Not that long ago, healthcare worried mostly about the physical loss of personal health information (PHI) by way of a lost thumb drive, a stolen laptop, some misplaced paper files. These were the primary concerns in HIMSS initial security survey, published in 2008. It wasn’t until five years later, in 2013, that the largest healthcare security breaches came from cyberattacks instead of lost or stolen devices.
So, is it encouraging to see how far the rapid pace of change has carried health IT
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Top 5 Health IT Solutions Hospitals Plan to Adopt in 2016
In a newly released report from HIMSS Analytics examines the changes in a hospitals’ buying intent from 2014 through 2015. The report identified the following top 5 technologies hospitals plan to adopt in 2016:
1. CPOE
2. Physician Documentation
3. Nurse Staffing/Scheduling
4. Dictation with Speech Recognition
5. Data Warehousing/Mining – Clinical
Report Background
In early 2015, in a forward-thinking article on Healthcare IT News, HIMSS Analytics identified 18 technologies
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MidMichigan Health Selects Epic for $55M Integrated EHR
Midland, Michigan-based MidMichigan Health announced it has selected Epic as its strategic partner for a single, integrated EHR for all of its hospitals, doctors’ offices and outpatient care facilities. The Epic implementation is expected to cost $55M and the non-profit health system expects to recoup those costs within six years through efficiencies gained by bringing all MidMichigan Health-owned facilities onto the same platform for registration, scheduling and billing.
“Our current state
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Health Tech Incubator MATTER, Abbott Partner to Support Healthcare Innovation
Chicago based health tech incubator MATTER is teaming up with Abbott, the global healthcare company, to support healthcare innovation. The two companies will work together to accelerate the development of new digital health technologies. Abbott joins as one of eight platinum-level partners from across the healthcare industry.
Partnership Details
Abbott will work with MATTER to identify and potentially commercialize promising new technologies and innovations. In addition, Abbott's
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eClinicalWorks CEO Talks 5 Trends Shaping the Next Decade of Healthcare
As health care transformation intensifies, we’re hearing leaders urge either a slower pace, or inspiring a new push for deeper, wide scale health care changes.
Girish Navani, CEO of eClinicalWorks, a leading developer of ambulatory health care IT solutions, is clearly in the second camp. As CEO and co-founder since 1999, Navani knows provider issues well. His customer base extends to all 50 states – now moving into a dozen European countries -- and he engages many at the company’s user
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Leidos Acquires Lockheed’s Government IT Business for $5B
On Tuesday, Leidos Holdings Inc. announced it will acquire Bethesda, Md.-based Lockheed Martin Corp’s information systems and government services business in a tax-free deal valued at $5 billion. The division has about $5 billion in sales and more than 16,000 employees globally, IS&GS has been a leading government services provider for more than 20 years. Lockheed states the move will allow them to focus more on its core aerospace and defense operations.
With the acquisition, Leidos
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VitreosHealth Nabs $5M for Population Health Management Analytics
Plano, TX-based VitreosHealth has raised $5M led by private equity firm Kinderhook Industries for its predictive and prescriptive health insights for population health management platform. The financing will help fuel the company’s ability to deliver insights as a service to healthcare providers and insurers for better health outcomes. The latest round brings the company’s total funding raised to more than $6.2M.
With VitreosHealth's closed-loop performance management process, providers can
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Nextech Acquires Plastic Surgery EHR SupraMed
Nextech Systems, a provider of specialty-focused healthcare technology solutions for physician practices has acquired plastic surgery EHR and office management provider SupraMed. The acquisition further cements Nextech's dominance in the plastic surgery market and demonstrates its commitment to delivering top-tier specialty-specific EHR and practice management solutions. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
SupraMed's web-based practice management technology complements
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Jitterbit Moves into Healthcare, Unveils Healthcare Interoperability Platform
Jitterbit, a provider of fast, agile integration solutions, is announcing their move into healthcare with a new healthcare solution and a $20M Series B funding round that addresses integration challenges and opportunities. With their new healthcare interoperability platform, medical device manufacturers, healthcare providers, application developers and EMR vendors to automate and streamline operations with a dedicated healthcare data model and interoperability standards that enable the secure
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CareSync Joins athenahealth’s ‘More Disruption Please’ Program
CareSync, a provider of software and services for chronic disease management is joining athenahealth’s ‘More Disruption Please’ (MDP) program. The partnership will link athenahealth’s growing network of more than 73k health care providers with the capabilities of CareSync to more efficiently meet billing requirements for CPT code 99490 and manage patient care, especially for those coping with chronic conditions.
“Through this partnership, providers already using athenaClinicals® can quickly
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