Researchers at the Yale School of Medicine has launched a new highly secure cloud-based personal health platform that enables people to access their EHRs from multiple health care systems and synchronize them with a research database. That platform named Hugo was developed developed in partnership with Yale New Haven Health System and is designed to be user-friendly allowing people to contribute information from wearable devices and questionnaires. Research Study OverviewKrumholz and Dr. Allen
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Private Equity Firm Acquires Urgent Care EMR DocuTap
DocuTAP, a provider of EMR / EHR software, practice management systems, and revenue cycle services for urgent care clinics has been acquired by private equity firm Warburg Pincus. Founded in 2000 by CEO Eric McDonald, DocuTap's EMR and practice management solution serves more than 1,300 urgent care and primary care clinics and has added 350 urgent care clinics to its network in the last year alone. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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Survey: Only 22% of Digital Health Users Use EHRs to Make Medical Decisions
60% of consumers who use digital health tools state they have an EHR; however, only 22% of digital health users are accessing EHRs to help make medical decisions, according to a March/April HealthMine survey. The survey of 500 insured consumers who use mobile/internet-connected health tools reveals that despite the wide-spread adoption of EHRs, 55% of users simply view them as tools to simply "stay informed."Additionally, 29% of those consumers who say they do have an EHR are not getting much
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DAS Health Acquires Jackson Key Practice Solutions EHR Business
DAS Health, a provider of patient-centric health IT and management services has acquired the EHR and Practice Management business of Jackson Key Practice Solutions, an Alabama-based reseller of RCM solutions, Practice Management, and EHR technologies. The acquisition marks the third by DAS Health in the past seven months and will further enhance DAS Health’s geographical footprint and strengthen the company’s position as the largest national reseller of Aprima Medical Software.DAS Health boasts
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Physician Perspective: Solving EHR Integration & Interoperability
In this second installment of this Q&A series, Health2047’s CEO Dr. Doug Given talks about what’s missing from the equation when it comes to taking on EHR integration and Interoperability.Now is the time to tackle EHR integration and interoperability in healthcare—but can these latest efforts from HHS or from the FDA achieve that? In part one of this series, we discussed how healthcare providers need to play a larger part in creating HIT solutions with Health2047’s Dr. Doug Given. In this
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Centra to Deploy Cerner EHR, HealtheIntent Population Health Across Enterprise
Centra, an integrated delivery network based in Virginia has selected Cerner to implement its Millennium EHR across its five hospitals, more than 50 ambulatory and long-term care facilities, and health plan. Additionally, Centra will also implement Cerner’s near real-time population health management platform, HealtheIntentSM. The platform aggregates data from multiple sources into a single patient record allowing Centra to match the right care programs to the right individuals across its
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DRG Launches Real World Evidence Repository of Claims, EHR data
Decision Resources Group (DRG), a provider of healthcare analytics, data and insight products has launched a Real World Evidence (RWE) repository of claims and EHR data that provides insight to over 90% of the U.S. healthcare system. The RWE data asset derives from multiple data providers in the U.S. and comprises patient, healthcare professional and payer level analysis.The DRG RWE repository covers:- 240M unique U.S. patients with over 5 years of historical data- 3.2B medical and pharmacy
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Greenway Health Appoints Scott Zimmerman New CEO
Greenway Health, a provider of physician practice-focused health IT solutions, announced that it has appointed Scott Zimmerman as its new Chief Executive Officer. Tee Green, co-founder and former CEO of Greenway Health, will remain in an active, full-time role as Executive Chairman, focusing on innovation and growth initiatives.Under his leadership, Greenway is preparing to launch several new and enhanced product and service offerings to the market, such as population health management,
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Are EHR Vendors Hackers’ Next Big Target?
Editor's Note: Mark Menke is the Chief Technology Officer of Network DLP at Digital Guardian, a data protection firm. Mark has over 20 years of experience in various roles from ASIC Design to IT and Security Consulting roles. Over the course of 2015, countless data breaches occurred within hospital networks, health insurers, physicians’ offices, and other organizations in the healthcare industry. In fact, Community Health Systems, Premera and Anthem were just a few of the most notable names who
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UHS to Implement Cerner’s Revenue Cycle, Replaces Siemens Invision
Universal Health Services, Inc. (UHS), one of the largest hospital management companies announce it will implement Cerner’s Millennium Revenue Cycle. Cerner will replace UHS’ legacy Siemens Invision revenue cycle solution and integrate with UHS’ existing Cerner Millennium EHR and HIM functionality. The enterprise-wide revenue cycle management system, paired with UHS’ current solutions, will help advance integration between clinical and financial information for the acute care and ambulatory
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