Ascension, the largest private, tax-exempt, nongovernmental health system in the United States, and Ramsay Health Care Limited, one of the top six private hospital operators in the world, are partnering in a new global supply chain joint venture. The new organization will combine the purchasing power of St. Louis-based Ascension, the world’s largest Catholic health system, and Sydney based Ramsay Health Care, which operates more than 230 healthcare facilities in six countries on four
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Trinity Health Moves to Epic for Single Integrated EHR & Rev Cycle Platform
Michigan-based provider Trinity Health has announced it has selected Epic for a single, enterprise-wide electronic health record (EHR) and revenue cycle management platform. The Epic integrated system will enable the health system to improve experiences for patients and clinicians.Trinity Health's fully integrated health record will improve the care experience across the entire system by providing a single, comprehensive health record for each person.For patients and consumers, it will provide
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EXL Acquires Payment Integrity Company SCIO Health Analytics for $240M
EXL, an operations management and analytics company has signed an agreement to acquire SCIO Health Analytics, a West Hartford Connecticut-based leading healthcare analytics solution and services company for $240 million, excluding adjustments for cash, debt, and working capital. SCIO has been focused on using next-generation analytics to help payers, providers, and life sciences organizations make the transition to value-based care, improve revenue, reduce financial loss, uncover fraud, waste,
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Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Names First-Ever Chief Innovation Officer
Children's Hospital Los Angeles has appointed Omkar P. Kulkarni as the hospital's first chief innovation officer to help drive clinical innovation at one of the nation's top pediatric institutions, starting May 7. In his new role, Kulkarni will be responsible for fostering innovation across CHLA's clinical and research enterprises – including finding successful new methods of care, incubating new medical tools and software, and rallying communities in and out of the hospital to solve problems
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GHX and Hashed Health Partner on Healthcare Blockchain Solutions for Supply Chain
Global Healthcare Exchange, LLC(GHX), a healthcare business and data automation company, announced today that it is partnering with Hashed Health, a leader in blockchain innovation for healthcare. As part of the partnership, the companies will collaborate on blockchain and distributed ledger innovation projects for the healthcare supply chain. GHX and Hashed Health share an interest in using blockchain technologies to solve unmet needs across healthcare. Blockchain is widely believed to have
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Why We Are at the Crossroads of the Next Healthcare Disruption
At a moment when consumer technology giants Apple, Amazon and Google are poised to put heavy footprints on the healthcare technology environment, new reports of patient dissatisfaction with current hospital EHR solutions seem to be paving the way. This confluence of developments may be the perfect setting for the next major disruption in our industry, a scenario that many hospital leaders, physicians and health tech vendors won’t relish. But many consumers will, especially those under 40. Here’s
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OnlyBoth Launches AI-Driven Home Health Agency Benchmarking Engine
Pittsburgh-based OnlyBoth Inc., today announced the launch of its no-cost Home Health Agency benchmarking engine, which applies innovative artificial intelligence (AI) technology to Medicare data previously gathered about providers. The unique engine delivers text-based insights so users can easily compare and contrast home health agency performance for informed decision-making.As transparency becomes more of a requirement, particularly with the CMS news about the prices this week, so will
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Smart Meter’s Diabetes Care Solution Meets Newly Created Remote Monitoring CPT Code
Smart Meter, an innovative diabetes management data, technology and solutions company, today announced that its iGlucose® Diabetes Care Solution meets the requirements for the newly created Remote Monitoring CPT Code, as defined by Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). The iGlucose solution, which uses cell-enabled technology to automatically transmit real-time blood glucose results, is providing clinicians with another tool for making connected health more available and more widely
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Central Georgia Health Network selects Arcadia for Population Health Management
CIN Central Georgia Health Network announced that is has selected Arcadia.io for population health management to support over 1000 providers in delivering community care. CGHN, a large clinically integrated network, will use Arcadia to create a community-wide population health management system for greater Macon, Georgia that will enable more than 650 independent physicians and 400 allied providers to deliver better patient care.With its network continuing to grow, CGHN needed to more
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5 Tips for Protecting Your IoT-enabled Medical Devices
Research shows us that security breaches can greatly impact a healthcare organization’s reputation. Unfortunately, healthcare leaders are stuck in the cross hairs of consumers and hackers. While consumers want transparency, access to information and assurance their personal information will remain safe, hackers are busy compromising patient information at a faster speed than ever before.As healthcare IT organizations strive to become more accessible and “open” to support patient engagement
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