Growing your digital health company to the point of acquisition can be exciting, but do you know the right steps to strategically close the deal? CarePort Health’s Marc Camm explains.Stand around any drawing board long enough and you’ll hear a familiar question regardless of the innovation: how do we scale this? Startup growth, especially in digital health, is challenging—some will seek acquisition—some will take the bootstrap route—and most will fail regardless. Still, there is room to succeed.
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Allscripts Taps MedAware to Eliminate Prescription-based Medication Errors
MedAware has been selected by Allscripts patient safety and save lives. This is significant as new interoperability challenges arise created by an all-digital healthcare system. In the US alone, 1.5 million prescription errors per year result in injury or death. Nearly every organization has an EHR and physicians are being bombarded by huge stores of patient data. Allscripts has selected MedAware as its partner to put this data to work – to achieve meaningful interoperability and improve care
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University Hospitals Taps 2bPrecise to Deliver Genomic Insights
University Hospitals, today announced it, has selected the 2bPrecise® platform to bring genomic data into the clinical workflow, impacting patient care in both acute and ambulatory settings. The 2bPrecise platform is an offering from 2bPrecise LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Allscripts. University Hospitals (UH) serves the needs of patients through an integrated network of 18 hospitals, more than 50 outpatient health centers and 200 physician offices in 15 counties throughout northern Ohio.
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KLAS Unveils 5 Small Hospital EMR Market Trends to Watch
In 2017, 216 acute care hospitals contracted for a new EMR, with 1–200 bed hospitals accounting for the vast majority (80%) of these decisions, according to a recent KLAS report. EMR purchasing by smaller hospitals is being driven primarily by these organizations’ need to exchange information with surrounding hospitals and desire for vendors that offer newer, more innovative technology and more flexible financial options. These smaller hospitals are hungry for new technology but often resource
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Allscripts to Acquire Mobile Patient Engagement Platform HealthGrid for $60M
Allscripts has signed a definitive agreement to acquire HealthGrid Holding Company, a mobile enterprise patient engagement platform business for $60 million. Once the The acquisition will expand the Allscripts FollowMyHealthplatform portfolio, the company’s patient engagement solution focused on connecting patients with providers. The added functionality will enable providers to reach 100% of their patient populations without requiring patients to sign up for a portal. Instead, the new
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Allscripts Care Management Merges with CarePort Health to Build Care Coordination Tools
CarePort Health, an Allscripts company and pioneer in post-acute outcomes management, today announced it has assumed management of the Allscripts Care Management solution and services portfolio. This transition is part of a strategy to accelerate innovation for the Care Management platform. Together, the Care Management and CarePort platforms offer providers, payers and ACOs unparalleled visibility across all levels of care and transitions across the continuum. Acquired by Allscripts in
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Lyft Integrates with Allscripts EHR for Non Emergency Medical Transportation
Lyft Business is announcing a new integration partnership with EHR provider Allscripts. With Lyft-Allscripts integration, 45,000 physician practices, 180,000 physicians and 2,500 hospitals that use Allscripts EHR can easily request a Lyft for their patients. In addition, Lyft also announced its ambitious goal of eliminating transportation barriers to care. Today, 3.6 million Americans have transportation issues that prevent them from getting to or from a doctor’s appointment, and 25 percent of
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OptimizeRx Expands Partnership with Allscripts for Real-Time Clinical Messaging
OptimizeRx Corp, a provider of digital health messaging, has expanded its partnership with Allscripts Healthcare which now includes a variety of real-time messaging to Allscripts ambulatory platforms. The agreement includes financial, informational, and clinical messaging delivered at the point-of-care through Allscripts ePrescribe, Allscripts Professional EHR and Allscripts TouchWorks EHR solutions.Allscripts’ EHR and ePrescribing (eRx) network totals more than 180,000 physicians across 45,000
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Allscripts to Acquire Practice Fusion’s Physician Practice EHR for $100M
Allscripts has reached a definitive agreement to acquire cloud-based EHR platform Practice Fusion for $100 million in cash, subject to adjustment for working capital and net debt. Founded in 2005, Practice Fusion offers an affordable certified cloud-based EHR for traditionally hard-to-reach small, independent physician practices, supporting 30,000 ambulatory practices and 5 million patient visits a month.The strategic acquisition of Practice Fusion will complement and round out Allscripts
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Allscripts Reaches 1 Billion API Health Data Exchanges in 2017
Health IT solutions provider Allscripts, today announced it has reached a milestone of one billion application Programming Interfaces (APIs) health data exchange transactions within 2017. The milestone marks the most ever in a single year through its open platform, and its relationships with innovative entrepreneurs and with healthcare providers.To date, the Allscripts Developer Program (ADP) has certified nearly 200 distinct apps and devices for its users, all currently available through the
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