UPMC and medCPU Inc. has announced a strategic partnership in which UPMC, one of the nation’s leading integrated health systems, will take a majority interest in this technology innovator, become a customer of medCPU’s real-time decision support solutions and co-develop additional products with the goal of improving patient outcomes.
As part of this transaction, UPMC has commenced a tender offer to purchase stock from existing non-employee medCPU shareholders and expects to hold
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Salesforce Rolls Out Salesforce Health Cloud, Expands Ecosystem of Partners
Today at HIMSS16, CRM platform Salesforce announced the general availability of Salesforce Health Cloud, a patient relationship management solution enabling providers to deliver more personalized care starting at $150 per user, per month. Health Cloud puts all patient information in one place, including a Timeline view, demographic and family information and a functional diagram of the extended care team.
Health Cloud also integrates with EHRs to make real-time patient data easily visible and
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Surescripts Activates National Record Locator to Improve Healthcare Interoperability
To improve healthcare interoperability and patient safety, Surescripts has announced nationwide activation of its National Record Locator Service, a service that gives providers an effective way to obtain a more complete view of a patient’s health history. Surescripts’ National Record Locator Service includes 140 million patients and almost 2 billion, and growing, interactions between those patients and members of their care team.
CVS Health, Express Scripts, Epic and NextGen Healthcare are
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eviCore Acquires Partners HealthCare Spinout QPID Health
eviCore healthcare, a Bluffton, SC-based company enabling better outcomes for patients, payers and providers through advanced medical benefits management, announced that it has acquired Boston-based QPID Health. The company has raised more than $16.3M to date backed by Matrix Partners, Partners Innovation Fund, Massachusetts General Physicians Organization and Cardinal Partners. QPID Health will continue to maintain its offices in Boston, MA and Carlsbad, CA and will retain its name. Financial
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Cognizant Unveils Digital Health Platform for Increased Consumer Engagement
As the healthcare industry shifts from fee-for-service to value-based care models, healthcare organizations are looking for new ways to deliver consumer-centric care leveraging digital communication and access. To solve this, Cognizant has announced the development of Cognizant Health TranZform. The solution, developed with technology from Orion Healthcare, will aggregate data from multiple systems, including Cognizant’s TriZetto payer core administration platforms, physician practice management
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Cerner Appoints John Glaser SVP of Population Health
On Friday, Cerner appointed John Glaser senior vice president of Population Health and Global Strategy starting April 1st. In his new role, Glaser will focus on driving Cerner’s population health technology and product strategies, interoperability and government policy development, according to the press release.
“Cerner is committed to working with our clients to manage the health of populations, improve outcomes and reduce the cost of health care,” said Zane Burke, president, Cerner. “John
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Tribridge, Microsoft Collaborate to Accelerate Population Health Management
Tribridge has announced a strategic collaboration with Microsoft Corp. that will allow healthcare providers to accelerate the implementation of transformational population health management (PHM) delivery models. Tribridge Health360's PHM cloud solution addresses the massive changes required as healthcare providers rapidly shift to value-based healthcare delivery. While Health360 is delivered on the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online platform, providers using Health360 are going beyond better
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Leidos, FairWarning Partner to Deliver EHR-Focused Patient Privacy Monitoring
Reston, VA-based health technology provider Leidos and FairWarning have signed a partnership to to provide commercial and public sector healthcare customers with real time, continuous monitoring of both internal and external advanced persistent threats (APT) to EHRs in a unified environment. Under the terms of the agreement customers will be able to utilize a complete managed security service that provides around-the-clock monitoring of digital activity across the enterprise including internal
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CHIME, OpenNotes Team Up to Accelerate Data Sharing Between Patients & Providers
As part of President Obama's Precision Medicine Initiative, The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and OpenNotes are teaming up to accelerate data sharing between patients and providers. The collaboration with OpenNotes continues CHIME’s efforts to improve information exchange across the healthcare continuum, including advancing interoperability and ensuring the accuracy of patient identification.
Neither a software program nor a new technology, OpenNotes is an
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New HHS Guidance on HIPAA Encourages Providers to Waive Record Request Fees
New guidance released today by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) encourages that patients should receive copies of their health information free of charge under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). In response to the recent HHS guidance on HIPAA, The GetMyHealthData Campaign composed of leading consumer organizations, health care experts, former policymakers and technology organizations working to enhance consumer access to digital health
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