- Change Healthcare has just announced the launch of API & Services Connection, a of library of APIs that spans the Change Healthcare broad portfolio of solutions and includes AI, Medical Network, Payments, Pharmacy, and RCM products.- Now available on the AWS Marketplace, the new library gives healthcare innovators instant access to the same clinical, financial, operational, and patient experience services that power Change Healthcare’s portfolio of HIT solutions. - Now, innovative
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Executive Insights: Top Healthcare Predictions & Trends to Watch in 2020
As we close out the year, we asked several healthcare industry executives to share their predictions and trends for 2020.
Robbie Hughes, Founder, and CEO, Lumeon
“Following the announcement of the Trump administration's price transparency requirement – and the ensuing backlash from hospital groups – the issue of price transparency will dominate the healthcare industry next year. Regardless of the outcome of the lawsuit, I expect we'll see more attention around the importance of the
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DrFirst’s Patent-Pending AI-Based Tech Solves Major Hurdles to Medication Reconciliation
- DrFirst announced a pending patent for AI technology today that breaks down the “prescription language barriers” between different EHRs – a crucial step in the process to avoid adverse drug events – solving a once intractable problem faced by hospitals. - The new U.S. patented tech uses an advanced approach for applying AI to unstructured medical information to process free text into appropriate data fields of the EHRs, infer missing prescription elements based on context, and convert free
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Youth Suicide & Depression Crisis: Can Health IT Make A Positive Impact?
Perhaps it’s because we live in an age of competing epidemics and crises—opioids, impeachment, homelessness, insulin—that youth suicide trends don’t warrant a front-page headline every week.The numbing, knee-bending statistics say they should.Per the CDC, suicide rates among young people 10-24 years old rose 56 percent between 2007 and 2017. Suicide is now the second leading cause of death for that group after accidents like car crashes—paradoxical tragedies often caused by the excessive
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Cerner Integrates Change Healthcare Solutions to Automate Acute Case Management
- Cerner integrates Change Healthcare InterQual Connect medical review and InterQual AutoReview into its EHR and acute case management solution. - Case management innovation supports medical review automation to lessen the administrative burden and increase focus on patient care.Change Healthcare today announced that Cerner Corporation, a global healthcare technology company, has integrated Change Healthcare’s InterQual Connect Medical Review Service and InterQual AutoReview into its Acute Case
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The Evolution of EHR Workflows: From Counterintuitive to Intuitive Tools for Care
Dr. Betty Rabinowitz, Chief Medical Officer at NextGen Healthcare
I recall a patient who was drinking heavily, who I was unable to meaningfully convince to reduce his alcohol consumption. He felt that his drinking was no different than his work colleagues and that he did not need to make any changes. When his labs returned, not surprisingly, his GGT and AST were elevated. I turned the screen and showed him the results as well as the upward trending of the result’s graph. He didn’t
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5 Reasons Why A Single, Integrated EHR Will Not Solve Interoperability
Kimberly Howland, PhD, Chief Product Officer at Diameter Health
A recent survey of health system IT, informatics, business, and clinical staff revealed that less than 40% of healthcare executives believe their organizations successfully share clinical data with external health systems, payers, and other partners. When asked what steps their organizations are taking to address interoperability challenges, 60% of respondents reported their organizations were moving to a single, integrated EHR.
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Cleveland Clinic London Taps Vocera to Build Clinical Communications Platform
- Cleveland Clinic London will use the Vocera Platform to standardize care team communication across the hospital when it opens in 2021.- The Vocera Platform integrates with more than 150 clinical and operational systems, including EHRs, physiologic monitors, ventilators and more.- Cleveland Clinic London is planning a two-way integration with Epic, the hospital’s EHR system. Additional integrations with a real-time location system and nurse call solution also are planned. Cleveland Clinic
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Medtronic to Leverage Lumeon’s Care Pathway Management Platform to Deliver Value-Based Care in Europe
- Lumeon and Medtronic form strategic partnership to support Medtronic’s European healthcare provider customers in their transition to efficient, value-based care models.- Medtronic’s Integrated Healthcare Solutions (IHS) business will leverage Lumeon’s CPM Platform to operationalize care pathways for surgery optimization and chronic disease management.Lumeon, a provider of Care Pathway Management (CPM), today announced that it has entered a strategic partnership with medical technology provider
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Holon Solutions Appoints Jon Zimmerman As New CEO
Jon Zimmerman, CEO of Holon Solutions
- Healthcare IT leader Jon Zimmerman has been named CEO of Holon Solutions to accelerate their transition to value-based care through the adoption of purpose-built technology that solves their biggest challenges.
- Value-based care executive selected for his nearly 30 years’ experience in enhancing healthcare interoperability and proven track record in scaling growth-stage companies.
Holon Solutions, an Atlanta-based healthcare IT company that liberates
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