Nextech Systems, a provider of specialty-focused healthcare technology solutions for physician practices has acquired plastic surgery EHR and office management provider SupraMed. The acquisition further cements Nextech's dominance in the plastic surgery market and demonstrates its commitment to delivering top-tier specialty-specific EHR and practice management solutions. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
SupraMed's web-based practice management technology complements
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Jitterbit Moves into Healthcare, Unveils Healthcare Interoperability Platform
Jitterbit, a provider of fast, agile integration solutions, is announcing their move into healthcare with a new healthcare solution and a $20M Series B funding round that addresses integration challenges and opportunities. With their new healthcare interoperability platform, medical device manufacturers, healthcare providers, application developers and EMR vendors to automate and streamline operations with a dedicated healthcare data model and interoperability standards that enable the secure
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CareSync Joins athenahealth’s ‘More Disruption Please’ Program
CareSync, a provider of software and services for chronic disease management is joining athenahealth’s ‘More Disruption Please’ (MDP) program. The partnership will link athenahealth’s growing network of more than 73k health care providers with the capabilities of CareSync to more efficiently meet billing requirements for CPT code 99490 and manage patient care, especially for those coping with chronic conditions.
“Through this partnership, providers already using athenaClinicals® can quickly
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InterSystems, Pulse InfoFrame Partner to Deliver ‘Patient Registry In A Box’
InterSystems has partnered with Pulse Infoframe, a collaborative research and patient registry solutions provider, to facilitate clinical research and population health studies. Leveraging the InterSystems HealthShare® health informatics platform for interoperability between clinical research systems and EHRs, physicians and researchers can easily capture, organize, model, store and share clinical research data through a secure, web-based application.
Healthie, the Pulse platform, is a
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New Crossroads: Interoperability, Meaningful Use, Transformation, and Our Future
Editor's Note: D’Arcy Guerin Gue is a co-founder of Phoenix, with over 25 years of experience in executive leadership, strategic planning, IT services, knowledge leadership, and industry relations — with a special focus on patient engagement and federal compliance issues. She currently serves as the Director of Industry Relations at Phoenix Health Systems, a division of Medsphere Systems
Interoperability.
Achieving it is a predominant theme in healthcare today, and a priority agenda
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EvergreenHealth Selects Wellpepper as Mobile Patient Engagement Solution
EvergreenHealth, an integrated health care system has selected Wellpepper, a clinically validated platform for patient engagement as the mobile engagement solution for all total joint replacement and musculoskeletal care plans. The project was made possible at EvergreenHealth with a generous donation from The Schultz Family Foundation, a private not-for-profit foundation founded by Howard Schultz, CEO of Starbucks Corporation, and his wife Sheri.
Patients with musculoskeletal issues that
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KLAS: 87% of Soarian Customers Planning/Considering to Rip & Replace
More than a year ago, Cerner acquired Siemens Health Services, which caused a shift in the marketplace as healthcare IT options would change. In a new KLAS report “Cerner/Siemens Acquisition: Soarian Migration in High Gear,” examines looked the impact the acquisition has had on customers from both companies. The report found that 87% of Siemens’ Soarian Clinicals customers are leaving or planning to leave and find a new EMR system by the end of 2016.
Customers Now View Soarian as an Orphaned
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4 Ambulatory EHR Market Drivers & Restraints
The ambulatory EHR market is expected to expand by 30 percent during the next five years, increasing at a compound annual growth rate of 5.3 percent until 2020, according to analysis from Frost & Sullivan. The report, US Ambulatory Electronic Health Record Market: 2015–2020 analyzes the ambulatory EHR market and identifies what to expect as the focus shifts from adoption to optimization in the market.
Overall, the overarching objective for providers is to position their EHR as a potential
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Report: 66% of Providers to Focus on Improving RCM in 2016
With the ICD-10 transition in our rearview, 66% of providers plan to focus on improving their overall revenue cycle management processes in 2016, according to the post-ICD-10 implementation survey from Navicure. Fifteen percent indicated they would be working towards a value-based care model while another nine percent are updating and automating patient collections strategies. Navicure and Porter Research deployed the survey in December 2015 as the final wave of a research study designed to
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Cloud-EHR Platform Practice Fusion To Explore Possible IPO in 2017
Cloud-based EHR platform Practice Fusion has reportedly hired JPMorgan Chase to explore an initial public offering (IPO) in 2017, according to a recent New York Times story. The San-Francisco-based EHR provider for doctors could attract between $1.1B to $1.5B valuation based on the company's potential revenue projections next year.
“An I.P.O. could potentially be an outcome for Practice Fusion, but currently we continue our focus on commercializing our products, growing the business and serving
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