With ACOs and Meaningful Use Stage 2 pushing patient engagement to the forefront, physicians are increasingly looking to pharma companies to help them with patient engagement by providing patient services, according to Decision Resources Group's new Manhattan Research study, ePharma Physician® 2014. The study shows strong physician interest in patient engagement support and resources from pharma, along with an expectation that the industry will take a leadership role in developing tools to help
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Practice Fusion Signs 122 Partnership Deals with Health Systems, Hospitals, Clinical Labs and Imaging Centers in 2014
Practice Fusion, the country’s largest physician-patient community, reported today that it has signed 122 enterprise clients since the start of 2014, including health systems, hospitals and independent clinical labs and imaging centers. With these new clients on board, over 440 healthcare enterprises have chosen Practice Fusion’s clinical network solution for affiliated providers. These enterprises pay fees for data transmission, care coordination and population health management.
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Behavioral Health EHR Vālant Medical Solutions Nabs $11M Private Equity Investment
Vālant Medical Solutions, Inc., provider of cloud-based, electronic health records (EHR) and e-billing software for behavioral health practices, today announced that it has received an additional $11 Million in private equity investment which will enable Vālant to fund future growth in the behavioral health market segment and to broaden its EHR and e-Billing suite capabilities for Public Behavioral Health practices.
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M*Modal Will Receive Approval to Emerge From Chapter 11
M*Modal, a provider of clinical documentation and Speech Understanding™ solutions, announced that it expects to emerge from Chapter 11 within three weeks following today's confirmation of the Company's Plan of Reorganization by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York. The Plan provides for restructuring of the Company's debt, and has the support of substantial majorities of its lenders and bondholders.
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IDC Health Insights: Imprivata Cortext: Secure Communications Platform for Healthcare
White paper sponsored by Imprivata, presents key findings of interviews with three healthcare IT executives regarding the deployment of Imprivata Cortext, a secure communications platform.
Executive Summary
At the heart of excellent patient care is good communication between care team members. However, a highly mobile workforce and multiple communications channels voice, landlines, mobile devices, email, and paging make it challenging for clinicians to communicate
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6 Ways to Take Advantage of the Delay in ICD-10 Compliance
William McElmurry, Senior Vice President at SoftServ Inc. shares six ways you can utilize the one year delay in ICD-10 compliance to your advantage.
Those who invested early on in ICD-10 implementation may feel a level of frustration with recently signed legislation delaying ICD-10 compliance one year to October 1, 2015, but it may be a blessing in disguise. All organizations required to implement ICD-10 can take advantage of the delay, viewing it as an opportunity to re-assess their
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Infirmary Health Achieves Rapid Physician Adoption of its EHR using Nuance Cloud-Based Speech Recognition
Nuance Communications, Inc., announced today that Infirmary Health has achieved rapid success deploying Nuance clinical speech recognition technology embedded within Epic’s apps, which simplifies how physicians enter clinical information on mobile devices. Infirmary Health provides care for more than 100,000 patients annually across multiple hospitals and clinics in Alabama and has found Nuance’s voice-enabled clinical documentation speeds physician workflows on smartphones and tablets, expands
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Archiac Pagers and Lack of Secure Text Messaging Costs Average Hospital More Than $1.75M Annually
Inefficient communication during critical clinical workflows such as patient admissions, emergency response team coordination and patient transfers costs the average U.S. hospital about $1.75 million annually, according to a new report from Imprivata® and the Ponemon Institute. Titled “The Imprivata Report on the Economic Impact of Inefficient Communications in Healthcare,” the report finds that a significant amount of time is wasted during these workflows—primarily due to the inefficiency of
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HIEs: Transforming Clinical Workflows for Care Coordination
Improving care coordination has become a top priority for hospitals and health systems as they seek to meet Stage 2 meaningful use requirements and as the industry shifts from fee-for-service to pay-for-quality reimbursement models. Provisions under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) are driving the formation of accountable care organizations (ACOs), patient-centered medical homes (PCMHs) and other coordinated-care systems. All these models require participants to access and share vital patient
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KLAS Report Reveals Clearinghouse Vendor Services Is Key to Provider Satisfaction
A new clearinghouse report indicates that service and support play a larger role than tools sets in provider satisfaction, contrary to the commonly held perception. This and other key findings were revealed in the latest KLAS report, entitled "Ambulatory Clearinghouse 2014: Choosing between Strong Performers."
"This is the first time we compared provider feedback about ambulatory clearinghouse vendors from large and small practices," said report author Jared Dowland. "Our interviews
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