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Epic, Nordic, Impact Advisors and The Chartis Group won the 2023 Overall Best in KLAS® awards. Epic was named the top Overall Software Suite for the thirteenth straight year in 2023 Best in KLAS – Software & Services report, released, which reports on the top vendors for 2022. Epic was also named the top Overall Physician Practice Vendor. Epic won thirteen other Best in KLAS awards in various market segments.
- Impact Advisors tied with Nordic to be a
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Google Cloud, Health-ISAC Partner to Build More Resilient Healthcare
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- Google Cloud announced that its security engineers are working with Health-ISAC Threat Operations Center to develop an open sourced integration that connects the Health-ISAC Indicator Threat Sharing (HITS) feed directly with Google Cloud’s Chronicle Security Operations information and event management.
- HITS allows Health-ISAC members to easily connect and quickly share cyber threat intelligence through machine-to-machine automation.
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Addressing Health Equity: Practical Solutions to Address Variations in Care
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- The companies and organizations that comprise the Healthcare Leadership Council (HLC), representing all sectors of the American healthcare industry, have joined in a commitment to advance health equity in the United States including principles and actions to ultimately eliminate health disparities.
- The joint commitment follows the release late last year of a report developed by HLC and ZS, a global management and technology consulting firm, identifying multiple
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Why It’s Time for Intelligent Prior Authorization
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently proposed a new rule to advance interoperability and improve the prior authorization (PA) process for Medicare and Medicaid patients. Specifically, the rule stipulates that health plans adopt electronic prior authorization processes, adhere to shorter turnaround times, clearly communicate denial reasons, publish key metrics annually, and implement the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) Application Programming Interface
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FHIR Adoption and Implementation Challenges
The Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standard was introduced by HL7 in 2014 as a significant replacement for the HL7 V2 and V3 standards. An open standard called FHIR, which was initially drafted in 2011 makes it easier than ever for legacy systems and new apps to exchange data. FHIR was created to not only increase communication efficiency and interoperability compared to earlier standards but also to facilitate implementation by giving clear specifications and allowing
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CVS Health Acquires Oak Street Health for $10.6B in Cash – M&A
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- CVS Health acquires Oak Street Health in an all-cash deal of $39 per share in cash, representing an enterprise value of approximately $10.6 billion. Bringing CVS Health and Oak Street Health together can significantly benefit patients’ long-term health by reducing care costs and improving outcomes – particularly for those in underserved communities.
- Oak Street Health CEO Mike Pykosz will continue to lead Oak Street Health, which will become part of CVS
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League & HealthSparq Transform Health Plan Member Experiences
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- League, a healthcare consumer experience (CX) platform technology announced a partnership with HealthSparq, a Kyruus company delivering innovative transparency and guidance solutions to health plans.
- The strategic partnership will combine League’s award-winning digital infrastructure and HealthSparq’s personalized, compliant healthcare cost and quality information to transform member experiences. It will create a singular platform, integrating all aspects of a
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Southern Illinois Healthcare Selects Xealth to Digitally Engage Patients
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- Today, Southern Illinois Healthcare (SIH) announced that it’s using Xealth’s digital health platform system-wide to automate digital programs, starting with smoking cessation. SIH plans to add additional digital health programs to deliver operational efficiencies while enhancing the patient experience.
- The Xealth digital health platform is designed to help clinicians integrate, prescribe and monitor digital health tools for patients from one
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Intermountain Health Taps Qualtrics to Help Advance Patient, Consumer and Employee Experience Management
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- Intermountain Health has chosen Qualtrics (Nasdaq: XM), the leader and creator of the experience management category, to create world-class experiences for its patients, caregivers and all populations who interact with and consume Intermountain's services by helping improve how it listens, understands and acts on experience data.
- Intermountain is a nonprofit health system headquartered in Salt Lake City with 60,000 caregivers serving millions of patients each
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Memora Health & Virtua Health Partner to Streamline Patient Experience
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- Memora Health, an intelligent platform for virtual care delivery and complex care management partners with Virtua Health, the largest health system in South Jersey, to streamline care delivery and improve the patient experience.
- The partnership will leverage Memora’s clinical intelligence platform across specialties to automate clinicians’ routine care tasks and streamline care management operations with the goal of removing unnecessary barriers and making it
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