Emmi Solutions, a provider of outcomes-driven patient engagement, analyzed nearly 100,000 HCAHPS surveys from multiple service lines in 29 hospitals across the country and demonstrated that patients who viewed one of the company’s web-based, interactive programs reported higher patient satisfaction scores when compared with patients who had not. Patient satisfaction scores have always been important to providers but now that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) are tying
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Is Accountability The Missing Element in Better Healthcare?
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.
Who is accountable for the actions of Adam Lanza, the troubled young man who in December 2012 killed 26 people in Newtown, Connecticut?
He is, of
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Ryan Howard Talks How Practice Fusion Overcame the Free EHR Stigma
The faith in EHR technology to cure our health system’s ills may be dwindling, but not for Practice Fusion’s CEO and founder Ryan Howard. Today, his San Francisco-based company is dominating the competition by offering the largest mobile cloud-based, Meaningful-Use-certified EHR platform in the U.S. And it’s free.
So how did a free EHR technology overcome the stigma that often comes with such technology to dominate the market? And how can a free product maintain the integrity and
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Dell Appoints Dr. Nick van Terheyden as New Chief Medical Officer
Dell Services has appointed Nick van Terheyden, M.D., former chief medical information officer of Nuance Communications as the new Dell Healthcare & Life Sciences chief medical officer. Under his leadership, Dr. van Terheyden will help Dell advance its support of healthcare organizations, medical professionals and patients through information-enabled healthcare. He will report to Sid Nair, vice president and global general manager of Dell’s Healthcare & Life Sciences (HCLS) Services
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NantHealth Acquires Harris Healthcare Solutions to Optimize Patient-Clinician Experience
NantHealth, a subsidiary of NantWorks, LLC, announced it has completed the acquisition of Harris Corporation’s commercial Healthcare Solutions business, a clinical systems integration innovator. Harris retained its government healthcare services business. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
As part of the acquisition, NantHealth’s existing cOS, eviti and omics platforms will combined with Harris’ FusionFX® suite of products. The integration will delivers on the promise of
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5 Elements of Successful Patient Engagement
In recent years, there has been a great deal of discussion about how to engage patients in their care. Patient engagement has always been considered a good thing in practices and health care organizations. Today it is vital to the business of delivering care. Why the shift? Patient engagement is an essential strategy for achieving the “triple aim” of health care:
• Improving the patient experience. Patients are expecting and demanding greater control over their care. Provisions in the
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medCPU Raises $8M To Help Clinicians See Complete Clinical Picture of Patient
medCPU, Inc., a healthcare enterprise clinical decision support solution, announced that it closed an $8 million financing round, consisting of $5 million series B-2 equity and $3 million in debt financing. The equity round was led by Merck Global Health Innovation Fund and New Richmond Ventures, and debt financing was provided by Silicon Valley Bank. The company will utilize the additional capital to enable medCPU to continue to assert its leadership position in the dynamic clinical decision
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National Billing Center, SyTrue Partner to Automate Medical Billing
SyTrue, Inc., a healthcare data-refinement company, that specializes in natural language processing (NLP) solutions to translate unstructured clinical data into actionable clinical information, announced today, a partnership with National Billing Center, who provides cloud-based automation services for hospital billing.
National Billing Center (NBC) is leveraging a component of SyTrue’s proprietary smart data platform for the company’s hospital Coding Automation Tool (CAT). The technology
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Epic to Create Clinical Decision Support Tool for Falls Prevention
On Monday at the White House Conference on Aging, EHR leader Epic Systems announced it will create a clinical decision support tool (CDS) too for patient falls prevention based on CDC's guidelines. The CDS tool is expected to be available to all Epic clients by the end of the year designed to make it easier for health care providers to screen for falls, intervene to reduce risk, and provide follow-up care.
Additionally, it was announced that Kaiser Permanente will implement the CDC’s
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How NLP Is Unlocking Data Driven Insights for Radiologists
This post is sponsored by SyTrue
When healthcare executives gather these days, discussion quickly turns to growing data volumes, ways to extract patient data across the spectrum of care, and tools for gaining insights from data. These familiar issues are driven by new “value-based” (versus “volume-focused”) shifts launched throughout healthcare in the past decade.
For radiology executives, the “value-based” environment also breeds pressures from falling reimbursements. To change
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