What You Should Know:
Today at HIMSS22, MEDITECH announced a new collaboration with Google Health that will embed Google’s search and summarization capabilities within the Expanse EHR.
- This functionality builds upon the integrated, longitudinal record inherent in Expanse by pulling forward discrete information from legacy and disparate systems and filling gaps in information for a more holistic view of a patient's record.
Rich Longitudinal Health Record to Enable Care Teams to
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Fighting Front-End Staff Burnout Without Compromising Care
Research tells us that self-advocacy in healthcare is important, for both patients and providers. But self-advocacy is hard for patients today. Patients must navigate the complex, fragmented healthcare ecosystem to advocate for personal needs and have their voices heard.
Unfortunately, patients now face a new challenge: the clinical support staff that plays a crucial role in guiding patients through their healthcare experience are increasingly burned out.
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Oracle Acquires Cerner for $28.3 Billion in Historic Health IT M&A Deal
What You Should Know:
- Oracle Corporation and Cerner Corporation today jointly announced an agreement for Oracle to acquire health IT leader Cerner through an all-cash tender offer for $95.00 per share, or approximately $28.3 billion in equity value. The acquisition of Cerner will be a huge additional revenue growth engine for Oracle as it immediately grabs significant market share in the healthcare space. In addition, Oracle plans to expand Cerner's business into many more countries
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M&A: PE Firm Carlyle Acquires Health IT Solutions Provider CNSI
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PE Firm Carlyle acquires CNSI, a provider of health information technology enterprise solutions from A&M Capital Partners.
Global investment firm Carlyle (NASDAQ: CG) announced that affiliated funds managed by Carlyle have agreed to acquire CNSI from Alvarez & Marsal Capital Partners. CNSI provides innovative healthcare technology solutions for some of the most forward-thinking State and Federal clients. Financial details of the acquisition were not
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Dark Data in Healthcare: Health IT’s Next Big Opportunity?
Healthcare IT professionals have long faced data challenges - from sorting out storage issues during the Big Data age to complying with HL7 standards to adapting infrastructure amidst a rapid shift to telehealth. While these advancements have all improved information sharing across the industry and ultimately the patient experience, it’s also created mountains of data. In fact, RBC Capital reports that the healthcare industry generates 30% of the world’s data with that number expected to grow to
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How the Pandemic Underscores the Importance of Health IT in Employee & Occupational Health
“I have received more recognition, interest and support in the last year than in the previous two plus decades of my occupational health career.”
These were the words spoken to us recently by the medical director of a Fortune 500 corporation reflecting on the dramatically increased attention he was receiving from the C-suite of his organization following the COVID-19 outbreak. Despite the global turmoil that the COVID-19 pandemic has left in its wake, a revitalized focus on taking the best
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How Health IT is Helping Hospitals Achieve Faster Patient Transitions and Reduce Length of Stay
COVID-19 served as a brutal reminder that streamlining patient transitions from one care setting to another is critical – and even more so when hospital beds are at a premium. Even with less revenue flowing in, hospitals were still expected to quickly adapt as rising infections caused unexpected surges in hospitalizations. Better care coordination improves the patient experience and significantly lowers hospitals' costs by reducing the length of stay. In fact, one healthcare organization
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4 Strategies for Health IT Leaders to Streamline Their Work & Serve Patients
As a physician turned entrepreneur, I’ve learned many lessons in my journey from the patient bedside to the health IT boardroom. As a young physician practicing in my native Denmark, my eyes were opened to the administrative headaches and limited engagement that was a result of too much paperwork and not enough focus on the patient.
Since launching one of the world’s first patient portals in 2001 and subsequently moving to the US and founding my current digital health company in 2015, I’ve
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HHS Establishes $80M Public Health IT Workforce Program
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- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) today announced the establishment of an $80M Public Health Informatics & Technology Workforce Development Program (PHIT Workforce Program) to strengthen U.S. public health informatics and data science.
- The PHIT Workforce Program aims to train more than 4,000 individuals over a four-year period through an interdisciplinary approach
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CareCloud Acquires Health IT Consulting Firm MedMatica – M&A
What You Should Know:
- CareCloud today announced it has acquired Santa Rosa Staffing, Inc. and the assets of MedMatica Consulting Associates, Inc., through the closing of an Asset and Stock Purchase Agreement. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.
- The acquisition reflects CareCloud’s continued expansion into the hospital and health system market, through its acquisition of industry leading businesses that provide IT consulting, strategic advisory services and
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