Over the past few decades, technology has advanced health care in incredible ways. Between robotic surgery, training through augmented reality, and the use of wearables to enhance health data, the industry has embraced numerous advances to improve patient care. However, the industry’s relationship with technology hasn’t always been seamless. While doctors and nurses work diligently to keep patients informed, more than 50% of clinicians suffer from regular burnout. The leading culprit?
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Iodine Software Acquires Physician Query Platform Artifact Health – Health M&A
What You Should Know: - Iodine Software, a leading healthcare AI company, today announced it has acquired physician engagement platform company Artifact Health. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. - The acquisition brings together two industry leaders and expands Iodine’s clinical predictions and insights platform beyond clinical documentation improvement (CDI) teams to directly engage physicians through Artifact’s HIPAA-compliant mobile platform. - Artifact
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Banner Health Launches Digital Health Program with Xealth & Babyscripts
What You Should Know: - Banner Health announced the launch of its digital health program with Xealth to enable digital health at scale. Banner Health is making it simpler for medical providers to order digital health solutions directly from its Cerner EHR, helping to strengthen its connection with patients across its 30 acute-care hospitals and other entities. The launch will begin
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Anthem, Epic Integrates Bi-Directional Data Exchange with Affiliated Health Plans
What You Should Know: - Healthcare insurer Anthem has announced a data sharing collaboration with Epic to facilitate secure, bi-directional exchange of health information between healthcare providers and Anthem’s affiliated health plans. - Epic’s Payer Platform will be integrated with Anthem’s Health OS, which is Anthem’s operating system to enable seamless health plan-provider collaboration. - The integration will enable Anthem to capture consumer health information
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CommonHealth Integrates with 150 Providers to Power Secure Access to Personal Health Records
What You Should Know: - The Commons Project Foundation announced this morning that more than 150 new hospital providers have joined CommonHealth, the Android equivalent of Apple Health, including the VHA, Mass General Brigham, ChristianaCare, and UC San Diego Health. - CommonHealth, which is free and available for download on the Google Play Store, was developed by The Commons Project Foundation in collaboration with UCSF, Cornell Tech and Sage Bionetworks to give people more control over
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athenahealth integrates Nuance’s Dragon Medical to Reduce Documentation Time
What You Should Know: - athenahealth and Nuance® Communications announced the integration of Nuance’s cloud-based speech and virtual assistant technology, Dragon® Medical, into the athenaOne® EHR and Mobile App. - 94 percent of clinicians believe speech recognition and virtual assistant technology will improve the ability to document care. Meeting the needs of clinicians everywhere, athenaOne Dictation users can now take advantage of fully
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EHR Adoption is Essential for Outpatient Surgery to Remain Relevant in Managed Care
In 2009, hospitals and doctors were given financial incentives to adopt electronic health records (EHRs) through the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act. Ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) were not eligible for these funds, and were therefore not incentivized like the rest of the healthcare system to implement the technology. The consequence of that differentiation is that the majority of ASCs are still charting on paper, even while the rest of the health
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Allscripts Launches ADP Empower to Amplify Diverse Voices in Health IT
What You Should Know: - Allscripts announced its team that leads the Allscripts Developer Program (ADP) has launched ADP Empower, a new program designed to amplify diverse voices in the healthcare technology industry and offer valuable resources to underrepresented entrepreneurs to grow their businesses and accelerate innovation. - The Allscripts Developer Program aims to build a culture of innovation by reducing barriers and risk associated with installing and using innovative healthcare
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Particle Health Expands Beta Program API to Consumer Digital Health Providers – Enabling Instant Access to Patient Records
What You Should Know: - Particle Health announces the launch of its Beta Program that will enable consumer applications such as PHRs and other providers instant access to patient records stored across health exchanges - using its single API. - The Beta Program is aimed at helping developers deliver next-gen healthcare solutions that have now been enabled with the recent passing of the Anti-Information Blocking Rule in the CURES Act. - Now the Anti-Information Blocking Rule is in
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CareCloud to Pay $3.8M to Settle Whistleblower Case Alleging Kickbacks
What You Should Know: - Miami-based EHR company CareCloud has agreed to pay $3.8 million to the federal government to settle a “qui tam” lawsuit filed on behalf of a whistleblower by Phillips & Cohen LLP that alleged CareCloud paid kickbacks to healthcare providers to boost sales of its EHR products. - The “relator” (whistleblower) in the qui tam lawsuit, Ada de la Vega, was a senior manager at CareCloud who has since left the company and was awarded de la Vega approximately 21% of the
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