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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drchrono EHR Adds Prenatal Flow Sheets for OB/GYN Practices
Mobile EHR provider drchrono, today announced it has added new Flow Sheets and medical forms specialized for OB/GYN physicians and practices to its EHR platform.Using Prenatal Flow Sheet in drchrono, providers and their staff can easily enter patients’ medical records from each visit and visualize pregnancy progress across multiple visits in one glance on an iPhone, iPad or via the web. The drchrono Flow Sheet can also be further customized to meet providers’ specific needs. Flow Sheet and other
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Healthy Interactions Inks 10-Year Agreement with MedCurrent to Implement Clinical Decision Support Solutions
Healthy Interactions, LP has inked a ten-year license agreement with MedCurrent Corporation to provide Clinical Decision Support (CDS) solutions to manage chronic conditions, starting with diabetes. Healthy Interactions programs uniquely integrate in-person sessions with a complimentary digital engagement platform.The Healthy Interactions Integrated CDS Platform connects into EHR systems to seamlessly capture relevant patient data and provide real-time, evidence-based decision support to
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Healthcare IT Pricing: Can A Commoditized Future Drive Down Costs?
Shopping for a laptop can be an extensive research project where the prospective buyer compares prices based on a host of features: Processor speed, monitor resolution, video card quality, etc.And when you go looking for a surge protector, do you engage in similar due diligence? Probably not. The differences between the various products are generally so minimal that price is the primary concern. The same is largely true for storage devices, monitors, random-access memory (RAM) and other products
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7 Trends Impacting The Era of Disruption in the EMR Market
For a decade, the now $28 billion-dollar electronic medical records (EMR) market was on a predictable trajectory with twenty large competitors and hundreds of smaller entrants offering needed software and related services. According to a new market report, Kalorama Information says the EMR market is currently witnessing fundamental changes that will determine how much it grows in the future and who earns the revenue. In addition to customer dissatisfaction, policy retreats and new product
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