For nearly two decades, CDs have been the primary medium for medical image exchanges between providers and patients. In the mid-1990’s, CDs provided a solution to the point-of-care and transportation issues of bulky, static film and reports. Recent years have brought a widespread adoption of electronic methods for storing and sharing information in the healthcare sector---namely EMR and now interoperability. Despite the rapid (and necessary) adoption of HIT, CDs remain the primary means of
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Kyruus Launches ProviderMatch for Salesforce to Enable Precise Patient-Provider Matching
Kyruus, a patient-provider matching health IT company, today announced the launch of ProviderMatch for Salesforce, which integrates into Salesforce Health Cloud on the Salesforce AppExchange. Starting at $30k for a yearly subscription, ProviderMatch for Salesforce enables health system access centers to deliver a personalized, end-to-end patient experience by combining Salesforce’s 360-degree view of the patient with Kyruus’ robust matching, appointment booking, and provider data management
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Why Healthcare Marketers Should Care about the Patient Financial Experience
What comes to mind when you think of health system marketing? For most people, it’s dynamic content on the organization’s latest clinical advancements, philanthropic efforts, wellness management and relationship-building efforts within the community it serves. It’s also understanding patients and their motivations, using consumer research and analysis, focus groups, surveys, and other tools. You probably don’t think about the healthcare billing experience.It’s understandable. Frank discussions
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CMS Awards Apprio $42M Contract for BI/Analytics to Support CMS Health IT Systems
Apprio, a provider of specialized technology solutions, particularly for the health, defense and homeland security markets, announced the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) awarded the company a $42 million, a five-year contract under the Strategic Partners Acquisition Readiness Contract (SPARC).As part of the SPARC Contract, Apprio will perform business intelligence (BI) and analytics support tasks to support CMS health IT systems that will further improve operations in serving
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IDx and Topcon Join Forces to Scale AI-based Diagnostic Platform in the U.S. Market
IDx, an AI diagnostics company, and Topcon, one of the world’s leading ophthalmic device manufacturers, have signed an exclusivity agreement that will allow the companies to scale delivery of AI-based diagnostic solutions in the U.S. market. As part of the agreement, is granted exclusive rights to IDx-DR system, an autonomous AI system that instantly detects diabetic retinopathy in fundus images, exclusively with Topcon NW400, an easy to use, robotic fundus camera. IDx-DR is an FDA-cleared
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Rush University Medical Center Integrates Indoor Navigation with Epic’s MyChart Appointment Scheduling
Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, today announced a partnership with Connexient to integrate the MediNav™ solution with the MyRush Mobile app; a mobile app for patients powered by Epic’s MyChart. Rush is the first Connexient customer that will combine Indoor GPS with appointment scheduling in MyChart.When patients log into the MyRush mobile app they will now be able to navigate directly to their appointments using Connexient's MediNav and access their records with Epic's MyChart
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R1 Expands Physician Practice Footprint with CarePoint Health and Holston Medical Group
Hatred of billing and payment processes is a time-honored tradition in healthcare. Two of the biggest reasons it’s so frustrating as a patient are the lack of transparency and digital elements that we expect out of any typical consumer experience. R1, a provider of technology-enabled revenue cycle management (RCM) services is working to change this, announcing today its continued expansion into the physician practice market with the addition of CarePoint Health, one of the largest privately-held
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Integrate or Die: Healthcare IT’s Costly Interoperability Problem
At times, it seems that healthcare is stuck in a time warp. At many hospitals, you’ll see doctors still using faxes while administrators input data into giant, blocky computers running on Windows XP.This is puzzling. After all, technology is quite advanced: we can store documents on the cloud, link together networks of smart devices, or even use algorithms to gather and analyze massive reams of data. So why do healthcare facilities look like they’re trapped in the 1990s?The answer lies in
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Validic Launches Statistics Engine to Drive Population Health Analytics from Patient Generated Health Data
Validic, a Durham, NC-based patient-generated health data integration, and analysis platform, today announced the release of Validic Statistics Engine that will offer new opportunities for patient-generated health data in care delivery and management. The Statistics Engine enables organizations to easily derive individual or population-level trends and anomalies from PGHD. Making Patent-Generated Health Data (PGHD) Actionable for CliniciansBeyond optical character recognition, there are many
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AMIA Pushes ONC for More Transparency with How Cures Mandated EHR Reporting Program Performs with Live Patient Data
In comments submitted to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC), the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) questioned the constrained scope of the EHR Reporting Program to “provide publicly available, comparative information on certified health IT,” to “inform acquisition upgrade, and customization decisions that best support end users’ needs.” In response, the nation’s informatics professionals strongly recommended that the EHR Reporting Program measure
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