What You Should Know:
- Recent KLAS research reveals that Imprivata—whose single sign-on solution has a large healthcare footprint—is currently the only vendor to offer a broad digital identity platform.
- Building on that research, a new report explores the potential benefits and challenges of deeply adopting Imprivata’s offerings. Insights come from in-depth interviews with 6 organizations identified by Imprivata as “deep adopters” as well as from 15 organizations within the
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Caregility and Eko Integrate to Address Gap in Telehealth
What You Should Know:
- Caregility, an enterprise telehealth platform company, and Eko, the market leader in stethoscopes for telehealth, today announced an integration partnership.
- Caregility’s cloud platform now seamlessly integrates with Eko’s smart stethoscopes and software, enabling users of Caregility’s iConsult application to perform high-quality auscultation (heart, lung, and other body sounds) on patients during a virtual physical exam.
Addressing Virtual Care Gaps to Improve
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KLAS Report: State of Virtual Visit Technology in the Middle East
What You Should Know:
- The latest KLAS report examines how non-EMR-affiliated virtual visit solutions in the Middle East differ across key metrics (including product usability, implementation and training, and vendor partnership) and also summarizes common EMR vendors and their approaches to virtual visits.
- KLAS reports high satisfaction with their virtual visit technology (either virtual care or video conferencing platforms), though specifics of the customer experience do vary across
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COVID-19: Addressing the Urgent Mental Health Needs of Frontline Workers
It is no secret that one by-product of the ongoing pandemic is an exacerbation of the country’s mental health crisis. According to research from Johns Hopkins, one in four Americans experience a mental health disorder in a typical year. Yet among adults in the U.S. rates of depression have steadily climbed from 8.5% before the pandemic to an alarming 32.8% in October of 2021, according to research published in The Lancet Regional Health—Americas.
While it is vital that health systems rush
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Ordr Secures $40M for Real-Time Connected Device Security Platform
What You Should Know:
- Ordr, a company making the complex problem of securing every connected device — from traditional IT devices to newer and more vulnerable IoT, IoMT or OT — simple, today announced it has raised an additional $40M. The funding round was co-led by Battery Ventures and Ten Eleven Ventures, with participation from new investor Northgate Capital and continuing investors Wing Venture Capital, Unusual Ventures, Kaiser Permanente Ventures, and Mayo Clinic.
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Interoperability: A Powerful Solution to Staffing Challenges Continues to be Overlooked
In our ever-changing world, clinicians nowadays must find more efficient ways to operate with fewer resources. Increased patient loads, reimbursement changes, rule and regulation adjustments and thin margins, all while being short-staffed can be compared to a smoldering bonfire that reignites every time the wind blows. As if that weren't enough, post-acute providers will begin to feel even more heat if they don’t embrace interoperability. Our global demographics simply will not be able to
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Epic Selects Lyniate for Integration within Epic Garden Plot Offering
What You Should Know:
- EHR leader Epic has selected Lyniate, a provider of healthcare data interoperability, for integration within its new Garden Plot Software as a Service (SaaS) model for independent medical groups.
- Garden Plot takes on hosting, support, and ongoing configuration and updates so providers can focus on their patients.
Garden Plot Offering Overview
Garden Plot is a new offering for independent medical groups that
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Epic, Galen Healthcare, Chartis Group Named 2022 Overall Best in KLAS Awards
What You Should Know:
- Epic, Nordic, Galen Healthcare and The Chartis Group won 2022 Overall Best in KLAS® awards, released today, which reports on the top vendors for 2022. Epic was named the top Overall Software Suite for the twelfth straight year in 2022 Best in KLAS Software & Services report, released today, which reports on the top vendors for 2021. Epic was also named the top Overall Physician Practice Vendor. Epic won nine other Best in KLAS awards in various market
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Healthcare Data & Analytics Platforms: Shifting from Siloed Capabilities
Historically, analytics capabilities for healthcare organizations have been offered in siloed solutions. These solutions provide quick insights but not the longitudinal patient, financial, and operational views organizations need to truly move the needle in their efforts to improve care and reduce costs. The good news is that as organizations’ analytics needs have expanded, so have vendor offerings. A number of vendors now offer consolidated, end-to-end platforms that provide a wide variety of
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Stronger Together: A Remedy to Third-Party Cyber Risk in Healthcare
Controlling healthcare costs while delivering faster and better patient care is predicated upon the secure digitization and distribution of health information, from clinicians to medical devices to EMR and EHR systems, and more. The healthcare blueprint looks and operates much differently from what’s built for other industries, with vendors and other third parties supplying most of the components that make up today’s healthcare provider infrastructure. It’s increasing the attack surface area,
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