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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Nuance Unveils AI-Powered Virtual Assistant to Improve the Patient/Physician Experience
Nuance Healthcare unveiled a new AI-powered virtual assistant solution aimed at optimizing the experience healthcare providers have with their EHRs and allowing physicians to spend more time focusing on the patient. This latest offering from Nuance builds upon their award winning platform – which 500,000 clinicians use to communicate more than 300 million patient stories a year – delivering a seamless transition of conversational dialogues to actionable information for doctors. Additionally,
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CMS Unveils “New Direction” for Innovation Center to Promote Patient-Centered Care
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has unveiled a “new direction for the Innovation Center” to promote patient-centered care and test market-driven reforms. The goal of this new direction for the CMS Innovation Center will empower beneficiaries as consumers, provide price transparency, increase choices and competition to drive quality, reduce costs, and improve outcomes.The CMS Innovation Center will carefully evaluate how models developed consistent with the new directions
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Caresyntax Lands $11.9M for EHR-Integrated Surgical Analytics Platform
Caresyntax Inc., a Boston, MA-based surgical analytics and integration services company has raised $11.9 million in funding led by Norgine Ventures. The company plans to utilize the funding to establish its first full-time U.S. operations and headquarters in downtown Boston in October with plans to add more than 10 employees by the end of 2017.Partnering with GE, Medtronic and Siemens in the U.S., caresyntax is a sister company of Berlin-based S-CAPE GmbH, a global operating room integration
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Health2047 Partners With Celgene to Enhance Data Liquidity in Healthcare
Health2047, a Silicon Valley-based healthcare innovation enterprise has announced a partnership with Celgene Corporation to develop a new data transfer protocol for healthcare that will be secure, trusted and connected. Given Celgene's deep history and expertise in developing and commercializing life-changing medicines for cancers and inflammatory diseases, Health2047 is excited about collaborating with Celgene as it builds a new data transfer protocol tuned for healthcare.Working together,
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Accenture Joins Hashed Health Blockchain Consortium to Develop Industry Use Cases for Blockchain
Hashed Health has added Accenture as a member of the Hashed Health Blockchain Consortium, a group of leading health companies focused on accelerating innovation with blockchain and distributed ledger technologies, as announced today at the Distributed: Health 2017 conference. As a consortium member, Accenture will focus its efforts on developing industry use cases for blockchain and distributed ledger technologies and identify opportunities where organizations can implement solutions at
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