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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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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Azalea Health Acquires dashboardMD for Integrated EHR‑based Business Intelligence
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- Azalea Health Innovations Inc. (Azalea Health or Azalea), a provider of cloud-based patient management and health IT solutions, today announced its acquisition of dashboardMD, an innovative cloud provider of business intelligence reporting solutions and healthcare analytics. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.
- The acquisition pairs two true innovators in the health IT space -- Azalea with its fully interoperable, cloud-based electronic health
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Invitae Acquires Ciitizen for $325M to Strengthen its Patient-Consented Health Data Platform
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- Medical genetics company Invitae today announced its $325M acquisition of Ciitizen, a patient-centric consumer health tech company that offers a global platform to help patients collect, organize, store and share their medical records digitally.
- Ciitizen is a patient-centric consumer health technology platform that enables patients to collect, store and share their medical records in a single location. Ciitizen developed proprietary machine learning and AI
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Mayo Clinic, Verily Partner to Develop Clinical Decision Support Solutions
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- Today, Mayo Clinic and Verily, an Alphabet company announced a strategic two-year collaboration to develop clinical decision support solutions. This modular, evidence-based decision support solution, will provide contextualized and validated knowledge on disease management, care guidelines, and treatment to help clinicians make decisions.
- The clinical decision support tool will be developed based on a broad range of health-relevant data sources, including
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Foundation Medicine Integrates with Epic EMR for Genomic Insights for Precision Cancer Care
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- Foundation Medicine (FMI) announced today a partnership to integrate its comprehensive genomic testing services into Epic’s electronic medical record (EMR) platform, making it easier for oncologists to order comprehensive genomic tests (CGP), review results, continually access clinical and genomic information and share among their care teams in order to develop personalized treatment plans quickly and efficiently for their patients. See the full release
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