- The HealthCare Executive Group unveils its annual 2020 HCEG top 10 critical challenges, issues and opportunities healthcare executives expect to face in 2020.
- Over 100 C-Suite and director level executives were presented with a list of over 25 topics. Initially compiled from webinars, roundtables and the 2019 Industry Pulse Survey.
After 2.5 days of facilitated interactive discussions during
this week’s HCEG Annual Forum in
Boston, over 100 healthcare c-suite and director
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Cerner Unveils 5 Finalists for code App Challenge to Advance Consumers’ Access to EHRs
- Cerner announces Baystate Health, Cerner ITWorks at Adventist Health, Intelliaide, Mindset Medical, and Optimize as the finalists for Cerner’s code App Challenge.
- The finalists will work directly with Cerner engineers at CHC, after which they will present a working demo of their app.
- The winning individual or team will receive a one-year membership to the code program, with Cerner engineers helping guide the app through the validation process.
Cerner has announced the five
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Hospital IQ Launches AI-Enabled Workforce Management Solution
- Hospital IQ launches an AI-enabled workforce management solution to help staffing managers more accurately align staff to forecasted patient demand.
- Using accurate forecasts of patient demand, Hospital IQ enables staffing managers to proactively plan staffing needs, ensuring appropriate levels of patient care.
- Hospital IQ also announced the addition of Shawn Sefton, MBA, RN, vice president, client operations, and John Zapf, senior director, sales, to support the company’s
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North Carolina Taps Phreesia for Social Determinants of Health Screening
- The North Caroline Department of Health and Human Services (NC DHHS) partners with Phresia on its Healthy Opportunities imitative to help address the factors that drive health among patients statewide.
- Healthcare organizations will now use Phresia’s platform to deliver North Carolina’s Social Determinants of Health screening questions to identify patients who have unmet social needs impacting their healthcare.
North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NC DHHS)
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Mayo Clinic Selects Google Cloud to Power its Digital Transformation
- Mayo Clinic selects Google Cloud to be their cornerstone of its digital transformation in a 10-year strategic partnership agreement.
- Google Cloud will secure and store Mayo Clinic's data while working with Mayo Clinic to apply AI and other cloud computing technologies to solve complex healthcare problems.
- Mayo Clinic will leverage Google Cloud to conduct medical research, developing and deploying new machine learning models designed to improve treatment precision and
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HHS Announces 2 Leap in Health IT Awardees Focused on Interoperability
- HHS announces San Diego Regional Health Information Exchange and The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) as awardees of the LEAP in Health IT funding opportunity. - Awardees projects will focus on advancing health IT interoperability to improve healthcare for patients nationwide.The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) today announced two awards under the Leading Edge Acceleration Projects in Health
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Apixio Launches AI-Powered Solution to Advance Personalized Medicine
- Quality Identifier uses Apixio’s proprietary AI algorithms to analyze electronic medical record notes, scanned charts, and other patient documents to identify evidence of measure compliance.
- Algorithm results and supporting evidence are then presented to clinical abstractors for review in a secure web-based application.
- The future of quality measurement in healthcare will be outcomes-oriented, prioritizing quality measures that require patient data from medical documents to
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DrFirst Integrates Adobe Sign With Backline Secure Care Collaboration Platform
- DrFirst and Adobe Sign has announced the integration of Adobe Sign e-signature solution with DrFirst’s Backline secure care collaboration platform, producing the first mobile solution for the healthcare market to offer an e-signature capability.
- Using the joint solution, providers can send SMS messages to the mobile devices of patients, caregivers, or other clinicians to share documents that require signatures.
- Once received, the patient or provider can tap a link in the
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Montana Awarded $19M Grant for Statewide Health Information Exchange
Governor Bullock signed an executive order designating Big Sky Care Connect as the statewide health information exchange. Source: Montana.Gov
- CMS awards the state of Montana with a $19M grant to support a statewide health information exchange (HIE).
- Montana Governor Steve Bullock names Big Sky Care Connect as the operator of the statewide HIE.
- Big Sky Care Connect plans to start sharing healthcare data in 2020.
Montana Governor Steve
Bullock announced
the state
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Northwell Health Goes Live on Microsoft Teams for Secure Messaging
- Northwell Health goes live on Microsoft Teams solution for clinicians for secure texting and helps improve care coordination across the enterprise.
- A total of 8,300 Northwell staff currently use Microsoft Teams with future rollouts plan across the health system this year and into early 2020.
Glen Cove Hospital, part of the Northwell Health network has gone live on the Microsoft Teams solution for nurses, physicians, and other health care providers to securely text one other
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