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Hint Health, the company powering the Direct Primary Care (DPC) movement, today announced the release of its newest product, Hint All-in-One.The all-encompassing EMR platform made exclusively for DPCs integrates Hint’s existing membership management platform with a new clinical platform that was purpose-built by and for DPC physicians. Now, delivered within the targeted 6-month deadline, the solution enables DPC physicians to get back to what they love to do – care for
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KLAS Reveals Some Providers Lack Confidence in Oracle Cerner’s Roadmap/Vision
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Cerner, one of the major software vendors in healthcare IT, has gone through significant changes over the last year and a half. In October 2021, they announced a new CEO and introduced RevElate as their go-forward patient accounting platform. Two months later, Oracle announced their intent to acquire Cerner. Customers soon reached out to KLAS, wanting to know about their peers’ experiences with these changes.To gather this information, KLAS has been meeting regularly
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KLAS: Independent Ambulatory Patient Portals Performance 2023
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Patient portals (tools used by healthcare providers to engage with patients) can greatly influence a patient’s ability to seek and receive care. Since the outbreak of COVID-19, healthcare organizations have become keenly interested in technology that gives patients ownership of their health and enhances office efficiencies.Though KLAS has historically looked at how portals perform in the IDN setting, this report examines the experience of customers in the independent
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Survey Reveals Accelerating Use of AI to Overcome Workforce Challenges
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- Given the severity of labor shortages and staffing constraints facing health systems nationwide, C-suite executives are turning to artificial intelligence (AI) to fill gaps and improve productivity, according to a recent survey conducted by The Health Management Academy (The Academy) with support from Outbound AI.
- Almost half of executives (47.5%) report their health system is currently using AI solutions for the workforce, while all others
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Northwell to Deploy Epic Enterprise EHR Platform Across System
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- Northwell Health today announced an agreement with Epic to implement the health system’s next-generation EHR as part of its ongoing digital transformation to ensure a more seamless patient experience and team member experience.
- The announcement marks the replacement of Allscripts and will result in one patient record across every Northwell venue of care and drive enhanced care coordination across 21 hospitals and about 900 outpatient facilities.
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KLAS: State of Small-Hospital Patient Accounting 2023
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- Small hospitals are changing their EMRs and patient accounting systems at a greater rate than that of their large-hospital counterparts. Most market selection energy is going to Oracle Health (Cerner), MEDITECH, and Epic; small hospitals also use other vendors like athenahealth, CPSI, and MEDHOST.
- While many vendors offer viable clinical systems, there are significant differences across the customer experience with patient accounting that should not be overlooked
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Zus Health Raises $40M, Partners with Primary Care EHR Elation
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- Zus Health, (pronounced "Zoose"), a next-generation shared health data platform bringing distributed patient data directly to the point of care, announced today that the company has closed a $40 million financing from JAZZ Venture Partners, F-Prime Capital, Maverick Ventures, and Andreessen Horowitz (a16z).
- Zus is the only shared health data platform designed to accelerate healthcare data interoperability by providing easy-to-use patient data at the
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PointClickCare Acquires Value-Based Care EHR Patient Pattern
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- PointClickCare Technologies, a healthcare technology platform enabling meaningful collaboration and access to real‐time insights at every stage of the patient healthcare journey, today announced the acquisition of Patient Pattern. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
- The combination of PointClickCare and Patient Pattern will further the companies’ shared vision of enabling better care and outcomes for high-needs populations and provide
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Children’s Wisconsin Using Xealth to Digitally Engage Patients and Families
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- Xealth announced that Children’s Wisconsin, Wisconsin’s only independent healthcare system dedicated solely to the health and well-being of children, is using Xealth’s digital health platform system-wide to integrate patient education and custom content into care team workflows.
- The integration enables the faster and easier distribution of consistent communications across locations, providing patients and their families with timely access to reliable
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Implicity Launches SMART on FHIR App to Optimize Interoperability & Workflow Efficiencies
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- Implicity, a leader in remote patient monitoring (RPM) and cardiac data management solutions, released a new SMART on FHIR application to improve interoperability and workflow efficiencies for providers.
- The new app improves cardiac remote monitoring workflows by providing clinicians access to Implicity alerts and reports directly within Epic's EHR system.
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Implicity's cloud-based platform allows cardiac teams to streamline workflows by
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