EHR optimization and population health has been named the top investment priorities for healthcare CIOs over the next three years, according to a survey of College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) members conducted by KPMG LLP, the U.S. audit, tax and advisory firm. Other investment priorities for healthcare CIOs over the next three years include:• Consumer/clinical and operational analytics (16 percent)• Virtual/telehealth technology enhancements (13 percent)• Revenue
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Practice Fusion Unveils EHR-Integrated Post-Marketing Active Safety Surveillance Program
EHR provider Practice Fusion has unveiled a first of its kind post-marketing active safety surveillance program within its EHR platform. The new active safety surveillance program can help facilitate Adverse Events of Special Interest (AESI) reporting by messaging healthcare providers directly at the point of care about AESIs their patients may have experienced during the course of therapy.Post-Marketing Active Safety Surveillance Program BenefitsThe post-marketing active safety surveillance
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Grady Health System Earns HIMSS Analytics Stage 7 Award
Grady Health System has earned the HIMSS Analytics Stage 7 Award on the Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (EMRAM) SM, becoming Georgia’s only adult acute care hospital to earn the highest rating for improving patient care and safety through health information technology.Grady leverages an integrated EMR and many innovative technologies to provide high quality care. Through actionable analytics and guided pathways, Grady patients are benefitting. One example involves Grady’s infectious
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Cota, Hackensack Meridian Integrates “Digital Map of Cancer” Into Epic EHR
Hackensack Meridian Health (HMH), a New Jersey-based integrated health care system and Cota, a leading data and technology platform for value-based precision medicine has teamed up to improve clinical and cost outcomes for cancer patients.As part of the partnership, HMH will integrate Cota Nodal Addresses™ (CNAs) directly into its Epic EHR to help support decision-making by oncologists at the point of care. CNAs are generated by a unique, patented digital data classification methodology that
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Black Book Rankings: Allscripts Named Top EHR Vendor with Population Health Solution
Black Book Rankings has named Allscripts as the top EHR vendor with a comprehensive population health management solution earning the highest rank in 10 of the 18 individual criteria.For Black Book Ranking 2017, Black Book crowd-sourced nearly 7,000 responses on eighteen key performance, satisfaction and usability indicators from physicians practice, hospitals, health systems and chains, ACOs, IDNs and IPAs in the first quarter of 2017.Allscripts CareInMotion is a population health management
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King’s College Hospital London to Implement Cerner’s Millennium EHR & Revenue Cycle
dbai. The overall aim of the Cerner implementation will support UAE Vision 2021 National Agenda, a national program developed to advance national priorities and achieve a world-class health care system. Cerner EHR Implementation DetailsThe Cerner Millennium EHR will be implemented across King’s Dubai, a 100-bed, multi-specialty hospital set to open in 2018 at the heart of the premium community, Dubai Hills Estate, and two multi-specialty clinics. The EHR is designed to support an individual’s
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eClinicalWorks Integrates Qardio’s Smart Blood Pressure Monitor With EHR Platform
Ambulatory EHR provider eClinicalWorks has announced integration with Qardio's medically accurate health monitoring devices to deliver patient health monitoring to support over 125k physicians in the USA and abroad. The integration partnership benefits both doctors using eClinicalWorks system and their patients. Doctors get deeper insights into their patients health while patients save time and cost by reducing routine or unnecessary doctor’s visits.Integration DetailsThrough this integration
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Optimum Healthcare IT Lands Apotti Finland Contract to Provide Epic Consulants
Healthcare IT staffing and consulting services firm Optimum Healthcare IT has been selected by Apotti in Finland to provide specialized Epic Consultants to support the Epic EHR implementation in the area’s 29 hospitals. The Apotti project is a co-operation between the local governments of Helsinki and the surrounding regions of Vantaa, Kirkkonummi, and Kauniainen, and the hospital district of Helsinki and Uusimaa (HUS).The goal of the Apotti project is to create a unified healthcare program that
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Children’s National to Integrate Cerner’s Revenue Cycle Suite With Cerner Millennium EHR
Children’s National Health System, an international leader in pediatric health and Cerner has expanded their relationship to integrate Millennium Revenue Cycle™ with the existing Cerner EHR and scheduling platform across the 313-bed pediatric hospital and more than 50 outpatient facilities. Children’s National and Cerner began working together in 2005 with the implementation of the Cerner Millennium® EHR and entered into a multi-year strategic alignment with Cerner to establish The Bear
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Mercy Named 2016 HIMSS Enterprise Davies Award for Improving Patient Care Through Health IT
Mercy, the fifth largest Catholic health care system in the nation, was named a 2016 HIMSS Enterprise Davies Award recipient for achieving improvements in patient care through the use of health information technology. Mercy received the award from HIMSS based on four case studies that detailed how the use of health information technology and standardized clinical processes have improved patient care and the bottom line. The case studies included:- Decreasing by nearly three hours the time it
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