Tableau Software, a provider of business analytics software has announced an agreement to integrate its customer-created Tableau workbooks and dashboards with Epic's EMR. The integration will enable joint customers to deliver actionable insights from Tableau to EMR end-users, empowering physicians, clinicians, nurses and case managers for clinical analysis. Additionally, the community of Epic and Tableau users will share knowledge, innovation and best practices to accelerate
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Leidos, FairWarning Partner to Deliver EHR-Focused Patient Privacy Monitoring
Reston, VA-based health technology provider Leidos and FairWarning have signed a partnership to to provide commercial and public sector healthcare customers with real time, continuous monitoring of both internal and external advanced persistent threats (APT) to EHRs in a unified environment. Under the terms of the agreement customers will be able to utilize a complete managed security service that provides around-the-clock monitoring of digital activity across the enterprise including internal
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CHIME, OpenNotes Team Up to Accelerate Data Sharing Between Patients & Providers
As part of President Obama's Precision Medicine Initiative, The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and OpenNotes are teaming up to accelerate data sharing between patients and providers. The collaboration with OpenNotes continues CHIME’s efforts to improve information exchange across the healthcare continuum, including advancing interoperability and ensuring the accuracy of patient identification.
Neither a software program nor a new technology, OpenNotes is an
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Epic Integrates with Genelex to Help Reduce Drug Complications
Pharmacogenomic clinical analytics provider Genelex is integrating with EHR leader Epic to support the reduction of drug complications, hospitalizations and ED visits. The integration will enable Genelex customers using Epic to better identify patients who are at the highest risk of adverse drug events based on drug-gene and drug-drug gene interactions which has been proven to significantly lower ED visits and hospitalizations.
Genelex 's precision prescribing analytics software
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eClinicalWorks Enters Acute Care Market, Launches Cloud-centric Platform 10i
After securing $100 million in international business in 2015, ambulatory EHR provider eClinicalWorks today announced its entrance into the acute care market with its latest product – eClinicalWorks 10i. The cloud-centric platform creates a unified record across in-patient, out-patient and allied health settings. Available in 2017, the initial release of the acute care platform will focus on enterprise operations functionality, including inventory management, support for emergency and operating
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drchrono Delivers All-inclusive Mobile EHR Experience
Direct Urgent Care has implemented drchrono EHR to support its growing urgent care business and its new facility opening today in Mountain View, CA. Today, doctors are moving their practice to a more mobile environment and want to help their staff manage patient information directly from an iPad. Direct Urgent Care has embraced this vision and drchrono worked closely with them to design a unique mobile EHR solution that meets the needs of its growing urgent care medical facility network.
Over
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Is CMS Efforts Enough to Transform Rural Healthcare?
Imagine you’re living in Brooklyn and you have a medical emergency. If the hospital nearest you, say Lutheran Medical Center, were to close, you could go to Maimonides or New York Methodist a short taxi or ambulance ride away.
Now, let’s say you’re badly injured and you live outside rural Tulare, California, in one of the most productive agricultural counties in the U.S. If Tulare Regional Medical Center went away, you might have to life flight to Bakersfield, Los Angeles or the Bay Area.
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HCI Group Named HIMSS First EMRAM Global Education, Certification Provider
Health IT consulting firm, The HCI Group [HCI] has announced a partnership with HIMSS to become the organization’s first official Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model [EMRAM] Global Education provider.HIMSS Analytics has been providing maturity models for more than 10 years, focusing on important areas of healthcare advancement including the Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model, or EMRAM. The EMRAM model is used globally as a measurement of the maturity of healthcare facilities as they
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7 Key Trends in EHR Technical Support to Know in 2016
Quality EHR technical support/experience is the key to continued EHR loyalty, utilization, and overall customer satisfaction, according to recent Black Book survey of nearly 2,200 health It users. Conducted in Q4 2015, Black Book surveyed hospital and network physician based EHR software users, employing eighteen key performance indicators specific to comprehensive technical support experiences in Q4 2015. Managed tech support vendors evaluated included EHR and HIS vendors, EHR partnered
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Allscripts, Cerner Named Most Loyal EHR Vendors by Hospitals, Physicians
As the EHR replacements, provider consolidations and meaningful use uncertainties come to resolutions this year, the client loyalty spectrum discernably ranges from those hospitals with high EHR and HIT satisfaction, clinician usability and business analytics, to other hospitals unmistakably stuck with systems nominally operative, trapped with vendors due to huge capital investments, and in deep debt.
This week, Black Book Rankings unveiled its HIT Loyalty Index, a framework for measuring
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