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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InterSystems, Pulse InfoFrame Partner to Deliver ‘Patient Registry In A Box’
InterSystems has partnered with Pulse Infoframe, a collaborative research and patient registry solutions provider, to facilitate clinical research and population health studies. Leveraging the InterSystems HealthShare® health informatics platform for interoperability between clinical research systems and EHRs, physicians and researchers can easily capture, organize, model, store and share clinical research data through a secure, web-based application.
Healthie, the Pulse platform, is a
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New Crossroads: Interoperability, Meaningful Use, Transformation, and Our Future
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 Systems
Interoperability.
Achieving it is a predominant theme in healthcare today, and a priority agenda
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EvergreenHealth Selects Wellpepper as Mobile Patient Engagement Solution
EvergreenHealth, an integrated health care system has selected Wellpepper, a clinically validated platform for patient engagement as the mobile engagement solution for all total joint replacement and musculoskeletal care plans. The project was made possible at EvergreenHealth with a generous donation from The Schultz Family Foundation, a private not-for-profit foundation founded by Howard Schultz, CEO of Starbucks Corporation, and his wife Sheri.
Patients with musculoskeletal issues that
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KLAS: 87% of Soarian Customers Planning/Considering to Rip & Replace
More than a year ago, Cerner acquired Siemens Health Services, which caused a shift in the marketplace as healthcare IT options would change. In a new KLAS report “Cerner/Siemens Acquisition: Soarian Migration in High Gear,” examines looked the impact the acquisition has had on customers from both companies. The report found that 87% of Siemens’ Soarian Clinicals customers are leaving or planning to leave and find a new EMR system by the end of 2016.
Customers Now View Soarian as an Orphaned
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4 Ambulatory EHR Market Drivers & Restraints
The ambulatory EHR market is expected to expand by 30 percent during the next five years, increasing at a compound annual growth rate of 5.3 percent until 2020, according to analysis from Frost & Sullivan. The report, US Ambulatory Electronic Health Record Market: 2015–2020 analyzes the ambulatory EHR market and identifies what to expect as the focus shifts from adoption to optimization in the market.
Overall, the overarching objective for providers is to position their EHR as a potential
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