IBM Watson Health today announced plans to acquire Truven Health Analytics, a provider of cloud-based healthcare data, analytics and insights for $2.6 billion. The acquisition will boost IBM Watson Health to one of the world’s largest and most diverse collections of health-related data, representing an aggregate of approximately 300 million patient lives acquired from three companies. Through the Watson Health Cloud, healthcare organizations will be able to take previously disparate data sets,
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GHX Names “Best 50” Healthcare Providers for Supply Chain Excellence
Global Healthcare Exchange, LLC (GHX) has announced its annual list of the healthcare provider organizations being recognized as the 2015 GHX “Best 50” Supply Chains in North America for their work in improving operational performance and driving down costs through supply chain automation. The recipients will be honored at the 2016 GHX Healthcare Supply Chain Summit, May 23-25, 2016, in Austin, Texas.
"Best 50" Healthcare Providers for Supply Chain Selection Criteria
To select the Best 50, GHX
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Bloodbuy Lands $3.75M to Connect Hospitals, Blood Centers Nationwide
Bloodbuy, a health tech company that operates a cloud-based platform connecting hospitals and blood centers nationwide has raised $3.75M in strategic funding round led by Premier Supply Chain Improvement, Inc., an affiliate of Premier, Inc. and St. Joseph Health. The Dallas, TX-based company will utilize the capital to accelerate its integrated network of hospitals and blood centers. As part of the funding deal, Durral Gilbert, President of Premier Supply Chain Improvement, and Nita Stith, Vice
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Nuance Unveils Voice-Driven Clinical Documentation Platform for Physicians
The issue of technology bogging down physicians’ daily routines—and getting in the way of the physician/patient relationship—is reaching a fever pitch. Healthcare technology should support their workflow, not interrupt it. To help overcome this problem, Nuance Communications today unveiled Dragon® Medical One, a universal and secure cloud-based platform that provides unified voice-driven clinical documentation for physicians, whether they are dictating into EHR or a growing list
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7 Key Trends in EHR Technical Support to Know in 2016
Quality EHR technical support/experience is the key to continued EHR loyalty, utilization, and overall customer satisfaction, according to recent Black Book survey of nearly 2,200 health It users. Conducted in Q4 2015, Black Book surveyed hospital and network physician based EHR software users, employing eighteen key performance indicators specific to comprehensive technical support experiences in Q4 2015. Managed tech support vendors evaluated included EHR and HIS vendors, EHR partnered
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Protenus Raises $4M to Help Hospitals Protect Patient Privacy in EMR
Baltimore, MD-based Protenus, a provider of privacy protection solutions for EMRs has raised $4 million in Series A funding led by Arthur Ventures. The round also included particpation from LionBird Venture Capital, DreamIt Ventures, Cognosante, TEDCO, and the Baltimore Angels.
Protenus helps hospitals protect patient privacy in the EMR by using advanced analytics to detect HIPAA violations in real-time. The Protenus Privacy-as-a-Service platform consists of both a continuously-learning
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MediPortal Joins CommonWell Health Alliance for Interoperability
MediPortal announced today it is joining CommonWell Health Alliance as a contributing member. CommonWell, a non-profit trade association, is dedicated to the simple vision that health data should be available regardless of where care occurs. Provider access to this data must be built-in health IT at a reasonable cost for use by a broad range of health care providers and the people they serve.
CommonWell and its members are producing and deploying real-world, cross-vendor interoperability
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Allscripts, Cerner Named Most Loyal EHR Vendors by Hospitals, Physicians
As the EHR replacements, provider consolidations and meaningful use uncertainties come to resolutions this year, the client loyalty spectrum discernably ranges from those hospitals with high EHR and HIT satisfaction, clinician usability and business analytics, to other hospitals unmistakably stuck with systems nominally operative, trapped with vendors due to huge capital investments, and in deep debt.
This week, Black Book Rankings unveiled its HIT Loyalty Index, a framework for measuring
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Health Partners New England Selects OpenVista EHR
Health Partners New England (HPNE) has chosen the Medsphere's OpenVista® EHR system for implementation in the organization’s new behavioral health treatment center in Devens, Massachusetts. HPNE also contracted with Phoenix Health Systems, a division of Medsphere, for additional support services related to OpenVista implementation.
Headquartered in the Boston area, HPNE enables hospitals to improve the quality and financial performance of psychiatric and substance abuse services for children,
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Breaking into the Health IT Industry: The 2016 Unofficial Guide
Editor's Note: Cherie Lester is a Senior Healthcare IT Recruiter with Holland Square Group , a provider of technology and healthcare IT consulting, strategic staffing, outsourcing and professional search solutions. Lester has over 15 years of recruitment experience in the health IT industry and writes regularly about the job search and application process for HCIT professionals on her site, EngageMeHIT. Follow her on Twitter at @EngageMeHIT.
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