Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance and Royal Philips announced this week that they have signed a letter of intent to jointly develop scalable digital transformation plans aimed at improving the quality of immunization data and its collection in primary and community healthcare. Their joint goal is to help Gavi supported countries improve the planning, coverage and impact of immunization programs. Routine immunization has played a key role in more than halving the annual number of child deaths since
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ePatientFinder Joins athenahealth’s “More Disruption Please” Marketplace
ePatientFinder®, a provider EHR-driven clinical trial recruitment has joined athenahealth's More Disruption Please (MDP) program and is now part of the athenahealth® Marketplace offerings — and its innovative solution for clinical trial recruitment is now available to athenahealth's growing cloud-based network of more than 80,000 healthcare providers. The partnership with athenahealth represent ePatientFinder's leadership role in solving the clinical trials recruitment challenge by leveraging
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What Is the Value Proposition of Adopting A Behavioral Health EHR?
Editor’s Note: D’Arcy Guerin Gue is a co-founder of Phoenix, with over 25 years of experience in executive leadership, strategic planning, IT services, knowledge leadership, and industry relations — with a special focus on patient engagement and federal compliance issues. She currently serves as the Director of Industry Relations at Phoenix Health Systems, a division of Medsphere SystemsNo, there is no Meaningful Use for behavioral health hospitals, and yes, some mental health clinicians
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athenahealth Launches New Data-Driven Editorial Hub athenaInsight
athenahealth, a a provider of cloud-based EHR and practice management solutions for medical groups and health systems has launched a new editorial news hub on focused on American healthcare. The hub named athenaInsight draws upon a comprehensive data set of health care transactions from athenahealth’s nationwide network to provide a a real-time view of nearly 80,000 providers and 80 million de-identified patients, whose demographics closely match the nation’s.athenaInsight will extract insights
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Surescripts Offers EHR Vendors Free Access to National Record Locator Service
Health information network Surescripts announced that it will offer EHR vendors free access to its National Record Locator Service, a service that gives providers an effective way to obtain a more complete view of a patient’s health history until 2019. Early EHR adopters of the NRLS include A number of leading EHR vendors, including Aprima, eClinicalWorks (eCW), Epic, Greenway Health, and NextGen Healthcare have already agreed to offer the capability to their users.“Our customers have already
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Picis Acquires Startup Analytics Company EnvisionHealth
Picis Clinical Solutions, a global provider of innovative information solutions has acquired startup analytics company EnvisionHealth for an undisclosed sum. The Austin, TX based cloud analytics solution provides accessible, practical and enlightening dashboard metrics to improve their care delivery. The new product, Picis Envision, is now available to all Picis customers.As part of the acquisition, EnvisionHealth founders Diana Zamora Magallanes and Eric Day will join Picis as senior
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AirStrip Granted FDA 510(k) Clearance, Patent for AirStrip ONE App
AirStrip announced it has received FDA 510(k) clearance to a web client for the AirStrip ONE® mobile interoperability platform and app that can be run on desktops and laptops using Internet Explorer and Google Chrome. AirStrip ONE® provides a single, data- and vendor-agnostic platform that connects clinicians with the right information at the right time, via the most convenient device at hand.The company also recently received a U.S. patent for new functionality: ECG waveform 'visual calipers'
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CMS to Develop Data Repository for Clinical Data Registry Reporting
CMS recently announced its plans to develop a centralized data repository that will assist eligible professionals (EP), eligible hospitals (EH) and critical access hospitals (CAHs) in finding entities that accept electronic public health data. Registries must submit data on an annual basis between September 1 and October 31, 2016. The repository is expected to be available early in 2017. According to CMS, entities must identify which of the following public health measures they
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Imprivata Appoints Gus Malezis as New CEO After Thoma Bravo Acquisition
Today, healthcare IT security company Imprivata has announced the appointment of Gus Malezis as its new President and Chief Executive Officer, effective September 19, 2016. The appointment comes off the heels of private equity investment firm Thoma Bravo has completed its acquisition of the healthcare IT security company.Under the terms of the merger agreement, Imprivata shareholders are entitled to receive $19.25 in cash for each share of Imprivata common stock they hold valued at $544M. The
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Salesforce Adds New Care Plan Templates to Health Cloud
On the heels of the most recent Health Cloud announcement — connecting patients with healthcare providers via two-way video chat — Salesforce continues its push for innovation in the healthcare sector with the roll out of new care plan templates. Released earlier this year, Health Cloud is a patient relationship management solution that provides a comprehensive view of the patient, smarter patient management and connected patient engagement. Health Cloud puts all patient information in one
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