Intermountain Healthcare has expanded its relationship with R1, a technology-enabled revenue cycle management and physician advisory services. As part of the relationship expansion, Intermountain Healthcare will deploy R1’s Revenue Capture Modular Solution across its system of 22 hospitals, 180 clinics, and a Medical Group with approximately 1,500 employed physicians and advanced practitioners.R1’s Revenue Capture module provides health systems with technology-enabled services designed to ensure
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eClinicalWorks Launches Virtual Assistant, healow VR, FHIR Cloud Service
eClinicalWorks, a leader in healthcare IT solutions has announced four new product enhancements and workflow improvements in front of a sold-out crowd of 4,500 on-site attendees at the 2017 National Conference and another 4,500 employees watching online. In addition, the company reported the strongest sales quarter of 2017, reaching $130 million in revenue, with over 3,750 providers.The four new features include:- V11 EHR, the latest version of our core EHR/PM solution, is set to further
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Atos Acquires 3 Health IT Consulting Firms to Expand Presence in Health IT Market
Global IT company Atos has acquired Pursuit Healthcare Advisors, Conduent’s Healthcare Provider Consulting business and Conduent’s Breakaway Group business to expand its presence in the digital health IT market. Following on from the acquisition of healthcare IT outsourcing company Anthelio Healthcare Solutions in 2016, these acquisitions will allow Atos to support provider groups and payers as they look to optimize clinical and financial performance. The acquisition will bring 400 healthcare
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PatientKeeper Launches Automated Charge-Note Reconciliation Platform
PatientKeeper, a provider of healthcare apps for physicians just launched Charge-Note Reconciliation to help healthcare organizations ensure that all physician services are accurately charged and documented. PatientKeeper’s new charge-note reconciliation tool is available immediately in the latest release of PatientKeeper Charge Capture.This automated tool allows organizations to extract clinical notes from a variety of systems, link note authors to users to identify which provider saw which
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Medecision Acquires AxisPoint Health’s Platform Business, Will Migrate 50 Clients to Aerial PHM Platform
Medecision, a provider of population health management solutions for risk-bearing entities has acquired of over 50 clients from AxisPoint Health. The acquisition includes clients that currently use CCMS and VITAL, recently rebranded as AXIS. AxisPoint Health’s services businesses, including CarePoint, GuidePoint, and Analytix, are not included in this transaction and remain under management by AxisPoint Health. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.Once the acquisition is closed,
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Mayo Clinic, Oxford NHS Foundation Trust Partner to Advance Medical Research
Mayo Clinic, the University of Oxford, and Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust have signed a partnership agreement to drive advances in medical research and patient care. Potential areas for collaboration include research projects, educational interactions and endeavors, practice pilots to focus on leading improvements in quality, integration and outcomes delivered, and the exchange of resources to support research, practice and educational activities.As part of the partnership,
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eClinicalWorks EHR Announces Integration With Both CommonWell Health Alliance and Carequality Interoperability
Today, eClinicalWorks announced that its customers can now integrate with both CommonWell Health Alliance and Carequality Interoperability Framework through a self-service option in the latest version of eClinicalWorks EHR. With this integration, providers can experience the seamless real-time data transfer between disparate systems, while also having access to select a global consent model, view available connections, and register and get connected to the Interoperability Hub. More than 400
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Zynx Health Launches $20k Innovation Challenge for Prototype Using Zynx Clinical Content
Zynx Health, a provider of providing evidence- and experience-based clinical improvement solutions, today announced details of its two-phase Innovation Challenge Contest to encourage the exploration of new use cases that leverage Zynx clinical content to enhance the delivery of patient care and reduce clinical and financial variation. Zynx Health will award a total of $20,000 in prize money to the teams with the best concepts and prototype.Phase 1 of the Innovation Challenge Contest is open
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NHIT Week: Reflecting on Health IT’s Transformation of Healthcare
As we celebrate National Health IT Week, it is incredible to realize how health technology tools are transforming every facet of patient care. From telehealth, to 3D printers to artificial intelligence, the explosion of personalized health devices redefines the dynamics of patient treatment and interactions.However, we still fall short in comparison to other industries, particularly in terms of consistent patient information access, and the lack of incentive for industry collaboration to achieve
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4 Key Healthcare Supply Chain Innovation Growth Areas to Watch In Next 12 to 18 Months
The strategic importance of the healthcare supply chain means that supply chain leaders and teams are increasingly called upon to help tackle a variety of critical healthcare issues, including the shift to a value-based care model, improving clinical performance, reducing risk, and deriving maximum value from EHR integrations.This week, in concert with the Association for Healthcare Resource & Materials Management’s (AHRMM) annual “National Healthcare Supply Chain Week,” October 1-7, 2017,
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