Dignity Health today announced that it will streamline payments between payors and providers to improve the patient experience through a strategic technology partnership with OODA Health. The OODA Health digital platform will help address historic and technological barriers between payors and providers by enabling real-time claims payments. The instantaneous nature of this technology will alleviate the administrative back and forth that ties up physicians’ time and causes patients undue worries
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Philips & Children’s Health of Dallas Sign 15-Year $75M to Innovate Their Patient Monitoring & PACS System
Philips and Children’s Health of Dallas announced a 15-year, $75 million strategic agreement to innovate their patient monitoring and PACs systems for nearly one million patients in North Texas.Through this agreement, Children’s Health will achieve standardized patient monitoring through Philip’s leading patient monitoring technologies, including the Intellivue X3 patient monitor, which puts critical patient information at clinicians’ fingertips in an easy to understand format. This allows staff
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UAB Medicine to Deploy Scribble Virtual Scribe Solution Across Primary Clinics
IKS Health, a leading partner for today’s practicing physician, medical groups and health systems, today announced that it will collaborate with UAB Medicine to alleviate physician administrative demand and burnout. IKS Health enables the enhanced delivery of exceptional health care for today’s practicing physician, medical groups and health systems.Through this collaboration, IKS Health will implement its Scribble and Coding services in primary care clinics and piloted in several sub-specialty
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Meditech Launches New App Development Environment with API, FHIR Support
EHR vendor MEDITECH, today announced the launch of their new app development, MEDITECH Greenfield. Greenfield lays the groundwork for visionaries and innovators to create a better future for providers, patients, and consumers, with technology that connects communities and enables better care.MEDITECH Greenfield OverviewSupported by RESTful APIs, including FHIR, Greenfield is an open space for MEDITECH customers and third-party developers to cultivate homegrown applications. MEDITECH's API
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CareCloud to Use Google Cloud Healthcare API to Accelerate Interoperability
CareCloud, the platform for high-growth medical groups, has joined the Google Cloud Technology Partner Program, the company announced today. Through the new relationship, CareCloud will accelerate the continued expansion of its cloud platform with a focus on interoperability, leveraging Google Cloud’s Healthcare API.As part of the program, CareCloud’s platform will use Google Cloud Healthcare API as a normalized data store, leveraging CareCloud’s proprietary real-time data streaming
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Q-Apps Joins Epic App Orchard to Achieve Easier Data Interoperability
Q‑Centrix, a healthcare quality solutions provider, today announced it has listed its product Q-Apps on Epic App Orchard to enable data interoperability between hospital networks, quality solutions, and quality initiative reporting platforms.Joining Epic App Orchard and listing Q-Apps in the marketplace is the latest in a series of strategic moves by Q-Centrix to advance the value and efficiency of its quality data solutions. Other efforts have included utilizing natural language processing
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Change Healthcare, Amazon Partner to Build Claims & Payment Network
Change Healthcare, today announced that its Intelligent Healthcare Network will now be complemented with a cloud-based network built on Amazon Web Services (AWS). The new cloud-based network infrastructure to promote more efficient, transparent, and secure administrative and financial transactions.As the first stage of a collaborative initiative working with stakeholders across the healthcare ecosystem, the company will deploy this network on Amazon Web Services (AWS). The network will allow the
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The Impact of Digitization on Patient Experience is Here
Hospitals, and medical clinics in general, have complex and ever-changing environments. However, one thing that never changes is the overall commitment to put patients first and ensure that they’re provided with the best possible experience. First and foremost, that experience is about health and making sure patients are treated as quickly as possible with no complications. To that end, everything from bedside manner to wait times are closely monitored in an effort to provide patients with the
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GHX Launches Mobile-Enhanced Vendor Credentialing Solution
Today GHX launched a new mobile-enhanced Vendormate Credentialing application with geolocation service capabilities. The mobile application provides suppliers and providers an efficient and convenient solution that can increase compliance of provider procedures and federal mandates.For suppliers, denied access means lost revenue opportunity. The new capability allows representatives to check hospital compliance and facility access prior to their scheduled visits. The geolocation service also
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Ciox Launches Learning Platform to Train/Assess Medical Coders
Health technology company Ciox, today launches a platform designed to train and assess medical coders, equipping coders with vital education and development opportunities in an academic setting or on the job. Named Ciox HealthSource Gym, it’s a SaaS platform that provides an engaging learning environment of data-rich training and practice scenarios to optimize coding performance.The module sits on top of Ciox’s HealthSource, a clinical data platform that uses the latest interoperability and
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