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K Health Integrates with Health Gorilla’s API to Power Lab Orders

by Fred Pennic 08/09/2019 Leave a Comment

K Health Integrates with Health Gorilla's API to Power Lab Orders

K Health, a digital health company that offers free personalized healthcare, and Health Gorilla, a leader in secure interoperability solutions announced an integration collaboration to power new clinical functionality to improve the primary care experience. With the new integration, K Health can now leverage Health Gorilla's FHIR-based APIs to place orders with diagnostic vendors.Integration BenefitsK Health’s AI-driven primary care solution allows users to see how doctors diagnose and treat
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Interoperability: Why Health Systems Need to Integrate Their Digital Stack

by Graham Gardner, CEO and Co-Founder of Kyruus 08/07/2019 Leave a Comment

Interoperability: Why Health Systems Need to Integrate Their Digital Stack

Several years ago, Thomas Friedman, the best-selling New York Times columnist, began pointing out how application programming interfaces (APIs) and the resultant connectivity was enabling one-touch consumer engagement with a broad range of services. We now take it for granted that we can call a car service from our phone, watch the driver approach on a map, and then pay for our ride without leaving a single application. Similarly, we can scroll through dozens of different brands of olive oil
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Ethical Concerns of AI in Healthcare: Can AI Do More Harm Than Good?

by Erica Garvin 08/06/2019 Leave a Comment

Before the AI Doctor, Ethics Must in Place

The AI doctor can see you now, but it shouldn't treat you until ethics are in place. Professor Timothy Casey explains. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and ethics—once mythical adversaries only on-screen like in “The Terminator” circa 1984— are now actually at virtual odds in 2019. This time, there are no catchy slogans like Arnold Schwarzenegger’s “I’ll be back,” but the moral question has returned: Does AI’s transformative power have the ability to do more harm to humankind than good? That is the
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Research: July Digital Health IPOs, M&A Activity, Public Company Performance Summary

by Fred Pennic 08/06/2019 Leave a Comment

Research: July Digital Health IPOs, M&A Activity, Public Company Performance

Summary of Health IT/digital IPOs, merger & acquisition (M&A) activity, and public company performance during the month of July. Digital Health IPOs in July Breaking the digital health IPO drought, there were four initial public offerings (IPOs) during a five-week period from late June to late July, including Livongo, Health Catalyst, Phreesia, and Change Healthcare. The last health IT companies to reach IPO were iRhythym Technologies and Tabula Rasa Healthcare in late 2016 -
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VA Transfers 23.5 Million Patient Health Records to Cerner’s Data Center

by Fred Pennic 08/01/2019 Leave a Comment

1Vision and AMC Health Lands VA Contract to Provide Telehealth Solutions to Veterans

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) recently transferred the health records of 23.5 million Veterans to a Cerner's data center, setting the stage for the records to be processed this summer in support of VA’s and Department of Defense’s (DoD) common electronic health record (EHR) solution.Data Migration PhaseThis initial data migration phase of VA’s Electronic Health Record Modernization (EHRM), which began in late spring, is an important milestone reflecting the decision to replace
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Cerner Names Amazon Web Services (AWS) As Preferred Cloud Provider

by Fred Pennic 07/30/2019 Leave a Comment

Cerner Names Amazon Web Services (AWS) As Preferred Cloud Provider

Cerner names Amazon Web Services (AWS) as its preferred cloud provider to power enhanced clinical experiences, etc.Cerner Corporation (CERN) today announced a multi-faceted, strategic collaboration with Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company, to accelerate healthcare innovation across the globe including naming AWS its preferred cloud provider. This expanded relationship is expected to power enhanced clinical experiences, increase efficiencies by lowering operational burdens for
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CMS Launches Pilot to Give Clinicians Direct Access to Claims Data

by Jasmine Pennic 07/30/2019 Leave a Comment

Survey: Hospital Cost of Following-up on Late Insurance Claims Higher Than Estimated

New CMS Pilot program gives clinicians direct access to claims data, putting patients over paperwork and at the center of their care.Today, at the White House Blue Button Developers Conference (BBDC), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a new pilot program for clinicians called “Data at the Point of Care” (DPC). DPC is based on an industry-standard application programming interface (API), and is part of the MyHealthEData Administration-wide initiative that is
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Q&A: Dr. Geeta Nayyar Discusses the State of Physician Burnout & EHRs

by Erica Garvin 07/30/2019 Leave a Comment

Dr. Geeta Nayyar Discusses the State of Value-Based Care, HIT Challenges, and Physician Burnout

Before drifting off to sleep, most of us put on pajamas when it’s time to curl up with a good book or binge-watch what’s trending on Netflix—but not today’s doctors. According to one previous study, physicians spend nearly two hours conducting EHR/paperwork every night at home. This after-hour activity is known in healthcare as “pajama time,” but don’t let the cutesy nickname fool you. Turns out, time spent mired with EHR data is becoming a growing problem for physicians. A subsequent study
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Reducing Preventable Medication Errors and Adverse Drug Events

by Dr. Chris Hobson, MD MBA, Chief Medical Officer at Orion Health 07/25/2019 Leave a Comment

Top 5 Roadblocks to Population Health Management for Providers

Using a Health Information Exchange (HIE), clinicians across multidisciplinary care teams can access a patient’s medications, reconcile the list and monitor their progress, thereby reducing medication errors and future costs from preventable hospital admissions. Multiple factors combine to make the prescribing, supplying and taking of medications a perilous and costly issue for patients and the healthcare sector. Prescription medication use is by far the most common health intervention.
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Referential Matching—What It Is and Why It Matters for Providers

by Letha Stewart, Director of Customer Relations at QuadraMed 07/23/2019 Leave a Comment

Referential Matching—What It Is and Why It Matters

Clean patient data is the critical first step for any successful health IT integration, EHR conversion, interoperability initiative or electronic information exchange. According to a recent Pew Charitable Trusts report, most hospital executives and administrators believe the accuracy of patient matching when information is exchanged between organizations with different EHR systems is subpar. Further, as health systems continue to consolidate and add more data to their networks, the importance of
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