Recently, articles in The Atlantic and Fortune highlighted a risk that plagues the healthcare system but is rarely talked about. The in-depth pieces uncover real-life patient stories resulting from mismatched and incorrect patient medical records. These tragic stories unfold in the articles and highlight scenarios that include permanent brain damage in a 5-year old; a cancer scare due to an incomplete radiological history; the missed diagnosis of a fatal brain aneurysm in a 47-year old woman;
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Cloud-Based Patient Matching Expands with Verato and MyDirectives Partnership
Verato, a provider of cloud-based patient matching, today announced that digital advance care planning company, ADVault, Inc., is the first partner in its new Powered by Verato(PBV) program. The program offers healthcare technology firms a next-generation patient matching solution that is highly accurate, secure, cost-effective, and easy to implement—all as a utility—using the Verato Universal MPI for patient matching.Powered by Verato Program BackgroundPatient matching is at the core of
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Cerner Launches 2019 code App Challenge to Advance Consumers’ Access to EHRs
Cerner is challenging innovators and application developers to advance consumers’ access to electronic health records (EHRs) with the 2019 code App Challenge. Participants will join Cerner’s pursuit of the next groundbreaking advancement, with a focus on helping consumers easily access and understand health records.2019 Cerner code App Challenge Rules & RequirementsWith the 2019 code App Challenge, Cerner encourages innovators to build apps on its industry-leading platforms that further
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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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Apprio Launches New Revenue Cycle Management Division , ApprioHealth
Apprio, a provider of specialized technology solutions for the health, defense, and homeland security markets, today announced it has created ApprioHealth, a new, commercially focused business unit focused on the revenue cycle management requirements of hospitals and health systems. ApprioHealth will be led by Donny Zamora who will serve as the division’s president.ApprioHealth OverviewApprioHealth will deliver services and advanced technology solutions tailored for health organizations’ revenue
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Mount Sinai Appoints Andrew Kasarskis As First-Ever Chief Data Officer
Andrew Kasarskis, PhD, Chief Data Officer at Mount Sinai
Mount Sinai has appointed Andrew Kasarskis, Ph.D., an internationally recognized expert in biomedical data as the health system’s first-ever Executive Vice President and Chief Data Officer (CDO). In this new role, Dr. Kasarskis will facilitate the accessibility and sharing of clinical, financial, and administrative data, and open application development, all in support of better patient care, decision-making, and healthcare
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Top 5 Roadblocks to Population Health Management Adoption for Providers
Dr. Chris Hobson, MD MBA, Chief Medical Officer at Orion Health
The healthcare system is undergoing a transformation to restore the patient to the center of their care and to provide all patients with the highest quality care at the lowest possible price and with the best possible experience. Frequently the patient’s health journey is fragmented between multiple providers, an issue which must be addressed as a key part of any successful value-based care model.
Population health management
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Physicians Foundation Launches Interoperability Fund to Improve HIEs Across 6 States
The Physicians Foundation unveils Interoperability Fund to improve health information exchanges in six states to support medical practices in transition in value-based care.The Physicians Foundation, in association with six state medical societies, today announced the formation of the first of its kind interoperability fund, known as The Physicians Foundation Interoperability Fund, which will assist medical practices in effectively sharing clinical information with other physicians and hospitals
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HHS Should Be Careful Not To Go Too Far Too Fast on New EHR Rules
Senate health committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) on Wednesday said, “The administration should not move too far, too fast on implementing new rules on electronic health information.”Improving the access, use, and exchange of electronic health information is important to this committee,” Alexander said. “In March, the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued two proposed rules to implement
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Brightree Integrates With CommonWell to Improve Post-Acure Care Interoperability
SaaS provider Brightree announced plans to connect its tens of thousands of home health and hospice customers with 50,000+ provider locations and health systems around the country via the CommonWell Health Alliance, and through CommonWell to Carequality. As the first CommonWell integration focused solely on post-acute care, this is a major milestone in improving interoperability for post-acute care providers and their patients, solving for the “black-hole” phenomenon that occurs when patients
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