As John Flannery, the new CEO of GE takes on the task of sweeping cost-cutting at the industrial behemoth, recent market speculation has suggested he may be looking to offload GE’s Healthcare IT business. Here's why we think this won’t happen.Crumbling, but not to the coreGE's health IT portfolio has been compiled from many acquisitions, creating a complex and sometimes disjointed product set. At its center is a core set of software and services focused on clinical IT. GE’s products that support
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PeerWell Launches PreHab Program for Same-Day Surgery Patient
PeerWell, a healthcare technology company helping patients prepare and recover from orthopedic surgery, announced an extension to their platform for outpatient joint replacement centers. Previously the platform had only been available to inpatients. Experts estimate that the demand for orthopedic surgeries will grow by 77 percent over the next 10 years with a predicted 50 percent or more of these cases completed in an outpatient setting. The PeerWell outpatient pre-operative preparation
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drchrono Offers iPad Pro to Physicians as Part of EHR Bundle Program
Mobile EHR provider drchrono Inc., today announced that it is the first company to offer an iPad Pro to every physician as part of its new iPad and EHR bundle program. drchrono is launching this new program to help medical practices by providing doctors with a complimentary iPad Pro when they sign up for a qualifying subscription for the drchrono EHR and medical billing platform.drchrono committed to building EHR on iPad since the day it launched in April 2010. The company has supported every
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Patient of the Future: 8 Digital Health Transformation Trends to Watch
Infographic created by Site Santé Médecine illustrates eight digital health transformation trends to watch
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Merck Subsidiary Acquires Mobile Infectious Disease Analytics Solution Teqqa
ILÚM Health Solutions, a provider of innovative technology and services to support infectious disease management (created by Merck’s Healthcare Services and Solutions (HSS) division), today announced it has acquired Teqqa LLC, which provides precision analytics for infectious disease management. Teqqa has been a development partner with ILÚM since the latter’s founding; this acquisition formalizes and strengthens the ongoing relationship. Financial details of the acquisition were not
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NextGen Unveils Product Enhancements to EHR-agnostic Mobile Suite
Quality Systems, Inc., known to its clients as NextGen Healthcare, today announced significant product enhancements to its EHR-agnostic Mobile Suite, a tool equipped with more than 800,000 unique clinical concepts and 1.8+ million synonyms, that brings physicians closer to that goal by ensuring the accurate capture of physicians’ narrative and integration with EHR terminology. This platform upgrade is the first major product enhancement from Entrada following its acquisition by NextGen
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Innovaccer Launches Data Bank With Over 10M Structured Data Points for Care Research
Innovaccer, a Silicon Valley-based healthcare platform company, today announced the launch of Datashop Beacon— a new product that offers extensively researched, benchmarked and structured datasets for healthcare organizations and researchers to gather actionable insights on healthcare trends.The datasets within Datashop Beacon were built keeping in mind the importance of having holistic care data, especially, in the era of healthcare information technology. But assimilating comprehensive care
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ConnectiveRx Acquires Specialty Pharma Startup Careform to Enhance Patient Engagement for Specialty Drugs
ConnectiveRx, a company helping patients with affordability, access and medication adherence messaging, has acquired Careform a Pittsburgh-based provider of technology-enabled “hub” services driving patient and provider engagement and support. The acquisition will enable both ConnectiveRx and Careform to improve patient outcomes by improving speed-to-therapy, and prescription compliance and persistence. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.ConnectiveRx delivers affordability
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CHIME Suspends National Patient ID Challenge After 2 Years
The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME), today announced that CHIME Healthcare Innovation Trust has decided to suspend the National Patient ID Challenge after nearly two years of work. Despite the suspension, CHIME did emphasized that finding a national patient ID solution that accurately identifies a patient 100% percent of the time will remain a top priority.Launched in 2015, CHIME National Patient ID Challenge is a $1 million global competition aimed at
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