Tahoe Forest Health System (TFHS), working in partnership with Mercy Technology Services, has announced the go-live of its new Epic EHR system. The new Epic EHR system provides a new single unified patient record for the district hospital serving two rural counties across 3,500 square miles in California and Nevada. Mercy Technology Services (MTS), the IT pillar of Mercy provides and manages technology solutions for Mercy, the nation’s first health care provider accredited by Epic to offer a
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Why Some Hospitals Succeed When Others Fail
Keeping a hospital in operation is a difficult balancing act. It is simultaneously a business that must be run in a profitable fashion, yet it cannot sacrifice important services that its community needs.Maintaining a proper ratio of profitability and community provision is indeed challenging, but it can be done. There are hospitals of every size that are both profitable and beneficial, and the Affordable Care Act, even if it is changed, has begun to pave a sustainable path for making sure that
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CMS Officially Cancels Mandatory Bundle Payment Models
Today, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced the cancellation of the mandatory hip fracture and cardiac bundled payment models that were to be operated by the CMS Innovation Center and implemented changes to the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement (CJR) Model. These changes will offer greater flexibility and choice for hospitals in providing care to Medicare patients.In the final rule, CMS is reducing the number of mandatory geographic areas participating in
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GE Launches Startup Drawbridge Health To Transform Blood Collection
GE Ventures has announced the launch of Drawbridge Health, a personal diagnostic testing startup developing proprietary technology designed to integrate blood draw, collection and sample stabilization into a single device. The Drawbridge solution is being designed to offer a way for healthcare providers and diagnostic testing companies to better engage their patient-consumers and help enable them to manage their own health — driving a shift from reacting to tracking.Healthcare providers using
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Empiric Health Raises $3M to Expand Evidence-based Care Delivery Platform
Empiric Health, a health IT startup that activates evidence-based healthcare delivery to improve both clinical outcomes and operational efficiency has raised $3M in seed funding from Intermountain Helathcare. The company plans to use the seed funding to to commercialize and expand the company's service offering and workflow optimization tools, which will help health systems uncover and address variations in procedures and improve outcomes.Formed by Intermountain Healthcare and Oxeon earlier this
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Providing Companionship & Safety For The Elderly
40% of U.S. adults today are responsible for taking care of an elderly or sick relative, according to a 2014 study by the Pew Research Center and the California HealthCare Foundation. Despite this growing number, most caregivers do not want their aging relatives living with them. Instead, family members are seeking affordable caregivers to provide in-home care for seniors.Two of the most common struggles for the elderly are loneliness and the danger that comes from living alone. It is often one
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3 Healthcare Revenue Cycle Management Drivers to Watch in 2018
One ageless trend emerging for 2018 is the quest of hospitals, larger carriers and clinics to identify new revenue streams; not just managing revenue cycles, but creating them. The healthcare industry is now looking at revenue which can be generated through the interoperability of Annual Wellness Visits (AWV), chronic care and service care transitions between physical and behavioral health services.Hospital systems and other healthcare facilities that can connect these services with technologies
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MedTech Startup Launches AI Platform to Help Radiologists Diagnose Stroke Faster Using CT Brain Scans
Infervision, the medtech company which uses Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning to improve medical image analysis and significantly speed radiologists' reading of scans and X-rays, today is launching a artificial intelligence (AI) platform to help radiologists diagnose strokes quickly using CT brain scans. This will help patients get faster treatment, possibly saving lives and reducing the impact of the stroke. The new AI-CT Stroke Screening System is the first of the Infervision AI-CT
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Change Healthcare, Zebra Medical Vision Partner to Bring AI to Medical Imaging
Change Healthcare and Zebra Medical Vision today announced an agreement to create solutions that deliver artificial intelligence solutions to complex radiology reporting environments. Change Healthcare's proven radiology solutions, along with Zebra Medical Vision's algorithms, will benefit radiologists and other imaging specialists by improving the efficiency of routine tasks and the effectiveness of workflow in the radiologist reading environment.By working together on the pragmatic integration
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TigerText Launches Clinical Communication Platform, TigerFlow Enterprise
TigerText has launched TigerFlow Enterprise, a new clinical communication and collaboration (CC&C) platform that allows allow care organizations to solve for specific outcomes centered around resource optimization, faster transitions of care, fewer medical errors, and higher patient and provider satisfaction.The capabilities in TigerFlow Enterprise allow care organizations to solve for specific outcomes centered around resource optimization, faster transitions of care, fewer medical errors,
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