At a keynote address during the opening day of HIMSS16, HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell announced a broad industry initiative to make EHRs work better for patients and providers. Epic, Cerner, Athenahealth, Allscripts, Kaiser Permanente, John Hopkins Medical, and others were among the group of organizations who pledged their commitments.
Interoperability Pledge Overview
Companies that provide 90 percent of electronic health records used by hospitals nationwide as well as the top five largest
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ONC Awards Accenture 2 Year Contract to Create Patient-Generated Health Data Policy Framework
Accenture Federal Services has been awarded a two-year management consulting contract by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) to establish a framework of best practices for the effective use of patient-generated health data (PGHD) in research and care delivery. The focus of contract will address policy topics related to PGHD and identify best practices, gaps and opportunities for the collection and use of PGHD. Accenture will also oversee and coordinate
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Tableau Integrates with Epic’s EMR to Deliver Clinical Insights
Tableau Software, a provider of business analytics software has announced an agreement to integrate its customer-created Tableau workbooks and dashboards with Epic's EMR. The integration will enable joint customers to deliver actionable insights from Tableau to EMR end-users, empowering physicians, clinicians, nurses and case managers for clinical analysis. Additionally, the community of Epic and Tableau users will share knowledge, innovation and best practices to accelerate
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Wanda, Dignity Health to Launch Digital Health Oncology Platform OncoVerse
Wanda, a NetScientific Inc. portfolio company that commercializes transformative biomedical and healthcare technologies has signed a collaborative deal with Dignity Health, to launch OncoVerse, a digital health oncology care platform. OncoVerse was initially conceived by a Dignity Health physician who wanted a tool to improve team collaboration, especially when evaluating a complex cancer case and determining the appropriate treatment plan.
OncoVerse is a software platform designed to
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Health Catalyst Pulls In $70M to Accelerate Outcomes Improvement
Health Catalyst, a Salt Lake City-based provider of healthcare data warehousing, analytics solutions and outcomes improvement has raised $70M in Series E funding. The funding round was co-led by Norwest Venture Partners, the lead investor in three previous rounds, and UPMC, a world-renowned healthcare provider and insurer that is also a Health Catalyst customer. . Other contributors to the round were new investors Leerink Capital and existing investors Sequoia Capital, Sands
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HIMSS Launches Inaugural Annual Most Influential Women in Health IT Awards
Today, HIMSS unveiled its inaugural Annual Most Influential Women in Health IT Awards, an awards program recognizing influential women at all stages of their career progressions. Scheduled to kick off in Fall 2016, the award ceremony is part of a new HIMSS initiative dedicated to addressing the gender gap in health IT and the need for more recognition of women sector-wide.
The Most Influential Women in Health IT Awards features a judging panel of top female leaders who will define the
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Population Health in Early Stages Yet Adopters Making Moves in Chronic Disease
In December 2015, HIMSS Analytics released their Population Health Essentials Brief, offering insight from nearly 200 healthcare executives (C-Suite, administrators, directors & VPs) on their population health initiatives as well as their current and future plans for population health IT solutions. HIMSS Analytics has now released an addendum to the study that focuses on chronic disease management and preventive health and wellness, allowing for even deeper insight into the current practices
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Report: Only 1.6% of Claims Have Been Denied Post ICD-10
Of the $810 billion in claims processed by more than 2,400 hospitals and 630,000 providers using RelayHealth Financial clearinghouse, just 1.6% have been denied. This denial rate has remained unchanged since November and represents approximately $12.9 billion in denied claims since October 1st. The disclosed denial rate data from RelayHealth Financial is based on for more than 262 million claims processed between October 1, 2015 and February 15, 2016. A low denial rate indicates a healthy cash
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UPMC Invests $35M into medCPU for Clinical Decision Support
UPMC and medCPU Inc. has announced a strategic partnership in which UPMC, one of the nation’s leading integrated health systems, will take a majority interest in this technology innovator, become a customer of medCPU’s real-time decision support solutions and co-develop additional products with the goal of improving patient outcomes.
As part of this transaction, UPMC has commenced a tender offer to purchase stock from existing non-employee medCPU shareholders and expects to hold
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Salesforce Rolls Out Salesforce Health Cloud, Expands Ecosystem of Partners
Today at HIMSS16, CRM platform Salesforce announced the general availability of Salesforce Health Cloud, a patient relationship management solution enabling providers to deliver more personalized care starting at $150 per user, per month. Health Cloud puts all patient information in one place, including a Timeline view, demographic and family information and a functional diagram of the extended care team.
Health Cloud also integrates with EHRs to make real-time patient data easily visible and
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