CareCloud, an EHR and practice management platform for high-growth medical groups, announced today that it is integrating its omnidirectional data transfer process with Google Cloud Healthcare API. The integration will enable payer data to be securely, rapidly and cost-effectively shared and used in real-time with existing payer and provider systems handling activities such as member eligibility verification, claims history and claims processing.Integration Creates FHIR Bridge in Google
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Medsphere Launches Wellsoft Urgent Care EHR, PM/RCM Solution
Medsphere Systems Corporation, a provider of affordable and interoperable healthcare information technology (IT) solutions and services, today announced the launch of their new urgent care EHR solution, Wellsoft Urgent Care. The launch of Wellsoft Urgent Care comes just two months after Medsphere acquired Wellsoft, a Somerset, NJ-based Emergency Department (ED) EHR platform.Wellsoft Urgent Care EHR/PM/RCM Platform OverviewWellsoft Urgent Care’s cloud-based platform features advanced Electronic
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DrChrono Launches EHR Consultant Network Program
DrChrono, an electronic health record (EHR) platform for medical practices, announced today its new EHR Consultant Network program. This program provides independent consultants a path to certification on the DrChrono EHR platform to assist physicians and medical practices with evaluation, implementation, training, and other important processes in acquiring or managing their EHR solution. The program is free to join and the qualified consultants will be offered complimentary tutorial materials
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HealthVerity Raises $25M for Cloud Marketplace for Licensing Patient Data
HealthVerity, a Philadelphia, PA-based company focused on the rapid creation, exchange, and management of healthcare and consumer data has raised $25 million in Series C funding led by existing investor Foresite Capital with participation from Flare Capital Partners, Greycroft Partners, and other existing investors. The company plans to use the funding to support continued growth and investment in HealthVerity’s technology platform and go-to-market activities.HealthVerity BackgroundFounded in
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MEDITECH Expands EHR Subscription Offering Beyond Critical Access Hospitals
EHR vendor MEDITECH, today announced MaaS (MEDITECH as a Service) is now available to community health systems. Offered initially to Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs), larger community health systems now have the opportunity to utilize MaaS and the many benefits that come with a cost-effective subscription to MEDITECH Expanse.
Meditech MaaS Subscription Overview
MaaS is a cloud-based EHR subscription that provides health systems with full access to Expanse, MEDITECH’s web-based platform.
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DrChrono EHR Integrates with Beam to Power Telehealth Video Consults
DrChrono, an electronic health record (EHR) platform for medical practices announced an integration partnership with telemedicine network Beam Health Group. The integration with Beam’s mobile app available on Google Play and the App Store will enable physicians the ability to upgrade their practices with the ability to have patient appointments via smartphone.Integration Benefits for Medical Practices and PatientsStarting now, the physician practices using DrChrono’s EHR platform can download
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Research: Doctors More Likely to Prescribe Therapies Using EMR Dashboards
Purely educating doctors about the importance of prescribing certain therapies may not be enough to make a meaningful impact, according to a new Penn Medicine study published in the Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety. Using acid suppression therapy--an effective method of reducing the risk of gastrointestinal bleeding in vulnerable cardiac patients--Penn researchers tested interventions that utilized both education and an EMR dashboard to provide doctors with up-to-date
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KLAS Report: Nurse EHR Satisfaction Significantly Higher Than Physicians
On average, nurses report significantly higher EHR satisfaction than physicians, according to the latest KLAS report. Today, nurses outnumber physicians in the United States four to one. The report, The Nurse EHR Experience: An Arch Collaborative Impact Report 2019 measures the nurse EHR experience and identifies opportunities for improvement in the nurse experience and what the nurse experience can teach other groups of clinicians about how to succeed with the EHR.Nurses EHR Experience
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EHR Fax Server Error Exposes Thousands of Physician Notes, Medical Records
Thousands of physicians’ notes and medical records were left exposed by a fax server error within Meditab, an all-in-one multi-specialty EHR, Practice Management and Billing software solution, TechCrunch first reports. Dubai-based cybersecurity firm SpiderSilk discovered the unsecured exposed fax server was running an Elasticsearch database with over 6 million records since its creation in March 2018. It is unknown if anyone else discovered the exposed fax server or how long the data was
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AMIA Presents ‘Socio-Technical Interoperability Stack’ to Outline Why HIT Interoperability Is Not Occurring
AMIA presents "Socio-TechnicalInteroperability Stack" – developed to help communicate categorical reasons why health interoperability is not occurring.
In comments submitted last week to the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Networking and Information Technology Research and Development Program (NITRD), the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) supported their future vision for interoperability among medical devices, electronic health records, and other systems within the
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