Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center, Hartford, Connecticut, has been awarded with the Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (EMRAM) Stage 7 Award. The award represents Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center's attainment of the highest level on the Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model™ (EMRAM). “Achieving EMRAM Stage 7 validates that we are using our technology to provide safer, more efficient, cost-effective and higher quality care for our patients,” said John F. Rodis, M.D.,
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Healthcare Ransomware: Why Providers Should Not Pay the Ransom
Editor's Note: Dean Wiech is the Managing Director of Tools4ever, a global provider of access management and governance solutions.Healthcare is simply in the crosshairs of some really nefarious people. You’d have to be living under a rock to have missed the comments on everything that has been happening in the sector. The daily headlines include such news as “Hospital declares State of Emergency after ransomware infection”; “Hospital pays ransom to get data back”; “Dangerous escalation in
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Factom Lands Grant to Create Secure Medical Records using Blockchain
Factom, an Austin, TX-based blockchain technology company offering data management and record keeping support for business has received a grant from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to secure medical records that are persistent, readily available, and reliable. Founded in 2000, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Global Health Division aims to harness advances in science and technology to save lives in developing countries.Factom's blockchain technology builds globally distributed records
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Study: Pharma Companies Lose $637B Due to Medication Nonadherence
Pharmaceutical companies forfeit an estimated $637 billion a year to medication nonadherence, according to new research paper released by HealthPrize Technologies. The findings builds upon a research paper originally co-authored by HealthPrize and Capgemini Consulting in 2012. At that time, global revenue losses were being estimated at $564 billion annually. HealthPrize Technologies today announced the publication of an update to a research paper co-authored with Capgemini estimating annual
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ContextMedia Acquires AccentHealth To Boost Healthcare Decision Platform
ContextMedia, a healthcare decision platform has acquired AccentHealth, a patient education at the point of care platform in an all-cash purchase. The acquisition will make ContextMedia the largest healthcare decision platform at the point of care in the United States to power 500 million outpatient consultations a year.The company projects that it will have market share in seventy percent of all practices in the U.S. by 2020.Founded in 2006 by Rishi Shah and Shradha Agarwal, ContextMedia
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UCSF Taps referralMD to Reduce Patient Wait Times
University of California at San Francisco, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (UCSF-OMS) has partnered with ReferralMD, an enterprise patient access platform to reduce patient wait times. As part of the partnership, UCSF has implemented ReferralMD's patient access platform to provide regular feedback to referring providers, prevent lost referrals, and centralize their referral management process. Prior to going live with ReferralMD, UCSF-OMS received faxed referrals from hundreds of
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CareCloud Lands $31.5M for Cloud-based Practice Management EHR Platform
Cloud-based practice management EHR provider CareCloud has raised $31.5 million in Series C funding led by Blue Cloud Ventures with participation from The PNC Financial Services Group and First Data Corporation. The company plans to utilize the latest round of funding to scale its team and its clinical and revenue cycle management platform to help physician practices modernize the patient experience and deliver value-based care. CareCloud supports medical practices through a flexible and
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Mount Sinai Launches Patient Experience App for Android
Mount Sinai Health System has announced the launch of the Android version of its mobile app for patients, called MountSinaiNY. Developed by Mount Sinai’s Department of Information Technology, MountSinaiNY serves as a one-touch patient experience, featuring information and links that make it easier to access and use health services offered at the Mount Sinai Health System. The app was first released in the Apple App Store in June 2016. Mount Sinai chose LifeMap Solutions, a subsidiary of
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Cerner Integrates American Well’s Telehealth Platform with EHR
Cerner has announced a telehealth agreement with American Well to integrate American Well's telehealth platform with Cerner’s EHR. As part of the integration, the integrated EHR-telehealth solution will be available to current and future Cerner and American Well clients to manage the health and care of patients beyond the walls of the health system.Patients will now have the ability to interact with the solution through Cerner’s HealtheLifeSM patient engagement portal, which is designed to
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UAB Medicine Taps Kyruus for Patient-Provider Matching
UAB Medicine has selected Kyruus for ProviderMatch for Access Centers and KyruusOne to create a single point of access to provider data and enhance patient provider matching. This partnership ensures that UAB Medicine will have a robust, accurate provider database and streamlined scheduling procedures to help match patients with the right doctor at the right time, which will better outcomes, enhance the patient experience and improve operational efficiency. UAB Medicine needed to find an
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