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Duped by Data? Here’s Why EMRs Are Antiquated & Outdated in Today’s Hospital

by Subha Airan-Javia, MD, CEO of CareAlign & Jackson Steinkamp, MD, Primary Care Resident, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, & Jake Kantrowitz, MD, primary care physician at Tufts Medicine 04/24/2023 Leave a Comment

Duped by Data? Here’s Why EMRs Are Antiquated & Outdated in Today’s Hospital

Electronic medical records (EMRs) - software systems where physicians, nurses, and other healthcare workers store, retrieve, and act on clinical data - are fundamentally broken. This sentiment is so widely shared among healthcare workers that it has become almost trite to point it out. Patients feel it too - we’ve lost count of the number of times we’ve heard “isn’t it in my chart?” when we ask a question during a clinical visit. Unfortunately, the vast majority of EMRs do not facilitate
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How to Build Better Relationships with the Health Insurance & Payer Communities

by Dr. Jessica Badichek, Chief Informatics and Compliance Officer, MediTelecare 11/08/2022 Leave a Comment

How to Build Better Relationships with the Health Insurance & Payer Communities

Modern healthcare is an intricate dance between quality and quantity.  Payers and insurance providers want better patient outcomes due to the high cost of poor health, while health providers want to ensure their patients aren’t overlooked and are appropriately cared for.  To understand how we can satisfy the needs of both patients and payers, we’ll have to take a step back and look at the relationship between payer communities and telehealth services.  Behavioral
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PointClickCare Acquires Collective Medical for $650M to Create to Largest Combined Acute and Post-Acute Care Network

by Fred Pennic 12/08/2020 Leave a Comment

PointClickCare Acquires Collective Medical for $650M to Create to Largest Combined Acute and Post-Acute Care Network

What You Should Know: - PointClickCare announces its intent to acquire Collective Medical to create the largest combined acute and post-acute care network in North America for $650M. - Collective Medical’s platform connects more than 1,300 hospitals, thousands of ambulatory practices and long-term post-acute care (LTPAC) providers, as well as accountable care organizations (ACOs) and every national health plan in the country, across a 39-state network. - With the acquisition of
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CareAcademy Lands $9.5M for Online Training Platform for Senior Care

by Fred Pennic 06/11/2020 Leave a Comment

CareAcademy Lands $9.5M for Online Training Platform for Senior Care

What You Should Know: - CareAcademy raises $9.5 million in Series A funding to expand its online training platform for senior care professionals to deliver the highest caliber of service and improve the lives of older adults.  - Series A round signals massive market opportunity as CareAcademy seizes a greater share of online caregiver training; brings total company funding to more than $13 million. CareAcademy, a Boston, MA-based home care & home health workforce empowerment
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Only 11% of Acute-Care Providers Use An Integrated EHR, Study Finds

by Jasmine Pennic 08/20/2019 Leave a Comment

Only 11 percent of acute care providers use an integrated electronic health record (EHR), according to PointClickCare’s results of its 2019 Patient Transition Study. The study reveals that acute care and long-term post-acute care patient coordination remains largely manual through paper, email, and fax processes.Conducted in partnership with Definitive Healthcare, c-suite executives from acute and post-acute care facilities provided input on data sharing, concerns about interoperability, and
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SafeKeeping Raises $330k for Long-Term Care Coordination Dashboard

by Fred Pennic 08/19/2019 Leave a Comment

SafeKeeping Raises $330k for Long-Term Care Coordination Dashboard

SafeKeeping, an Evansville, Indiana-based integrated care dashboard for long-term care providers that utilizes facilities' electronic medical record (EMR) data to improve health outcomes for caregivers, family members and residents announced it has raised $330k in seed funding led by Solidea Capital. The company plans to use the seed funding to expand offerings, support additional long-term care facilities and meet urgent industry demands for an engagement channel that puts facility efficiency
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Catholic Health Announces Major Reorganization of Executive Leadership

by Fred Pennic 08/16/2019 Leave a Comment

Catholic Health Announces Major Reorganization of Executive Leadership

This week, Catholic Health president & CEO Mark Sullivan announce a major reorganization structure of their executive leadership team with a goal to shape the future direction of healthcare in Western New York“Change is happening all around us in healthcare and rather than react to the pressures of our industry, we must lead change in the region to sustain our mission and meet the needs of the patients and communities we serve,” Sullivan said. “This new leadership structure will build on the
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MatrixCare Acquires Long-Term Care EHR Vendor SigmaCare

by HITC Staff 06/20/2017 Leave a Comment

MatrixCare Acquires Long-Term Care EHR Vendor SigmaCare

MatrixCare, a provider of long-term care software and technology has acquired Sigma Care, a New York City-based EHR vendor for the long-term, post-acute care market. The senior care market EHR provider currently serves over 12,000 facility-based care settings and over 2,000 home care agency offices throughout the US. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. For MatrixCare, the acquisition continues its rapid growth and strategic expansion into the New York City market.MatrixCare’s
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How is the Accountable Care Act Impacting the Long Term Care Industry?

by Jasmine Pennic 11/27/2013 Leave a Comment

How is the Accountable Care Act Impacting the Long Term Care Industry

Denise B. Rabidoux, President and Chief Executive Officer, Evangelical Homes of Michigan discusses how long term care is impacting the accountable care act and its added value in integrated healthcare. 
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