PrecisionBI, a provider of healthcare analytics, business intelligence and clinical and financial decision has announced a strategic relationship with VitreosHealth, a provider of predictive and prescriptive health insights for population health management.As part of the partnership, PrecisionBI will leveraging VitreosHealth to bring customized care insights to its clients through interactive visualizations and quality metrics that will optimize performance across financial and clinical
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Vocera Acquires Extension Healthcare for $55M to Expand Mobile Platform
Vocera Communications has acquired Fort Wayne, IN-based Extension Healthcare for approximately $55 million in an all-cash transaction. For Vocera, the acquisition will expand the company's product portfolio, differentiate its competitive position, increase its customer base, and expand it's market reach. Founded in 2009, Extension Healthcare is a provider of clinical, event-driven communication and workflow collaboration software for the hospital environment. Its clinical integration software
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ViiMed Taps Redox’s API to Integrate EHRs for Interoperability
ViiMed, a telehealth software provider has partnered with Redox to integrate its platform with all major EHR providers like Epic, Cerner, McKesson, Allscripts, athenahealth, eClinicalWorks, NextGen Healthcare, GE Healthcare, Meditech, Greenway Health, drchrono, and CPSI. The partnership will help healthcare organizations share, access, and connect the right data to make more informed decisions and provide higher-quality care. The cloud-based integration also helps healthcare organizations
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Middleware Shows Potential for Solving Health IT Interoperability Issues
One of the standards for meaningful use of electronic health data is the interoperability of that data; in other words, can the data be accessed and used by providers in any location, as long as they have the proper clearance. This interoperability was the cornerstone of the push for electronic health records, yet it’s proven to be more challenging than most expected. While hospitals and healthcare systems scramble to find solutions, one has risen to the top: Middleware, a type of software that
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Axial Healthcare Raises $16.5M for Data-Driven, Predictive Pain Management
Axial Healthcare, Inc., a pain care solutions company has raised $16.5 million in Series B funding led by Oak HC/FT, a venture growth-equity fund investing in healthcare services. 406 Ventures, BlueCross BlueShield Venture Partners, and Sandbox Advantage Fund, also participated in this latest round of financing. The company will utilize the funding to further drive expansion of axial’s suite of pain management capabilities, including a cloud-based, provider decision-support platform for pain
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Humans Are The Greatest Assets to Healthcare IT Security, Not Technical
Editor’s Note: D’Arcy Guerin Gue is a co-founder of Phoenix, with over 25 years of experience in executive leadership, strategic planning, IT services, knowledge leadership, and industry relations — with a special focus on patient engagement and federal compliance issues. She currently serves as the Director of Industry Relations at Phoenix Health Systems, a division of Medsphere SystemsYou know already that the biggest threat to healthcare IT security is the human element. But if human beings
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Infographic: Protecting Patient Records – the Risks and Costs of Data Loss
As National Cyber Security Awareness Month comes to a close, security software provider Safetica wants to remind healthcare professionals of the growing risks they face when handling a patient’s personal and financial records. Whether intentional or not, more than 200 data breaches involving individual records of at least 500 patients each—a total of approximately 100,000 records—took place last year in the U.S. Consider that the average cost to handle a data breach is $407 per compromised
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TrendShift Acquires Health Data Intelligence to Expand Capabilities in Population Health
Trendshift, a SaaS-based Decision Analytics and Risk Assessment company has acquired the assets of Columbus, OH-based Health Data Intelligence, LLC (“HDI”) for an undisclosed sum. The healthcare analytics and population health management company equips employers, benefit advisors, medical managers and payers with a cloud-based SaaS platform for more effective case management and concrete, risk-based intervention strategies and recommendations for clients.The Population Intelligence™ platform
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Kareo Integrates EHR with GoodRx to Reduce Prescription Drug Costs
Kareo, a cloud-based EHR provider for independent medical practices has launched Kareo Rx Saver, an integrated solution with GoodRx that seamlessly delivers prescription cost savings to patients of physicians. Prescription drug prices often vary significantly across pharmacies, making it difficult for a patient to select the least costly option. To address this problem, Kareo has integrated its clinical EHR with with prescription and drug savings provider GoodRx to present real-time cost
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Allscripts Acquires CarePort to Expand Population Health Platform
Allscripts has acquired CarePort, a Boston-based company that unlocks data from post-acute care providers to better manage care across the continuum. Due to the shift in healthcare reimbursement and legislation focused on delivering critical outcomes, managing post-acute care is now a necessary and integral component of population health strategy.The acquisition of CarePort's post-acute outcomes management platform will expand the capabilities of Allscripts comprehensive population health
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