What You Should Know:
- Epic Systems announces that more than 190 health systems across nine counties are expected to go-live on Epic, marking this fall as the busiest install season in Epic’s 41+ year history.
- Healthcare organizations in Australia, Belgium, Canada, Finland, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States are transitioning more than 123,000 doctors, nurses, and support staff to Epic’s EHR between September and the end of the
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Epic Systems EHR | EHR Implementations | Health IT
Epic Pharmacy Progress Made But Gaps Remain, KLAS Report Finds
What You Should Know:
- Despite pressure to take an Epic-first approach to
software decisions, many pharmacies at Epic organizations have held on to
third-party products due to the relative immaturity of some of Epic’s more
recently developed pharmacy solutions.
- Latest KLAS report explores medication inventory
management (MIM) and IV workflow management—the two areas where Epic has
focused much of their development efforts—to validate what capabilities these
modules deliver and where
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Cedar Joins Epic App Orchard to Enable Patient-First Billing Experience in MyChart
What You Should Know:
- Patient financial engagement platform Cedar announced the
availability of its patient billing solution, Cedar Pay in the Epic App Orchard
marketplace.
- Cedar engages patients through a frictionless billing
experience that is embedded in MyChart using single sign-on. By tailoring
in-app messaging and balance resolution workflows.
Cedar, a leading
patient financial engagement platform, today announced that Cedar Pay, its
flagship patient billing solution, is
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Epic Selects InterSystems to Serve as Data Foundation for EHR
What You Should Know:
- Epic selects InterSystems IRIS Data Platform to serve
as the data foundation for the latest release of Epic’s EHR.
- Epic adopted InterSystems IRIS to enhance the
reliability and scalability of its EHR and to deliver improved consistency,
control, and automation of processes for its global community of approximately
2.5 million concurrent users.
InterSystems,
a creative data technology provider dedicated to helping customers solve
critical scalability,
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Lyft Integrates with Epic EHR to Enable Hospitals to Schedule Rides for Patients
What You Should Know:
- Lyft is continuing to expand rideshare for
non-emergency medical transportation (NEMT) through a first of market direct
integration with Epic, the largest electronic health record (EHR) in the U.S.
- This will have an immediate impact on hospital operations and patients, with currently committed customers including Tampa General and Ochsner Health.
Today, ridesharing leader Lyft announced an integration with EHR provider Epic to enable
health system staff to
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Analysis: August Health IT M&A Activity; Public Company Performance
– Healthcare Growth Partners’ (HGP) summary of Health IT/digital health mergers & acquisition (M&A) activity, and public company performance during the month of August 2020.
M&A is back and the velocity of the rebound has outpaced all expectations. The recovery quickly worked its way across the spectrum from large to small-cap, beginning with the larger cap NASDAQ rally of nearly 80% from lows in late March (only to soften in recent days), followed by multi-billion
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Research: October Health IT M&A Activity, Public Company Performance
- Healthcare Growth Partners (HGP) summary of Health IT/digital health merger & acquisition (M&A) activity, and public company performance during the month of October 2019
During the month of October, Health IT continued its evolution into an amorphous market that is increasingly trending away from a specialized niche of healthcare and into a key component of larger sectors such as Enterprise Software, HR Administration, Insurance, Care Delivery, Suppliers, and BioPharma.
The
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American Well Integrates Telehealth App with Epic EHR Via Epic App Orchard
Telehealth provider American Well today announced it has joined the Epic App Orchard marketplace. As part of the joining the Epic App Orchard marketplace, American Well’s Telehealth Clinical app now makes video visits available from directly within Epic MyChart, enabling health systems' providers to incorporate video as part of care delivery.Importance of Telehealth Integration with EHRs and Patient PortalsTelehealth integration within the EHR and patient portals is more critical than ever, as
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Redox Lands $33M for Scalable Healthcare Data Interoperability Platform
Redox, a Madison, WI-based company that
is changing the way healthcare providers and software vendors share data has
raised $33 million in Series C funding led by Battery Ventures. The Series C
round also included participation from existing investors .406 Ventures, RRE
Ventures, and Intermountain Ventures.
Finally. A Scalable Way to Exchange Healthcare Data
Currently, inconsistent data formats and redundant connections slow, or completely prevent the flow of critical health information,
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Rush University Medical Center Integrates Indoor Navigation with Epic’s MyChart Appointment Scheduling
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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