Kern Medical, a 222-bed acute care teaching center based in Bakersfield, California, has selected Cerner to implement the Cerner Millennium EHR and Cerner HealtheIntent big data and insights platform for population health management. Kern Medical's transition to Cerner Millennium EHR is designed to support an individual’s care journey across the continuum – from the doctor’s office to the hospital and outpatient clinics – with consistent patient engagement.Kern Medical made the choice based on
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Survey: 69% of Healthcare Providers Plan to Transfer More Health Data to the Cloud
Despite the security risks, 69 percent of healthcare organizations plan to transfer more sensitive data to the cloud in the near future, according to the 2018 Netwrix Cloud Security: In-Depth Report for Healthcare. The report reveals that most healthcare providers store sensitive data, such as electronic protected health information (ePHI), personally identifiable information (PII) and financial data, in the cloud, yet only a few of them have pervasive visibility into who is accessing that
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Paperless Productivity Acquires WiseCLAIM to Expand Presence in Healthcare Claims Automation Market
Paperless Productivity, a workflow automation consultancy and systems integrator, has announced its acquisition of the WiseCLAIM platform from WiseTREND. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. WiseCLAIM was developed in response to the continued prevalence of paper CMS claims forms among healthcare payers, Third Party Administrators (TPAs), and billing services. By automating data extraction from CMS/HCFA/UB forms, it has become an integral tool for mid-market and large firms in
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4medica to Launch FHIR-based Clinical Data Repository for HIEs
In its latest offering for the health information exchange technology stack, 4medica is set to launch the industry’s first FHIR-based clinical data repository (CDR) with patient record matching; developed for patient-centered data homes and other initiatives. Scheduled for release in early summer, the 4medica CDR will also match patient records and eliminate duplicate records with powerful accuracy and speed. How the 4medica CDR advances a universal patient recordHistorically, HIEs move rather
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Chilmark Report Reveals Adoption Challenges for Patient Relationship Management Solutions
Enterprise healthcare organizations (HCOs) striving to improve patient engagement increasingly turn to solutions that can be described as patient relationship management (PRM) – but, as the latest report from Chilmark Research describes in detail, it’s much more than a rebranding of customer relationship management (CRM) for healthcare.The Market Scan Report, Patient Relationship Management: Higher Stakes Than CRM, describes why HCOs are interested in solutions that promise more targeted patient
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HGS Acquires AxisPoint Health to Strengthen Clinical Services Segment
AxisPoint Health announced it has been acquired by Hinduja Global Solutions Limited (HGS), an international leader in business process management services. Backed by HGS, AxisPoint Health will continue to operate independently and further grow its care management services, including a 24/7 nurse advice line, and powerful tools for member identification, stratification and reporting. This acquisition follows last year’s acquisition of AxisPoint Health’s software platform by Medecision. AxisPoint
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Iowa’s Largest Private Physician Group Transitions to eClinicalWorks EHR
Physician’s Clinic of Iowa (PCI), one of Iowa's largest, private specialty medical groups, will convert to eClinicalWorks’ comprehensive cloud EHR solution, V11, for all of its 84 providers. PCI selected the eClinicalWorks solution for its ability to seamlessly integrate within the existing hospital system, for its focus on ambulatory care and the connectivity with Carequality, an interoperability network. The eClinicalWorks solution will also help PCI streamline and improve overall efficiency
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Innovaccer Launches InGraph to Transform Healthcare Analytics
To assist organizations facing the challenge of fragmented data and limited insights, Silicon Valley-based Innovaccer today announced the launch of their Population Health and Networks Analytics Solution, InGraph today. Built on our healthcare data platform, InGraph provides holistic population health and network analyses and offers a strong foundation to power efficient care management and cost-effective quality improvement.Efforts to improve care for a population or system have driven care
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Is Your Health Data More Safe or Vulnerable in the Cloud?
The illusion of control is tempting, even intoxicating. It’s also a common characteristic that almost all humans manifest to one degree or another as we work to satisfy competence motives, the need for security, survival instincts.Because proximity often feels like control, it might also get in the way of secure healthcare IT.“Files stored in reliable cloud services are some of the most secure files you can have, provided you have good passwords,” says software engineer John Miller, PhD.
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5 Healthcare Organizations Launch Healthcare Blockchain Pilot Program
Five leading health care organizations – Humana, MultiPlan, Quest Diagnostics and UnitedHealth Group’s Optum and UnitedHealthcare, announced that they are launching a healthcare blockchain pilot program applying blockchain technology to improve data quality and reduce administrative costs associated with changes to health care provider demographic data, a critical, complex and difficult issue facing organizations across the health care system.The companies will explore how the technology could
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