I recall a patient who was drinking heavily, who I was unable to meaningfully convince to reduce his alcohol consumption. He felt that his drinking was no different than his work colleagues and that he did not need to make any changes. When his labs returned, not surprisingly, his GGT and AST were elevated. I turned the screen and showed him the results as well as the upward trending of the result’s graph. He didn’t say much but was clearly taking it all in. When we met next, he
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Regional Medical Center, Philips Forms 5-Year, $16M Diagnostic Imaging Partnership
- Philips and Regional Medical Center announce a 5-year, $16M long-term strategic partnership to deliver diagnostic imaging solutions to support patient care for residents of rural South Carolina. - The partnership gives community health system access to the same innovative Philips diagnostic imaging solutions of larger networks, bringing quality care closer to home and delivering on the Quadruple Aim.Regional Medical Center (RMC), the only acute care provider serving Orangeburg, Calhoun,
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Corrona Acquires Patient Experience Company HealthiVibe
- Corrona acquires patient experience company HealthiVibe to further expand its presence in the patient experience marketplace. - HealthiVibe uses a systematic, evidence-based process to help pharmaceutical clients spearhead patient engagement initiatives at every stage of the product lifecycle.Corrona, LLC, a provider of real-world observational and syndicated registry data, announced today that it has acquired HealthiVibe, LLC, an Arlington, VA-based patient experience company. Financial
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DrChrono Launches Certified Developers Program Leveraging DrChrono’s API
- DrChrono launches its Certified Developers Program, a healthcare partner platform marketplace with new resources for physicians. - The new Certified Developers Program is creating an ecosystem where a customer can work directly with one of the qualified developers that can layer custom features on top of the DrChrono EHR platform at their request.DrChrono Inc., the company enabling the medical practice of the future, announced today a new Certified Developers Program comprised of partners that
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KLAS: ERP Implementation – Which Consulting Partner is the Right Fit?
- New KLAS Report on ERP implementations finds clients are highly satisfied with Premier’s implementation services, while Infor consulting services clients report dissatisfaction with their implementations.- Clients view PwC as having strong ERP implementation experience and being capable of managing an ERP implementation as part of a broader business transformation.- For Workday and Oracle ERP implementations, KPMG’s ERP implementations often exceeds Expectations while Deloitte’s ERP Clients
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Analysis: November 2019 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 November 2019We did a doubletake when we noticed all of the HGP healthcare indices climbed approximately 10% during the month of November. Year-to-date, the S&P 500 is up over 25% and the HGP healthcare indices are all hovering in that range. In the two month period since September, when talk of universal healthcare reached
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SubjectWell, Human API Partner to Provide Free Patient Medical Record Retrieval
- Risk-free clinical trial marketplace, SubjectWell partners with data-sharing platform Human API to provide free record retrieval to clinical trial sites and sponsors. - The risk-free clinical trials marketplace will use Human API’s platform to simplify patient-approved health data collection and speed up the randomization process.SubjectWell, the risk-free clinical trial marketplace has partnered with data-sharing platform Human API to provide free medical record retrieval to clinical trial
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Elevating The Hospital Room Waiting Experience: 6 Factors to Consider
We spend so much time in our healthcare facilities’ public waiting areas, so it should come as no surprise that one survey found that 63 percent of patients cite the most stressful thing about going to their doctor is waiting to be seen. Additionally, research has shown that 85 percent of people believe that wait time is either somewhat or very important to their overall patient experience. Doctor and hospital visits comprise some of the most anxiety-ridden events in our lives.
Who wouldn’t want
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Cleveland Clinic London Taps Vocera to Build Clinical Communications Platform
- Cleveland Clinic London will use the Vocera Platform to standardize care team communication across the hospital when it opens in 2021.- The Vocera Platform integrates with more than 150 clinical and operational systems, including EHRs, physiologic monitors, ventilators and more.- Cleveland Clinic London is planning a two-way integration with Epic, the hospital’s EHR system. Additional integrations with a real-time location system and nurse call solution also are planned. Cleveland Clinic
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Medtronic to Leverage Lumeon’s Care Pathway Management Platform to Deliver Value-Based Care in Europe
- Lumeon and Medtronic form strategic partnership to support Medtronic’s European healthcare provider customers in their transition to efficient, value-based care models.- Medtronic’s Integrated Healthcare Solutions (IHS) business will leverage Lumeon’s CPM Platform to operationalize care pathways for surgery optimization and chronic disease management.Lumeon, a provider of Care Pathway Management (CPM), today announced that it has entered a strategic partnership with medical technology provider
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