Driven by the shift to value-based health care, advanced predictive analytics are gaining a larger footprint as providers search for analytic capabilities that will help them prevent patient illness, avoid penalties, and reduce the cost of care. This new landscape requires a different analytic approach that can identify at-risk patients before they get sick so that interventions can be applied and penalties avoided.
Despite the growing need, only 15 percent of providers are
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Practice Fusion Partners with Wolters Kluwer Health to Integrate Medi-Span Drug Database
Practice Fusion, a cloud-based EHR for physicians and patients, announced that it is partnering with Wolters Kluwer Health to integrate the Medi-Span core drug database impacting more than 4 million e-prescriptions per month sent by Practice Fusion’s 112,00 active medical professionals.. The medical professionals that use the Practice Fusion EHR will now have access to the latest medication information and recommended dosages when they e-prescribe medications to patients.
Integration
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Continuum Health Alliance Selects Caradigm for Population Health
Caradigm, a provider of enterprise population health, today announced that Continuum Health Alliance, a physician enablement company providing practice management, population health and community care services to provider groups, has selected Caradigm as part of its population health strategy.
Continuum provides a next-generation health platform, enabling independent physician organizations, hospital-based physician groups, commercial accountable care organizations (ACOs) and MSSP ACOs to
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3 Reasons To Outsource Your Revenue Cycle Management
The last few years have been challenging for medical groups across the country. Mounting regulatory burdens, escalating costs, and declining reimbursements have put a substantial strain on physicians and their staff. Rising administrative burdens only add to the pressure, consuming precious time that healthcare professionals would rather spend with patients.
So should your practice outsource its revenue cycle management? According to new white paper from CareCloud, here are three reasons a
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ZeOmega Acquires HealthUnity To Close Gaps in Interoperability
On Monday, population health management provider ZeOmega announced the acquisition of HealthUnity, a provider of interoperability solutions that enable providers, payers and public health organizations to streamline the secure exchange of patient data across disparate systems. HealthUnity offerings also include private and public HIE, master person index, referral management and patient consent to integrated delivery networks (IDNs), health systems, group practices and state collaboratives.
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Meaningful Use Stage 3 Proposed Rule: 5 Takeaways for Physicians
On March 20, 2015 the stars aligned to produce four simultaneous events that will never again coincide during the life of human civilization. The first three, the vernal equinox, a total solar eclipse and a new supermoon, were brought to us by the stars themselves, and the fourth one was thrown out there by the government. The regulations for Meaningful Use Stage 3 were finally published. Meaningful use of electronic health records (EHR) was presented to us back in 2009 as part of a stimulus
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HHS Releases Proposed Rules for Meaningful Use Stage 3
On Friday afternoon, the HHS, CMS and the Office of the ONC announced the release of the proposed Meaningful Use Stage 3 rules for the Medicare and Medicaid EHRs Incentive Programs and 2015 Edition Health IT Certification Criteria to support the path to nationwide interoperability.
The proposed rules are one part of a larger effort across HHS to support better care and lower costs in the health care system by working in three core areas:
- to improve the way providers are paid;
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KLAS: 25% of Small Practices Feel Stuck With Their Current EMR
More than one-quarter of providers at small practices (1–10 physicians) feel stuck with or plan to leave their current EMR vendor, according to a recent KLAS study,"New Leaders in the Small-Practice Market: Ambulatory EMR Performance 2015 (1-10 Physicians)." Providers cited poor usability, missing functionality, and unreliable vendor support as their primary frustrations with their EMR solution.
For the report, KLAS spoke with more than 750 small practices (1-10 physicians) to understand
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CHIME Launches $1M National Patient ID Challenge
In an effort to find a universal solution for accurately matching patients with their healthcare information, The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) will launch a $1 million challenge early this summer on the HeroX platform, co-founded by XPRIZE CEO Dr. Peter Diamandis. The purpose of this challenge is to increase the success rate of patient ID matching from 80 to 100 percent.
Currently, there is no universal solution exists for matching healthcare
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Sen. Alexander: Gov’t Should Not Force Meaningful Use Adoption
On Tuesday, U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) said the government should enable and encourage physicians and hospitals to adopt EHRs, rather than try to force meaningful use adoption by taking away Medicare payments.
“Transitioning to electronic health records requires a real transformation in how physicians practice medicine. They must implement pricey systems, learn how to use them, ensure their staff is trained, and pay annual licensing fees and for hardware and associated services. The
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