The University of Texas System’s Project Diabetes and Obesity Control (DOC) recently received $3 million from the Valley Baptist Legacy Foundation to expand its innovative diabetes management apps in the lower Rio Grande Valley. The Board of Regents approved $15 million this week to continuing funding the project to develop apps that enable patients and physicians to improve the control of diabetes and patient care.Project DOC OverviewWith Project DOC (Diabetes Obesity Control), The UT System’s
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Consortium Awarded $600k Grant for Healthcare Workforce IT Skills Project
To meet the global demand for skilled healthcare IT workers, the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation grant program has awarded nearly just under $600,000 dollars to the EU*US eHealth Work Consortium. The 18-month project starting from September 2016 to February 2018 will address the need, development and deployment of healthcare workforce IT skills, competencies and training programs in the European Union, United States and around the globe for the full spectrum of job
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KLAS: Industry Executives Establish Interoperability Benchmark Model
To help resolve some of the key interoperability challenges in the health IT industry, several key EHR and provider stakeholders met at the recent KLAS Cornerstone Summit last month to establish a new interoperability benchmark model and roadmap. The framework, agreed upon by industry representatives, is largely based on the 2016 Interoperability KLAS study design, which focuses on the clinical end users’ experience related to the following: 1. Availability of needed information2. Ease of
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Phoenix Children’s Hospital Taps NantHealth for Precision Cancer Care
Phoenix Children’s Hospital has entered into a commercial licensing agreement with NantHealth to adopt GPS Cancer, a comprehensive molecular testing platform for personalized cancer therapy for its patients and self-insured employee population. As part of the licensing agreement, Phoenix will deploy the GPS Cancer in two key ways:1. Its network of oncologists will be able to order GPS Cancer, enabling them to gain critical insights to inform personalized treatment strategies including guided
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HMS Holdings Acquires Care Management Platform Essette for $20M
HMS Holdings Corp. a provider of cost containment solutions in the healthcare industry to help payers improve performance has acquired web-based care management platform Essette for approximately $20 million in cash. Founded in 2007, Essette's care management platform helps risk-bearing healthcare organizations identify, engage, and manage at-risk patient populations to improve outcomes while managing costs.Essette's customer base includes managed care organizations and care delivery
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LA County Dept. of Health Services to Implement Cerner’s Population Health Platform
The Los Angeles County Department of Health Services (LACDHS) announced today it will implement Cerner's population health platform, HealtheIntent. The deal makes it Cerner’s 100th HealtheIntent client.HealtheIntent’s system-agnostic platform that normalizes data from any source, to aggregate clinical and financial data from its core EHR and other sources. Once live, HealtheIntent will enable thousands of LACDHS clinicians to make more informed decisions by providing a comprehensive profile of
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Former CVS Health Exec Joins Culbert Healthcare Solutions as CMO
Culbert Healthcare Solutions, a healthcare management consulting firm has appointed former CVS Health executive Nancy Gagliano, MD as the company’s chief medical officer (CMO). Under her leadership, Dr. Gagliano will provide her strategic and operational oversight to Culbert’s consulting services related to clinical leadership, quality programs, clinical operations and clinical IT strategy.“We are honored and excited to welcome Nancy to the team,” said Brad Boyd, President of Culbert Healthcare
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Surescripts Rolls Out Medication History Service for Population Health Management
Surescripts, a health information network, is expanding to support population health management with its Medication History for Panel Management service for health systems, accountable care organizations (ACOs) and analytics vendors. The service, Medication History for Panel Management Service, comes at a time when managing population health is a top priority for care providers, especially in light of value-based payment models. Key features of the service include: · Delivers fresh, accurate
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Consumer Group Urges CMS to Maintain Meaningful Use Stage 2 & 3 Rules
The Consumer Partnership for eHealth (CPeH) is urging the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to maintain robust objectives and measures that promote health information access and exchange between patients and eligible hospitals. In comments submitted today on proposed modifications to the rules governing Stages 2 and 3 of the Electronic Health Record Incentive (Meaningful Use) program, CPeH notes that measures designed to give individuals access to their health information and
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3M Acquires Medical Coding Technology Company Semfinder
3M Health Information Systems has acquired Semfinder, a Switzerland-based precise semantic medical coding technology company. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. For 3M, the acquisition will accelerate the availability of its 3M 360 Encompass System in countries adopting EMRs. With the 3M 360 Encompass System, organizations merge clinical and financial data to analyze, supplement and proactively execute on key clinical and financial data—at the point of care—resulting in a
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