Three companies have teamed up to integrate a patient's heart and lung sounds into the EHR for clinical documentation for the first time ever, representing a milestone in longitudinal patient care. The new partnership from Direct Urgent Care,Eko, and drchrono uses a quick three step process, clinicians can now seamlessly integrate heart and lung sounds into a patient's EHR. How It Works1. Direct Urgent Care, a Berkeley-based urgent care provider with 30,000 patients, enables providers to record
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ZeOmega Integrates with McKesson’s InterQual Connect
ZeOmega Inc. has announced an agreement to integrate ZeOmega's Jiva™ population health management solution with McKesson's InterQual® Connect authorization and connectivity solution to fully automate pre-authorization for payers and providers. The integration marks ZeOmega’s Jiva as the first partner to tap InterQual Connect’s cloud connectivity to expand automated authorization to include requests requiring a medical review and simplify pre-auths for their customers.Without leaving their easy
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Actiance Unveils Compliance Platform for Healthcare, Pharma
Actiance, a provider of communications compliance, archiving, and analytics has unveiled its new Actiance Platform for healthcare and pharmaceutical industries to address changing regulations. Similar to financial services, the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries are highly regulated and highly litigious. The introduction of new regulations, constant changes to existing protocols, and the explosion of collaboration technology has necessitated healthcare and pharmaceutical companies to
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Data Science Startup Apixio Nabs $19M for Cognitive Computing Platform
Healthcare data science company Apixio Inc., today announced that it has raised $19.3 million in Series D funding led by SSM Partners with participation from First Analysis, Bain Capital Ventures and Apixio’s largest angel investor. Apixio will utilize the funding towards advancing and scaling products powered by its cognitive computing platform, further enabling insights for optimal patient care. Casey West, managing partner at SSM Partners will join the Board of Directors, bringing deep
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Why Your Patient Portal Strategy Should Embrace Both Consumers & Patients
Patient engagement is easy, right? Just create a portal and tell patients it’s there.Of course, no one who puts a little thought into this idea believes it can be so simple. Healthcare isn’t “Field of Dreams,” after all. We can build it. They still might not come.But we still need to try and understand why, as this 2014 Health Affairs study found, the increased use of EHR technology has not created a parallel increase in electronic communication among patients and clinicians. In short, if
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SSM Health Goes Live on Surescripts National Record Locator Service
Today, Surescripts announced that it has activated more than 10,000 SSM Health clinicians in Illinois, Missouri and Oklahoma on its National Record Locator Service, to locate patient records and obtain a more complete view of the health of a patient, regardless of where the patient received care.Imagine the scenario: you are visiting the Chicago area, and you fall ill and have to visit the ER at one of SSM Health’s many hospitals in the region. You’re too ill to properly remember your complete
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5 Hospital Executives Share Advice on Building Successful Epic EHR Teams
The decision to buy and implement an Epic EHR is typically one of the largest strategic investments a provider will make, and much of the cost is an investment in people.A large-scale Epic implementation requires the significant hiring and training of hundreds of IT professionals to design, build, maintain, upgrade and optimize the EHR.Challenges of Hiring Epic ProfessionalsFor most providers, hiring quality Epic professionals at scale presents a number of challenges, especially in the highly
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SAP Purchases $18M Worth of Stock into Castlight Health
SAP has purchased purchased 4.76 million shares of newly issued Class B common stock in Castlight Health, a leading health benefits platform provider. The purchase results in SAP holding 4.7% post-issuance of the currently-outstanding common shares of Castlight, at a price per share of $3.77, for approximately $18 million in cash. SAP also received a warrant in connection with its stock purchase, under which SAP has the right to purchase an additional 1.9 million shares of Castlight Health Class
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Accenture Intelligent Patient Platform Integrates with Salesforce Health Cloud
Accenture has teamed up with Salesforce to integrate its Accenture Intelligent Patient Platform with Salesforce Health Cloud, giving life science and healthcare providers the ability to deliver a personalized patient experience. The Salesforce Health Cloud integration gives life sciences companies and healthcare providers the ability to support more informed patient decisions, help increase patient engagement across their caregiver networks, and more efficiently manage patient data.The Accenture
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EHR Hosting Vendor ITelagen Acquires Acquires Competitor Planet Logic
ITelagen, an IT Support and Hosting service for healthcare providers and practices, announced today that they will be acquiring Planet Logic, a Newton, New Jersey based healthcare cloud hosting company. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed and it is expected to close on May 31, 2016. The acquisition complements ITelagen 's IT and EHR Support and Hosting Services with Planet Logic's custom healthcare solutions. The union of these organizations will allow for an acceleration of
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