Editor’s Note: Irv Lichtenwald is president and CEO of Medsphere Systems Corporation, the solution provider for the OpenVista electronic health record. Prior to joining Medsphere, he served as CFO of Advent Software, a leading provider of investment management solutions. Between 1995 and 2003, Irv led Advent through three public stock offerings.
Graham Grieve is a data architect who thinks like a mountain climber.
“You build a mountain, you stand on top of it and see a bigger mountain
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Marlin Equity Partners to Acquire AdvancedMD
AdvancedMD, a cloud-based EHR and practice management system dedicated to independent physicians has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by global investment firm Marlin Equity Partners for an undisclosed sum. Closing of the transaction is expected in the third or fourth quarter of calendar 2015 and is subject to customary closing conditions, including the expiration of the waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act.
AdvancedMD offerings includes a
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Health Catalyst Acquires Health Care DataWorks To Enhance BI in Healthcare
Health Catalyst, a provider of healthcare data warehousing, analytics and outcomes improvement has acquired Health Care DataWorks (HCD), a leading provider of business intelligence for health systems. The Columbus, OH-based company provides health systems with data warehousing tools to improve their quality of care and reduce costs. Terms of the acquisition was a cash-and-stock purchase that closed on July 31.
Health systems are increasingly using data warehousing and analytics to leverage
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NTT DATA Acquires Exclusive Rights to InteHealth Technology
NTT DATA, Inc., a leading IT services provider, announced it has acquired global exclusive rights to InteHealth, Inc.'sinnovative technology applications and solutions. The offering will allow healthcare payers and providers to establish a seamless connection to share information among key stakeholders. As a major component of electronic health record’s (EHR) meaningful use, this exclusivity agreement will allow NTT DATA to continue offering leading comprehensive solutions that bridge the gap
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3 Keys to Improving Privacy & Security Protections for Electronic Health Information Exchange
Increasing reports of cyber theft of patient information via hacking—most recently of UCLA Health System, EHR vendor Medical Informatics Engineering and its patient portal NoMoreClipboard, and, earlier, of Anthem and Premera—suggest these data breaches will continue as criminals increasingly seeking out medical data because the data contain links to financial and insurance information.
Why Is Healthcare Data So Vulnerable?
So, why is healthcare data so vulnerable? The answer is simple:
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Baptist Health South Florida to Implement Cerner EHR, Replaces Siemens Clinicals
Baptist Health South Florida has announced it will implement Cerner Millennium and HealtheIntent across all of the system's hospitals, physician offices and outpatient locations. As part of the implementation, Cerner will enhance the organization's existing Cerner Soarian Financials revenue cycle management solutions (RCM), providing Baptist Health with an integrated, enterprise-wide HIT system.
"With the responsibility for more than 1 million patient visits each year and nearly
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Dell Named Founding Health IT Partner for The Innovation Institute
The Innovation Institute announced that Dell Services has agreed to become the founding health care information technology partner of The Institute’s Innovation Lab in Newport Beach, CA. As world-class corporate health-care incubator, The Institute’s Innovation Lab facilitates innovation among inventors, health care plan providers, medical facilities, physicians and more, furthering developing and then introducing new solutions into the health care marketplace.
Partnership Details
Through
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Lockheed Martin Launches Healthcare Technology Alliance to Advance Healthcare IoT
Lockheed Martin has announced the formation of a new healthcare technology alliance, combining the expertise of leading health IT providers, medical technology companies, and academic institutions to advance public health. As part of the alliance, Big Cloud Analytics, Inc. (BCA), a leading provider of real-time predictive analytics technology will work with Intel Corporation to create Internet of Things (IoT) solutions for the new Lockheed Martin Healthcare Technology Alliance.
Alliance
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Report: Radiology Has The Greatest Need for Image Sharing
96% of providers identified radiology on their list of departments that had the greatest need for image sharing, according to new report by peer60, a smart data software company. The report findings are based on a survey of more than 500 healthcare organizations, the report confirms while radiology departments have the greatest need for image sharing today, there is a growing need to exchange this information across departments and facilities as coordination of care is “now a
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DoD EHR Contract: Will It Impact the Larger EHR Market?
How will the DoD EHR contract affect the orders of magnitude in the larger commercial EHR market. Will Cerner leapfrog Epic and become the EHR of choice for large health systems?
The health information technology (HIT) world has been hit by a watershed event like no other. The Department of Defense (DoD), widely respected for its indiscriminate generosity to contractors, has awarded the most coveted prize in recent HIT memory – the Defense Healthcare Management Systems Modernization (DHMSM)
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