Capital Health's Specialized Rehabilitation Hospital (SRH), a United Arab Emirates-based 166-bed specialty hospital has selected Intersystems to become a fully digital hospital. SRH will implement the InterSystems TrakCare EMR system to support the clinicians in making better informed decisions and improving patient safety.In addition, the TrakCare will also enable SRH to create a consolidated view of each patient's history on any authorized Internet-connected device.SRH is managed and operated
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iVantage Health Analytics Launches Market Intelligence Platform for Health Systems
iVantage Health Analytics (iVantage), a provider of healthcare analytic and performance management solutions, today announced the launch of iVantage Market Intelligence, a strategic market intelligence platform to address a growing need for a comprehensive, strategic market intelligence platform for healthcare system and hospital market planning. The new market intelligence platform provides a platform for accessing integrated analytics for market size, market share, outmigration, utilization,
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Florence, Verady Partner to Develop Healthcare Blockchain Apps for Managing Patient & Clinical Trial Data
Florence, the company advancing clinical research through software, and Verady, a Blockchain asset assurance company, has announced a partnership to develop healthcare blockchain apps for advancing healthcare and clinical research. As part of the partnership, Verady's Application Programming Interface (API) will provide an easy-to-use, standardized Representational State Transfer (ReST) interface to abstract away the complexities of Blockchain for Florence's customers. The partnership will be
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Hearst Makes Equity Investment in Moffitt Cancer Center Subsidiary M2Gen
Hearst, a market leader in healthcare technology has announced an equity investment in M2Gen, a health informatics subsidiary of Moffitt Cancer Center, one of the top comprehensive cancer centers in the United States. This partnership will help accelerate the discovery of innovative cancer therapies and improve care for patients nationwide. In addition, the collaboration will provide funding to expand the efforts of the nation’s first major data sharing network among leading cancer
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Chilmark Report: Accessing The Growing Market for Condition Management Solutions
Key healthcare stakeholders are accelerating the adoption of more personalized and holistic approaches to chronic condition management, driven by continuing concerns about rising healthcare costs. Health insurers and self-insured employers continue to lead in adoption with providers continuing to be laggards according to the latest report from ChilmarkResearch.The Assessing the Market for Condition Management Solutions Market Scan Report describes the critical market trends in the healthcare
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Doximity Integrates With Epic’s Mobile EHR to Enable Physicians to Easily Call Patients
Doximity, a social network for U.S. physicians and advanced practice clinicians has announced integration partnership with EHR provider Epic. The new integration will enable one-touch dialing of patients directly from within Epic’s mobile EHR solution, Haiku.Integration DetailsThe integration between Doximity Dialer and Epic Haiku allows to doctors quickly and conveniently access patient records and communicate with patients directly from their cell phones without exposing their personal phone
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How Recent Hurricanes Highlights Health IT Improvement & Exposes Gaps
Yes, Katrina was already losing appeal as a girl’s name by 2005, when it had fallen to 247th most popular in the United States. But the so-named hurricane that swamped New Orleans in August of that year pushed it off a ledge. By May of 2007 Katrina had fallen more than 100 spots to number 382, its lowest level since the 1950s.Less trivial is the impact of Katrina on hospitals and healthcare, which has regularly measured itself against the ghost of a seemingly manageable Category 3 storm that
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New KLAS Report Finds Clock Is Ticking for Allscripts to Improve Paragon
In August 2017, Allscripts announced their intentions to purchase McKesson's Enterprise Information Solutions. This announcement comes after a period of uncertainty regarding McKesson’s plans for the future of Paragon and other EIS solutions. KLAS Research reached out to current Paragon customers to gauge how they are reacting to the news.Do Paragon clients feel the acquisition puts them in a better position? Does it change any customers’ long-term plans? To find out, KLAS got perspectives from
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Infographic: 10 Things You Should Know About BYOD in Healthcare
Healthcare organizations around the U.S. continue to wrestle with whether staff are allowed to use their personal mobile devices for work. Spok, a provider of clinical communications solutions recently surveyed more than 350 healthcare leaders to understand more about ‘Bring Your Own Device’ (BYOD) policies and assess the current trends.The survey finds participation in BYOD policies continues to vary by role, correlating to staff needs and preferences. For example, a majority of physicians
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Mayo Clinic Teams Up with NDSC to Develop CareSelect Lab for EHR-Integrated Medical Guidelines
Mayo Clinic has announced a new partnership with National Decision Support Company (NDSC) to develop CareSelect Lab, a real-time decision support tool to provide real-time medical guidance when ordering laboratory tests. The tool addresses common areas of laboratory test mis-utilization at the EHR point-of-order entry,CareSelect Lab integrates with a hospital’s electronic health record (EHR) and is delivered via NDSC’s CareSelect™ Platform — the same platform that drives NDSC’s
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