Bridge Connector, a healthcare data integration platform as a service (iPaaS) that delivers streamlined integration solutions for healthcare organizations, today announced it has raised $5.5 million in Series A funding led by Axioma Ventures LLC, following a $4.5M seed round in May 2018. The latest round brings the company’s total investment to $10M in funding. The health IT startup plans to use the funding to help further expand Bridge Connector’s sales, marketing, and client-services efforts,
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4 Learning Curves That Healthcare IT Alone Cannot Address
In 2018, the phrase 'learning curve' is used so frequently that it’s essentially part of the English lexicon with little need for definitions and etymologies.In the late nineteenth century, however, both phrase and concept were yet to be invented. German psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus described what we know as the learning curve in the late 1800s and the term itself was first used in a 1903 issue of the American Journal of Psychology.Both the learning curve and institutional maturity have been
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Verana Health Lands $30M for EHR Integrated Data Platform for Life Sciences
Verana Health formerly known as DigiSight Technologies), a healthcare technology developer of a cutting-edge platform for life science innovation that utilizes regulatory-grade specialty data sets has raised $30M in Series C funding led by GV (formerly Google Ventures) with participation from existing investors Biomatics Capital, Brook Byers, founder of Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers, GE Ventures, and Lagunita Biosciences.In addition to the Series C funding, the company has appointed
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Galway Clinic Becomes First Hospital Live on MEDITECH Expanse EHR In Ireland and UK
Galway Clinic becomes first hospital in Ireland and the UK to launch Expanse, MEDITECH’s single integrated web EHR platform, to unify care teams, share patient records, and better coordinate patients’ care. Galway Clinic, a state-of-the-art, 146-bed hospital, today announced it has became the first hospital in Ireland and the UK to launch Expanse, MEDITECH’s innovative, fully integrated Patient Administration System (PAS) and Electronic Health Record (EHR). Leveraging the latest technology,
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3 Ways Automation & Integration Is Disrupting the HIT Status Quo
In the history of healthcare information technology (HIT), there is clear evidence that technology systems have been designed to provide individual solutions, instead of considering a provider’s workflow holistically. In the late 1980’s and early 1990’s, practice management (PM) systems offered medical practices the opportunity to automate their day-to-day operations. Then the electronic health record (EHR) became mainstream in the late 1990’s and early 2000’s, to electronically store patient
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IllumiCare Launches App to Solve Blindspot Within EHR for Opioid Prescribing
IllumiCare launches the first controlled substance tracking solution within the EMR to combine inpatient and outpatient data on opioid exposure. A new app for the EHR is alleviating a blindspot in opioid prescribing, giving clinicians the first full picture of opioid exposure on a patient. Currently, treating clinicians look John Doe up in the state’s PDMP to see his opioid history when he comes to the ER in pain. He doesn’t have one, so they prescribe it during his stay then he’s sent home.
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The Short List of Remaining Health IT Interoperability Obstacles is Significant
Earlier this year, the ONC released the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA), which responds to a mandate included in 2016’s 21st Century Cures Act and lays out principles, terms and conditions on which to base an interoperability framework that healthcare organizations can embrace. “This means patients who have received care from multiple doctors and hospitals should have their medical history electronically accessible on demand by any other treating provider in a network
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MedStar-AMA Study Reveals EHR Usability and Safety Challenges for Physicians
New MedStar-AMA study points to need for performance standards for EHR usability and safety for physicians, finds huge variability in completion efficiency and accuracy. A new study published by the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA) involving clinicians using electronic health records (EHRs) to perform certain common tasks provides compelling evidence that the design, development and implementation of these systems need to be improved to make them easier to use by
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Phoenix Health Systems Selected for Multi-Year IT Outsourcing Partnership by Southwest Mississippi Regional Medical Center
Phoenix Health Systems, the leading independent provider of hospital IT outsourcing and consulting services, today announced that Southwest Mississippi Regional Medical Center has signed a long-term contract for IT department management and software and infrastructure support. Southwest Regional is a modern facility with 165 licensed beds offering advanced equipment and a broad range of services to our patients. Its physicians and other healthcare professionals remain on the forefront of modern
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DrChrono, Stitch Integrate to Provide Practices EHR Physician Collaboration Tools
DrChrono, a company enabling the medical practice of the future, today announced a new partnership with Stitch, a company that has created a free HIPAA-compliant app for healthcare teams to send internal messages, communicate with patients and track daily tasks. Both DrChrono and Stitch are Y Combinator portfolio companies.In the past, physicians and medical staff would need to communicate with each other about patients using email, text and phone calls or other outdated chat software that
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