PokitDok, an API platform to free, secure, and unify data has acquired the pharmacy and software assets of Oration PBC. The acquisition enables PokitDok to complete support for delivery of essential commercial pharmacy benefit data, via its APIs, so organizations, providers and consumers have tools to make better healthcare and treatment decisions. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.To augment its existing pharmacy and clearinghouse services, this strategic purchase grants
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3 Reasons Why Cloud Computing Makes It Easier on Hospital Administrators
Editor's Note: Richard Sullivan is the chief operations officer for Medsphere Systems Corporation, the solution provider for the OpenVista electronic health record.Is there anyone left to passionately defend onsite data centers?Perhaps, but attendance at advocacy meetings is probably sparse. Soon, the onsite data center proponents will get lumped with eight-track tape aficionados and supporters of leeches as medical technology.While some hospitals still maintain local data centers, recent
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Sutter Health Launches $20M Innovation Center to Foster Healthcare Transformation
A Silicon Valley couple has donated to $20 million to Sutter Health to establish an innovation center focused on human-centered care. The Michael and Judith Gaulke Innovation Hatchery Endowment Fund at Sutter Health will serve as an incubator identifying innovative solutions to healthcare challenges, validating their effectiveness in real-world provider settings and integrating them into patient care as quickly and safely as possible. Sutter's Innovation Hatchery will validate innovative ideas
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Revenue Integrity: Realizing the Promise of Hospital/Physician Integration
Editor's Note: Dan Ward is the VP of Strategy at ZirMed, a company empowering healthcare organizations to optimize revenue and population health with an end-to-end platform of cloud-based financial and clinical performance management solutions. HIT consultants see firsthand the growing pains of health systems as they increasingly purchase or partner with physician practices. While the aim is to increase efficiency, avoid duplication, lower costs and improve care, the reality is often very
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eClinicalWorks Adds TeleVisits Functionality to EHR-Integrated App Healow
eClinicalWorks’ TeleVisits is now live on the company’s healow mobile app. This feature is integrated within the eClinicalWorks comprehensive EHR system and supports workflow, clinical research and improves patient satisfaction with access to care whenever and wherever it’s needed.Available on Android or Apple, healow is a fully integrated solution that closes the loop between providers and their patients when they are away from their physician offices. healow Hub brings patient-recorded data
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Black Book: Population Health Solutions Will Double As Next-Gen Accounting Systems in the Future
90% of healthcare leaders revealed that future population health solutions will essentially double as next-generation accounting system, according to a recent Black Book survey. Ideally, these PHM solutions will be able to identify a plethora of patient groups and predict where, when and how to best engage them. In addition, they should have the ability to coordinate care across the entire healthcare continuum, support care team collaboration and measure the activities, outcomes and overall
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Einstein Healthcare to Deploy Teladoc Across Network Hospital System
Teladoc announced today that Einstein Healthcare Network (Einstein), a leading healthcare provider in the greater Philadelphia area, has chosen Teladoc telehealth technology and licensable solution across its extensive network hospital systems. The Teladoc’ Readiness Assessment tool was a driving factor in Einstein’s selection of Teladoc, and will be a key component in establishing a telehealth rollout beginning with 8,500 employees.The Teladoc Readiness Assessment tool is unique to the
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Aegis and Clariture Merge to Form Trilliant Health
Aegis, a technology enabled company that develops and implements revenue growth strategies for hospitals has merged with Clariture, a data-driven healthcare digital marketing platform to form Trilliant Health. As part of the merger, Clariture and Aegis will become the first two business units of Trilliant Health that intends to build a portfolio of diverse healthcare technology services united by a single mission: to make hospitals stronger.As a result of the merger, Martin Ventures, which
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iCare to Integrate Zynx Health’s HL7 FHIR Standard API to Receive Evidence-based Content
iCare, an enterprise cloud EHR company, has selected Zynx Health to provide evidence-based content to help standardize care and reduce clinical and financial variation. iCare is the first vendor to offer Zynx’s award-winning content to providers in both acute and post-acute care markets.The iCare Enterprise Cloud EHR offers modern architecture and fully integrated Big Data capability. The addition of Zynx order sets and plans of care will benefit iCare providers and health systems across a
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Cerner Lands VA EHR System Contract: 6 Things to Know
EHR provider Cerner Corporation has been awarded the Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) contract to implement the Cerner Millennium EHR system. “I have decided that VA will adopt the same EHR system as DoD, now known as MHS GENESIS, which at its core consists of Cerner Millennium. VA’s adoption of the same EHR system as DoD will ultimately result in all patient data residing in one common system and enable seamless care between the Departments without the manual and electronic exchange and
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