Zebra Technologies Corporation, a market leader in rugged mobile computers, barcode scanners and barcode printers enhanced with software and services to enable real-time enterprise visibility, today announced two new healthcare barcode printing solutions that can identify patients and specimens at the point of care. Zebra’s ZQ600-Healthcare series label printers and ZD510-HC direct thermal wristband printer enable the production of highly durable labels and patient identification wristbands
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3 Ways Automation & Integration Is Disrupting the HIT Status Quo
In the history of healthcare information technology (HIT), there is clear evidence that technology systems have been designed to provide individual solutions, instead of considering a provider’s workflow holistically. In the late 1980’s and early 1990’s, practice management (PM) systems offered medical practices the opportunity to automate their day-to-day operations. Then the electronic health record (EHR) became mainstream in the late 1990’s and early 2000’s, to electronically store patient
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Hartford HealthCare Taps Innovaccer’s Healthcare Data Platform to Connect Over 70 Ambulatory Practice Sites
Hartford HealthCare, Connecticut’s most comprehensive healthcare network, has partnered with the leading San Francisco-based healthcare data platform company, Innovaccer Inc., to leverage data as a source of innovation in healthcare.Due to the siloed nature of traditional clinical systems, connecting practice sites within a dispersed health system has always been incredibly challenging. As organizations strive to improve efficiency and outcomes, the inability to link systems is proving to be a
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Patientco Lands $28M to Reimagine the Patient Financial Experience
Patientco latest Series B funding fuels expansion of patient billing and payments technology platform focused on creating a smarter patient financial experiencePatientco, an Atlanta, GA-based next-generation patient billing and payments technology company has raised $28 million in Series B funding led by private equity firm Accel-KKR. The round also included participation from BlueCross BlueShield Venture Partners / Sandbox Advantage Fund. Patientco plans to use the funding to accelerate expand
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IllumiCare Launches App to Solve Blindspot Within EHR for Opioid Prescribing
IllumiCare launches the first controlled substance tracking solution within the EMR to combine inpatient and outpatient data on opioid exposure. A new app for the EHR is alleviating a blindspot in opioid prescribing, giving clinicians the first full picture of opioid exposure on a patient. Currently, treating clinicians look John Doe up in the state’s PDMP to see his opioid history when he comes to the ER in pain. He doesn’t have one, so they prescribe it during his stay then he’s sent home.
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Apixio Unveils AI-Powered Risk Adjustment Auditing Solution for Plans & Providers
Apixio Inc., the data science company for healthcare, today announced availability of the first-ever AI-powered solution to help health plans and provider organizations to undertake internal audits of their risk adjustment payment data with increased accuracy and in far less time than traditional methods. Medicare is increasing the frequency of health plans audits offering Medicare Advantage (MA) products to ensure correct payments. Given the potential revenue impact, it typically takes health
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The Short List of Remaining Health IT Interoperability Obstacles is Significant
Earlier this year, the ONC released the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA), which responds to a mandate included in 2016’s 21st Century Cures Act and lays out principles, terms and conditions on which to base an interoperability framework that healthcare organizations can embrace. “This means patients who have received care from multiple doctors and hospitals should have their medical history electronically accessible on demand by any other treating provider in a network
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Mount Sinai Opens Center for Biomedical Blockchain Research to Develop Healthcare Blockchain Apps
First venture launched by an academic medical center to use blockchain technology to solve healthcare and medical science problems. The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the Institute for Next Generation Healthcare has announced the official opening of the Center for Biomedical Blockchain Research. The center is the first of its kind at any academic medical center to utilize blockchain technology, a distributed, decentralized secure database system originally developed for Bitcoin, to
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Identity Automation Acquires Single Sign-On Technology Provider HealthCast
Identity Automation, a leading provider of Access Management (AM), Identity Governance (IGA), and Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) software, today announced its acquisition of Boise, ID-based HealthCast Inc., provider of award-winning enterprise single sign-on (eSSO) and virtual desktop technology for the healthcare industry. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.Increased regulation and the shift from paper-based to digital records has created new challenges in securing and
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Loopback Analytics Joins Epic App Orchard to Simplify Data Integration
Loopback Analytics, a leading provider of data-driven solutions for hospital and health systems, today announces its availability in the Epic App Orchard Marketplace to enable turnkey integration between Epic EMR clients and the Loopback Analytics platform. The company’s comprehensive management platform helps identify at-risk patient populations, match interventions and measure efficacy to improve clinical and financial outcomes.Loopback Analytics customers can now use the Loopback Connector
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