- Kyruus today announced that Atrius Health has selected the company’s solutions to enhance patient access across Eastern Massachusetts.- KyruusOne will serve as the backbone for Atrius Health’s future consumer-facing search offerings for its more than 745,000 adult and pediatric patients, as well as new patients to the system.Atrius Health, the Northeast’s largest non-profit independent medical group, has selected Kyruus, the leader in provider search and scheduling solutions for health systems
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Cotiviti Launches Longitudinal Data Set in Healthcare
- Cotiviti has launched Caspian Insights, which represents the most comprehensive data set in healthcare and includes longitudinal data on 40% of Americans.
- Unlike other platforms, Caspian unites financial and clinical information with other data types (i.e. social determinants of health, pharmacy, dental, and labs) creating a “single source of truth” never before seen in healthcare to this scale.
- By offering an all-encompassing view of each member, Caspian gives health plans and
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Commure Launches FHIR-Native Open Platform for Healthcare Developers
- Commure launches an FHIR-native open platform for healthcare developers that makes it easy to build and deploy the next generation of healthcare apps by providing a secure, reliable, and interoperable foundation.
- The Commure Platform provides REST APIs, SDKs and cloud services that support healthcare application development by the broadest range of developers across the application life cycle.
Commure, a San Francisco, CA-based healthcare technology company, announced the launch of
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CitiusTech Inks Partnership with Google Cloud to Accelerate Digital Transformation
- CitiusTech announces partnership with Google Cloud to accelerate digital transformation for healthcare organizations.
- This partnership brings together Google Cloud’s technology and CitiusTech’s proven understanding of the complex healthcare environment.
CitiusTech, a
leading provider of healthcare technology services and solutions, today
announced a partnership with Google Cloud
to accelerate digital transformation and cloud adoption across healthcare
organizations.
As a Google
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HIMSS Names The 6 Most Influential Women in Health IT
HIMSS names
Iris P. Frye, Kim Garriott, Dr. Lucienne Ide, Eva Karp, RN-BC, Dr. Geeta Nayyar,
and Tressa Springmann as the most influential women in health IT.
This week, HIMSS announced its Most Influential Women in Health IT, an annual recognition celebrating women striving to harness the power of information technology to drive healthcare transformation. The award winners will be honored at HIMSS20 in Orlando next month and will join other innovators, leaders, and entrepreneurs at the
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Analysis: January Health IT M&A Activity; Public Company Performance
– Healthcare Growth Partners’ (HGP) summary of Health IT/digital health mergers & acquisition (M&A) activity, and public company performance during the month of January 2020.
Ten years into the bull market, we operate in a heightened state of awareness for any indication of market weakness that may signal a downturn. While debt levels are rising and GDP growth somewhat sluggish, the world of private equity, public equity, and M&A continues to be in full swing bull market
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Life Image Launches Network Build to Help Providers Build Large-Scale Patient Data Networks
- Life Image launches Network Build Enterprise Solution to help healthcare organizations establish their own network connections to coordinate care and innovate. - Network Build allows healthcare organizations to create customized medical networks that can handle intensive data (e.g. diagnostic images, pathology, genomics, etc.) critical for advancing medical device development, clinical trials and more.Life Image, the world’s largest medical evidence network for clinical and imaging data,
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XIFIN Introduces Transformative AI-Enabled Revenue Cycle Platform
- The latest version of XIFIN’s flagship RCM platform optimizes cash collections, enables real-time connectivity and error correction, and provides enhanced self-service for patients and physicians.- Unlike other RCM systems that require manual efforts once the claims are denied, XIFIN RPM 11 reduces costs and delivers denials and appeals process automation, including automatic generation of payor-specific appeal forms and appeal letters.Today’s diagnostic laboratory leaders face more challenges
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CAQH CORE Approves Two-Day Rule to Accelerate Prior Authorization Process
- CAQH CORE participating organizations--consisting of healthcare providers, health plans, vendors, government entities, associations and standard-setting organizations--have come together to pass a national two-day time limit for plans to request additional info and make final decisions on prior authorization requests.
- Prior authorizations are the most costly, time-consuming administrative transaction for providers. And when the process takes too long, it can delay patient care.
- Over
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Cerner Sells Off Parts of Healthcare IT Business in Germany and Spain for $248M
- Cerner sells off parts of healthcare IT business in Germany and Spain to Germany company CompuGroup Medical SE for EUR 225 million ($247.5M USD).
- The acquired assets include "medico" and "Soarian Integrated Care", hospital information systems (HIS) in Germany, Selene, a HIS in Spain, and "Soarian Health Archive", a document archiving solution for healthcare providers.
- The sell-off by Cerner reflects the company’s overall growth strategy and optimized approach to portfolio management.
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