A recent study documented what healthcare professionals have suspected for years: that communication breaks down somewhere between hospital discharge and outpatient follow-up. At best, it was unclear who was responsible for post-discharge testing or home healthcare. At worst, primary care physicians didn’t know their patients had been admitted at all.
With nearly 80 percent of serious medical errors involving miscommunication during patient transfers, it’s time to close this dangerous
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Practice Fusion Lays Off 75 Employees To Become Cash Flow Positive
Cloud-based EHR platform Practice Fusion has laid off about 75 employees, including people in engineering, marketing, practice sales in an effort to become fiscally responsible, Techcrunch confirms. The layoffs were announced on Wednesday during an all-hands meeting and represents about a quarter of the San Francisco-based EHR provider’s workforce.
Despite its efforts to become cash-flow positive, Practice Fusion reported 70% year-over-year growth with $26.9M in 2014 and is expected to reach
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Premier Granted Access to CMS Medicare Data To Drive Healthcare Transformation
Healthcare improvement leader Premiere Inc. is the first organization to be approved by CMS to access its Virtual Research Data Center (VRDC) to develop innovations that drive healthcare transformation. By tapping into CMS's VRDC, a virtual research environment, Premier will derive insights from privacy-protected Medicare data that are expected to result in the development of solutions to benefit patients and the healthcare system overall.
As part of its approved research, Premier Insights,
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HITRUST Appoints Epic President Carl Dvorak to Board of Directors
The Health Information Trust Alliance (HITRUST) has appointed Epic President Carol Dvorak to its Board of Directors in a move to strengthen its industry EHR engagement. He joins a board comprised of CISOs and CPOs representing many of the nation’s largest insurers and hospitals.
As the original developer of several Epic applications, Mr. Dvorak is responsible for all technical and service areas and brings unique perspective and extensive skills in developing and supporting EHRs to HITRUST.
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Huron Consulting Group Acquires Patient Rounding & Survey App MyRounding
Management consulting firm Huron Consulting Group has acquired mobile patient rounding platform MyRounding for an undisclosed sum. MyRounding's robust app allows healthcare professionals to standardize, automate and track your rounding activity. More importantly, it allows nurses and staff to be proactive and improves the care and experience of patients in real-time.
The acquisition of MyRounding will help strengthen Huron's existing transformation services for providers as it
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Cumberland Consulting Group Launches Performance Improvement Practice
Cumberland Consulting Group, a leading healthcare strategic advisory, technology implementation and support services firm, has launch a performance improvement practice as part of the firm’s provider services portfolio. The practice will provide results-driven solutions to help healthcare providers improve margins, bend the cost curve and increase operating efficiencies.
The practice’s comprehensive services will range from process redesign and workflow improvement to denial management and
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40% of Providers Report IT Budgets are Still Growing
40% of providers reported their IT budgets are still growing with only 25% of providers with growing budgets attribute the growth to EHRs, according to a new IDC Health Insights report. The new survey specifically examines technology spending and planned technology spending by U.S. acute care hospitals with more than 200 beds.
Key findings indicate that the post-EHR era is upon us as providers turn to optimizing the business for accountable care, adding analytics and care management, and away
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athenahealth Appoints Prakash Khot New Chief Technology Officer
athenahealth, a provider of cloud-based EHR and practice management solutions for medical groups and health systems, today announced the appointment of Prakash Khot as Chief Technology Officer (CTO), effective January 25, 2016. He will report directly to Jonathan Bush, athenahealth’s CEO.
In his new role, Mr. Khot will be responsible for leading all aspects of athenahealth’s technology vision and development. His primary focus will be advancing the overall direction and development of
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Patient-Data Pipeline: The Missing Healthcare IT System Link
Part of today’s complexity in healthcare stems from the way our healthcare IT systems have emerged. There are multiple entry points for patients into the healthcare system, from a relationship with a primary care physician to the sporadic, disconnected and random interaction with emergency departments, urgent care and wellness clinics.
Based on current technology and the overall nature of the beast, it is highly doubtful that a single point of entry into the healthcare delivery system will
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Top 10 Hacking Exposure Areas for Healthcare IT Systems
Meditology Services, a professional services company specializing in IT solutions for healthcare organizations, announced new research based on a two year study from 2013-2015. As a follow up to this research endeavor, Meditology has released a white paper focused on ethical hacking, also known as penetration testing, and why it is a very effective way to test the security of healthcare information systems.
The paper, "Hacking Healthcare: Real-world Healthcare Security Exposures from
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