McKesson Corporation and Change Healthcare, a provider of software and analytics, network solutions and technology-enabled services have teamed up to create a new healthcare IT company. The combined company includes all of Change Healthcare’s business and the majority of McKesson Technology Solutions (MTS) totaling $3.4 billion in revenue. By creating a new health IT company focused on healthcare IT and services, the merger is expected to generate in excess of $150 million in annual synergies by
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Medsphere Systems and ChartLogic Merge to Create Integrated Health IT Platform
Medsphere Systems Corporation and ChartLogic, Inc., today announced that they have executed a definitive agreement to merge the two companies. Financial details of merger were not disclosed. The merger will help expand Medsphere’s existing enterprise healthcare IT products and services to include ChartLogic’s proven ambulatory EHR, practice management and medical billing solutions. As part of the merger, ChartLogic will retain its name and operate as a division of Medsphere. Founded in 1994,
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Fixing Healthcare’s Broken Pre-Authorization Screening & Verification Model
Editor's Note: David Dyke is the Vice President of Product Management & Business Development at RelayHealth where he is responsible for delivering innovation and value to the healthcare providers across revenue cycle management. Among the processes that influence the healthcare revenue cycle, pre-authorization stands out—but not in a good way. It lacks the foundation of a widely-adopted electronic data exchange, resulting in repeated manual, ad hoc methods of securing and confirming payer
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XPrize, IBM Watson Launch $5M Artificial Intelligence Competition
XPRIZE has teamed up with IBM Watson to launch IBM Watson AI XPRIZE, a $5 million, four-year global competition challenging teams to develop and demonstrate how humans can collaborate with powerful artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to tackle the world’s greatest challenges.The $5M prize will focus on creating scalable AI apps that benefit consumers and businesses across a multitude of disciplines including healthcare, education, energy & environment, global development and
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Mayo Clinic, GE Set to Unveil Innovative Compact MRI Scanner
On June 28th, Mayo Clinic will unveil a new first of its kind compact 3T magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner developed in collaboration with General Electric's (GE) Global Research Center. The investigational, research device was developed under a National Institutes of Health Bioengineering Research Partnership between GE Global Research and the Mayo Clinic.Compact 3T MRI Scanner OverviewThe new MRI scanner is designed specifically to perform head scans, as well as small extremities, such
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Study: EMRs Cited As Top Trigger for Physician Burnout
74% of US primary care physicians (PCPs) and ER doctors do not feel their healthcare facility or practice is taking effective steps to address and prevent physician burnout, according to a new microsurvey by InCrowd, a provider of real-time market intelligence to life sciences and healthcare firms. The data represents a mid-year checkpoint on physician perceptions as Affordable Care Act (ACA) measures change the nature of doctoring, and as at least 30 major teaching hospitals undertake
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NHS Trust, Ideagen Launch Clinical Portal to Improve Patient Management
Healthcare software developer, Ideagen, is working with a leading NHS Trust to launch an innovative clinical portal designed to improve levels of patient care. Kent-based Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust has launched Ideagen Clinical Portal, which enhances patient information management and streamline internal IT systems use across the Trust.Ideagen Clinical Portal is a web-based and complete electronic health portal which provides secure access to a unified view of a patient’s clinical
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Orion to Deploy Its Precision Medicine Platform Throughout Minnesota
Orion Health has signed an agreement with Minnesota state-certified health information organization (HIO) Koble-MN to deploy its Amadeus precision medicine platform. Together the Orion Health Amadeus precision medicine platform and Koble-MN services are a winning combination that will best serve the citizens of Minnesota’s health information exchange (HIE).Koble-MN is a Minnesota State-certified Health Information Organization that has been created to connect and serve healthcare communities
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AMDIS, OpenNotes Partner to Empower Patients Access to Clinical Notes
The Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems (AMDIS) and OpenNotes, today announced a partnership to empower patients by by inviting patients to read and engage with the contents of their medical records. "These are doctors who are extremely savvy about technology and play a leadership role in advancing the use of technology," said Homer Chin, MD, who leads efforts to integrate health information technology further with OpenNotes. "While OpenNotes isn't a technology itself, notes
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Solera Health Nabs $4M to Scale Its Diabetes Prevention Platform
Solera Health, a technology-enabled personalized preventive health network has raised $4 million in Series A1 funding with participation in the round includes BlueCross BlueShield Venture Partners (BCBSVP), Sandbox Industries and SJF Ventures. In November 2015, Solera closed a $3 million Series A round, bringing its total capital raised to $7 million.The company will utilize the funding to scale its operations to meet the growing demand by health plans for the National Diabetes Prevention
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