ELLKAY, LLC, a provider of healthcare connectivity and interoperability solutions has acquired the assets of Tampa-based Legal Easy, Inc., including the industry-leading X-Link medical software interfacing solution. With the strategic acquisition, ELLKAY expands its healthcare footprint and empowers providers with an easier, more cost-effective way to achieve Promoting Interoperability (PI) objectives and quality measures. In addition, the acquisition strengthens ELLKAY’s core mission of
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Redox Partners With Georgia’s Tech Incubator to Help Health IT Startups Scale
Healthcare interoperability provider Redox, today announced it has partnered with Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC), Georgia’s technology incubator, to help health technology startups scale their business. Startups in ATDC's HealthTech Program get access to Redox's full-service integration platform. By working with Redox, startups in the program can overcome the industry's interoperability challenge, and focus on developing and establishing new technologies that will benefit
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Rhapsody and Corepoint Merge to Support Healthcare Interoperability Initiatives Including FHIR
Rhapsody, a Boston-based international leader in healthcare interoperability and data connectivity solutions, has announced an agreement to merge with Corepoint Health, a provider of enterprise healthcare interoperability software solutions, to develop a next generation interoperability platform and enhance data integration and connectivity for existing and future customers. The companies will continue to operate as two separate entities for the foreseeable future. Combined Entity Supports
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CommonWell Health Alliance Taps Change Healthcare for Clinical Interoperability Services
Change Healthcare has been awarded a six-year contract by CommonWell Health Alliance to continue to provide clinical interoperability services. This agreement allows Change Healthcare to pave the way for health IT interoperability that reduces cost barriers, meets federally mandated requirements and sets the stage for innovations to better address value-based payment and patient needs.Value-based Payment & Transparency Driving the Need for Clinical Interoperability ServicesIn recent years,
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NextGate Integrates EMPI with Life Image’s Clinical & Imaging Data Network
NextGate, a provider of healthcare enterprise identification, and Life Image, a global network for sharing clinical and imaging data that is powered by industry leading interoperability standards, today announced a strategic partnership to meet the increasing demand for reliable imaging workflow integration.Global-Sharing Network of Clinical, Imaging, Medical Device and Pharmaceutical DataEliminating silos and ensuring that each patient has one and only one record, NextGate and Life Image will
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Is Artificial Intelligence The Answer To A Plethora of Healthcare Problems?
The world of healthcare is changing, and with it, our approach to understanding the concept of patients and doctors, ways of delivering care, and building a better relationship between every member associated with it is also changing. Like other industries, healthcare is also going through a major revolution, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) stands at the core of it.
Biological sciences and medical research are rapidly changing fields. Each day, we witness advances in genomics, imaging, and
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Innovaccer, Launches InAPI to Aggregate Healthcare Data for Providers, Payers, and Vendors
Healthcare organizations are riding the wave of digital disruption with increased adoption of applications to power patient centric-care, communications, and collaboration with peer organizations in the network. With this objective, they are seeking to integrate crucial information across the care continuum and establish interoperability among complex and disparate data systems- including legacy systems.Existing Interoperability ChallengesThere are over 200 EHRs in the US healthcare space,
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HHS Issues Public Comment for Interoperability Exchange Framework
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today issued for public comment draft 2 of the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) that will support the full, network-to-network exchange of health information nationally. HHS also released a notice of funding opportunity to engage a non-profit, industry-based organization that will advance nationwide interoperability.Public Comment DetailsSpecifically, the documents being released for comment are: (1) a second draft of
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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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Bridge Connector Raises $20M to Solve Health IT Interoperability Challenges
Bridge Connector, a Nashville, TN-based company offering data-driven workflow automation to solve health IT interoperability challenges, has raised $20 million in funding from Axioma Ventures. Their business model aims to create an ecosystem where all health care organizations, regardless of size, can equitably reap the benefits of connected data systems.Sense of Urgency to Achieve Data Interoperability in HealthcareA shared sense of urgency to achieve data interoperability in healthcare,
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