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Zynx Health Announces “Clinical Improvement Through Evidence” Award Recognizing Nurses for Clinical Decision Support Use Excellence
LOS ANGELES, CA – May 6, 2015 — In honor of National Nurses Week May 6-12, Zynx Health™, the market leader in providing evidence-based clinical improvement and mobile care coordination solutions, announced today it is accepting entry nominations for the company’s newly created “CITE” (Clinical Improvement Through Evidence) Award. The CITE award recognizes nurses for excellence in the use of clinical decision support (CDS) solutions to drive improvements in patient care.
Zynx Health has promoted the use of CDS for nearly two decades, advocating the consistent use of evidence-based clinical content when many questioned the concept for being “cookbook medicine.” CDS provides healthcare professionals with relevant knowledge at appropriate times during their workflow, empowering them to make better decisions and enhance the patient’s health. With this award, Zynx Health aspires to recognize nurses who are front-line leaders in demonstrating the impact of evidence-based CDS on patient care.
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Grant Campbell, MSN, RN, senior director for nursing strategy and informatics at Zynx Health, explained the company’s motivation for creating the CITE award. “Clinical evidence is proven to have a dramatic impact on nursing practice and by extension both patient and family care, but incorporating this evidence into a busy nurse’s day-to-day workflow requires creativity and dedication,” he said. “That’s why we believe it’s more important now than ever to recognize and reward nurses who are truly realizing the potential of this resource to improve overall care delivery and save lives.”
Carolyn Richardson, MSN, MBA, RN-BC, Zynx Health’s regional nursing officer, added, “Every day nurses are making extraordinary contributions to improving care through the innovative and proactive use of CDS. The CITE award offers an opportunity to share their accomplishments with their nursing peers and the healthcare community at large. Our hope is that other provider organizations will learn from these dedicated award recipients to adapt CDS more effectively to achieve similar outcomes.”
Applicants can use this link to submit nominations. The deadline to submit is 5 pm EDT on Monday, June 15. Zynx Health will announce the winners the week of July 20.
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Zynx Health, part of the Hearst Health network, is the pioneer and market leader in evidence- and experience-based clinical improvement and mobile care solutions that provide the care guidance to enhance quality, improve care coordination, and decrease variation across an individual’s health journey. With Zynx Health, healthcare organizations exceed industry demands for delivering high-quality care at lower costs under value-based reimbursement models. Zynx Health partners with healthcare organizations to continuously and measurably improve care every day, for every patient, every time. To learn more, visit www.zynxhealth.com or call 855.367.ZYNX.About Hearst Health
Zynx Health is part of the Hearst Health network, which also includes FDB (First Databank), MCG and Homecare Homebase, and Hearst Health International. The mission of the Hearst Health network is to help guide the most important care moments by delivering vital information into the hands of everyone who touches a person’s health journey. Each year in the US, care guidance from the Hearst Health network reaches 84% of discharged patients, 174 million insured individuals, 35 million home health visits, and 4 billion prescriptions. Extensions of the Hearst Health network include Hearst Health Ventures and the Hearst Health Innovation Lab. Learn more at www.hearsthealth.com.Posted 5.7.2015 -
MMY Consulting Nominated for Tech Services Honor at the 2015 Mira Awards
INDIANAPOLIS, IN – May 4th, 2015 — MMY Consulting was nominated for the Tech Services Award at the 16th annual TechPoint Mira Awards honoring the “Best of Tech in Indiana.” TechPoint, Indiana’s technology growth initiative, honored Indiana’s best companies, entrepreneurs, educators, and other leaders for their technology excellence and innovation.
Nominees were selected by 43 independent subject matter experts who evaluated and ranked applications. These volunteer judges spent more than 700 collective hours reviewing and ranking the applications, interviewing nominees and selecting winners.
President and CEO Bill Monachino states, “We are honored to be nominated for such a prestigious award, and are excited to be a part of the quickly growing and thriving tech industry in Indianapolis. We hope that programs like the Mira Awards continue to accelerate tech growth throughout the state.”
MMY was based on the simple idea of providing high caliber technology consulting services. MMY Consulting believes that quality, value, and client satisfaction can only be consistently delivered by skilled and experienced associates who conduct themselves with the highest standards of integrity and transparency. MMY’s Mission is to provide high impact healthcare IT consulting services to our clients so they may realize their business objectives and achieve competitive advantage.
For more information about MMY Consulting, visit them on the web at www.mmyhealthcare.com.
Posted 5.5.2015 -
Allina Health President & CEO Penny Wheeler Joins Health Catalyst Board
MINNEAPOLIS, MN & SALT LAKE CITY, UT – May 5, 2015 — Health Catalyst, a leader in healthcare data warehousing and analytics, announced today that Penny Wheeler, MD, the President and Chief Executive Officer of Allina Health, has accepted an appointment to the company’s Board of Directors, and will officially join the Board of Directors in July.
Dr. Wheeler was named CEO of Allina Health in January after serving for nine years as the health system’s Chief Clinical Officer. Allina Health is a $3.7 billion not-for-profit organization whose more than 90 clinics, 12 hospitals and related healthcare services provide care for nearly 1 million people across Minnesota and western Wisconsin. It was named one of the nation’s top five large hospital systems in 2015 by Truven Health Analytics, based on balanced, superior system-wide performance in care quality, patient satisfaction, coordination of care, cost of care and operational efficiency.
As Chief Clinical Officer, Dr. Wheeler led the design and implementation of organization-wide clinical service lines. Through these efforts, Allina Health has realized significant and measurable improvements in care, service, and efficiency and this has enabled Allina Health to expand its care to underserved communities.
“I am thrilled to be joining the board of Health Catalyst, a company with which I have worked closely since its founding in 2008,” said Dr. Wheeler. “Allina has made significant progress with care outcomes improvement thanks in part to our early adoption of Health Catalyst’s data warehousing platform. I look forward to working with the company’s leaders to share that experience and know-how to help health systems across the US improve the quality and affordability of patient care.”
Health Catalyst and Allina Health recently signed a landmark $108 million 10-year shared risk agreement creating a national model for the use of data in improving quality and lowering the cost of patient care.
“We are thrilled that Dr. Wheeler accepted our invitation to join the board,” said Dan Burton, Chief Executive Officer of Health Catalyst. “She is one of the most capable, forward thinking CEOs in healthcare today. We are deeply honored that she has agreed to share her insights and guidance by participating on our Board of Directors.”
Fraser Bullock, the Founder and Managing Director of Sorenson Capital and Chairman of Health Catalyst, added, “Dr. Penny Wheeler was one of the first healthcare executives in the nation to recognize the need for a data-driven culture and infrastructure to enable outcomes improvement. We look forward to benefiting from her vision and experience as a member of Health Catalyst’s board.”
A board-certified obstetrician/gynecologist, Dr. Wheeler previously served patients at Women’s Health Consultants in Minneapolis, was the president of Abbott Northwestern Hospital’s medical staff, chaired the Allina Health Quality Committee and served on the Allina Health Board of Directors.
In addition to her current role, Dr. Wheeler chairs the Minnesota Community Measurement board, a regional health quality collaborative, and is on the board of Portico Healthnet, an organization dedicated to helping uninsured Minnesotans receive affordable health coverage and care. She has presented nationally on Allina Health’s approach and success in quality advancement and outcomes-based quality payment models. Her educational background includes an undergraduate degree with honors from the University of Minnesota, and a doctorate of medicine degree from the University of Minnesota Medical School.
Simultaneous to Dr. Wheeler’s appointment, four-year Board Member Larry Grandia will step down from the board, effective also as of July. Grandia is a former chief information officer of Intermountain HealthCare and one of the most influential IT leaders in healthcare over the last 30 years. During his Health Catalyst service since 2011, the company has grown its bookings by approximately one-hundred fold, and increased its team members from 10 to 320.
“Larry has contributed so deeply to Health Catalyst’s growth and success that it would be hard to overstate his positive contributions to the company,” said Burton. “Through my many interactions with Larry over the past several years I have come to appreciate that he is truly one of the most accomplished and insightful healthcare technology leaders of the past few decades. He is a national treasure, and we are fortunate that Larry will continue as a Senior Advisor to the company, so that we can benefit from his experience and wisdom in the months and years ahead.”
As of July, the Health Catalyst Board of Directors will include the following members in addition to Wheeler, Bullock and Burton: Michael Dixon and Todd Cozzens, both partners of Sequoia Capital; Promod Haque, Senior Managing Partner of Norwest Venture Partners; and Steve Barlow, Executive Vice President and Co-Founder of Health Catalyst.
About Allina Health
Allina Health is dedicated to the prevention and treatment of illness and enhancing the greater health of individuals, families and communities throughout Minnesota and western Wisconsin. A not-for-profit health care system, Allina Health cares for patients from beginning to end-of-life through its 90+ clinics, 12 hospitals, 15 pharmacies, specialty care centers and specialty medical services that provide home care, senior transitions, hospice care, home oxygen and medical equipment, and emergency medical transportation services. For more information about Allina Health, visit their website at allinahealth.org and join them on Facebook and Twitter.About Health Catalyst
Health Catalyst is a mission-driven data warehousing and analytics company that helps healthcare organizations of all sizes perform the clinical, financial, and operational reporting and analysis needed for population health and accountable care. Their proven enterprise data warehouse (EDW) and analytics platform helps improve quality, add efficiency and lower costs in support of more than 50 million patients for organizations ranging from the largest US health system to forward-thinking physician practices. For more information, visit www.healthcatalyst.com, and them on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.Posted 5.5.2015 -
PatientSafe Solutions Leads the Conversations That Will Shape mHealth with Industry Leaders
CIOs from the nation’s top hospitals and health systems discussed the past, present, and future of mobile clinical communications
SAN DIEGO, CA-/BUSINESS WIRE/— PatientSafe Solutions, a leader in smart point-of-care mobile solutions for healthcare, hosted more than 40 industry leaders from top hospitals, health systems, and technology solution providers during a HIMSS 2015 breakfast event to discuss the evolution, role, and benefits of smartphone-based clinical communication and collaboration solutions.
“PatientSafe Solutions brings a unique drive, one that initiates forward-thinking conversations”
Interoperability, patient satisfaction, end-user experience, productivity, and clinical context integration were just a few of many topics covered during the event. Discussion among the attendees raised the question, “What is next for clinical communications?” There was general consensus amongst the audience that treating communications at the point of care as a stand-alone application continues to have systemic limitations. Some participants discussed proliferation of devices, while others highlighted the uptrend in overall application maintenance and the need to have a unified platform at the application layer for all users. The most provocative discussion revolved around single purpose applications and devices that fragment end-user experience and ultimately reduce effective communication and collaboration by creating further context silos. The spirited discussions highlighted the growing need and importance of engagement and integrated acute and ambulatory collaboration experiences. CIOs and technology leaders left the discussions by concluding towards a need to invest in a mobile, secure clinical communications platform that can scale a health system’s business and adapt to the evolving needs of physicians and nurses in the post-EHR era.
Steve Shirley, CIO and VP at Parkview Medical Center, shared Parkview’s journey towards a multi-purpose, clinically integrated mobile platform at the point of care during the breakfast while Bill Spooner, former SVP and CIO of Sharp HealthCare, moderated the live discussions with leading CIOs. With over 35 years of IT experience, leadership and management, Shirley shared his expertise and insight to discuss and address the why and how of wireless clinical mobility, and his resonance with PatientSafe’s vision of Mobile Care Orchestration™. Implementing PatientSafe’s PatientTouch® platform at Parkview, Shirley shared impressive outcomes: breakthrough direct interoperability with Meditech 6.x series, improved care team communication, faster response to patient deterioration, unparalleled safety performance in medication administration, specimen collection, blood transfusion matching while delivering impressive outcomes and multiple workflows via a single device and a consistent user experience for acute care clinical users. Parkview was also able to significantly reduce the footprint of legacy devices and computer on wheels, achieving additional hard dollar savings on overall IT maintenance and management.
“PatientSafe Solutions brings a unique drive, one that initiates forward-thinking conversations,” says Shirley, “Listening and sharing points of view on the types of solutions best positioned to balance short-term needs and long-term strategy is what this event was seeking to accomplish. It was and has been a fruitful experience for all who attended.”
“We are honored to have facilitated and enabled a time for CIOs to come together and discuss the future mHealth innovations and pursuits in mobile communications,” says Spooner. “There are very few technology solution companies in the crowded mHealth space that pursue the true, heavy lifting of tech-enabled process, quality, and outcomes improvement the way PatientSafe does. There are even fewer that dare approach the difficult problems that exist inside the health system – across acute and post-acute settings. I hope to see more focus in this area and less noise that dilutes the definition of mHealth. This discussion is the first of many to come; I look forward to collaborating with industry pioneers to build upon the success we’ve had in the last 30 years and propel healthcare into the next generation.”
Posted 5.1.2015