Change Healthcare, one of the largest healthcare companies in the U.S., continues to make good on its pledge to invest in interoperability strategies that make it easier for health plans to bridge disparate systems and get claims paid. This week, the company announced that it has completed a major integration project with Pegasystems to help payers ensure fast, accurate payment, reduce costs, and stay compliant with internal and CMS medical policies.ClaimsXten™ and ClaimsXten™ Select now
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drchrono Launches FHIR-Enabled PHR API to Support 10 Million Patients
Mobile EHR provider drchrono has announced that it is the first cloud-based EHR platform enabled for Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR). With FHIR, drchrono is enabling its 10 million patients access to their data via the FHIR API through the patient health record (PHR), onpatient. The new API is designed to support the Precision Medicine Sync for Science Initiative and fulfills one of the requirements of Meaningful Use Stage 3 to enable a PHR API.The goal of FHIR is to solve
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Despite ACA Uncertainty, 80% of Providers Believe in Future of Population Health Management
A recent Health Catalyst survey finds that despite uncertainty around the effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA), 80 percent of healthcare executives stand firm on their population health strategy to address the quality and cost of healthcare. According to a July survey of 199 US healthcare executives by Health Catalyst. Sixty-eight percent of healthcare executives reported that PHM is “very important” to their healthcare delivery strategy during the next two years, while
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NextGen Healthcare Acquires EagleDream Health for $26M in Cash
NextGen Healthcare has acquired cloud-based analytics platform EagleDream Health for $26 million in cash to advance population health management through increased quality of care. Headquartered in Rochester, NY, EagleDream Health’s vendor-agnostic platform for managing value-based care empowers healthcare organizations with intuitive analytics and actionable intelligence to achieve successful population health management.For NextGen, the acquisition will enable NextGen Healthcare to enhance the
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Vail Valley Medical Center to Implement Spok Care Connect to Standardize Clinical Communications
Vail Valley Medical Center (VVMC), a 58-bed community hospital has selected Spok to improve workflows for its care teams and strengthen patient care. Since implementation, VVMC has started to automate manual and paper processes for on-call scheduling and code calls, and rollout secure mobile messaging to improve care team coordination. The hospital serves as the official medical provider for world-class athletes, including the U.S. Ski, Snowboarding, Free Skiing, and Climbing teams.As part of
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Mercy Health Taps Bernoulli for Medical Device Integration into Epic EHR
Mercy Health Services, a university-affiliated medical facility in Baltimore has selected Bernoulli, a provider of real-time patient safety, to deliver medical device connectivity to the health system’s perioperative suite. The company will implement its Bernoulli One architecture in anesthesia devices and will be part of Mercy’s perioperative Epic EHR go-live in 2018.Based on a modular architecture, device data captured by Bernoulli MDI can integrate with all hospital information systems that
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GHX Launches App for Healthcare Credentialed Supply Chain
Today, GHX announced the GHX Vendormate Credentialing mobile app, the first mobile solution available to both healthcare suppliers and providers to help drive increased vendor credentialing compliance. Delivering access to the credentialing solution via mobile app helps to streamline compliance for both providers and suppliers. The new GHX Vendormate Credentialing mobile app is available now through the Apple App Store and Google Play for Android devices.In the U.S. alone there are 244,000+
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Why Data Governance Is The Backbone to Artificial Intelligence’s Potential
A recent contributor to HIT Consultant made a bold, yet not too far fetched statement about the data analytics space. He noted that applied artificial intelligence (AI) is here to stay, and that the more common form of healthcare analytics will slowly but surely be replaced. For a quick IT lesson, applied AI refers to the intersection of artificial intelligence and machine learning, where the best of human intelligence is brought together with the best of computing capabilities.Related: Why
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Catholic Medical Center to Implement Integrated Suite of Allscripts Sunrise EHR
Catholic Medical Center, a 330-bed not-for-profit, full-service acute care hospital located in Manchester, NH has expanded its portfolio of Allscripts solutions to offer a fully–integrated suite of Sunrise EHR solutions to drive adoption of clinical decision support and improve patient outcomes. Built on an open platform with advanced clinical decision support, Sunrise provides immediate analysis and insights, extending across inpatient, ambulatory, emergency and other high-acuity care
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New Anthem Medical Data Breach Affects More Than 18,500 Members
A new medical data breach has exposed personal health information (PHI) of more than 18,500 Anthem Medicare enrollees, due to an employee’s involvement in identity theft. Consulting firm LaunchPoint Ventures discovered the data breach on April 12 that an employee had emailed a file with information about Anthem companies' members to his personal email address on July 8, 2016. The file contained more than 18,500 Anthem Medicare members' Social Security and Medicare identification data. The
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