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- NextGen Healthcare today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire TSI Healthcare, a privately held value-added reseller located in Chapel Hill, NC. The acquisition will expand NextGen’s presence in specialties including rheumatology, pulmonology and cardiology.
- TSI Healthcare® is a national leader in the sales and support of customized NextGen® Practice Management and Electronic Health Record software. TSI Healthcare delivers innovative,
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Provider Burnout Has Leveled Out in 2022; Staffing Shortages Rises, KLAS Reports
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- Value-based care (VBC) has been established as a priority among healthcare organizations and payers as participants have gained more experience in managing their quality metrics and contracts, ultimately realizing returns on their investments.
- For their latest report, KLAS talked to 54 healthcare executives—including CEOs, CFOs, CIOs, CMIOs, COOs, VPs and directors of population health, and VPs of analytics—to gauge how they are moving beyond
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AdvancedMD to Roll Out 35+ Updates in Major Product Release
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- AdvancedMD announced its 2022 Fall product release that includes 35 new features added to its suite of all-in-one medical office and remote care cloud software. This marks one of the largest product release updates in AdvancedMD history, reflecting the robust nature of the leading cloud-based platform used by more than 40,000 practitioners across 13,000 practices, and 850 medical billing companies.
- AdvancedMD’s fall release ensures more unified and smoother
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HLTH22: Google Health – MEDITECH Collaboration Advances to Pilot Phase, Early Adopters
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- MEDITECH and Google Health today announced that DCH Health System and Mile Bluff Medical Center are early adopters in the pilot phase of their clinical search solution collaboration.
- The solution will embed the Google Health search and summarization capabilities to create a longitudinal view of a patient's health history directly within the clinical workflow of MEDITECH's Expanse EHR.
- The Expanse solution will leverage Google Health’s intelligent
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Elation Health EHR Integrates with Ribbon Health to Deliver Referral Management
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- Elation Health and Ribbon Health announced a partnership to integrate Ribbon's provider data solution into Elation Health's primary care electronic health record (EHR) platform.
- More than 24,000 clinicians across the Elation community will gain access to Ribbon's provider directory data to power their referral management workflows while decreasing administrative burden and giving physicians greater time for patient care.
- Elation's customers will also have the
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HCA to Deploy MEDITECH Expanse EHR Across Enterprise
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- HCA Healthcare, one of the nation’s leading providers of healthcare services, has signed a new agreement for a large-scale deployment of MEDITECH Expanse. This landmark agreement identifies MEDITECH Expanse as HCA Healthcare’s primary go forward EHR platform and a key part of the company’s digital transformation.
- Expanse is expected to support HCA Healthcare’s efforts to provide
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KLAS Report Reveals EMR Functionality & Value Top of Mind for Small Practices
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- A new report by KLAS provides the latest view on how the major vendors in this market perform and which ones stand out in the areas that small practices (2–10 physicians) care about most.
- Small practices provide a significant amount of outpatient care in the US, and their needs differ from those of their larger counterparts. When it comes to EMR/PM technology, these practices expect up-to-date functionality, steady product performance, solid implementation and
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Diagnosis: EHR Avoidance Syndrome
If you’ve read the healthcare IT trade press recently, you’ve no doubt seen stories about the clinical usability of EHRs and how it can be improved. When you look at the issue closely there are, ultimately, two approaches to “breaking the usability barrier” of these systems:
1. Provide EHR users with instant access to relevant clinical information for any condition a patient presents. This information should be connected to clinically responsive workflows that mirror the way physicians and
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KLAS-Bain: Post-Pandemic Investment Priorities for Healthcare Providers
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- Competition in the provider IT space shows no signs of abating: Early-stage capital, big tech, and scale EMR players continue crowding into more segments. This has significant implications for providers as they transition into a new disruptive period, for software players as they fine-tune go-to-market models for the current environment, and for private equity investors as they look to invest behind winning themes.
- A new report by KLAS Research and Bain &
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WELL Health Acquires EMR, Billing, Clinical Assets from CloudMD for $5.75M
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- WELL Health is acquiring CloudMD's Cloud Practice entity which includes OSCAR1 based Juno EMR and ClinicAid billing Software applications as well as three primary care clinics located in the province of British Columbia.
- The combined entities serve more than 2,500 healthcare practitioners across Canada and represent WELL's entrance in the Alberta and Saskatchewan markets for its EMR and billing products.
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