To ensure continued forward movement in adoption of electronic health information exchange and increased interoperability for care coordination, DirectTrust has released a list of four recommendations for the new administration. The recommendations were submitted to the President-elect’s Transition Team at a closed-door meeting held on Tuesday, December 20.DirectTrust is a health care industry alliance created by and for participants in the Direct exchange network used for secure, interoperable
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Report: 94% of Patients Want Medical Records Electronically Stored in A Central Location
94% of patients feel their medical information and records should be stored electronically in a single location, according to a recent survey by health information network Surescripts. In fact, 58 percent of patients have tried to compile their own complete medical history—a task that is not just tedious, but often inaccurate and incomplete.The survey, 2016 Connected Care and the Patient Experience conducted by Kelton Global from June 16-23, 2016, with participation from more than 1,000 adult
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Carequality, CommonWell Collaborate to Advance Interoperability, Health Data Exchange
CommonWell Health Alliance and Carequality have announced an agreement that will provide the capability for more than 15,000 hospitals, clinics, and other healthcare organizations to connect and share health information. The collaboration brings together two pioneers at the forefront of data sharing. Health data sharing among providers is important whenever a provider is making a diagnostic or treatment decision and needs access to key medical information. By leveraging health IT
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M*Modal Integrates With Epic EHR Coding Workflow to Support Clinical Coders
M*Modal, a provider of clinical documentation and Speech Understanding™ solutions has integrated M*Modal Fluency for Coding™ and Natural Language Understanding (NLU) Coding with the coding workflow of Epic EHR systems. This new integration brings the power of M*Modal Fluency for Coding to the EHR coding workflow and enables seamless connects between systems and processes that support clinical coders. Epic Integration DetailsWith this integrated solution, M*Modal redefines the coding workflow as
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Rush Health Taps InterSystems to Implement Private Health Information Exchange
Rush Health, a Chicago-based clinically integrated health network has selected InterSystems to implement a private health information exchange (HIE). The implementation of InterSystems HealthShare will provide their hospital, physician and affiliate members a complete view of their patients’ records across the care continuum from within their EHR – connecting primary, specialty, sub-acute and hospital-based providers, as well as other HIEs regardless of EHR system.After evaluating several
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Allscripts Acquires Core Medical Solutions to Extend EHR Footprint in Australia
Allscripts has acquired Core Medical Solutions, an Australian-based healthcare IT software provider, to expand its EHR offerings to support proactive care management for clinicians and consumers of care in Victoria and Western Australia. Allscripts currently supports more than 85 hospitals throughout Australia. Under terms of the acquisition, Core Medical Solutions will continue to be based in Adelaide, South Australia, and will operate as an Allscripts subsidiary. Financial terms of the
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Harris Computer Corporation Acquires iMDsoft: 5 Things to Know
Harris Computer Corporation, an arm of the Constellation Software group has acquired iMDsoft, a clinical information system provider for critical, perioperative, and acute care environments. Here are five things to know about the acquisition:1. MDsoft will be run as an independent business unit within Harris led by Shahar Sery, a seasoned iMDsoft executive, who has been appointed Executive Vice President.2. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. 3. Harris will integrate iMDsoft's
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Lexigram Nabs $2M to Transform Unstructured Medical Data Through NLP
Lexigram, a Redwood City, CA-based clinical data intelligence company has raised $2 million in seed funding led by Storm Ventures and including RTA Ventures and the Stanford-StartX Fund. The digital health startup plans to utilize the seed funding to further mature the company's self-service and on-demand natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning analytics platform. As patients, we imagine that our medical data is readily available to all of our doctors, but that couldn't be farther
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UAE Ministry of Health and Prevention Renews Contract with Cerner EHR
The Ministry of Health and Prevention (MOHAP) has renewed and expanded its strategic relationship with Cerner for the continued implementation of its enterprise wide EHR system, called the Wareed project. The project is designed to establish a streamlined and accessible EHR between United Arab Emirates (UAE) health facilities and a consolidated health information database of MOHAP patients through the use of an integrated health care IT system.EHR Implementation DetailsAs part of the
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Pathways Goes Live on Epic EHR for Home Health and Hospice Patients
Pathway, a home health, palliative care, hospice and private duty organization in the San Francisco Bay Area has selected Epic's EHR to improve home-based care for patients and their families. As part of the implementation, the new EHR system will instantly connect Pathways to the largest group of hospitals and physicians nationwide.The Epic EHR went live on November 1, connecting Pathways to almost 2,000 hospitals and over 34,000 clinics nationwide. Better data exchange capabilities with
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