Cybersecurity has been elevated to a central concern for healthcare providers, with more attention at the board level and the C-suite, according to a new survey by KLAS Research and the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME). For the study, KLAS conducted nearly 200 interviews of chief information security officers, chief information officers, chief technology officers and other security professionals on provider adoption of and experiences regarding specific
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Intermountain, Oxeon Launch Health IT Startup Empiric Health To Activate Evidence-Based Care
Intermountain Healthcare and Oxeon have announced the formation and launch of health IT startup Empiric Health, an independent company that activates evidence-based healthcare delivery to improve both clinical outcomes and operational efficiency. Its technology-enabled service has proven success in addressing variation in cost and outcomes for clinicians and health system administrators.Unlike traditional solutions, Empiric Health evaluates actual clinical and patient outcomes data, structured
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Providers: Thinking of Buying More EHR Than You Can Afford? Think Carefully
There wasn’t just one cause of the 2008 Great Recession, but certainly a major factor was the creative lending instruments banks used to qualify prospective home buyers. As is now well known, massive mortgage defaults among those homeowners undermined the integrity of mortgage-backed securities and came within a hair’s breadth of tanking both the American and global economies.Leading up to 2008, people misunderstood what they were buying and didn’t see the potential for financial catastrophe. In
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Survey: 25% of Healthcare Organizations Are Putting Patient Data at Risk in the Public Cloud
25 percent of healthcare organizations are not using any form of encryption in the public cloud, according to workload security provider HyTrust's latest Healthcare Cloud Survey. The Cloud Adoption survey of 51 healthcare and biotech organizations analyzes healthcare organizations use of public cloud, the utilization of public cloud implementations, and how data is protected in these cloud environments. The survey also found that 63 percent of healthcare organizations say they intend to use
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Mobile EHR Provider drchrono Integrates With Physitrack’s Patient Engagement Toolkit
Mobile EHR provider drchrono has announced the integration of Physitrack’s unique patient engagement toolkit inside its practice management platform. This integration will make Physitrack’s telemedicine solution easily available to drchrono’s providers, giving them the ability to offer high quality care and follow up programs for their patients. Starting in February, all of drchrono’s customers will have access to Physitrack through their drchrono EHR account, and will allow them to sign up for
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TigerText Unveils Role-based Scheduling Automation, Amazon Alexa integration
TigerText, a provider of clinical communication solutions for the healthcare industry has unveiled role-based scheduling automation that dynamically populates role assignments and user profiles within the TigerText messaging app in an elegant, highly intuitive way. Role-based Scheduling Automation was developed in tight coordination with TigerText client feedback and refined through rounds of interviews, marketplace research, and user testing. Because the app leverages data from popular
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Healthcare Blockchain Startup Hashed Health Lands $1.8M in Funding
Hashed Health, a healthcare technology consortium building blockchain solutions and supporting blockchain network development has raised $1.8 million in funding led by Martin Ventures and Fenbushi Capital. Founded in 2016, the Nashville, TN-based company provides value-added services such as product management, product development, regulatory guidance, and technology support services for blockchain solutions and blockchain networks.For most healthcare organizations, Blockchain technology will be
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MCG Health Taps InterSystems to Streamline Evidence-based Decision Making for Health Plans, Care Providers
MCG Health, a leading provider of informed care solutions has tapped InterSystems to leverage its InterSystems HealthShare® as the interoperability platform to share its evidence-based care guidelines and analytics with health plans and providers. Built on InterSystems Interoperability Platform, MCG’s new cloud-based Care Net solution will connect payers and providers to enable more efficient care processes and more informed medical decisions based on healthcare best practices.The exchange of
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Humana’s Transcend Insights Unveils Analytics-as-a-Service for Population Health
Transcend Insights announced a new, cloud-enabled version of its enterprise analytics offering for population health: the Anvita Engine. The new offering will be one the industry’s first solutions available to health systems through a flexible, analytics-as-a-service model, providing health organizations with a more flexible and cost-effective way to deploy advanced analytics for population health.This service is powered by the proven Anvita Engine™, which is optimized for the cloud and
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CHIME Survey: EHR Optimization, Population Health Named Top Investment Priorities for Healthcare CIOs
EHR optimization and population health has been named the top investment priorities for healthcare CIOs over the next three years, according to a survey of College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) members conducted by KPMG LLP, the U.S. audit, tax and advisory firm. Other investment priorities for healthcare CIOs over the next three years include:• Consumer/clinical and operational analytics (16 percent)• Virtual/telehealth technology enhancements (13 percent)• Revenue
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