Evidation’s Board of Directors has appointed Christine Lemke as Co-CEO alongside Executive Chair Deborah Kilpatrick.
Greenway Health appoints Pratap Sarker as President to oversee all commercial and customer-focused functions including sales, marketing, and customer success. He will also work closely with Greenway’s clearinghouse, revenue cycle and IT teams to ensure the delivery of quality solutions that are critically needed to support practices’ business continuity, as well as their
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Change Healthcare Launches New AI Model to Extract Diagnostic Data from EHRs for Case Management
What You Should Know:
- Change Healthcare launches a new artificial intelligence model that automatically extracts diagnostic data from clinical notes to increase the efficiency of automated medical necessity reviews by over 20%.
- The new Change Healthcare AI models are trained using
clinical data and are honed by expert physicians.
Change Healthcare unveils new innovative new Artificial Intelligence models, trained by expert physicians, which extract meaningful diagnostic
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Monument Health Selects Nuance’s ACI Solution to Transform Physician-Patient Encounters
What You Should Know:
- Nuance Communications, Inc. announced that Monument
Health added another Nuance solution to their tech stack: Dragon Ambient
eXperience (DAX).
- This new solution will further enable the healthcare
facility’s physicians to focus on caring for patients and not on their
computers.
Nuance
Communications, Inc. announced that Monument
Health has chosen the Nuance®
Dragon Ambient eXperience™ (DAX™) ambient clinical intelligence (ACI)
solution to securely capture,
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Verisk Acquires MSP Compliance Provider Franco Signor for $160M
What You Should Know:
- Verisk acquires Franco Signor, a Bradenton, FL-based full-service provider of MSP compliance software and services for $160M.
- Property/casualty insurers, self-insureds, and TPAs
will benefit from the most comprehensive suite of fully integrated Medicare
compliance solutions and greater access to the nation’s top Medicare experts.
Verisk, a data
analytics provider, announced today that it has acquired
Franco Signor, a Medicare Secondary
Payer (MSP) service
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Finland, Cerner to Co-Develop Health and Social Services Digital Platform
What You Should Know:
- Finland regional leadership has selected Cerner to
establish a new healthcare and social services digital platform to support four
regions in Central Finland.
- The co-design digital platform will support Aster, a co-operational organization across four of Finland’s nineteen regions; including Central Finland, Ostrobothnia, South Savo, and North Karelia.
Today, Cerner announced it has been selected by Finland regional leadership to deliver more coordinated
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Analysis: August 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 August 2020.
M&A is back and the velocity of the rebound has outpaced all expectations. The recovery quickly worked its way across the spectrum from large to small-cap, beginning with the larger cap NASDAQ rally of nearly 80% from lows in late March (only to soften in recent days), followed by multi-billion
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MEDITECH Launches Expanse Virtual Assistant Through Nuance
What You Should Know:
- MEDITECH launches Expanse Virtual Assistant, enabling
users to quickly access, navigate, and control the EHR using advanced Nuance
Dragon Medical Virtual Assistant technology.
- Physicians can leverage Expanse Virtual Assistant to
navigate and search patient charts for key areas of information including lab
results, medications, allergies, radiology images, and more.
MEDITECH and Nuance Communications Inc. (Nuance),
today announced a collaboration to
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DrChrono EHR Adds Live Chat, PDMP, Inline Charting, Vital Flowsheet Features
What You Should Know:
- DrChrono continues to modernize EHR platform with the
addition of new features live chat and prescription drug monitoring program.
- As doctors continue to work remotely due to COVID-19,
new features allow for more efficiency and seamless patient data processing via
the platform.
DrChrono Inc.,
the company developing the essential platform and services for modern medical
practices, announced today the availability of its newest features, Live Chat,
which
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AMA Approves 2 New CPT Codes to Support Response to COVID-19
What You Should Know:
- The American Medical Association adds two new CPT codes
to streamline the reporting of innovative tools and services now available to
help reduce the COVID-19 disease burden.
- The two new codes 99072 and 86413 have been approved for immediate use.
The American Medical Association (AMA) published
an update to the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) code set that
includes two code additions for reporting medical services sparked by the
public
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AI Collaboration Saves Pharmacies 5.5 Hours Monthly on Critical Administrative Tasks
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
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