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Medsphere Closes $7.5M Venture Loan to Expand Open EHR

by Fred Pennic 06/09/2015 Leave a Comment

Medsphere OpenVista EHR

Medsphere, a provider of affordable and interoperable EHR solutions, has closed a $7.5 million venture loan from Horizon Technology Finance Corporation, a specialty finance company that provides capital in the form of secured loans to venture capital backed companies. The venture debt will  use the funds for working capital purposes to grow their customer base and expand product offerings. Unlike traditional bank lending, venture debt is defined as a form of debt financing for venture
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AMA Policy Supports Medical Student Access to EHRs

by HITC Staff 06/08/2015 Leave a Comment

Building on the AMA’s current efforts to transform medical education and ensure medical students are trained and prepared to practice in the evolving health care environment, the American Medical Association (AMA) adopted policy today to ensure medical students receive necessary hands-on clinical experience using EHRs. The new policy calls on the AMA to work with medical school accrediting bodies to encourage the nation’s medical schools, along with residency and fellowship training programs,
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CMS Chief Data Officer Recieves Health Data Liberators Award

by Fred Pennic 06/04/2015 Leave a Comment

CMS Chief Data Officer Recieves Health Data Liberators Award

Niall Brennan, Chief Data Officer and the Director of the Office of Enterprise Data and Analytics at the CMS has been announced as the recipient of this year's Health Data Liberators Award for his efforts to share CMS data in innovative ways to help improve the quality and value of care delivery. Chris Boone, Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer of HDC, and Charles Ornstein, presented the award in front of nearly 2,000 innovators, healthcare industry executives, policymakers, venture capitalists,
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Careport Health Raises $3.8M to Optimize Post-Acute Care

by Jasmine Pennic 06/03/2015 Leave a Comment

Careport Health, a technology company that helps health systems better manage their post-acute care networks has raised $3.8M in funding to accelerate growth. The round was led by Baseline Ventures, with participation from CommonAngels Ventures, Excelerate Health Ventures, Generator Ventures, Launch Capital, 500 Startups and Andy Palmer.  Eliminating the Information Gap After witnessing the challenges of finding post-hospital care, Dr. Lissy Hu, a Harvard Medical School and Harvard Business
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CVS Health, HHS Collaborate to Provide Personalized Preventive Care Recommendations

by HITC Staff 06/02/2015 Leave a Comment

CVS Health announced it is partnering with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to promote an online tool, which provides recommendations from government-recognized clinical experts for the personalized preventive services patients should receive based on their age and gender.  Many of these preventive services are available to patients at MinuteClinic and CVS/pharmacy locations, as well as at their physician's office, and many are now covered by most insurance without
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Apervita, Mayo Clinic To Create First Self-Service Health Measures Marketplace

by HITC Staff 06/02/2015 Leave a Comment

Apervita Unveils Marketplace for Health Analytics & Data

Apervita and Mayo Clinic, today announced a partnership to create the first self-service marketplace for health measures that will serve as a one-stop-shop to author, publish, and apply measures, allowing users to connect their data to open standard measure definitions. The new capability automatically transforms measure definitions into computable analytics and is being developed with Mayo Clinic contributing its expertise in medical care, know how, and technology. Today, there are already
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Susannah Fox Appointed New CTO of HHS

by HITC Staff 05/29/2015 Leave a Comment

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Former associate director of the Pew Research Center, Susannah Fox has been appointed the new chief technology officer (CTO) at HHS. Fox will replace Bryan Sivak who held the post since 2012 after succeeding the inaugural CTO Todd Park.  In a post on the HHS Idea Lab blog, Fox said "when I was asked to consider the role of Chief Technology Officer at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), to serve under the leadership of Secretary Burwell, I was drawn by the
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5 Common Myths About The ICD-10 Transition

by Jasmine Pennic 05/29/2015 Leave a Comment

With ICD-10 compliance date less than five months away, there is still an abundance of common misconceptions associated to this transition. For providers, these ICD-10 misconceptions can prove extremely costly and damaging to the implementation.    Pam Klugman, chief product officer of Clear Vision Information Systems specifically warns providers to avoid these five common myths about ICD-10: 1. The new ICD-10 codes are simply increased and renumbered code sets. While it is true
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Persivia Acquires Alere Analytics to Expand Footprint in Population Health

by HITC Staff 05/28/2015 Leave a Comment

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Persivia, a chronic care and population health company has announced the acquisition of Alere Analytics to help build out its portfolio in chronic care, cancer, genetics and population health management.  Persivia CEO Mansoor and chief medical officer Dr. Fauzia Khan in 2012 originally sold DiagnosisOne to Alere, which was later renamed to Alere Analytics, before deciding to sell it for $600 million in 2014. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. The newly launched Persivia is
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Nuance Launches Evidence Based Computer-Assisted Reporting for Radiologists

by Fred Pennic 05/28/2015 Leave a Comment

Nuance Radiology

Nuance today announced the industry’s first integrated computer-assisted reporting solution at the point of clinical documentation for radiologists, PowerScribe 360® Reporting version 3.0. The solution uses the Nuance PowerShare Network’s cloud technology to push updated clinical guidelines from the American College of Radiology (ACR) directly to radiologists as they’re reviewing imaging procedures and making diagnostic decisions. By automatically triggering clinical decision support, the
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