What You Should Know:
- Greenway announced the company will be developing and
launching Greenway Telehealth, a secure, HIPAA-compliant solution designed with
an easy-to-use interface for both providers and patients.
- Powered by Twilio, the EHR integrated solution is among
the first in Greenway’s larger virtual care portfolio.
Greenway Health, a health information technology, and services provider, today announced the company is also working to develop innovative virtual
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Greenway Health Taps AWS to Develop Cloud-Based, Data Services Platform
What You Should Know:
- To help meet the needs of ambulatory care practitioners in a post-COVID environment, Greenway Health, a leading health information technology, and services provider, today announced a new strategic partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS).
- Leveraging AWS cloud services, Greenway is developing a
new cloud-based, data services platform, Greenway Insights, that creates new
data insights and healthcare interventions to advance the breadth of Greenway’s
products and
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Give Your EHR a Makeover—Not a Do-Over
David Lareau, CEO of Medicomp Systems
EHRs have long been blamed for fueling clinician frustration and burnout. According to a recent study published in the Journal of Informatics in Health and Biomedicine, 70 percent of clinicians reported experiencing stress related to the use of health information technology. In an effort to address those issues, healthcare organizations have spent countless hours and revenue to rip out inefficient clinical systems and replace them with new
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Black Lives Matter: Health IT Industry, Where Are You?
All lives truly matter. However, the world does not exist in a vacuum void of institutional racism, subconscious, and implicit bias. As a result, every life within America is not valued the same, as is evident by the recent George Floyd murder. When all lives are not treated with the same opportunities and respect, whether in matters of criminal justice, employment, housing, education, health, and healthcare evidence shows the result is that only some lives actually matter. One cannot change the
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Giving ‘Voice’ to Healthcare: The $3.5 Billion Opportunity
Kali Durgampudi, Chief Technology, Innovation Officer at Greenway Health
Whether it's asking Siri for directions to the nearest coffee shop or commanding Alexa to turn on the lights, using voice assistants has become part of daily routines. More than one-third of the U.S. population relies on these tools to make their lives easier, and they’re being embraced by more than just millennials; use among seniors, children, and teens is also on the rise.
But the home and smartphone aren’t
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RCM Myth: Healthcare Billing Is Just A Back-Office Job
Marvin Luz, Sr. Director of Greenway Revenue Services at Greenway Health
Historically, there was a belief in healthcare that revenue cycle management (RCM) was only a job for the back office. But today, medical practices are well-aware all staff members are critical to the revenue cycle. This responsibility extends through every aspect of a practice, from the front office to back office with the clinical staff in between.
The front office, for example, plays a role in generating
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Innovaccer Launches FHIR Enabled Data Activation Platform to Power Innovation to Care as One
What You Should Know:
- In accordance with ONC's latest interoperability rule, 21st Century Cures Act, Innovaccer has launched its FHIR® Enabled Data Activation Platform.
- The platform provides a rich set of capabilities from scalable FHIR application programming interfaces (APIs), optimized FHIR data lake, best-in-class API gateway, hundreds of analytical enrichments like HEDIS scores, and cloud infrastructure.
- The platform is already deployed at several of our customer sites
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COVID-19 Crisis Makes Complying with Data Interoperability a Priority
Jay Sultan, VP of Healthcare Innovation & Strategy at Cognizant.
With healthcare organizations focused on battling COVID-19, the recent federal healthcare regulation requiring data interoperability may have become an afterthought. However, compliance with this rule will create a powerful tool for fighting COVID-19 recurrences and future pandemics.
If interoperability had gone into effect earlier this year as originally scheduled, many insurance companies and the federal
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Patient Data Liberation: HHS Releases Final Interoperability & Patient Access Rules
What You Need to Know:
- HHS finalizes interoperability rules that will implement interoperability and patient access provisions of the bipartisan 21st Century Cures Act (Cures Act) and support President Trump’s MyHealthEData initiative.
- The ONC Final Rule identifies and finalizes the reasonable and necessary activities that do not constitute information blocking while establishing new rules to prevent “information blocking” practices (e.g., anti-competitive behaviors) by
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Op-Ed: Health Care Is Too Important To Stay The Same
Brent Shafer, Cerner CEO & Chairman of the Board
Virtually every business around the globe is contending with how to improve the consumer experience in an era of digitization. We live in a world where you can calculate the fastest route to your destination, order dinner to be delivered, have groceries loaded into your fridge, and livestream content from around the world – all from the palm of your hand. So why have we not seen the same strides in health care?
In part, because
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