Zoom Video Communication, a San Jose, CA-based provider of enterprise video and web communications technology has launched its Epic EHR-integration enabled cloud-based video telehealth platform. The platform named Zoom for Health offers a standard feature set for healthcare enterprises and providers, enabling reliable, HIPAA-compliant communications between organizations, care teams, and patients.The Epic EHR integration incorporates Zoom into Epic record and communications workflows.
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Vivify Health Awarded Digital Health Patent for Extending EMRs to Digital Health Ecosystem
Vivify Health, a provider of remote care via mobile devices, has been awarded a very significant patent for the advancement of healthcare delivery from episodic care via EMRs to continual care via digital health. For Vivify, the new patent will provide the company with broad protection of key intellectual property and help further cement Vivify's position as a major leader in remote care. "We are thrilled to be awarded this extensive digital health patent. It is the most important in our
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PlushCare Launches Fully Comprehensive EMR for Telehealth
PlushCare, a direct-to-consumer online urgent care provider, today announced the launch of Lemur, a EMR platform specifically for the telehealth industry. Lemur - the cloud-based and HIPAA compliant EMR platform - allows PlushCare doctors to diagnose, treat, prescribe and provide ongoing treatment throughout the course of a medical issue directly from the platform itself.Lemur requires the fewest clicks in the industry to complete tasks such as writing a note, sending a prescription (eRx),
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Aprima EHR Integrates With ActX to Bring Precision Medicine Into The Physician’s Office
Aprima, a physician pratice-focused EHR provider has announced an integration partnership with Genomic Decision Support platform ActX to bring precision medicine into the physician’s office. The addition of the ActX platform provides Aprima clients with access to genomics in everyday patient care and delivers clinically actionable insights that facilitate personalized medication and screening choices based on a patient’s unique genetic profile.Imagine, during your office visit, your physician
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HL7 Publishes Domain Analysis Model for Clinical Sequencing: 5 Things to Know
Health Level Seven® International (HL7), an authority for health IT interoperability and provider of the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standard, today announced that it has published the HL7 Domain Analysis Model: Clinical Sequencing, a model which captures precision medicine’s use cases to facilitate interoperability of genetic and genomic data. Here are five things to know about the new model: 1. . This domain analysis model (DAM) was the basis for the design of FHIR
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EHR Optimization: Necessary Because EHRs Are Never “Done”
Regardless of how well or poorly your EHR was installed, EHR optimization ensures that your healthcare organization's EHR is changing with it.Why, if over 95 percent of hospitals have implemented EHRs, are so many planning to invest in improvements or replacements this year? A new Healthcare IT News survey of hospital executives showed that 24 percent are conducting a major EHR system upgrade, and 21 percent are replacing their EHR at one or more sites. KPMG’s survey of CHIME members last month
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GE Healthare Taps eMedApps to Securely Access Stored Patient Info From Devices for Centricity EMR Customers
GE Healthcare has partnered with eMedApps as part of the GE Healthcare Centricity partner program that offers a comprehensive business continuity solution to GE Centricity EMR customers. eMedApps’ partnership with GE Healthcare will provide customers with an efficient and innovative contingency solution that allows clinicians, schedulers, and administrative staff to securely access stored patient information from any device – including mobile devices – whether their Centricity EMR is available
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drchrono Lands $12M for Mobile EHR Platform to Create A Better Experience for Physicians & Patients
Mobile EHR provider drchrono has raised $12 million in Series A funding led by Runa Capital with participation from Maxfield Capital, Eric Dunn (CEO of Quicken Inc. and Intuit’s first CTO), and FundersClub. Andre Bliznyuk from Runa Capital and Oleg Koujikov from Maxfield Capital have joined the drchrono board of directors as part of this funding round. The company plans to utilize the funding to invest in their EHR platform, talent acquisition, operation expansion to support their growth demand
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Pomona Valley Hospital To Implement Cerner Millennium EHR, Replacing Cerner Soarian Clinicals
Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center, a 437-bed, acute care, nationally accredited not-for-profit medical center serving eastern Los Angeles and western San Bernardino counties has selected Cerner to implement its integrated EHR system. The implementation of Cerner Millennium EHR will replace Cerner Soarian Clinicals® platform, the NextGen®ambulatory system and several additional legacy suppliers in its hospital and outpatient facilities PVHMC will retain its investment in Cerner Soarian
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5 Ways Effective Healthcare IT Can Reduce Hospital Costs
The focus of federal efforts to incentivize healthcare IT adoption has primarily been on electronic health records (EHRs), which are oriented around hospitals and physician offices. Moving forward, EHRs will remain the anchor technology as data from other devices and applications flows in and becomes both available and comparable.It’s become readily apparent that healthcare IT is much broader than EHRs alone. Increasingly, healthcare IT is a web of interconnected devices and applications that
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