Cedar, a patient payment and engagement platform, announced the next evolution of its flagship solution, Cedar Pay. The enhancements now allow providers to offer a truly unified patient billing experience and simple checkout options.Healthcare executives still struggle to help patients understand and pay healthcare bills, with 50 percent of provider executives reporting the need to improve the patient billing and payment experience, according to a recent Cedar study. The next evolution of
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Innovaccer Launches Physician Engagement Solution From The CURES 2.0 Database
To assist physicians of California in meeting the CURES compliance and control drug overuse, Innovaccer has launched ‘InNote for CURES’. The solution delivers key insights from the CURES 2.0 database to physicians within the EHR, right at the point of care, as they prescribe Schedule II, III, or IV controlled substances.CURES OverviewThe opioids epidemic and drug abuse have become a huge challenge for the US healthcare. To ensure proper prescribing and administering of controlled substances,
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Spectrum Health & Human Services to Implement Cerner’s Community Behavioral Health Cloud
Spectrum Health & Human Services, a Western New York-based provider of behavioral health services has selected Cerner to implement the Cerner Integrated – Community Behavioral Health deployment model designed to meet the unique needs of organizations that treat psychological disorders.The implementation will help support Spectrum’s work to improve the mental well-being of the people it serves throughout its health and human services agency in Western New York. Spectrum will receive a
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La Clinica de Familia to Implement eClinicalWorks EHR for Medical, Dental and Behavioral Health
La Clinica de Familia (LCDF), a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) in Doña Ana County, New Mexico has selected the eClinicalWorks comprehensive EHR based on its need to systematically connect its primary care, dental care, behavioral health, and ancillary services to better meet all the patient’s health needs. Use of the eClinicalWorks cloud-based technology will support care coordination between providers, staff, and patients to enhance communication and improve the delivery of care.LCDF
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Zynx Health Launches ZynxPeds Order Sets and Care Plans for Pediatric Patients
Zynx Health, a provider of evidence- and experience-based clinical improvement solutions, announced the launch of ZynxPeds, a suite of pediatric-specific and pediatric-appropriate order set and care plan content developed to address the unique care requirements of pediatric patients. ZynxPeds was developed in partnership with the acclaimed Akron Children’s Hospital, one of the country’s top-ranked children’s hospitals.ZynxPeds OverviewClinicians from Akron Children’s initially developed the
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Dignity Health, OODA Health Partner to Offer Real-Time Consumer Payment Model
Dignity Health today announced that it will streamline payments between payors and providers to improve the patient experience through a strategic technology partnership with OODA Health. The OODA Health digital platform will help address historic and technological barriers between payors and providers by enabling real-time claims payments. The instantaneous nature of this technology will alleviate the administrative back and forth that ties up physicians’ time and causes patients undue worries
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Philips & Children’s Health of Dallas Sign 15-Year $75M to Innovate Their Patient Monitoring & PACS System
Philips and Children’s Health of Dallas announced a 15-year, $75 million strategic agreement to innovate their patient monitoring and PACs systems for nearly one million patients in North Texas.Through this agreement, Children’s Health will achieve standardized patient monitoring through Philip’s leading patient monitoring technologies, including the Intellivue X3 patient monitor, which puts critical patient information at clinicians’ fingertips in an easy to understand format. This allows staff
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UAB Medicine to Deploy Scribble Virtual Scribe Solution Across Primary Clinics
IKS Health, a leading partner for today’s practicing physician, medical groups and health systems, today announced that it will collaborate with UAB Medicine to alleviate physician administrative demand and burnout. IKS Health enables the enhanced delivery of exceptional health care for today’s practicing physician, medical groups and health systems.Through this collaboration, IKS Health will implement its Scribble and Coding services in primary care clinics and piloted in several sub-specialty
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Meditech Launches New App Development Environment with API, FHIR Support
EHR vendor MEDITECH, today announced the launch of their new app development, MEDITECH Greenfield. Greenfield lays the groundwork for visionaries and innovators to create a better future for providers, patients, and consumers, with technology that connects communities and enables better care.MEDITECH Greenfield OverviewSupported by RESTful APIs, including FHIR, Greenfield is an open space for MEDITECH customers and third-party developers to cultivate homegrown applications. MEDITECH's API
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CareCloud to Use Google Cloud Healthcare API to Accelerate Interoperability
CareCloud, the platform for high-growth medical groups, has joined the Google Cloud Technology Partner Program, the company announced today. Through the new relationship, CareCloud will accelerate the continued expansion of its cloud platform with a focus on interoperability, leveraging Google Cloud’s Healthcare API.As part of the program, CareCloud’s platform will use Google Cloud Healthcare API as a normalized data store, leveraging CareCloud’s proprietary real-time data streaming
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