Thousands of times a day, at health systems throughout the US, workers manually search for patient medical charts, print them out on paper, or save them to a file—and then fax, mail, or email them to a payer or third party who has requested it. The productivity for this often manual approach is about five charts an hour per worker, and the average cost to retrieve a medical record varies by state, health system, and the number of pages. The cost per medical record ranges from about $25 to
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Analysis: July Health IT M&A Activity; Public Company Performance
– Healthcare Growth Partners’ (HGP) summary of Health IT/digital health mergers & acquisition (M&A) activity, and public company performance during the month of July 2020. While a pandemic ravages the country, technology valuations are soaring. The Nasdaq hit an all-time high during the month of July, sailing through the 10,000 mark to post YTD gains of nearly 20%, representing a 56% increase off the low water mark on March 23. More notably, the Nasdaq has outperformed
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Health Catalyst Acquires Clinical Workflow Optimization Solution healthfinch
What You Should Know: - Health Catalyst announces an agreement to acquire
clinical workflow optimization solution healthfinch using a mix of stock and
cash. - As part of the acquisition, healthfinch will be a new
application suite category called EMR Embedded Insights and its refills, care
gaps closure, and visit planning applications will continue to be available in
their original configuration. Health
Catalyst, Inc., a provider of data and analytics technology and services
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healthfinch Nabs $6M for Charlie Practice Automation Platform
healthfinch, a Madison-based healthcare IT startup, has secured $6 million in funding led by Adams Street Partners to continue building and supporting its award-winning Charlie Practice Automation Platform. This funding brings the company’s total raised to over $17MM since it was founded in 2011.The Charlie Practice Automation Platform, developed by healthfinch, automates routine, repetitive clinical tasks in athenahealth, Epic, and Allscripts EMRs. Its refill management and visit planning
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Healthfinch Wins Allscripts Open App Challenge with RefillWizard App
Today, Allscripts announced Healthfinch the grand prize winners of the Allscripts Open App Challenge for their RefillWizard app
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