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HealthPort, IOD Merge to Create Large-Scale Clinical Data Platform

by HITC Staff 05/13/2015 Leave a Comment

HealthPort

On Tuesday, HealthPort and IOD today an agreement to merge that will create nation’s leading platform for secure clinical data solutions and help position the company for continued innovation and growth.  The proposed merger, facilitated by an investment from New Mountain Capital, will create a new company with combined revenues of more than $450 million and 6,000 professionals serving approximately 18,000 healthcare facilities across the U.S. The combination will significantly benefit all
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nVoq Partners with SyTrue on New Clinical Workflow Documentation Service

by HITC Staff 05/12/2015 Leave a Comment

nVoq Partners with SyTrue on New Clinical Workflow Documentation Service

nVoq, a provider of cloud-based speech recognition workflow optimization solutions for the healthcare industry, today announced general availability for the company’s SayIt “Code Fast” service, available in collaboration with SyTrue. The Code Fast service provides real-time, point-of-care conversion of spoken narratives into structured data categorized with relevant ICD-9, ICD-10, SNOMED, LOINC, or other standards, using SyTrue’s Smart Data platform.  How It Works With the SayIt Code Fast
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ONC Awards $300k to 6 Digital Health Projects

by Jasmine Pennic 05/12/2015 Leave a Comment

ONC Digital Health

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has announced the winners of the inaugural ONC Market R&D Pilot Challenge. The ONC Market R&D Pilot Challenge breaks down the barriers between promising start ups and health care stakeholders by helping early-stage digital health companies connect with health care organizations that would host pilot programs. The innovative technologies developed by these companies are integral to improving consumer engagement
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KPMG Completes Acquisition Of Beacon Partners, Inc.

by HITC Staff 05/11/2015 Leave a Comment

KPMG To Acquire Health IT Consulting Firm Beacon Partners

Big 4 firm KPMG LLP today announced today that it has completed the acquisition of all of the assets of Beacon Partners, Inc., a healthcare consulting firm that offers strategic management and clinical and information technology consulting services to healthcare providers. The closing follows the April 12, 2015 announcement of the transaction at the HIMSS15 conference, a leading healthcare IT industry event. Based in Weymouth, Mass., Beacon Partners provides management consulting/advisory
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GMA Named 2015 HIMSS Ambulatory Davies Award Recipient

by HITC Staff 05/11/2015 Leave a Comment

HIMSS Enterprise Davies Award Recipient

Grove Medical Associates of Auburn, Mass., has been named a 2015 HIMSS Ambulatory Davies Award recipient. Since 1994, the HIMSS Nicholas E.Davies Award of Excellence has recognized outstanding achievement of organizations that have utilized health information technology to substantially improve patient outcomes while achieving return on investment. The Davies Awards program promotes electronic health record-enabled improvement in patient outcomes through sharing of case studies and lessons
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HomeCare Tech Provider eCaring Expands Into Private Pay Market

by HITC Staff 05/07/2015 Leave a Comment

eCaring

eCaring, a leading developer of award-winning Cloud-based home healthcare technology that has proven to save an average of over $4,000 per patient per month by reducing ER visits, hospitalizations and readmissions, substantially lowering patient costs while improving care quality.  This week, eCaring announced that LifeStyle Options, Inc., one of the Chicago’s leading home care companies, has signed an agreement with eCaring to provide its unique Cloud-based care and disease management
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Karen DeSalvo to Leave ONC Post, If Confirmed for Asst. HHS Secretary

by HITC Staff 05/07/2015 Leave a Comment

Karen DeSalvo

On Wednesday, the White House nominated National health IT coordinator Dr. Karen DeSalvo to be assistant secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). If confirmed by the Senate, DeSalvo would leave her post as the as the acting assistant secretary for the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health Information Technology.  In a letter to HHS staff on Wednesday, HHS Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell wrote:  "I am pleased to share the news that earlier today the President
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Behavioral Health: We Need EHRs, But incentives Would Help

by Our Thought Leaders 05/07/2015 Leave a Comment

D'Arcy Guerin Gue

  Editor's Note: D'Arcy Gue is one of the co-founders of Phoenix Health Systems, a healthcare IT consulting and outsourcing firm. In April 2015, Phoenix welcomed a merger with Medsphere Systems Corporation and now serves as the vice president of industry relations for Phoenix Health Systems, the health IT services division of Medsphere.  Acute care hospitals have demonstrated what happens when you pay people—when you incentivize them—to do something. Just 9.4 percent of
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“Failed” Promise of EHRs May Stand in Way of Precision Medicine

by HITC Staff 05/06/2015 Leave a Comment

Obama Unveils $215M Precision Medicine Initiative

On Tuesday, U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) said that the “failed promise” of the $28 billion EHR program may stand in the way of a precision medicine initiative until physicians are able to use systems that communicate with one another. The statement was made during the committee’s innovation initiative to examine how we get safe drugs, devices, and treatments from the discovery process through the regulatory process into the medicine cabinets and doctors’ offices more quickly and
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Cleveland Clinic to Publish Its Algorithms to Improve Patient Outcomes

by Jasmine Pennic 05/05/2015 Leave a Comment

Cleveland_Clinic

Today, Cleveland Clinic announced it will join other prominent health institutions in publishing their extensive portfolio of algorithms in the Apervita Market, empowering health enterprises everywhere to improve patient outcomes. Utilizing Apervita’s secure self-service health analytics platform, healthcare enterprises can leverage Cleveland Clinic’s robust portfolio of health analytics to improve patient care.  How It Works Through decades of research, Cleveland Clinic has developed a robust
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