On Thursday evening, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced an agreement with Cerner for the VA to use off-the-shelf Cerner solutions, replacing the legacy VistA EHR. The migration to Cerner will provide veterans, transitioning service members and their care providers access to their medical history through a single electronic health record (EHR) system. The deal is expected to cost $10 billion dollars over 10 years years.Using technology that has been deployed successfully at
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Elliott Management Outlines Concerns With athenahealth’s Lack of Engagement Over Acquisition Bid in Letter
On Tuesday, Elliott Management Corporation (“Elliott”) released a letter to the Board of Directors of athenahealth, Inc. regarding Elliott’s proposal to acquire athenahealth for $160 per share in cash that could worth about $7 billion dollars.The letter outlined Elliott’s concerns with athenahealth’s refusal thus far to engage with any of the parties, including Elliott, that have expressed interest in acquiring athenahealth.“Since that time, we have heard nothing from the Company beyond its
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KLAS Report Reveals 3 Core Barriers to NHS Interoperability in England
Electronic patient record interoperability in NHS England is benefiting patient care but facing substantial barriers, according to a new KLAS report. NHS England’s Five-Year Forward View and the National Information Board’s response have thrust interoperable systems into the national spotlight in England, including the development of a Local Health and Care Record Exemplar program. This report represents KLAS’ first look at interoperability within the NHS. The report, NHS Interoperability 2018:
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Cumberland Consulting Group Acquires LinkEHR to Expand Managed Services Practice
Health IT consulting firm Cumberland Consulting Group has acquired LinkEHR, a Madison, WI-based EHR-focused managed services firm specializing in Tier 1, 2 and 3 application support for health systems. Today’s announcement marks the firm’s fourth acquisition in just under five years.LinkEHR provides remote application support, including Epic Help Desk services, application break-fix and maintenance support for the full suite of Epic applications. In addition, the firm offers physician concierge
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Innovaccer Raises $25 Million to Expand Unified Healthcare Data Platform
Innovaccer Inc., a Silicon Valley-based healthcare data platform company, announced today that it has raised $25 million capital in its Series B round of funding led by Westbridge Capital with participation from Lightspeed Ventures. This brings the total capital raised by Innovaccer to $41 million. Innovaccer plans to use the funds to continue building on its industry-leading suite and go-to-market capabilities.This includes enhancing its data platform by doubling down on its machine learning
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Mayo Regional Hospital to Implement Cerner Integrated EHR
Mayo Regional Hospital has selected Cerner to implement a new integrated electronic health record (EHR) and revenue cycle solutions across its acute and ambulatory facilities. This agreement provides the hospital with sophisticated health care technology that will support Mayo doctors, nurses and staff as they work to streamline operations and improve patient care. With Cerner’s Clinically Driven Revenue Cycle™ solutions, Mayo clinicians will be able to view clinical and financial data in one
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Redox Launches FHIR API for Health Data Exchange on Redox Network
Health integration platform Redox, today announced that they will now offer developers and healthcare organizations the option to use FHIR®, Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resource, for health data exchange over the Redox Network: R^FHIR. R^FHIR expands the capabilities of the Redox Platform by offering developers the choice to interact with a singular FHIR® implementation while still benefiting from the standardization and normalization provided to the network of organizations using Redox
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MEDITECH EHR Expands Global Presence to United Kingdom & Ireland
MEDITECH Holdings announce it is expanding its global presence and launching MEDITECH UK in the United Kingdom and Ireland. In partnership with MEDITECH in the United States, MEDITECH UK will deliver the web-based Electronic Patient Record (EPR) platform Expanse to customers in the UK and Ireland for the first time. MEDITECH Expanse is an integrated, web-based EPR designed for mobile, tablet-based navigation with a familiar web-user interface. Created collaboratively with consultants and
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MTBC to Acquire Assets of Orion Healthcorp That Could Increase Revenues by 50%
MTBC, a provider of cloud-based healthcare IT and revenue cycle management solutions has entered into an Asset Purchase Agreement ("APA") to acquire substantially all of the revenue cycle, practice management, and group purchasing organization assets of Orion Healthcorp, Inc. and 13 of its affiliate companies (together "Orion"), as the primary bidder in a Section 363 sale under the U.S. Bankruptcy Code. After the acquisition is closed, management expects the transaction would increase MTBC's
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Elliot Management Makes $6.5B Unsolicited Bid to Acquire athenahealth
athenahealth has received an unsolicited proposal from Elliott Management to acquire the Company for $160 per share in cash that could be worth about $7 billion, including debt, CNBC first reports.In a letter sent to athenahealth’s management, the activist firm stated, “It is clear to us and becoming clear to many others that Athenahealth’s potential will never be realized without the kind of operational change that the company seems unable to deliver.” The letter also states that Elliot
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