According to the 2017 Xerox eHealth Survey, released by Xerox today, nearly half of Americans (44 percent) are worried about having their personal healthcare information stolen. In 2016, more than one data breach was reported each day2 and healthcare providers can help protect personal information against these threats.The Xerox survey, conducted online by Harris Poll in January 2017 among more than 3,000 U.S. adults ages 18 and older, shows more than three quarters (76 percent) believe it would
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Accenture: 78% of Consumers Are Interested in Receiving Virtual Healthcare Services
More than three-quarters (78 percent) of consumers say they’d be interested in receiving virtual healthcare services, but only one in five (21 percent) have had the opportunity to receive services in this way, according to a new survey from Accenture. The Accenture survey of 1,501 U.S. consumers reveals that growing consumer demand for virtual healthcare services is putting increasing pressure on providers and payers to expand delivery options for on-demand health services. The research
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Dimension Data Unveils New Clinical Mobility Solution to Improve Healthcare Patient Safety & Caregiver Efficiency
Dimension Data, a global IT services and solutions provider has unveiled its Clinical Mobility Solution, designed to improve healthcare patient safety and caregiver efficiency, while minimizing institutional operating expenses. The solution – a framework to help healthcare organizations develop, execute and evolve their mobility strategies – draws on Dimension Data’s experience serving hundreds of healthcare institutions across the world. With 90 percent of healthcare professionals using mobile
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Grady Health System Earns HIMSS Analytics Stage 7 Award
Grady Health System has earned the HIMSS Analytics Stage 7 Award on the Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (EMRAM) SM, becoming Georgia’s only adult acute care hospital to earn the highest rating for improving patient care and safety through health information technology.Grady leverages an integrated EMR and many innovative technologies to provide high quality care. Through actionable analytics and guided pathways, Grady patients are benefitting. One example involves Grady’s infectious
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San Juan Regional to Implement Cerner EHR Platform to Replace 75 Health IT Applications
San Juan Regional Medical Center has selected Cerner to implement it's Millennium EHR, revenue cycle management and population health management platform to displace more than 75 health IT applications. The integration of Cerner’s Millennium® EHR and revenue cycle management solutions combines clinical and financial information within a single platform to support an individual’s health care journey across the continuum. The Cerner implementation will result in a Clinically Driven Revenue Cycle™
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The Viability of Rural Healthcare Relies On Evolution
Choice can be a double-edged sword—we all want more of it, but with too many choices paralysis can set in. Choosing a physician or hospital, for example, in an urban or suburban area without some kind of recommendation can truly be a daunting task.But it beats having few or no choices. Increasingly, that’s the situation rural Americans find themselves in as the number of hospitals decreases and specialists stay in the cities.While this may have been the trend in rural healthcare over the past 10
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Verato Lands $12.5M for Cloud-based Identity Matching Platform
Verato, Inc., a leading provider of cloud-based identity matching and Master Patient Index (MPI) solutions has raised $12.5 million in Series B funding led jointly by Bessemer Venture Partners and Columbia Capital. The McLean, VA-based company plans to utilize the funding to to support continued growth and to accelerate technology development. In addition to the funding announcement, Verato has signed on five new healthcare organizations as customers which includes a national payer organization,
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Innovaccer Unveils End-to-End MIPS Reporting, Performance Optimization Platform
Innovaccer Inc., a healthcare analytics company has unveiled its holistic MIPS Platform designed to enable providers deliver better clinical outcomes by helping them monitor performances, understand population, efficiently manage data, and easily submit it to CMS. The platform has the capability to ingest Clinical, Claims, ADT, Scheduling, Immunization, Medication, and Labs data from disparate sources in one single longitudinal patient view. Through intuitive dashboards in the platform,
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Career Step Acquires Panacea Healthcare Solution’s Revenue Cycle Management Divisions
Career Step, LLC, a portfolio company of Revelstoke Capital Partners, a Denver-based private equity firm has acquired the Revenue Capture and Coding and Documentation Divisions of Panacea Healthcare Solutions. After completion of the acquisition, Career Step and Panacea will now provide end-to-end education, consulting and data analytics solution to the revenue cycle and healthcare financial marketplaces. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.For Career Step, the acquisition
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Comprehend Systems Lands $15M to Expand Clinical Trials Data Platform
Comprehend Systems, Inc., a provider of Clinical Intelligence solutions has raised $15 million in Series C funding led by Eminence Capital, with participation by existing investors Sequoia Capital and Lightspeed Venture Partners.The company plans to utilize the funding to aggressively expand sales and engineering to meet a growing demand for Comprehend's cloud-based software that enables Clinical Research teams to deliver an order of magnitude improvement in the speed and quality of trial
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