What You Should Know: - Google Cloud launches Healthcare Interoperability Readiness Program to help healthcare organizations achieve healthcare data interoperability. Today, Google Cloud launched the Google Cloud Healthcare Interoperability Readiness Program, helping organizations achieve data interoperability in advance of upcoming HHS deadlines and to enable future innovation. Alongside partners like Bain, BCG, Deloitte, HCL, KPMG, SADA, and more, the Healthcare
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COVID-19: How Can Payers Prepare for Mandates and Support Pandemic Relief Efforts
Healthcare can achieve optimum efficiency when patients are at the center of care. When patients have the necessary information to navigate their care journey, they will choose the path to high-quality care at the lowest costs. Cost-sharing and insurance premiums are rising consistently since the last decade for employer plans, which covers nearly half of the country’s population. Plan members are shouldering a part of the healthcare cost burden, so they want to keep it as low as possible. At
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KLAS: Epic, NextGen, Cerner Best at Making Outside Patient Data Usable
What You Should Know: - New KLAS report finds acute and ambulatory care EMR vendors Cerner, Epic and NextGen are best at making outside patient data usable for clinicians (data from outside the clinician's health system). - KLAS report examines adoption and usability among advanced users of the main acute and ambulatory care EMR vendors. The national interoperability networks of Carequality and CommonWell Health Alliance have become some of the primary means by which patient records
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Redox Integrates Voluntis’ Digital Therapeutics Within EHR
What You Should Know: - Voluntis forms a strategic partnership with Redox to integrate Voluntis' digital therapeutics within existing clinical workflows and EHRs. - Integration of Voluntis’ Theraxium platform with the Redox Engine used by more than 900 healthcare organizations using 55 EHRs across the country. - The first area of this application will be in oncology, with future extensions in other therapeutic areas. As a result, clinical staff will be better equipped to serve each
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Human API Raises $20M+ to Scale User-Controlled Health Data Ecosystem
What You Should Know: - Human API, the consumer-controlled health data platform announced it has closed a Series C round of $20M+ this week. - Human API’s consumer-controlled platform gives users a streamlined means of accessing and sharing their personal health records with physicians, trusted startups and enterprises, and insurers. - The platform harnesses a machine learning-powered data pipeline that structures health data into a consistent format, making it easier for medical
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CommonWell Enables Payer Access to Nationwide Interoperability Network
What You Should Know: - CommonWell Health Alliance enables payer access with the addition of a new service provider, DataFile Exchange to support the operational services specific to the Payment and Health Care Operations use case. CommonWell Health Alliance today announced it is extending its interoperability services to enable additional use cases beyond treatment and patient access, starting with Payment and Health Care Operations data requests. Data File Exchange
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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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Fresenius Kidney Care Rolls Out National Data Exchange Network
What You Should Know: - Fresenius Kidney Care, the dialysis services division of Fresenius Medical Care North America, rolled out CommonWell health data exchange services to its dialysis facilities nationwide. - This initiative is a significant stride towards better-coordinated care for patients requiring life-sustaining dialysis for kidney failure and will enable the real-time exchange of critical patient health information--allowing healthcare providers to access the most
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Updox, Redox Partner to Expand Network of Integrated EHRs, Deliver Seamless Telehealth
What You Should Know: - Updox partners with healthcare integration platform Redox to integrate with any EHR, deliver seamless telehealth to health systems - Updox is expanding its network to include the largest inpatient EHRs in order to supply healthcare professionals with solutions that support in-person and virtual care. As virtual care continues to increase in demand, Updox, a provider of care coordination across both in-person and virtual care, announced today a significant
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Embright Taps Innovaccer to Advance Population Health Initiatives
What You Should Know: -Clinically integrated network (CIN) Embright selects Innovaccer to advance population health initiatives across its network. - The clinically integrated network will leverage Innovaccer’s Data Activation Platform to track its overall performance and address patient healthcare needs. Innovaccer, Inc., a healthcare technology company, today announced it has partnered with Embright, a Pacific Northwest-based clinically integrated network (CIN) founded by UW
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