Today, GHX announced the GHX Vendormate Credentialing mobile app, the first mobile solution available to both healthcare suppliers and providers to help drive increased vendor credentialing compliance. Delivering access to the credentialing solution via mobile app helps to streamline compliance for both providers and suppliers. The new GHX Vendormate Credentialing mobile app is available now through the Apple App Store and Google Play for Android devices.In the U.S. alone there are 244,000+
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Catholic Medical Center to Implement Integrated Suite of Allscripts Sunrise EHR
Catholic Medical Center, a 330-bed not-for-profit, full-service acute care hospital located in Manchester, NH has expanded its portfolio of Allscripts solutions to offer a fully–integrated suite of Sunrise EHR solutions to drive adoption of clinical decision support and improve patient outcomes. Built on an open platform with advanced clinical decision support, Sunrise provides immediate analysis and insights, extending across inpatient, ambulatory, emergency and other high-acuity care
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New Anthem Medical Data Breach Affects More Than 18,500 Members
A new medical data breach has exposed personal health information (PHI) of more than 18,500 Anthem Medicare enrollees, due to an employee’s involvement in identity theft. Consulting firm LaunchPoint Ventures discovered the data breach on April 12 that an employee had emailed a file with information about Anthem companies' members to his personal email address on July 8, 2016. The file contained more than 18,500 Anthem Medicare members' Social Security and Medicare identification data. The
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Stratice Healthcare Joins athenahealth’s ‘More Disruption Please’ Program
Stratice Healthcare, a healthcare IT company providing electronic ordering solutions connecting physician practice offices and hospital systems with suppliers and providers of medical equipment, supplies and other patient care services has joined athenahealth’s ‘More Disruption Please’ (MDP) program.As part of the athenahealth® Marketplace, the eOrdersPlus integrated application is now available to athenahealth’s growing network of 100,000 healthcare providers for connecting practices,
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TELUS Health Launches MedDialog for Physicians to Connect Through EMRs Across Canada
This week, TELUS Health announced the launch of MedDialog, a new national clinical solution that delivers doctor-to-doctor communication through electronic medical records (EMRs) for enhanced patient care across Canada. By eliminating the need for phone and fax communications, the solution technology will enable more efficient clinical practice and ensures that all communication history, such as referrals, specialist consultations, laboratory testing results and other patient information,
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Tennessee Medicaid Program Taps Edifecs to Align Its Payment Reform Solutions
Tennessee Medicaid Program (TennCare) has selected Edifecs to help align its payment model with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) national payment reform initiatives. TennCare provides healthcare for approximately 1.5 million Tennesseans, covering approximately 20 percent of the state’s population, 50 percent of the state’s births, and 50 percent of the state’s children.Edifecs’ Payment Reform and Value-Based Care solutions bring scalability to TennCare’s initiatives by
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HIMSS Appoints Harold “Hal” Wolf III as New President/Chief Executive Officer
HIMSS has announced the appointment of Harold “Hal” Wolf III as its new president and CEO, succeeding H. Stephen Lieber. Wolf has served HIMSS for four years: two as an advisor to the board and two additional years as a member of the board of directors, recently as vice chair. He serves as a board member and officer of the International Care Delivery Alliance. His role and accomplishments on the HIMSS board illustrates his abilities to lead HIMSS to new heights as CEO.“Hal Wolf brings to his
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CVS Health, Cleveland Clinic Expand Clinical Affiliation for Improve EHR Communication
CVS Health and Cleveland Clinic announced that they have expanded their eight-year clinical affiliation to enhance access to care for patients throughout Northeast Ohio and Florida, and improve quality, coordinated delivery of care and health outcomes for patients. As part of the expanded relationship, CVS Health has joined Cleveland Clinic's Quality Alliance, one of the largest clinically integrated networks of providers collaborating on quality measures that focus on chronic disease
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CHA & PatientPing Statewide Health Data-Sharing Initiative Improves Patient Care in Connecticut
Boston-based PatientPing and the Connecticut Hospital Association (CHA) announced their innovative statewide health data-sharing initiative that gives providers real-time information about where a patient is being treated. The statewide effort is improving patient care across the whole continuum of care—acute, ambulatory, and post-acute facilities—regardless of EMR, provider network, and even state, breaking down institutional barriers that have historically created silos between providers. The
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Southern Inyo Hospital Goes Live on Medsphere’s OpenVista Cloud EHR
Lone Pine, California, based Southern Inyo Hospital has announced that it is now live on Medsphere’s Open Cloud EHR. The critical access hospital serves as the primary source of care for recreationalists visiting numerous outdoor destinations in the area, including Mt. Whitney, Death Valley and the Alabama Hills National Recreation Area. Medsphere's OpenVista EHR is an acute and inpatient behavioral health-oriented portfolio of clinical products and services. On top of public domain computer
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