What You Should Know:
- Epic selects InterSystems IRIS Data Platform to serve
as the data foundation for the latest release of Epic’s EHR.
- Epic adopted InterSystems IRIS to enhance the
reliability and scalability of its EHR and to deliver improved consistency,
control, and automation of processes for its global community of approximately
2.5 million concurrent users.
InterSystems,
a creative data technology provider dedicated to helping customers solve
critical scalability,
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Providence Combines 9 Investments & Acquisitions to Form Tegria
What You Should Know:
- Providence combines nine operating companies to form
Tegria into a comprehensive suite of offerings for organizations across the
health care sector
-Tegria will focus on three key initiatives—healthcare
consulting and technology services, revenue cycle management solutions and
software technology and platforms.
Providence, one of the nation's largest health systems announce the formation of Tegria, a new company designed to provide next-generation
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HealthStream Acquires Nurse Scheduling Solution ShiftWizard for $32M
What You Should Know:
- HealthStream acquires ShiftWizard, a SaaS-based nurse
scheduling software saves your hospital time & money with an innovative
scheduling solution and mobile app made by nurses, for nurses.
- HealthStream acquired ShiftWizard, Inc. for
approximately $32.0 million in cash, subject to working capital and other
customary purchase price adjustments.
HealthStream today announced that it has acquired ShiftWizard, Inc., a Raleigh, North Carolina-based company
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Lyft Integrates with Epic EHR to Enable Hospitals to Schedule Rides for Patients
What You Should Know:
- Lyft is continuing to expand rideshare for
non-emergency medical transportation (NEMT) through a first of market direct
integration with Epic, the largest electronic health record (EHR) in the U.S.
- This will have an immediate impact on hospital operations and patients, with currently committed customers including Tampa General and Ochsner Health.
Today, ridesharing leader Lyft announced an integration with EHR provider Epic to enable
health system staff to
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Innovaccer Unveils Risk Adjustment Solution For Improved Coding Accuracy
What You Should Know:
- Innovaccer unveils new risk adjustment solution to help providers better segment their population to refine the risk scoring process and improve coding accuracy and efficiency, thereby improving performance on risk-based contracts.
- The solution utilizes Artificial Intelligence (AI) and
Natural Language Processing (NLP) to make risk predictions.
Innovaccer, Inc., a
leading healthcare
technology company, has launched its Risk Adjustment
Solution. Leveraging
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AMA Adds New CPT Codes Multi-Virus Tests to Detect COVID-19 and Flu
What You Should Know:
- AMA
announces new CPT codes for multi-virus tests to detect COVID-19 and flu for
immediate use.
The American Medical Association (AMA) today published an update to the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) code set that includes new code additions and editorial revisions for reporting medical services sparked by the public health response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The update to the CPT code set was approved by the CPT Editorial Panel, the
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Curation Health Raises Series A Funding for Clinical Decision Support Platform
What You Should Know:
- Curation Health raises an undisclosed Series A round of funding to accelerate the adoption of its advanced clinical decision support platform.
- Curation Health provides an advanced clinical decision
support platform for providers and health plans that aids in managing risk
contracts and improving quality performance.
Curation Health, an Annapolis, MD-based advanced clinical decision support platform for value-based care, today announced the completion of
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New Jersey Urology Launches First-Ever Urologic-Centric Epic EHR
What You Should Know:
- New Jersey Urology (NJU) becomes the first urology-only group to launch a urologic-centric Epic electronic health record (EHR).
- NJU is the largest urology practice providing complete
urologic care and comprehensive individualized treatment at more than 60
convenient locations, including six state-of-the-art Cancer Treatment Centers.
New Jersey Urology ("NJU"), the leading urology service provider in New Jersey, and Urology Management Associates
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Fresenius Kidney Care Rolls Out National Data Exchange Network
What You Should Know:
- Fresenius Kidney Care, the dialysis services
division of Fresenius Medical Care North America, rolled out CommonWell health
data exchange services to its dialysis facilities nationwide.
- This initiative is a significant stride towards better-coordinated care for patients requiring life-sustaining dialysis for kidney failure and will enable the real-time exchange of critical patient health information--allowing healthcare providers to access the most
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How Low-Code Solutions Reduce Headaches for Healthcare CIOs
Twenty years ago, technology consultants started advising CIOs to build less. That’s when the movement towards Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) began.
Today, there are many shops, especially those in small and medium-sized organizations, with few programmers who build new applications from scratch.
Yes, they have programmers who configure, script, and integrate various applications but very little is built. For the provider community, we have a habit of either sourcing our
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