Siemens case study highlights five best practices and lessons learned for successfully launching a hospital patient portal.
In implementing its hospital patient portal, Main Line Health’s goal was to create a one-stop portal for its 10,000 plus employee health system. With four acute-care hospitals, several outpatient facilities, a physical medicine and rehab hospital and a drug and alcohol treatment center, Main Line Health needed a solution that could quickly relay information from
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ConvergeHEALTH by Deloitte Collaborates with Regenstrief Institute Partners to Accelerate the Use of Real World Evidence in Health Care
ConvergeHEALTH by Deloitte and the Regenstrief Institute, Inc. are announcing that Regenstrief, an internationally recognized informatics and health care research organization, has become a member of ConvergeHEALTH’s real-world evidence and analytics consortium.
Regenstrief joins Intermountain Healthcare and Moffitt Cancer Center/M2Gen as part of a rapid-learning network established by ConvergeHEALTH to support the health industry’s shift toward a value-based system featuring personalized
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Gartner Ranks Dell the #1 IT Services Provider in Healthcare
Today, Dell Services announced it was ranked by Gartner as the number one worldwide IT Services provider in healthcare based on 2013 revenue. In 2014, Dell has added contracts from new and existing healthcare customers, as well as expanded legacy application support services for a major healthcare enterprise and signed a multi-million dollar contract with a new healthcare customer to provide service management, end user computing and database management services.
So far this year, Dell has
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Keys to Implementing a Sustainable Population Health Management Program
White paper from Siemens examines some of the critical success factors for a sustainable population health management program.
Population health management (PHM) has become and will continue to be a top priority for healthcare providers as the industry shifts from the current fee-for-service to new value-based purchasing models. Provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) are driving the adoption of these models, which are designed to improve the quality of American healthcare, while large
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Nuance’s Clintegrity CDI Generates $2.2M Gain in Revenue for Valley Medical Center
Nuance's Clintegrity CDI generates $2.2 million gain in appropriate revenue and enables 11% improvement in Case Mix Index (CMI) for Valley Medical Center.
Nuance Communications, Inc. announced today that Valley Medical Center, part of the University of Washington Medical Center, has achieved higher levels of clinical excellence and gained additional revenue through proper reimbursements thanks to Nuance Clintegrity 360 solutions. Valley Medical has improved the quality of clinical information
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Only 8 Hospitals Have Attested for Meaningful Use Stage 2
Only 8 hospitals have attested for meaningful use stage 2 out of a total of 75 hospitals during the 2014 reporting year, according to the latest data released by CMS. For physicians, only 447 eligible providers have attested for MU Stage 2 out of total 1,497.
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Healthcare Information System Market Expected to Reach $53.2B Globally by 2019
The Healthcare Information System Market was valued at $35.1 billion and is expected to grow at a CAGR of 7.1% from 2013 to 2019, to reach an estimated value of $53.2 billion by 2019, according to a new market report published by Transparency Market Research.
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44% of Healthcare Organizations Use the Cloud for Hosting Clinical Applications
44 percent of healthcare organizations use the cloud for hosting clinical applications, according to the latest HIMSS Analytics Inaugural Cloud Survey. Other typical cloud services include Health Information Exchange (HIE), hosting human resources (HR) applications and data as well as backup and disaster recovery. Hosting clinical applications was identified as the most common area for which healthcare organizations rely on cloud services.
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Medtronic to Buy Covidien for $42.9B, Rebase to Ireland to Reduce Tax Burden
Medtronic To Buy Smaller Rival Covidien In $43 Bln Deal (via http://361db.com)
Medical device maker Medtronic, Inc. (MDT: Quote) agreed late Sunday to acquire smaller rival Covidien plc (COV: Quote) in a cash and stock deal valued at about $42.9 billion. The deal will help Medtronic shift base to Ireland and save it from paying…
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Cumberland Consulting Group Acquires Cipe Consulting Group
Cumberland Consulting Group, a national healthcare technology implementation and project management firm, today announced that it has acquired the assets of Seattle-based Cipe Consulting Group, LLC, a growing healthcare technology consulting firm specializing in electronic health records and revenue cycle system implementation and support, including workflow and business analytics.
The transaction expands Cumberland’s service offerings to include top-quality staffing resources with
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