Michigan residents will benefit from improved health care delivery and reduced costs through Medicaid Management Information System technology, a first in the nation programs that includes a partnership with another state.
The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services has worked with the State of Illinois, the Michigan Department of Technology, Management and Budget, and CNSI to recently launch the second phase of the nation’s first completely automated real-time and cloud-enabled
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PatientSafe Solutions Acquires Merck subsidiary Vree Health
PatientSafe Solutions, a provider of connected healthcare workflow and care coordination solutions has acquired all assets of Vree Health, a wholly owned subsidiary of Merck. The acquisition of Vree Health's service-enabled care coordination technology will help boost PatientSafe’s existing care coordination offerings to provide an end-to-end mobile care network at all points of patient care. As part of the acquisition, PatientSafe plans to maintain Vree Health's office in New Jersey, and the
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Baptist Health Care to Implement Allscripts Sunrise EHR
Pensacola, Florida-based Baptist Health Care Corporation has selected Allscripts Sunrise EHR solution to improve the quality and safety of patient care and better manage their business operations over Cerner and Epic. The Allscripts solution will provide Baptist with a single, comprehensive health care record for every patient that is accessible by clinicians at any point of care, including hospitals, ambulatory sites, physician practices and other trading partners. Non-clinical departments will
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Former Epic Employees Raises $3.5M for EHR Integration API
Founded by former Epic engineers, Redox, a health IT startup helping developers integrate with EHRs and health systems manage their connections to the cloud, today announced it has raised $3.5M in Series A funding led by .406 Ventures with participation by Flybridge Capital Partners and HealthX Ventures. The company hopes to solve the EHR interoperability problem with their RESTful API designed to help apps share data with almost any EHR vendor at any health system.
Redox's
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KLAS: athenahealth, Epic Leads Industry in Interoperability
athenahealth and Epic leads the industry in overall interoperability, while eClinicalWorks, McKesson, GE, and NextGen are described as "interoperability laggards," according to recent findings in KLAS' inaugural interoperability report. The report, “Interoperability 2015: Are We Lifting Together?” highlights how provider organizations rate their EMR vendors in terms of how proactive and effective they are in sharing patient data outside their organization.
For the report, KLAS interviewed more
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How Home Health Software Improves Provider-Patient Relationships
Consider the typical provider-patient relationship: Patient visits the doctor. Doctor conducts examination, provides diagnosis, advice, and a plan for treating the illness. The doctor might even provide advice for better overall health. Patient leaves the office, where he or she may or may not follow through on the doctor’s suggestions.
From here, health care is largely in the hands of the patient. In fact, by some estimates, the majority of health care takes place outside of a provider’s
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KLAS: Top EHR Executives Agree to Publish Interoperability Metrics
To help resolve some of the key interoperability challenges in the health IT industry, several key EHR and provider stakeholders are collaborating to finally make interoperability a viable measurement tool. Convened during the KLAS Keystone Summit in Midway, Utah, Micky Tripathi, President and CEO of Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative, led and moderated the summit with EHR stakeholders on how KLAS will publish objective measures of interoperability and ongoing reporting.
Executives who
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Relay Health Financial Processes $25B Worth of ICD-10 Claims
Today, RelayHealth Financial released its ICD-10 claims volume numbers, and the results are impressive: $13 million claims worth more than $25 billion processed. With a rise in claims, the industry must focus on addressing the next hurdle: ensuring timely and correct reimbursement. To monitor those KPIs that are most likely impacted by ICD-10, many providers are monitoring ICD10Central.com.
“From having our entire portfolio ready a full two years before the deadline to our comprehensive testing
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3 Population Health Management Myths & Realities for Providers
Population health management requires a huge amount of effort and work, operating at scale, to drive results: calling patients to get them in for care, pre-registering and pre-certifying them before their appointments, ensuring optimal scheduling and referral patterns among physicians, and so on. Therefore, executives and administrators should seek partners that integrate services with technology—in short, partners able to deliver not just reports but measurable results. Working with these
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Why I Despise my EHR, But I’m Still Using It
Modern electronic health records (EHRs) have become the norm in U.S. health care — nearly 80 percent of office-based physicians use them, up from 40 percent in 2009, according to federal data. But while adoption is up, satisfaction has plummeted. In 2010, about 61 percent of physicians liked their EHRs (were satisfied or very satisfied, according to periodic AMA surveys). This dropped to 48 percent in 2012, and in 2014 satisfaction rates were only 34%. Physicians have come to
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