U.S. Sens. John Thune (R-S.D.), Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), Pat Roberts (R-Kans.), Richard Burr (R-N.C.), and Bill Cassidy (R-La.) today wrote to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Acting Administrator Andy Slavitt to request feedback on legislation they drafted that would address the ongoing issues with implementation of the meaningful use program for health information technology (health
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Quietyme Unveils Intelligent Sensor For Real-Time Noise Reduction in Hospitals
Quietyme (pronounced “quiet time”), a intelligent sensor-focused company, today announced the launch of its automated, end-to-end solution for hospital noise reduction. The intelligent sensor technology utilizes proven continuous process improvement methods to prompt real-time modifications for an improved overall patient experience. The enhanced Quietyme solution is being rolled out to all current client hospitals and will be available for all future customers beginning the end of May
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DirectTrust CEO Responds to Flexibility in EHR Reporting Act
On April 20, U.S. Rep. Renee Ellmers (R-NC) and U.S. Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH) introduced the Flexibility in EHR Reporting Act (H.R. 5001) to bring flexibility to electronic reporting requirements for healthcare providers. Specifically, H.R. 5001 would make it easier for health care providers to comply with Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) IT reporting requirements. As reported by Ripon Advance News Service, “Under the bill, healthcare providers would be allowed to report IT upgrades
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CloudMedx Acquires Gyrus Labs To Accelerate Clinical Data Insights
CloudMedx Inc, a big data health analytics company, announced today that it has acquired Gyrus Labs to extend the power of the CloudMedx Analytics Platform for improving patient care through data insights. Under the terms of the agreement, CloudMedx will acquire Gyrus Labs team, intellectual property and data rights. The company has already integrated its technology into the CloudMedx platform.With the acquisition of Gyrus Labs’ technology, CloudMedx will accelerate its deep clinical insights of
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Healthix, HBI Solutions Partner to Add Real-time Predictive Analytics to HIEs
Healthix, a public health information exchange (HIE), with data of over 16 million patients, has tapped HBI Solutions to offer predictive analytics and performance analysis capabilities to its participant organizations. As part of the agreement, HBI's analytics engine will use the entire Healthix database to provide Healthix participants with a comprehensive view of their patient population. Hundreds of provider organizations across New York City and Long Island are connected to Healthix,
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Verisk Analytics Unloads Healthcare Services Business for $820M
Verisk Analytics , a data analytics provider serving customers in insurance, energy, healthcare, financial services, government, and risk management and private equity firm Veritas Capital has signed an definitive agreement to acquire Verisk`s healthcare services business for $820M. The company hired Morgan Stanley to sell Verisk Health, its healthcare division back in October 2015, hoping to fetch between $900M to $1.08B from the acquisition. Financial terms of the $820M acquisition consists
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Physician Perspective: Solving EHR Integration & Interoperability
In this second installment of this Q&A series, Health2047’s CEO Dr. Doug Given talks about what’s missing from the equation when it comes to taking on EHR integration and Interoperability.Now is the time to tackle EHR integration and interoperability in healthcare—but can these latest efforts from HHS or from the FDA achieve that? In part one of this series, we discussed how healthcare providers need to play a larger part in creating HIT solutions with Health2047’s Dr. Doug Given. In this
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Data Breaches: Moving Security Perimeter Back to Server Level
Editor's Note: Jon Senger is the CTO of Vertiscale . He writes frequently on the on the topic of HIPAA compliance and the role of MSPs in healthcare security.The leading cause of data breach incidents in healthcare facilities is lost or stolen end-user devices, including laptops and tablets. Such breaches have led to six figure fines for HIPAA violations in some cases, and with the stepped up enforcement coming in 2016 promised by the Department of Health and Human Services, we can expect to
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HealthVerity Raises $7.1M to Unlock the Value of Patient Data
HealthVerity, a provider of technologies and software tools for the discovery and integration of optimal patient data sets has announced $7.1M in funding led by Flare Capital Partners and Greycroft Partners with participation from additional strategic healthcare investors. The Philadelphia-based startup will utilize the funding to accelerate the development of its privacy and data interoperability technologies.Founded in 2014, HealthVerity seeking to enhance patient insights from existing and
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Centra to Deploy Cerner EHR, HealtheIntent Population Health Across Enterprise
Centra, an integrated delivery network based in Virginia has selected Cerner to implement its Millennium EHR across its five hospitals, more than 50 ambulatory and long-term care facilities, and health plan. Additionally, Centra will also implement Cerner’s near real-time population health management platform, HealtheIntentSM. The platform aggregates data from multiple sources into a single patient record allowing Centra to match the right care programs to the right individuals across its
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