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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Redox Interoperability Platform Now Available in AWS Marketplace
What You Should Know:
- Today, Redox announced the availability of the Redox
EHR Integration in AWS Marketplace. Now, healthcare providers and vendors can
access the largest package of pre-built EHR integrations and achieve value from
applications more quickly and easily.
- The digital transformation of healthcare has gained
momentum this year, and AWS is one of many tech giants working to spur
innovation in healthcare. AWS Marketplace is a platform that helps healthcare
organizations
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