What You Should Know: - Amazon today announced the launch of Amazon HealthLake, a new HIPAA-eligible service enables healthcare organizations to store, tag, index, standardize, query, and apply machine learning to analyze data at petabyte scale in the cloud. - Cerner, Ciox Health, Konica Minolta Precision Medicine, and Orion Health among customers using Amazon HealthLake. Today at AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company today announced Amazon
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Cerner Invests in Elligo to Make Clinical Trials Accessible for Health Systems of All Sizes
What You Should Know: - Cerner announced a strategic investment in Elligo Health Research, a leading research organization that enables clinical trials with nationwide community-based health care practices. - Cerner plans to expand the data and tools available in the Cerner Learning Health Network to offer additional clinical trial resources to community and rural hospitals and physician practices. - Financial terms of strategic investment were not disclosed. Cerner
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Hospital Sustainability Demands that Revenue Integrity Move Front and Center
Razor-thin operational margins coupled with substantial and ongoing losses related to COVID-19 are culminating in a perfect storm of bottom-line issues for U.S. hospitals and health systems. A study commissioned by the American Hospital Association (AHA) found that the median hospital margin overall was just 3.5% pre-pandemic, and projected margins will stay in the red for at least half of the nation’s hospitals for the remainder of 2020. The reality is that an increase in
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Cerner Launches Video Visit Platform for CommunityWorks Clients
What You Should Know: - Cerner launches new Video Visit platform for CommunityWorks clients at no cost through 2021 to support rural health organizations. Today in honor of National Rural Health Day, Cerner has announced the launch of their new telehealth offering to support rural health organizations through these tough times. The Video Visit platform will be offered to Cerner CommunityWorks℠ clients at no cost through 2021. The platform, which was announced at a virtual event for
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KLAS: Epic, NextGen, Cerner Best at Making Outside Patient Data Usable
What You Should Know: - New KLAS report finds acute and ambulatory care EMR vendors Cerner, Epic and NextGen are best at making outside patient data usable for clinicians (data from outside the clinician's health system). - KLAS report examines adoption and usability among advanced users of the main acute and ambulatory care EMR vendors. The national interoperability networks of Carequality and CommonWell Health Alliance have become some of the primary means by which patient records
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Addressing Social Determinants of Health: IT Solutions to Engage Community Resources
What You Should Know: - The latest report from Chilmark Research examines the new approaches and tools for utilizing community resources that can address social determinants of health, giving providers the ability to extend care beyond the confines of the clinic. - This research indicates that the next two years will largely bring an expansion of product capabilities with slow and steady growth in implementation as the market better defines key variables and sets standards for
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WELL Health Integrates with Cerner’s Patient Portal to Simplify Patient Communication
What You Should Know: - Cerner is striking a deal with patient communication hub company WELL Health to change its patient communication technology for its provider customers. - Through Cerner’s HealtheLife, the new capabilities will pull from a myriad of systems and apps to help improve communication and reduce administrative time for clinicians and staff. Cerner Corporation, a global health care technology company, today announced new capabilities designed to take the interaction
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VA Announces First Cerner EHR Go-Live at Mann-Grandstaff VA Medical Center
What You Should Know: - Cerner today announced the historic and successful first deployment of a modern EHR at Mann-Grandstaff VA Medical Center in Spokane, WA. - The go-live marks the first time in history three federal departments (VA, DOD, and USCG) are using the same EHR. Cerner Corporation today announced the historic and successful first deployment of a modern electronic health record (EHR) at Mann-Grandstaff VA Medical Center in Spokane, WA. The go-live marks the first
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Baptist Health Implements First-of-its-Kind ED to PCP Referral Automation
What You Should Know: - Baptist Health deploys first-of-its-kind conversational digital assistant powered by LifeLink for patients who are discharged from the Emergency Department (ED) with referrals. - Since launch, the conversational chatbot solution, which engages patients with mobile messaging to recommend follow-up care, the number of PCP appointment requests have increased by 15%. The technology is integrated into Cerner and Salesforce, personalizing the patient experience by
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Cerner Releases Open Call for EHR-Integrated Voice Assist Testing Partners
Cerner announces an open call for additional health systems to sign on as testing partners of their EHR-integrated Voice Assist technology. Voice Assist will allow clinicians to interact with the EHR by just using their voice. Clinicians will be able to issue voice commands to complete a range of tasks that can save significant time and reduce the administrative burden on care teams by replacing manual data documentation. How Voice Assist Technology Works Using the phrase
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