Partners HealthCare and Health Catalyst have established a $30 million initiative strategic collaboration aimed at fostering and accelerating the adoption of population health management (PHM) strategies and practices nationally to improve the quality of health care and lowering costs while meeting the needs of patients, providers and payors. The new population health center of excellence is designed to enable the development and testing of innovative PHM strategies at Partners and, in
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3M to Consider Possible Sales Of Its Health IT Business
On Thursday, 3M announced that it is exploring strategic alternatives for its global health IT business. These alternatives, all of which are focused on building upon the business’ strong foundation, could include:
- spinning-off its health IT business
- selling the health IT business entirely
- retaining and further investing in the existing health IT business within 3M.
3M Health Information Systems, a business of 3M Health Care, works with providers, payers, and government
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HIMSS: 3 Health IT Policy Recommendations to Congress
The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) has released their annual top health IT policy recommendations to Congress. Under the guidance of the Public Policy Committee, HIMSS staff works closely with key congressional decision-makers, committees, and caucuses to advance improvements in the quality, safety and efficiency of healthcare through the use of IT and management systems.
Here are their top three health IT policy recommendations to Congress:
1. Support
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Clinovations GovHealth Awarded Subcontract for $4.3B DoD EHR Modernization Project
Clinovations Government + Health, a provider of technology services that span public sector and provider health domains, today announced that the company was a part of the Leidos Partnership for Defense Health team awarded a contract by the Department of Defense (DoD) to provide an electronic health record (EHR) for the U.S. Military. The team solution will include an off-the-shelf EHR with the associated services needed to deploy the EHR across the Military Health System.
DHMSM Contract
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New Health Care Supply Chain Innovation Center Employs Internet of Things Approach
In an Internet of Things (IoT) approach to health care - where connectivity creates opportunities for improved economic benefit − Cardinal Health announced the opening of its Healthcare Supply Chain Innovation Lab, a research and development facility dedicated to reducing the $5 billion in waste in the health care supply chain for devices and implantables.* The new, 20,000 sq. ft. lab located in Concord, Mass., will serve as a hub for Cardinal Health to explore innovative approaches, such as
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Banner Health Scraps UA’s $115M Epic EHR for Cerner
Banner Health has announced plans to scrap Epic's $115 million EHR system at its two Tucson hospitals that went live in 2013 and will replace the system with Cerner's EHR platform, according to the Arizona Daily Star. The two hospitals — Banner-University Medical Center Tucson and Banner-University Medical Center South was apart of the former University of Arizona Health Network that was acquired by Banner Health March 1.
Currently all of Banner Health's 28 hospitals are already live on
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e-MDs Talks How to Get Your EHR & Practice Through the ICD-10 Transition
Are you ready for the ICD-10 transition? That’s the question most healthcare providers loathe, as the October 1st deadline nears and the potential for major problems and productivity loss grows. No one knows how many hiccups and headaches the more than 64,000 codes will create—but having the right products in place can help you prepare—according to E-MDs’ Mike Liter.
As Vice President of Account Management & Implementation at E-MDs, a leading provider in ambulatory electronic medical
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Geisinger Awarded 4 Year Grant to Integrate Genetic Data into EHRs
Two Geisinger researchers have been awarded more than $3.5 million to spend the next four years combining DNA sequence information and health information in thousands of patients' EHRs to study two disorders: familial hypercholesterolemia and chronic rhinosinusitis. The award from the National Institutes of Health was announced this week and is part of the Electronic Medical Records and Genomics (eMERGE) network administered by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI). The goal is
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PainCareOS Leverages SyTrue’s NLP Platform to Automate Incoming Referrals
SyTrue, Inc., a healthcare data-refinement company, that specializes in natural language processing (NLP) solutions to translate unstructured clinical data into actionable clinical information, announced today, a partnership with PainCareOS™ to assist pain specialists with incoming complex referral documents. This processing promises to reduce costs and overhead, improve clinical understanding, and enhance throughput. Re-use of such captured data can help empower downstream functions such as
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Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi Earns HIMSS Analytics EMRAM Stage 6 Award
Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, part of Mubadala's network of world-class healthcare facilities, has achieved the HIMSS Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (EMRAM) Stage 6 award by HIMSS Analytics. This is an international benchmark for the use of advanced IT to improve patient care.
This award places Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi among an elite group of world-class healthcare facilities that have successfully deployed a high level of health IT to improve healthcare outcomes. Cleveland Clinic
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