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
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
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
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
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?
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
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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Dimensional Insight Unveils Big Data Speed Engine to Optimize Performance in Healthcare
Dimensional Insight, a developer of business intelligence (BI) solutions for complex and highly regulated industries, today announced the launch of Spectre as part of Version 7.0 of its award-winning BI platform, Diver Platform™. The powerful data engine is built on the latest columnar database technology, which enables the greatest speed and efficiency for the most used analytics features. With the addition of Spectre, the latest version of the company’s flagship product is now faster,
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Mount Sinai Taps Kyruus’ Patient-Provider Matching to Streamline Referral Process
Mount Sinai Health System has selected Kyruus, a provider search and scheduling solution to implement its ProviderMatch for Access Centers and KyruusOne provider data management to help streamline the referral process and help match referrals to the most clinical appropriate provider. The partnership ensures that Mount Sinai’s Physician Access Services team, which currently handles appointments for nearly 700 providers, has detailed provider profiles, user-friendly Smart Search capabilities,
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Patient Portals: Build Them Well And They Will Come
Editor's Note: D'Arcy Gue is Director of Industry Relations for Medsphere Systems Corporation, an OpenVista EHR solution that leverages the VA's proven VistA EHR system.Let’s face it, there will always be a segment of your patient population that just isn't interested in using a patient portal. But with so much of life now conducted online, the good news is that robust design and usefulness will engage most patients.Over time, a portal should become the foundation for more extensive electronic
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