Partners Connected Health and biopharmaceutical company UCB has announced an innovative collaboration to explore and develop novel digital health solutions to further improve the lives of people living with epilepsy. The goal of the collaboration is to provide better connectivity between patients, healthcare providers, and payors, delivering improved experiences and better treatment outcomes. Collaboration DetailsUsing UCB's experience and research in epilepsy and extensive ethnographic
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Azalea Health, Prognosis Innovation Healthcare Merges to Strengthen Market Share in Rural Care Market
Azalea Health, a fully-integrated web-based healthcare solutions and services provider, today announced the merger of Prognosis Innovation Healthcare, a Houston, TX-based EHR provider to rural and community hospitals. For Azalea, the merger of Prognosis inpatient solution will expand its presence into critical access and small community hospitals, and effectively deliver a complete continuum of care platform to an expanded rural market segment.Azalea Health now services thousands of ambulatory
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KLAS-CHIME Report: Telehealth Adoption Increasing Among Providers Despite Concerns
Most healthcare organizations and providers plan to expand their use of telehealth programs, based on the benefits they have experienced so far, according to a study released today by KLAS Research and the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME). But some also expressed concerns about reimbursement and other potential limitations, according to the study.Telehealth has the potential to revolutionize healthcare with both healthcare organizations and legislators hoping it
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Express Scripts to Acquire EviCore for $3.6B to Broaden Its Reach Beyond Prescription Drugs
Express Scripts, a St. Louis-based integrated pharmacy benefit management services provider, announced it has acquired eviCore healthcare, a provider of evidence-based medical benefit management services for $3.6 billion. For Express Scripts, the acquisition will combine its pharmacy benefit management offering and eviCore's highly complementary medical benefits management (MBM) platform to create a uniquely comprehensive patient benefit management solution. In addition, the acquisition of
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KLAS Report: 12 Provider Insights from athenahealth Early-Adopters
With the acquisition of RazorInsights in 2015, athenahealth entered the underserved community hospital EMR market. Since then, provider interest has skyrocketed, with athenaOne for Hospitals and Health Systems being the third most frequently selected hospital EMR solution in the US in both 2015 and 2016. To learn more insights into the early-adopter experience for athenahealth customers, KLAS has published a new report that takes an in-depth early look at the progress athenahealth has made and
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BACTES Rebrands as Sharecare Health Data Services
Sharecare, the digital health company that helps people manage all their health in one place, announced that BACTES Imaging Solutions, which the company acquired in July 2013, is rebranding as Sharecare Health Data Services. A provider of secure electronic exchange, delivery and integration of protected health information (PHI), Sharecare Health Data Services’ capabilities include release of information (ROI), electronic health record (EHR) chart indexing, audit and chart review, disability and
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eClinicalWorks EHR Now Supports OpenNotes, Enabling Clinicians to Share Notes With Patients
eClinicalWorks, a provider of healthcare IT solutions has announced that it now supports OpenNotes, an international movement dedicated to making healthcare more open and transparent. With this announcement, over 130,000 providers using eClinicalWorks will have the ability to share notes with their patients using the eClinicalWorks Patient Portal, further fostering stronger patient-provider relationships.By supporting OpenNotes, the eClinicalWorks cloud-based solution will help to improve the
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Texas Hospital Association, Nomad Health to Address Critical Physician Shortages
Texas Hospital Association is teaming up wih Nomad Health, an online marketplace directly connecting physicians with freelance clinical work to help Texas hospitals more efficiently and effectively fill temporary physician staffing positions. Nomad Health uses a simple and user-friendly digital platform to eliminate third-party recruitment brokers and directly connect physicians with the medical institutions that hire them. Both sides of the marketplace benefit from substantial time and cost
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drchrono Unveils New Unified Task Management to Improve Worfklow for Physicians
Mobile EHR provider drchrono Inc., today announced the launch of its new enterprise Unified Task Management that improves workflow for physicians and staff, allowing them to create tasks, including recurring tasks, from wherever they are in the platform. Physicians and staff can now assign tasks to teams/groups of people, such as the front desk team, and have information automatically populate right into the specific task.Providers can attach lab results, clinical notes, medications and refill
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Care Intelligence System: The Revolution of Innovations in Value-based Care
Keeping a system of records for storage and backup has always been a must for healthcare organizations all over the U.S. As the method of storing data went from paper to electronic, healthcare became more and more adept at collecting data and archiving it.However, the route of exchanging meaningful information was still lost on many. As of 2017, a majority of the health industry has adopted EMRs, however, gaining meaningful insights out of them is still an unfulfilled promise.The real trouble
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