What You Should Know: Nordic Consulting expands its Cerner footprint with the acquisition of health IT consulting firm, S&P Consultants. Nordic Consulting, a global health and technology consulting company has acquired S&P Consultants, a healthcare IT consulting firm with a strong focus on Cerner services. As part of the acquisition, S&P will become a Nordic global company - alongside Bails, Healthtech, and Tasman - collectively helping healthcare
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Zoom Announces Cerner EHR Integration for Secure Virtual Visits
What You Should Know: - Zoom is now accepting beta customers for Zoom’s new integration with Cerner’s electronic health record (EHR) platform, available by sending a message of interest on Cerner’s App Gallery or talking to your Zoom account executive. - Hospitals, health systems, physician offices, and clinics that use Cerner to share and access patient EHR data across the continuum of care will be able to launch secure Zoom virtual visits directly
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Accuhealth & 2bPrecise Joins Epic App Orchard Marketplace
What You Should Know: - Accuhealth’s remote patient monitoring platform and 2bPrecise’s precision genetic/genomic data platform announced that it is available in the Epic App Orchard. The App Orchard program enables developers to integrate their healthcare IT solutions with the Epic electronic health record (EHR) using standards-based APIs. - The 2bPrecise platform consumes genetic/genomic data from molecular labs and clinical information from EHRs. It synthesizes
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EverCommerce Acquires DrChrono to Expand Suite of Solutions for Independent Practices
What You Should Know: - Today EverCommerce Inc., a service commerce platform, announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire DrChrono Inc., a Sunnyvale, CA-based SaaS practice management and EHR platform for modern medical practices. - DrChrono offers an all-in-one, cloud-based practice management, EHR, and billing solution to make healthcare more informed, more interactive, and more personalized. Financial details of the acquisition were not
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LexisNexis & Voyce App Joins Epic App Orchard Marketplace
What You Should Know: - Voyce, an on-demand live interpreter app that helps break down language barriers in healthcare and LexisNexis® Healthcare Identity Management platform announced its availability in the Epic App Orchard Marketplace. - The integration with Epic App Orchard enables any health system or healthcare provider using Epic can directly access Voyce app and LexisNexis identity and access management (IAM) solution. The LexisNexis Healthcare Identity Management
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How Medical Reference Platforms Can Enhance Clinicians’ EHR Experience
In healthcare technology, there’s no such thing as a silver bullet solution, and each technology has its benefits and its limitation. Electronic health records (EHRs) are no exception. On their own, EHRs provide insight into a patient’s visit history, medical background, and more, but when used in combination with other innovative, user-friendly technologies, clinicians’ experience with EHRs will only improve. One of the easiest—and most significant—ways
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Rimidi Launches EHR-Integrated Patient Reported Outcomes Tool, Survé
What You Should Know: - Today, Rimidi, a leading clinical management platform designed to optimize clinical workflows, announced the official launch of its EHR-integrated Patient Reported Outcomes tool, Survé by Rimidi. - While originally deployed as a virtual screening and triage tool to help limit the spread of COVID-19 in healthcare settings, Survé has since been enhanced to work across a number of different clinical areas and use cases, such as dermatology, orthopedics and
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Walmart to Deploy Epic EHR Platform in 4 New Health Centers
What You Should Know: - Walmart announces a new partnership with Epic to deploy a single enterprise EHR platform in four new Walmart Health Centers opening in Florida in early 2022. - The Epic deployment will engage patients, healthcare professionals, insurance carriers and other stakeholders while enhancing communication, personalization and information sharing amongst healthcare professionals and patients utilizing a patient portal.
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Unity Health to Deploy Meditech Expanse Platform Across Network
What You Should Know: - Unity Health, the leading healthcare provider in an eight-county area, is pleased to announce they have chosen to implement MEDITECH Expanse across their entire organization. - In addition, Unity Health will implement MEDITECH Expanse Oncology to expand and optimize their cancer treatment offerings with evidence-based plans that support multidisciplinary ordering. To maximize ROI, Unify Health will leverage MEDITECH Professional Services to complement the
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EHR Data Reveals COVID-19 Vaccines Effective in Preventing Hospitalizations, ER Visits
What You Should Know: - Real world evidence from electronic medical records (EHR) data reveals the COVID-19 vaccines are highly effective at preventing hospitalizations, emergency department visits and intensive care admissions due to the virus, according to a study just published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM). - The study, “Effectiveness of COVID-19 Vaccines in Preventing Ambulatory and Inpatient Care” analyzes actual data from hospitals around the US and shows
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