Phoenix Health Systems, the leading independent provider of hospital IT outsourcing and consulting services, today announced that Southwest Mississippi Regional Medical Center has signed a long-term contract for IT department management and software and infrastructure support. Southwest Regional is a modern facility with 165 licensed beds offering advanced equipment and a broad range of services to our patients. Its physicians and other healthcare professionals remain on the forefront of modern
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Embleema Launches Blockchain-Powered Personal Health Record Platform
Embleema comes out of stealth to connect patients, life sciences, and regulators through its healthcare blockchain-enabled personal health record (PHR) platform. Embleema, a NYC-based patient-focused healthcare blockchain network, today emerged from stealth after one year of R&D, to launch the public beta release of its patient-driven, HIPAA-compliant, blockchain-enabled personal health records (PHR) platform. The new blockchain-driven PHR platform give patients complete control over their
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The Existing Challenges with EHRs and Physicians’ Workflows
EHRs grew out of the vast computers that looked after a hospital’s internal processes. The physician workflows, on the other hand, were an afterthought. Imagine a Wendy’s restaurant. You place an order and the guy at the counter rings up and relays your order to the kitchen. When the order comes, the fry guy drops a basket of fries in the fryer, the guy at the burger counter flips a patty, the girl over at the soda machine fills up your choice of soda, arranges your order on a tray, and rests it
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DrChrono, Stitch Integrate to Provide Practices EHR Physician Collaboration Tools
DrChrono, a company enabling the medical practice of the future, today announced a new partnership with Stitch, a company that has created a free HIPAA-compliant app for healthcare teams to send internal messages, communicate with patients and track daily tasks. Both DrChrono and Stitch are Y Combinator portfolio companies.In the past, physicians and medical staff would need to communicate with each other about patients using email, text and phone calls or other outdated chat software that
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The Patient Experience and…Revenue Cycle Operations? The Two Are More Interlinked than You Might Think.
Think back to the last time you read a negative review about a restaurant. After reading the review, you probably dismissed the restaurant and considered other places to eat.Now, imagine you’re a patient considering options for an outpatient procedure and you came upon negative reviews about a provider. Chances are, you probably skipped that provider and opted for a consult with someone else. As providers, how can we fix this? Now, more than ever, patient satisfaction matters, especially given
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CareCloud Adds Spanish to Patient Experience Platform, Breeze
Medical groups using CareCloud's eCommerce platform Breeze en Español to help patients manage and pay for their healthcareAs part of a continued drive to improve every aspect of a patient’s experience and make healthcare more accessible, CareCloud, the platform for high-growth medical groups, is making its patient experience management platform, Breeze, available in Spanish. Through Breeze en Español, medical groups now will be able to remove the complexity and difficulty of scheduling,
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Breaking: CMS Proposes Historic Changes to Restore the Doctor-Patient Relationship & Streamline Clinical Billing
CMS proposed historic changes to Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) and the Quality Payment Program (QPP) to restore the doctor-patient relationship and streamline clinical billing.On Thursday, , the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed historic changes that would increase the amount of time that doctors and other clinicians can spend with their patients by reducing the burden of paperwork that clinicians face when billing Medicare. The proposed rules would fundamentally improve
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Octave Bioscience Grabs $14M for Care Management Platform Focused on Neurodegenerative Diseases
Octave Bioscience lands $14M to bring expertise in chronic neurodegenerative markets and molecular Insights for improved care.Octave Bioscience, a Menlo Park, CA-based developer of a fully integrated care management platform delivering powerful insights for patients with neurodegenerative diseases, today announced it has raised $14 million in Series A funding. The round was led by BCBS Venture Partners with participation from Echo Health Ventures (a strategic collaboration of Cambia Health
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Chilmark Report: NLP Technology is Poised to Unlock Value of Unstructured Health Data
In the span of 10 years, healthcare organizations (HCOs) have gone from having very little information available for data mining to nearly drowning in vast and complex digital information. Simultaneously, the effort required to enter and clean the data has been unsustainably high, affecting clinician morale and analysts’ ability to extract insights for improving population health.All that is about to change for the better. As revealed in the latest Chilmark Research report, Natural Language
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GHX Acquires Medical Columbus to Expand Healthcare Supply Chain Presence in Europe
Healthcare supply chain provider GHX announced that the company has entered into an agreement to acquire a majority of assets and employees from Germany-based Medical Columbus, a provider of market leading content management and healthcare procurement software across Germany, Switzerland, Austria, and the Netherlands.With this acquisition, GHX will expand its supply chain and procurement solution offering and trading partner network in key European markets. Both companies’ solutions serve
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