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Safety net hospital Nashville General Hospital today announced a strategic partnership with Oracle Health to implement its CommunityWorks EHR platform. Oracle Health’s CommunityWorks will replace multiple systems with one united EHR that will enable clinicians to access patient records from the 150-bed hospital and more than 20 outpatient and clinic settings across the county.
CommunityWorks EHR Implementation Benefits
Oracle Health’s
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Microsoft Enables Epic Clients to Use Microsoft Azure Large Instances to Manage Large Epic EHR Database Loads
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Microsoft announced that Epic clients, starting with Mount Sinai Health System can use Microsoft Azure Large Instances to run the large Epic electronic health record (EHR) database at up to 50 million database accesses per second. Through close collaboration with Accenture, Mount Sinai continues to migrate many of its workloads to Azure and now has the largest production instance of Epic running on Azure in the world.
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Suvida Healthcare Taps Elation EHR to Support Medicare Hispanic Seniors
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- Elation Health, clinical-first technology EHR platform for primary care, today forms a strategic partnership with Suvida Healthcare, an advanced primary care group delivering care to Medicare-eligible Hispanic adults.
- Suvida trusts Elation’s powerful and flexible platform to support scaling multidisciplinary value-based care operations to deliver high-quality care for its patients.
Partnership Benefits
Partnering with Elation, the solution
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Biobeat RPM Integrates with Epic EHR to Enhance Vital Signs Data Transfer
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Biobeat, a global provider of wearable remote patient monitoring (RPM) solutions for the healthcare continuum, announced its Epic EHR integration completion.The Epic EHR integration allows patient's vital signs to transfer from the Biobeat RPM devices directly to the EHR, reducing the medical staff's burden and enhancing their workflow.
Epic EHR Integration Benefits
Biobeat team estimates that by using their devices and system in the hospital settings they can
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KLAS: Pediatric Organizations Placing Emphasis on EMR Vendor Consolidation
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The landscape of pediatric healthcare has shifted in recent years. Grappling with changes in the labor market, many pediatric organizations are seeking out a simplified IT approach that enhances patient care and bolsters efficiency. Some organizations have started to consolidate or have already consolidated their technology stack to fewer vendors, with many leveraging more functionality from their core EHR vendors.For this report, KLAS talked to 57 organizations using
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M&A: Axxess Acquires Home Health EHR Complia Health
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- Home healthcare technology provider Axxess announced it has acquired Complia Health, a provider of EMR solutions, technology and services for home care, home health and hospice agencies.
- The acquisition will help both organizations combine resources to help clients accelerate outcomes and provide world-class care team and consumer experiences.Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. In addition, the acquisition adds more clients,
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NextGen to Pay $31M Settlement for False Claims Act Allegations
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EHR vendor NextGen Healthcare has agreed to pay $31M to settle allegations that NextGen violated the False Claims Act (FCA) by misrepresenting the capabilities of certain versions of its EHR software and providing unlawful remuneration to its users to induce them to recommend NextGen’s software. The civil settlement includes the resolution of claims brought under the qui tam or whistleblower provisions of the False Claims Act by Toby Markowitz and Elizabeth
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How Health Systems Can Transform Fragmented Data Into a Unified Patient Experience
Imagine a giant clock where each single cog wheel contributes to displaying the time accurately. In this complex web of machinery, individual cogs can break, and the clock stops – rendering it useless. Healthcare organizations are at risk of facing a similar fate as they encounter fragmented IT infrastructures with disconnected data environments and silos. Failure to address this growing issue could have serious consequences, leading systems to falter sooner than anticipated.
In a recent
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Epic EHR Integrates with Nuance’s AI-Powered DAX Express
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Epic and Nuance (a Microsoft company) expand their long-term strategic collaboration by integrating Nuance’s new Dragon Ambient eXperience Express (DAX Express), the first fully AI-automated clinical documentation application in healthcare, into Epic workflows.As part of the integration, DAX Express for Epic will deliver everything clinicians need in one place to create a comprehensive note quickly, decreasing cognitive load, increasing provider satisfaction, and
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How EHR Interoperability Will Impact Health Care IT in 2023 and Beyond
The U.S. healthcare system has been in desperate need of modernization for decades. Thankfully, essential change is finally happening.
IT workers at healthcare organizations are now creating more efficient and effective electronic health records (EHRs), a process that requires integrating EHRs with new patient-access technologies. It also means that other healthcare workers – medical assistants, teletriage nurses, call center agents, etc. – need to change the way they work in
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