- CentralReach acquires Thread Learning, an applied behavior analysis (ABA) platform designed for center-based clinics and schools to extend its leadership position within the ABA provider market.
- The acquisition will add solutions for the education and international ABA markets and supplement its industry-leading platform with Thread’s rapidly-growing, highly-rated, intuitive mobile data collection.
CentralReach,
a Pompano Beach, FL-based provider of electronic medical record
(EMR)
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TransUnion, VisitPay to Provide End-to-End Patient Payment Experience
- TransUnion and VisitPay announce a partnership that aims to improve the patient experience while maximizing revenue for healthcare providers.
- Together, TransUnion Healthcare and VisitPay will improve the patient's financial journey by providing an end-to-end patient payment experience, linking estimation with back-end billing and creating a data-driven feedback loop for providers.
TransUnion announced a partnership with VisitPay, an online patient financial engagement, and revenue
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DrChrono EHR, Cognition IP Partner to Process 5 Machine Learning-based Patents
- DrChrono partners with Cognition IP to draft and file 5 new patent applications related to the company’s core technologies on machine learning.
- DrChrono patents aimed at helping physicians interact with data via machine learning algorithms in its open healthcare platform.
DrChrono Inc., the company developing the
essential platform and services for modern medical practices to make care more
informed, more interactive, and more personalized, partnered with Cognition
IP, a law firm
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MDPortals Taps Health Gorilla APIs to Power Clinical Data Insights
- MDPortals adopts Health Gorilla APIs to bring proprietary care insights to providers from a vast network of clinical systems.
- MDPortals will leverage Health Gorilla’s Patient360 API to retrieve clinical records from thousands of care sites across the country, augmenting MDPortals existing connections to health information exchanges and patient portals.
Health Gorilla, a leader in clinical data
APIs, and MDPortals, a leading
clinical insights company, announced today a partnership to
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AMA Releases Playbook to Aid Patients with Electronic Access to Medical Records
- American Medical Association (AMA) releases Patient Records Electronic Access Playbook that focuses on dispelling myths around HIPAA and helping physicians and their practices understand their obligations to provide patients with access to their health information.
- Playbook provides best practices including detailed process flows for efficiently providing patients with electronic access to medical records are combined into an authoritative resource.
The American Medical
Association
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GE Healthcare Unveils Medical Device Cybersecurity Offering for Hospitals
- GE Healthcare introduced a new medical device cybersecurity service to help hospital groups fight against cybersecurity risks.
- The offering, entitled Skeye, blends industry expertise, AI and process management tools to augment hospitals’ existing resources and capabilities by providing proactive monitoring through a remote security operations center – helping them detect, analyze and respond to cybersecurity threats and events in real-time.
GE Healthcare has introduced a new
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Sharecare Acquires Value-Based Care Platform Visualize Health
- Sharecare acquires Visualize Health, a Franklin, Tenn.-based population health and quality measure platform that enables payers and providers to close gaps in patient care to maximize value-based care.
- The acquisition will enhance Sharecare’s capabilities for medical records management and is the 14th acquisition since Sharecare was founded in 2010.
Sharecare, the digital health
company that helps people manage all their health in one place, today announced
its acquisition
of
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Waystar Launches AI/RPA Platform to Automate Revenue Cycle Processes
- Waystar Launches Hubble, an artificial intelligence and automation platform, Hubble that automates revenue cycle processes to help providers collect payment faster and more effectively.
- The platform uses AI to help providers fix outdated and inefficient billing processes -- helping hospitals that are struggling financially, as well as helping patients avoid issues like surprise medical bills, by improving accuracy and price transparency.
Waystar, a Chicago, IL-based provider of
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HHS Issues Strategies & Recommendations to Mitigate EHR-Related Clinician Burden
- HHS issues new report outlining the key sources of EHR-related burden, as well as strategies and recommendations to achieve burden reduction goals for healthcare providers.
- The HHS report reflects additional input from the more than 200 comments submitted in response to the draft strategy and recommendations.
As part of the
ongoing efforts to strengthen the relationship between patients and their
doctors, the U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services (HHS) issued
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KLAS Healthcare BI & Analytics Report: Is Microsoft Gaining Momentum?
- New KLAS report finds Microsoft’s business intelligence (BI) solution has surged in the healthcare BI and analytics market, due largely to the option of packaging the solution with Azure, Microsoft’s cloud data storage solution.
- KLAS report finds Microsoft is tied with Health Catalyst for the second most considerations in healthcare BI and wins nearly all deals in which they are considered.
The healthcare business intelligence (BI) and analytics
market has become crowded, with
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