What You Should Know: - QGenda, a leading provider of healthcare workforce management solutions, announced the launch of QGenda Nurse and Staff Workforce Management, a mobile-first solution that makes it easier to deploy and manage today’s enterprise healthcare workforce. - Built from the ground up on a single platform, the solution includes healthcare-specific applications for scheduling, time and attendance, compensation management, and workforce analytics. Introducing Mobile-First
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Does Data Hold the Key to Streamlining Provider Credentialing?
Provider credentialing is an essential part of healthcare. A provider cannot work or get paid without a proper license or credential, and yet this highly complex process is still done on paper (also sticky notes on file cabinets, Excel spreadsheets—you get the idea) by many healthcare organizations. Manually credentialing providers adds to an already lengthy process. One expired certificate or a delayed privileging request can prevent a provider from seeing patients for more than 60
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Accounting for the Social Determinants of Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic is not just a medical crisis. Since the highly contagious disease hit American shores in early 2020, the virus has dramatically changed all sectors of society, negatively impacting everything from food supply chains and sporting events to the nation’s mental and behavioral health. For some people, work-from-home plans and limited access to entertainment are manageable obstacles. For others, the shuttered schools, lost wages, and social isolation spell disaster –
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Designating Ownership of Provider Data Will Improve Care Coordination, Study Finds
What You Should Know: - New LexisNexis Risk Solutions Health Care survey reveals
that 63% of respondents believe designating ownership of provider data will
improve care coordination, yet only 18% of organizations report having a
dedicated data governance department - The survey results are based on over 100 qualified
responses from organizations across the industry, including independent
hospitals, teaching hospitals, independent physician groups, and federally
qualified health
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Change Healthcare, Google Expand Enterprise Imaging Platform With 4 Providers
- Change Healthcare announced a strategic initiative to build and implement the cloud-native Enterprise Imaging Network on the Google Cloud platform with four providers as development partners. - The network will enhance and optimize medical imaging data––enabling providers to improve clinical, financial, and operational outcomes.Change Healthcare, today at RNSA 2019 announced the latest milestone in its strategic initiative to build and implement its cloud-native Enterprise Imaging Network:
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Philips Unveils Next-Gen Enterprise Imaging Solution to Embed Intelligence Across Patient Journey
- Philips launches next-generation enterprise imaging solution designed to connect clinical capabilities and optimize workflows around every step in the patient’s journey.- The new enterprise imaging solution supports hospitals and imaging centers as they seek to connect and optimize performance, improving the patient experience, health outcomes, and staff experience, while lowering the cost of care.Royal Philips, today introduced its next-generation enterprise imaging solution that delivers a
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Why Healthcare Is Finally Moving To The Cloud
When I started in this industry, the idea that we would put patient information in the cloud was an absurdity. How on earth could anyone justify putting the most sensitive information in our personal lives somewhere other than a locked cupboard, in the safety of a hospital? We would never dream of letting paper patient charts leave the hospital or clinic, so why would we let them leave simply because they are electronic?
Historically, security was tied to proximity and direct control, nowhere
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Medsphere Integrates CloudMedx AI Engine With CareVue EHR Platform
Medsphere Systems Corporation, the leading provider of affordable and interoperable healthcare information technology (IT) solutions and services, announced the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) capabilities to the company’s comprehensive CareVue electronic health record (EHR) platform. CareVue’s complete clinical and financial suite of applications now include an AI engine developed by CloudMedx that gives clinicians and administrators the power to pull meaningful and actionable
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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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Data Governance: Creating a Lifeline for Healthcare Organizations Drowning in Data
Editor's Note: Chris Cooper is the healthcare strategy leader for Collibra, a provider of data governance helping healthcare organizations maximize the value of their data across the enterprise. Healthcare organizations have invested significant resources to make information available to employees at all levels, with the goal to enable better, more efficient decision-making for both patients and the organization. But these investments -- electronic medical records, data warehouses, self-service
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