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NASHVILLE, TN - March 1, 2018 - Iliana Peters, JD, CISSP, former Acting Deputy Director of HHS Office for Civil Rights, will offer advice in her first security industry webinar since she left the U.S. government. This free webinar, on March 14 at 11:00 ET, was created to help covered entities and business associates understand and act on the specific Risk Assessment requirements included in the HIPAA Security Final Rule. In “Understanding the Critical Difference: HIPAA Security Evaluation v. HIPAA Security Risk Assessment,” Peters will be joined by cyber risk management expert Bob Chaput, CEO of Clearwater Compliance.
Burlington, MA. and Las Vegas, NV. - March 05, 2018 - At HIMSS 2018, Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN), (booth #1143) today announced the signing of a multi-year strategic agreement with Partners HealthCare. The two organizations will optimize the process for rapid development, validation and utilization of artificial intelligence (AI) for radiologists at the point of care, and Nuance intends to make the new algorithms available through the Nuance AI Marketplace for Diagnostic Imaging. The collaboration will be executed through the recently formed Massachusetts General Hospital ("MGH") and Brigham and Women’s Hospital ("BWH") Center for Clinical Data Science (“CCDS”) and will focus on improving radiologists’ efficiency and report quality, as well as patient clinical outcomes.
March 5, 2018 – As healthcare tops the list as the most cyberattacked industry in North America for 2017, vulnerabilities from aging systems is the number one concern for IT executives according to a recent survey by Grant Thornton and The Professional Services Council. Of the many initiatives CIO’s and IT executives are considering to shore up their cybersecurity defense, creating a legacy data management plan should be at the top of the list says Harmony Healthcare IT (HHIT), makers of HealthData Archive.
Burlington, MA. and Las Vegas, NV. - March 5, 2018 - At HIMSS 2018, Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN), (booth #1143) unveiled new study data in an infographic about the importance of reducing rework. The healthcare system is built on the premise of rework with clinical documentation specialists and coders going back to the care team for specifications and clarity on clinical documentation, causing physicians to relive their day and rework documentation done previously. Rework is a root cause of staff burnout in hospitals and healthcare systems. The infographic is available for download here.
SALT LAKE CITY, UT - March 2, 2018 - Novarad, a Utah-based medical software company, has announced the launch of its new website located at www.novarad.net, including richer content and a convenient, hard cost-based enterprise imaging ROI calculator.
Seattle, WA. - February 28, 2018 - Telmediq, the #1 KLAS rated vendor for secure communication platforms in healthcare, launches new call center console within its platform at HIMSS18. The new console allows call center agents and operators within a healthcare system’s call center to handle inbound calls and access to critical information from clinical and IT systems in real-time using a single unified interface
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – February 27, 2018 – Orion Health has provided public comments showing full support of the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC)’s Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) draft guidance. Orion Health believes this framework is desperately needed in the current healthcare environment, where data is housed in siloes across the U.S. with very little sharing. Having an infrastructure in place to aid in the exchange of data will hopefully facilitate the interoperability needed to enable population health and precision medicine improvements.
SALT LAKE CITY - February 27, 2018 - Health Catalyst, a leader in data analytics, decision support and outcomes improvement, today launched Health Catalyst® Touchstone™, a breakthrough analytics application featuring next-generation benchmarking and prioritization capabilities powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI) to supercharge healthcare improvement initiatives.
ANNAPOLIS, MD - February 27, 2018 - Two of Maryland’s most innovative healthcare organizations have joined forces to give Maryland prescribers a mobile tool to efficiently access Maryland’s Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP) data from within the e-prescribing workflow. MedChi, The Maryland State Medical Society, has teamed with DrFirst, a Maryland-based leader in e-prescribing and medication management solutions to bring iPrescribeSM to prescribers using the PDMP data displayed to healthcare providers by Maryland’s state-designated health information exchange, CRISP who operates the state’s PDMP. iPrescribe is the first mobile medication management app that allows physicians to comply with the Maryland mandate to consult the PDMP. MedChi and DrFirst are making iPrescribe available to Maryland prescribers free for the first year.
FRANKLIN, Tenn. - February 27, 2018 - Santa Rosa Consulting, Inc. a leading provider of management consulting and information technology services for the healthcare industry, actively assisted Harrison Memorial Hospital in northern Kentucky with a successful on-time and on-budget migration from MEDITECH Magic and E-Clinical Works to a fully integrated, web-based MEDITECH 6.1 platform.
SALT LAKE CITY - February 27, 2018 - Novarad Corporation, a leader in the development of medical imaging software, introduced its guaranteed TCO pricing model for its Ncompass Enterprise Imaging® system. One of the high-risk challenges of budget planning in a healthcare environment is unpredicted or undisclosed maintenance and support costs. Novarad has offered fully inclusive pricing plans on clinical solution products such as PACS, Cardiology and Mammography for many years. By extending this to Enterprise Imaging, healthcare facilities can perform an upgrade with full confidence of predictable costs.
PANAMA CITY, Fla., - February 27, 2018 - Immersive, a leader in healthcare data management advisory services and solutions, today introduced retina3P, a comprehensive solutions portfolio comprising a tactical framework, cloud-based platform and expert services purpose-built for healthcare and life sciences third-party risk management. retina3P builds upon Immersive's prior work in business associate risk management in response to client recognition that their sensitive data footprint, and therefore their third-party risk footprint, is larger than their business associate relationships alone.
February 26, 2018 - Frost & Sullivan, a leading growth partnership firm, completed a review and in-depth analysis of the healthcare cybersecurity market that led it to honor Fortified Health Security as the 2018 North American Healthcare Internet of Things (IoT) Cybersecurity Company of the Year. This award highlights Fortified’s strong overall performance and its impressive portfolio of healthcare-specific cybersecurity managed services offerings.
February 21, 2018 - Orion Health™, a leading provider of interoperability, population health management and precision medicine solutions, today announced it has been invited to present during HIMSS18, the health information technology industry’s largest annual conference. The first presentation will be given during the Cloud Computing Forum sponsored by AWS. The second presentation will take place in the AWS booth 1625 on the HIMSS18 exhibit floor at the Sands Expo Center.
February 7, 2018 - KLAS Research is a healthcare information technology data and insights company providing the industry with accurate, honest and impartial research on the software and services used by providers and payers worldwide. Every year, KLAS collects evaluations from healthcare providers to rank vendors across several categories. This year, Dolbey is honored to announce that KLAS has ranked its software as #1 KLAS Category Leader for Front End Speech Recognition for Imaging and #1 KLAS Category Leader for Computer-Assisted Coding.
February 21, 2018 - Dolbey and Company, Inc. (Dolbey) Best in KLAS for Speech Recognition 2012-2016 and Category Leader – Front-end Speech Recognition for Imaging 2018 announces its new cloud-based speech recognition product – Fusion Narrate. Providers can dictate directly into any application, without the need for integration, and immediately benefit from many of Dolbey’s robust platform features, including the Fusion Narrate CAPD™ module, which ensures patient records are accurate and complete while improving patient care.
February 20, 2018 – A well-defined benchmark in healthcare quality improvement is the Triple Aim—to improve the patient experience and health of populations while also reducing the cost of healthcare. Achieving the three-part goal, however, has been difficult for most healthcare organizations.
February 14, 2018 – Avaap, the fastest growing industry leader for electronic health record (EHR) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementations, and Infor, a leading provider of business applications specialized by industry and built for the cloud, today announced positive results from its strategic healthcare partnership. Avaap, the largest dedicated Infor healthcare partner, brought the first healthcare customer live on Infor CloudSuite™ Financials and Supply Chain and expanded its capabilities to provide healthcare customers with a single source solution that enhances the investment in ERP and EHR software.
PANAMA CITY, FL - February 20, 2018 - Immersive, a leader in healthcare data management advisory services and solutions, today announced the release of clarityDG 2.0, the only data governance framework developed for the healthcare industry. clarityDG 2.0 expands the library of key performance indicators across its nine operational domains by twenty percent, adding new indicators in the domains of information lifecycle management, architecture and connectivity, and data quality management. Further, Immersive completes the integration of the clarityDG Framework with AHIMA's Information Governance Adoption Model (IGAM)™ initiated earlier this year and ONC's Patient Demographic Data Quality (PDDQ) Framework in the 2.0 release.
February 13, 2018 - Novarad Corporation, a leader in the development of medical imaging software, has recently entered into contract with Soul Radiology of Howard Beach, N.Y. for PACS and RIS.
