HSBlox’s new Enterprise-wide Master Patient Index (EMPI) utilizes machine learning to improve patient safety with secure, accurate sharing of patient data throughout the healthcare landscape. HSBlox, a healthcare blockchain-focused company that is bringing innovation and transparent economics to the healthcare ecosystem, today announced the launch of its SmartMPI solution, which utilizes machine learning to provide next-generation patient ID matching and secure, transparent sharing of patient
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Apple Health Records Initiative: Peril or Promise?
Health Records is Apple’s new personal health record feature that was announced on January 24, 2018 as part of the iOS 11.3 update. Health Records will collect and compile patient-generated data, such as steps walked in a day or hours slept, together with information from the patient’s electronic medical record (EMR) if the user is a patient at one of now nearly 40 participating hospitals. UNC Health Care Chapel Hill, Johns Hopkins Medicine, and Stanford Medicine are three health systems have
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Redirect Health Selects CareCloud Platform to Support Expansion of Affordable Care Network
Redirect Health, the Arizona-based patient-centered medical home network and cost management innovator, has selected CareCloud as its practice management technology partner for their primary care and outpatient surgery centers. Redirect Health is an award-winning, national healthcare company based in Scottsdale that has seen high growth through its Arizona clinics and its novel nationwide health plan solution for small to medium-sized businesses.CareCloud is supporting Redirect Health
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Mayo Clinic to Explore Use Cases of Blockchain-based EHRs
Medicalchain, a UK-based startup using blockchain technology to secure store EHRs securely has signed a joint development agreement with Mayo Clinic to explore the value of blockchain in healthcare. As part of the joint development agreement, both organizations will work together to develop use cases utilizing blockchain-based EHRs. This agreement comes after months of discussions between Mayo Clinic and Medicalchain on the potential benefits blockchain technology can bring to
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DrChrono EHR Integrates with Square to Enable Physician Payment Processing
DrChrono Inc., the company enabling the medical practice of the future, today announced a new integration with Square that incorporates payment processing into the DrChrono EHR cloud-based platform, enabling physicians to collect patient payments much faster and more easily. The DrChrono/Square integration enables medical practices to accept and save a patient’s debit and credit card information directly within the DrChrono EHR and OnPatient patient portal. Patient payments can be collected
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University Hospitals Taps 2bPrecise to Deliver Genomic Insights
University Hospitals, today announced it, has selected the 2bPrecise® platform to bring genomic data into the clinical workflow, impacting patient care in both acute and ambulatory settings. The 2bPrecise platform is an offering from 2bPrecise LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Allscripts. University Hospitals (UH) serves the needs of patients through an integrated network of 18 hospitals, more than 50 outpatient health centers and 200 physician offices in 15 counties throughout northern Ohio.
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IlumiCare Integrates with Epic EMR to Improve Clinical Decision Making
IllumiCare, a pioneer in point-of-care healthcare information technology, announces today integrations with multiple health systems using the Epic electronic medical record (EMR). IllumiCare’s Smart Ribbon® technology currently runs in 22 hospitals using Epic, with additional facilities being added.IllumiCare offers an EMR-agnostic ribbon of information that unobtrusively puts the wholesale cost of medications, labs and radiology tests, iatrogenic risks, and other actionable information within a
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Cohealo Launches EHR-Integrated Solution for Tracking Medical Equipment Utilization
Cohealo, a healthcare IT company for equipment sharing and planning, today launched Cohealo Track, a SaaS-based solution that leverages case information from a hospital system’s EHR to provide actionable insights into medical equipment utilization. On average, a health system’s medical equipment will sit idle for 58 percent of its lifespan, tying up finite capital planning budgets in redundant purchases that are estimated to be as high as 25 percent of a single hospital’s inventory. With Cohealo
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WISHIN, PatientPing Partners to Advance Care Coordination Throughout Wisconsin
Today, PatientPing and WISHIN announced their partnership to improve the health of countless lives in Wisconsin by bolstering its care coordination efforts across the network with real-time patient notifications and additional context. WISHIN, which stands for the Wisconsin Statewide Health Information Network, is the state’s designated entity for healthcare information exchange (HIE). Using PatientPing’s lightweight care coordination technology, WISHIN is improving upon the existing network of
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Jonathan Bush Steps Down as CEO of athenahealth, Board to Consider Sale, Merger
athenahealth announced this morning that founder Jonathan Bush is stepping down as CEO, effectively immediately. The Board of Directors has initiated a process to explore strategic alternatives and will consider a sale, merger or other transaction involving the Company as well as continuing as an independent company. In addition, the Board has also initiated a search process to identify qualified CEO candidates.Jeff Immelt, Chairman of athenahealth, has been appointed Executive Chairman, Marc
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