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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Christiana Care Adds Health Records on iPhone Feature for Patients
Christiana Care Health System, based in Wilmington, Delaware, today announced it supports Health Records on iPhone feature to make it easy for patients to see their available medical records from multiple providers whenever they choose. “In our digital world, we are meeting our patients’ expectations that their health records should be available to them as readily as their newsfeeds, videos and social media,” said Randy Gaboriault, MS, chief information officer and senior vice president for
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Report: Revolutionizing Healthcare with Augmented Intelligence and Social Determinants of Health
New Innovaccer research report applies machine learning algorithms to 55+ factors to deliver one of the most accurate views ever for social determinants of healthUS clinicians are at a critical juncture, newly responsible for both the quality and value of care and expected to have a deeper understanding of their patients’ risk factors. The health impacts of the environment in which patients live affect their health and these health impacts need to be documented and studied properly.According to
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Value Exchange: The Solution to Patient Fatigue?
Living with a rare disease can be exhausting. Symptoms, limitations, and medications are all obvious contributors, but there is another, less obvious challenge to living with a rare disease: the experience of simply being a patient.Patients, especially those with rare and complex diseases, are required to be their own health historians to manage and track all of their health needs and keep documents and paperwork up to date. They are also asked to fill out the same forms repeatedly – the same
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