University Hospital with the Staff for Life Helicopter at dusk.[/caption]Siemens Healthineers and the University of Missouri System (UM System), including all four universities, and University of Missouri Health Care (MU Health Care), has established the Alliance for Precision Health that will leverage their joint expertise to transform healthcare delivery, promote education in the fields of technology and engineering, and develop groundbreaking research initiatives.As part of the alliance,
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NextGen Healthcare Launches Behavioral Health EHR to Streamline Patient Data
With the prominence of behavioral health epidemics in the U.S., it’s imperative that physicians have easy access to a single record of physical and behavioral patient data to streamline data collection and improve treatment decisions. This week, NextGen Healthcare has launched its Behavioral Health Suite, a comprehensive electronic health record (EHR) solution that gives providers access to a single, integrated physical and behavioral health record to treat patients.Impact of Behavioral Health
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EverlyWell Raises $50M to Scale In-Home Digital Lab Testing Platform
EverlyWell, an Austin, TX-based next-generation healthcare testing platform has raised $50 million in funding led by long-time investors Goodwater Capital with Highland Capital Partners joining. Next Coast Ventures, NextGen Venture Partners, SoGal Ventures and others participated. The company will use the funding to expand its digital platform and scale existing partnerships with leading brands like CVS and Humana.Cumbersome Traditional Lab Testing ProcessOver seven billion lab tests are run
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HIMSS19 Day 2 Announcements & Summary
Accenture: Millenials & Gen Z Are Shifting to Virtual, Retail, Clinic, Digital CareMillennial and Gen Z consumers in the U.S. are rapidly adopting non-traditional care models, such as retail clinics, virtual and digital services, according to results of an Accenture survey of 2,000 consumers.Key findings of the survey study include:- When considering traditional in-person care, millennials (ages 22 to 38 in 2019) were two to three times more likely than baby boomers (ages 55 to 73) to be
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Epic, Impact Advisors and Premier Named 2019 Overall Best in KLAS
Epic was named the top Overall Software Suite for the ninth consecutive year in the newly released Best in KLAS2019 Software & Services report. In addition to the overall software suite award, Epic was named the top Overall Physician Practice Vendor, won Best in KLASawards in nine segments, and won Category Leader awards in two segments. Understanding Best in KLAS Best in KLAS is based on information obtained from the 2,500 interviews KLAS conducts with providers and payers each
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NextGen Launches New, Cloud-based Data Aggregation Platform: Health Data Hub
NextGen Healthcare, this week announced the launch of the Health Data Hub -- a cloud-based Health Information Exchange (HIE) platform. This groundbreaking technology meets the needs for interoperability and seamless information sharing for healthcare networks. Health Data Hub supports all clinical data types used by ambulatory and inpatient healthcare systems and streamlines patient data aggregation, making it easy to share and receive health records from any data management system.Health Data
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Ciox Health, NextGen Partner to Streamline Medical Record Retrievals
Ciox Health , today announce its partnership with NextGen Healthcare to streamline medical record retrievals, reducing faxes and phone calls needed. The technology-driven healthcare company has joined forces with NextGen Healthcare to boost efficiency of medical record release and deepen integration of health plan requests, laying the foundation for further use of advanced technologies in the way health information is exchanged.The joint service, Ciox Clinical Extract Service with NextGen Share,
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NextGen Unveils Product Enhancements to EHR-agnostic Mobile Suite
Quality Systems, Inc., known to its clients as NextGen Healthcare, today announced significant product enhancements to its EHR-agnostic Mobile Suite, a tool equipped with more than 800,000 unique clinical concepts and 1.8+ million synonyms, that brings physicians closer to that goal by ensuring the accurate capture of physicians’ narrative and integration with EHR terminology. This platform upgrade is the first major product enhancement from Entrada following its acquisition by NextGen
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NextGen Healthcare to Acquire Mobile EHR Engagement Platform Entrada for $34M
NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Quality Systems, Inc. has acquired Entrada, Inc., a Brentwood, TN-based mobile engagement platform for EHRs for $34 million in cash. The acquisition is expected to close upon completion. Entrada reported revenue of approximately $12 million and had a loss of approximately $2 million in 2016.Founded in 2005, Entrada’s mobile app platform integrates with multiple clinical platforms and all major EHRs. Because of its
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Maury Regional Health to Replace MEDITECH & NextGen with Cerner EHR
Maury Regional Medical Center, a 255-bed facility that serves more than one quarter-million people in southern Middle Tennessee has selected Cerner to implement an enterprise-wide EHR system across its three hospitals and more than 25 outpatient facilities. The Cerner Millennium EHR will displace MEDITECH in the hospital setting and NextGen®Healthcare in the ambulatory facilities. Upon go-live, the Cerner Millennium EHR and integrated revenue cycle management solutions will combine clinical and
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