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Epic’s Care Everywhere Exchanges Quarter Billion Patient Records

by Fred Pennic 03/25/2016 Leave a Comment

Epic Systems

This week, Verona, Wis.-based EHR leader Epic announced that in the last 12 months, nearly a quarter of a billion patient records were exchanged on it's Care Everywhere platform—up 300% from the year prior. The milestone represents records that were exchanged with groups using other EHRs, HIEs, HISPs, entities connected to the eHealth exchange, and members of the Epic Community.Epic’s Care Everywhere interoperability platform supports millions of patient record exchanges each month to improve
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Main Line Health Selects Epic for Integrated EHR

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Main Line Health Selects Epic for Integrated EHR

 Main Line Health, a Philadelphia-based not-for-profit health system has selected Epic as its strategic partner for a single, integrated EHR across its continuum of care. The Epic implementation called PIVOT project (Promoting Innovation by Valuing Organizational Transformation) will provide seamless integration between inpatient and outpatient solutions that encompass clinical information, patient registration, patient scheduling and billing. Following a year-long, comprehensive, system-wide
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NIH, ONC Launch Sync for Science Pilot: 5 Things to Know

by HITC Staff 03/25/2016 Leave a Comment

obama precision medicine

This week, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in collaboration with the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT announced the launch of the Precision Medicine Initiative's (PMI) Sync 4 Science (S4S), a pilot program that will allow individuals  to access their health data and send it to researchers. The pilot program will build off existing community standards and specification efforts (e.g., FHIR, SMART Health IT, Argonaut, CMS EHR Incentive Program) to support a key use case:
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Novant Health Becomes First Provider to be Revalidated for HIMSS Stage 7 Ambulatory Award

by HITC Staff 03/24/2016 Leave a Comment

Novant Health

Novant Health is the first health system worldwide to be revalidated for the prestigious HIMSS Analytics Stage 7 Ambulatory Award for its adoption and use of an EHR. All Novant Health medical group clinics – approximately 440 locations – were revalidated as part of the award. In July 2013, the organization finalized the implementation of the EHR in all physician clinics across the Novant Health system. The implementation was completed three years early and under budget. Novant Health
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Leidos, NIH Launches Portal to Re-accelerate Biomedical Research Funding

by Fred Pennic 03/24/2016 Leave a Comment

OnPAR

  Leidos, a health, national security and engineering solutions company is teaming up with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to launch OnPAR (Online Partnership to Accelerate Research) that will provide new funding opportunities for scientific projects. The Online Partnership to Accelerate Research (OnPAR) was conceived to re-accelerate the biomedical research and development enterprise by seeking a larger return on NIH's peer review investment on research proposals evaluated
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Report: Patient Satisfaction Tanks After 20-Minute Doctor Wait Time

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Report: Patient Satisfaction Tanks After 20 Minute Doctor Wait Time

When it comes to waiting for a doctor’s appointment, most patients are waiting 19 minutes, 19 seconds – which is just good enough to keep patients happy with their service, according to Vitals 7th annual wait time report. The report finds positive reviews start to skew negative after patients are left waiting more than 20 minutes revealing the important correlation between wait time and patient satisfaction. For instance, 49 percent of patients who had a 15-minute wait rated their doctor
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TigerText Focuses on Optimizing Clinical Workflow in New Release

by Jasmine Pennic 03/24/2016 Leave a Comment

TigerText Secure Messaging

Sadly, the majority of the healthcare industry is still using outdated pager services, over paying by 45 percent. TigerText, the secure communications leader in healthcare, announced its Spring '16 release which focuses s on optimizing clinical workflow efficiency and reducing the costs of care delivery. TigerText’s Spring ‘16 release new features such as priority messaging, auto-forwarding, as well as a standalone desktop application help speed the exchange of information and reduce the
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Allscripts to Acquire Netsmart to Penetrate Post-Acute Market

by HITC Staff 03/23/2016 Leave a Comment

Allscripts

Allscripts has announced a definitive agreement to combine resources with private equity firm GI Partners in a joint venture that will acquire privately held post-acute care EHR provider Netsmart Technologies, Inc.  This transaction creates the largest technology company exclusively dedicated to human services and post-acute care.  The joint venture will combine the Allscripts Homecare™ business, which serves more than 30,000 home health, private duty and hospice clinicians in the
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Cerner Lands First First Global HealtheIntent Client with UK-based Wirral Partners

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Cerner Lands First First Global HealtheIntent Client with UK-based Wirral Partners

EHR giant Cerner, announced that Wirral Partners, an integrated primary and acute care system in the United Kingdom, will use Cerner's HealtheIntent℠ population health management platform to advance the Healthy Wirral program, an initiative focused on establishing new models of care for disease management and prevention. Wirral Partners through Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is Cerner’s first global HealtheIntent client. HealtheIntent, a system-agnostic, near real-time
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Practice Unite, Uniphy Health Merge to Provide Secure Clinical Communication Platform

by Jasmine Pennic 03/22/2016 Leave a Comment

Uniphy Health

Practice Unite, a HIPAA secure texting provider and physician engagement firm Uniphy Health are merging together to create the healthcare industry’s most comprehensive clinical communications and collaboration solutions provider. The newly combined Uniphy Health will provide healthcare organizations with transformative, HIPAA-compliant, mobile-first solutions that deliver a positive return on investment (ROI) today and help those organizations transition to value-based care for tomorrow. With
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