Eli Lilly and Companyand Livongo Health, a consumer digital health company focused on empowering all people with chronic conditions to live better and healthier lives has teamed up on a new strategic collaboration to study real-world evidence and develop new insights to reduce the burden on people living with diabetes.The research collaboration will combine real-world behavioral studies and claims data to advance knowledge about effective interventions in diabetes care. The companies aim to
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A 3-Step Roadmap to Win Over Healthcare Consumers in 2018
According to Accenture, “U.S. hospitals that deliver “superior” customer experience achieve net margins that are 50 percent higher, on average, than those hospitals providing “average” customer experience.” However, as of 2017, many healthcare provider organizations continue to lag behind more progressive industries when it comes to digital consumer experience enablement, opting for traditional, outdated marketing tactics that don’t meet today’s consumers’ expectations for doing business. In
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OptimizeRx Expands Partnership with Allscripts for Real-Time Clinical Messaging
OptimizeRx Corp, a provider of digital health messaging, has expanded its partnership with Allscripts Healthcare which now includes a variety of real-time messaging to Allscripts ambulatory platforms. The agreement includes financial, informational, and clinical messaging delivered at the point-of-care through Allscripts ePrescribe, Allscripts Professional EHR and Allscripts TouchWorks EHR solutions.Allscripts’ EHR and ePrescribing (eRx) network totals more than 180,000 physicians across 45,000
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Cerner Appoints Brent Shafer As Its New CEO & Chairman
Cerner, today announced that it has appointed Brent Shafer as its new CEO and chairman of the board of directors, effective February 1. Cerner Co-Founder Cliff Illig, who has served as interim CEO and chairman of the board since July 2017, will resume his role as vice chairman of the board, effective February 1.Previously Shafer served as the CEO of Philips North America where he oversaw the largest market of global technology provider Philips. Philips North America’s health technology
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Kyruus Joins Epic App Orchard To Enable Seamless Scheduling
Kyruus, a provider search and scheduling solutions for health systems, announced yesterday that the company has joined the Epic App Orchard to enable seamless scheduling. Hospital systems using Epic’s EHR platform and Kyruus’ DirectBook solution now have the capability of accessing Kyruus’ ProviderMatch- which matches patients with the right providers across points of entry- and can find the right providers and book directly into their underlying scheduling systems without leaving
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Arcadia Healthcare Integrates Aggregated Data Into MEDITECH’s Web EHR
Enterprise EHR vendor MEDITECH has announced a collaboration with Arcadia Healthcare Solutions to integrate aggregated data into MEDITECH's Web EHR and Analytics solution for improved population health management. This integration is a major step forward in the blend of MEDITECH's enterprise clinical database, which spans across the healthcare continuum, with claims data, other-vendor EHR data, and additional Arcadia-derived elements. MEDITECH chose Arcadia based on its leadership position as a
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VA Awards $260M Telehealth Contract to Provide Telehealth Services to Veterans
1Vision LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of HMS TECHNOLOGIES, INC. has been awarded an estimated $260 million contract by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to deliver home telehealth solutions. As part of the contract, 1Vision has exclusively partnered with AMC Health to implement its virtual health and remote patient monitoring solution. The AMC Health offering enables veterans to automatically transmit information including vital sign measurements such as weight, blood pressure, blood
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Innovaccer Launches EMR-Integrated Point of Care Solution for Physicians
There is an epidemic of physician burnout in the US healthcare landscape. It has a pervasive negative effect on all aspects of medical care with complex nature of EMRs arguably being the major reason for it. For many physicians, the current state of EHR technology is dividing physicians' focus with information overload, data entry, and less on value-based care.To that front, Innovaccer is launching Innovaccer InAssist, a point-of-care tool for physicians which smartly integrates with a
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NTT DATA, Pieces Integrate to Expand NLP AI-Based Solutions
NTT DATA Services, a leader in global technology services, today announced it has partnered with Pieces Technologies, a pioneer in clinical artificial intelligence (AI), to help clients improve the quality and decrease the cost of patient care with natural language and AI-based solutions.NTT DATA Services will integrate the Pieces™ Decision Sciences (DS) software into its comprehensive portfolio that includes data integration services, analytics capabilities, cloud services and transformation
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Predictive Technology Group to Acquire FlagshipHealth Group
Predictive Technology Group, Inc., a provider of data analytics for disease identification and subsequent therapeutic intervention through unique biotechnology treatments has finalized an arrangement for the acquisition of FlagshipHealth Group, a Minneapolis-based provider of sales and consulting services for the healthcare industry.The business combination provides essential resources for Predictive Technology Group to develop, launch, and grow its services directed at limiting disease and
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