What You Should Know:
- Healthcare technology company DrFirst has announced the
release of its next generation, patented SmartSig AI technology to improve the
quality of patient medication history when it is imported into hospitals’ and
health systems’ electronic health records (EHRs).
- Simple prescription instructions, called “sigs,” can
have hundreds of variations or be missing entirely from patients’ medication
histories when they are imported into hospitals’ EHRs. The missing
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DrChrono Integrates with Rioch to Streamline Patient Onboarding & Reconciliation for Medical Practices
What You Should Know:
- DrChrono integrates with Ricoh’s Smart Integration
Healthcare add-on to enable a medical practice to easily scan a patient’s
driver license to auto-populate the corresponding fields into their EHR/PMS
system.
- The Healthcare add on also includes the ability to directly scan documents, such as referrals, patient history forms, or consent forms. This goes right into the patient record in the EHR, replacing the multiple steps of scanning, saving, and uploading
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R1 Acquires Cerner RevWorks to Extend Revenue Cycle Capabilities
R1 RCM Inc., a provider
of technology-enabled revenue cycle management services to healthcare providers,
today announced that it will acquire
Cerner RevWorks services
business and commercial, non-federal client relationships. R1’s electronic health record-agnostic
revenue cycle
platform seamlessly complements a healthcare organization’s infrastructure,
quickly driving transformative improvements to net patient revenue and cash
flows while reducing operating costs.
Integration
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Net Health Acquires Wound Care Platform Tissue Analytics
What You Should Know:
- Net Health acquires wound care platform Tissue Analytics to expand Net Health’s leadership position in the wound care market.
- Tissue Analytics, Inc. deploys its wound management software via industry-leading SMART on FHIR integrations with Epic, Cerner, Allscripts, and others.
- Net Health plans to integrate Tissue Analytics app will be integrated with their WoundExpert EHR solution to add key capabilities for use within hospital outpatient
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Report: How the COVID-19 Pandemic is Changing Patient Communications
What You Should Know:
- Data from Luma Health reveals stark gaps in the volume and cadence of COVID-19-related messages sent between doctors and patients.
- California, one of the states hit early and hard by COVID-19, increased patient communications more than 91x over, with 206,000 messages broadcast between late January and March; New York saw a 16x increase over the same period (both states with approximately the same number of cases in early March).
- During the month of
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Boston Medical, Rimidi Partner to Tackle High-Risk Pregnancy During COVID-19
What You Should Know:
- To help overcome the challenges of high-risk pregnancies, Boston Medical Center announced a partnership with Rimidi, a cloud-based software platform, to enable physicians to remotely collect and analyze patient-generated data to better treat patients remotely.
- Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond, the adoption of Rimidi’s platform will ease fears and provide an extra layer of medical support by leveraging remote monitoring capabilities.
Boston
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Fear of Changing EHRs? Here’s What You Should be Concerned About
Khalid Al-Maskari, CEO at Health Information Management Systems (HiMS)
Over the years, the EHR has developed a poor reputation as a time-waster, a source of frustration for staff and a significant contributor of burnout in the healthcare industry. A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that 59% of physicians said their EHR negatively impacted their time at work. This is because EHRs can be inflexible, hard to use and lack interoperability with other
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How AI-Driven Insight Could Fuel Medicare Advantage Success
Emad Rizk, M.D., President, CEO & Chairman of the Board, Cotiviti
Medicare Advantage plans need more than consumer-centric design, payer/provider alignment, and strong connections across the continuum of care to drive value. The high-value performance also depends on their ability to use data to make a meaningful difference in members’ health.
With 11,000 people aging into Medicare daily, proficiency in managing Medicare Advantage populations is critical for demonstrating value in a
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VA, DoD Launches Joint Health Information Exchange to Securely Exchange Records
What You Should Know:
- VA and DoD launch joint health information exchange (HIE), allowing bidirectional sharing of health records with community healthcare partners.
- The benefits of the new joint HIE capability are currently available to all VA and DOD care providers and to all participating community partners.
- The joint HIE capability honors patient consent so that health records of patients who opt out of sharing will not be exchanged through the HIE.
On April 18, the
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What Does The CARES Act Mean for Hospitals and Health Systems?
As of today, the coronavirus has infected almost 2 million worldwide and caused the deaths of more than 125,000 people (Worldometer data as of 12:15 PM on April 14, 2020). In the United States, the relevant figures are more than 600,000 infected and north of 25,000 deceased. Without successful social distancing, those numbers could be dramatically worse.
And still, they are dwarfed by the massive numbers associated with the economic impact of the coronavirus and the illness it causes,
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