Category: EMR/EHR

EHR Data Reveals COVID-19 Vaccines Effective in Preventing Hospitalizations, ER Visits

Coronavirus (COVID-19), EMR/EHR, Health IT, Life Sciences, Most Popular / September 9, 2021 September 9, 2021

What You Should Know: – Real world evidence from electronic medical records (EHR) data reveals the COVID-19 vaccines are highly effective at preventing hospitalizations, emergency department visits and intensive care admissions due to the virus, according to a study just published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM). – The study, “Effectiveness of COVID-19 …

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Azalea Health Acquires dashboardMD for Integrated EHR‑based Business Intelligence

Azalea Health, EMR/EHR, Health IT, healthcare business intelligence, Healthcare Mergers & Acquisitions / September 8, 2021 September 8, 2021

What You Should Know: – Azalea Health Innovations Inc. (Azalea Health or Azalea), a provider of cloud-based patient management and health IT solutions, today announced its acquisition of dashboardMD, an innovative cloud provider of business intelligence reporting solutions and healthcare analytics. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. – The acquisition pairs two true …

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Invitae Acquires Ciitizen for $325M to Strengthen its Patient-Consented Health Data Platform

EMR/EHR, Health IT, Healthcare Mergers & Acquisitions, Most Popular / September 7, 2021 September 7, 2021

What You Should Know: – Medical genetics company Invitae today announced its $325M acquisition of Ciitizen, a patient-centric consumer health tech company that offers a global platform to help patients collect, organize, store and share their medical records digitally. – Ciitizen is a patient-centric consumer health technology platform that enables patients to collect, store and …

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Mayo Clinic, Verily Partner to Develop Clinical Decision Support Solutions

Care Coordination, Clinical Decision Support, decision support, EMR/EHR, Health IT, Mayo Clinic, Most Popular, Verily / August 26, 2021 August 26, 2021

What You Should Know: – Today, Mayo Clinic and Verily, an Alphabet company announced a strategic two-year collaboration to develop clinical decision support solutions. This modular, evidence-based decision support solution, will provide contextualized and validated knowledge on disease management, care guidelines, and treatment to help clinicians make decisions. – The clinical decision support tool will …

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Foundation Medicine Integrates with Epic EMR for Genomic Insights for Precision Cancer Care

cancer, Cancer Detection, Cancer Genomics, EMR, EMR/EHR, Epic EHR Integration, epic emr, Foundation Medicine, Genomics-Based Clinical Decision Support Tools, Health IT, Precision Medicine, Precision Medicine Oncology / August 26, 2021 August 26, 2021

What You Should Know: – Foundation Medicine (FMI) announced today a partnership to integrate its comprehensive genomic testing services into Epic’s electronic medical record (EMR) platform, making it easier for oncologists to order comprehensive genomic tests (CGP), review results, continually access clinical and genomic information and share among their care teams in order to develop …

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Experity Launches $50M Urgent Care EMR/PM to Power On-Demand Care

EMR, EMR/EHR, Experity, Health IT, urgent care / August 25, 2021 August 25, 2021

What You Should Know: – Experity, the chosen partner of 50% of U.S. urgent care clinics, announced their new EMR and PM operating system in direct response to the pivotal, pandemic-driven movement towards on-demand healthcare. The company has committed over $50 million in product and development to bring this new urgent care-focused EMR/PM to market in under two years. …

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Semafone Integrates with Epic to Secure Healthcare Payments

EMR/EHR, Epic EHR Integration, Health IT, Healthcare Payments / August 19, 2021 August 19, 2021

What You Should Know: – Today Semafone, a provider of data security solutions for call and contact centers, has announced an integration with EHR provider Epic to protect payment data and enhance the patient experience. – Semafone’s Cardprotect Voice+ solution empowers customer-facing personnel in the healthcare industry to take secure, compliant payments over the telephone. Cardprotect Voice+ …

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Moving Beyond EHRs: What Lies Ahead for Healthcare Digitization?

EMR/EHR, Health IT, Opinion / July 12, 2021 July 12, 2021

Chris Ingersoll, Principal Architect at Innovaccer As our economy has become increasingly digitized, we are generating a massive influx of personal data. Across industries, the winning companies are those that have successfully harnessed the value of that data to create unique and personalized experiences for their customers. How we shop, travel, and handle our finances …

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Foundation Medicine Integrates Genomic Profiling with Flatiron Health’s EMR

EHR integration, EMR, EMR/EHR, Flatiron Health, Foundation Medicine, Health IT / June 29, 2021 June 29, 2021

What You Should Know: – Foundation Medicine (FMI) announced today it will begin integrating with Flatiron Health and other electronic medical record (EMR) systems to make it easier for oncologists to order comprehensive genomic tests (CGP), review results, continually access clinical and genomic information and share among their care teams in order to quickly and efficiently develop personalized treatment …

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How to Bolster EHR Efficiency and Access to Offer Better Patient Care

EMR/EHR, Health IT, Opinion, Patient Care / May 26, 2021 May 26, 2021

Dessiree Paoli, Senior Solution Marketing Manager at Interlace Health Over the past few decades, technology has advanced health care in incredible ways. Between robotic surgery, training through augmented reality, and the use of wearables to enhance health data, the industry has embraced numerous advances to improve patient care. However, the industry’s relationship with technology hasn’t …

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Iodine Software Acquires Physician Query Platform Artifact Health – Health M&A

Artifact Health, EMR/EHR, Health IT, Healthcare Mergers & Acquisitions, iodine, Revenue Cycle Management / May 25, 2021 May 25, 2021

What You Should Know: – Iodine Software, a leading healthcare AI company, today announced it has acquired physician engagement platform company Artifact Health. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. – The acquisition brings together two industry leaders and expands Iodine’s clinical predictions and insights platform beyond clinical documentation improvement (CDI) teams to directly engage …

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Banner Health Launches Digital Health Program with Xealth & Babyscripts

Babyscripts, Cerner, digital health, EHR integration, EMR/EHR, Health IT, Xealth / May 20, 2021 May 20, 2021

What You Should Know: – Banner Health announced the launch of its digital health program with Xealth to enable digital health at scale. Banner Health is making it simpler for medical providers to order digital health solutions directly from its Cerner EHR, helping to strengthen its connection with patients across its 30 acute-care hospitals and other entities. The launch will begin with Babyscripts, a leading virtual care platform for managing obstetrics. – Available …

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athenahealth integrates Nuance’s Dragon Medical to Reduce Documentation Time

athenahealth, Dragon, EMR/EHR, Health IT, Nuance / May 17, 2021 May 17, 2021

What You Should Know: – athenahealth and Nuance® Communications announced the integration of Nuance’s cloud-based speech and virtual assistant technology, Dragon® Medical, into the athenaOne® EHR and Mobile App. – 94 percent of clinicians believe speech recognition and virtual assistant technology will improve the ability to document care. Meeting the needs of clinicians everywhere, athenaOne Dictation users can now take advantage of fully …

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EHR Adoption is Essential for Outpatient Surgery to Remain Relevant in Managed Care

EHR Adoption, Electronic Health Record, EMR/EHR, Health IT, Opinion / May 13, 2021 May 13, 2021

Tara Vail, Chief Growth Officer at HST Pathways In 2009, hospitals and doctors were given financial incentives to adopt electronic health records (EHRs) through the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act. Ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) were not eligible for these funds, and were therefore not incentivized like the rest of the …

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Allscripts Launches ADP Empower to Amplify Diverse Voices in Health IT

ALLSCRIPTS, EMR/EHR, Health IT / May 6, 2021 May 6, 2021

What You Should Know: – Allscripts announced its team that leads the Allscripts Developer Program (ADP) has launched ADP Empower, a new program designed to amplify diverse voices in the healthcare technology industry and offer valuable resources to underrepresented entrepreneurs to grow their businesses and accelerate innovation. – The Allscripts Developer Program aims to build …

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CareCloud to Pay $3.8M to Settle Whistleblower Case Alleging Kickbacks

CareCloud, EMR/EHR, Health IT / April 30, 2021 April 30, 2021

What You Should Know: – Miami-based EHR company CareCloud has agreed to pay $3.8 million to the federal government to settle a “qui tam” lawsuit filed on behalf of a whistleblower by Phillips & Cohen LLP that alleged CareCloud paid kickbacks to healthcare providers to boost sales of its EHR products. – The “relator” (whistleblower) …

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Cerner to Provide Access to More Than 54M Patient Records for Life Insurance Industry

Cerner, EMR/EHR, Health IT / April 21, 2021 April 21, 2021

What You Should Know: – Cerner has taken another step into the life insurance industry today with an strategic collaboration with MIB, a company providing risk management services to hundreds of insurance companies in the United States and Canada. – The agreement will establish MIB as the exclusive collaborator to provide access to digital patient data from Cerner …

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PatientKeeper Integrates with MEDITECH Expanse EHR for Physicians’ Mobile Devices

EMR/EHR, Health IT, MEDITECH, mHealth, PatientKeeper, Physicians / April 20, 2021 April 20, 2021

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 …

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MEDITECH, WELL Health Partner to Enhance Digital Patient Engagement

cloud, EMR/EHR, Health IT, MEDITECH, mHealth, Patient Engagement, patient experience, patient portal, Portal / April 7, 2021 April 7, 2021

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 …

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UK ED Dept. Shows Poor Usability for Major EHRs, Survey Finds

digital health, EMR/EHR, grail, healthcare delivery, NHS, Patient Care, patient safety / March 29, 2021 March 29, 2021

What You Should Know: – Emergency doctors in the UK have said many electronic health records (EHRs) in use are close to being unacceptable, and this is likely to be having a negative impact on patient care. A national survey of more than 1500 members and fellows of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine ranked …

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Long-Time Cerner Board Member Linda M. Dillman Passes Away

Advisory Board, Cerner, EMR/EHR, Health IT, Most Popular, Walmart / March 22, 2021 March 22, 2021

Linda M. Dillman What You Should Know: – Linda M. Dillman, a long-time and trusted Cerner Corporation board member, passed away on Saturday, March 13. – Dillman retired from QVC in January 2017, having served as its Chief Information Officer since January 2012. Previously, she held positions as Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer …

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MEDITECH Expanse Leads Customer Satisfaction for Small Community Hospitals, KLAS Report Finds

Acute Care, ALLSCRIPTS, Cerner, CPSI, EMR, EMR/EHR, Health IT, KLAS, KLAS Report, MEDHOST, MEDITECH / March 5, 2021 March 5, 2021

What You Should Know: – Small community hospitals (1–200 beds) leaders cite MEDITECH Expanse Acute Care EMR as a leader in delivering the most consistent customer experience, according to a new KLAS report. The KLAS report reveals that while Epic and Cerner EMRs leads in performance among large organizations they don’t deliver as consistently for …

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Why Patients, Not EHRs, Deserve our Undivided Attention

AI, Amazon, Amazon Echo, Artificial Intelligence, EMR/EHR, google, HIM, Hypertension, kidney disease, MD, Opinion, patient experience, Physicians / February 24, 2021 February 24, 2021

Prayus Tailor, MD, FASN We cannot earn patients’ trust and respect if we are tethered to a computer in the exam room, navigating the EHR concurrent to a visit or otherwise in a hurry to finish so we can return to our office where data entry to the EHR awaits us. ______________________________________________________ I am a …

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DrChrono’s Open FHIR API Enables Patients to Transfer Records to Apple Health

API, apple, Apple Watch, drchrono, Electronic Medical Records, EMR/EHR, Face ID, FHIR, Health IT, Healthkit, Heart, medical records, patient portal, Portal / February 19, 2021 February 19, 2021

What You Should Know: – DrChrono announces today that its open FHIR API is now live enabling its patient members to securely transfer their available health records out of DrChrono into the Apple Health app on the iPhone so their medical information is consolidated and always with them. – The Health Records feature is part …

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Canadian-Based EMR MEDFAR Raises $25M to Expand Into North America

cloud, electronic medical record, EMR, emr solutions, EMR/EHR, Partners, Physicians, Startups / February 16, 2021 February 16, 2021

What You Should Know: – MEDFAR Clinical Solutions, a Montreal-based Electronic Medical Record (EMR) provider in Canada, announced today a minority investment of nearly $25 million led by Walter Capital Partners. – MEDFAR’s cloud-based EMR solutions, MYLE and PLEXIA, are built with physicians in mind. MEDFAR R&D is performed in partnership with doctors and healthcare administration and is …

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MetroHealth System, Care Simple, Epic Launch Remote Patient Monitoring Program

clinical alerts, Electronic Health Record, EMR/EHR, health innovation, Health IT, home health, Medical Devices, Patient Care, Patient Monitoring, Payers, Population Health, Population Health Management, public health, remote patient monitoring, risk, Tactio, virtual care / January 27, 2021 January 27, 2021

What You Should Know: – Care Simple, Epic, and MetroHealth System announced that they have entered into a strategic remote patient monitoring integration partnership. – Under the terms of the agreement, CareSimple will empower the Cleveland, Ohio public health system with simple, patient-friendly RPM solutions to improve health outcomes for their high-risk senior and chronically …

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Modernizing Medicine Acquires Orthopedic EHR Platform Exscribe – M&A

Artificial Intelligence, EMR/EHR, Health IT, Healthcare Mergers & Acquisitions, healthcare technology, Machine Learning, MD, Modernizing Medicine, Patient Education, Physicians, Value-Based Care / January 13, 2021 January 13, 2021

What You Should Know: – Modernizing Medicine announced it has acquired orthopedics EHR vendor Exscribe bringing together two of the healthcare industry’s leading, all-in-one orthopedic EHR vendors. – As part of the acquisition, Exscribe Founder and CEO, Dr. Sachdev and other members of the Exscribe team will be joining Modernizing Medicine. Specialty-specific EHR provider Modernizing …

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Meaningful Use of Genomics Requires Informatics Beyond EMRs

2bPrecise, ALLSCRIPTS, cancer, Data Governance, dna, Electronic Medical Records, EMR, EMR/EHR, genomic data, Genomic Testing, Genomics, Health Systems, Healthcare Leaders, Heart, HHS, Interoperability, Meaningful Use, medical records, model, Opinion, Patents, Patient Care, point of care, Population Health, Population Health Management, Precision Medicine, primary care, risk, Vital / January 6, 2021 January 6, 2021

Assaf Halevy, Founder and CEO of 2bPrecise Electronic medical records (EMRs) are widely expected to serve as a cornerstone technology that drives the delivery of modern patient care. But can the EMR alone support all the informatics capabilities required by an ever-evolving healthcare industry? The rapid growth of precision medicine, particularly the use of genetic …

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Withings, Redox Partner to Make Remote Patient Monitoring Devices Integrated With All EHRs

digital health, EMR/EHR, Redox, remote patient monitoring, Withings / January 5, 2021 January 5, 2021

What You Should Know: – Withings partners with healthcare IT integration company Redox, which will make its remote patient monitoring solution, Withings MED·PRO CARE, compatible with nearly all EHRs used by physicians, hospitals, and medical institutions. – Through the partnership, physicians can now order and ship Withings clinically-validated connected health devices directly to their patients …

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Elation Health Nabs $40M for Clinical-First Solution to Power Independent Primary Care

API, blood pressure, Crossover Health, diabetes, Elation Health, EMR/EHR, Health IT, Heart, hipaa, hipaa-compliant, Interoperability, Medicaid, Medicare, Partners, Patient Engagement, patient population, practice management system, primary care, revenue cycle, Startups, Telehealth, Value-Based Care, virtual care, Virtual Visits / December 10, 2020 December 10, 2020

What You Should Know: – Elation Health, which provides an easy-to-use and affordable clinical technology platform for more than 7 million independent primary care clinicians serving 14M+ patients – including an EHR raises $40M in Series C funding from Al Gore’s sustainable investment firm, Generation Investment Management. – Elation’s API-enabled platform also allows organizations to …

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MEDITECH Launches New Subscription-Based Cloud Platform Built on Google Cloud

cloud, Electronic Health Record, EMR/EHR, google, google cloud, Health IT, MEDITECH, model, patient portal, Physicians, Portal, virtual care / December 3, 2020 December 3, 2020

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 …

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NeuroFlow Joins Epic App Orchard for Behavioral Health Integration

behavioral health, Care Coordination, clinical workflows, EMR/EHR, Epic App Orchard, Epic EHR Integration, Epic Systems, Health IT, Health Systems, Machine Learning, mental health, NLP, risk / November 11, 2020 November 11, 2020

What You Should Know: – NeuroFlow, the leader in technology-enabled behavioral health integration, is now available to healthcare providers through Epic’s App Orchard marketplace. NeuroFlow combines provider workflow augmentation solutions, clinical care dashboards, and a patient-facing application to create a clinical feedback loop centered around behavioral health. – Patient generated data including validated assessment scores, mood and …

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Cleveland Clinic Develop COVID-19 Risk Prediction Model through Epic MyChart

algorithms, Cleveland Clinic, Coronavirus (COVID-19), EHR integration, Electronic Medical Records, EMR/EHR, Epic EHR Integration, Epic Systems, Health IT, Health Systems, medical records, model, risk / November 10, 2020 November 10, 2020

What You Should Know: – Cleveland Clinic develops the COVID-19 risk prediction model through Epic MyChart that is now available to health systems around the world. – Healthcare organizations can present the clinically validated model to patients in MyChart to assess their risk of having COVID-19. Cleveland Clinic researchers have developed a COVID-19 risk prediction …

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Epic Expects More Than 90 Health Systems to Go-Live on EHR This Fall

EMR/EHR, Epic EHR Implementation, Epic Systems, Health Systems / October 30, 2020 October 30, 2020

What You Should Know: – Epic Systems announces that more than 90 health systems across nine counties are expected to go-live on Epic, marking this fall as the busiest install season in Epic’s 41+ year history. – Healthcare organizations in Australia, Belgium, Canada, Finland, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United …

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VA Announces First Cerner EHR Go-Live at Mann-Grandstaff VA Medical Center

Cerner, Department of Defense, Department of Veteran Affairs, Electronic Health Record, EMR/EHR, health information exchange, Interoperability, opioid epidemic, Partners, public health, WASHINGTON / October 26, 2020 October 26, 2020

What You Should Know: – Cerner today announced the historic and successful first deployment of a modern EHR at Mann-Grandstaff VA Medical Center in Spokane, WA. – The go-live marks the first time in history three federal departments (VA, DOD, and USCG) are using the same EHR. Cerner Corporation today announced the historic and successful first …

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Cerner Releases Open Call for EHR-Integrated Voice Assist Testing Partners

care teams, Cerner, clinical workflows, EMR/EHR, Health IT, Health Systems, medication, Nuance, Partners, patient satisfaction, virtual assistant / October 19, 2020 October 19, 2020

Cerner announces an open call for additional health systems to sign on as testing partners of their EHR-integrated Voice Assist technology. Voice Assist will allow clinicians to interact with the EHR by just using their voice. Clinicians will be able to issue voice commands to complete a range of tasks that can save significant time …

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Lyft Integrates with Epic EHR to Enable Hospitals to Schedule Rides for Patients

EHR integration, Electronic Health Record, EMR/EHR, Epic EHR Integration, Epic Systems, Health IT, Health Systems, Lyft, MD, Medical Transportation, non-medical-emergency medical transportation, Partners, Population Health / October 8, 2020 October 8, 2020

What You Should Know: – Lyft is continuing to expand rideshare for non-emergency medical transportation (NEMT) through a first of market direct integration with Epic, the largest electronic health record (EHR) in the U.S. – This will have an immediate impact on hospital operations and patients, with currently committed customers including Tampa General and Ochsner …

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New Jersey Urology Launches First-Ever Urologic-Centric Epic EHR

cancer, Electronic Health Record, EMR/EHR, Health IT, Patient Care, Patient Engagement, urology / October 5, 2020 October 5, 2020

New Jersey Urology What You Should Know: – New Jersey Urology (NJU) becomes the first urology-only group to launch a urologic-centric Epic electronic health record (EHR). – NJU is the largest urology practice providing complete urologic care and comprehensive individualized treatment at more than 60 convenient locations, including six state-of-the-art Cancer Treatment Centers. New Jersey …

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VA Announces First Go-Live of the VA Electronic Health Record Modernization Program

Care Coordination, Cerner, Electronic Health Record, EMR/EHR, WASHINGTON / August 24, 2020 August 24, 2020

What You Should Know: – The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced its first go-live of the VA Electronic Health Record Modernization (EHRM) program – launching the new Centralized Scheduling Solution (CSS) at the VA Central Ohio Healthcare System in Columbus, OH to make medical visits more efficient for care providers and Veterans. – …

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Why International Expansion Must Remain a Priority for Cerner, Epic, Allscripts, MEDITECH

ALLSCRIPTS, Cerner, cloud, digital health, Digital Healthcare, EMR, emr solutions, EMR/EHR, health information exchange, Health IT, healthcare it, HIM, HIT, integrated care, Interoperability, InterSystems, MEDITECH, mental health, NHS, NHS Trust, Nordic, Opinion, SAP, Siemens, Signify Research, Telehealth / August 24, 2020 August 24, 2020

What You Should Know: – How the top US acute EHR vendors, namely Cerner, Epic, Allscripts, and MEDITECH (+85% share of US acute market in terms of revenues), have progressed on international expansion. As highlighted below, there is a significant variance amongst the big four in terms of revenue and share of business outside the US. Cerner has by far the highest revenue at more …

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Nuance Advances Virtual Assistant Tech for Customers Using Epic EHR

AI, Clinical Documentation, cloud, Dragon, Electronic Health Record, EMR/EHR, Health IT, medication, Nuance, Physicians, Situational Awareness, virtual assistant, Virtual Visits / August 20, 2020 August 20, 2020

What You Should Know: – Nuance advances conversational AI with Dragon Medical virtual assistant for Hey Epic! virtual assistant in Epic Hyperspace. – Building upon Nuance’s Dragon Medical solution already used by more than 550,000 physicians, this integration with Hey Epic! enables clinicians to conversationally navigate the EHR, search for information, place orders, and seamlessly …

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Epic to Consolidate Four Departments into One Division

EMR/EHR, Health IT / August 18, 2020 August 18, 2020

EHR leader Epic is planning a major internal consolidation that will affect thousands of Epic associates. According to a company-wide email sent to staff on 8/14, Epic will consolidate the End User Training, Implementation, Quality Assurance, and Technical Communications departments into the Application Services Division, effective immediately. The email did not imply that any jobs …

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Verisk Launches EHR Triage Engine to Help Speed Approval of Life Insurance Apps

API, digital health, digital health data, EMR/EHR, Health IT, Predictive Analytics, risk / August 10, 2020 August 10, 2020

What You Should Know: – Verisk launches its new EHR Triage Engine, a tool that uses data from consumer-authorized electronic health records (EHRs) to help life insurers fast-track many applications for coverage. – The EHR Triage Engine bypasses manual workflows, leveraging advanced predictive analytics and automation to digitally ingest and analyze EHRs and the tool …

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Cerner Invests in Xealth to Jointly Develop Digital Health Solutions for Clinicians

behavioral health, care teams, Cerner, Cleveland Clinic, digital health, Electronic Health Record, EMR/EHR, Health IT, LRVHealth, mckesson, Novartis, Partners, Patient Education, Patient Engagement, patient experience, Patient Monitoring, patient portal, Philips, Portal, remote patient monitoring, ResMed, Telehealth, UPMC, virtual care, Xealth / August 6, 2020 August 6, 2020

What You Should Know: – Cerner and Xealth announce a collaboration to foster tighter physician-patient relationships by giving patients easier access to digital health tools. – These assets will be prescribed directly within the physician’s EHR workflow to manage conditions including chronic diseases, behavioral health, maternity care, and surgery preparation. – Cerner and LRVHealth have …

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Cerner Integrates Nuances Virtual Assistant Platform with Millennium EHR to Reduce Physician Burnout

AI, assistants, care teams, Cerner, Clinical Intelligence, cloud, CPOE, Dragon, Electronic Health Record, EMR/EHR, hipaa, hipaa-compliant, Nuance, Patient Care, patient experience, physician burnout, Physicians, point of care, virtual assistant / July 30, 2020 July 30, 2020

What You Should Know: – Cerner expands its AI collaboration with Nuance to provide joint customers with more advanced natural language virtual assistant technology to navigate electronic health records (EHRs) using just their voice, giving clinicians more time to spend with patients and less time with a computer. – As part of the expanded collaboration, Nuance will offer Cerner deeply …

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Allscripts & eClinicalWorks EMRs Not A Good Fit for Ambulatory Pediatric Practices, KLAS Report Finds

ALLSCRIPTS, athenahealth, best EMR, eClinicalWorks, EMR, EMR/EHR, Greenway Health, Health IT, KLAS, KLAS Report / July 24, 2020 July 24, 2020

What You Should Know: – According to a recent KLAS report, Allscripts and eClinicalWorks EMRs are not a good fit for pediatric practices, while Greenway Intergy is improving. – PCC, athenahealth, and Office Practicum EMRs named best suited for pediatric offices. Despite their unique needs, many ambulatory pediatric offices are expected to “make do” with …

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Cerner Launches New Cloud-Based Offering for Rural and Critical Access Hospitals

Cerner, cloud, critical access hospitals, Electronic Health Record, EMR/EHR, Health IT, model, physician burnout, rural health, rural healthcare / July 23, 2020 July 23, 2020

What You Should Know: – Cerner announced a new offering, CommunityWorks Foundations aimed at reducing costs and speeding up the implementation process for Rural and Critical Access Hospitals. – This much-needed offering caters to small rural healthcare providers, who often face challenges such as geographic isolation, workforce shortages, educational disparities, and diminishing resources that can …

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Change Healthcare Launches SmartPay Integration with Epic MyChart to Improve Patient Payments

Change Healthcare, EMR/EHR, Epic App Orchard, Health IT, Patient Engagement, patient portal, Portal / July 23, 2020 July 23, 2020

What You Should Know: – Change Healthcare’s SmartPay integration with Epic MyChart helps facilitate patient payments both pre- and post-service, and connectivity with Hyperspace® creates a “one-stop shop” experience that lets providers’ staff stay within Epic to process point-of-service payments. – Change Healthcare’s SmartPay Payment Integration for MyChart and encrypted device integration is available in …

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Banner Health to Implement Cerner Revenue Cycle Management Across Enterprise

Cerner, Cerner Millennium, Cerner Millennium Revenue Cycle, EMR/EHR, Health IT, Health Systems, Patient Care, patient experience, Population Health, rcm, revenue cycle, Revenue Cycle Management, revenue cycle management systems / July 16, 2020 July 16, 2020

What You Should Know: – Cerner and long-time client Banner Health announced a new deal to implement a comprehensive suite of revenue cycle management solutions as part of a long-standing strategic alignment to use health care technology to drive population health improvement. – The revenue cycle integration will take place across Banner Health’s entire system, including …

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Allscripts, Microsoft Ink 5-Year Partnership to Support Cloud-based Sunrise EHR, Drive Co-Innovation

ALLSCRIPTS, Caregivers, cloud, Electronic Health Record, EMR/EHR, foundational, Health IT, healthcare delivery, Internet of Things, Interoperability, Microsoft, Microsoft Teams, model, patient experience, Pharmacy, Public Cloud, radiology, revenue cycle, Telehealth / July 13, 2020 July 13, 2020

What You Should Know: – Allscripts and Microsoft sign a five-year partnership extension to support Allscripts’ cloud-based Sunrise electronic health record and drive co-innovation. – The alliance will enable Allscripts to harness the power of Microsoft’s platform and tools, including Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Teams, and Power BI, creating a more seamless and highly productive user …

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Health Catalyst Acquires Clinical Workflow Optimization Solution healthfinch

Able Health, care management, clinical workflows, cloud, EMR, EMR/EHR, Health Catalyst, Health IT, Health Systems, Healthcare Mergers & Acquisitions, Healthfinch, Patient Care, patient experience, patient safety, Physicians, point of care, Population Health / July 9, 2020 July 9, 2020

What You Should Know: – Health Catalyst announces an agreement to acquire clinical workflow optimization solution healthfinch using a mix of stock and cash. – As part of the acquisition, healthfinch will be a new application suite category called EMR Embedded Insights and its refills, care gaps closure, and visit planning applications will continue to …

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