Orion Health announced that the University of Louisville Hospital has selected and gone-live with its newly-launched Rhapsody as a Service (RaaS). RaaS is a cloud-based integration engine that University of Louisville Hospital uses to support critical interoperability and security initiatives, and realize major time savings. This news follows Orion Health’s recent acquisition of its Rhapsody business by Hg, a private equity technology investor. While the Hg agreement will not be fully completed
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CoxHealth Taps Kyruus to Optimize Patient-Provider Matching to Improve Patient Experience
Kyruus, a patient-provider matching health IT company, today announced that CoxHealth has selected the company’s ProviderMatch for Access Centers and ProviderMatch for Consumers solutions to optimize patient-provider matching and improve the overall experience for patients accessing care at the health system.As Springfield, Missouri’s only locally owned health system, CoxHealth sought a solution to enhance the patient experience from the first point of contact with the health system – through
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PlayMaker Health Acquires viaDirect to Improve Healthcare Data Insights for Post-Acute Care
Playmaker Health, a Nashville, TN-based provider of market intelligence to post-acute providers, has acquired one of its competitors, ViaDirect. Hospices, LTCs, SNFs and others are still in the early stages of using analytics to refine their strategies around referral sources, opportunities for market expansion, and everything in between. With the ViaDirect acquisition, Playmaker’s platform includes not just Medicare and commercial claims data, but Lexis/Nexus data analytics as well. This
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Change Healthcare Rolls Out “Kill Switch” for HealthQX Value-based Care Analytics Suite
Change Healthcare Intelligent Healthcare Network, today unveiled “BYOK” and “kill switch” technology to help payers and providers control security and respond to threats quickly and decisively. The new BYOK service ncludes an innovative “Bring Your Own Key” (BYOK) service now offered as part of the company’s cloud-based HealthQx® value-based care analytics suite.Prior to today’s release of this new Change Healthcare Security Management BYOK service, cloud encryption keys in healthcare were
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Phoenix Health Systems Selected for Multi-Year IT Outsourcing Partnership by Southwest Mississippi Regional Medical Center
Phoenix Health Systems, the leading independent provider of hospital IT outsourcing and consulting services, today announced that Southwest Mississippi Regional Medical Center has signed a long-term contract for IT department management and software and infrastructure support. Southwest Regional is a modern facility with 165 licensed beds offering advanced equipment and a broad range of services to our patients. Its physicians and other healthcare professionals remain on the forefront of modern
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Embleema Launches Blockchain-Powered Personal Health Record Platform
Embleema comes out of stealth to connect patients, life sciences, and regulators through its healthcare blockchain-enabled personal health record (PHR) platform. Embleema, a NYC-based patient-focused healthcare blockchain network, today emerged from stealth after one year of R&D, to launch the public beta release of its patient-driven, HIPAA-compliant, blockchain-enabled personal health records (PHR) platform. The new blockchain-driven PHR platform give patients complete control over their
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The Existing Challenges with EHRs and Physicians’ Workflows
EHRs grew out of the vast computers that looked after a hospital’s internal processes. The physician workflows, on the other hand, were an afterthought. Imagine a Wendy’s restaurant. You place an order and the guy at the counter rings up and relays your order to the kitchen. When the order comes, the fry guy drops a basket of fries in the fryer, the guy at the burger counter flips a patty, the girl over at the soda machine fills up your choice of soda, arranges your order on a tray, and rests it
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DrChrono, Stitch Integrate to Provide Practices EHR Physician Collaboration Tools
DrChrono, a company enabling the medical practice of the future, today announced a new partnership with Stitch, a company that has created a free HIPAA-compliant app for healthcare teams to send internal messages, communicate with patients and track daily tasks. Both DrChrono and Stitch are Y Combinator portfolio companies.In the past, physicians and medical staff would need to communicate with each other about patients using email, text and phone calls or other outdated chat software that
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The Patient Experience and…Revenue Cycle Operations? The Two Are More Interlinked than You Might Think.
Think back to the last time you read a negative review about a restaurant. After reading the review, you probably dismissed the restaurant and considered other places to eat.Now, imagine you’re a patient considering options for an outpatient procedure and you came upon negative reviews about a provider. Chances are, you probably skipped that provider and opted for a consult with someone else. As providers, how can we fix this? Now, more than ever, patient satisfaction matters, especially given
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CareCloud Adds Spanish to Patient Experience Platform, Breeze
Medical groups using CareCloud's eCommerce platform Breeze en Español to help patients manage and pay for their healthcareAs part of a continued drive to improve every aspect of a patient’s experience and make healthcare more accessible, CareCloud, the platform for high-growth medical groups, is making its patient experience management platform, Breeze, available in Spanish. Through Breeze en Español, medical groups now will be able to remove the complexity and difficulty of scheduling,
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