It may be difficult to recall now, what with the ongoing Cerner deployment and recent challenges that had little to do with technology, but there was a time when the Department of Veterans Affairs was considered the gold standard for healthcare IT.VA was out front with the initial development in the 1970s of the VistA system, which would come to be widely recognized and frequently honored. Indeed, when VA was overhauled in the 1990s, VistA was the primary tool that enabled the success of new
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NextGen Launches New, Cloud-based Data Aggregation Platform: Health Data Hub
NextGen Healthcare, this week announced the launch of the Health Data Hub -- a cloud-based Health Information Exchange (HIE) platform. This groundbreaking technology meets the needs for interoperability and seamless information sharing for healthcare networks. Health Data Hub supports all clinical data types used by ambulatory and inpatient healthcare systems and streamlines patient data aggregation, making it easy to share and receive health records from any data management system.Health Data
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Atrium Health Appoints Rasu B. Shrestha, MD as New Executive VP & Chief Strategy Officer
Atrium Health, previously Carolinas HealthCare System, today announced the appointment of former University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) chief innovation officer Rasu B. Shrestha, MD, MBA as the new executive vice president and chief strategy officer. In his new role, Dr. Shrestha will focus on leading enterprise strategy, including planning and tactical direction for Atrium Health's strategic roadmap. In addition, he will spearhead a renewed focus on innovation, launching new healthcare
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Imprivata Launches EPCS Support Hub to Support Medicare Part D
Imprivata has launched an online resource to help health organizations meet the requirements of a new federal law mandating the use of e-prescribing for controlled substances (EPCS) for all Medicare Part D subscriptions. The support hub, called "EPCS Ready", includes all the information needed to comply with the new federal law by the January 2021 deadline. It also includes insights & lessons learned from EPCS leaders, including the CMIO of Hartford HealthCare - where EPCS was implemented
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Mid-Valley Hospital Inks 10-Year Deal with Cerner to Implement EHR Across Hospitals & Clinics
Mid-Valley Hospital (MVH) has signed a 10-year agreement with Cerner to transform its Electronic Health Record (EHR) through the Cerner Millennium platform. MVH is a Critical Access Hospital (CAH) which provides Acute Care, Emergency Care, Surgical Services and Obstetrics to patients in Okanogan County. In addition, to the EHR implementation, MVH has also signed on to purchase Cerner population health solutions, with the goal of helping manage outcomes to improve the health of individuals
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Sempre Health and UPMC Health Plan Expand Program to Improve Adherence for Critical Medications
Sempre Health, a solution for advancing behavior-based pricing reductions for medication adherence, and UPMC Health Plan, which is part of UPMC, the second largest integrated health system in the U.S., today announced an expanded collaboration to improve affordability and adherence for critical medications. Starting this week, Sempre Health and UPMC Health Plan will now make additional medications available to even more members and products lines to impact members’ outcomes.Prevalence of
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Alira Health Acquires Data Sciences Company Clinical Insights
Alira Health, international healthcare and life sciences advisory firm, announced that it has acquired Clinical Insights, a data science organization providing data analytics and predictive analysis to healthcare companies. The acquisition will add rich data to each of Alira Health's practice areas, including innovation, regulatory, clinical, strategy, and transaction advisory services.Founded in 2012, Milano, Italy-based Clinical Insights provides tools and business advisory services based on
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Despite Investments in Telehealth, Only Two-Thirds of Adults Use Online Patient Portals
Despite significant investments in telehealth to engage patients in their care, about two-thirds of insured US adult patients were not using an online patient portal in 2017, according to a new study by the University of Michigan. Nonusers were more likely to be male, have less than a college degree, be on Medicaid, and lack a regular provider. The report reveals these factors, along with race, were also related to whether a patient reported receiving an offer to use a portal.Patient portals
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Analysis: Population Health Management Market Growth Slows in 2018
2018 has proved to be another challenging year for the North American population health management (PHM) market, with growth limited to single digits for the second year running. There has been a growing sense of pessimism around PHM market development as a challenging 2017 market has continued into 2018. The market is now forecast to grow to $6.8B by 2022, at a CAGR of 9.6%.Highlights- North American Population Health Management (PHM) market estimated to reach $6.8B by 2022, growing at a CAGR
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Blockchain: Would You Trust an App to Protect Your Medical Records?
When it comes to medical records, privacy is paramount in the healthcare industry. It is for the very same reason that blockchain technology creates some amazing opportunities for innovation and disruption in the sector.Notorious as the technology powering up Bitcoin cryptocurrency transactions, blockchain is an encrypted ledger of digital transactions, distributed across multiple nodes through a peer-to-peer-type network that also leaves an auditable log trail of the events taking place. Every
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