What You Should Know:
- Cerner announced a new offering, CommunityWorks
Foundations aimed at reducing costs and speeding up the implementation process
for Rural and Critical Access Hospitals.
- This much-needed offering caters to small rural healthcare providers, who often face challenges such as geographic isolation, workforce shortages, educational disparities, and diminishing resources that can make it harder to deliver high-quality care.
- Rural hospitals serve about 20% of all
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Change Healthcare Launches SmartPay Integration with Epic MyChart to Improve Patient Payments
What You Should Know:
- Change
Healthcare's SmartPay integration with Epic MyChart helps facilitate patient
payments both pre- and post-service, and connectivity with Hyperspace® creates
a “one-stop shop” experience that lets providers' staff stay within Epic to
process point-of-service payments.
- Change Healthcare’s SmartPay Payment Integration for
MyChart and encrypted device integration is available in the Epic App Orchard.
Change
Healthcare announced the launch of its
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Banner Health to Implement Cerner Revenue Cycle Management Across Enterprise
What You Should Know:
- Cerner and long-time client Banner Health announced
a new deal to implement a comprehensive suite of revenue cycle management
solutions as part of a long-standing strategic alignment to use health care
technology to drive population health improvement.
- The revenue cycle integration will take place across
Banner Health’s entire system, including 28 hospitals and clinics in six
states.
Banner Health and Cerner,
today announced it is expanding
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Allscripts, Microsoft Ink 5-Year Partnership to Support Cloud-based Sunrise EHR, Drive Co-Innovation
What You Should Know:
- Allscripts and Microsoft sign a five-year partnership extension to support Allscripts’ cloud-based Sunrise electronic health record and drive co-innovation.
- The alliance will enable Allscripts to harness the power of Microsoft’s platform and tools, including Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Teams, and Power BI, creating a more seamless and highly productive user experience.
Today Allscripts and
Microsoft Corp. announced the
extension of their long-standing
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Health Catalyst Acquires Clinical Workflow Optimization Solution healthfinch
What You Should Know:
- Health Catalyst announces an agreement to acquire
clinical workflow optimization solution healthfinch using a mix of stock and
cash.
- As part of the acquisition, healthfinch will be a new
application suite category called EMR Embedded Insights and its refills, care
gaps closure, and visit planning applications will continue to be available in
their original configuration.
Health
Catalyst, Inc., a provider of data and analytics technology and services
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Pilot: Clinical Digital Assistant Reduces EHR Documentation Time and Burden for Family Physicians
What You Should Know:
- AAFP Innovation Lab pilot program with Suki, an AI-powered, voice-enabled digital assistant for doctors, significantly reduced EHR documentation time and burden for family physicians.
- The pilot studied the impact of a digital assistant
used for visit note completion for over 15 to 30 days by 10 family physicians.
- The time and motion results showed a 62% decrease in documentation time per patient, a 51% decrease in documentation time during clinic, and a
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New AI Accurately Translates 93% of Prescription Information Imported into EHRs
What You Should Know:
- Healthcare technology company DrFirst has announced the
release of its next generation, patented SmartSig AI technology to improve the
quality of patient medication history when it is imported into hospitals’ and
health systems’ electronic health records (EHRs).
- Simple prescription instructions, called “sigs,” can
have hundreds of variations or be missing entirely from patients’ medication
histories when they are imported into hospitals’ EHRs. The missing
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Vonage, Redox Integrate Telehealth Data with EHRs to Support Interoperability
What You Should
Know:
- Vonage and
Redox form partnership where Vonage API users can now leverage Redox APIs to
exchange telehealth data with electronic health records (EHRs).
- Together the
companies enable healthcare providers to connect effectively and privately with
patients via a platform that is fully interoperable with EHRs and other leading
healthcare data source systems.
Vonage, a global leader in cloud communications helping businesses accelerate their digital
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Give Your EHR a Makeover—Not a Do-Over
EHRs have long been blamed for fueling clinician frustration and burnout. According to a recent study published in the Journal of Informatics in Health and Biomedicine, 70 percent of clinicians reported experiencing stress related to the use of health information technology. In an effort to address those issues, healthcare organizations have spent countless hours and revenue to rip out inefficient clinical systems and replace them with new technologies—yet clinician satisfaction hasn’t
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Epic MyChart Helps Deliver COVID-19 Drive-Thru Tests at 1,000+ CVS Pharmacies
As states cautiously re-open, convenient access to COVID-19 testing
is critical so that those who are infected can self-isolate quickly to minimize
its spread. EHR leader Epic is helping
deliver COVID-19 test results via MyChart as part of an effort to increase
nationwide testing capacity being led by CVS
Health.
Epic's software allows patients to access test results online in a timely and efficient manner. Patients registering for an appointment at the 1,000+ COVID-19 drive-thru test sites
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