I’m proud to lead a group of intelligent and energetic technology professionals committed to developing a robust healthcare IT system that is (1) easy for clinicians to use, (2) improves patient health and (3) doesn’t bankrupt hospital budgets. We think any sustainable system must have those three key requirements.And how is healthcare doing thus far?The EHRs available today are developing rapidly. Vendors are making frequent and impactful improvements to improve system usability. Clinicians are
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Spok and Bernoulli Health Partner to Boost Clinical Alarm Management
Spok, Inc., a provider of healthcare communications, today announced a partnership with Bernoulli® Health, the developer of the advanced Bernoulli One™ clinical surveillance, medical device integration (MDI), and real-time data analytics platform. This partnership, Spok Alarm Surveillance powered by Bernoulli, will boost clinical alarm management by capturing and evaluating real-time patient data and alarms from multiple clinical systems and delivering actionable alerts to the right caregiver
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Beacon Health Expands Revenue Cycle Services with R1 RCM
Beacon Health System, a South Bend, IU-based regional healthcare provider have signed a multi-year agreement with R1 RCM to provide additional revenue cycle management services to address its needs. Under terms of the agreement, Beacon Health is adding Revenue Capture Services (RCS) to the existing High Yield services in place. Utilizing a unique technology and robust team of revenue cycle experts, RCS provides products such as charge capture, coding review and others aimed at identifying
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62% of Hospitals are Not Using Patient Information Outside Their EHRs
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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