Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (LHCH) has extended its partnership with Allscripts as its future partner for another five consecutive years with an expanded use of Sunrise suite of electronic patient record (EPR) solutions. Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital provides specialist services in cardiothoracic surgery, cardiology, respiratory medicine including adult cystic fibrosis, and diagnostic imaging, both in the hospital and throughout the community. Since EPR was
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Samsung, TigerText Partner to Offer Mobile Clinical Collaboration Solution for Care Teams
Samsung and TigerText today announced a new strategic partnership and joint offering to improve communication and coordination efforts among care teams, offering CNOs and CNIOs a top of the line, enterprise-grade smartphone that meets the consumer-expectations of staff. Improvements in efficiency allows clinicians to streamline continuity of care and spend more time caring for patients and less time tracking down colleagues or completing redundant administrative tasks. The new all-in-one
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Nuance Unveils AI-Powered Virtual Assistant to Improve the Patient/Physician Experience
Nuance Healthcare unveiled a new AI-powered virtual assistant solution aimed at optimizing the experience healthcare providers have with their EHRs and allowing physicians to spend more time focusing on the patient. This latest offering from Nuance builds upon their award winning platform – which 500,000 clinicians use to communicate more than 300 million patient stories a year – delivering a seamless transition of conversational dialogues to actionable information for doctors. Additionally,
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Merck Manuals Integrates Authoritative Medical Info With Allscripts EHR
Merck Manuals, a comprehensive electronic medical reference, will now integrate its provider reference and patient education content into the Allscripts EHR platforms: Allscripts Sunrise, Allscripts Professional EHR and Allscripts TouchWorks EHR.Made seamlessly accessible by an HL7-compliant Infobutton, the materials are readily available to clinicians within the Allscripts EHR workflow. The Merck programs have automatically been authorized for all Allscripts clients and they simply need to
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Capital Health’s Specialized Rehab to Implement InterSystems EMR to Become Digital Hospital
Capital Health's Specialized Rehabilitation Hospital (SRH), a United Arab Emirates-based 166-bed specialty hospital has selected Intersystems to become a fully digital hospital. SRH will implement the InterSystems TrakCare EMR system to support the clinicians in making better informed decisions and improving patient safety.In addition, the TrakCare will also enable SRH to create a consolidated view of each patient's history on any authorized Internet-connected device.SRH is managed and operated
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Doximity Integrates With Epic’s Mobile EHR to Enable Physicians to Easily Call Patients
Doximity, a social network for U.S. physicians and advanced practice clinicians has announced integration partnership with EHR provider Epic. The new integration will enable one-touch dialing of patients directly from within Epic’s mobile EHR solution, Haiku.Integration DetailsThe integration between Doximity Dialer and Epic Haiku allows to doctors quickly and conveniently access patient records and communicate with patients directly from their cell phones without exposing their personal phone
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How Recent Hurricanes Highlights Health IT Improvement & Exposes Gaps
Yes, Katrina was already losing appeal as a girl’s name by 2005, when it had fallen to 247th most popular in the United States. But the so-named hurricane that swamped New Orleans in August of that year pushed it off a ledge. By May of 2007 Katrina had fallen more than 100 spots to number 382, its lowest level since the 1950s.Less trivial is the impact of Katrina on hospitals and healthcare, which has regularly measured itself against the ghost of a seemingly manageable Category 3 storm that
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New KLAS Report Finds Clock Is Ticking for Allscripts to Improve Paragon
In August 2017, Allscripts announced their intentions to purchase McKesson's Enterprise Information Solutions. This announcement comes after a period of uncertainty regarding McKesson’s plans for the future of Paragon and other EIS solutions. KLAS Research reached out to current Paragon customers to gauge how they are reacting to the news.Do Paragon clients feel the acquisition puts them in a better position? Does it change any customers’ long-term plans? To find out, KLAS got perspectives from
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Mayo Clinic Integrates System Assessment Tool with Epic MyChart App
Mayo Clinic is now offering their secure, web-based symptom assessment tool, Ask Mayo Clinic online through Epic’s MyChart App. Available 24/7 through the patient portal via any computer or mobile, MyChart App, users are guided through a series of questions about presenting symptoms. Driven by 36 standardized algorithms based on the real-time data entered, users will receive a recommended level of care“Ask Mayo Clinic online offers trusted and accessible care guidance when you need it — anytime,
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PeraHealth Joins the Epic App Orchard for Seamless Integration with Epic EHR
PeraHealth, a provider of predictive, real-time clinical surveillance solutions, announces its membership in Epic’s App Orchard to allow seamless integration into Epic’s EHR platform. As an App Orchard contributor, PeraHealth will utilize application programming interfaces (APIs), which serve as a bridge between Epic tools and third-party software products to enable greater collaboration, integration and seamless workflow. PeraTrend, PeraHealth’s clinical surveillance solution, provides
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