Dignity-focused organizations are not easy to define, but also not hard to recognize. Justice Stewart
It’s all about the patient. Well, unless that patient has been to particular hospitals for treatment and is having trouble paying the ensuing bills. Then it’s about the hospital and collections agents and wage garnishments and such.
For this approach to providing care, the Lown Institute, a nonpartisan think tank advocating for bold healthcare ideas, honored a group of what they clearly
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Physicians | Health IT Impact for Physicians | News, Analysis, Insights - HIT Consultant
Intermountain Healthcare, Cerner Extend Multiyear Expansion to Improve Innovation
- Cerner announced a multiyear expansion with Intermountain Healthcare to improve the safety, quality, and experience of healthcare for patients and caregivers.
- Through this expansion, Cerner will continue to increase the speed of innovation and help effectively address business and patient needs today and in the future.
- Intermountain will continue to provide guidance to Cerner that helps direct developments to improve experiences for caregivers, system operators and patients around
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Innovaccer Raises $70M to Expand Healthcare Data Activation Platform
- Innovaccer has recently raised $70 million in Series C funding from Tiger Global, Steadview Capital, Dragoneer, Westbridge, Mubadala and M12 (Microsoft’s Venture Fund) bringing their total capital raised to $120 million.
- With the latest round of funding, Innovaccer will focus on its vision to help healthcare organizations care as one and scale the unified patient record.
Innovaccer
Inc., a Silicon Valley-based healthcare data platform company, announced
today it has raised a total of
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Atrius Health to Deploy Kyruus to Enhance Patient Access Across Eastern Massachusetts
- Kyruus today announced that Atrius Health has selected the company’s solutions to enhance patient access across Eastern Massachusetts.- KyruusOne will serve as the backbone for Atrius Health’s future consumer-facing search offerings for its more than 745,000 adult and pediatric patients, as well as new patients to the system.Atrius Health, the Northeast’s largest non-profit independent medical group, has selected Kyruus, the leader in provider search and scheduling solutions for health systems
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Advanced Healthcare Supply Chains: Why It’s All in the Data
During the past decade, the healthcare industry has undergone an unprecedented technological transformation. The industry, once defined by manual processes, has moved squarely into the digital age. As patients, we’ve all become accustomed to seeing physicians as well as clinical staff use laptops during office visits. And behind the scenes, hospitals and health networks have made substantial investments in financial and HR systems, among others.
One of the more significant digital
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XIFIN Introduces Transformative AI-Enabled Revenue Cycle Platform
- The latest version of XIFIN’s flagship RCM platform optimizes cash collections, enables real-time connectivity and error correction, and provides enhanced self-service for patients and physicians.- Unlike other RCM systems that require manual efforts once the claims are denied, XIFIN RPM 11 reduces costs and delivers denials and appeals process automation, including automatic generation of payor-specific appeal forms and appeal letters.Today’s diagnostic laboratory leaders face more challenges
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AMA: 7 Physician Digital Health Adoption Trends Driving Digital Transformation
- New AMA survey reveals physicians’ motivations and requirements for adopting digital health adoption and attitudinal shifts from 2016 to 2019.
- Adoption of digital tools has grown significantly among all physicians regardless of gender, specialty or age.
- Adoption of remote care tools such as tele-visits and remote monitoring had the most movement.
- Awareness of most of the emerging technologies such as artificial or augmented intelligence is fairly high.
Adoption of digital
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CareMount, Nuvance Partner to Expand Population Health Services in NY
- CareMount, New York's top Next-Gen accountable care organization, is partnering with Nuvance Health -- a system of seven hospitals that serve CT and NY -- to better share information for the purpose of providing improved population health services for both organizations.
- CareMount Health Solutions, a physician-owned management services organization, will deliver to Nuvance Health, a suite of population health management services including care coordination and clinical programs, data
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UAB Health System, TransformativeMed Partners to Streamline Clinical Workflows
- The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Health System will implement three TransformativeMed apps to increase workflow efficiency, enhance clinical communications and improve clinician experience- The TransformativeMed applications that UAB is implementing are fully integrated, enabling residents and staff to quickly extract, evaluate, document and take action on data from multiple sources, regardless of their location.TransformativeMed, a Seattle, OR-based provider improving the
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Northwell Health Launches SMART on FHIR App to Monitor Premature Babies’ Development
- Northwell Health, New York’s largest private employer and healthcare provider, has released a new SMART on FHIR app to monitor premature babies’ development. - Powered by InterSystems and based on the Boston Children’s Hospital SMART on FHIR application, the app eliminates manual workflow so providers can more closely monitor Northwell Health patients.Northwell Health, one of the largest private health systems in the United States released a SMART on FHIR app that aggregates, normalizes and
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