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The Existing Challenges with EHRs and Physicians’ Workflows

by Abhinav Shashank, CEO at Innovaccer Inc. 07/17/2018 Leave a Comment

The Existing Challenges with EHRs and Physicians’ Workflows

EHRs grew out of the vast computers that looked after a hospital’s internal processes. The physician workflows, on the other hand, were an afterthought. Imagine a Wendy’s restaurant. You place an order and the guy at the counter rings up and relays your order to the kitchen. When the order comes, the fry guy drops a basket of fries in the fryer, the guy at the burger counter flips a patty, the girl over at the soda machine fills up your choice of soda, arranges your order on a tray, and rests it
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DrChrono, Stitch Integrate to Provide Practices EHR Physician Collaboration Tools

by Fred Pennic 07/16/2018 Leave a Comment

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DrChrono, a company enabling the medical practice of the future, today announced a new partnership with Stitch, a company that has created a free HIPAA-compliant app for healthcare teams to send internal messages, communicate with patients and track daily tasks. Both DrChrono and Stitch are Y Combinator portfolio companies.In the past, physicians and medical staff would need to communicate with each other about patients using email, text and phone calls or other outdated chat software that
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The 3 F’s for Care Innovations— Flow, Feasibility, Flexibility

by Abhinav Shashank, CEO at Innovaccer Inc. 07/02/2018 Leave a Comment

The 3 F’s for Care Innovations— Flow, Feasibility, Flexibility

Recently, I came across a story on a high-end care facility situated in Philadelphia. The said center was equipped with highly advanced machines, served high-income patients, and their services were fairly ‘integrated.’ A patient could visit a PCP on one floor and get diagnostic imaging done on another. However, any two systems did not connect. An X-ray image had to be first printed, faxed, and then again scanned in the physician’s desktop— taking a fair amount of time, and image quality was
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Kaiser Permanente, Emory Healthcare to Create New Integrated Care Model

by Jasmine Pennic 06/15/2018 Leave a Comment

Emory Healthcare Taps Kyruus to Improve Operational Efficiency, Patient Experience

 Emory Healthcare, the clinical arm of Emory University, and Kaiser Permanente, today announced a new collaboration to develop a new integrated care model that provides Kaiser Permanente members with a fully integrated health care experience, and in the process advances patient- and family-centered care in metro Atlanta and beyond. As part of the collaboration, Emory University Hospital Midtown and Emory Saint Joseph's Hospital will become the primary hospitals for Kaiser Permanente physicians
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Telehealth App Medici Lands $22M to Re-imagine the Doctor-Patient Relationship

by Fred Pennic 06/14/2018 Leave a Comment

Telehealth App Medici Lands $22M to Re-imagine the Doctor-Patient Relationship

Medici, an Austin, TX-based digital health startup focused on the future of doctors and patients has raised $22 million in Series A funding from individual investors including executives from well-known global companies such as Citadel, Dell, Publix, and Starwood Capital. The latest round brings the total amount of funding raised to date to $46.6 million.Today’s doctors are buried with regulatory requirements, administrative hurdles and downward pressure on their own costs to run their
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WISHIN, PatientPing Partners to Advance Care Coordination Throughout Wisconsin

by Jasmine Pennic 06/13/2018 Leave a Comment

WISHIN, PatientPing Partners to Advance Care Coordination Throughout Wisconsin

Today, PatientPing and WISHIN announced their partnership to improve the health of countless lives in Wisconsin by bolstering its care coordination efforts across the network with real-time patient notifications and additional context. WISHIN, which stands for the Wisconsin Statewide Health Information Network, is the state’s designated entity for healthcare information exchange (HIE). Using PatientPing’s lightweight care coordination technology, WISHIN is improving upon the existing network of
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New York Expands Patient Care Alerts Statewide Through SHIN-NY

by Fred Pennic 06/06/2018 Leave a Comment

New York Expands Patient Care Alerts Statewide Through SHIN-NY

The New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) today announced the expansion of patient care alerts across the state's eight regional health information exchanges through the Statewide Health Information Network for New York (SHIN-NY). Healthcare professionals can now receive real-time alerts free of charge when their patients is admitted, discharged or transferred from a hospital, promoting  timelier interventions and improved planning for a patient's care at home or at another facility.The
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Tampa General, GE Healthcare Partner to Launch New Care Coordination Center

by Fred Pennic 05/31/2018 Leave a Comment

Tampa General Hospital (TGH) and GE Healthcare are partnering to launch a new care coordination center that will harness predictive analytics to help improve the experience and outcomes for patients, families and hospital staff. Set to open in 2019, the 9,000 square foot care coordination center will be powered by GE's Wall of Analytics, which continually examines data that recommends actions to reduce delays in patient progression, predict and prevent risk, and balance staff workload.The center
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Olympus Medical Systems Partners with InterSystems to Improve Care Coordination

by HITC Staff 04/23/2018 Leave a Comment

InterSystems

InterSystems announced their partnership with Olympus Medical Systems, a global leader in designing and delivering innovative solutions for medical and surgical procedures. Olympus will use the InterSystems HealthShare platform to improve information sharing across hospital systems, particularly images taken during patient procedures.In the past, images taken during common procedures, like endoscopies, were stored on bulky external drives, adding to the time spent accessing the images and
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Physician Survey Reveals Lack of Patient History Data Impedes Care Coordination

by Fred Pennic 04/12/2018 Leave a Comment

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Majority of physicians cannot electronically access information about other care their patients, according to the new Surescripts report Physician Perspectives on Access to Patient Data. The 15-minute web-based survey was administered by ORC International to 300 qualifying primary care physicians between October 5 and October 17, 2017. To qualify for the survey, physicians had to have been in practice for at least five years, spend at least 50 percent of their time providing direct patient care
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