What You Should Know:
- A new report from KLAS examines what solutions are offered, how they are being adopted, and how well they meet setting-specific functionality needs (particularly for home health and LTC/SNF)
- The KLAS report mainly focuses on vendors specific to post-acute care but also provides a brief look at the post-acute care solutions of enterprise acute care EMR vendors.
Trends Concerning Post-Acute Care EMR Product Suites in 2022
Most providers in post-acute care
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Golden Valley Memorial Goes Live on MEDITECH Expanse Genomics
What You Should Know:
- MEDITECH announces that Golden Valley Memorial Healthcare (GVMH) is their first client to go live on Expanse Genomics, opening the organization’s possibilities for delivering precision medicine by allowing them to analyze and parse genetic results into discrete, actionable data, displayed directly in patient charts.
- Providers can order genetic testing directly in Expanse, and the results will be received and stored in a codified format along with full PDF reports
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Analysis: US Ambulatory EHR Market Shake-Up at HIMSS 2022
During, and in the run-up to, HIMSS earlier this month there were several announcements from US EHR vendors that will shake up the US EHR market, particularly in the ambulatory segment. These included:
- Allscripts’ announcement that it is to sell its Sunrise, Paragon, TouchWorks, Opal, dbMotion, STAR and HealthQuest business to Harris Computer Corp.
- Meditech’s announcement that Expanse Ambulatory is to be made available to independent and physician-owned practices, alongside its
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HIMSS22 Day 2 Roundup: Google Partners with MEDITECH, Microsoft’s Health Cloud Strategy Expansions
Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) Activity
OptimizeRx Acquires EvinceMed, a Specialty Drug Prescription Initiation Platform
OptimizeRx, a provider of point-of-care technology solutions helping patients start and stay on therapy announced a definitive agreement to acquire the EvinceMed platform and related assets. EvinceMed is a provider in delivering end-to-end automation for specialty pharmaceutical transactions. The acquisition includes the full Market Access Management Platform
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MEDITECH and Google Health Partner to Embed Search & Summarization in Expanse EHR
What You Should Know:
Today at HIMSS22, MEDITECH announced a new collaboration with Google Health that will embed Google’s search and summarization capabilities within the Expanse EHR.
- This functionality builds upon the integrated, longitudinal record inherent in Expanse by pulling forward discrete information from legacy and disparate systems and filling gaps in information for a more holistic view of a patient's record.
Rich Longitudinal Health Record to Enable Care Teams to
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MEDITECH Expands Expanse Ambulatory to Independent and Physician-Owned Practices
What You Should Know:
- MEDITECH today announced the availability of Expanse Ambulatory in independent and physician-owned practices, without requiring an Expanse EHR in the hospital setting.
- The subscription-based solution lives in the cloud, so there is no significant IT footprint required.
Expanse Ambulatory’s Practice Management
Expanse Ambulatory’s Practice Management solution offers efficient office workflows and intuitive features like drag-and-drop scheduling, automated
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HCA Healthcare to Deploy MEDITECH Expanse in New Hampshire
What You Should Know:
- HCA Healthcare, one of the nation’s leading providers of healthcare services, has begun implementing MEDITECH Expanse EHR platform across three hospitals in New Hampshire as a part of its digital transformation initiatives. HCA will go-live by the end of 2022.
- The three locations — Frisbie Memorial Hospital in Rochester, Parkland Medical Center in Derry, and Portsmouth Regional Hospital in Portsmouth — will leverage Expanse to help hospital teams deliver excellent
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Unity Health to Deploy Meditech Expanse Platform Across Network
What You Should Know:
- Unity Health, the leading healthcare provider in an eight-county area, is pleased to announce they have chosen to implement MEDITECH Expanse across their entire organization.
- In addition, Unity Health will implement MEDITECH Expanse Oncology to expand and optimize their cancer treatment offerings with evidence-based plans that support multidisciplinary ordering. To maximize ROI, Unify Health will leverage MEDITECH Professional Services to complement the
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PatientKeeper Integrates with MEDITECH Expanse EHR for Physicians’ Mobile Devices
What You Should Know:
- PatientKeeper, a provider of electronic health records (EHR) optimization software solutions, today announced it has integrated its mobile app with the MEDITECH® Expanse™ hospital EHR system, enabling healthcare providers to view inpatient data stored in Expanse on their iOS and Android smartphones and tablets.
- Physicians using the Expanse acute-care EHR will now have access to patients’ vital signs, test results, medications and more -- all from their iOS or
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MEDITECH, WELL Health Partner to Enhance Digital Patient Engagement
What You Should Know:
- MEDITECH recently announced Expanse Patient Connect, powered by WELL Health, a contemporary, mobile solution enabling bidirectional, communication between healthcare organizations and their patients. Available through the MEDITECH Cloud Platform, the solution leverages WELL Health’s automated patient interaction functionality to improve provider efficiency and keep patients and their families connected to their care in the most convenient way
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