Behavioral healthcare is on the precipice of an exciting new frontier. While the sector has been slow to adopt major tech innovations, emerging tools are ushering in unique advantages that allow providers to maximize profit, advance their sector and improve care for patients more than ever before.As a CEO working within the tech and revenue cycle management industries, I listen to the concerns of both insurance companies and healthcare providers to identify trends in behavioral healthcare every
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Philips to Acquire Carestream Health’s Health IT Business Unit
Royal Philips has signed an agreement to acquire Carestream Health’s healthcare information systems (HCIS) business unit. Carestream’s HCIS business unit includes enterprise imaging IT solutions for multi-site hospitals, radiology services providers, imaging centers and specialty medical clinics. The acquisition of Carestream’s enterprise imaging platform will help expand Philips’ healthcare IT business portfolio of VNA, diagnostic and enterprise viewers, multimedia reporting, workflow
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PointClickCare Acquires Senior Living EHR & eMAR Vendor QuickMAR
PointClickCare Technologies, a cloud-based EHR for long-term post-acute care (LTPAC) and senior living industries has acquired QuickMAR, an eMAR & EHR for long-term care, group homes and assisted living facilities. The combination of two leading organizations will offer senior living customers and pharmacy partners greater flexibility in how they adopt and scale their resident care strategies while working through a single technology vendor.Founded in 2007, QuickMAR is an EHR and eMAR
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Allina Health and PatientWisdom Partner to Improve Patient Engagement
Today, Allina Health announced a new partnership with PatientWisdom, Inc. to improve patient engagement through the use of the digital platform, PatientWisdom. The platform is integrated with electronic health record (EHR) systems and patient portals and allows patients to share personal/health details before their clinical encounter. PatientWisdom then distills the information into an at-a-glance inSIGHT summary which is sent to care teams before the visit to understand what matters to their
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Hackers in Healthcare: What Damage Could They Do With Your Medical Data?
Conversa Health’s Scott Anderson provides a brief take on the state of data security in healthcare.The wave that is big-data doesn’t appear to be cresting in healthcare anytime soon, and unfortunately, neither are the threats waged against it. Hijacking and hacking into personal health information (PHI) has become a growing trend that’s here to stay. So, the question remains: what should be done about it?The last couple of years have unveiled a fair share of data breaches in healthcare: in 2017,
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AHIMA, Artifact Health Team Up for Standardized Physician Query Templates
The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) is teaming up with Artifact Health to provide and maintain a comprehensive library of compliant physician query templates. The physician query templates will be utilized within Artifact’s HIPAA-compliant, cloud-based platform. Time Consuming Query Process for PhysiciansTypically, the query process is onerous and time-consuming for physicians. With Artifact Health’s mobile platform, physicians respond to a query compliantly in
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DrChrono Integrates with CoverMyMeds to Expedite Prior Authorization Processing
DrChrono, today announced its expanded partnership with CoverMyMeds to help providers expedite prior authorization processing, gain insight into prescription prices and help patients get the medication they need when they need it.DrChrono/CoverMyMeds Integration DetailsDrChrono’s integration with CoverMyMeds includes:· RxBenefit Clarity - RxBenefit Clarity is a medication decision support platform that displays the most accurate prescription price information at the point of prescribing. This
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eHealth Exchange Integrates FHIR Directory with InterSystems to Power Network Expansion
eHealth Exchange, a nationwide health information networks connecting the public and private sectors, announced it will integrate its FHIR Healthcare Directory with InterSystems solutions. The integration will enable the HIE network to enhance its patient-centric services while also completing its implementation of the Carequality Interoperability Framework, which is used by an estimated 600,000 physicians to share data today across and among networks. Integration DetailsThe eHealth Exchange
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3 Principles to Value-based Care Contracting Arrangements for Behavioral Health
It’s long past time for the U.S. health system to improve care for our behavioral health patient population.With every headline about our country’s mental health crisis or opioid crisis, this painful reality becomes more apparent – and as time passes, more expensive. At $201 billion annually, mental disorders top the list of the most costly conditions in the U.S., according to Health Affairs. The economic toll of the opiate crisis alone has exceeded $1 trillion since 2001, according to research
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Sturdy Memorial Signs 7-Year Agreement to Implement Cerner EHR
Sturdy Memorial Hospital (SMH), a full-service independent community hospital has signed a 7-year agreement to implement Cerner’s EHR platform at its 132-bed hospital in Attleboro, Massachusetts. Through this agreement, SMH will use Cerner CommunityWorks, a cloud-based deployment model, tailored to help community health care organizations securely manage patient health history, including clinical and financial data. The software deployed through this model is designed to support transparency
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