Pontiac General Hospital, a 306 licensed-bed hospital has selected the Medsphere's OpenVista® EHR system for implementation to improve management practices and clinical workflows as they also grow clinical staff and expand available services. More than just an acute care facility, Pontiac General serves the surrounding community as a healthcare hub by offering services ranging from urgent care to family medicine to obstetrics. The hospital also has a mental health unit and offers 24-hour crisis
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DirectTrust Launches Partnership for Patients Program to Securely Share PHI
DirectTrust today announced the launch of Partnership for Patients Program (P4PP), an initiative that will make it easier for patients and health care consumers to securely share personal health information with medical professionals at hospitals, offices, clinics and other locations via secure email. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) requires that health care providers provide access to personal health information in the format and file type—including
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Amazing Charts Unveils End-to-End Revenue Cycle Management to Small Practices
The era of value-based care is setting in and providers need still need to ensure they receive every dollar earned while giving quality patient care. Small practices need to be diligent about financial processes as coding errors, etc. can result in revenue leakage. To meet this need, Amazing Charts, a provider of EHR and PM systems, announced a new revenue cycle management (RCM) service specific to independent physician practices powered by PGM Billing, a leader of medical billing services.Ideal
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What FHIR Means for Interoperability and Its Potential in Population Health
Is FHIR the answer to healthcare interoperability problem? A look at the new protocols potential and why it could enhance pop health efforts, with insights from Wellcentive’s Phillip Burgher.Health information technology’s (HIT’s) potential may be expanding, but so is the size of its greatest challenge and elephant in the room—interoperability. The industry is riding a wave of evolution fueled by digital connection, yet there has never been a greater disconnect when it comes to utilizing digital
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5 Ways Providers Can Prevent Patient Data Breaches
2015 was unsurprisingly the year with the highest-profile healthcare data breaches to-date. With more and more patient information being transferred and stored digitally it’s a trend likely to continue for many years to come. Clinics, doctors offices, insurers and hospitals, however, are equally increasing their measures in fighting back.Similar to money and jewels, no data is completely immune from unauthorized access so long as legitimate access is granted to specific people. That doesn’t mean
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IMS Health Acquires Canada-based Privacy Analytics
IMS Health has acquired Canada-based Privacy Analytics, a technology provider that enables healthcare organizations to unleash the value of sensitive data for secondary purposes without compromising personal health information. The acquisition will help IMS Health strengthen its robust Real-World Evidence (RWE) capabilities and advance the company’s ability to help life sciences clients drive R&D and commercial performance and demonstrate treatment value in real-world settings. MS Health
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3 Keys to Scaling Up Population Health Management for Providers
Financial incentives, technological advances and pioneering care models have provided fertile soil for the green shoots of population health to grow. But for these programs to flourish, they will need more sophisticated analytics, patient stratification, community involvement and care management.This week, PwC’s Health Research Institute (HRI) released “Population health: Scaling up,” where they interviewed executives in leading healthcare, research and academic institutions on how organizations
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Healthcare Data Breaches: The Gap Between Awareness & Readiness
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 SystemsYou may be suffering from IT security fatigue at this point, for which I offer a half-hearted apology.Yes,
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Mercy Health Named “Analytics Wizard” by SAP, Saves Provider $9M in Surgery-Related Costs
What began a decade ago as a vision for a unified electronic patient record has propelled Mercy into a model of care driven by information. Today, Mercy’s physicians, care team and leaders have intelligence – not just data – at their fingertips boosting productivity and driving improvements that minimize unnecessary care and cost, and keep patients healthier.Mercy’s move from collecting data to delivering information has earned its IT division, Mercy Technology Services, international
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FDA, Flatiron Health Team Up for Cancer Research Initiative
Flatiron Health and the FDA have teamed up on a new research collaboration agreement to determine how real-world evidence derived from de-identified, HIPAA-compliant patient data captured outside of clinical trials can provide new insights into the safety and effectiveness of emerging anti-cancer therapies such as immunotherapeutic agents.Research Initiative DetailsAs part of this research initiative, Flatiron Health and the FDA are collaborating on a project to investigate the use of
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