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PlushCare Launches Fully Comprehensive EMR for Telehealth

by HITC Staff 04/20/2017 Leave a Comment

PlushCare Launches Fully Comprehensive EMR for Telehealth

PlushCare, a direct-to-consumer online urgent care provider, today announced the launch of Lemur, a EMR platform specifically for the telehealth industry. Lemur - the cloud-based and HIPAA compliant EMR platform - allows PlushCare doctors to diagnose, treat, prescribe and provide ongoing treatment throughout the course of a medical issue directly from the platform itself.Lemur requires the fewest clicks in the industry to complete tasks such as writing a note, sending a prescription (eRx),
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Siemens Healthineers Acquires Medicalis to Expands Its Population Health Portfolio

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Medicalis

Siemens Healthineers, today announced the acquisition of Medicalis Corporation, a provider of Clinical Decision Support (CDS) Solutions at the point of order entry, Imaging Workflow (IW) management, and Referral Management (RM). Financial terms of the transaction are not disclosed.For Siemens Healthineers—the separately managed healthcare business of Siemens AG— the acquisition will expand its Population Health Management (PHM) portfolio to enable healthcare providers to effectively bridge
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Surescripts Launches Sentinel to Measure E-prescription Accuracy

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Health information network Surescripts has announced the launch of Sentinel™ which measures e-prescription accuracy to help patient safety and care quality. Sentinel will raise the bar for patient safety, care quality and workflow efficiency by pinpointing specific areas for improvement and providing analysis of electronic prescribing trends to inform better patient care.With 70% of prescriptions being filled electronically, 1.5 billion on the Surescripts network annually, this monitoring
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HIMSS Acquires Health 2.0 Conferences: 6 Things to Know

by HITC Staff 04/19/2017 Leave a Comment

HIMSS Acquires Health 2.0 Conferences

HIMSS has acquired the conference component of Health 2.0 to expand its global educational offerings to familiar and new audiences, effective immediately. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. Since its first conference in 2007, Health 2.0 2007 and now hosts three annual conferences in the US, with others in Europe and Asia. To date, Health 2.0 has welcomed more than 25,000 conference attendees worldwide, hosted over 4,000 demos, and introduced hundreds of new companies to the
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Health IT VC Funding Reaches $1.6B for Q1 2017: 10 Trends to Know

by Fred Pennic 04/19/2017 Leave a Comment

Health IT VC Funding Q1 17

Health IT VC funding reached $1.6 billion in 165 deals compared to $845 million in 154 deals in Q4 2016, almost doubled quarter-over-quarter (QoQ), according to the latest report from Mercom Capital Group. The report finds that VC funding in Q1 2017 was also up compared to Q1 2016 when nearly $1.4 billion was raised in 146 deals. Since 2010, VC funding in the Healthcare IT sector has now crossed $20 billion (2010 - Q1 2017).Here are ten key trends to know from the Mercom’s latest report:1. The
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Northwell Health Develops Homegrown Real-Time Care Navigation Tool for Patients

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Northwell Health Taps Avizia to Develop Robust, Direct-to-Consumer Telehealth Platform

Northwell Health’s IT department, in conjunction with Northwell Health’s Population Health Management department has developed a new care navigation tools changing the way health care workers assess, monitor and coordinate patient care. The new tool is designed to helped close the care loop for patients while hospitalized – and more importantly – after they are discharged.Available to staff on their laptops through Northwell’s secure network, the care tool delivers real-time notifications to
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Health Record Banking Alliance Joins NATE to Give Patients Control of their Records

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VA Joins NATE Blue Button for Consumers (NBB4C) Trust Bundle

The National Association for Trusted Exchange (NATE), a not-for-profit membership association focused on enabling trusted exchange has welcomed the Health Record Banking Alliance (HRBA) as its newest association member.  HRBA is a non-profit organization founded in 2006 to promote consumer-centered, consumer-controlled, comprehensive, lifetime electronic health records.The Health Record Banking Alliance advocates for a consumer-centered, unified, lifetime electronic health record.  After
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Healthbox Launches Horizon Scan Platform to Help Healthcare Organizations Evaluate Digital Health Solutions

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Healthbox Horizon Scan Platform 1

Healthbox, a Chicago-based healthcare innovation consulting firm and venture capital investment manager, announced the launch of their new platform Horizon Scan to help healthcare organizations optimize their digital health vendor sourcing process. For healthcare organizations, the new Horizon Scan platform will serve as a sourcing tool to successfully find and evaluate innovative digital health solutions.Many healthcare organizations are currently faced with tenuous profit margins and an
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5 Basic Steps for Hospitals to Improve Their Data Security

by D'Arcy Gue, Director of Industry Relations at Medsphere Systems Corporation 04/18/2017 Leave a Comment

Global Healthcare Cybersecurity Spending Expected to Exceed $65B Over 5 Years_Security Data Breaches_Ransomware

If you’re a small healthcare IT operation, a simple spreadsheet might do the trick. If you’re larger, a not-so-simple spreadsheet might be in order.Regardless of how you do it, hospitals, clinics and other healthcare organizations must identify and monitor every single instance of computer network access. They’re called endpoints, says Larry Ponemon, founder of the security consulting firm the Ponemon Institute, and for you they exist as vulnerabilities.Your job is to eliminate them through a
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The Leapfrog Group Unveils Medical Errors Calculator to Estimate Lives and Dollars Impact

by Jasmine Pennic 04/14/2017 Leave a Comment

The Leapfrog Group Unveils Medical Errors Calculator to Estimate Lives and Dollars Impact `

The Leapfrog Group, a nonprofit organization dedicated to quality and safety in healthcare has announced the release of its new Lives and Dollars Lost to Medical Errors Calculator, a new tool that illuminate the impact medical errors have on an employer’s covered population. Originally launched in 2013 as the Hidden Surcharge Calculator, the new interactive tool allows purchasers to estimate the number of avoidable deaths among covered lives; how much they spend annually due to medical errors
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