Health IT provider eClinicalWorks, announced this week the launch of their new Opioid Risk Tool (ORT), a smart form to assess and address a patient’s risk for opioid misuse and to improve physician adherence to treatment protocols. According to the CDC, more than 11.5 million Americans, aged 12 or older, reported misusing prescription opioids in 2016.eClinicalWorks believes it shares a joint responsibility with its customers toward bringing solutions to patients to combat the opioid epidemic. By
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Mobile Chronic Care Management Startup cliexa Acquires Preventative Technology Solutions Inc.
cliexa, a Denver-based healthcare technology company with a modular software platform for chronic care management and patient-reported outcomes, today announced the acquisition of Preventative Technology Solutions Inc.(PTSI). PTSI) is a Colorado-based provider of medical assessment applications and mHealth prevention services for adolescents and young adults.With this acquisition, cliexa will develop a suite of behavioral health apps for primary care and family medicine physicians and clinicians
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Mingle Analytics, SilverVue Merge to Form Mingle Health to Focus on Value-based Care Delivery
Mingle Analytics Inc., a provider of Medicare quality reporting, and SilverVue, Inc., a supplier of care management software, today announce their merger. Mingle Health is a new company focused on transforming value-based care delivery by solving the pain points in quality reporting while improving patient outcomes and strengthening practice health.Together, Mingle Health will deliver an all-in-one platform that includes the consulting, analytics, and tools to streamline medical practices,
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Why Are Hospitals Still Using CDs to Exchange Medical Images with Patients?
For nearly two decades, CDs have been the primary medium for medical image exchanges between providers and patients. In the mid-1990’s, CDs provided a solution to the point-of-care and transportation issues of bulky, static film and reports. Recent years have brought a widespread adoption of electronic methods for storing and sharing information in the healthcare sector---namely EMR and now interoperability. Despite the rapid (and necessary) adoption of HIT, CDs remain the primary means of
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Kyruus Launches ProviderMatch for Salesforce to Enable Precise Patient-Provider Matching
Kyruus, a patient-provider matching health IT company, today announced the launch of ProviderMatch for Salesforce, which integrates into Salesforce Health Cloud on the Salesforce AppExchange. Starting at $30k for a yearly subscription, ProviderMatch for Salesforce enables health system access centers to deliver a personalized, end-to-end patient experience by combining Salesforce’s 360-degree view of the patient with Kyruus’ robust matching, appointment booking, and provider data management
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Why Healthcare Marketers Should Care about the Patient Financial Experience
What comes to mind when you think of health system marketing? For most people, it’s dynamic content on the organization’s latest clinical advancements, philanthropic efforts, wellness management and relationship-building efforts within the community it serves. It’s also understanding patients and their motivations, using consumer research and analysis, focus groups, surveys, and other tools. You probably don’t think about the healthcare billing experience.It’s understandable. Frank discussions
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CMS Awards Apprio $42M Contract for BI/Analytics to Support CMS Health IT Systems
Apprio, a provider of specialized technology solutions, particularly for the health, defense and homeland security markets, announced the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) awarded the company a $42 million, a five-year contract under the Strategic Partners Acquisition Readiness Contract (SPARC).As part of the SPARC Contract, Apprio will perform business intelligence (BI) and analytics support tasks to support CMS health IT systems that will further improve operations in serving
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IDx and Topcon Join Forces to Scale AI-based Diagnostic Platform in the U.S. Market
IDx, an AI diagnostics company, and Topcon, one of the world’s leading ophthalmic device manufacturers, have signed an exclusivity agreement that will allow the companies to scale delivery of AI-based diagnostic solutions in the U.S. market. As part of the agreement, is granted exclusive rights to IDx-DR system, an autonomous AI system that instantly detects diabetic retinopathy in fundus images, exclusively with Topcon NW400, an easy to use, robotic fundus camera. IDx-DR is an FDA-cleared
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Rush University Medical Center Integrates Indoor Navigation with Epic’s MyChart Appointment Scheduling
Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, today announced a partnership with Connexient to integrate the MediNav™ solution with the MyRush Mobile app; a mobile app for patients powered by Epic’s MyChart. Rush is the first Connexient customer that will combine Indoor GPS with appointment scheduling in MyChart.When patients log into the MyRush mobile app they will now be able to navigate directly to their appointments using Connexient's MediNav and access their records with Epic's MyChart
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R1 Expands Physician Practice Footprint with CarePoint Health and Holston Medical Group
Hatred of billing and payment processes is a time-honored tradition in healthcare. Two of the biggest reasons it’s so frustrating as a patient are the lack of transparency and digital elements that we expect out of any typical consumer experience. R1, a provider of technology-enabled revenue cycle management (RCM) services is working to change this, announcing today its continued expansion into the physician practice market with the addition of CarePoint Health, one of the largest privately-held
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