What You Should Know:
- According to a recent KLAS report, Allscripts and
eClinicalWorks EMRs are not a good fit for pediatric practices, while Greenway
Intergy is improving.
- PCC, athenahealth, and Office Practicum EMRs named best suited for pediatric offices.
Despite their unique needs, many ambulatory pediatric
offices are expected to “make do” with generalized EMR templates and charting.
From growth charts, to well-child visits, to immunization tracking, to
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Holon Integrates with Cerner’s HealtheIntent PHM Platform for Value-Based Care Insights
What You Should Know:
- Holon and Cerner announced a partnership
to advance the delivery of relevant patient insights to providers when they
need it most.
- Holon and Cerner will deploy patented
technology that automatically delivers contextually relevant patient information
from Cerner’s HealtheIntent® population health platform, which
is EHR-agnostic, directly to clinicians in their workflow to inform care
decisions.
Holon
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Cerner Launches New Cloud-Based Offering for Rural and Critical Access Hospitals
What You Should Know:
- Cerner announced a new offering, CommunityWorks
Foundations aimed at reducing costs and speeding up the implementation process
for Rural and Critical Access Hospitals.
- This much-needed offering caters to small rural healthcare providers, who often face challenges such as geographic isolation, workforce shortages, educational disparities, and diminishing resources that can make it harder to deliver high-quality care.
- Rural hospitals serve about 20% of all
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Change Healthcare Launches SmartPay Integration with Epic MyChart to Improve Patient Payments
What You Should Know:
- Change
Healthcare's SmartPay integration with Epic MyChart helps facilitate patient
payments both pre- and post-service, and connectivity with Hyperspace® creates
a “one-stop shop” experience that lets providers' staff stay within Epic to
process point-of-service payments.
- Change Healthcare’s SmartPay Payment Integration for
MyChart and encrypted device integration is available in the Epic App Orchard.
Change
Healthcare announced the launch of its
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Cybersecurity: Managing Risk in the COVID-19 Era
Healthcare IT consultants’ work involving health records may expose them – and their provider and payer clients – to regulatory, legal, financial, and reputational risk. These risks are potentially higher in the COVID-19 era, with many of their employees working from home and accessing sensitive records and networks from remote locations. According to the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), there is a heightened risk of phishing, SMS phishing and other attacks using COVID-19 themes, and
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HealthEdge Acquires Payment Integrity Solution The Burgess Group
What You Should Know:
- HealthEdge Software announces the acquisition of The Burgess
Group, LLC (“Burgess”), an innovative payment integrity software company
focused on improving healthcare payment operations for an undisclosed sum.
- The strategic acquisition will boost Health Edge’s position in
the payment integrity market and extends best-in-class claims processing to
include software-driven payment integrity
- Burgess’ product, Burgess
Source®, is the first solution to natively
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BJC HealthCare Taps Patientco to Provide Seamless Patient Payment Experience
What You Should Know:
- BJC HealthCare has signed an agreement with patient payment platform
Patientco to offer a seamless patient financial experience, helping patients navigate their medical expenses and pay their bills.
- Patientco’s platform provides patients with a single
billing statement outlining their outstanding balance and will help BJC streamline its payment process by reducing the number
of bills associated
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Microsoft Releases Public Preview of Azure IoT Connector for FHIR to Empower Health Teams
What You Should Know:
- Microsoft released the public preview of Azure IoT
Connector for FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources), the latest
update to the Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare.
- The Azure IoT Connector for FHIR makes it easy for
health developers to set up a pipeline to manage protected health information
(PHI) from IoT devices and enable care teams to view patient data in context
with clinical records in FHIR.
This week, Microsoft released the preview of
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Top 3 Priority Areas for Healthcare CIOs in the Age of COVID-19
What You Should Know:
- In the age of COVID-19, healthcare CIOs cite interoperability,
cybersecurity, and operationalizing SDOH data priorities as top three priority
areas, according to the third annual LexisNexis focus group of CHIME
executives.
- The survey results also highlighted the importance of
a team approach with support across the organization in helping CIOs
achieve the vision of connected healthcare.
The Health Care business of LexisNexis® Risk
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Desert Oasis Healthcare Deploys FHIR-based Tool For COVID-19 Screening to Over 7,500 Patients
What You Should Know:
- Using the EHR-integrated app, Desert Oasis Healthcare efficiently identifies patients with possible Coronavirus symptoms, mitigating the spread, and optimizing treatment.
- Starting in mid-March, DOHC has leveraged Rimidi’s novel, Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) based patient-reported outcomes (PROs) tool.
- To date, over 7,400 patients have been screened prior
to their appointments and 831 have been monitored during self-isolation due
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