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FDB Releases CPOE-Ready Drug Database for EHR Canadian Market

by HITC Staff 02/10/2016 Leave a Comment

First Databank

First Databank, a provider of clinical drug knowledge that helps improve medication-related decisions and patient outcomes has released FDB OrderKnowledge®Canada, a pre-built medication ordering drug knowledge base specifically designed to help make computerized provider order entry (CPOE) applications more intuitive and user-friendly. Although there has been significant federal investment since 2001 to spur EHR adoption across Canada, deployment of CPOE applications is still relatively low.
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Patient Engagement Company Premise Health Acquires IMWell Health

by HITC Staff 02/09/2016 Leave a Comment

Patient Engagement Company Premise Health Acquires IMWell Health

Brentwood, TN-based Premise Health, a worksite health and patient engagement company has acquired IMWell Health, a Fort Smith, Arkansas-based company that specializes in primary care clinics for mid-size companies and municipalities. The acquisition will help accelerate Premise Health's strategic expansion to improve the cost and quality of employer health care. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.  Spun out of the merger of CHS Health Services and Take Care Employer
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Senate Health Committee Passes Bill to Improve Health IT

by Jasmine Pennic 02/09/2016 Leave a Comment

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Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-Wash.) today announced that the Senate health committee has unanimously passed bipartisan legislation that will improve health information technology. The Improving Health Information Technology Act (S. 2511) is the product of a bipartisan, full committee health information technology working group announced by Alexander and Murray in April—as well as a series of six bipartisan hearings in the committee. The committee
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MercyRockford Health Selects Premier for Supply Chain

by HITC Staff 02/08/2016 Leave a Comment

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MercyRockford Health System, a vertically-integrated regional health system with five hospitals and 561 W-2 employed physician partners in northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin, has partnered with Premier, Inc., a healthcare improvement company, for group purchasing and expense reduction services on a system-wide basis. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed. Formed in January 2015 through the merger of Mercy Health System and Rockford Health System, MercyRockford also operates
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Can A National Patient Identifier Solve Interoperability Challenges?

by Our Thought Leaders 02/08/2016 Leave a Comment

Editor's Note: Thomas Grove is a Principal of Consulting and Compliance Services at Phoenix Health Systems, a division of Medsphere Systems. As a healthcare management executive with 20+ years of experience, Thomas has extensive expertise in strategic assessments and planning, revenue cycle management, and process improvement. Many EHR components were developed as early as 30 years ago, but it wasn’t until 2009 that the federal Meaningful Use incentive program precipitated wide-spread
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3 Ways Care Teams are Transforming Healthcare Delivery

by HITC Staff 02/05/2016 Leave a Comment

3 Ways Care Teams are Transforming Healthcare Delivery

When it comes to the changing health status of patients after acute episodes and between visits, uncertainty abounds. Until now, care teams have had little to no visibility into the health of their populations, severely limiting their ability to prevent adverse health events before costs spiral.  This week, care management and patient engagement platform RoundingWell released initial insights uncovered from analysis of data gathered directly from patient populations and care teams using the
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Patient Navigation: 5 Steps for Fixing the Most Dangerous Communication Problem in Hospitals

by HITC Staff 02/04/2016 Leave a Comment

Patient Navigation: 5 Steps for Fixing the Most Dangerous Communication Problem in Hospitals

A recent study documented what healthcare professionals have suspected for years: that communication breaks down somewhere between hospital discharge and outpatient follow-up. At best, it was unclear who was responsible for post-discharge testing or home healthcare. At worst, primary care physicians didn’t know their patients had been admitted at all.  With nearly 80 percent of serious medical errors involving miscommunication during patient transfers, it’s time to close this dangerous
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Practice Fusion Lays Off 75 Employees To Become Cash Flow Positive

by Fred Pennic 02/04/2016 Leave a Comment

Practice Fusion

Cloud-based EHR platform Practice Fusion has laid off about 75 employees, including people in engineering, marketing, practice sales in an effort to become fiscally responsible, Techcrunch confirms. The layoffs were announced on Wednesday during an all-hands meeting and represents about a quarter of the San Francisco-based EHR provider’s workforce. Despite its efforts to become cash-flow positive, Practice Fusion reported 70% year-over-year growth with $26.9M in 2014 and is expected to reach
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Premier Granted Access to CMS Medicare Data To Drive Healthcare Transformation

by HITC Staff 02/03/2016 Leave a Comment

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Healthcare improvement leader Premiere Inc. is the first organization to be approved by CMS to access its Virtual Research Data Center (VRDC) to develop innovations that drive healthcare transformation. By tapping into CMS's  VRDC, a virtual research environment, Premier will derive insights from privacy-protected Medicare data that are expected to result in the development of solutions to benefit patients and the healthcare system overall. As part of its approved research, Premier Insights,
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HITRUST Appoints Epic President Carl Dvorak to Board of Directors

by HITC Staff 02/03/2016 Leave a Comment

Epic President Carl Dvorak

The Health Information Trust Alliance (HITRUST) has appointed Epic President Carol Dvorak to its Board of Directors in a move to strengthen its industry EHR engagement. He joins a board comprised of CISOs and CPOs representing many of the nation’s largest insurers and hospitals. As the original developer of several Epic applications, Mr. Dvorak is responsible for all technical and service areas and brings unique perspective and extensive skills in developing and supporting EHRs to HITRUST.
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