The Social Security Administration and Veteran Affairs has teamed up with The eHealth Exchange, an initiative of The Sequoia Project on a new Health IT initiative that enables all Social Security disability case processing sites to receive medical records electronically from all VA facilities. As part of the new health IT initiative, Veterans will receive a faster decision on their Social Security disability claim, speeding them and their dependents through this new process. Both agencies will
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2 Adventist Health System Hospitals Earns EMRAM Stage 7 Award
Florida Hospital Waterman has earned an initial Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (EMRAM) Stage 7 validation, and Florida Hospital Carrollwood has received an EMRAM Stage 7 revalidation. Since implementation at Florida Hospital Waterman in 2006, electronic medical records (EMRs) have improved the quality and safety of patient care.“Achievement of HIMSS Analytics® EMRAM Stage 7 further demonstrates Florida Hospital Waterman’s commitment to integrate technology and teamwork to improve the
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PEPID Partners With AAEM to Allow Physicians to Earn CME Credits
PEPID, a provider of in point-of-care technologies for the healthcare industry, has partnered with The American Academy of Emergency Medicine (AAEM) to release PEPID CME, a new tool will allow physicians the ability to earn Continuing Medical Education (CME) credit while actually treating patients.This partnership provides clinicians with an alternative to the more expensive and time-consuming options currently available. PEPID CME capitalizes on PEPID’s vast clinical and drug information
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Black Book Names Nuance #1 End-to-End Coding, CDI, Transcription & Speech Recognition Vendor
Nuance Communications has been named the leading vendor for End-to-End Healthcare Coding, Clinical Documentation Improvement (CDI), Transcription and Speech Recognition Technology vendor, according to a recent Black Book survey from 313 hospital and 2,005 physician practices. Conducted between April and October 2016, 3,107 revenue cycle and coding management professionals submitted user satisfaction responses. The findings reveal that seventy-nine percent of hospitals surveyed and 94% of
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MediSapiens to Offer Genomic, Clinical Data Curation Via Azure Cloud
MediSapiens, a Finnish developer and provider of genomic and healthcare data solutions, extends its solution delivery network by offering its Explorer™ Platform based genomic, clinical and biomedical data curation, management and analytics solutions in Microsoft’s Azure Cloud. The first stage target customers on Azure hosted solutions are Finnish healthcare facilities and institutions, while the partnership reinforces the global reach for MediSapiens solutions.The Explorer™ Platform comprises
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New Zealand Ministry of Health Taps Accenture Consortium for EHR Rollout
The Ministry of Health in New Zealand has selected an Accenture and MartinJenkins consortium as their strategic partner to support the development of a two-stage business case for an EHR rollout, CIO New Zealand first reports. As part of the contract, Accenture will work the Ministry's EHR project team on the business case that will be presented to the Cabinet for approval in early June 2017. Accenture was selected after a competitive request for proposal (RFP) process with 7 other potential
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Kurbo Integrates With Fitbit to Enable Automatic Health & Fitness Tracking
Kurbo, a California-based mobile health-coaching program designed specifically to help children, teens and families lose weight and develop smarter eating habits has integrated with Fitbit. The API integration will enable automatic health and fitness tracking for teen and adults in the Kurbo app. Kurbo/Fitbit IntegrationStarting this week, Kurbo teen and adult app users who use a Fitbit fitness tracker, Aria® Wi-Fi Smart Scale, or the Fitbit app will be able to seamlessly and automatically log
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Penn State Health to Implement Cerner’s Clinically Driven Revenue Cycle
Penn State Health has selected Cerner Millennium Revenue Cycle to integrate with its existing Cerner EHR across the health system, including more than 60 clinics. As part of the implementation, Cerner will also extend the clinical and financial health information technology system to Penn State Health St. Joseph, previously St. Joseph Regional Health Network. Cerner's Clinically Driven Revenue Cycle is designed to support clinicians and staff to update the billing process throughout the
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Zipongo Nabs $18M to Expand Digital Nutrition App
Zipongo, a San Francisco, CA-based personalized digital nutrition platform has raised $18 million in Series B funding led Mayfield with participation from Excel Venture Management. The company plans to utilize the funding to expand its operations further enabling Nutriomics and behavior science to empower health providers and disease management systems to measurably leverage food as medicine.. Founded by Jason Langheier, MD, MPH in 2010, Zipongo provides a software-as-a-service platform that
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Apixio Unveils Risk Adjustment Solution to Strengthen Plans in Health Insurance Exchanges
Apixio Inc., the data science company for healthcare has unveiled its HCC Profiler for Commercial Risk, for more accurate and complete risk coding for health plans on the federal and state health insurance exchanges. Insurance exchanges are one aspect of the Affordable Care Act that has struggled with several large insurers including Aetna and Oscar opting to leave in 2017. Two key issues driving this are that exchanges are attracting individuals who are sicker than expected. And, insurers
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