Health IT startup Iris Plans has been awarded winner of the 2017 Vator Splash Health competition in San Francisco that invites healthcare innovators to present their cutting-edge technology solutions throughout several rounds of judging. 8 finalists were narrowed from companies around the country to present to a panel of judges at the Fort Mason Center in San Francisco. Judges were comprised of leaders from the healthcare sector and the nation’s top investment firms. Iris Plans is a tech-enabled
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Three Cornerstones for Healthcare Analytics Success
Editor's Note: Nora Lissy, RN, BSN, MBA is the Director of Healthcare Information at Dimensional InsightAnalytics plays an important role for many healthcare organizations, from reducing operational costs, optimizing IT systems and infrastructure, and helping clinicians make the best decisions for their patients.Though, for many in the healthcare industry, the problem is that managing a successful analytics program can easily become overwhelming. For starters, analytics either requires a
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Nuance Integrates with Epic EHR to Provide Real-Time Clinical Documentation to Physicians At Point of Care
Nuance Communications and Epic recently announced that they have partnered to deliver computer-assisted physician documentation (CAPD) capabilities embedded within Epic to provide real-time clinical documentation improvement (CDI) feedback to physicians at the point of care.Nuance-Epic Integration DetailsBy electronically analyzing all relevant patient notes with AI technologies such as deep learning and natural language understanding, Nuance’s CAPD technology automatically identifies clinical
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Oracle Unveils Cloud-based Data Management Workbench to Streamline End-to-End Clinical Data
Oracle Health Sciences unveiled a cloud-based Data Management Workbench this week that promises to lower the cost and increase traceability of clinical development. By streamlining end to end clinical data flow across Clinical R&D, Oracle Health Sciences Data Management Workbench Cloud Service enables pharmaceutical companies and contract research organizations to integrate, reconcile and analyze the growing variety and volume of clinical and healthcare data.Planning and managing clinical
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GE Healthcare to Invest $500M In Unit Over Next 3 Years: 5 Things to Know
GE Healthcare CEO John Flannery announced this week that the company plans to invest $500 million in their healthcare technology unit over the next three years in digitalizing its operations. The move by GE Healthcare is part of a global push to evolve into a digital industrial-focused company to successfully compete against its rival Siemens and others. “It is our basic belief that we will grow faster within GE than outside of GE,” said GE Healthcare CEO John Flannery in an interview with
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Zynx Health Integrate Health Plans with Healthwise Content to Enhance Care Coordination
Zynx Health, a provider of clinical improvement solutions has announced a partnership to integrate Zynx Health Plans with Healthwise’s patient education and engagement content. The seamless integration of Healthwise content within Zynx Health plans of care will create more efficient workflows and place evidence-based education resources at the fingertips of providers. As part of the integration, Healthwise educational content is mapped to each step of the Zynx plan of care. As a result, care
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African Hospitals Adopt Artificial Intelligence to Advance Clinical Genomics
Sophia Genetics, a provider of data-driven medicine, today unveiled the list of African hospitals that have started integrating SOPHiA, the company’s artificial intelligence, into their clinical workflow to advance patients’ care across the continent. Medical institutions at the forefront of innovation already using SOPHiA in Africa include:· PharmaProcess in Casablanca, Morocco;· ImmCell in Rabat, Morocco;· The Al Azhar Oncology Center in Rabat, Morocco;· The Riad Biology Center in Rabat,
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Could Blockchain Technology Be the Answer to Health IT Interoperability?
Editor’s Note: D’Arcy Guerin Gue is a co-founder of Phoenix, with over 25 years of experience in executive leadership, strategic planning, IT services, knowledge leadership and industry relations — with a special focus on patient engagement and federal compliance issues. She currently serves as the VP of Industry Relations at Phoenix Health Systems, a division of Medsphere Systems.It’s no exaggeration to say that our EHR systems’ lack of interoperability is the single strongest barrier to
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Maury Regional Health to Replace MEDITECH & NextGen with Cerner EHR
Maury Regional Medical Center, a 255-bed facility that serves more than one quarter-million people in southern Middle Tennessee has selected Cerner to implement an enterprise-wide EHR system across its three hospitals and more than 25 outpatient facilities. The Cerner Millennium EHR will displace MEDITECH in the hospital setting and NextGen®Healthcare in the ambulatory facilities. Upon go-live, the Cerner Millennium EHR and integrated revenue cycle management solutions will combine clinical and
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Integra Connect Launches First End-to-End Solution for Oncology Care Model Success
Integra Connect, the leading provider of technologies and services for value-based specialty care, today announced a uniquely comprehensive solution for oncology practices participating in the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Oncology Care Model (OCM) payment program.The OCM, introduced in July of 2016 to further delivery of higher quality, more coordinated oncology care at a lower cost, involves 190 practices representing more than 3,200 US oncologists. Integra Connect’s solution
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