What You Should Know:
- Dedalus expands work with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to support global digital transformation in healthcare through hosting Dedalus's health-related solutions on AWS.
- Together, utilizing the cloud, Dedalus and AWS will offer customers around the world cost-optimization and agility via smart provisioning and need-based elasticity, built-in disaster recovery, as well as improved clinical system performance, reliability, availability, and security and
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Electronic Health Records (EHRs) | Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) | News, Analysis, Insights - HIT Consultant
EMRs Are Outdated, but Big Tech Is Not The Answer
Over a decade ago, the “meaningful use” clause in the United States Affordable Care Act incentivized Electronic Medical Record (EMR) adoption. The purpose of this directive was to improve the transfer of laboratory data to point-of-care clinicians to help us make better, more informed decisions for our patients.
In the years that followed, EMR systems have proliferated globally; countries like New Zealand, Norway, and the Netherlands are reporting EMR usage rates above 90% for primary care
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RevSpring Integrates with Epic Willow to Take Payments for Pharmacy Transactions
What You Should Know:
- RevSpring announced a new integration with Epic Willow that empowers staff to take payments for pharmacy transactions.
- The Willow integration focuses on specific solutions for pharmacies and gives them more choice about how to take and process in-pharmacy credit card payments in the most streamlined fashion.
Why It Matters
This integration bolsters RevSpring’s comprehensive pharmacy-specific solutions for engagement and
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M&A: NextGen Healthcare to Acquire TSI Healthcare for $68M
What You Should Know:
- NextGen Healthcare today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire TSI Healthcare, a privately held value-added reseller located in Chapel Hill, NC. The acquisition will expand NextGen’s presence in specialties including rheumatology, pulmonology and cardiology.
- TSI Healthcare® is a national leader in the sales and support of customized NextGen® Practice Management and Electronic Health Record software. TSI Healthcare delivers innovative,
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Provider Burnout Has Leveled Out in 2022; Staffing Shortages Rises, KLAS Reports
What You Should Know:
- Value-based care (VBC) has been established as a priority among healthcare organizations and payers as participants have gained more experience in managing their quality metrics and contracts, ultimately realizing returns on their investments.
- For their latest report, KLAS talked to 54 healthcare executives—including CEOs, CFOs, CIOs, CMIOs, COOs, VPs and directors of population health, and VPs of analytics—to gauge how they are moving beyond
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AdvancedMD to Roll Out 35+ Updates in Major Product Release
What You Should Know:
- AdvancedMD announced its 2022 Fall product release that includes 35 new features added to its suite of all-in-one medical office and remote care cloud software. This marks one of the largest product release updates in AdvancedMD history, reflecting the robust nature of the leading cloud-based platform used by more than 40,000 practitioners across 13,000 practices, and 850 medical billing companies.
- AdvancedMD’s fall release ensures more unified and smoother
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HLTH22: Google Health – MEDITECH Collaboration Advances to Pilot Phase, Early Adopters
What You Should Know:
- MEDITECH and Google Health today announced that DCH Health System and Mile Bluff Medical Center are early adopters in the pilot phase of their clinical search solution collaboration.
- The solution will embed the Google Health search and summarization capabilities to create a longitudinal view of a patient's health history directly within the clinical workflow of MEDITECH's Expanse EHR.
- The Expanse solution will leverage Google Health’s intelligent
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Elation Health EHR Integrates with Ribbon Health to Deliver Referral Management
What You Should Know:
- Elation Health and Ribbon Health announced a partnership to integrate Ribbon's provider data solution into Elation Health's primary care electronic health record (EHR) platform.
- More than 24,000 clinicians across the Elation community will gain access to Ribbon's provider directory data to power their referral management workflows while decreasing administrative burden and giving physicians greater time for patient care.
- Elation's customers will also have the
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HCA to Deploy MEDITECH Expanse EHR Across Enterprise
What You Should Know:
- HCA Healthcare, one of the nation’s leading providers of healthcare services, has signed a new agreement for a large-scale deployment of MEDITECH Expanse. This landmark agreement identifies MEDITECH Expanse as HCA Healthcare’s primary go forward EHR platform and a key part of the company’s digital transformation.
- Expanse is expected to support HCA Healthcare’s efforts to provide
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KLAS Report Reveals EMR Functionality & Value Top of Mind for Small Practices
What You Should Know:
- A new report by KLAS provides the latest view on how the major vendors in this market perform and which ones stand out in the areas that small practices (2–10 physicians) care about most.
- Small practices provide a significant amount of outpatient care in the US, and their needs differ from those of their larger counterparts. When it comes to EMR/PM technology, these practices expect up-to-date functionality, steady product performance, solid implementation and
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