Population health management requires a huge amount of effort and work, operating at scale, to drive results: calling patients to get them in for care, pre-registering and pre-certifying them before their appointments, ensuring optimal scheduling and referral patterns among physicians, and so on. Therefore, executives and administrators should seek partners that integrate services with technology—in short, partners able to deliver not just reports but measurable results. Working with these
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Why I Despise my EHR, But I’m Still Using It
Modern electronic health records (EHRs) have become the norm in U.S. health care — nearly 80 percent of office-based physicians use them, up from 40 percent in 2009, according to federal data. But while adoption is up, satisfaction has plummeted. In 2010, about 61 percent of physicians liked their EHRs (were satisfied or very satisfied, according to periodic AMA surveys). This dropped to 48 percent in 2012, and in 2014 satisfaction rates were only 34%. Physicians have come to
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eClinicalWorks Offers Hospitals Free Interopreability with Allscripts, Cerner, Epic, Meditech & McKesson
eClinicalWorks®, a leading ambulatory EHR provider has announced free hospital interoperability of Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) data using a query-based exchange with Cerner, Epic, McKesson, Meditech and Siemens, and is extending this integration to all hospital systems in the industry. Available now to customers, this seamless data transfer between systems facilitates coordination of care between inpatient and ambulatory settings to enable complete, accurate and relevant information at
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DrFirst Pulls In $25M to Fuel E-Prescribing, Medication Adherence
DrFirst, a provider of healthcare IT solutions has secured $25 million in equity financing from Goldman Sachs to accelerate its sales and marketing resources, as well as its development resources for both existing and new products, and for other strategic initiatives. With this financing, DrFirst has raised $42M in financing during the past year, including a $5M investment commitment from Savano Capital Partners and a $12M credit facility from SunTrust Bank.
DrFirst's software solutions and
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After Raising $10M, Datu Health Shuts Down HQ, 42 Layoffs
After announcing a $10 million in Series B equity funding, Boulder,CO-based behavioral health data company Datu Health has shuttered its headquarters resulting in 42 layoffs, Denver Post reports. They layoffs result from company consolidated its software engineering functions under its umbrella of its investment partner St. Joseph Health.
According to Datu Health’s spokeswoman, Pam Zients, four of the Boulder employees will remain with Datu, which has operations in St. Louis and California.
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eClinicalWorks Unveils Next-Gen Ambulatory EHR with Focus on Interoperability
eClinicalWorks®, a leading ambulatory EHR provider, today unveiled their next generation EHR solution, eClinicalWorks 10e, a new cloud services platform. During his keynote speech this morning at eClinicalWorks National Conference in Nashville, CEO Girish Navani stressed the importance of a building a more cloud-centric, hardware agnostic and intuitive UI to reflect the next generation of healthcare delivery.
“10e is a game changer for this industry,” said Girish Navani, CEO and
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Infographic: Decoding Big Data in Healthcare
We all want personalized healthcare options, however, in order to achieve this, we must let big data in to decipher and breakdown our individual wants and needs. Besides being an industry buzzword, what successes can big data translate into for healthcare workers and consumers?
The following infograpic created by Evariant, a company that helps leading hospital networks make sense of big data illustrates the following trends and benefits when big data is properly managed
· Improved profits
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Accenture: Data Breaches Will Cost Health Systems $305B Over 5 Years
Data breaches over the next five years will cost U.S. health systems $305 billion in cumulative lifetime revenue, according to a new report from Accenture. Key drivers behind the increase can be attributed to the significant increase in EHR adoption and other healthcare technology solutions creating a wealth of electronic information that includes patient data such as dates of birth, home addresses, social security records, insurance details and medical data.
Nearly 1.6
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Mayo Clinic, Viewics Partner to Use Data Analytics Serve Lab Clients and Patients
Viewics, Inc., a provider of health care analytics solutions, and Mayo Clinic recently signed an agreement that will use the Viewics analytics platform to drive key initiatives for safety, service, costs, and quality.
As part of the agreement, Viewics will deploy its data platform Viewics Health Insighter across various divisions within Mayo’s Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, including the health care organization’s reference laboratory Mayo Medical Laboratories. The Viewics
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North American Health IT Market to Reach $104B by 2020
The North American health IT market is expected to reach $104 billion by 2020 at a CAGR of 13.5% during the forecast period of 2015 to 2020, according to a recent report by MarketsandMarkets. A majority of this growth is attributed to the growing adoption of various healthcare IT solutions by healthcare providers in order to meet the heightened regulatory requirements for patient care and safety, increasing need to curtail the soaring healthcare costs, and growing need to improve the quality of
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