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Accenture Wins $138M Contract to Help Virginia Modernize Medicaid Enterprise

by Fred Pennic 02/22/2018 Leave a Comment

Accenture and TPP Complete First Phase of Digitizing Patient Records

Virginia's Department of Medical Assistance Services (DMAS) has selected Accenture to modernize its Medicaid operation services and plan management. As part of the six-year $138 million contract, Accenture will help the department improve system flexibility and responsiveness, improve claims processing, accelerate technology deployments and control costs - benefitting providers, enrollees and program administrators.Virginia will be the first state to develop and implement a new Medicaid
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Cerner Integrates Surescripts Prescription Price Transparency Functionality With EHR

by Jasmine Pennic 02/22/2018 Leave a Comment

Is Defensive Medicine Driving Up Healthcare Costs_Cerner Integrates Surescripts Prescription Price Transparency Functionality With EHR

Cerner has announced a collaboration with Surescripts to integrate their Real-Time Prescription Benefit functionality into the Cerner Millennium electronic health record (EHR). Surescripts Real-Time Prescription Benefit will integrate directly into the physician’s workflow to provide patient-specific prescription information at the point of care.Prescription benefit information at the point of care will help facilitate engagement between individuals and their physicians to find the prescription
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Innovaccer Unveils InData, a Unified Healthcare Data Platform

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Innovaccer Unveils InData

Healthcare organizations wrestle with enormous amounts of data ranging from clinical and claims records to billing and financial reports. Most struggle to generate meaningful insights from this fragmented and frequently inaccessible information. The inability to effectively manage healthcare data creates a tremendous amount of inefficiency leading to overworked teams, shrinking margins, and poor patient outcomes.Until today, the burden of overcoming this challenge has fallen upon care
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M*Modal Closes $70M to Accelerate Investment In NLP/AI Tech Platforms

by Jasmine Pennic 02/21/2018 Leave a Comment

M*Modal Will Receive Approval to Emerge From Chapter 11

M*Modal, a Franklin, TN-based provider of clinical documentation and Speech Understanding solutions, today announced that its largest investors have completed an investment of $70 million in the company by converting debt into equity. This transaction will allow M*Modal to further accelerate its investment in technological innovation in its natural language processing (NLP) and artificial intelligence platform as well as client acquisition. M*Modal’s artificial intelligence (AI) and
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DirectTrust Founding President/CEO to Step Down At End of Year

by HITC Staff 02/21/2018 Leave a Comment

DirectTrust: 5 Health IT Trends to Watch in 2017

DirectTrust today announced that founding President and Chief Executive Officer, David C. Kibbe, MD, MBA, will step down at the end of the year.  The DirectTrust Board of Directors has launched a nationwide search for a successor. DirectTrust is a non-profit health care industry alliance created to support secure, identity-verified electronic exchanges of personal health information (PHI) between provider organizations, and between provider and patients, for the purpose of improved coordination
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Will HIMSS18 Recognize The Disruption of the Traditional Office Visit?

by Dr. Donald Voltz 02/21/2018 Leave a Comment

HIMSS18

Healthcare is evolving quickly and HIMSS 18 offers a broad range of healthcare issues to explore, but will it recognize the disruption of the traditional office visit?New requirements for implementing HIT systems are changing as new health IT priorities and procedures emerge. Convergence in the health care sector is accelerating the need for interoperability, not just for EHRs, but also across clinical, financial, and operational systems. This need is also challenging and changing one of the
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Healthcare Cyber Hygiene: 5 Best Practices to Protect Patient Data

by Saurabh Harit 02/19/2018 Leave a Comment

Healthcare Cyber Hygiene: 5 Best Practices to Protect Patient Data _Cybercrime in Healthcare_Infographic: History of Security Data Breaches in Healthcare

Hospital-acquired infections and data breaches may have vastly different causes, but they have one thing in common—they put healthcare organizations and patients at risk. The “pathogens” which cause data breaches originate both externally and internally—but practicing healthcare cyber hygiene can reduce or eliminate their “infection."Patient data has high value—to others. According to Verizon’s 2017 Data Breach Investigations Report, healthcare has the second highest number of breaches after
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Presence Health Taps R1 RCM for End-to-End Revenue Cycle Management

by HITC Staff 02/16/2018 Leave a Comment

R1 RCM, End-to-End Revenue Cycle Management Services Phreesia Partner to Provide Seamless Front-End Patient Experience

R1 RCM Inc., a provider of technology-enabled revenue cycle management (RCM) services to healthcare providers, today announced that Presence Health based in Chicago, Illinois has selected R1 to provide its end-to-end RCM services across the Presence Health system’s acute care hospitals and physician care settings.Presence Health has more than 150 locations in Illinois, including 10 hospitals. As part of the anticipated agreement to manage Presence Health’s $2.2B annual net patient revenue,
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Roche Acquires Oncology EHR Startup Flatiron Health for $1.9B

by Jasmine Pennic 02/15/2018 Leave a Comment

Roche Acquires Oncology EHR Startup Flatiron Health for $1.9B

Roche has reached an agreement to acquire Flatiron Health, a NYC-based oncology EHR startup focused on accelerating cancer research and improving patient care for $1.9B. Under terms of the acquisition, Flatiron Health will continue its current business model, network of partnerships and overall objectives. The integrity of segregated patient protected health information will be preserved, as will dedicated sales and marketing, provider-facing and life science business activities. In addition,
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MetaLogics Joins StartUp Health’s Moonshot Academy for Digital Health Innovators

by Fred Pennic 02/15/2018 Leave a Comment

MetaLogics Joins StartUp Health’s Moonshot Academy for Digital Health Innovators

MetaLogics Corporation, a Minneapolis-based provider of products for health improvement and weight management, has been selected to join StartUp Health and its exclusive Moonshot Academy for digital health innovators. StartUp Health is organized around 10 Health Moonshots with the long-term goal to accelerate the pace of healthcare innovation and to achieve 100 years of progress in 25 years.MetaLogics provides scientifically validated solutions to improve health and to reduce the risks
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