What You Should Know:
- DrFirst partners with a Kansas-based pharmacy management system (PMS) provider to improve safety and efficiency in hundreds of pharmacies across the country.
- Speed Script is integrating DrFirst’s SmartSig technology into its suite of pharmacy management solutions (PMS) used by the community and long-term care pharmacies countrywide.
- Using the two technologies could save pharmacies processing
more than 250 prescriptions a day
Read More
Health IT | News, Analysis, Insights - HIT Consultant
Keck Medicine of USC Deploys Virtual Check-Ins to Reduce Risk of COVID-19 Exposure
What You Should Know:
- Keck Medicine of USC, a world-class academic medical
center in Los Angeles, has deployed Lumeon’s SMS-based virtual check-in
solution to support physical distancing and reduce the risk of COVID-19
exposure at its facilities.
- Keck Medicine is now more safely managing check-ins for more than 80,000 patients per month. During the first ten days of system operation, 67% of eligible patients checked-in virtually for their appointments.
To support physical
Read More
How Can Health IT Address Socially Determined Risk amid COVID-19?
Many have argued that the COVID-19 pandemic is a “black swan”: a catastrophic event that can only be understood with the benefit of hindsight. While there is some appeal to this observation, the originator of the black swan theory, Naseem Taleb, strongly refutes this assertion. He counters that COVID-19 was a “white swan”—a predictable event with predictable consequences.
New federal data shows that Latinos and African Americans living in the US are three times as likely to become
Read More
Walmart, Oak Street Health to Launch 3 Health Clinics in Dallas-Fort Worth Area
What You Should Know:
- Walmart and Oak Street Health ink a partnership to
launch three joint health clinics in the Dallas-Forth Worth, TX area this year.
- Each clinic will offer value-based primary care and urgent
care services with a focus on adults on Medicare.
Retail leader Walmart
announced a partnership with Oak
Street Health, a value-based
primary care network for adults on Medicare to launch three joint health
clinics the Dallas-Forth Worth, TX area.
The new Oak Street
Read More
Humana Taps Salesforce to Power its Enterprise Clinical Operating Model
What You Should Know:
Health insurer Humana has selected Salesforce to deliver
a more connected, personalized healthcare experience for its members.
- Through a new multi-year agreement, Humana will
capitalize on infrastructure and capabilities offered by Salesforce Health
Cloud to create an integrated health experience for its members.
Health insurer Humana has inked a new multi-year agreement with Salesforce to deploy Salesforce Health Cloud to help power its Enterprise Clinical
Read More
How The Cloud Will Revolutionize Your Healthcare Network
Advances in medical devices have greatly improved healthcare but many of these devices are not living up to their full potential. As things stand, too many of these devices only help to provide care. Instead, they must be integrated with cloud computing to upload valuable data to hospital networks, where practitioners and management teams can access it to gain context, make better decisions, further enhance patient care and improve return on investment (ROI).
Adding objective context
No
Read More
Blue Shield of CA Launches Digital “Neighborhood Health Dashboard” for Public
What You Should Know:
- Blue Shield of California and mySidewalk unveil innovative
“Neighborhood Health Dashboard” to help improve community health across the state.
- The Neighborhood Health Dashboard uses data intelligence from dozens of sources to create a comprehensive picture of a community’s health including health outcomes, preventative health care, utilization and access, health behaviors, social risk factors, and environmental and economic health conditions.
Blue Shield of
Read More
IBM Watson Health, OrbitalRX Launches Solution to Combat U.S. Drug Shortage
What You Should Know:
- IBM Watson Health and OrbitalRX launches an integrated solution to assist hospital pharmacy providers in managing drug shortages.
- Joint offering pairs pharmacy supply chain management
capabilities with evidence-based drug content, designed to help hospital pharmacy
teams manage drug shortages.
- OrbitalRX with Micromedex will create a single source
for healthcare providers and pharmacists to access the latest evidence-based
clinical information alongside a
Read More
Cerner Appoints William Mintz As Chief Strategy Officer
Cerner, today announced it has named William Mintz as the new Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) where he will work alongside company and client leadership to identify and develop new business opportunities, drive the strategic planning process and oversee the corporate strategy. Prior to joining Cerner, Mintz served as the Vice President of Strategy at Leidos where he was responsible for enterprise strategy, new product development, and commercialization.
“I’m thrilled to add Will to
Read More
Carrum Health Adds Mayo Clinic to COE Platform for Cost-Effective Surgical Care
What You Should Know:
- Carrum Health, a digital health company that connects
employers and employees with hospital Centers of Excellence (COEs) to provide
more cost-effective surgical care announces the addition of Mayo Clinic to
Carrum's COE platform.
- As part of the collaboration, employees and covered
dependents at self-insured companies offering the Carrum Health surgery benefit
will now have access to Mayo Clinic providers with little or no cost.
- Self-insured employers,
Read More
