On Monday, McKesson Corporation has appointed Kathy McElligott to executive vice president and chief information (CIO) and chief technology officer (CTO), effective July 20. McElligott comes to McKesson from Emerson where she served as CIO since 2010 and managed Emerson’s information technology strategy and information security for the company’s global operations, including hardware, software, and services, as well as its telecommunications and data center infrastructure.
As McKesson’s new
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Closing the Loop on Revenue Cycle Management
I’d like to start with a disclaimer: my colleagues and I are completely focused on empowering consumers to take greater control of their own health. However, since healthcare organizations don’t give a damn about this, I’ve decided to take a different approach: let me help you get paid.
Huh? Those two goals - consumer empowerment and provider collections - seem at direct odds with one another. They are not. Despite what overpaid consultants and healthcare payments specialists are telling you,
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Nuance, JVION Partner For Real-Time Advanced Practice CDI
Nuance Communications today announced a strategic partnership with JVION, a healthcare analytics company, to further support healthcare organizations with Advanced Practice Clinical Documentation Improvement (CDI) as they prepare for the shift to a value-based reimbursement model. Part of the Nuance Clintegrity 360 solution, Advanced Practice CDI provides physicians with real-time visibility and guidance into how clinical documentation translates into quality metric scores and appropriate
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AHIMA Recognized for ICD-10 Grassroots Advocacy Program
The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) was recognized for its ICD-10 grassroots advocacy program as the recipient of a Silver Award in the 2015 Power of A Awards, sponsored by the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE). Each year ASAE recognizes and celebrates the extraordinary contributions associations make to society by enriching lives, creating a competitive workforce, preparing society for the future, driving innovation and making a better world.
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PokitDok’s HL7 Compliant API Integrates With EMR Systems
This week, PokitDok introduced its Identity Management System, a HL7 compliant API that can integrate with multiple provider identity systems, typically EMR systems. The platform is designed to identify, map and ultimately match and merge patient information for more personalized care. It is compatible with most major EMR systems including OpenEpic, Greenway Health, athenahealth, AllScripts, DrChrono and any custom EMR. This integration drives improved medical care coordination and
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Population Health: 37 Healthcare Executives Define the Term
The term “population health” has been a buzzword in the health IT lexicon for the past few years. Driven largely by the healthcare industry’s transition from a volumes based model to value-based delivery, population health plays a key role in emphasizing the accountability of outcomes. The concept of population health was originally defined as “the health outcome of a group of individuals, including the distribution of such outcomes within the group” by David Kindig and Greg Stoddart in 2013.
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HHS Awards $200k Grant for Diabetes Patient Engagement
The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) has awarded a $200,000 grant to Butler Health System and Madison-based Wellbe as part of the Rural Health Care Services Outreach Grant Program to support diabetes self-management using online patient engagement.
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The project will serve rural areas of Butler, Venango, Lawrence, and Clarion counties with an innovative diabetes support and education system coordinated by Butler Health System and in partnership with Seneca
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Global E-Prescribing Market Expected to Reach $888M by 2019
The global e-prescribing market was valued at USD 250.2 million in 2013 and is expected to grow at a CAGR of 23.5% from 2013 to 2019, to reach an estimated value of USD 887.8 million in 2019, according to a new market report published by Persistence Market Research. The report, “Global Market Study on E-Prescribing: North America to Witness Highest Growth by 2019,” finds the e-prescribing market share is experiencing an explosion fueled by government regulations implement e-prescribing systems
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Hill-Rom to Acquire Welch Allyn for $2.05B
Hill-Rom, a provider of hospital equipment, medical devices and surgical products, will acquire Welch Allyn for approximately $2.05 billion in cash and stock. Under the terms of the agreement, Welch Allyn shareholders will receive $1.625 billion in cash and approximately 8.1 million newly-issued shares of Hill-Rom common stock. After the acquisition is closed, which is slated before the end of September 2015, Welch Allyn shareholders will own approximately 13 percent of the combined
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Philips, WMCHealth Announce $500M Partnership to Transform Patient Care
Philips and Westchester Medical Center Health Network (WMCHealth) announced a $500 million, multi-year partnership to transform and improve healthcare for millions of patients across New York’s Hudson Valley.
Building on its success with strategic managed services enterprise partnerships around the world, including Georgia Regents Medical Center, the deal reinforces Philips leadership in teaming with health systems in new ways to help them thrive in an evolving and increasingly competitive
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