EHR leader Epic has announced the launch of Share Anywhere, a new interoperability tool that will allow patients to grant access to their medical record data to any providers and send a progress note back to the patient’s healthcare organization for improved continuity of care. The development around the new tool was based on the interoperability challenge of sending important patient information to clinicians who cannot interoperate, and how to do so in a way that protects patients’
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Navicure Merges With ZirMed to Accelerate Innovation in Revenue Cycle Management
Healthcare revenue cycle companies Navicure announced today that it has combined with ZirMed, effectively uniting two top-performing revenue cycle management solutions for the healthcare industry. The combined company will serve more than 400,000 providers and healthcare organizations and will be ideally positioned to further accelerate innovation in the industry by leveraging cloud-based solutions to help empower providers across all care settings to efficiently collect for the quality care and
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Brigham Health Selects Redox’s EHR Integration API to Exchange Data Across Organization
Brigham Health and Redox, an EHR integration API platform for developers and healthcare organizations has announced a partnership to scale digital health innovation across the organization. As part of the partnership, Brigham Health will utilize Redox's cloud-based platform to consolidate data from the medical center's Epic electronic health record (EHR) system.The data is then standardized in a central application programing interface (API), an approach already in use by a network of hundreds
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Allscripts, Surescripts Expands Free Access to Patient Medication History Data
In response to the historic impact of Hurricane Irma on the United States, Surescripts and Allscripts are expanding the scope of the service available in the wake of Hurricane Harvey to provide free access to patient-specific medication history data for pharmacists in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina for a limited time.Pharmacists interested in utilizing the service should visit www.surescripts.com/irma to validate their eligibility and gain access to the Allscripts
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Mount Sinai Scientists Reveal Solutions for Opioid Epidemics Using Machine Learning
Mount Sinai researchers have identified unique structural, biological and chemical insights in the way different opioid drugs activate the receptors and specific signaling pathways responsible for the drug’s beneficial and adverse effects, according to a study to be published in Nature’s Scientific Reports. Opioid overdoses are the leading cause of accidental death in the United States. The findings of this study may provide a blueprint for designing improved painkillers.There have been many
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Magnolia Regional Health Integrates Nuance’s Dragon Medical One with MEDITECH EHR
Magnolia Regional Health Center (MRHC) has implemented Nuance Dragon Medical One, integrated with its MEDITECH EHR, as its clinical speech recognition and computer-assisted physician documentation (CAPD) platform for acute care. This move will provide seamless integration with MEDITECH EHRs and help the system capture the complete patient story.The secure, cloud-based speech recognition solution is hosted on the Microsoft Azure HITRUST CSF certified platform, and is powered by artificial
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PatientPing Appoints Former Spotify VP as New Head of Product
PatientPing, a Boston-based health technology company improving care coordination, has appointed former Spotify VP of Product Dave Rodger as Head of Product for the startup. In his new role, he will be responsible for driving product development to help PatientPing continue to connect providers to build a national care coordination network. Both Rodger and PatientPing CEO Jay Desi feels strongly that healthcare providers should enjoy as high-quality an experience with technology as everyday
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10 Best Practices for Executing Successful M&A Deals in Healthcare IT
Over the past couple of years, there have been around 200 merger and acquisition (M&A) deals in the healthcare IT space, driven by high enterprise value and the sheer size of the industry. 49 deals came together in the first quarter of this year alone. These numbers make health IT the highest performing industry in terms of M&A activity in the consumer and retail space, and the second highest in the infrastructure/industrial space.Between 2018 and 2019, we will see an insatiable need for
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Private Equity Firm Acquires Pharmacy Automation Provider Capsa Healthcare
Levine Leichtman Capital Partners (“LLCP”), a Los Angeles-based private equity firm has acquired Capsa Healthcare, a provider of mobile workstations, medication management products, and pharmacy automation solutions for healthcare settings. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.Formed through the integration of Capsa Solutions, Rubbermaid Healthcare, and Kirby Lester, Capsa Healthcare develops and manufactures Point-of-Care Workstations, Medication Management Solutions, and
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Why Healthcare Organizations Need to Leverage Enterprise Data Lakes
As the so-called “oil of the twenty-first century,” there is little doubt that data is the crown jewel of the digital economy. The Internet of Things is poised not only to shake up individual industries, but to bring them together like never before with the promise of hyper connected, ultra personalized experiences. And for consumers, one particular application of IoT is perhaps the most intriguing: the impact of connected devices on health and healthcare. Indeed, McKinsey has projected a $11.1
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