Editor's Note: This post is written by David Dyke, VP of Product Management and Carmen Sessoms, CHFP, FHFMA Assistant VP of Product Management at RelayHealth Financial.
You’ve heard the horror stories. Now hear how making clinical and financial data “inseparable” can help ensure a smooth migration that doesn’t blow up the revenue cycle.
Your EMR migration can cost you twice. But the second cost is avoidable if you know where to look and what to do. The first cost is obvious.
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Dignity Health to Integrate Cerner’s PowerChart Ambulatory EHR Across Enterprise
Dignity Health, one of the nation's largest health system announced it will expand the use of Cerner’s PowerChart Ambulatory EHR across all Dignity Health ambulatory care clinics. The integration will create a unified patient record and an integrated clinically driven network across all acute and ambulatory care settings.
PowerChart Ambulatory EHR Integration Details
PowerChart Ambulatory will integrate with Dignity Health’s 39 acute care facilities, which are supported by Cerner
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Mayo Clinic to Pay $1B for Epic Implementaiton Over 5 Years
Mayo Clinic is expected to pay about $1 billion over the next five years to implement Epic for a single integrated EHR, replacing Cerner and GE, according to its 2015 annual financial report filed last week. According to the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal, Mayo said the five-year EMR deal will exceed $1 billion and plans invest $1.5 billion in its IT infrastructure. Terms of the contract were not disclosed in the report.
Epic's EHR will serve as the foundation for Mayo Clinic
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Mobile EHR drchrono Adds Electronic Capture of Insurance, Credit Cards Via App
Mobile EHR provider drchrono today has released a new version of the its platform that now allows for electronic photo capture and storage of patient insurance cards and credit cards right through the app to help process more claims accurately. The drchrono iPad EHR, drchrono iPad patient check-in app and web portal allow a physician to take a photo of a paper insurance card and move it directly into the drchrono platform.
In addition, a patient can complete the same process right from the
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HHS Proposes New Rule for Enhanced Oversight of Health IT Certification Program
The HHS and ONC today proposed a new rule that would further enhance the safety, reliability, transparency, and accountability of certified health IT for users. The “ONC Health IT Certification Program: Enhanced Oversight and Accountability” proposed rulemaking would modify the ONC Health IT Certification Program to reflect the widespread adoption of certified electronic health records and the rapid pace of innovation in the health IT market.
The proposed rule would focus on three key
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Tableau Integrates with Epic’s EMR to Deliver Clinical Insights
Tableau Software, a provider of business analytics software has announced an agreement to integrate its customer-created Tableau workbooks and dashboards with Epic's EMR. The integration will enable joint customers to deliver actionable insights from Tableau to EMR end-users, empowering physicians, clinicians, nurses and case managers for clinical analysis. Additionally, the community of Epic and Tableau users will share knowledge, innovation and best practices to accelerate
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Leidos, FairWarning Partner to Deliver EHR-Focused Patient Privacy Monitoring
Reston, VA-based health technology provider Leidos and FairWarning have signed a partnership to to provide commercial and public sector healthcare customers with real time, continuous monitoring of both internal and external advanced persistent threats (APT) to EHRs in a unified environment. Under the terms of the agreement customers will be able to utilize a complete managed security service that provides around-the-clock monitoring of digital activity across the enterprise including internal
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CHIME, OpenNotes Team Up to Accelerate Data Sharing Between Patients & Providers
As part of President Obama's Precision Medicine Initiative, The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and OpenNotes are teaming up to accelerate data sharing between patients and providers. The collaboration with OpenNotes continues CHIME’s efforts to improve information exchange across the healthcare continuum, including advancing interoperability and ensuring the accuracy of patient identification.
Neither a software program nor a new technology, OpenNotes is an
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Epic Integrates with Genelex to Help Reduce Drug Complications
Pharmacogenomic clinical analytics provider Genelex is integrating with EHR leader Epic to support the reduction of drug complications, hospitalizations and ED visits. The integration will enable Genelex customers using Epic to better identify patients who are at the highest risk of adverse drug events based on drug-gene and drug-drug gene interactions which has been proven to significantly lower ED visits and hospitalizations.
Genelex 's precision prescribing analytics software
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eClinicalWorks Enters Acute Care Market, Launches Cloud-centric Platform 10i
After securing $100 million in international business in 2015, ambulatory EHR provider eClinicalWorks today announced its entrance into the acute care market with its latest product – eClinicalWorks 10i. The cloud-centric platform creates a unified record across in-patient, out-patient and allied health settings. Available in 2017, the initial release of the acute care platform will focus on enterprise operations functionality, including inventory management, support for emergency and operating
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