The focus of federal efforts to incentivize healthcare IT adoption has primarily been on electronic health records (EHRs), which are oriented around hospitals and physician offices. Moving forward, EHRs will remain the anchor technology as data from other devices and applications flows in and becomes both available and comparable.It’s become readily apparent that healthcare IT is much broader than EHRs alone. Increasingly, healthcare IT is a web of interconnected devices and applications that
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Parity Not Apparent: Mental Health Still Not Receiving Equal Attention
Getting legislation through Congress—often a monumental battle, as demonstrated by recent efforts to pass the American Health Care Act—is one thing. But implementing new laws may be a greater challenge simply because they require so much sustained energy and attention.Take mental health parity laws, for example.Congress passed the Mental Health Parity Act (MHPA) championed by Sens. Paul Wellstone (D-MN) and Pete Domenici (R-NM) in 1996. The law prohibits employee-sponsored group health plans
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Health Catalyst Launches Executive Decision Support Platform, Wisely
Health Catalyst, a Salt Lake City-based provider of healthcare data warehousing, analytics solutions and outcomes improvement has announced the release of their new executive decision support platform, Wisely. The web-based solution automatically transforms over 100 sources of data in its data warehouse, key measures and goals from multiple business units into the fundamental insights critical to leadership. Traditionally, the process of collecting data to support decisions is both
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CareCloud EHR Offers Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) Success Guarantee for Medical Groups
Cloud-based practice management EHR provider CareCloud announced today it has integrated Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) regulations from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) into their clinical quality management programs. For eligible clinicians, the integration of clinical quality templates will streamline MIPS reporting for CareCloud clients through a new guarantee program that promises that its medical practice clients will avoid costly penalties.Eligible
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Allscripts to Resell Streamline Health’s Abstracting & Physician Query Solutions
Streamline Health Solutions has announced a reseller agreement with Allscripts to sell Streamline's Looking Glass® Abstracting and Physician Query software solutions. The agreement will enable Allscripts clients to optimize their coding processes, manage resources more effectively and enable reporting in support of greater results. Looking Glass platform delivers integrated solutions, technology-enabled services and analytics that enable providers to drive reimbursement in a value-based
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Intermountain Healthcare Named Winner of 2017 Hearst Health Prize
Utah-based Intermountain Healthcare has been named winner of the 2017 Hearst Health $100k Prize for its Mental Health Integration program, which embeds mental health screening and treatment within primary care and select specialty practices. The Hearst Health Prize is an annual $100,000 award given in recognition of an organization’s or individual’s outstanding achievement in managing or improving health in the U.S.The Hearst Health Prize apps were evaluated by a distinguished panel of
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Kyruus Launches ProviderMatch Analytics With Real-Time Patient Access Insights for Health Systems
Kyruus, a provider search and scheduling solutions for health systems, today announced the launch of the latest version of ProviderMatch Analytics, an in-app reporting solution that delivers enterprise-wide patient access insights. Specifically, the solution helps health systems track real-time patient access channel trends, improve access center performance, and optimize their provider networks to enable data-driven decision making related to access. ProviderMatch Analytics gives health system
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Health IT Startup Iris Plans Awarded Winner of 2017 Vator Splash Health Competition
Health IT startup Iris Plans has been awarded winner of the 2017 Vator Splash Health competition in San Francisco that invites healthcare innovators to present their cutting-edge technology solutions throughout several rounds of judging. 8 finalists were narrowed from companies around the country to present to a panel of judges at the Fort Mason Center in San Francisco. Judges were comprised of leaders from the healthcare sector and the nation’s top investment firms. Iris Plans is a tech-enabled
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Three Cornerstones for Healthcare Analytics Success
Editor's Note: Nora Lissy, RN, BSN, MBA is the Director of Healthcare Information at Dimensional InsightAnalytics plays an important role for many healthcare organizations, from reducing operational costs, optimizing IT systems and infrastructure, and helping clinicians make the best decisions for their patients.Though, for many in the healthcare industry, the problem is that managing a successful analytics program can easily become overwhelming. For starters, analytics either requires a
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Nuance Integrates with Epic EHR to Provide Real-Time Clinical Documentation to Physicians At Point of Care
Nuance Communications and Epic recently announced that they have partnered to deliver computer-assisted physician documentation (CAPD) capabilities embedded within Epic to provide real-time clinical documentation improvement (CDI) feedback to physicians at the point of care.Nuance-Epic Integration DetailsBy electronically analyzing all relevant patient notes with AI technologies such as deep learning and natural language understanding, Nuance’s CAPD technology automatically identifies clinical
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