Glens Falls Hospital has reached a settlement with Cerner over $38M in losses suffered when Cerner’s billing system malfunctioned in 2017 after going live in November 2016, according to The Post-Star. Glens Falls Hospital President and CEO Dianne Shugrue announced the settlement in an ad in The Post-Star. Shugrue did not provide financial details about the settlement with Cerner or when the settlement was reached.“As is customary in resolving business disputes, the terms are confidential. It was
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Unite Us Raises $35M for Care Coordination & Outcome Tracking Platform
Unite Us, an NYC-based care coordination and outcome tracking platform connecting healthcare and social service providers has raised $35 million in Series B funding. The funding round was led by Oak HC/FT, with participation from Town Hall Ventures and Define Ventures. Existing investors Scout Ventures, Luminate (part of The Omidyar Group) and New York Ventures. The latest round brings the company’s total funding to $45.3 million.
Comprehensively Addressing Social Determinants of
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LifeBridge Health Taps Artifact Health to Streamline Physician Queries
Artifact Health, a Boulder, CO-based mobile platform that streamlines the physician query process, announced today that LifeBridge Health has selected Artifact’s solution to improve workflow for its clinicians and expedite the accurate coding of patient records. Artifact’s solution will be deployed in early spring 2019 starting at Sinai Hospital and Northwest Hospital.Transforming Time-Consuming Physician Query ProcessTraditionally, the query process is onerous and time-consuming for physicians,
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CNSI Inks $28M 4-Year Contact to Implement Texas Medicaid Provider Enrollment System
CNSI, a provider of health information technology (IT) enterprise solutions has inked a four-year contract with Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) to design and implement a new Provider Management and Enrollment System (PMES) for the state's Medicaid program. The four-year contract is worth more than $28M and the implementation kick-off is expected to start immediately. To prioritize the implementation, CNSI has opened an office in Austin dedicated to the PMES project will
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Clinically Integrated Supply Chains: The Future of Supply Chain Management?
Slowly, but surely, supply chain management is evolving. GHX’s Bruce Johnson explains.
It’s hard to believe that after nearly a decade of embracing HIT, the U.S healthcare industry still has its share of technological growing pains. Perhaps there is no better example than supply chain management (SCM), where manual methods often remain the default despite the enthusiasm to take things virtual.
According to a recent survey conducted by Sage Growth Partners, most executives believe SCM is a
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EHR Fax Server Error Exposes Thousands of Physician Notes, Medical Records
Thousands of physicians’ notes and medical records were left exposed by a fax server error within Meditab, an all-in-one multi-specialty EHR, Practice Management and Billing software solution, TechCrunch first reports. Dubai-based cybersecurity firm SpiderSilk discovered the unsecured exposed fax server was running an Elasticsearch database with over 6 million records since its creation in March 2018. It is unknown if anyone else discovered the exposed fax server or how long the data was
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Change Healthcare Files for $100M IPO Under CHNG Symbol on Nasdaq
Revenue cycle management company Change Healthcare has filed a prospectus with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for a $100 million initial public offering (IPO). The company plans to be listed on the Nasdaq Exchange under the trading symbol "CHNG."Founded in 2005, the Nashville-based company provides data and analytics-driven solutions to improve clinical, financial and patient engagement outcomes through its suite of comprehensive suite of software, analytics, technology-enabled
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AMIA Presents ‘Socio-Technical Interoperability Stack’ to Outline Why HIT Interoperability Is Not Occurring
AMIA presents "Socio-TechnicalInteroperability Stack" – developed to help communicate categorical reasons why health interoperability is not occurring.
In comments submitted last week to the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Networking and Information Technology Research and Development Program (NITRD), the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) supported their future vision for interoperability among medical devices, electronic health records, and other systems within the
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The Blueprint to Scaling Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) Data Collection
In the value-based care world, cost-effective treatment, quality of care, and patient outcomes determine payment. Social determinants of health (SDOH) represent the economic, psychological, educational, environmental and social barriers that limit healthy behaviors, access to care and adherence to treatment resulting in poor health outcomes. Many stakeholders in health care are trying to address social determinants as part of their value-based care strategy. However, many organizations are
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Partners HealthCare Integrates MassPAT with Epic EHR to Curb Opioid Abuse
Partners HealthCare today has fully integrated the Commonwealth of Massachusetts’ Prescription Awareness Tool (MassPAT) directly into it's Epic electronic health record (EHR) system. The integration marks Partners as the first healthcare network to have the tool immediately available to clinicians at the point-of-care and demonstrating a significant step forward in the Commonwealth’s efforts to align health care providers across Massachusetts on a common platform to monitor opioid
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