National ACO has selected drchrono as their EHR software vendor of choice for medical records, practice management and medical billing. Accountable Care Organizations known as ACOs are groups of doctors, hospitals, and other health care providers that come together voluntarily to give coordinated high quality care to their Medicare patients.
The implementation of drchrono's EHR platform will enable National ACO to standardize software across over 230 physicians with over 14,000 attributed
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HIMSS Analytics Unveils On-Demand Health IT Market Intelligence Tool
HIMSS Analytics® has launched a new market intelligence tool, Logic for healthcare providers, healthcare IT companies, governmental and education organizations and investors. Collaboratively built with hospitals and health systems, Logic will provide insight into predictive modeling, benchmarks and value optimization of health IT, including ranking and adoption of the HIMSS Analytics Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (EMRAMSM).
Logic Market Intelligence Tool Overview
Logic builds off
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Meaningful Use Is Dead, Long Live Something Better!
At the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco, Mr. Andrew Slavitt, acting administrator at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS),announced on January 11th that “The meaningful use program as it has existed will now effectively be over, and replaced with something better”, and later clarified on Twitter that:
https://twitter.com/ASlavitt/status/686718314517663744
Meaningful Use is dead. Just like that. No apologies. No nothing. As someone who’s been lamenting
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CHIME Responds to CMS Chief Remarks on Future of Meaningful Use
This week at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco, Andy Slavitt, Acting Administrator of CMS publicly put the meaningful use program on its death bed.
"The Meaningful Use program as it has existed, will now be effectively over and replaced with something better.""As any physician will tell you, physician burden and frustration levels are real. Programs designed to improve often distract. Done poorly, measures are divorced from how physicians practice and add to the cynicism
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Devin Jopp Steps Down As President & CEO of WEDI
Devin Jopp, Ed.D, President and CEO of Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) is stepping down from the post after four years at the Reston, VA-based not for profit organization. The WEDI Board of Directors has formed a search committee to help identify a replacement for Dr. Jopp.
During his four-year tenture, Dr. Jopp coordinated the development of the 2013 WEDI Report, which serves as an industry consensus roadmap for the next generation of healthcare data exchange. Additionally,
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ApolloMed Acquires Healarium’s Population Health Management Platform
Apollo Care Connect, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Glendale, Calif.-based ApolloMed has acquired has acquired the population health management technology and operating platform of Healarium, Inc. The acquisition will help expand the company's medical management and care coordination capabilities to meet the new challenges in the evolving world of value-based reimbursements. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
Founded in 2009 by Amnon Keynan, Healarium's cloud and
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Report: Healthcare M&A Preferred Growth Strategy for Execs in 2016
41 percent of healthcare executives expect healthcare M&A transactions to be their preferred growth strategy for 2016, outpacing organic growth through revitalizing and updating existing offerings, according to a Capital One Healthcare survey. The Capital One survey conducted shortly before this week's 34th Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference, found enduring optimism for the healthcare industry, although at lower levels than previous years.
Key findings of the survey include:
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Philips, Marin General Hospital Form $90M, 15-Year Partnership to Transform Care
Philips and Marin General Hospital Health have formed a $90 million, 15-year strategic partnership to improve patient care and encourage innovation in healthcare. This partnership, as with some of the Philips’ past collaborations with Mackenzie Health, the Westchester Medical Center Health Network in New York’s Hudson Valley, and Georgia Regents Medical Center in Augusta, GA, shows a growing need for strategic partnerships as a way to continue building out the healthcare continuum.
Strategic
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2016 HIMSS Value of Health IT Survey: 6 Trends to Know
On Monday, HIMSS released the 2016 finding of its Value of Health IT survey that reflects the feedback from 52 senior IT leaders representing HIMSS Analytics EMRAM Stage 6 or 7 hospitals and HIMSS Davies winners, during the Summer/Fall 2015. The survey found that found that 88 percent of organizations with advanced EHR environments identified at least one positive outcome from their use of an EHR.
Survey highlights include:
Treatment/Clinical: 83 percent indicated that their
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Talix Spins Off Healthline Network, Raises $14M for Patient Data Analytics
Talix, Inc., a health tech subsidiary of Healthline Networks, announced that it is spinning off as an independent company and has secured $14 million in funding led by Summit Partners. This capital will be used to fund the growth of the company’s core risk adjustment product, Coding InSight, and support the development of future applications in its planned suite of patient risk management products powered by Talix’s proprietary HealthData Engine.
Dean Stephens will serve as the new Chief
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