Bernoulli Health, the developer of the advanced Bernoulli One clinical surveillance, medical device integration (MDI), and real-time data analytics platform, announced today collaboration with GE Healthcare on the new CARESCAPE Connect data aggregation solution. The data integration partnership between GE Healthcare and Bernoulli Health to increase volume, fidelity and resolution of data captured from GE Healthcare monitors and other third-party medical devices; to build sources of data that are
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Why Payers Must Invest in Real-Time Analytics to Increase Profitability Against ACA’S Risk Adjustment Program
With the future of the Affordable Care Act in limbo, health payers and providers alike are back to focusing on how to work within that system. And as payers in particular struggle to find avenues to profitability in the ACA’s complex topography, we’ll likely hear more rhetoric about the difficulty of enticing young, affluent Americans to sign up for health insurance.The conventional wisdom of the moment holds that failure to enroll enough of those so-called “healthy wealthies” to offset the
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drchrono Leverages Face ID on iPhone X to Unlock EHR for Physicians
Mobile EHR provider drchrono Inc., today announced that it has leverage Face ID on iPhone X for physicians to unlock electronic health records (EHRs). By simply launching the drchrono app, Physicians can save time using new Face ID recognition technology to log into the drchrono EHR.On iPhone X, doctors now can simply raise their phone to login to the EHR app, unlike using Touch ID, a passcode or entering a username and password. drchrono has thousands of medical professionals and over 10
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Mount Sinai Taps MuleSoft to Create API Economy to Share Patient Data
MuleSoft, an application network company, announced Mount Sinai, New York’s largest integrated health system is leveraging Anypoint Platform to broaden its ability to share data beyond the four walls of its hospitals. Historically, Mount Sinai struggled to share patient data across its massive health system which includes 7,100 primary and specialty care physicians, 12 joint-venture ambulatory surgery centers, more than 140 ambulatory practices and 31 affiliated community health centers.Mount
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Maryland HIE Renews Contract With Verato to Use Universal MPI for Patient Matching Support
Chesapeake Regional Information System for our Patients (CRISP), a not-for-profit regional health information exchange (HIE) serving Maryland and the District of Columbia, has renewed its contract to use the Verato Universal MPI to automatically process its most difficult potential matches that would otherwise have to be manually reviewed and resolved. The ability to match and link patient identities across its participating organizations is fundamental to CRISP’s core services including its
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Texas HIE Selects Innovaccer to Advance Data-Driven Valued-based Care Initiatives
The Paso del Norte Health Information Exchange, PHIX, an El Paso, TX-based health information exchange (HIE) has selected Innovaccer, Inc., a Silicon Valley-based healthcare platform company, to leverage its technology for data-driven value-based initiatives. As a Health Information Exchange, PHIX will provide access to patient's longitudinal health record from across the care continuum. PHIX’s goal is to improve efficiency, increase quality of care, and improve patient safety.To realize their
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Surescripts Joins Forces With 5 EHR Vendors to Provide Prescription Benefit Price Transparency
Surescripts is joining forces with five EHR companies (Allscripts, Aprima Medical Software, Cerner, Epic and GE Healthcare ) to provide Real-Time Prescription Benefit and Prior Authorization. Representing 53 percent of the U.S. physician base, the partnership will leverage information from pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) CVS Health and Express Scripts, who represent nearly two-thirds of U.S. patients, to deliver patient-specific benefit and price information to providers in real time at the
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The Value of EMRs: Broken Promise or Unintended Consequences?
Editor's Note: Justin Campbell is the VP at Galen Healthcare Solutions, a professional services firm helping healthcare clients migrate from paper to electronic health records. Prior to joining Galen, Justin served as the IT Director for a long-term care pharmacy, leading a paperless initiative, the migration of the Pharmacy Information System (PIS) from a legacy platform, and the integration of the PIS to the pharmacy’s packaging system.In the world of healthcare many are tempted to believe in
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Sen. Alexander: Getting EHRs “Out of Ditch” Is Critical to Future of Medical Innovation
Senate health committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) today said that “electronic health records are a critical piece to the future of medical innovation” during the first oversight hearing on the 21st Century Cures Act. Today, the committee held the first oversight hearing on the 21st Century Cures Act, which became law in December 2016 and was called “the most important legislation” of the year by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.“Last December, we passed the 21st Century Cures Act,
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drchrono Launches Specialized EHR for Urgent Care Practices
Mobile EHR provider drchrono Inc. has announced the launch of drchrono UrgentCare, a specialized EHR and practice management solution for urgent care practices. The new Urgent Care EHR features include: prebuilt charting forms for common urgent care conditions, macro text shortcuts that expand to speed up urgent care charting, online scheduling, a virtual waiting room queue with patient wait times, iPad Kiosk waiting room self check-in, mobile app patient self check-in, urgent care patient
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