Validic, a Durham, NC-based provider of healthcare data connectivity solutions, today announced the launch of a new, lightweight remote monitoring platform. The new solution is built to integrate directly into existing clinical workflows and the EHR. Simply called Validic Impact, the platform will provide continuous access to patient-generated health data (PGHD) from nearly 400 in-home medical devices and wearables, offering a device-agnostic approach to managing chronic and post-acute
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Human API Teams Up with CMS to Launch FHIR-based API
Human API, the largest patient-centric health data network has announced a collaboration with the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to make the new CMS Blue Button 2.0 API available through the Human API data network. This collaboration will enable millions of Medicare patients to connect and authorize the sharing of their longitudinal claims information with new providers, clinical researchers, and digital health services.With the CMS Blue Button 2.0 API available through Human
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drchrono, Ambra Health Integrates to Give Physicians/Radiologists Instant Access to Patient Medical Images within EHR
drchrono, the company enabling the medical practice of the future, today announced a new partnership with Ambra Health, makers of the leading cloud-based, medical image management suite, to give physicians and radiologists direct access to medical imaging within their electronic health record (EHR). drchrono’s integration with Ambra Health eliminates jumping between DICOM medical imaging software and electronic health records. Physicians and radiologists benefit from a more efficient workflow by
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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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Tissue Analytics Lands $5M for EHR-Integrated Mobile Wound Care Platform
Tissue Analytics, a Baltimore, MD-based digital health startup which provides simple, easy-to-use solutions to increase efficiency and accuracy for wound and skin tracking, has announced a $5M Series A round. The round was led by DigiTx Partners with participation from Tencent, Dreamit, Molnlycke Health Care, Intermountain Healthcare, and Penn Medicine.The company plans to use the latest round of funding to support the expansion of the sales team in their recently opened Kansas City office and
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4 Leading Health IT Trends That Will Continue in 2018
Several notable trends from 2017 will continue to impact the health information technology (HIT) industry in the new year. Ransomware tops the list, particularly after this May’s WannaCry worldwide cyberattack, followed closely by increased awareness of electronic prescribing of controlled substances (EPCS) as an “upstream solution” to battling the nation’s mounting opioid abuse crisis. Beyond the ongoing development of these two leading trends, HIT experts are also asking two key questions as
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GHX Launches Solution to Integrate Supply Chain With Epic EHR Clinical Data
Today, GHX introduced a new solution that will allow providers to connect two of its most important business processes – the item master and the EHR -- and confidently answer the total cost of procedure. GHX Clinical ConneXion is the industry’s the first solution to provide a single source of truth for item information to support clinical documentation and patient billing, including supply and implant capture at the point of use. The first implementation is with the Epic Enterprise EHR
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Partners Connected Health, Validic Partner to Provide Clinicians Access to Patient-Generated Data
Partners Connected Health has announced a new collaboration with Validic, a provider of data connectivity solutions for healthcare that will ultimately provide Partners HealthCare clinicians and researchers with access to patient-generated health data (PGHD). Currently in the testing phase, the full-scale service provides the integration of PGHD into care plans and the EHR from over 420 consumer and clinical health devices set to launch throughout the Partners HealthCare network in 2018.
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Brigham Health Selects Redox’s EHR Integration API to Exchange Data Across Organization
Brigham Health and Redox, an EHR integration API platform for developers and healthcare organizations has announced a partnership to scale digital health innovation across the organization. As part of the partnership, Brigham Health will utilize Redox's cloud-based platform to consolidate data from the medical center's Epic electronic health record (EHR) system.The data is then standardized in a central application programing interface (API), an approach already in use by a network of hundreds
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StayWell Adds SMART on FHIR to Increase EHR Integration Capabilities
StayWell, a health solutions company that uses the science of behavior change to help people live happier, healthier lives has added HL7® FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) standards for the new Krames On-Demand patient education digital app.The addition of SMART on FHIR to Krames On-Demand will make it easier for health systems to integrate Krames patient education materials into their clinical workflows with suggested individualized education for each patient. This enhanced
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