One of the main battles to efficient healthcare is complicated and incompatible medical records systems. Health Fidelity, a health IT startup funded by UPMC, has developed a vendor-neutral tool to solve the data acquisition problem called HF360 Data Acquisition. HF360 Data Acquisition is a flexible platform that healthcare providers and health plans can use to retrieve medical records and other patient data in the most efficient and cost-effective manner.The platform can acquire both structured
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Children’s National Health System Earns HIMSS Analytics EMRAM Stage 6 Award
Children’s National Health System recently announced that it has been recognized by HIMSS Analytics for reaching Stage 6 status on the EMR Adoption ModelSM (EMRAM), an achievement reached by only 32 percent of the nation’s more than 5,400 hospitals. Serving children and families in the Washington area for nearly 150 years, , is a renowned leader in pediatric medicine and recognized globally for the development and implementation of innovative treatments."The HIMSS Analytics Stage 6 designation
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Cerner CEO & Chairman Neal Patterson Passes Away from Cancer
Neal Patterson, co-founder, CEO, and chairman of Cerner passed away on Sunday, due to unexpected complications that arose after a recent recurrence of a previously disclosed cancer. He was 67 years old.Cerner Co-Founder and Vice Chairman of the Board Cliff Illig has been named chairman and interim CEO."This is a profound loss. Neal and I have been partners and collaborators for nearly 40 years, and friends for longer than that," Illig said in a statement. "Neal loved waking up every morning at
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Fitango Health, Intersystems Partner to Develop Post-Acute Care Solutions
Fitango Health, an innovative provider of patient health management has partnered with Intersystem technologies to develop post-acute solutions for patients. Fitango Health has developed a Patient Health Management app, a post-discharge platform designed to improve recovery outcomes and reduce costs for providers and patients in the home setting.The platform enables patients to be guided through their recovery process through interactive action plans and supports a consistent connection to their
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Without Interoperability, EHRs Are Too Expensive
Would you pay top dollar for anything—a car, phone, television, whatever—that promises truly transformational technology at some unspecified future date?I doubt you would. We generally buy products for what they offer now, not what the company says they will eventually do (vaporware, as IT calls it).And yet, so many hospitals pay multi-billions of dollars for healthcare IT systems that promise to integrate patient care … eventually. Why? Some argue the primary reason is a false market that was
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Waypoint Centre for Mental Health Care Goes Live on MEDITECH EHR
Canada’s Waypoint Centre for Mental Health Care (Waypoint) announced this week that it is now LIVE with MEDITECH’s 6.1 EHR. The 301-bed psychiatric hospital located in Penetanguishene, Ontario, partnered with Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences (Ontario Shores) in Whitby to implement MEDITECH’s fully-integrated EHR.To ensure effective and efficient use of resources in alignment with the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care’s Health Information System (HIS) Renewal Strategy,
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Carolinas Healthcare System to Implement Cerner’s Population Health Management Platform
Carolinas HealthCare System (CHS) has selected Cerner to implement their HealtheIntent population health management platform. The implementation will coordinate and manage care for its more than 12 million patient interactions each year across its health system and clinically integrated network, Carolinas Physician Alliance (CPA). Additionally, CHS will continue to use the Cerner Millennium® integrated EHR and will also extend its remote hosting relationship with Cerner.
HealtheIntent’s
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Patientco Integrates With Epic’s EHR to Improve Patient Payment Experience
Patientco, a cloud-based patient payment platform for health systems is integrating with Epic’s EHR to improve the patient payment experience. The integration will provide robust payment functionality, automated workflows, and payment processing through Epic solutions, including MyChart. Patientco’s payment platform can be deployed enterprise-wide to help health systems leverage their investment in Epic and streamline payment workflows for revenue cycle teams.Patientco goes beyond basic payment
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MatrixCare Acquires Long-Term Care EHR Vendor SigmaCare
MatrixCare, a provider of long-term care software and technology has acquired Sigma Care, a New York City-based EHR vendor for the long-term, post-acute care market. The senior care market EHR provider currently serves over 12,000 facility-based care settings and over 2,000 home care agency offices throughout the US. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. For MatrixCare, the acquisition continues its rapid growth and strategic expansion into the New York City market.MatrixCare’s
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M*Modal Expands AI Platform to Support Epic NoteReader CDI Module
M*Modal, a leading provider of clinical documentation and speech understanding is extending its AI platform to support the Epic NoteReader CDI module. M*Modal’s Computer-Assisted Physician Documentation (CAPD) technology delivers actionable support to physicians as they dictate or type the clinical note – either proactively before it is saved in the EHR using M*Modal Fluency Direct or after it is saved by using the Epic NoteReader CDI workflow.Requiring no additional steps or clicks from the
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