Practice Fusion, a cloud-based electronic health record (EHR) platform, is partnering with Vitals, a leader in providing online transparency tools and data that help consumers find top doctors and make informed decisions about their medical care. The 12 million patients who visit Vitals for online appointment booking and patient reviews each month will now have access to doctors who use Practice Fusion and its consumer-facing site, Patient Fusion. In turn, these Practice Fusion doctors are
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Caradigm Offers Healthcare Providers Unlimited Identity and Access Management
Caradigm, a population health company, today announced new Identity and Access Management (IAM) offerings designed to make it easier for healthcare organizations to control access to applications and patient data, even as their workforces and IT environments rapidly grow and change.
Built exclusively for healthcare, Caradigm® Identity and Access Management (IAM) – including Caradigm Single Sign-On and Caradigm Provisioning – enables healthcare organizations to protect against increasing
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Nuance’s PowerShare Network Is Now Sharing 3 Billion Medical Images via the Cloud
Nuance's PowerShare Network enables provider organizations to instantly view, share and store medical images and associated reports for patient care.
Nuance is announcing its achievement reaching an industry-first milestone in sharing 3 billion medical images through the Nuance PowerShareTM Network, the industry’s largest cloud-based medical imaging network that enables providers and patients to coordinate care and share information across disparate health systems, as simply as people
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HIMSS Workforce Survey Reveals Challenges in Hiring Health IT Professionals
HIMSS Workforce Survey reveals the lack of qualified health IT talent as the biggest challenge to hiring health IT professionals for healthcare providers.
With high demand for health IT workers projected to continue for the foreseeable future, the 2014 HIMSS Workforce Survey results find healthcare provider organizations are facing increasing challenges in hiring health IT professionals. A total of 200 individuals, including hospital and health IT executives and executives from health
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Cerner and Epic Dominates Patient Portal Utilization Rates
Cerner and Epic reported the highest patient portal utilization rates (higher than 20%), according to a recent study by peer60 that explores which vendors have the best patient engagement results. The report reveals that the right vendor can help a provider yield much higher rates of success than others. Despite Cerner and Epic's patient portal utilization rates, the report also found key flaws in their patient portal features:
- Cerner users seemed particularly frustrated by the
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Private Equity Firm Seeks $3B Sale of TriZetto
Private equity firm Apax Partners LLP is exploring a sale of health IT company TriZetto Corp for a reported $3 billion including debt, Thomson Reuters reports. JP Morgan Chase & Co has been hired by the firm to run the auction hoping to cash in on the wave of payors and providers seeking technology solutions to cut costs. TriZetto is also targeting information technology consulting company Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp as potential buyers.
TriZetto provides information technology
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Patient Portal Features: Which Is The Most Beneficial & Frustrating for Consumers?
To successfully attest for Meaningful Use Stage 2, providers must have a patient portal that is used by at least 5 percent of patients in order to receive financial incentives. Reports have shown that providers have struggled with patient portal adoption which caused CMS to lower the objective to 5 percent from the initial 10 percent. While educating patients about patient portals is clearly the first step, maintaining their involvement depends heavily on understanding both the features they
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What Is The Role of the Payer in Advancing Population Health?
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“Healthcare organizations must prepare for an environment where doctors and other healthcare professionals will be compensated based on the value, not just the volume, of the services they provide. The push toward value-based compensation is getting stronger, so healthcare professionals must devise a strategy for their journey to a value-based role in the future and find a partner who supports their vision and principles,” advises Renee H.
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Communication vs. Collaboration in Healthcare: What’s the Difference?
In healthcare, there has been much talk and much activity within health IT circles about communicating across institutional barriers. We are now in an era where a majority of physicians, and most hospitals, have moved from paper record keeping to Electronic Health Records (EHRs). By-and-large, these EHRs are implemented within healthcare institutions (hospitals, large delivery systems, and independent doctors’ offices), and the medical data about patients is confined to the institution that
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Is the ED Best Area to Track and Measure the Patient Experience?
66 percent of healthcare leaders agree that the ED is a critical area tool to track and measure the patient experience, according to a new independent HealthLeaders Media Premium report. The report includes data from a survey of the 7,000-member HealthLeaders Media Council exploring how leading organizations are applying rigor to patient experience reporting and refocusing efforts on patient values.
The other top areas identified as the most important to positive patient experience score
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