- Shriners Hospitals for Children establishes new genomics institute to advance precision medicine in partnership with Genome Medical to return actionable genetic findings for pediatric patients. - Genomics Institute at Shriners Hospitals will offer genetic sequencing to patients at its 22 hospitals and outpatient locations in North America and from its international network of outreach clinics.Shriners Hospitals for Children is teaming up with Genome Medical to ensure that pediatric patients
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Provider Credentialing: A Problematic Process Driving Costs and Delays
On a typical day, the average physician sees about 19 patients for roughly 22 minutes each. That’s a busy day and anything that interrupts that schedule is a problem for them and their staff.
One of the things that does disrupt that rhythm is payer paperwork, which is a significant driver of administrative burden and waste in healthcare. Administrative transactions between providers and payers include a wide range of tasks performed by many different entities, but one piece of the puzzle
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How Intelligent Automation Can Address 3 Revenue Cycle Challenges
Artificial intelligence (AI) has received a lot of buzz and been positioned as the central healthcare technology needed to solve many financial challenges and digitally transform internal operations. However, if you’re looking for practical solutions that can address variable activities and complete work with a high level of quality, today, healthcare organizations should look to intelligent automation.
Here’s why: True AI attempts to mimic human cognition. As such, AI remains
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Kaiser Associates’ Healthcare Practice Is Now Kx Advisors
- Kaiser Associates launches healthcare strategy consultancy Kx Advisors to help clients reach their critical growth goals.
Kaiser Associates announce the launch of Kx Advisors, a healthcare strategy consultancy dedicated to helping achieve critical business growth goals in partnership with its clients in Pharma, Biotech, Medical Device, and Health IT. The new consultancy is already operating under the Kx Advisors name at the Washington D.C., London, and Hong Kong offices.
For more than 30
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Premier Acquires Medpricer for $35M to Optimize Savings in Purchased Services
- Premier acquires Medpricer’s technology solution that enables purchased services savings across a total addressable acute care market of $160 billion. - Cloud-based platform provides purchased services management technology, including pricing benchmarks, RFP templates and other supplier data. - Acquisition enables healthcare providers to better manage third-party contracts to improve financial performance.Premier Inc., a healthcare improvement company, has acquired Medpricer, a
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ettain group Acquires Leidos’s Commercial EHR Consulting Business
- Talent solutions firm ettain group acquires Leidos Inc.’s commercial Electronic Health Records (EHR) consulting business to further strengthen its national Healthcare IT capabilities- The acquisition will grow its IT staffing presence in several strategic markets, including New York, NY, Denver, CO, and Chicago, IL.ettain group, a Charlotte, NC-based provider of talent solutions, announced today that it has acquired Leidos Inc.’s commercial Electronic Health Records (“EHR”) consulting
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Twistle Raises $16M to Expand Patient Engagement Platform
- Seattle-based health IT innovator Twistle raises $16M in Series A funding from two major healthcare investors: Health Enterprise Partners (HEP) and MemorialCare Innovation Fund (MCIF). - The funding investors are healthcare-centric: MCIF is a strategic healthcare investment fund wholly-owned by a healthcare system and HEP is a private equity firm that invests exclusively in healthcare services and IT companies.- The funding will accelerate the delivery of personalized care guidance through
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HIT Governance: 7 Key Metrics For Your Quarterly Report Card
Healthcare organizations use data to support decision-making for nearly every area of operations. But what about your security and compliance strategy? What metrics are the most valuable to determine how your organization should allocate funding for health IT projects related to governance, risk, and compliance?
Top Seven Metrics to Gather For A Quarterly Report Card
With an ocean of data at your fingertips, it’s best to determine the metrics that will best support your strategy, and any budget
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Lumeon Launches Care Pathway Blueprints for Easy-to-Deploy Workflow Templates
- Lumeon launches care pathway blueprints that enable providers to quickly deploy efficient ready-made care processes that apply best practice by design.
- Starter library of 15 ready-made pathway blueprints in high priority areas, including diabetes screening, pre-surgical optimization, post-discharge heart failure and post-discharge comprehensive care for joint replacement (CJR).
Lumeon,
a Boston, MA-based provider
of care pathway management, announced the launch
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AVIA Launches Partner Network with Cerner, Deloitte, AHA, HFMA
Healthcare innovation network AVIA launches AVIA Partner Network for health systems to gain access to proprietary insights and resources.American Hospital Association, Deloitte, Cerner Corporation, and the Healthcare Financial Management Association among leading organizations collaborating to accelerate digital transformation in healthcare.AVIA, the nation’s leading healthcare innovation network, today announced the launch of the AVIA Partner Network, which brings together several prominent
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