Under the Affordable Care Act, patient satisfaction has become even more important. And, having a low patient satisfaction or HCAHPS scores can directly impact the financial operations of a healthcare organization as well as its reputation in the community.
Ask any person who has ever been hospitalized or stayed at the bedside of a loved one, and they will agree that hospitals are busy, noisy places. Alarms clang. Pages blare overhead. Doors open and close. TVs drone. And, of course, people
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DICOM Grid Raises $3M for Cloud-Based Medical Images
DICOM Grid, makers of the leading cloud-based, medical image management suite has raised $3 million in venture debt financing from City National Bank to the Series B equity financing led by Canaan Partners last year. The latest funding brings its total funding to date at $34M. The company plans to use the new funds to ramp up sales and marketing efforts and accelerate product development.
To date, DICOM Grid has processed over 2 billion diagnostic images, more than 100,000 every month, and
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TigerText Pulls In $50M to Accelerate Secure Messaging Market Share
TigerText, a provider of secure communications and workflow platform for the enterprise has raised $50 million in Series C funding to accelerate adoption of its secure messaging app, "TigerConnect." The Series C round was led by Norwest Venture Partners, Invus Group and Accolade Partners, as well as existing investors Shasta Ventures, OrbiMed, and Reed Elsevier. Dr. Robert Mittendorff, principal at Norwest Venture Partners and board certified emergency physician will join the TigerText board of
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CACI Awarded $77M Contract to Build Military Health Clinical Analytics Systems
CACI International Inc has been awarded a $76.8 million three-year contract to provide build the next generation military health clinical analyics systems to the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center (SPAWARSYSCEN) Atlantic.
Contract Details
SPAWAR Systems Center Atlantic provides advanced health IT solutions that support the Defense Health Agency (DHA) and military health. Under the contract, CACI will build, deploy, and maintain state-of-the-art medical intelligence and decision
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Physicians Using Nuance Have Captured Over 100M Patient Stories
Nuance Communications, Inc. has announced physicians have documented more than 100 million patient stories annually physicians using Nuance cloud-based clinical voice recognition. This milestone comes on the heels of dramatic growth in healthcare organizations using web and mobile apps with embedded Nuance Dragon Medical cloud-based solutions, which have increased up to 30% month-over-month since the beginning of the year. Nuance anticipates this pace of adoption to continue based on market
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WellTrackONE, Zoeticx Partner to Bring EHR Interoperability to Medical Facilities
Zoeticx, Inc. and WellTrackONE Corp.have announced a partnership to bring interoperability to medical facilities’ EHR systems. The collaboration will enable Zoeticx’s Patient-Clarity platform software to integrate WellTracksONES’s Annual Wellness Visit (AWV) patient reports and associated medical data to any EHR, Health Information Exchange (HIE) or other data repository.
As part of the agreement, providers will be able to easily access and manage WellTrackONE’s AWV reports without using any
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GE Healthcare Acquires Advisory Firm, The Camden Group
GE Healthcare has acquired healthcare & strategic advisory firm, The Camden Group that will act as the U.S. business unit of GE Healthcare’s global advisory firm, GE Healthcare Partners. The acquisition will enable the firm to deliver strategic and financial consulting to healthcare organizations, as well as advisory consulting on population health management, value-based care, clinical integration and care redesign across the continuum. Financial terms of the transaction were not
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PatientsLikeMe, American College of Cardiology Partner on Diabetes Collaborative Registry
The American College of Cardiology (ACC) and patient active network PatientsLikeMe have launched a partnership to explore innovative ways to make real-world patient feedback and experience more central to diabetes research and care. The partnership will focus on encouraging people living with diabetes to offer perspectives to enhance and accelerate the ACC’s Diabetes Collaborative Registry®.
Diabetes Collaborative Registry® Overview
The Diabetes Collaborative Registry is the first global,
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4 C’s of the Quantified Doctor-Patient Relationship
So far the doctor-patient relationship escaped rigorous quantification, because “relationship” is largely a nostalgic quantity, and because “communications” was deemed to be a reasonable substitute. There are various tools and instruments for subjective measurement of communications with one’s doctor, with the most common being the ubiquitous patient experience survey. However, if we accept a broader definition of the doctor-patient relationship, such as the 6C’s proposed by Dr. Emanuel, a more
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Walgreens to Implement Epic EHR Across Its 400 Clinics
On Thursday, retail pharmacy giant Walgreens announced it will implement Epic's EHR platform across 400 of its healthcare clinics starting in early 2016. The move to EpicCare will help further enhance care coordination among providers, while also supporting the long-term growth plan for its clinic business.
“We’re pleased to welcome Walgreens to the Epic family and look forward to supporting their goal of improving access to high quality, coordinated care,” said Carl Dvorak, Epic president.
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