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March 28, 2017 - Healthcare leaders are tasked with managing the most complex and changeable industry on Earth, one in which access to the right information at the right time is mission critical. Yet many are almost literally drowning in information as they struggle to collect and interpret data from dozens of IT systems and hundreds of reports in competing formats.
March 27, 2017 - Bernoulli announced that two prominent physicians will join the company as consultants to explore issues related to real-time healthcare delivery and increased patient safety.
March 27, 2017 - DrFirst announces that it has received recognition from two leading publications for its positive corporate culture and employee-centric work environment.
March 22, 2017 - In the fifth annual Health IT Industry Outlook Survey conducted by Stoltenberg Consulting more than half of healthcare providers reported being “unprepared” or “very unprepared” for managing and executing Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) initiatives. The survey arises as the healthcare industry approaches the end of the first quarter in the first-ever MACRA reporting year.
March 22, 2017 - CynergisTek today announced its new Compliance Program Effectiveness Assessment (CPEA) service, which provides a comprehensive evaluation of healthcare organizations’ regulatory compliance programs. CynergisTek’s CPEA is conducted by a team of experienced consultants in accordance with rigorous procedures outlined by the Federal Sentencing Guidelines and the Health & Human Resources Office of Inspector General (OIG), as well as industry best practices.
March 20, 2017 - GetWellNetwork will launch a new tool to help clinicians personalize care management plans based on a person’s capacity to be engaged in their health care. Researchers from GetWellNetwork’s O’Neil Center will officially introduce the Person Engagement Index ™ (PEI) on Tuesday, March 21, at The Beryl Institute’s Patient Experience Conference 2017 in Denver, Colo., during a session titled, “Person Engagement Index: Measuring a Person’s Capacity to Engage in their Healthcare.”
March 14, 2017 - GetWellNetwork today announced the completion of interfaces enabling secure data exchange between the company’s IPC platform and VistA/CPRS, the Veterans Health Administration’s (VHA) electronic health record system. GetWellNetwork also integrates with other technology platforms used by the VHA, including Computrition for meal ordering and Vocera for integrated communications.
March 10, 2017 - Pursuit Healthcare Advisors announced a donation of $1,000 to AAUW in support of Tech Trek. Tech Trek by AAUW is an experiential summer camp aimed at making the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields accessible and exciting for girls in middle school.
March 2, 2017 - GetWellNetwork today announced that Children’s Mercy Kansas City successfully completed phase one of IPC implementation at Children’s Mercy Hospital Kansas in Overland Park, Kan. Designed to enhance the pediatric care experience for patients and families, the GetWellNetwork inpatient solution went live in December 2016 and will expand to Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Mo., in 2017.
March 2, 2017 - Gunnison Valley Hospital and Health Catalyst are excited to announce their partnership to improve health outcomes for patients in the Sanpete Valley.
February 21, 2017 - From the floor of the HIMSS17 Conference & Exhibition in Orlando, Health Catalyst and the Regenstrief Institute announced today an agreement to bring Regenstrief’s artificial intelligence-powered text analytics technology out of the lab and into healthcare organizations nationwide.
February 21, 2017 - Nuance Communications and Epic announce that the companies are joining forces to create more access and job opportunities for disabled persons scheduling medical appointments. The new innovations, powered by Nuance’s artificial intelligence (AI) technology and Epic’s Electronic Health Record (EHR) system, include a hands-free virtual assistant, which is available for demonstration at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Annual Convention and Exhibition February 20-24 in Orlando.
February 21, 2017 - At the 55th Annual Meeting for the Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), Siemens Healthineers announces a digital platform for healthcare providers as well as for providers of solutions and services, aimed at covering the entire spectrum of healthcare. The platform is to foster the growth of a digital ecosystem linking healthcare providers and solution providers with one another as well as bringing together their data, applications and services.
February 21, 2017 - Commvault today announced that it is seeing growing healthcare industry demand for its Commvault Data Platform with strong customer adoption among healthcare providers and organizations since the formation of its healthcare solutions group. Multiple forces – including growing data volumes, rising security risks, stricter regulatory requirements, increasing industry consolidation and shrinking IT budgets – are driving healthcare organizations to implement holistic data management strategies with the Commvault Data Platform.
February 21, 2017 - Commvault today announced that its Commvault Data Platform was selected by CloudWave to power its new OpSus Backup service. The new healthcare backup-as-a-service offering – part of the OpSus Healthcare cloud services portfolio – enables healthcare organizations to quickly, easily and securely use the cloud to protect and recover mission-critical application data. By building the OpSus Backup service on Commvault’s comprehensive data management platform, CloudWave is able to deliver healthcare enterprises a fully-managed backup service that cuts costs while minimizing security, business continuity and regulatory compliance risks.
February 21, 2017 - Commvault today announced a technology collaboration with Harmony Healthcare IT. Through the integration of the Commvault Data Platform with Harmony Healthcare IT’s archiving solution, Health Data Archiver, healthcare customers can manage the complicated process of decommissioning legacy applications by retiring Electronic Healthcare Records and Enterprise Resource Planning systems while enabling them to access and protect important clinical and business data.
February 21, 2017 - HealthGrid today announced it has been named a recipient of Microsoft Corp.'s 2017 Health Innovation Awards.
February 20, 2017 - BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) will demonstrate its approach to a synchronized medication management technology platform aimed to help close the communication gaps between different software and devices and optimize interoperability with the EMR systems to deliver a more seamless med management process at the 2017 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual conference and exhibition being held in Orlando from February 19-23.
February 20, 2017 - Nuance Communications today announced the findings of a new study revealing that a majority of healthcare leaders plan to use additional technologies and tools to realize the full intended benefits of electronic health records (EHRs) and to improve clinician satisfaction with using them. The study also concluded that the improved clinical documentation resulting from EHRs and related technologies will drive positive financial impact for their institutions, including appropriate reimbursement and increased patient flow.
February 20, 2017 - Nuance Communications today announced results that demonstrate clinicians can save up to 45% on documentation time and improve quality scores up to 36% using artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled solutions. Powered by advances in the cloud and cognitive computing, Nuance’s next-generation speech and language understanding solutions make it easier for clinicians to quickly capture complete patient information in electronic health records (EHRs) using technology that amplifies their intelligence and works in the background to complement patient care rather than compete with it.
