Research shows us that security breaches can greatly impact a healthcare organization’s reputation. Unfortunately, healthcare leaders are stuck in the cross hairs of consumers and hackers. While consumers want transparency, access to information and assurance their personal information will remain safe, hackers are busy compromising patient information at a faster speed than ever before.As healthcare IT organizations strive to become more accessible and “open” to support patient engagement
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Evolving Hacker Behaviors to Disrupt Healthcare Services
Most people don’t spend much time thinking about what complex organizations hospitals are. Whether anticipating the joyful arrival of a newborn baby or worrying about an unexpected illness or injury, hospital visitors aren’t usually thinking about cybersecurity. Even most hospital employees only see a piece of the big picture, with little reason to consider operational risk.But lots of people are indeed losing sleep over cyber threats to patient safety — IT administrators and clinical engineers
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Redox Unveils Single Sign-On Integration for Digital Health Vendors
Today Redox, healthcare's leading integration platform, announced the launch of a new module: Redox Single Sign-On (R^SSO). With R^SSO enabled, clinicians can launch third-party applications directly from a patient's chart without needing to re-enter their username and password. While single-sign-on (SSO) solutions have been in place for some time, most of them are focused on the needs of healthcare organizations at an enterprise level. This creates tremendous inconsistency for digital health
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Osler Health Selects Innovaccer to Leverage Healthcare Data Platform
New Jersey’s Osler Health, a nationally recognized leader in accountable care, has partnered with Innovaccer Inc. to elevate their ability to leverage data-driven healthcare and deliver high quality care more efficiently. Osler’s collaboration with the leading San Francisco-based healthcare data platform company aims to integrate disconnected datasets for data-driven insights.A network of over 200 providers, Osler Health, has consistently prioritized information transparency and interoperable
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Aspire, LG Health Launches $300M Precision Medicine Fund for Personalized Devices
Aspire Universal, a private equity firm and venture company today announced the establishment of the $300M Aspire Ventures Precision Medicine Fund (AVP) to accelerate innovation for personalized devices and medical practices. Precision medicine is one of the most important transformations ever to come to medicine, and by shifting away from one-size-fits-all solutions, precision medicine offers personalized solutions that deliver better experiences and better outcomes at a lower cost. The AVP
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4 Ways Hospitals Should Approach Buying Healthcare IT Systems Today
I’m proud to lead a group of intelligent and energetic technology professionals committed to developing a robust healthcare IT system that is (1) easy for clinicians to use, (2) improves patient health and (3) doesn’t bankrupt hospital budgets. We think any sustainable system must have those three key requirements.And how is healthcare doing thus far?The EHRs available today are developing rapidly. Vendors are making frequent and impactful improvements to improve system usability. Clinicians are
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Spok and Bernoulli Health Partner to Boost Clinical Alarm Management
Spok, Inc., a provider of healthcare communications, today announced a partnership with Bernoulli® Health, the developer of the advanced Bernoulli One™ clinical surveillance, medical device integration (MDI), and real-time data analytics platform. This partnership, Spok Alarm Surveillance powered by Bernoulli, will boost clinical alarm management by capturing and evaluating real-time patient data and alarms from multiple clinical systems and delivering actionable alerts to the right caregiver
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Beacon Health Expands Revenue Cycle Services with R1 RCM
Beacon Health System, a South Bend, IU-based regional healthcare provider have signed a multi-year agreement with R1 RCM to provide additional revenue cycle management services to address its needs. Under terms of the agreement, Beacon Health is adding Revenue Capture Services (RCS) to the existing High Yield services in place. Utilizing a unique technology and robust team of revenue cycle experts, RCS provides products such as charge capture, coding review and others aimed at identifying
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62% of Hospitals are Not Using Patient Information Outside Their EHRs
As nearly every U.S. hospital has an electronic health record system installed, sixty-two percent of¬¬ hospitals aren't using patient information outside their EHRs in Q1 2018, according to a new survey conducted by Black Book Market Research. The report reveals hospitals are still struggling with exchanging patient health records with other healthcare providers, particularly physicians not on the same EHR platform. In fact, twenty-four percent say they are still unable to use much meaningful
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The Often-Overlooked Role of Provider Data Management in Population Health
Editor’s Note: Erin Jospe, MD is the Chief Medical Officer at Kyruus, a leader in provider search and scheduling solutions, helping health systems optimize patient access enterprise-wide.Health systems today have access to a tremendous amount of data with which to understand their patient populations better. The population health movement represents a paradigm shift away from merely generating data, to now harnessing it as a means through which to understand the factors and determinants
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