Dayton Children's Hospital, a 155-bed multi-specialty pediatric hospital has deployed Vocera’s hands-free communication badges and a secure texting app throughout its new 260,000-square-foot patient tower. During the move to the new facility, care team members used Vocera technology to stay connected and easily communicate, ensuring a safe and smooth transition of more than 40 children from four units.The hospital, which has more than 300,000 patient visits a year, has integrated the Vocera
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How Predictive Analytics Brings Operational Clarity to Healthcare
The healthcare industry is grappling with a perfect storm of critical issues, each with the ability to negatively affect the access to and the quality of patient care. These issues include the lingering uncertainty regarding the fate of the Affordable Care Act and how Americans receive and pay for their healthcare. Another is the growing trend of industry consolidation, as it becomes increasingly challenging for small hospitals to compete in today’s environment. However, research shows that
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Mayo Clinic Integrates System Assessment Tool with Epic MyChart App
Mayo Clinic is now offering their secure, web-based symptom assessment tool, Ask Mayo Clinic online through Epic’s MyChart App. Available 24/7 through the patient portal via any computer or mobile, MyChart App, users are guided through a series of questions about presenting symptoms. Driven by 36 standardized algorithms based on the real-time data entered, users will receive a recommended level of care“Ask Mayo Clinic online offers trusted and accessible care guidance when you need it — anytime,
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Optum360, Navicure, ZirMed Named Top Vendors for Revenue Cycle Management Solutions
Optum360, Navicure, ZirMed and others have been named top revenue cycle management vendors in customer satisfaction and client experience, according to Black Book Market Resaerch for 2017. For the report, Black Book surveyed 6,033 hospital and health system Chief Financial Officers, Vice Presidents of Finance and RCM, Controllers, Business Office Managers, Staff and Directors to determine the top performing vendors among in-demand financial software, systems and outsourcing services, and assess
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PeraHealth Joins the Epic App Orchard for Seamless Integration with Epic EHR
PeraHealth, a provider of predictive, real-time clinical surveillance solutions, announces its membership in Epic’s App Orchard to allow seamless integration into Epic’s EHR platform. As an App Orchard contributor, PeraHealth will utilize application programming interfaces (APIs), which serve as a bridge between Epic tools and third-party software products to enable greater collaboration, integration and seamless workflow. PeraTrend, PeraHealth’s clinical surveillance solution, provides
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Epic Launches Share Everywhere for Patients to Authorize Any Provider to View Their Epic Record
EHR leader Epic has announced the launch of Share Anywhere, a new interoperability tool that will allow patients to grant access to their medical record data to any providers and send a progress note back to the patient’s healthcare organization for improved continuity of care. The development around the new tool was based on the interoperability challenge of sending important patient information to clinicians who cannot interoperate, and how to do so in a way that protects patients’
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Navicure Merges With ZirMed to Accelerate Innovation in Revenue Cycle Management
Healthcare revenue cycle companies Navicure announced today that it has combined with ZirMed, effectively uniting two top-performing revenue cycle management solutions for the healthcare industry. The combined company will serve more than 400,000 providers and healthcare organizations and will be ideally positioned to further accelerate innovation in the industry by leveraging cloud-based solutions to help empower providers across all care settings to efficiently collect for the quality care and
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Brigham Health Selects Redox’s EHR Integration API to Exchange Data Across Organization
Brigham Health and Redox, an EHR integration API platform for developers and healthcare organizations has announced a partnership to scale digital health innovation across the organization. As part of the partnership, Brigham Health will utilize Redox's cloud-based platform to consolidate data from the medical center's Epic electronic health record (EHR) system.The data is then standardized in a central application programing interface (API), an approach already in use by a network of hundreds
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Allscripts, Surescripts Expands Free Access to Patient Medication History Data
In response to the historic impact of Hurricane Irma on the United States, Surescripts and Allscripts are expanding the scope of the service available in the wake of Hurricane Harvey to provide free access to patient-specific medication history data for pharmacists in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina for a limited time.Pharmacists interested in utilizing the service should visit www.surescripts.com/irma to validate their eligibility and gain access to the Allscripts
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Mount Sinai Scientists Reveal Solutions for Opioid Epidemics Using Machine Learning
Mount Sinai researchers have identified unique structural, biological and chemical insights in the way different opioid drugs activate the receptors and specific signaling pathways responsible for the drug’s beneficial and adverse effects, according to a study to be published in Nature’s Scientific Reports. Opioid overdoses are the leading cause of accidental death in the United States. The findings of this study may provide a blueprint for designing improved painkillers.There have been many
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