University of Missouri Health Care, in Columbia, has selected Cerner, a global leader in health care technology, to help manage revenue cycle performance across its five hospitals and more than 50 primary and specialty care clinics.MU Health Care will soon integrate Cerner’s registration, scheduling, patient accounting and practice management solutions and transaction services with its existing electronic health record (EHR), Cerner Millennium. The integration of clinical and financial data will
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Healthwise Launches FHIR App in Epic’s App Orchard Marketplace
Healthwise, a nonprofit organization with a mission to help people make better health decisions has announced the availability of its patient education app, Healthwise FHIR Solution for Epic: Point of Care, in Epic’s App Orchard marketplace. The adoption of the FHIR standard connects the healthcare industry in new and modern ways, improving interoperability.As an App Orchard contributor, Healthwise will utilize application programming interfaces (APIs), which serve as a bridge between Epic
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eClinicalWorks Launches Acute Care EHR & Revenue Cycle Management
Today, eClinicalWorks, announced it will launch a cloud-based platform for Acute Care EHR and Revenue Cycle Management during HIMSS18, starting at $599 per bed per month. The company is changing the landscape of acute care EHR industry by providing a modern, cloud-based platform with no upfront license fees. Hospitals will have no financial barriers to transition to eClinicalWorks.Hamilton Healthcare System, is expanding its relationship with the company by selecting the platform and will become
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MEDITECH Unveils New Web-based EHR Platform: Expanse
MEDITECH, an Enterprise Health Record (EHR) vendor, is formally announcing its next-generation platform, MEDITECH Expanse. The web-based platform marks a major step in the company's mission of empowering healthcare organizations to extend their reach and connect patient care across the continuum.Designed for the post-Meaningful Use era, Expanse helps providers to see healthcare through a new lens. The web-based EHR navigates healthcare's wide-open, virtual landscape with clarity and confidence,
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Cerner Integrates Surescripts Prescription Price Transparency Functionality With EHR
Cerner has announced a collaboration with Surescripts to integrate their Real-Time Prescription Benefit functionality into the Cerner Millennium electronic health record (EHR). Surescripts Real-Time Prescription Benefit will integrate directly into the physician’s workflow to provide patient-specific prescription information at the point of care.Prescription benefit information at the point of care will help facilitate engagement between individuals and their physicians to find the prescription
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Healthcare Cyber Hygiene: 5 Best Practices to Protect Patient Data
Hospital-acquired infections and data breaches may have vastly different causes, but they have one thing in common—they put healthcare organizations and patients at risk. The “pathogens” which cause data breaches originate both externally and internally—but practicing healthcare cyber hygiene can reduce or eliminate their “infection."Patient data has high value—to others. According to Verizon’s 2017 Data Breach Investigations Report, healthcare has the second highest number of breaches after
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Roche Acquires Oncology EHR Startup Flatiron Health for $1.9B
Roche has reached an agreement to acquire Flatiron Health, a NYC-based oncology EHR startup focused on accelerating cancer research and improving patient care for $1.9B. Under terms of the acquisition, Flatiron Health will continue its current business model, network of partnerships and overall objectives. The integrity of segregated patient protected health information will be preserved, as will dedicated sales and marketing, provider-facing and life science business activities. In addition,
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Orion Health Launches Rhapsody Integration Engine on Amazon Cloud
Orion Health, a provider of interoperability, population health management, and precision medicine solutions, today announced the global launch of Rhapsody as a Service (RaaS), a cloud-based integration solution, powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS).Offering a full-service model to healthcare organizations, Orion Health also announces RaaS’s global Integration as a Service (IaaS) capability to manage and maintain the entire integration engine for customers.Orion Health’s Rhapsody Integration
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Advocate Health to Replace Allscripts, Cerner With Epic EHR
Downers Grove, Ill.-based Advocate Health Care has announced plans to implement Epic’s EHR system, replacing Cerner and Allscripts EHR to achieve a single unified EHR platform. Advocate Health Care officials expect to go-live on Epic’s EHR solution within three years, which includes the training of more than 17,000 Advocate physicians, nurses and associates. The new Epic EHR solution will streamline online patient appointment scheduling and digital check-ins.The news comes on the heels of
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Epic Launches One Virtual System Worldwide to Support Interoperability
Epic Systems, today announced the launch of their new "One Virtual System Worldwide" initiative to ensure clinicians across all organizations using Epic can not only exchange more data, but can interact with each other on that data.The One Virtual System Worldwide initiative consists of three parts: 1. Come Together: Epic finds patient records and brings their data together from Epic organizations, organizations that use other EHRs, government, and networks.2. Happy Together: MyChart patient
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