInfera, is now available to drchrono’s growing network of more than 100,000 medical professionals who can now more efficiently standardize evidence-based care delivery and more effectively risk adjust their patient populations. “Inferscience delivers a valuable service for care providers,” said Sunil Nihalani, CEO and
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EpicMD Offers Houston Relief Victims Free Remote Medical Consultations
As a result of the devastation and widespread flooding throughout the Greater Houston Area as a result of Hurricane Harvey, Miami healthcare technology startup EpicMD is offering free medical consultations, provided remotely by U.S. Board Certified primary care physicians and specialists where possible, by phone, video, email or text, to all Houston relief victims through as many registered charitable organizations associated with this effort as possible.When Hurricane Harvey made landfall, and
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