QGenda, a cloud-based automated physician scheduling software has acquired Tangier, a provider of of emergency medicine, hospital medicine, and urgent care scheduling software. With the acquisition of Tangier, QGenda extends its leadership position and adds two decades of experience in emergency medicine, hospital medicine, and urgent care scheduling.Since its inception, Tangier has grown to serve more than 400 customers and 50,000 providers in emergency medicine, hospital medicine, urgent care
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TriNetX Launches NLP Service to Extract Clinical Facts From Physician Notes & Clinical Reports
TriNetX, a global health research network for healthcare organizations, biopharmaceutical companies, and Contract Research Organizations (CROs), today announced the general availability of its Natural Language Processing (NLP) service. TriNetX’s NLP service utilizes sophisticated algorithms to extract clinical facts from physician notes and clinical reports, links them with other Electronic Medical Record (EMR) data, and makes the combined data available for assessing study feasibility, protocol
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Survey: 4 in 5 Physicians Experienced Cyberattacks In Their Clinical Practices
More than four in five U.S. physicians (83 percent) have experienced some form of a cybersecurity attack, according to new research released today by Accenture and the American Medical Association (AMA). The key findings reveal physicians see need for the healthcare industry to increase cybersecurity support for medical practices in their communities. More than half (55 percent) of the physicians were very or extremely concerned about future cyberattacks in their practice. In addition,
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Firelands Regional Medical Center Goes Live on MEDITECH Web EHR
Firelands Regional Medical Center (Sandusky, Ohio), has gone LIVE with MEDITECH’s Web Enterprise Health Record (EHR). The contemporary EHR spans across the entire continuum, including clinical, ancillary, billing, patient portal, and more.After evaluating its best of breed vendor approach, Firelands decided to move towards a one patient, one record strategy with MEDITECH’s Web EHR to improve care coordination, also citing mobility, intuitiveness, and flexibility as deciding factors. The
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5 Considerations to Enable a Modern Healthcare Commerce Strategy
The healthcare industry is facing a number of external market forces that are creating the perfect pricing storm. Industry consolidation, regulation and new demands for transparency are putting added pressure on healthcare manufacturers, with many left wondering about how they can profitably compete. Over the last three decades, more than 1,000 healthcare manufacturers have been acquired due to competitive consolidation. The catalyst for this volatility can be attributed to the lack of
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Population Health Management Means the Whole Population, Not Just the Highest Need
Considerable attention has been given to the large proportion of healthcare spending concentrated among a small proportion of patients. This five to 10 percent of the population has been the driving force behind many value-based purchasing models, e.g., chronic health condition management for the high cost, high utilizers, and health home models for care coordination and management services. A recent thought piece (March, 2017) in the The New England Journal of Medicine, “Focusing on
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GHX Launches Solution to Integrate Supply Chain With Epic EHR Clinical Data
Today, GHX introduced a new solution that will allow providers to connect two of its most important business processes – the item master and the EHR -- and confidently answer the total cost of procedure. GHX Clinical ConneXion is the industry’s the first solution to provide a single source of truth for item information to support clinical documentation and patient billing, including supply and implant capture at the point of use. The first implementation is with the Epic Enterprise EHR
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Change Healthcare, TIBCO Integrate to Accelerate Healthcare Data Transformation
Healthcare technology company Change Healthcare has announced an integration partnership with TIBCO Software Inc., a provider of integration, API management, and analytics. The goal of the integration partnership is aimed at helping providers, payers, and pharmacies better use their health IT data to improve efficiency and effectively manage complex workflows. By integrating the TIBCO® Connected Intelligence portfolio with Change Healthcare's broad portfolio of software and analytics, network
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Philips Acquires Mayo-Backed VitalHealth to Expand Population Health Management Offerings
Philips has acquired VitalHealth, a Netherlands-based provider of cloud-based population health management solutions for the delivery of personalized care outside of the hospital, for example, in regional care networks. Building on the acquisition of Wellcentive in 2016, the acquisition complements Philips population health management portfolio with advanced analytics, care coordination, patient engagement and outcome management solutions. Financial details of the acquisition were not
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Rev Cycle Startup Cedar Launches With $13M for Data-Driven Patient Payment Solution
Revenue cycle management-focused startup Cedar has announced its entry into the health IT market with a new data-driven patient payment solution. Supported by $13M in Series A funding, the Cedar platform, which powers solutions for hospitals, health systems and medical groups, delivers modern intelligence to alleviate collections challenges, improve billing operations and ensure a personalized billing experience for patients.A Data-Driven Payment Solution for Hospitals and Medical GroupsToday,
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