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UPMC, Vivify Health Partners for Mobile Population Health

by HITC Staff 02/25/2016 Leave a Comment

UPMC, Vivify Health Partners for Mobile Population Health

UPMC, a leading, integrated health care provider and insurer, is partnering with Vivify Health as a customer of and investor in its mobile population health solutions to remotely care for patients. Vivify Health’s technology is used by the nation’s largest health organizations, representing more than 500 hospitals and payers, to efficiently manage, monitor and engage patient populations of all sizes and risk levels. Founded in 2009, Vivify was the first company to offer a Cloud-based solution
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Validic: 4 Drivers Fueling the Convergence of Healthcare and Technology

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4 Drivers Fueling the Convergence of Healthcare and Technology

  Adoption and utilization of digital health tools among providers, clinical research organizations, payers and pharmaceutical companies is set to increase this year, according to a newly released paper from digital health integration platform Validic.  The research paper, supported by global research from HIMSS Analytics LOGIC™ and healthcare executive surveys, reveals four trends that are fueling the convergence of healthcare and technology and driving healthcare organizations
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TigerText Study: Hospitals Overpay by 45% for Antiquated Pagers

by Fred Pennic 02/25/2016 Leave a Comment

Hospitals Overpay for Antiquated Pagers

Even in the age of smartphones, an astounding number of pagers are still used throughout the healthcare industry. New research shows hospitals overpay by 45% for antiquated paging technology, according to a new study sponsored by TigerText. The study reveals how significantly U.S. hospitals are overpaying to maintain legacy paging services.  The HIMSS Analytics research in which 200 hospitals were surveyed, revealed that 90% of these organization still use pagers and on average spend around
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TigerConnect, Nuance Dragon Partner to Provide Clinical Speech Recognition for Care Providers

by Jasmine Pennic 02/25/2016 Leave a Comment

TigerConnect, Nuance Dragon Partner to Provide Clinical Speech Recognition for Care Providers

  Secure messaging platform for healthcare developers TigerConnect, announced that developers can now enhance their secure messaging apps with the industry’s market leading speech recognition, powered by the Nuance Dragon® Medical One cloud-based platform. The partnership enables developers to build apps using speech tools that accurately translate a care provider’s voice into a rich, detailed clinical message, helping them communicate with each other and with patients. This advances
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GE Healthcare, Netsmart, Others Adopt Carequality Interoperability Framework

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athenahealth, eClinicalWorks, Epic, NextGen Healthcare, Surescripts First to Adopt Interoperability Framework

Carequality, an initiative of The Sequoia Project, announced five new adopters of the Carequality Interoperability Framework: Coordinated Care Oklahoma, GE Healthcare, Kno2, Netsmart, and OneRecord. These new Carequality adopters represent the diversity of the larger Carequality community – large and small, HIE and consumer access platform. The organizations join athenahealth®, eClinicalWorks, Epic, NextGen Healthcare and Surescripts in contracting to implement the comprehensive
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Commonwell Expands Cross-Vendor Interoperability to Post-Acute Market

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Commonwell Expands Cross-Vendor Interoperability to Post-Acute Market

CommonWell Health Alliance is expanding its cross-vendor interoperability services to the post-acute market with vendors Brightree, Cerner and McKesson among the first CommonWell members committed to deploying these services nationwide in 2016. The not-for-profit association is the first and only national network to facilitate patient-centric identification, record location and query and retrieval of clinical chart data, planned to expand the reach of its services to enable real-world exchange
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ResMed Scoops Up Home Health Software Brightree for $800M

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RESMED to acquire Propeller Health

ResMed a medical device company and innovator in sleep-disordered breathing and respiratory care has acquired business management and clinical software applications for the post-acute care Brightree for $800M in cash. This acquisition adds to ResMed's global leadership in connected healthcare solutions. Under the terms of the agreement, ResMed will fund the acquisition primarily with debt. Brightree reported net sales of approximately $113 million and EBITDA of about $43 million in 2015.  On
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Senate Health Commitee Confirms New FDA Head Dr. Robert Califf

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FDA Commissioner nominee Califf testifies at nomination hearing in Washington

Senate health committee today confirmed President Obama's nominee Dr. Robert Califf to be the new commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in a vote of 89 to 4. The vote comes after over a month of opposition from Senate over the FDA's response to prescription painkiller abuse. Dr. Califf, a cardiologist and clinical researcher from Duke University, has been a consultant to drug companies was meet with resistance from Democrats who felt his ties to drug companies would be a
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Transcend Insights Unveils Unified Solution to Redefine Population Health

by Jasmine Pennic 02/24/2016 Leave a Comment

Transcend Insights Population Health Management

Transcend Insights®, a population health health-focused subsidiary of Humana, today announced the launch of a unified solution suite, built on its technology platform HealthLogix™. The new offering, which expands upon Transcend Insights’ population health platform for community-wide interoperability and real-time analytics, will provide health system executives, care teams and patients with a full suite of solutions designed to help them transition from episodic to proactive care for long-term
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First Databank Unveils OrderSpace to Enhance Medication Ordering in CPOE

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First Databank

FDB (First Databank), a provider of clinical drug knowledge that improves medication-related decisions and patient outcomes has announced the release of FDB OrderSpace™, a web-based solution that enables customization of medication ordering content in CPOE systems. The McKesson Paragon® electronic health record is the first to deploy FDB OrderSpace with the goal of making ordering medications easier and more satisfying for clinicians. FDB OrderSpace is a web-based software tool that enables
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