In August 2017, Allscripts announced their intentions to purchase McKesson's Enterprise Information Solutions. This announcement comes after a period of uncertainty regarding McKesson’s plans for the future of Paragon and other EIS solutions. KLAS Research reached out to current Paragon customers to gauge how they are reacting to the news.Do Paragon clients feel the acquisition puts them in a better position? Does it change any customers’ long-term plans? To find out, KLAS got perspectives from
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Mayo Clinic Integrates System Assessment Tool with Epic MyChart App
Mayo Clinic is now offering their secure, web-based symptom assessment tool, Ask Mayo Clinic online through Epic’s MyChart App. Available 24/7 through the patient portal via any computer or mobile, MyChart App, users are guided through a series of questions about presenting symptoms. Driven by 36 standardized algorithms based on the real-time data entered, users will receive a recommended level of care“Ask Mayo Clinic online offers trusted and accessible care guidance when you need it — anytime,
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PeraHealth Joins the Epic App Orchard for Seamless Integration with Epic EHR
PeraHealth, a provider of predictive, real-time clinical surveillance solutions, announces its membership in Epic’s App Orchard to allow seamless integration into Epic’s EHR platform. As an App Orchard contributor, PeraHealth will utilize application programming interfaces (APIs), which serve as a bridge between Epic tools and third-party software products to enable greater collaboration, integration and seamless workflow. PeraTrend, PeraHealth’s clinical surveillance solution, provides
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Epic Launches Share Everywhere for Patients to Authorize Any Provider to View Their Epic Record
EHR leader Epic has announced the launch of Share Anywhere, a new interoperability tool that will allow patients to grant access to their medical record data to any providers and send a progress note back to the patient’s healthcare organization for improved continuity of care. The development around the new tool was based on the interoperability challenge of sending important patient information to clinicians who cannot interoperate, and how to do so in a way that protects patients’
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Brigham Health Selects Redox’s EHR Integration API to Exchange Data Across Organization
Brigham Health and Redox, an EHR integration API platform for developers and healthcare organizations has announced a partnership to scale digital health innovation across the organization. As part of the partnership, Brigham Health will utilize Redox's cloud-based platform to consolidate data from the medical center's Epic electronic health record (EHR) system.The data is then standardized in a central application programing interface (API), an approach already in use by a network of hundreds
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MEDITECH Integrates NCCN Chemotherapy Order Templates with Web EHR
The National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) has announced collaboration with MEDITECH to integrate NCCN Chemotherapy Order Templates (NCCN Templates) into MEDITECH's Web Electronic Health Record (EHR) as standard cancer treatment protocols for use at point of care. As part of the integration, MEDITECH's Web EHR will provide clinicians direct access to the NCCN Templates and will link to NCCN.org and the corresponding NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology (NCCN Guidelines).The
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Cerner Forms Advisory Council to Support VA EHR Modernization Project
Cerner, today announced the creation of an Advisory Group to provide insights and recommendations in support of Cerner’s work on the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Electronic Health Record Modernization (EHRM) program. The group is comprised of distinguished former government, military and private sector leaders sharing a common interest in Veterans health and wellness.Former U.S. Senator and Nebraska Governor Bob Kerrey, a U.S. Navy Veteran has been appointed the chair of the The VA
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Vidyo Integrates with Allscripts FollowMyHealth To Embed Telehealth Visits Directly Into Patient Portal
Vidyo, which is used by 295 U.S healthcare systems for telemedicine, today announced its integration with Allscripts’ FollowMyHealth patient engagement platform. The FollowMyHealth platform empowers patients for continuous engagement, while expanding their care team. The integration embeds virtual consultations directly into the patient portal, helping to create a system of connected care that is more accessible to more people.Modern, self-service video API platforms like vidyo.io (which was
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MIT Medical to Implement Cerner Millennium EHR to Interact Seamlessly With Patients
MIT Medical, an ambulatory care center serving the 25,000+ members of the Massachusetts Institute Technology community has selected Cerner to implement an integrated clinical, financial and population health management system. MIT Medical serves more than 20,000 Massachusetts Institute Technology students, faculty, staff and retirees, as well as members of their families.By implementing Cerner Millennium EHR, MIT will be able to support clinical processes and health management across its two
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Wolters Kluwer Integrates ProVation Order Sets with Epic EHR
Wolters Kluwer announced ProVation Order Sets integration with Epic EHR to support the importing and exporting of information to streamline and optimize order set management. This integration enables healthcare providers to streamline labor-intensive governance processes, optimize order set management and support existing order sets with evidence-based clinical content.ProVation Order Sets integration leverages new order set import functionality to quickly and easily transfer Panels, Smart
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