Bernoulli Health, the developer of the advanced Bernoulli One clinical surveillance, medical device integration (MDI), and real-time data analytics platform, announced today collaboration with GE Healthcare on the new CARESCAPE Connect data aggregation solution. The data integration partnership between GE Healthcare and Bernoulli Health to increase volume, fidelity and resolution of data captured from GE Healthcare monitors and other third-party medical devices; to build sources of data that are
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Why Payers Must Invest in Real-Time Analytics to Increase Profitability Against ACA’S Risk Adjustment Program
With the future of the Affordable Care Act in limbo, health payers and providers alike are back to focusing on how to work within that system. And as payers in particular struggle to find avenues to profitability in the ACA’s complex topography, we’ll likely hear more rhetoric about the difficulty of enticing young, affluent Americans to sign up for health insurance.The conventional wisdom of the moment holds that failure to enroll enough of those so-called “healthy wealthies” to offset the
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Ransomware Tops ECRI Institute’s 2018 Top 10 Health Technology Hazards List
Ransomware and other cybersecurity threats to healthcare delivery has topped ECRI Institute’s Top 10 Health Technology Hazards for 2018 list. Ransomeware are potential patient safety crises that can disrupt healthcare delivery operations, placing patients at risk. Ransomware attacks can lead to canceled procedures and altered workflows (e.g., reverting to paper records). They can also damage equipment and systems, expose sensitive data, and force closures of entire care units. Ultimately, they
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drchrono Leverages Face ID on iPhone X to Unlock EHR for Physicians
Mobile EHR provider drchrono Inc., today announced that it has leverage Face ID on iPhone X for physicians to unlock electronic health records (EHRs). By simply launching the drchrono app, Physicians can save time using new Face ID recognition technology to log into the drchrono EHR.On iPhone X, doctors now can simply raise their phone to login to the EHR app, unlike using Touch ID, a passcode or entering a username and password. drchrono has thousands of medical professionals and over 10
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Mount Sinai Taps MuleSoft to Create API Economy to Share Patient Data
MuleSoft, an application network company, announced Mount Sinai, New York’s largest integrated health system is leveraging Anypoint Platform to broaden its ability to share data beyond the four walls of its hospitals. Historically, Mount Sinai struggled to share patient data across its massive health system which includes 7,100 primary and specialty care physicians, 12 joint-venture ambulatory surgery centers, more than 140 ambulatory practices and 31 affiliated community health centers.Mount
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Maryland HIE Renews Contract With Verato to Use Universal MPI for Patient Matching Support
Chesapeake Regional Information System for our Patients (CRISP), a not-for-profit regional health information exchange (HIE) serving Maryland and the District of Columbia, has renewed its contract to use the Verato Universal MPI to automatically process its most difficult potential matches that would otherwise have to be manually reviewed and resolved. The ability to match and link patient identities across its participating organizations is fundamental to CRISP’s core services including its
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5 Reasons Why End-to-End Network Solutions are Vital to the Healthcare Data Revolution
Extreme Network’s Bob Nilsson talks about why comprehensive network solutions are the way of the future for HIT, and why health organizations should invest in them now.In case you missed it, the world has gone mobile. Look up from your screen and look around; chances are, those around you are looking at screens, too. Innovation and consumer demand have led many an industry to its virtual tipping point. Now, healthcare is on the heels of its own tech-fueled transformation.What started with
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Advance Care Planning Startup Vynca Wins Patient Matching Algorithm Challenge
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) today announced advance care planning solution company, Vynca as the first place ($25k) winner of the Patient Matching Algorithm Challenge. ONC selected the winning submissions from over 140 competing teams and almost 7,000 submissions using an ONC-provided dataset. Patient Matching Algorithm Challenge Overview“Patient matching” in health IT describes the techniques used
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Accenture Launches Patient Experience Manager to Provide Single View of Patient Interactions
Today at Dreamforce in San Francisco, Accenture launched the Patient Experience Manager, a new solution that leverages advanced analytics capabilities to help life sciences companies aggregate, monitor and measure patient data from multiple sources, such as nursing support providers, specialty pharmacy services, and affordability programs.As part of the Accenture Intelligent Patient Platform, the Patient Experience Manager is fully integrated with Salesforce Health Cloud, allowing life sciences
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Texas HIE Selects Innovaccer to Advance Data-Driven Valued-based Care Initiatives
The Paso del Norte Health Information Exchange, PHIX, an El Paso, TX-based health information exchange (HIE) has selected Innovaccer, Inc., a Silicon Valley-based healthcare platform company, to leverage its technology for data-driven value-based initiatives. As a Health Information Exchange, PHIX will provide access to patient's longitudinal health record from across the care continuum. PHIX’s goal is to improve efficiency, increase quality of care, and improve patient safety.To realize their
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