With January barely behind us and new occupants in the White House, perhaps it’s a good time to set aside what might change for a moment and focus on what must. Interoperability is a more urgent concern in 2017 due to goals established last year by the Office of the National Coordinator (ONCHIT) and the passage of the 21st Century Cures Act, which legally requires healthcare IT interoperability by the end of the current calendar year.The Interoperability Standards Advisory for 2017, released by
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Ascensia Diabetes Care, Glooko Partner to Integrate Diabetes Data for Consumers
Ascensia Diabetes Care and Glooko, a remote patient monitoring platform for diabetes has announced an integration partnership to improve diabetes data management and analytics. The integration includes Glooko's Diabetes Data Management Platform and Ascensia's blood glucose monitoring systems that will allow people with diabetes and health care professionals to access and analyze highly accurate blood glucose data through the digital platform of their choice. The collaboration includes all
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DrFirst Acquires VisibilityRx to Optimize Clinical Trial Recruitment
DrFirst, a provider of electronic prescribing, integrated medication management and secure communication for healthcare has acquired Duluth, GA-based VisibilityRx, a provider of clinical trial recruitment services to life sciences, clinical research organizations and pharmacies. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. For DrFirst, the acquisition provides 60,000 physician clients the ability to easily identify and refer their patients to the latest clinical trials and
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King’s College Hospital London to Implement Cerner’s Millennium EHR & Revenue Cycle
dbai. The overall aim of the Cerner implementation will support UAE Vision 2021 National Agenda, a national program developed to advance national priorities and achieve a world-class health care system. Cerner EHR Implementation DetailsThe Cerner Millennium EHR will be implemented across King’s Dubai, a 100-bed, multi-specialty hospital set to open in 2018 at the heart of the premium community, Dubai Hills Estate, and two multi-specialty clinics. The EHR is designed to support an individual’s
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KLAS: Population Health Vendors Lack Robust Solutions, but Agree with Providers on Roadmap for Progress
Editor's Note: Bradley Hunter is the Research Director of Population Health at KLAS Research. As population health management goes mainstream, providers need robust, integrated software solutions to aggregate and analyze data, coordinate care, engage patients and clinicians, and provide full administrative and financial functionality. Providers report that vendors fall short of what they need, according to the recently published KLAS Research 2016 Population Health Management Perception Report.
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Harris Corporation Unloads Government IT Services Business for $690M in Cash
Private equity firm Veritas Capital has agreed to acquire Harris Corporation’s government IT services business for $690 million in cash. The transaction is subject to regulatory review and other customary closing conditions and is expected to close in the second quarter of 2017.Headquartered in Herndon, Virginia, Harris’ government health IT business helps healthcare organizations achieve better patient outcomes by increasing interoperability, making clinical and administrative workflow more
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Concept Plus Acquires Federal Health IT Management Services Firm Thao, Inc.
Concept Plus, LLC (Concept Plus), a professional services firm specializing in the comprehensive design, implementation, and maintenance of IT initiatives for the Federal Government has acquired health IT management firm Thao, Inc. (THAOINC). THAOINC provides health IT services and program management support exclusively to federal healthcare customers through its highly skilled staff. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. Founded in 2010 by Thao Sofo, THAOINC offers
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eClinicalWorks Integrates Qardio’s Smart Blood Pressure Monitor With EHR Platform
Ambulatory EHR provider eClinicalWorks has announced integration with Qardio's medically accurate health monitoring devices to deliver patient health monitoring to support over 125k physicians in the USA and abroad. The integration partnership benefits both doctors using eClinicalWorks system and their patients. Doctors get deeper insights into their patients health while patients save time and cost by reducing routine or unnecessary doctor’s visits.Integration DetailsThrough this integration
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Stanford Researchers Develop Deep Learning Algorithm to Diagnose Skin Cancer
Computer scientists at Stanford have created a deep learning algorithm to visually diagnose skin cancer that matched the performance of board-certified dermatologists, Stanford News reports. According to a recent paper published in the Jan. 25 issue of Nature, the final product based on a database of nearly 130,000 skin disease images was tested against 21 board-certified dermatologists and successfully matched the performance of the dermatologists in diagnosing the most common and deadliest
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Optimum Healthcare IT Lands Apotti Finland Contract to Provide Epic Consulants
Healthcare IT staffing and consulting services firm Optimum Healthcare IT has been selected by Apotti in Finland to provide specialized Epic Consultants to support the Epic EHR implementation in the area’s 29 hospitals. The Apotti project is a co-operation between the local governments of Helsinki and the surrounding regions of Vantaa, Kirkkonummi, and Kauniainen, and the hospital district of Helsinki and Uusimaa (HUS).The goal of the Apotti project is to create a unified healthcare program that
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