HIMSS has announced the appointment of Harold “Hal” Wolf III as its new president and CEO, succeeding H. Stephen Lieber. Wolf has served HIMSS for four years: two as an advisor to the board and two additional years as a member of the board of directors, recently as vice chair. He serves as a board member and officer of the International Care Delivery Alliance. His role and accomplishments on the HIMSS board illustrates his abilities to lead HIMSS to new heights as CEO.“Hal Wolf brings to his
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Meritus Health to Spend $100M on Epic EHR Implementation Over Next 5 Years
Meritus Health, a community focused, not-for-profit health care system based in Hagerstown, MD has selected Epic as its strategic partner for a single, integrated EHR across its continuum of care, reports Herald-Mail Media.The Epic EHR implementation is expected to cost $90M to $100M over the next five years that will improve system interoperability, connectivity with patients, access to information and data sharing. The pricey investment is expected to adversely affect Meritus' financial
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CVS Health, Cleveland Clinic Expand Clinical Affiliation for Improve EHR Communication
CVS Health and Cleveland Clinic announced that they have expanded their eight-year clinical affiliation to enhance access to care for patients throughout Northeast Ohio and Florida, and improve quality, coordinated delivery of care and health outcomes for patients. As part of the expanded relationship, CVS Health has joined Cleveland Clinic's Quality Alliance, one of the largest clinically integrated networks of providers collaborating on quality measures that focus on chronic disease
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CHA & PatientPing Statewide Health Data-Sharing Initiative Improves Patient Care in Connecticut
Boston-based PatientPing and the Connecticut Hospital Association (CHA) announced their innovative statewide health data-sharing initiative that gives providers real-time information about where a patient is being treated. The statewide effort is improving patient care across the whole continuum of care—acute, ambulatory, and post-acute facilities—regardless of EMR, provider network, and even state, breaking down institutional barriers that have historically created silos between providers. The
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Southern Inyo Hospital Goes Live on Medsphere’s OpenVista Cloud EHR
Lone Pine, California, based Southern Inyo Hospital has announced that it is now live on Medsphere’s Open Cloud EHR. The critical access hospital serves as the primary source of care for recreationalists visiting numerous outdoor destinations in the area, including Mt. Whitney, Death Valley and the Alabama Hills National Recreation Area. Medsphere's OpenVista EHR is an acute and inpatient behavioral health-oriented portfolio of clinical products and services. On top of public domain computer
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Deaconess Health Integrates Prescription Drug Monitoring Program With EHR
Deaconess Health System, network consisting of six hospitals in southwest Indiana has signed an agreement with Appriss Health to enable integration of prescription drug monitoring program (PDMP) directly into EHRs. The integration via Appriss Health’s PMP Gateway managed service solution enables access to data, analytics, tools and resources from PDMPs within care team workflows in real-time, at the point-of-care, at every patient encounter, to improve patient safety and outcomes. The EHR
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Conversa Integrates With Allscripts CareInMotion Platform
As health systems increasingly focus on patient engagement and satisfaction, Conversa and Allscripts has announced a strategic partnership that gives Allscripts the customer base of more than 2,500 hospitals and health systems access to Conversa’s Conversation Platform. The Conversa integration will serve as the patient-facing touchpoint for Allscripts’ population health management platform, CareInMotion™, and will also be sold as a standalone offering. The partnership includes a long-term
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Chilmark: New Prior Authorization Solutions Can Address Provider-Payer Friction
Prior Authorization is often viewed as the poster child for throwing the Quadruple Aim off balance with its pursuit of cost reduction at the expense of provider experience, but the latest research from Chilmark Research shows that new PA models and maturing PA technology solutions could benefit both providers and payers.Traditionally, primitive PA and its associated impacts account for the great divide in provider-payer relationships. The sheer volume of PA requirements is getting increasingly
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Healthcare Cybersecurity: 10 Tips for Keeping Private Health Data Secure
Healthcare data is some of the most sensitive personal information that exists today. It is also one of the most sought after – and most frequently breached – data types. For organizations across the healthcare industry, protecting health data is proving to be increasingly challenging.Healthcare providers and their business partners must balance protecting patient privacy while delivering quality patient care and meeting the strict regulatory requirements set forth by HIPAA and other
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Surescripts Adds 14 Health Systems to National Record Locator Service
Health information network Surescripts continues to rapidly expand nationwide healthcare interoperability by adding 14 new health systems to its National Record Locator Service (NRLS), including Allegheny Health Network (Pennsylvania), The Institute for Family Health (New York), JPS Health Network (Texas), Metro Health-University of Michigan Health, St. Luke’s Health System (Idaho) and WakeMed Health & Hospitals (North Carolina).These are among the 28 health systems that now have easy access
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