As nearly every U.S. hospital has an electronic health record system installed, sixty-two percent of¬¬ hospitals aren't using patient information outside their EHRs in Q1 2018, according to a new survey conducted by Black Book Market Research. The report reveals hospitals are still struggling with exchanging patient health records with other healthcare providers, particularly physicians not on the same EHR platform. In fact, twenty-four percent say they are still unable to use much meaningful
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The Often-Overlooked Role of Provider Data Management in Population Health
Editor’s Note: Erin Jospe, MD is the Chief Medical Officer at Kyruus, a leader in provider search and scheduling solutions, helping health systems optimize patient access enterprise-wide.Health systems today have access to a tremendous amount of data with which to understand their patient populations better. The population health movement represents a paradigm shift away from merely generating data, to now harnessing it as a means through which to understand the factors and determinants
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OptimizeRx Partners with EvidenceCare to Deliver Real-time Medication Messaging
OptimizeRx Corp., a provider of digital health messaging for the pharmaceutical industry, has partnered with EvidenceCare, a Nashville-based provider of a cloud-based clinical decision support (CDS) tool for individual clinicians, hospitals and clinics.EvidenceCare’s network consists of more than 5,000 users, including hospitals, that layer the EvidenceCare CDS tool onto electronic health records (EHRs). The partnership allows EvidenceCare to deliver OptimizeRx’s digital health messaging to
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Olympus Medical Systems Partners with InterSystems to Improve Care Coordination
InterSystems announced their partnership with Olympus Medical Systems, a global leader in designing and delivering innovative solutions for medical and surgical procedures. Olympus will use the InterSystems HealthShare platform to improve information sharing across hospital systems, particularly images taken during patient procedures.In the past, images taken during common procedures, like endoscopies, were stored on bulky external drives, adding to the time spent accessing the images and
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Kyruus Raises $10M to Optimize Patient-Provider Matching Platform
Kyruus, a Boston, MA-based suite of patient-provider matching solutions for health systems has raised $10 million in strategic funding from Venrock, Highland Capital, New Leaf Venture Partners, Leerink Transformation Partners, F-Prime Capital Partners, Fidelity Biosciences, McKesson Ventures, Lux Capital, and Providence Ventures. Kyruus plans to use the investment to further meet the healthcare industry’s increasing demand for technology that facilitates better patient-provider
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HHS Appoints James Parker to Address Cost & Availability of Health Insurance
On Wednesday, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar announced the appointment of former MDwise CEO James Parker to the Secretary for Health Reform and Director of the Office of Health Reform at HHS. In his new role, Parker will be responsible for leading the initiative to address the cost and availability of health insurance.In his most recent role, Parker served as CEO of MDwise, an Indiana Medicaid managed care organization with over 300,000 members and $1.4 billion in revenue.
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Tufts Medical Center Joins the TriNetX Network for Insight into their Clinical Data
TriNetX, the global health research network for healthcare organizations, biopharmaceutical companies, and Contract Research Organizations (CROs) has announced their collaboration with their client, Tufts Medical Center, a not-for-profit, 415-bed academic medical center that is home to both a full-service hospital for adults and Floating Hospital for Children, bringing an additional one million patients to the global health research network.Network members utilize TriNetX’s cloud-based, health
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AMIA Urges Lawmakers to View Broadband Access as Social Determinant of Health
In comments submitted to the House Energy & Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology on 4/16, the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) urged lawmakers to view broadband access as a social determinant of health, warranting a more nuanced approach to managing Internet traffic through tiered pricing, known as paid prioritization. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has finalized a rule, effective April 23, 2018, known as the Restoring Internet Freedom Order,
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Why The VA Should Stick with VistA EHR
At the end of last month, President Trump dismissed VA Secretary David Shulkin, MD, following weeks of speculation that he would do just that. In Shulkin’s place, Trump nominated his personal White House physician, Rear Admiral Ronny Jackson, a physician who’s never managed a large healthcare organization.Shulkin’s dismissal left unsigned the contract with Cerner to replace the VA’s venerable VistA healthcare IT platform. It’s not that the Cerner deal is really threatened without Shulkin—VA
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GE Healthcare IT Sell-Off: The First Cut Is The Deepest?
As news broke of the first GE Healthcare business unit to be sold, some may have been underwhelmed both by the scale and symbolism of this deal. However, this first announcement does provide some useful indicators for what to expect from the future of GE Healthcare with John Flannery at the helm.“I Think I See the Light”Firstly, and most positively, the fact that GE has made a move to trim its healthcare portfolio should be applauded. We wrote about this in our review of GE and its major peers
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