Black Book Rankings has named Allscripts as the top EHR vendor with a comprehensive population health management solution earning the highest rank in 10 of the 18 individual criteria.For Black Book Ranking 2017, Black Book crowd-sourced nearly 7,000 responses on eighteen key performance, satisfaction and usability indicators from physicians practice, hospitals, health systems and chains, ACOs, IDNs and IPAs in the first quarter of 2017.Allscripts CareInMotion is a population health management
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King’s College Hospital London to Implement Cerner’s Millennium EHR & Revenue Cycle
dbai. The overall aim of the Cerner implementation will support UAE Vision 2021 National Agenda, a national program developed to advance national priorities and achieve a world-class health care system. Cerner EHR Implementation DetailsThe Cerner Millennium EHR will be implemented across King’s Dubai, a 100-bed, multi-specialty hospital set to open in 2018 at the heart of the premium community, Dubai Hills Estate, and two multi-specialty clinics. The EHR is designed to support an individual’s
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eClinicalWorks Integrates Qardio’s Smart Blood Pressure Monitor With EHR Platform
Ambulatory EHR provider eClinicalWorks has announced integration with Qardio's medically accurate health monitoring devices to deliver patient health monitoring to support over 125k physicians in the USA and abroad. The integration partnership benefits both doctors using eClinicalWorks system and their patients. Doctors get deeper insights into their patients health while patients save time and cost by reducing routine or unnecessary doctor’s visits.Integration DetailsThrough this integration
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Optimum Healthcare IT Lands Apotti Finland Contract to Provide Epic Consulants
Healthcare IT staffing and consulting services firm Optimum Healthcare IT has been selected by Apotti in Finland to provide specialized Epic Consultants to support the Epic EHR implementation in the area’s 29 hospitals. The Apotti project is a co-operation between the local governments of Helsinki and the surrounding regions of Vantaa, Kirkkonummi, and Kauniainen, and the hospital district of Helsinki and Uusimaa (HUS).The goal of the Apotti project is to create a unified healthcare program that
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Children’s National to Integrate Cerner’s Revenue Cycle Suite With Cerner Millennium EHR
Children’s National Health System, an international leader in pediatric health and Cerner has expanded their relationship to integrate Millennium Revenue Cycle™ with the existing Cerner EHR and scheduling platform across the 313-bed pediatric hospital and more than 50 outpatient facilities. Children’s National and Cerner began working together in 2005 with the implementation of the Cerner Millennium® EHR and entered into a multi-year strategic alignment with Cerner to establish The Bear
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Mercy Named 2016 HIMSS Enterprise Davies Award for Improving Patient Care Through Health IT
Mercy, the fifth largest Catholic health care system in the nation, was named a 2016 HIMSS Enterprise Davies Award recipient for achieving improvements in patient care through the use of health information technology. Mercy received the award from HIMSS based on four case studies that detailed how the use of health information technology and standardized clinical processes have improved patient care and the bottom line. The case studies included:- Decreasing by nearly three hours the time it
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Aprima Medical Acquires EHR Reseller Healthcare Data Solutions
Aprima Medical Software, a provider of EHR, practice management (PM) and revenue cycle management (RCM) solutions for medical practices has acquired former reseller Healthcare Data Solutions (HDS) of Coral Cables, FL. As part of the agreement, Aprima will assume full support for HDS’s customers, which include approximately 300 providers in 125 medical practices across 15 states. Financial terms were not disclosed.HDS works with physician groups across the country to identify IT solutions that
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With MACRA Rule, What’s Next for Meaningful Use in 2017?
Editor's Note: Michael Nusimow is the CEO and Co-founder of drchrono, an EHR, practice management, medical billing and healthcare API platform that focuses on iPad, iPhone and web. Michael has been working in information technology for over 15 years and implemented components of the Bloomberg Terminal, used by customers worldwide. Despite all of the changes happening in healthcare legislation over the past few years, 2017 is not looking any easier. It is easy to get confused with the
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Why EHR Systems Are Not Enough to Fill the Patient Engagement Gap
Editor's Note: Rob Grant is the Co-Founder and Executive Vice President at Evariant, a healthcare CRM platform provider where he is responsible for advancing the company's market strategy, fostering new key business relationships and growing its customer base. He is a veteran of the healthcare and technology industries, with more than 20 years of executive experience in leading innovation, business strategy, new business development, sales, marketing, finance and operations.In today’s healthcare
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Ransomware Leads the Way in 2017’s Predicted Rise in Health Data Theft
Editor’s Note: Santosh Varughese is the President of Cognetyx, a provider of ‘Ambient Cognitive Cyber Surveillance’ to protect information assets against cyber security threats, data breaches and privacy violations. Welcome to 2017, the writing is on the wall and it didn’t take long to get there. Earlier this month Atlanta’s Emory Healthcare was hacked by the Harak1r1 the 0.2 Bitcoin Ransomware. A database from the facility’s Brain Health Center containing data from more than 200,000 patients
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