In its latest offering for the health information exchange technology stack, 4medica is set to launch the industry’s first FHIR-based clinical data repository (CDR) with patient record matching; developed for patient-centered data homes and other initiatives. Scheduled for release in early summer, the 4medica CDR will also match patient records and eliminate duplicate records with powerful accuracy and speed. How the 4medica CDR advances a universal patient recordHistorically, HIEs move rather
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Chilmark Report Reveals Adoption Challenges for Patient Relationship Management Solutions
Enterprise healthcare organizations (HCOs) striving to improve patient engagement increasingly turn to solutions that can be described as patient relationship management (PRM) – but, as the latest report from Chilmark Research describes in detail, it’s much more than a rebranding of customer relationship management (CRM) for healthcare.The Market Scan Report, Patient Relationship Management: Higher Stakes Than CRM, describes why HCOs are interested in solutions that promise more targeted patient
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Iowa’s Largest Private Physician Group Transitions to eClinicalWorks EHR
Physician’s Clinic of Iowa (PCI), one of Iowa's largest, private specialty medical groups, will convert to eClinicalWorks’ comprehensive cloud EHR solution, V11, for all of its 84 providers. PCI selected the eClinicalWorks solution for its ability to seamlessly integrate within the existing hospital system, for its focus on ambulatory care and the connectivity with Carequality, an interoperability network. The eClinicalWorks solution will also help PCI streamline and improve overall efficiency
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Innovaccer Launches InGraph to Transform Healthcare Analytics
To assist organizations facing the challenge of fragmented data and limited insights, Silicon Valley-based Innovaccer today announced the launch of their Population Health and Networks Analytics Solution, InGraph today. Built on our healthcare data platform, InGraph provides holistic population health and network analyses and offers a strong foundation to power efficient care management and cost-effective quality improvement.Efforts to improve care for a population or system have driven care
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Is Your Health Data More Safe or Vulnerable in the Cloud?
Editor’s Note: Richard Sullivan is the chief operations officer for Medsphere Systems Corporation, the solution provider for the OpenVista electronic health record.The illusion of control is tempting, even intoxicating. It’s also a common characteristic that almost all humans manifest to one degree or another as we work to satisfy competence motives, the need for security, survival instincts.Because proximity often feels like control, it might also get in the way of secure healthcare IT.“Files
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5 Healthcare Organizations Launch Healthcare Blockchain Pilot Program
Five leading health care organizations – Humana, MultiPlan, Quest Diagnostics and UnitedHealth Group’s Optum and UnitedHealthcare, announced that they are launching a healthcare blockchain pilot program applying blockchain technology to improve data quality and reduce administrative costs associated with changes to health care provider demographic data, a critical, complex and difficult issue facing organizations across the health care system.The companies will explore how the technology could
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Illinois Rural Community Care Organization to Implement Cerner HealtheIntent
Illinois Rural Community Care Organization (IRCCO) has selected Cerner, a global leader in health care technology, to implement Cerner HealtheIntent, its big data and insights platform for population health management, across its accountable care organization (ACO) to coordinate care for Medicare patients throughout the state of Illinois.Clinicians at IRCCO will have actionable health data at their fingertips to support improved patient care and coordination. Cerner HealtheIntent analyzes
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GE Healthcare Unloads Value-Based Care Division for $1.5B in Cash
Veritas Capital (“Veritas”), a leading private equity investment firm has acquired GE Healthcare's Value-Based Care division for $1.05 billion in cash. GE Healthcare's Value-Based Care Division includes the Enterprise Financial Management (Revenue-Cycle, Centricity Business), Ambulatory Care Management (Centricity Practice Solution) and Workforce Management (formerly API Healthcare) assets. The healthcare technology space has been a key focus area for Veritas Capital, as illustrated by its
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How Big Data Enhances the Patient Experience
Editor's Note: Dave Bennett is the EVP of product and strategy for Orion Health, focused on new models of medicine. Prior to joining Orion Health, Bennett founded Cyclone Commerce in 1996, which was acquired by Axway in 2006.Because the data capacity for flash drives and secure digital memory card storage increased immensely over the past two decades, mobile phones have gone from simple handsets used for text messaging, phone calls, and the occasional game of Snake, to sophisticated devices that
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Survey: Providers Need Better OR Supply Chain Management Systems to Reduce Costs
A new Cardinal Health survey finds that healthcare providers need better operating rooms (OR) supply chain management systems to reduce costs and support patient safety. The survey of 305 surgical staff and hospital supply chain decision-makers fielded by SERMO provides insight into the current inventory management needs of operating rooms in the U.S.Financial challenges persist across health care systems. And while the OR is among the top revenue drivers for a hospital, it’s also one of the
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