What You Should Know:
- MEDITECH launches a web-based Quick Vaccination solution enabling healthcare organizations to efficiently administer the vaccine to their patients from multiple care venues, including through tablet devices.
- With Quick Vaccination, healthcare organizations have
the speed and mobility to distribute the vaccine at high-volume locations,
including pop-up inoculation sites.
To accelerate
healthcare organizations’ administration of the COVID-19
vaccine,
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For Better Patient Care Coordination, We Need Seamless Digital Communications
Catherine Thomas: Co-Founder and VP, Customer Engagement, careMESH Peter Tippett MD, PhD: Founder and CEO, careMESH
A recent Advisory Board briefing examined the annual Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Readmission penalties. Of the 3,080 hospitals CMS evaluated, 83% received a penalty for payments to be made in 2021, based on expected outcomes for a wide variety of treated conditions. While CMS indicated that some of these penalties might be waived or
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MEDITECH Launches New Subscription-Based Cloud Platform Built on Google Cloud
What You Should Know:
- Today, MEDITECH announced MEDITECH Cloud Platform—a
suite of solutions available to healthcare organizations of all sizes that
further extend the possibilities of the Expanse EHR.
- This offering includes: Expanse NOW, High Availability
SnapShot, and Virtual Care solutions, all created to work naturally in the
cloud, and available through a subscription model.
Today MEDITECH
introduced MEDITECH Cloud Platform—a suite of solutions available to
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Brigham, Biofourmis Co-Develops Tech Solution to Enable Home Hospital Care
What You Should Know:
- Brigham is working with Biofourmis on a national
rollout of their co-developed technology solution, which has been refined and
scaled for use by other healthcare systems across the country seeking to
establish and execute similar home hospital programs to alleviate COVID-related
capacity issues and to receive 1:1 parity on payments from CMS.
- The Hospital@HomeTM platform provides a turnkey,
end-to-end ecosystem for any health system that wants to quickly launch
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WELL Health Integrates with Cerner’s Patient Portal to Simplify Patient Communication
What You Should Know:
- Cerner is striking a deal with patient communication
hub company WELL Health to change its patient communication technology for its
provider customers.
- Through Cerner’s HealtheLife, the new capabilities will
pull from a myriad of systems and apps to help improve communication and reduce
administrative time for clinicians and staff.
Cerner Corporation, a global health care technology company, today announced new capabilities designed to take the interaction
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The Future of Patient Access: From Appointment Reminders to Automated Patient Journeys
Rick Halton, Vice President of Marketing, Lumeon
The concept of 'Patient Access' has evolved significantly. We all remember the good old days when patient access was an inbound responsive model – patients dialed into a call center phone number and were connected "round-robin" to the next available staff member with their call script. Then outbound voice and email messages and patient appointment reminders became common, and now access centers have begun to deploy more advanced communication
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Clearwave Acquires Digital Patient Access Solutions Odoro
What You Should Know:
- Clearwave acquires Odoro, a provider of digital
patient-access solutions that makes the scheduling process easier and more
efficient for both healthcare providers and patients.
- Clearwave, a pioneer in digital check-in is poised to deliver the industry’s most comprehensive patient-engagement platform with the addition of Odoro’s rich, multi-channel scheduling capabilities.
Clearwave, a
healthcare industry leader in digital check-in and eligibility
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Microsoft Teams, Epic Integrate to Power EHR-Connected Virtual Visits
What You Should Know:
- Microsoft Teams joins Epic App Orchard
Marketplace to enable clinicians to launch a virtual patient visit or
consultation with another provider in Teams directly from the EHR system.
- By integrating Epic’s context-aware linking, this solution helps clinicians embed Microsoft Teams' meeting capabilities directly into the EHR.
Microsoft
Teams has joined Epic’s
App Orchard marketplace to power telehealth workflows within a provider’s
organizations
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Analysis: August Health IT M&A Activity; Public Company Performance
– Healthcare Growth Partners’ (HGP) summary of Health IT/digital health mergers & acquisition (M&A) activity, and public company performance during the month of August 2020.
M&A is back and the velocity of the rebound has outpaced all expectations. The recovery quickly worked its way across the spectrum from large to small-cap, beginning with the larger cap NASDAQ rally of nearly 80% from lows in late March (only to soften in recent days), followed by multi-billion
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Designing A Digital Experience to Drive Revenue and Patient Engagement
Bill Krause, VP and GM, Digital Experience and Consumer Engagement at Change Healthcare
With the rise of healthcare consumerism, people are looking to hospitals, health systems, and physician practices to deliver the same user-friendly, digital experiences they receive from other industries. A recent survey found that more than 80% of consumers surveyed believe “shopping for healthcare should be as easy as shopping for other common services.” Specifically, they want streamlined access points
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