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A group of 21 Ontario-based hospitals and facilities launches Ontario eHub Health Information Exchange (HIE) powered by Oracle Health. The Ontario eHub can help these healthcare organizations share patient data more easily and securely, reducing administrative overhead, and facilitating improved care coordination for patients. Oracle Health is teaming with TransForm Shared Service Organization to manage the project.The initial roll-out integrates 16
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Get Well to Roll Out New Social Determinants of Health Screening Solution Nationwide
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Get Well, a global leader in digital patient engagement, today announced it has expanded its industry-leading digital patient engagement portfolio to include new social determinants of health (SDOH) screening solutions.The new solution will be available to more than 200 enterprise healthcare organizations nationwide that are using GetWell Inpatient, an interactive patient care and hospital experience management product, at no additional cost.
Enabling Enterprise
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KLAS: Ambulatory and Enterprise EMR Interoperability 2023
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Interoperability is a continued area of critical focus for the healthcare industry, according to a new report by KLAS.For its latest report, KLAS talked to vendor-identified deep adopters to take a holistic look at the current state of interoperability in ambulatory and enterprise EMRs and measure how close we are to an ideal state. The results reveal each vendor’s strengths and weaknesses within various areas of interoperability.
Exploring Ambulatory and
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FDA & Cerner Enviza Collaborate to Develop AI Tools for Drug Safety
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- Cerner Enviza, an Oracle company, and FDA’s Sentinel Innovation Center are teaming up to develop AI tools to extract and assess clinical notes to better understand drug safety.
- Teaming with John Snow Labs, Cerner Enviza will use AI and NLP to develop tools to extract information from clinical notes within the EHR to better aid in better understanding the effects of medicines on large populations. The project known as the Multi-source Observational
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Florence Launches Modern Healthcare Experience With $20M
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Florence, an innovator in healthcare enablement software, has launched out of stealth mode after raising $20 million in seed funding.The health tech startup’s round was led by Thrive Capital, GV (Google Ventures), and Salesforce Ventures with participation from Vast Ventures, BoxGroup and Atento Capital.
Aspiring to Digitally Streamline Patient Access to Increase Efficiency
Comprised of physicians and engineers from leading health systems and technology companies,
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Exec Hires: Elucid Appoints Andrew Miller as CTO
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- Elucid, Inc., a medical technology company providing physicians with AI-powered imaging analysis software to assess cardiovascular disease, has hired Andrew Miller as its chief technology officer (CTO).
- As CTO, Andrew will lead the technology strategy and oversee the engineering team’s execution. Elucid’s software is the only FDA-cleared non-invasive tool able to accurately characterize arterial plaque, simulating what pathologists would see under a microscope and
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KLAS Reveals Some Providers Lack Confidence in Oracle Cerner’s Roadmap/Vision
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Cerner, one of the major software vendors in healthcare IT, has gone through significant changes over the last year and a half. In October 2021, they announced a new CEO and introduced RevElate as their go-forward patient accounting platform. Two months later, Oracle announced their intent to acquire Cerner. Customers soon reached out to KLAS, wanting to know about their peers’ experiences with these changes.To gather this information, KLAS has been meeting regularly
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KLAS: State of Small-Hospital Patient Accounting 2023
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- Small hospitals are changing their EMRs and patient accounting systems at a greater rate than that of their large-hospital counterparts. Most market selection energy is going to Oracle Health (Cerner), MEDITECH, and Epic; small hospitals also use other vendors like athenahealth, CPSI, and MEDHOST.
- While many vendors offer viable clinical systems, there are significant differences across the customer experience with patient accounting that should not be overlooked
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KLAS Report: ERP Vendor Performance & Adoption in 2023
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- With regulatory and financial pressures increasing, many healthcare organizations continue to move to cloud-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions, utilizing them to boost efficiency and provide insights into how business processes can improve. To implement and optimize these solutions, organizations rely on their ERP vendors, who sometimes provide an inconsistent customer experience.
- A new KLAS report examines (1) customer adoption across the three
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KLAS Report: SAP in Healthcare 2023
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- A new report from KLAS finds that several midsize and large healthcare customers have broadly adopted SAP’s platform and appreciate how robust the tools can be.
- Customer feedback around the tools’ usability, however, is mixed; some report high satisfaction and praise the systems’ configurability, while others report frustration with complex interfaces and the number of clicks. In general, respondents see their SAP tools as well integrated and able to achieve what
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