Mayo Regional Hospital has selected Cerner to implement a new integrated electronic health record (EHR) and revenue cycle solutions across its acute and ambulatory facilities. This agreement provides the hospital with sophisticated health care technology that will support Mayo doctors, nurses and staff as they work to streamline operations and improve patient care. With Cerner’s Clinically Driven Revenue Cycle™ solutions, Mayo clinicians will be able to view clinical and financial data in one
Read More
Electronic Health Records (EHRs) | Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) | News, Analysis, Insights - HIT Consultant
Redox Launches FHIR API for Health Data Exchange on Redox Network
Health integration platform Redox, today announced that they will now offer developers and healthcare organizations the option to use FHIR®, Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resource, for health data exchange over the Redox Network: R^FHIR. R^FHIR expands the capabilities of the Redox Platform by offering developers the choice to interact with a singular FHIR® implementation while still benefiting from the standardization and normalization provided to the network of organizations using Redox
Read More
MEDITECH EHR Expands Global Presence to United Kingdom & Ireland
MEDITECH Holdings announce it is expanding its global presence and launching MEDITECH UK in the United Kingdom and Ireland. In partnership with MEDITECH in the United States, MEDITECH UK will deliver the web-based Electronic Patient Record (EPR) platform Expanse to customers in the UK and Ireland for the first time. MEDITECH Expanse is an integrated, web-based EPR designed for mobile, tablet-based navigation with a familiar web-user interface. Created collaboratively with consultants and
Read More
MTBC to Acquire Assets of Orion Healthcorp That Could Increase Revenues by 50%
MTBC, a provider of cloud-based healthcare IT and revenue cycle management solutions has entered into an Asset Purchase Agreement ("APA") to acquire substantially all of the revenue cycle, practice management, and group purchasing organization assets of Orion Healthcorp, Inc. and 13 of its affiliate companies (together "Orion"), as the primary bidder in a Section 363 sale under the U.S. Bankruptcy Code. After the acquisition is closed, management expects the transaction would increase MTBC's
Read More
Elliot Management Makes $6.5B Unsolicited Bid to Acquire athenahealth
athenahealth has received an unsolicited proposal from Elliott Management to acquire the Company for $160 per share in cash that could be worth about $7 billion, including debt, CNBC first reports.In a letter sent to athenahealth’s management, the activist firm stated, “It is clear to us and becoming clear to many others that Athenahealth’s potential will never be realized without the kind of operational change that the company seems unable to deliver.” The letter also states that Elliot
Read More
Capital Region Medical Center to Implement Cerner EHR and Revenue Cycle Solution
Capital Region Medical Center (CRMC) has selected Cerner, a global leader in health care technology, to implement an integrated electronic health record (EHR) and revenue cycle management solutions to support improved health outcomes and optimized revenue functions. University of Missouri (MU) Health Care will extend its Cerner Millennium® domain to CRMC. As an affiliate of MU Health Care since 1997, the domain extension to CRMC will further the health system’s well-established collaboration
Read More
DrChrono and Cliniconex Integrate to Provide Enhanced Mobile EHR Experience to Urgent Care Practices
DrChrono Inc., the company enabling the medical practice of the future, today announced a partnership with Cliniconex to bring more modern and mobile benefits to urgent care practices. The Cliniconex and DrChrono integration provides an enhanced mobile EHR experience for urgent care practices.Cliniconex easily integrates with DrChrono’s cloud-based EHR platform and daily workflow processes. Cliniconex’s automated patient communication, and reporting software not only streamlines pre and
Read More
EMR Workflow Optimization: The Lynchpin to Ameliorating Physician Burnout
Healthcare have been transformed over the last decade as electronic medical records have been rolled out across America. Unfortunately, information technology has not yet fulfilled its immense promise. To a great extent, this is because most EMRs were designed primarily as giant billing systems. They were not conceived as patient care systems, and efforts to use them for patient care have been compromised by issues of usability and efficiency. Of equal concern have been the effects on morale
Read More
Trinity Health Moves to Epic for Single Integrated EHR & Rev Cycle Platform
Michigan-based provider Trinity Health has announced it has selected Epic for a single, enterprise-wide electronic health record (EHR) and revenue cycle management platform. The Epic integrated system will enable the health system to improve experiences for patients and clinicians.Trinity Health's fully integrated health record will improve the care experience across the entire system by providing a single, comprehensive health record for each person.For patients and consumers, it will provide
Read More
Why We Are at the Crossroads of the Next Healthcare Disruption
At a moment when consumer technology giants Apple, Amazon and Google are poised to put heavy footprints on the healthcare technology environment, new reports of patient dissatisfaction with current hospital EHR solutions seem to be paving the way. This confluence of developments may be the perfect setting for the next major disruption in our industry, a scenario that many hospital leaders, physicians and health tech vendors won’t relish. But many consumers will, especially those under 40. Here’s
Read More
