Editor’s Note: Dean Wiech is the Managing Director of Tools4ever, a global provider of access management and governance solutions. Dean has worked with healthcare organizations, educational institutions, municipalities for more than 20 years, helping them identify solutions that make their businesses and operations more secure, efficient and easier to manage. The ever growing impact of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is having a tremendous impact on healthcare
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MatrixCare Acquires Long-Term Care EHR Vendor SigmaCare
MatrixCare, a provider of long-term care software and technology has acquired Sigma Care, a New York City-based EHR vendor for the long-term, post-acute care market. The senior care market EHR provider currently serves over 12,000 facility-based care settings and over 2,000 home care agency offices throughout the US. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. For MatrixCare, the acquisition continues its rapid growth and strategic expansion into the New York City market.MatrixCare’s
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Chilmark: 2 Recommendations to Drive Speed to Value for PHM Strategies
Population health management (PHM) models are difficult to develop and replicate due in large part to unique, local market circumstances. This is forcing healthcare organizations (HCO) to begin their PHM journey from different starting points in a complex, diverse, and competitive market. The fragmented, regionalized nature of the healthcare market creates challenges for HCOs and their supporting vendors to deliver consistent, replicable PHM solutions that are scalable across the industry. The
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Why It’s Time for Hospitals to Become Immune to Ransomware
Editor's Note: Greg Maudsley is a cyber security expert at Menlo Security, a Silicon Valley-based cyber security company that protects organizations from cyber attack by eliminating the threat of malware.Hospitals and other healthcare organizations (HCOs) are increasingly singled out by cyber criminals for ransomware and other attacks. Not only are patients’ sensitive records being targeted, but also – as the FBI warns – their intellectual property or credit card information. The
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M*Modal Expands AI Platform to Support Epic NoteReader CDI Module
M*Modal, a leading provider of clinical documentation and speech understanding is extending its AI platform to support the Epic NoteReader CDI module. M*Modal’s Computer-Assisted Physician Documentation (CAPD) technology delivers actionable support to physicians as they dictate or type the clinical note – either proactively before it is saved in the EHR using M*Modal Fluency Direct or after it is saved by using the Epic NoteReader CDI workflow.Requiring no additional steps or clicks from the
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Salesforce Adds Empower & Concurrent Care Plans Features to Salesforce Health Cloud
CRM leader Salesforce has added two major features to Salesforce Health Cloud—Health Cloud Empower and Concurrent Care Plans—that enable healthcare professionals to better care for patients, whether at their homes or in clinical settings, and across multiple care plans. Salesforce Health Cloud is a cloud-based patient relationship management solution that allows health providers, payers and life science companies to put patients at the center of their care.Patients today expect to interact with
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Healthix Integrates Public HIE With Mount Sinai and Northwell Private HIEs
Healthix, the nation’s largest public health information exchange (HIE) has announced the integration of its public HIE system to private HIEs operated by Northwell Health and the Mount Sinai Health System. All three HIEs are built on InterSystems HealthShare, which is enabling the organizations to exchange richer and more comprehensive patient data. All three HIEs are built on InterSystems HealthShare®, a robust information exchange platform that enables the organizations to exchange richer and
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UCHealth Launches Innovation Center to Develop AI-Powered Decision Support Solutions
Nonprofit health system UC Health has formed an innovation lab focused on developing more effective ways to use decision support science to reduce clinical variation, streamline provider workflows, enhance clinician decision making and improve overall patient care. The UCHealth CARE Innovation Center’s new Applied Decision Science Lab (ADSL) will collaborate with both internal and external innovators, as well as industry partners, to better understand how these stakeholders can both contribute
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Accolade Unveils Maya Intelligence Engine & App to Deliver Personalized Healthcare Experience
Accolade, an on-demand healthcare concierge for employers, health plans and health systems has unveiled their new Maya Intelligence Engine to provide highly personalized healthcare support for individuals and their families. In addition, Accolade is introducing a new mobile experience with Accolade Mobile app that enables live messaging with dedicated health assistants and nurses on any health- or benefits-related question or concern.Accolade CEO Raj Singh and Chief Product Officer Mike Hilton
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Cognizant to Acquire Health Care Service Corporation’s Unit TMG Health
Cognizant has entered an agreement to acquire Health Care Service Corporation (HCSC) subsidiary TMG Health, a leading national provider of expert solutions for Medicare Advantage, Medicare Part D and Managed Medicaid plans. As part of the acquisition, TMG Health will continue to provide information technology, business process and other services to HCSC’s operating units and subsidiaries. The combination of capabilities from TMG Health and both Cognizant’s Digital Operations and Digital Systems
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