Patient engagement is easy, right? Just create a portal and tell patients it’s there.Of course, no one who puts a little thought into this idea believes it can be so simple. Healthcare isn’t “Field of Dreams,” after all. We can build it. They still might not come.But we still need to try and understand why, as this 2014 Health Affairs study found, the increased use of EHR technology has not created a parallel increase in electronic communication among patients and clinicians. In short, if
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SSM Health Goes Live on Surescripts National Record Locator Service
Today, Surescripts announced that it has activated more than 10,000 SSM Health clinicians in Illinois, Missouri and Oklahoma on its National Record Locator Service, to locate patient records and obtain a more complete view of the health of a patient, regardless of where the patient received care.Imagine the scenario: you are visiting the Chicago area, and you fall ill and have to visit the ER at one of SSM Health’s many hospitals in the region. You’re too ill to properly remember your complete
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5 Hospital Executives Share Advice on Building Successful Epic EHR Teams
The decision to buy and implement an Epic EHR is typically one of the largest strategic investments a provider will make, and much of the cost is an investment in people.A large-scale Epic implementation requires the significant hiring and training of hundreds of IT professionals to design, build, maintain, upgrade and optimize the EHR.Challenges of Hiring Epic ProfessionalsFor most providers, hiring quality Epic professionals at scale presents a number of challenges, especially in the highly
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SAP Purchases $18M Worth of Stock into Castlight Health
SAP has purchased purchased 4.76 million shares of newly issued Class B common stock in Castlight Health, a leading health benefits platform provider. The purchase results in SAP holding 4.7% post-issuance of the currently-outstanding common shares of Castlight, at a price per share of $3.77, for approximately $18 million in cash. SAP also received a warrant in connection with its stock purchase, under which SAP has the right to purchase an additional 1.9 million shares of Castlight Health Class
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Accenture Intelligent Patient Platform Integrates with Salesforce Health Cloud
Accenture has teamed up with Salesforce to integrate its Accenture Intelligent Patient Platform with Salesforce Health Cloud, giving life science and healthcare providers the ability to deliver a personalized patient experience. The Salesforce Health Cloud integration gives life sciences companies and healthcare providers the ability to support more informed patient decisions, help increase patient engagement across their caregiver networks, and more efficiently manage patient data.The Accenture
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EHR Hosting Vendor ITelagen Acquires Acquires Competitor Planet Logic
ITelagen, an IT Support and Hosting service for healthcare providers and practices, announced today that they will be acquiring Planet Logic, a Newton, New Jersey based healthcare cloud hosting company. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed and it is expected to close on May 31, 2016. The acquisition complements ITelagen 's IT and EHR Support and Hosting Services with Planet Logic's custom healthcare solutions. The union of these organizations will allow for an acceleration of
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Philips Lands 8 Year, $36M Deal with MUSC Health to Transform Patient Monitoring
Today, Philips announced an eight-year, $36 million dollar deal with the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) Health to transform and improve its patient monitoring system. Through an enterprise managed services model, Philips will install, integrate, and manage patient monitoring systems (including consumables) and software, as well as providing maintenance, training, and consulting services within a structured monthly payment model. The deal makes MUSC the fifth long-term, strategic
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4 Critical Success Factors for Hospitals Deploying Mobile Communication
63 percent of hospitals and health systems surveyed have deployed or plan to deploy a mobile communications platform supporting more than 500 smartphones over the next 12 to 18 months, according to study conducted by Spyglass Consulting Group. The report, "Large-scale Smartphone-based deployments enable hospital-wide communications" identifies the market opportunities and challenges for hospital IT shops to widely deploy a smartphone‐based communications platform to support patient care teams
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Anthem Unveils New Health Innovation Studio in Atlanta
This week, Anthem Inc. unveiled its new health Innovation Studio in midtown Atlanta’s Technology Square. The 6,500 square feet studio will house a multi-disciplinary team focused on creating new digital health solutions to enhance the consumer health care experience, improve the quality of care, and lower health care costs.The Innovation Studio work will focus on further advancing Anthem’s three strategic pillars: I. consumer experienceII. managing the cost of careIII. Provider
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Livongo Health to Offer Public Wisconsin Employees Access to Diabetes Management Program
Livongo Health, a consumer digital health company has teamed up with WEA Trust to provide public employees in Wisconsin access to its end to end diabetes management program. The goal of the partnership is to improve the quality of life and high cost of care for Trust members with diabetes.“Engaging members to track their diabetes regularly and then giving them real-time feedback is essential to managing care and cost, ” said Dr. Tim Bartholow, WEA Trust’s Chief Medical Officer.Partnership
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