Vocera Communications, Inc., a provider of clinical communications system in healthcare has been awarded a $14 million from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), and deployments will begin in January 2017 in U.S. Army Medical Command (MEDCOM) facilities around the world. As part of the contract, Vocera will equip care team members with its unique wireless, hands-free communication solution in 23 facilities across MEDCOM. This agreement with the DoD marks the largest contract in Vocera’s
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Black Book: 94% of Physicians Find Digital Health Data Overwhelming, Redundant
94 percent of physicians find all that digital health data overwhelming, redundant and unlikely to make a clinical difference, according to Black Book’s recent consumer survey. Conducted from September through December 2016, the survey asked 12,090 adult consumers to evaluate the technology they were exposed to, know of or interacted with as an active patient in the last twelve months.The report revealed that 94 percent of consumers with health or activity trackers said their physician informed
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Vocera Appoints Benjamin Kanter, MD, as Chief Medical Information Officer
Vocera Communications, Inc. has named Benjamin Kanter, MD, FCCP, as the new Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO) to lead the company's physician-nurse communication. Prior to joining Vocera, Dr. Kanter worked as an industry consultant and thought leader with innovative healthcare IT companies, including Extension Healthcare, where he was the CMIO. In 2013, while the CMIO of Palomar Health in San Diego, Dr. Kanter worked with Extension Healthcare to create a reverse look-up smartphone app
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2 Cerner Qatar Hospitals Earns HIMSS Stage 6 Accreditation
The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Analytics has recently announced that two Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) facilities, the Heart Hospital and the National Center for Cancer Care and Research (NCCCR), have achieved the HIMSS Analytics Electronic Medical Record Adoption ModelSM (EMRAM) Stage 6 distinction, an international benchmark for the use of advanced IT to improve patient care.HMC’s Heart Hospital and NCCCR are the first two hospitals in Qatar to achieve
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Hospital C-Suite: 9 Health IT Trends to Watch in the New Year of Uncertainty
9 of 10 hospital leaders plan to reduce their decision-making on planned or ongoing initiatives, and at worst drain IT investment dollars for a protracted period of time, according to Black Book Ranking’s year end C-suite survey. The report reveals brakes being pumped on advanced software acquisitions due to political and funding uncertainty that is menacing long term strategies and the willingness to purchase health IT products and services in the first half of the New Year.The key findings are
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Cleveland Clinic, IBM Ink 5-Year Collaboration to Establish Model for Cognitive Population Health
Cleveland Clinic and IBM has inked a five-year agreement to establish a model for a health system transition to value-based care and population health, and to uncover potential standards that could be replicated by providers nationwide. The agreement reflects the parties' intention to expand the use of IBMs secured cloud, social, mobile and Watson cognitive computing technologies across clinical and administrative operations. The collaboration is also being designed to better capture the value
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DirectTrust: 4 Health IT Recommendations for the New Trump Administration
To ensure continued forward movement in adoption of electronic health information exchange and increased interoperability for care coordination, DirectTrust has released a list of four recommendations for the new administration. The recommendations were submitted to the President-elect’s Transition Team at a closed-door meeting held on Tuesday, December 20.DirectTrust is a health care industry alliance created by and for participants in the Direct exchange network used for secure, interoperable
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CHRISTUS Health Expands Population Health Agreement with Philips Wellcentive
CHRISTUS Health, an international, Catholic, not-for profit health system has expanded the scope and duration of their alliance with Philips Wellcentive to aggregate and analyze data across all CHRISTUS Health through 2020. The expanded relationship now includes domestic population health management initiatives offering health plans to its total staff of 40,000 associates, and manages plan offerings on state exchanges.. Additionally, the the collaboration with Philips Wellcentive will explore
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TPG Capital to Acquire Mediware Information Systems for Undisclosed Sum
TPG Capital, the global private equity fund of leading alternative asset firm TPG has entered an agreement to acquire Mediware Information Systems, Inc. from private equity firm Thoma Bravo. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. The acquisition is expected to close during the first quarter of 2017, subject to customary closing conditions.For more than 30 years, Mediware has been a leading supplier of healthcare and human service software for the nation’s largest blood banks,
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PwC Unveils Top 10 Healthcare Industry Issues to Watch in 2017
2017 will be a year dominated by the continued shift toward value within healthcare as the industry adapts to a new era under the administration of President-elect Donald J. Trump, according to PwC’s Health Research Institute (HRI). Traditional health organizations and new entrants will need to balance the uncertainty of the new administration’s approach to healthcare with the continued opportunities being created by forces greater than politics.The annual PwC report, “Top Health Industry Issues
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