MIT Medical, an ambulatory care center serving the 25,000+ members of the Massachusetts Institute Technology community has selected Cerner to implement an integrated clinical, financial and population health management system. MIT Medical serves more than 20,000 Massachusetts Institute Technology students, faculty, staff and retirees, as well as members of their families.By implementing Cerner Millennium EHR, MIT will be able to support clinical processes and health management across its two
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Wolters Kluwer Integrates ProVation Order Sets with Epic EHR
Wolters Kluwer announced ProVation Order Sets integration with Epic EHR to support the importing and exporting of information to streamline and optimize order set management. This integration enables healthcare providers to streamline labor-intensive governance processes, optimize order set management and support existing order sets with evidence-based clinical content.ProVation Order Sets integration leverages new order set import functionality to quickly and easily transfer Panels, Smart
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eClinicalWorks Exchanges Over 2 Million Documents Through the Carequality
eClinicalWorks announced they have exchanged over two million documents through the Carequality Interoperability Framework in the past year. The seamless real-time data transfer between disparate systems facilitates coordination of care between providers in various care settings and ensures they have more complete and accurate patient information at the point of care.eClinicalWorks’ partnership with Carequality provides its customers with access to patient data across disparate systems.
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What Functionalities Should Patient Portal Tools Have To Succeed?
It’s no surprise that the HIMSS17 conference dwelled on high profile topics around population health, data analytics, more affordable EHRs and security. What IS surprising is that patient engagement is now being reported right up there as an HIT priority. Why?Most hospitals are still experiencing dismal usage of patient portals, especially in community and rural hospitals. But this is a problem plaguing even our large health systems. As a result, the many anticipated benefits to patients and to
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Allscripts Acquires McKesson’s Enterprise Information Solutions for $185M
Allscripts has entered into an agreement to acquire McKesson Corporation’s hospital and health system IT business, Enterprise Information Solutions for $185M in cash. The Enterprise Information Solutions portfolio includes Paragon (EHR solution); STAR and HealthQuest (Revenue Cycle solutions); Lab Analytics and Blood Bank; and OneContent (Content Management solutions).For Allscripts, the acquisition further advances Allscripts strategy to offer the most comprehensive, high performing health
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StayWell Adds SMART on FHIR to Increase EHR Integration Capabilities
StayWell, a health solutions company that uses the science of behavior change to help people live happier, healthier lives has added HL7® FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) standards for the new Krames On-Demand patient education digital app.The addition of SMART on FHIR to Krames On-Demand will make it easier for health systems to integrate Krames patient education materials into their clinical workflows with suggested individualized education for each patient. This enhanced
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drchrono Launches FHIR-Enabled PHR API to Support 10 Million Patients
Mobile EHR provider drchrono has announced that it is the first cloud-based EHR platform enabled for Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR). With FHIR, drchrono is enabling its 10 million patients access to their data via the FHIR API through the patient health record (PHR), onpatient. The new API is designed to support the Precision Medicine Sync for Science Initiative and fulfills one of the requirements of Meaningful Use Stage 3 to enable a PHR API.The goal of FHIR is to solve
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Vail Valley Medical Center to Implement Spok Care Connect to Standardize Clinical Communications
Vail Valley Medical Center (VVMC), a 58-bed community hospital has selected Spok to improve workflows for its care teams and strengthen patient care. Since implementation, VVMC has started to automate manual and paper processes for on-call scheduling and code calls, and rollout secure mobile messaging to improve care team coordination. The hospital serves as the official medical provider for world-class athletes, including the U.S. Ski, Snowboarding, Free Skiing, and Climbing teams.As part of
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Mercy Health Taps Bernoulli for Medical Device Integration into Epic EHR
Mercy Health Services, a university-affiliated medical facility in Baltimore has selected Bernoulli, a provider of real-time patient safety, to deliver medical device connectivity to the health system’s perioperative suite. The company will implement its Bernoulli One architecture in anesthesia devices and will be part of Mercy’s perioperative Epic EHR go-live in 2018.Based on a modular architecture, device data captured by Bernoulli MDI can integrate with all hospital information systems that
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Catholic Medical Center to Implement Integrated Suite of Allscripts Sunrise EHR
Catholic Medical Center, a 330-bed not-for-profit, full-service acute care hospital located in Manchester, NH has expanded its portfolio of Allscripts solutions to offer a fully–integrated suite of Sunrise EHR solutions to drive adoption of clinical decision support and improve patient outcomes. Built on an open platform with advanced clinical decision support, Sunrise provides immediate analysis and insights, extending across inpatient, ambulatory, emergency and other high-acuity care
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