Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, today announced a partnership with Connexient to integrate the MediNav™ solution with the MyRush Mobile app; a mobile app for patients powered by Epic’s MyChart. Rush is the first Connexient customer that will combine Indoor GPS with appointment scheduling in MyChart.When patients log into the MyRush mobile app they will now be able to navigate directly to their appointments using Connexient's MediNav and access their records with Epic's MyChart
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M*Modal Integrates AI Platform with Epic EHR to Support Clinical Workflows
M*Modal integration with Epic EHR supports virtual assistants and nursing applications for an advanced workflow in EpicM*Modal, a provider of clinical documentation and Speech Understanding solutions, announced that it is integrating its artificial intelligence (AI) powered platform with the Epic EHR to support clinical workflows. Creating time to care through smarter, more unified workflows, M*Modal® speech and AI enabled solutions are designed to significantly improve the productivity of the
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KLAS Unveils 5 Small Hospital EMR Market Trends to Watch
In 2017, 216 acute care hospitals contracted for a new EMR, with 1–200 bed hospitals accounting for the vast majority (80%) of these decisions, according to a recent KLAS report. EMR purchasing by smaller hospitals is being driven primarily by these organizations’ need to exchange information with surrounding hospitals and desire for vendors that offer newer, more innovative technology and more flexible financial options. These smaller hospitals are hungry for new technology but often resource
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Epic Launches One Virtual System Worldwide to Support Interoperability
Epic Systems, today announced the launch of their new "One Virtual System Worldwide" initiative to ensure clinicians across all organizations using Epic can not only exchange more data, but can interact with each other on that data.The One Virtual System Worldwide initiative consists of three parts: 1. Come Together: Epic finds patient records and brings their data together from Epic organizations, organizations that use other EHRs, government, and networks.2. Happy Together: MyChart patient
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Epic Launches Share Everywhere for Patients to Authorize Any Provider to View Their Epic Record
EHR leader Epic has announced the launch of Share Anywhere, a new interoperability tool that will allow patients to grant access to their medical record data to any providers and send a progress note back to the patient’s healthcare organization for improved continuity of care. The development around the new tool was based on the interoperability challenge of sending important patient information to clinicians who cannot interoperate, and how to do so in a way that protects patients’
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Navicure Integrates With Epic to Streamline Automated Patient Payments for Epic Users
Navicure, a provider of integrated cloud-based medical claims management, patient payment and healthcare data analytics solutions has announced the integration of Navicure Payments with Epic solutions. The Epic integration will allow Epic users to use Navicure’s automated patient payment solution through their existing Epic system, including MyChart, providing access to a full range of patient payment options on one, consolidated platform.Key features of the Navicure Payments’ Epic integration
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Baxter Announces Bi-Directional Integration With Epic Willow Pharmacy
Baxter International, a technology provider of medication preparation and delivery has announced a new bi-directional integration between the DoseEdge Pharmacy Workflow Manager and the Epic Willow Inpatient Pharmacy System. The integration will help hospitals efficiently comply with requirements from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and other insurers that call for accuracy in the documentation of the drugs used to compound doses for patients.DoseEdge Pharmacy Workflow
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KLAS Report: TeleTracking, Epic Takes Lead in Patient Flow Performance
A recent KLAS report reveals that TeleTracking and Epic are market leaders in managing the patient flow of patients. Managing the flow of patients in an acute care setting is one of the more complicated challenges confronting providers today. Providers who were interviewed by KLAS reveal that TeleTracking leads every vendor in overall satisfaction of the operational and clinical staff, who rely most heavily on patient flow functionality.Providers who have compared the solutions report that
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KLAS: Providers Name Epic Systems, Cerner Market Leaders for EHR-based Sepsis Detection
According to a recent KLAS report, adoption of Cerner’s and Epic’s EHR-based sepsis detection is higher than all other sepsis solutions combined, with customers of both reporting improved outcomes, including mortality reductions. The new report reveals sepsis detection and treatment is taking a big step forward as providers increasingly utilize surveillance and monitoring technology available through EMR vendors and third-party providers.“We have been using (the Cerner sepsis) product for seven
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Nuance Integrates with Epic EHR to Provide Real-Time Clinical Documentation to Physicians At Point of Care
Nuance Communications and Epic recently announced that they have partnered to deliver computer-assisted physician documentation (CAPD) capabilities embedded within Epic to provide real-time clinical documentation improvement (CDI) feedback to physicians at the point of care.Nuance-Epic Integration DetailsBy electronically analyzing all relevant patient notes with AI technologies such as deep learning and natural language understanding, Nuance’s CAPD technology automatically identifies clinical
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