• Orion Health Selected as One of the 2015 Careerbuilder® Top Companies to Work for in Arizona

    PHOENIX, AZ – June 29, 2015 – CareerBuilder® and Republic Media (The Arizona Republic, azcentral.com, La Voz) announced today that Orion Health has earned a spot on the list of 2015 Careerbuilder® Top Companies to work for in Arizona.

    All participating companies completed a two-part assessment process conducted by the independent workplace firm, Best Companies Group (BCG). Part one of the process was the Employer Questionnaire, where BCG asked about benefits, HR policies and the fun things that employers do for their employees. Part two was the Employee Engagement and Satisfaction Survey which measured the employee experience in eight core focus areas: “Leadership and Planning”, “Corporate Culture and Communications”, “Role Satisfaction”, “Work Environment”, “Relationship with Supervisor”, “Training, Development and Resources”, “Pay and Benefits” and “Overall Engagement.” Using the combined data from both parts of the survey process, BCG was able to determine who was good enough to make the list. This year, 75 organizations made the grade.

    “This top company list gets more competitive each year”, said Denise Gredler, CEO of BestCompaniesAZ and consulting partner for the program. “The list winners had very impressive employee survey results averaging an overall favorable rate of 88 percent and an overall employee engagement score of 91 percent, which is more than double the national average. These winners should be very proud of their engaged workforces. This presents a powerful opportunity for award-winners to promote their company culture to retain and attract the best talent.”

    “We are proud to be recognized as one of Arizona’s ‘Top Companies to Work for’ as this is our first time participating in the engagement survey, which makes the recognition more meaningful,” said David Bennett, EVP Healthier Populations, Orion Health. “Our ability to attract and retain top talent directly contributes to Orion Health’s ability to develop and deliver leading technology solutions in healthcare. We are most proud that our employees’ experiences and feedback are at the core of this recognition as they are the ones that make Orion Health a Top Company.”

    Seventy-five “Top Companies” were honored at an awards breakfast reception on June 25, 2015 at the Hyatt Regency Phoenix and company names will be published in a special supplement in the June 28th issue of The Arizona Republic, as well as online topcompanies.azcentral.com and www.BestCompaniesAZ.com.

    About Orion Health, Inc.
    Orion Health, a global leader in population health management company, makes healthcare information available anywhere by providing healthcare IT connectivity in every US state and in over 30 countries worldwide—facilitating care for tens of millions of patients every day. With an inherent ability to interconnect a wide variety of healthcare information systems, Orion Health’s Open Platform facilitates data exchange within and among payer and provider organizations, accountable care organizations, health plans, governments and health information exchanges, to improve care coordination, enable end to end population health management, enhance quality of care and help reduce costs. For more information, visit www.orionhealth.com. Connect with them on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.

    About Republic Media
    Republic Media is a consultative media company that provides you with the means to deliver your message to the right audience in the most effective way. From online to print to direct mail, Republic Media encompasses an array of products including The Arizona Republic, azcentral.com, 12 news and La Voz. Since 1890, The Arizona Republic continues to be Arizona’s most trusted and most read newspaper (republicmediasolutions.com/about.aspx).

    About CareerBuilder®
    CareerBuilder is the global leader in human capital solutions, helping companies target and attract their most important asset- their people.  Its online career site, CareerBuilder.com®, is the largest in the United States with more than 24 million unique visitors, 1 million jobs and 49 million resumes. CareerBuilder works with the world’s top employers, providing resources for everything from employment branding and talent intelligence to recruitment support. More than 10,000 websites, including 140 newspapers and broadband portals such as MSN and AOL, feature CareerBuilder’s proprietary job search technology on their career sites. Owned by GannettCo., Inc. (NYSE:GCI),  Tribune company and the McClatchy Company (NYSE:MNI), CareerBuilder and its subsidiaries operate in the United States, Europe, South America, Canada and Asia. For more information, visit www.careerbuilder.com.

    About BestCompaniesAZ
    Best Companies AZ has been at the forefront of identifying, developing, and promoting Arizona’s best companies for more than a decade. As co-founder of the very first workplace award program in Arizona, BestCompaniesAZ is committed to helping companies maximize their branding, recruitment and retention results by offering consultative services in the areas of employee surveying, best practices, national and local award consulting, culture development, human resources. Outstanding achievement in these fields is promoted to the national workforce and H.R. communities through social media and local public relations outreach programs.  For more information, visit www.BestCompaniesAZ.com.

    About Best Companies Group
    Best Companies Group is an independent workplace research firm, managing over 50 “Best Companies”, “Best Places to Work” and “Best Employers” programs in the US, Canada, Europe and North Africa.

     

    Posted 7.1.2015

  • CynergisTek Expands Leadership Team to Support Company Growth

    Adam Hawkins Advances as Vice President of Sales & Marketing to Drive Continued Expansion Amid Increased Demand for Privacy & Security Expertise in Healthcare

    Austin, TX – June 29, 2015 — CynergisTek™, an authority in health information privacy, security and compliance, today announced it has expanded its leadership team with the addition of Adam Hawkins as Vice President of Sales and Marketing. Effective July 1, 2015, Adam will be responsible for the sales and marketing operations at CynergisTek, as well as the strategic planning, development and implementation of the company’s Managed Services and Vendor Security Management offerings. In addition, Adam will continue to ensure a high-level of support is maintained across the company’s client base of healthcare provider organizations. Adam originally joined CynergisTek as Director of Client Services in 2012, and was an integral part of developing a highly successful sales team as the company restructured its sales and marketing efforts from the ground up.

    Adam’s transition to this executive role will be critical in effectively managing unprecedented company growth spurred by increased demand for privacy and security expertise in healthcare. The company has experienced a 70 percent increase in revenue over the last calendar year, and has rapidly expanded its workforce, requiring seasoned leadership in sales, marketing and client services. Adam has more than a decade of experience in healthcare information security and clinical technologies, positioning him well to manage the company’s sales force, marketing department and partner alliances.

    “Adam’s commitment to matching providers with the best possible solutions for their privacy and security needs has been instrumental in fostering the trust our clients have come to know and rely on us for,” said Dr. Michael Mathews, CynergisTek Co-Founder and COO. “Adam has a proven track record of ensuring client success, and we are pleased to have him join the executive team where he can exercise his leadership skills and provide strategic direction as we continue to grow.”

    Complex regulations, looming enforcement action and prevalent data breaches in the healthcare industry have made data security a top priority for most providers. This increased focus on information security has led many organizations to seek outsourced expertise, driving business for CynergisTek and opening the door to new career opportunities at the company for those with education and experience in information technology.

    “It’s been the opportunity of a lifetime to be a part of a company that is leading the healthcare industry at such a critical time,” said Adam. “It has been very rewarding to help CynergisTek clients navigate today’s dynamic threat environment, and I am looking forward to stepping into my new role where I can fully dedicate myself to adding value across the board.”

    Prior to joining CynergisTek, Adam was a Regional Sales Executive at Diebold and DrFrist and Director of Sales and Technology at VisionTree. Adam holds a Bachelor’s of Science in Information and Decision Systems and Political Science from California State University, San Diego.

    About CynergisTek
    CynergisTek is a top-ranked information privacy and security consulting firm. The company offers solutions to help organizations measure privacy and security programs against regulatory requirements and assists in developing risk management best practices. Since 2003 the company has served as a partner to hundreds in the healthcare industry. CynergisTek is also dedicated to supporting and educating the industry by contributing to relevant associations such as HIMSS, AHIMA, HFMA, HCCA, AHIA, AHLA, IAPP and CHIME. CynergisTek was recognized by KLAS®, as one of three firms provider organizations turn to most for privacy and security assistance in its groundbreaking report released in May 2014, entitled “Security and Privacy Perception 2014: High Stakes, Big Challenges.” For more information visit www.cynergistek.com, call 512.402.8550 or email [email protected]. 

    Media Contact:
    Chanel Benoit
    Senior Account Executive
    Aria Marketing
    617.332.9999 x 209
    [email protected]

    Posted 7.1.2015

  • CHIME Offers Recommendations to Senate HELP Health IT Working Group

    ANN ARBOR, MI, July 1, 2015 – In recommendations submitted today to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP), the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) identified several solutions for improving patient care delivery and supporting the nation’s transition to electronic health records.  CHIME, the healthcare industry’s leading professional organization for chief information officers and senior IT executives, made recommendations related to patient identification, quality measurement, standards identification, certification, patient engagement and Meaningful Use.

    CHIME pointed to the lack of a consistent patient identity matching strategy as the most significant challenge inhibiting the safe and secure electronic exchange of health information, calling for the removal of the prohibition barring federal regulators from identifying standards to improve positive patient identification.

    “Foundational to the vision espoused by the Committee to improve information exchange and improve patient care, is the ability of providers to accurately and consistently match patients with their data,” CHIME stated.  “With the removal of the outdated prohibition, we believe then that the nation can sincerely engage in a dialogue on finding solutions to solve this fundamental patient safety problem.”

    With the shift from fee-for-service to value-based reimbursement, CHIME called on the Senate HELP Committee to prioritize a unified strategy for quality measure reporting.  Currently, hospitals and physicians are required to report clinical quality measures (CQMs) to several public and private entities.  CHIME members refer to hours of work and expertise required to comply with these reporting demands and such burdens are exacerbated by a lack of technical harmonization.

    To facilitate interoperability and ensure data is being captured and exchanged in the same fashion, CHIME urged the Committee to support the federal government as the entity to incentivize the use of standards.

    CHIME also expressed the need for Congress to ensure that ONC dutifully reexamine its certification program and incorporate more robust interoperability testing in future Certified EHR Technology (CEHRT) Edition updates. To help the agency pivot its certification program towards interoperability, CHIME stated, Congress should:

    1. Require changes to ONC’s approach to testing;
    2. Enhance ONC’s ability to enforce adherence to certification program requirements;
    3. Establish mechanisms to bring more transparency to the performance of CEHRT, especially related to interoperability.

    CHIME concluded with recommendations to preserve the integrity of the EHR Incentive Program, reiterating its recommendation to delay the production of Stage 3 final rules until the completion of the 2016 program year.

    “The Meaningful Use program has been a successful driver of health IT adoption, but we need a course correction,” said CHIME CEO and President Russell P. Branzell, FCHIME, CHCIO. “Our members believe in the intent and promise of the program, but we must find the program’s true north.”

    “The thorough and methodical approach that the Committee has employed, under the leadership of Chairman Alexander and Ranking Member Murray, is commendable,” said Leslie Krigstein, CHIME Interim Vice President of Public Policy. “The Committee’s interest is extremely timely to ensure EHR systems, serving as the digital infrastructure for delivery system reform, meet the demands of patients and providers alike.” The full text of CHIME’s recommendations can be found here.

    About CHIME
    The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) is an executive organization dedicated to serving chief information officers and other senior healthcare IT leaders. With more than 1,500 CIO members and over 150 healthcare IT vendors and professional services firms, CHIME provides a highly interactive, trusted environment enabling senior professional and industry leaders to collaborate; exchange best practices; address professional development needs; and advocate the effective use of information management to improve the health and healthcare in the communities they serve. For more information, please visit www.chimecentral.org.

    Contact
    Stephanie Fraser
    Director of Communications and Corporate Relations, CHIME
    734.665.0000
    [email protected]

    Posted 7.1.2015
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