EHR vendor MEDITECH, today announced MaaS (MEDITECH as a Service) is now available to community health systems. Offered initially to Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs), larger community health systems now have the opportunity to utilize MaaS and the many benefits that come with a cost-effective subscription to MEDITECH Expanse.
Meditech MaaS Subscription Overview
MaaS is a cloud-based EHR subscription that provides health systems with full access to Expanse, MEDITECH’s web-based platform.
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Consumerization of Healthcare: Why Differentiation is Critical for Clinics
The consumerization of healthcare is upon us. As retail pharmacies expand their reach and giant tech companies such as Apple and Amazon enter the market, we are transitioning from patients to healthcare consumers with more options and more purchasing decisions to make.
Whether this shift will prove beneficial to overall health remains to be seen, but one thing is clear: patients are being faced with an increasing number of decisions to make that have immediate effects on health and wellbeing.
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Research: Doctors More Likely to Prescribe Therapies Using EMR Dashboards
Purely educating doctors about the importance of prescribing certain therapies may not be enough to make a meaningful impact, according to a new Penn Medicine study published in the Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety. Using acid suppression therapy--an effective method of reducing the risk of gastrointestinal bleeding in vulnerable cardiac patients--Penn researchers tested interventions that utilized both education and an EMR dashboard to provide doctors with up-to-date
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KLAS Report: Nurse EHR Satisfaction Significantly Higher Than Physicians
On average, nurses report significantly higher EHR satisfaction than physicians, according to the latest KLAS report. Today, nurses outnumber physicians in the United States four to one. The report, The Nurse EHR Experience: An Arch Collaborative Impact Report 2019 measures the nurse EHR experience and identifies opportunities for improvement in the nurse experience and what the nurse experience can teach other groups of clinicians about how to succeed with the EHR.Nurses EHR Experience
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Patient Access Solution Clearwave Receives Growth Equity Investment
Clearwave Corporation, an Atlanta, GA-based provider of patient access solutions via, mobile, kiosk and desktop self-service solutions has received a significant growth equity investment from Frontier Capital. Based in Charlotte, Frontier Capital’s firm is focused exclusively on software and tech-enabled business services companies.Investment FocusFrontier’s investment is intended to support Clearwave as it embarks on its next phase of innovation and growth in seeking to improve the customer
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Healthcare M&A: How Carestream Will Change Philips Strategy in Imaging Informatics
Earlier this month, Philips Healthcare announced it had signed an agreement to purchase the IT business (HCIS) of Carestream Healthcare for an undisclosed amount. The deal, expected to close in the second half of the year, is one of the largest M&A moves in the imaging informatics market for some time. While it was one of the worst kept secrets in the industry that the owners of Carestream were looking for a buyer, the decision to split off the HCIS business of Carestream was more of a
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The Rule of 40 in Health IT: Should your Company Prioritize Profitability or Growth?
George Bailey, Associate at Healthcare Growth Partners (Left)Laura Gama, Investment Banking Analyst at Healthcare Growth Partners (Right)
Among the venture capital and growth equity community, a common rule of thumb for software companies is the “Rule of 40”. The rule simply states that a healthy software company’s net profitability + revenue growth rate should exceed 40%. This rule provides a guideline to balance the trade-off between revenue growth and profitability, a question many of
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Allscripts Expands Relationship with Ephraim McDowell Health to Drive Patient Engagement
Allscripts FollowMyHealth announced a partnership with Ephraim McDowell Health on its enterprise and mobile patient engagement platform. FollowMyHealth offers a mobile, enterprise patient/consumer engagement platform for providers, hospitals and health systems who want to promote healthy patient populations and manage quality. Platform Approach BenefitsFollowMyHealth’s total connected patients hit over 17 million during 2018 with portal alone. With their expanded HealthGrid platform, that number
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Impact of Patient-Generated Health Data From A Cancer Perspective
Thanos Komidis, Co-Founder & CEO at Care AcrossPatient-generated health data (PGHD) contains entire datasets which, contrary to electronic health records (EHRs), are collected based on patient input. This data may be directly entered or provided by patients (e.g. via quality of life questionnaires) or may be generated indirectly (e.g. via wearable devices).Patient-Generated Health Data in A Shifting Healthcare ModelIn healthcare, the biggest focus has traditionally been mostly around EHR
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Report: 8 Barriers to Addressing Social Determinants in Population Health Programs
Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) initiatives are disrupting healthcare delivery and reimbursement, according to a national survey of leading health plans and other healthcare stakeholders. Commissioned and conducted by the HealthCare Executive Group and Change Healthcare, the 9th Annual Industry Pulse Survey report reveals a significant number of healthcare leaders are planning to offer programs addressing care coordination, transportation, food insecurity, and other factors for members over
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