Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (BCBSA), today announced that it has chosen Edifecs as a partner to help drive FHIR adoption across BCBS companies. FHIR is the future of interoperability, and FHIR standards can resolve many of the healthcare industry’s critical business issues. As part of the partnership, Edifecs’ user-friendly Edifecs XEngine Server Module for FHIR will be offered to BCBS companies to support the rapid deployment of these data standards with minimal training required. What
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MEDITECH Integrates Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMP) Within Expanse EHR
EHR provider MEDITECH, today announced it is integrating one-tap access to state-regulated electronic Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMP) that track controlled substance prescriptions, from directly within the MEDITECH Expanse EHR.MEDITECH Expanse EHR Integration DetailsAvailable from DrFirst, the PDMP database link allows prescribers to view controlled substance histories effortlessly from multiple PDMPs simultaneously as allowed by cooperating states, within the EHR prior to
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Innovaccer Launches EHR-Agnostic Physician Engagement Solution
The role of physicians is instrumental in the rapidly-transforming healthcare. There have been many strategic initiatives or restructured payment models- but the physicians have almost always been disconnected. Physicians are either overburdened with the data around them or have limited real-time visibility into the analyzed data.Limited access to the right data at the right time has dramatically increased the number of burned out physicians in the country. Additionally, the time-taking tasks of
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M*Modal Integrates AI Platform with Epic EHR to Support Clinical Workflows
M*Modal integration with Epic EHR supports virtual assistants and nursing applications for an advanced workflow in EpicM*Modal, a provider of clinical documentation and Speech Understanding solutions, announced that it is integrating its artificial intelligence (AI) powered platform with the Epic EHR to support clinical workflows. Creating time to care through smarter, more unified workflows, M*Modal® speech and AI enabled solutions are designed to significantly improve the productivity of the
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Healthcare Data Integration Startup Bridge Connector Raises $5.5M, Following $4.5M Seed Round
Bridge Connector, a healthcare data integration platform as a service (iPaaS) that delivers streamlined integration solutions for healthcare organizations, today announced it has raised $5.5 million in Series A funding led by Axioma Ventures LLC, following a $4.5M seed round in May 2018. The latest round brings the company’s total investment to $10M in funding. The health IT startup plans to use the funding to help further expand Bridge Connector’s sales, marketing, and client-services efforts,
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4 Learning Curves That Healthcare IT Alone Cannot Address
In 2018, the phrase 'learning curve' is used so frequently that it’s essentially part of the English lexicon with little need for definitions and etymologies.In the late nineteenth century, however, both phrase and concept were yet to be invented. German psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus described what we know as the learning curve in the late 1800s and the term itself was first used in a 1903 issue of the American Journal of Psychology.Both the learning curve and institutional maturity have been
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Verana Health Lands $30M for EHR Integrated Data Platform for Life Sciences
Verana Health formerly known as DigiSight Technologies), a healthcare technology developer of a cutting-edge platform for life science innovation that utilizes regulatory-grade specialty data sets has raised $30M in Series C funding led by GV (formerly Google Ventures) with participation from existing investors Biomatics Capital, Brook Byers, founder of Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers, GE Ventures, and Lagunita Biosciences.In addition to the Series C funding, the company has appointed
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Galway Clinic Becomes First Hospital Live on MEDITECH Expanse EHR In Ireland and UK
Galway Clinic becomes first hospital in Ireland and the UK to launch Expanse, MEDITECH’s single integrated web EHR platform, to unify care teams, share patient records, and better coordinate patients’ care. Galway Clinic, a state-of-the-art, 146-bed hospital, today announced it has became the first hospital in Ireland and the UK to launch Expanse, MEDITECH’s innovative, fully integrated Patient Administration System (PAS) and Electronic Health Record (EHR). Leveraging the latest technology,
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3 Ways Automation & Integration Is Disrupting the HIT Status Quo
In the history of healthcare information technology (HIT), there is clear evidence that technology systems have been designed to provide individual solutions, instead of considering a provider’s workflow holistically. In the late 1980’s and early 1990’s, practice management (PM) systems offered medical practices the opportunity to automate their day-to-day operations. Then the electronic health record (EHR) became mainstream in the late 1990’s and early 2000’s, to electronically store patient
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IllumiCare Launches App to Solve Blindspot Within EHR for Opioid Prescribing
IllumiCare launches the first controlled substance tracking solution within the EMR to combine inpatient and outpatient data on opioid exposure. A new app for the EHR is alleviating a blindspot in opioid prescribing, giving clinicians the first full picture of opioid exposure on a patient. Currently, treating clinicians look John Doe up in the state’s PDMP to see his opioid history when he comes to the ER in pain. He doesn’t have one, so they prescribe it during his stay then he’s sent home.
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