athenahealth is teaming up with electronic prior authorization (“ePA”) platform CoverMyMeds for prescriptions that will automate the ePA process for providers using the athenaClinicals electronic health record service.Of the estimated 185 million prescriptions a year in the U.S. that require prior authorization from payers, 40 percent are eventually abandoned. One reason is because the process to determine insurance coverage is extremely time-consuming, involving phone calls and faxes between
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EHR Optimization: Necessary Because EHRs Are Never “Done”
Regardless of how well or poorly your EHR was installed, EHR optimization ensures that your healthcare organization's EHR is changing with it.Why, if over 95 percent of hospitals have implemented EHRs, are so many planning to invest in improvements or replacements this year? A new Healthcare IT News survey of hospital executives showed that 24 percent are conducting a major EHR system upgrade, and 21 percent are replacing their EHR at one or more sites. KPMG’s survey of CHIME members last month
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GE Healthare Taps eMedApps to Securely Access Stored Patient Info From Devices for Centricity EMR Customers
GE Healthcare has partnered with eMedApps as part of the GE Healthcare Centricity partner program that offers a comprehensive business continuity solution to GE Centricity EMR customers. eMedApps’ partnership with GE Healthcare will provide customers with an efficient and innovative contingency solution that allows clinicians, schedulers, and administrative staff to securely access stored patient information from any device – including mobile devices – whether their Centricity EMR is available
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Intermountain Healthcare Innovation Fund Invests $1M In Redox to Leverage EHR API Integration
Redox, an EHR integration API platform for developers and healthcare organizations has received $1 million in strategic follow-on funding from Intermountain Innovation Fund, a strategic investment vehicle of Intermountain Healthcare. The additional $1 million closes the company's Series B round to $10 million. The Intermountain Healthcare Innovation Fund is managed by Healthbox , a platform for healthcare innovation and entrepreneurship that works with healthcare organizations to advance their
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OM1 Raises $15M to Expand Healthcare Outcome Analytics Platform
OM1(formerly known as Better Outcomes), a Boston, MA-based healthcare outcome analytics company has raised $15M in Series A funding led by General Catalyst with participation from Glikvest, 7wire Ventures and Wanxiang Healthcare Investments. The company plans to utilize the funding to build out its tech platform that leverages big data and artificial intelligence (AI) to provide stakeholders with an analytics platform to have a holistic view and better understanding of real-world healthcare
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Why NLP-Driven Platforms Are Vital For Next-Gen Healthcare Analytics
Years ago, you’d ask your doctor during his house call, “What’s in your black bag?” and you’d get to peek inside.Old Faithful: The Medical “Black Bag”Now that MD has been replaced by a telehealth practitioner who arrives by video. And the “black bag” is virtual, attracting many providers and executives who are beginning to use it. It’s harder to peek in, but a more relevant question is, “How will the new technologies inside drive value-based care for providers and health plan payers alike?”It
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drchrono Lands $12M for Mobile EHR Platform to Create A Better Experience for Physicians & Patients
Mobile EHR provider drchrono has raised $12 million in Series A funding led by Runa Capital with participation from Maxfield Capital, Eric Dunn (CEO of Quicken Inc. and Intuit’s first CTO), and FundersClub. Andre Bliznyuk from Runa Capital and Oleg Koujikov from Maxfield Capital have joined the drchrono board of directors as part of this funding round. The company plans to utilize the funding to invest in their EHR platform, talent acquisition, operation expansion to support their growth demand
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Bon Secours Taps Tonic Health to Implement Patient Intake And Payments Platform Across Ambulatory Network
Bon Secours Virginia Health System has selected Tonic Health to implement its cloud-based patient data collection and payments platform across its ambulatory network. Bon Secours Virginia chose Tonic to digitize and integrate its largely paper-based intake and payments process. By simplifying patient check-in, Bon Secours frees up staff and clinicians to spend more time directly helping patients rather than being burdened with administrative tasks. The Tonic platform will be integrated with Bon
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Mercy ACO Taps Innovaccer to Drive End-To-End Value-Based Care Initiatives in Iowa
Mercy Accountable Care Organization (ACO), one of the largest ACOs in the state of Iowa has selected Innovaccer Inc., a Silicon Valley-based healthcare analytics company to drive end-to-end value-based care initiatives statewide. As part of the selection, Mercy ACO will implement Innovaccer’s proprietary platform ‘Datashop’ which is an integrated data warehouse for all clinical, financial, lab, pharmacy, and immunization data and port data. This will enable Mercy ACO to manage all of their
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Intermedix Acquires WPC Healthcare to Optimize Revenue Cycle Through Predictive Analytics
Intermedix Corporation, a provider of data analytics and cloud-based technology has acquired healthcare data analytics provider WPC Healthcare. The Nashville, TN-based data analytics company uses machine learning to make predictions about health care conditions providing early notification to health care providers and, ultimately, saving lives while decreasing costs. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. In 2015, Intermedix announced the creation of its analytics business
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