Black Book Rankings, a full-service healthcare-centric market research company, today unveiled their list of top 50 disruptive health IT companies. The companies were recognized by healthcare providers and payers attempting digital transformation and innovation efforts highlighted in Black Book’s recent 2017 Emerging Vendors survey. The selected health IT companies stood out above others because they offer some disruptive capability or opportunity and received top scores in the Black Book
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Mayo Clinic Buys Israeli FDA-Approved Wearable Sleep Apnea Device
The Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Mayo Clinic) has signed a purchase agreement with Israeli medical diagnostics company Itamar Medical for its FDA-approved sleep apnea device, nocamels first reports. The purchase agreement was signed for a duration of three years with automatic renewal possible for one-year periods. WatchPAT is an FDA-approved portable diagnostic device that uniquely uses finger based physiology and innovative technology to enable simple and accurate
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Survey: Healthcare CIOs Plagued by Data Governance Challenges & Maturity
Hospitals are struggling to implement data governance processes or are facing hurdles that impede the initiatives’ effectiveness, according to a recent Dimensional Insight’s survey. Conducted in August 2017, Dimensional Insight surveyed 104 CIOs and CMIOs about their maturity level and challenges associated with data governance efforts. The survey reveals that while 44 percent of respondents said they had implemented an enterprise-wide data governance capability at their organization, the
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Cedars-Sinai Launches Apple Watch App to Connect Patients With Doctors
Cedars-Sinai, a Los Angeles-based academic medical center has unveiled new Apple Watch app that helps makes it easier for patients to connect with doctors, get directions to the nearest hospital and access their medical records. Working in conjunction to the provider’s iPhone app, the update provides a complete resource for managing your medical records, connecting with your care team and exploring all Cedars-Sinai has to offer. The free app, which pairs with your iPhone and can be found in the
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Liverpool Heart, Chest Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Extend Allscripts Sunrise Partnership
Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (LHCH) has extended its partnership with Allscripts as its future partner for another five consecutive years with an expanded use of Sunrise suite of electronic patient record (EPR) solutions. Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital provides specialist services in cardiothoracic surgery, cardiology, respiratory medicine including adult cystic fibrosis, and diagnostic imaging, both in the hospital and throughout the community. Since EPR was
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Navicure-ZirMed Appoints Matthew Hawkins as New CEO To Lead Combined Company
Following the announcement to merge together earlier this month, healthcare revenue cycle management technology companies Navicure and ZirMed Inc., today announced the appointment of healthcare technology executive Matthew Hawkins as the new CEO of the combined company. The appointment is expected to start in early November and Jim Denny, current President and CEO of Navicure, will now serve as Chairman of the Board. Prior to joining Navicure-ZirMed, Hawkins served as the President of Sunquest
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Samsung, TigerText Partner to Offer Mobile Clinical Collaboration Solution for Care Teams
Samsung and TigerText today announced a new strategic partnership and joint offering to improve communication and coordination efforts among care teams, offering CNOs and CNIOs a top of the line, enterprise-grade smartphone that meets the consumer-expectations of staff. Improvements in efficiency allows clinicians to streamline continuity of care and spend more time caring for patients and less time tracking down colleagues or completing redundant administrative tasks. The new all-in-one
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Emory Healthcare Taps Kyruus to Improve Operational Efficiency, Patient Experience
Kyruus, a company that offers provider search and scheduling solutions, today announced that Emory Healthcare has selected its KyruusOne™provider data management platform and ProviderMatch patient access solutions to enhance the patient experience while streamlining operational workflows. The seven-hospital, Atlanta-based health system will implement ProviderMatch in its call center and on its consumer-facing website to deliver a consistent patient experience across multiple points of entry to
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Imprivata Integrates With Just Associates to Eliminate Duplicate Medical Records
Health IT security company Imprivata is integrating with health information management company Just Associate to help healthcare organization eliminate duplicate medical records. The integration will improve patient identification and enhance data integrity for healthcare organizations. The Imprivata and Just Associates solutions are now available to all Imprivata PatientSecure clients. By retroactively cleaning up patient data and proactively eliminating the creation of duplicate and overlaid
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Paradigm Outcomes Acquires Surgical Management Solution ForeSight Medical
Paradigm Outcomes, a provider of medical management services for catastrophically injured workers, has acquired ForeSight Medical, a comprehensive suite of surgical management solutions in the workers’ compensation marketplace. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. As part of the acquisition, ForeSight Medical will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of Paradigm and will maintain its separate brands. Clients will continue to receive exceptional service and unparalleled
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