Editor's Note: Warren Whitford is the Market Research & Sales Director at KLAS Research. His areas of research focus at KLAS include healthcare management consulting, HIT consulting and value-based care transformation. Many providers are reevaluating their EMR and other IT system options as they look to upgrade from solutions that are obsolescent or being phased out by the vendor, and to advance new capabilities like population health, business intelligence, and telehealth. Providers look to
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Survey: 88% of Clinical Leaders Believe Clinical IT Solutions Contribute to Burnout
88% of clinical leaders believe clinical IT solutions contribute to burnout, and 76 percent cite improved collaboration with IT as the solution, according to a recent survey. On the IT side, 64 percent contributed burnout to a lack of resources and budget constraints. The recent survey of 124 clinical and IT leaders at hospitals and healthcare organizations in a study by Vocera Communications and HIMSS Analytics, reveals 91 percent of IT leaders say that they and their teams are somewhat to
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LogicStream Raises $6M to Expand Clinical Process Measurement Platform
LogicStream, a Minneapolis, MN-based provider of Clinical Process improvement solutions has raised $6 million in Series B funding led by Noro-Moseley Partners with participation from existing investors. The company plans to use the latest round of funding to expand its technology platform, sales, and marketing teams.Founded in 2013, LogicStream allows health systems to standardize processes, understand how care delivery impacts clinical outcomes, and drive clinician adoption. With self-service
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Premise Health to Implement Epic EHR Across Worksite Health Centers Over 2 Years
Premise Health, a worksite health and patient engagement company has signed an agreement with Epic to enhance the patient experience and broaden interoperability of patient data throughout the care continuum. The partnership will implement Epic EHR across its worksite health centers in an enterprise initiative called Emagine over a 2-year-period.Improving the health and wellness of employee populations is a primary focus for Premise Health and Epic. This partnership with Epic will expand Premise
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athenahealth EHR Offers Meaningful Use Stage 3 Guarantee for Hospitals
athenahealth, Inc., an EHR provider for hospital and ambulatory clients nationwide, today announced the expansion of the company’s Guarantee Program to include a Meaningful Use (MU) Stage 3 Guarantee for hospitals. The Meaningful Use Stage 3 Guarantee for hospitals joins a growing portfolio of quality initiatives support offered by the company, including a Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) guarantee and client support program. “Every hospital or health system —no matter the size— wants
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Cerner, Truman Medical Center Partner to Launch Remote Patient Monitoring Program for Chronic Conditions
Cerner and Truman Medical Centers (TMC) have teamed up to launch comprehensive disease management programs to engage patients in their health and improve outcomes for groups of individuals with high-risk chronic conditions. Through the initiative, Algorithms configured in Cerner’s HealtheIntent population health management platform identified select groups of TMC’s patient population with conditions like diabetes and chronic heart failure that could benefit from enhanced health monitoring.To
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Cedars-Sinai Partners With Noteworth to Integrate Patient-Generated Data With Epic EMR
Cedars-Sinai has signed a three-year deal with Noteworth, a healthcare data software as a service (SaaS) company to integrate patient generated data into clinical decision-making. The digital health startup Noteworth was a part of the second cohort of the Cedars-Sinai Accelerator powered by Techstars.As part of the three-year program, Cedars-Sinai will use Noteworth’s platform to integrate previously unavailable patient-generated data directly into their Epic EMR to help improve patient
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VITL, Medicity Launch External Connection to Veterans Health Information Exchange
Vermont Information Technology Leaders, Inc. (VITL), operators of the Vermont Health Information Exchange (Vermont HIE), and Medicity, a provider of population health management solutions, announced that VITL has launched its external connection to the Veterans Health Information Exchange (VHIE).VHIE. The external connection to VHIE, , also known as the Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record (VLER) program will enable providers inside and outside the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to share
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Modernizing Medicine Raises $231M to Expand Mobile Medical Specialty EHR
Mobile, cloud based, specialty-specific EHR provider, Modernizing Medicine announced that Warburg Pincus, a global private equity firm has made an investment of $231 million into the company to provide liquidity to existing shareholders, fund further expansion and support future strategic endeavors.With the latest round of funding, the Boca Raton, FL-based company plans pursuing certain strategic initiatives that may include automation of prior authorization workflows, deployment of an eCommerce
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5 Reasons Why the VA Should Not Replace VistA With A Commercial EHR
This post is sponsored by Medsphere Systems Corporation, the solution provider for the OpenVista electronic health record.The VA waitlist scandal of a few years ago was a dark period in the agency’s history. Fallout from the scandal reverberated through the media and claimed the job of VA Secretary Eric Shinseki.Now, three years on, the push to reform the VA and prevent a similar situation continues. Naturally, the healthcare information technology (IT) tools employees use, including the
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