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Healthcare’s Password Prognosis

by Our Thought Leaders 03/15/2017 Leave a Comment

Access Governance_Healthcare’s Password Prognosis

Editor’s Note: Dean Wiech is the Managing Director of Tools4ever, a global provider of access management and governance solutions. Dean has worked with healthcare organizations, educational institutions, municipalities for more than 20 years, helping them identify solutions that make their businesses and operations more secure, efficient and easier to manage. Passwords are everywhere. The headlines might tell us otherwise, but their death, and the exaggeration of such, means that they are and
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ECRI Institute Names Information Management in EHRs Top Patient Safety Concern for Healthcare Organizations

by Jasmine Pennic 03/14/2017 Leave a Comment

ECRI Institute Names Information in EHRs Top Patient Safety Concern for 2017

Information management in electronic health records (EHRs) has been named the top patient safety concern for healthcare organizations in 2017, according to the ECRI Institute. ECRI Institute's 2017 Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns for Healthcare Organizations report reveals that the troves of information to manage, and the advent of EHRs has brought significant presents significant challenges for healthcare providers. "But the object is still for people to have the information that they need to
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KLAS Report: Cerner & athenahealth Stumbling in Small Practice Ambulatory EMR/PM Market

by HITC Staff 03/14/2017 Leave a Comment

KLAS Report: Cerner & athenahealth Stumbling in Small Practice Ambulatory EMR/PM Market

Providers say GE is improving, while they also report that Cerner and athenahealth are stumbling over the past 2 years, according to a recent KLAS report on Small Practice Ambulatory EMR/PM market. The KLAS report reveals that small ambulatory practices (1–10 physicians) need cost-effective solutions that deliver the functionality required to comply with evolving regulations and that allow providers to properly care for and bill their patents. Additionally, they expect to get the support,
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The Importance of Risk Stratification in Population Health Management

by Abhinav Shashank, CEO at Innovaccer Inc. 03/13/2017 Leave a Comment

Risk Stratification in Population Health Management

Editor’s Note: Abhinav Shashank is the CEO & Co-founder at Innovaccer Inc., a datashop integrating complex data across multiple distributed sources to give healthcare organizations greater insights to provider better care.As value-based care becomes the primary focus of healthcare organizations, providers now need to broach population health management and to manage it with risk stratification with a delicate balance. It is now important for providers to focus on patients’ individual and
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KLAS Report Finds Chartis Group, ECG, Impact Advisors Top Consulting Firms for Vendor Selection Beyond EMRs

by HITC Staff 03/10/2017 Leave a Comment

KLAS Report Finds Chartis Group, ECG, Impact Advisors Top Firms for Health System Selection Beyond EMRs

The Chartis Group, ECG(Kurt Salmon), and Impact Advisors  stand out as the top consulting firms for helping healthcare providers select systems beyond EMRs, according to a recent KLAS report.  The KLAS report, "Crucial Factors to Consider When Choosing A Consulting Firm," reveals Cerner’s acquisition of Siemens’ healthcare IT, the sunsetting of McKesson Horizon, the release of MEDITECH 6.0, and the continued record-breaking pace of healthcare mergers and acquisitions—have caused many providers
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Lakeland Health Earns EMRAM Stage 7 Award

by Jasmine Pennic 03/10/2017 Leave a Comment

Lakeland Health Earns EMRAM Stage 7 Award

Lakeland Health has earned an initial  Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (EMRAM) Stage 7 validation for its three hospitals and 15 of its 34 ambulatory clinics. In 2013, Lakeland became the first healthcare organization in the state of Michigan, as well as in the region, to be certified at Stage 7 in less than three years from the time the EHR was first implemented. To date, only two other health systems in Michigan and seven in Indiana are certified at Stage 7.“In the last three years
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Uniphy Health Unveils Enterprise-Wide Collaboration Platform, UH4

by HITC Staff 03/10/2017 Leave a Comment

Uniphy Health Unveils Enterprise-Wide Collaboration Platform, UH4

Uniphy Health – a provider of mobile solutions for clinical communications and collaboration  has unveiled UH4, an enterprise-wide collaboration platform that enables all apps in a hospital, clinic or healthcare facility to share data and work together. This is what Gartner calls “the real-time health system, a set of technologies that make health care organizations “more aware, collaborative and patient-centric” and allow care teams to work together across the care continuum.  UH4 was developed
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Guardian Makes Strategic Investment in PokitDok to Develop Blockchain Platform

by HITC Staff 03/10/2017 Leave a Comment

PokitDok

GIS Strategic Ventures, the strategic investments arm of The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America has made a strategic investment in software development platform PokitDok. The company plans to utilize the investment to development of DokChain, blockchain for healthcare, and expand access to PokitDok’s API solutions that simplify patient check in, handle health insurance administration, calculate out of pocket estimates, and streamline other business processes associated with medical
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Could Billion Dollar EHR Implementations Bankrupt The Country?

by Irv Lichtenwald , CEO of Medsphere Systems Corporation 03/09/2017 Leave a Comment

ICD-10 Impact on Cash Flow_EHR Implementations

Earlier this year, Monmouth University conducted a survey to determine which issues were most important as the country transitions to a new presidential administration. Among all the potential concerns Americans now face, the issue that rises to the top is healthcare costs.How acute a concern is this? It’s significant enough that, when asked the open-ended question, “turning to issues closer to home, what is the biggest concern facing your family right now?”, 25 percent of respondents made it
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Palmetto Health Expands Cerner Millennium Revenue Cycle Across 4 Acute Facilities

by HITC Staff 03/08/2017 Leave a Comment

Cerner Acquires Siemens Health IT Business for $1.3B

Palmetto Health has selected Cerner to expand Millennium Revenue Cycle across four of its acute facilities. Integration with the existing EHR will result in a Clinically Driven Revenue CycleTM.  Cerner's Clinically Driven Revenue Cycle is designed to enable clinicians and staff to update the billing process throughout the patient's visit, enhance clinical documentation to help improve reimbursement and limit claims errors. Patients will benefit by having direct access to their clinical results
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