It’s long past time for the U.S. health system to improve care for our behavioral health patient population.With every headline about our country’s mental health crisis or opioid crisis, this painful reality becomes more apparent – and as time passes, more expensive. At $201 billion annually, mental disorders top the list of the most costly conditions in the U.S., according to Health Affairs. The economic toll of the opiate crisis alone has exceeded $1 trillion since 2001, according to research
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Sturdy Memorial Signs 7-Year Agreement to Implement Cerner EHR
Sturdy Memorial Hospital (SMH), a full-service independent community hospital has signed a 7-year agreement to implement Cerner’s EHR platform at its 132-bed hospital in Attleboro, Massachusetts. Through this agreement, SMH will use Cerner CommunityWorks, a cloud-based deployment model, tailored to help community health care organizations securely manage patient health history, including clinical and financial data. The software deployed through this model is designed to support transparency
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Livongo Taps Amazon Lex to Power Voice-Enabled Hypertension System
Livongo unveils new voice-enabled cellular blood pressure monitoring system powered by Amazon Lex and Amazon PollyApplied health signals company Livongo Health, today unveiled their new voice-enabled hypertension system powered by Amazon during their invitation-only conference SIGNUM 2019 in San Francisco, CA. As voice increasingly becomes one of the preferred ways people interact with technology, Livongo will leverage Amazon Lex and Amazon Polly to power its voice-enabled cellular blood
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SCL Health, Zocdoc Launches Real-Time Online Appointment Booking
SCL Health has launched real-time online appointment booking and verified physician reviews powered by Zocdoc, offering its patients seamless, anytime access to a select group of SCL Health providers. The announcements mark SCL Health as the first health system in the Colorado-Montana region to partner with Zocdoc.Partnership DetailsThrough this partnership, patients will be able to find and digitally schedule appointments with participating SCL Health providers any time of day, even when the
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Medsphere Acquires ED EHR Provider Wellsoft
Medsphere Systems Corporation, a provider of affordable and interoperable healthcare information technology (IT) solutions and services, today announced the acquisition of Wellsoft Corporation, a Somerset, NJ-based Emergency Department (ED) EHR provider. Wellsoft offers complete information management software for the challenging environment of the Emergency Department to improve operational efficiencies, productivity, care coordination, and revenue in Emergency Departments throughout the
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The State of EHR Data in the Midst of The Real-World Evidence Evolution
It’s time to search for answers beyond the structured fields of your EHR. Dan Riskin explains.“Wave” is a perfect word to describe the swell that is big data because it’s quite oceanic in the sense that it’s everywhere, but that doesn’t mean it’s readily consumable. Ubiquity is both the critical asset and challenge that big data brings to healthcare. It’s also the muse that has innovators not just thinking outside the box when it comes to creating HIT solutions but searching for valuable data
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CDC Recognizes Lark Health’s A.I. Diabetes Prevention Program
Lark Health, a chronic disease prevention platform, today announced that its AI-based Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) has received Full Recognition status from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. CDC Full Recognition is the highest level of clinical recognition for the DPP, and Lark is now the only DPP that uses cutting edge A.I. to be awarded this recognition.Lark's DPP is the second-largest in the country and one of the fastest-growing. Lark's A.I. platform is augmented by
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Optimizing Opioid Management Through Health IT
From cancer care and chronic pain management to emergency care, dental care and episodic pain management – the use of opioids have reached a national platform because of its potentially devastating effects.The CDC reports the significance of its rise in the U.S.:- From 1999 to 2017, almost 400,000 people died from an overdose involving an opioid, including prescription and illicit opioids.- Around 68% of the more than 70,200 drug overdose deaths in 2017 involved an opioid.- In 2017, the number
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Overcoming Piecemeal EHR Problems with Integration, Insight and Engagement
My father, Jeffry, and I manage our own dermatology practice in Colorado Springs. In addition to our genes, we share a lot in common: we were both in the military, and we had the same vision for the Colorado Dermatology Institute: a streamlined, full-service private practice that’s focused on providing attentive, personal care.Unfortunately, our initial technology solutions – electronic health record (EHR) and practice management software – were too piecemeal to facilitate our vision.
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Survey: Physicians Generate an Average $2.4 Million a Year Per Hospital
Physicians generated an average of $2,378,727 per year in net revenue on behalf of their affiliated hospitals, according to a recent survey. Conducted by Merritt Hawkins, a physician search firm and a company of AMN Healthcare, the survey asked hospital chief financial officers to quantify how much revenue physicians in 18 specialties generated for their hospitals in the previous 12 months. The findings include both net inpatient and outpatient revenue derived from patient hospital admissions,
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