• Cardiopulmonary Corp. to Host Focus Group at CHIME15 Fall CIO Forum

    CEO Janet Dillione will gauge health IT leaders on emerging trends for improved patient care

     

    MILFORD, CT – October 6, 2015 –- Cardiopulmonary Corp (Bernoulli), a recognized leader in real-time connected healthcare, will conduct a focus group session during the upcoming CHIME15 Fall CIO Forum on Friday, October 16. The conference, which brings together health IT executives and chief information officers, is hosted by the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and will take place in Orlando, Fla., from October 14-17.

    The focus group, entitled Using Emerging HIT to Increase Patient Safety and Improve Outcomes – Are We There Yet? will be led by Cardiopulmonary Corp. CEO Janet Dillione and examine how the market is shifting beyond electronic health record adoption and Meaningful Use checklists to deliver long-term success. Emerging applications such as alarm management, clinical surveillance monitoring, telemedicine, real-time predictive analytics, and evidence-based medicine support tools show great promise to improve care and reduce costs.

    This session will bring together CIOs and other health IT executives to explore where these innovative trends fit in their crowded list of priorities. Is Meaningful Use and digital documentation of care still the primary focus? Or is the desire to demonstrate value-based care moving to the forefront? The focus group will also share actual results from early adopters of these applications, best practices for improving patient satisfaction and ways to leverage these trends to drive efficiency in clinical workflow.

    “Clinical surveillance, virtual ICUs, alarm management and predictive analytics are just a few of the new applications shifting today’s healthcare marketplace, and many CIOs are wondering if and how their organizations could benefit,” said Ms. Dillione. “This unique setting allows us to engage with IT leaders on the frontlines, hear how they are approaching and adapting to healthcare’s rapidly changing landscape, and understand the real costs and considerations they face in finding a solution to their institution’s unique challenges.”

    About Cardiopulmonary Corp (Bernoulli)
    Founded in 1989 with headquarters in Milford, CT, Cardiopulmonary Corp. is a leader in real-time connected healthcare, with more than 1,500 installed, operational systems. Its flagship Bernoulli Enterprise system provides an extensible platform for Medical Device Connectivity, Alarm Management, Clinical Surveillance, Virtual ICU and Analytics to enable better outcomes, reduce the cost of care and improve patient and staff satisfaction. For more information visit our website at www.cardiopulmonarycorp.com or follow them on Twitter.

    Posted 10.6.2015

  • Black Book Announces 2015 Healthcare Financial Solutions Top Honors

    Hospital viability is now vulnerably reliant on the success of a single organizational venture: financial system transformation. As the healthcare delivery industry deals with ICD-10, EHR issues, physician alignment, population health, interoperability, value-based reimbursement reforms, & decision support, CFOs embark on the major restructuring of hospital technology priorities for survival.

    TAMPA, FL – October 2, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Black Book™ surveyed 1,191 hospital Chief Financial Officers, Vice Presidents of Finance, Controllers and Directors, to determine the top performing vendors among in-demand financial software, systems and outsourcing services, and assess the gaps and urgencies of hospital financial administration. The highest ranked vendors in customer satisfaction and client experience are announced in twenty-four financial solution functionalities and systems.

    Photo – http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20151001/273284

    Additionally, 2,250 respective hospital CFOs, CIOs, business office managers, tech and financial staffers contributed their perceptions on Financial Systems Software and Services Solutions to Black Book™ between April and September 2015. Additionally the business managers of 607 outpatient, alternative care, and physician practices owned by hospital systems also submitted ballots and evaluated separately. 528 hospital and inpatient organizations were represented in the survey in total.

    “Most hospital CFOs have no choice but to leverage next generation financial system solutions including software and outsourced services in order to keep their organizations solvent. The reimbursement challenges ahead to get paid may require several new applications. The frank reality is that outdated, understaffed and failing current solutions could quickly close a marginally performing hospital for good,” said Doug Brown, Managing Partner of Black Book Market Research.

    88% of chief financial officers with negative 2014 operating margins report slow or no progress towards orchestrating a technology infrastructure to support value-based models.

    “Given the complexities of each individual hospital, implementing the right software and outsourcing solutions in delicate sequence is crucial as to not create an even more adverse situation through the transition,” said Brown. “Trends in Medicare reimbursement, declining inpatient volumes, rising expenses and bad debt have most hospitals across the country struggling to avoid a financial stability crisis.”

    70% of struggling hospitals are putting population health, analytics, physician practice acquisitions and recruitment, and patient engagement on the back burner, an improvement from 84% in 2014.

    In contrast, 89% of CFOs hospitals performing at margins supporting long term viability (over 3%) report successful revenue cycle management transformations initiated, with 2016 capital expenditures planned for upgraded tools such as dashboards, analytics and business intelligence, population health, physician portals, patient engagement solutions and continued acquisitions.

    Black Book™ also announced the top performing financial software and outsourced services vendors as ranked by customer satisfaction on eighteen client experience based key performance indicators in thirty-four categories of financial services and technology solutions.

    “With so many organizations facing operating margins below the minimal thresholds for long-term financial stability and sustainability, boards and CEO’s are moving financial support solutions and outsourcing initiatives to the top of their 2016 capital expenditure priorities,” said Brown.

    Black Book’s 2015 financial solutions survey results can be viewed at www.blackbookmarketresearch.com/finance-revenue-cycle-management/

    Ranking highest in financial services client experience are:

    • Accountable Care Organization Financial Software & Services – Conifer Health
    • Accounting & Audit Outsourcing Firms –McGladrey
    • Benchmarking and Performance Measurement – Truven Health Analytics
    • Business Decision Support Software – Allscripts EPSI
    • Business Intelligence Dashboards – Tableau
    • Capital And Equipment Planning Software – Infor
    • CFO & Board Strategic Financial Advisory Consultants – Beacon Consultants
    • Charge Capture & Charge Master Tools – MedAssets
    • Claims Management/Clearinghouse – Availity
    • Collections Outsourcing & Accounts Receivables Debt – Transunion Healthcare
    • Computer Assisted Coding & Medical Records Solutions- Nuance
    • Cost Accounting – Strata Decision
    • Denial Management/Third Party Recovery – Adreima
    • Early Out/Self Pay Solutions – Avadyne Health
    • Enterprise Master Patient Index Tools – Allscripts
    • Enterprise Scheduling Software – Avantas
    • Enterprise Resource Planning Software – Infor
    • Financial Documentation & Content Management Solutions – Streamline Health
    • Insurance & Payer Eligibility Verification Solutions – Recondo Technology
    • Managed Care Payment/Reimbursement Solutions – Wellcentive
    • Medical Transcription Services Outsourcing -M*Modal
    • Operational Budgeting & Forecasting Software – Healthcare Insights
    • Outsourced Financial Analytics – TriZetto Provider Solutions
    • Patient Accounting – Siemens
    • Patient Portals – athenahealth
    • Physician Data Portals – InteHealth
    • Predictive Provider Analytics – Jvion
    • Supply Chain & Asset Inventory Management Software – AssetWorks
    • Time & Attendance Software – ADP
    • Top ranked RCM outsourcing and technology solution vendors were announced also this week:
    • Revenue Cycle Management Outsourcing, Hospital Managed Systems Corporations/Systems/Networks and Chains – Optum360
    • Revenue Cycle Management Outsourcing, Standalone Hospital Managed Service Under 150 Beds – Emdeon
    • Revenue Cycle Management Outsourcing, Hospital Managed Services Over 150 Beds – Conifer Health
    • Revenue Cycle Management Software/SaaS/RCM Technology (Hospitals & Chains Over 200 Beds) – Optum360
    • Revenue Cycle Management Software/SaaS/RCM Technology (Under 200 Beds) – Zirmed

    About Black Book™
    Black Book Rankings, a division of Black Book Market Research LLC, provides healthcare IT users, media, investors, analysts, quality minded vendors, and prospective software system buyers, pharmaceutical manufacturers, and other interested sectors of the financial and clinical technology industries with comprehensive comparison data of the industry’s top respected and competitively performing technology, services and outsourcing vendors.

    The largest user opinion poll of its kind in healthcare IT, Black Book™ collects over 400,000 viewpoints on information technology and outsourced services vendor performance annually. For methodology, auditing, resources, comprehensive research and ranking data see www.blackbookrankings.com.

    Posted 10.6.2015

  • Rush-Copley Medical Center Selects Merge Healthcare to Further Enhance Patient Care

    Solutions to streamline processes, improve healthcare coordination in Illinois’ Fox Valley Region

    CHICAGO, IL – October 6, 2015 — Merge Healthcare Incorporated (NASDAQ: MRGE), a leading provider of clinical systems and innovations that seek to transform healthcare, entered into an agreement with Rush-Copley Medical Center to provide Merge PACS™, iConnect® Access and iConnect® Enterprise Archive. Rush-Copley Medical Center is a 210-bed hospital providing state-of-the-art health and wellness services to the greater Fox Valley region of Illinois, including the state’s second largest city, Aurora.

    Rush-Copley Medical Center was seeking to overhaul its suite of imaging technology to provide solutions that would streamline the process for their more than 170,000 radiology procedures per year. By leveraging Merge PACS and iConnect solutions, Rush-Copley will be able to access a consolidated view of a patient’s health record, reduce the amount of duplicate tests ordered allowing for more efficient patient care.

    “We are continually searching for workflow improvement solutions that provide radiologists with the ability to customize their personal work lists and improve inefficiencies,” said Thomas Markuszewski, director imaging services at Rush-Copley Medical Center. “We chose Merge Healthcare as our business partner to support us as we move to Stage 2 of Meaningful Use.”

    “Having access to a patient’s comprehensive health record is key to helping our clients deliver the highest quality and most cost-effective care to their patients. Merge looks forward to working as Rush- Copley’s technology partner as they continue to streamline their data exchange processes within the Fox Valley region and beyond,” said Justin Dearborn, chief executive officer of Merge Healthcare.

    About Merge
    Merge is a leading provider of innovative enterprise imaging, interoperability and clinical systems that seek to advance healthcare. Merge’s enterprise and cloud-based technologies for image intensive specialties provide access to any image, anywhere, any time. Merge also provides clinical trials software with end-to-end study support in a single platform and other intelligent health data and analytics solutions. With solutions that have been used by providers for more than 25 years, Merge is helping to reduce costs, improve efficiencies and enhance the quality of healthcare worldwide. For more information, visit merge.com and follow them on Twitter @MergeHealthcare.

    Posted 10.6.2015

  • Patient-Centered Medical Home Expert Jeanette Ball of CTG Speaks at MGMA 2015 Annual Conference

    DALLAS, TX – October 5, 2015

    WHAT:
    Jeanette Ball, BSN, RN, PCMH CCE, Delivery Manager, Advisory Services, CTG, will present “Technology as a Firm Foundation for Successful PCMH Implementation” at the MGMA 2015 Annual Conference in Nashville, Tennessee. Named among the first 100 National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) patient-centered medical home (PCMH) content experts in the nation, Ball is a healthcare executive leader with more than 28 years of clinical nursing and operational experience. She has led three community-wide Quality and PCMH projects impacting more than 300 practices and 900 providers, and has personally assisted dozens of practices in their attainment of NCQA PCMH recognition.

    EDUCATION SESSION TIME/PLACE/REGISTRATION:
    8 to 9 am (CDT), Tuesday, October 13, 2015. Room: Lincoln C/D/E, Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center. Click here to register.

    PRESENTATION TOPIC:
    The patient-centered medical home (PCMH) model has received growing attention as communities improve the quality of patient populations by delivering high-quality, cost-effective accessible care. The PCMH model transforms how care is delivered by strengthening the physician-patient relationship through a model of coordinated, patient-partnered healthcare and ongoing quality measures. This is especially important with increasing focus on the Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment (DSRIP) program affecting cost delivery for underserved vulnerable populations in many states.

    Using technology is the enabler that can drive significant change if coordinated and in synch with clinical and quality programs. PCMH offers a guided path toward understanding and affecting an organization’s population health. Ball will explore how PCMH was used to improve diabetic health outcomes in a community-wide PCMH initiative across western New York, covering an eight-county area and more than 200 practices. She will also discuss how PCMH can be used to effectively prepare practices for population management and continuous quality-driven programs.

    INTERVIEW OPPORTUNITY:
    On-site and post-event interviews can be arranged for Jeanette Ball, BSN, RN, PCMH CCE, Delivery Manager, Advisory Services, CTG. Click here for Ball’s photo.

    CTG provides industry-specific IT strategy, services, and solutions that address the business needs and staffing challenges of clients in high-growth industries in North America and Western Europe. Backed by nearly 50 years of experience and proprietary methodologies, CTG has a proven track record of reliably delivering high-value, industry-specific staffing services and solutions to its clients. CTG operates in North America and Western Europe, and regularly posts news and other important information online at www.ctg.com.

    Posted 10.5.2015

  • Healthcare IT Leaders Taking Steps to Address Cybersecurity Risks

    ANN ARBOR, MI, October 5, 2015 – As healthcare becomes increasingly digitized, providers find themselves at growing risk of a cyber attack. These attacks not only pose a threat to personal identity, but also patient safety given the growing number of internet-enabled devices.

    College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) members take their role of safeguarding their intuitions from nefarious actors very seriously. Hospital CIOs continue to ramp up such security measures as single sign-on, identity management and data loss prevention. According to the 2015 Healthcare’s Most Wired™ Survey, 94 percent of Most Wired hospitals have privacy audit systems in place and 79 percent conduct cybersecurity tabletop exercises.

    As part of National Health IT Week, CHIME, along with HIMSS and the Association for Executives in Health Information Security (AEHIS), will hold a briefing Tuesday, Oct. 6, “Cybersecurity in Healthcare: The Growing Challenge of Securing Patient Data.” Leaders from across the industry will highlight efforts being taken to protect patient data.

    With healthcare now a prime target, it is imperative that industry leaders and government officials work in tandem to minimize the risk of a cyberattack, something that President Obama acknowledging when he designated October National Cyber Security Awareness Month. In comments last year on the federal government’s Cybersecurity Framework, which applied to multiple critical industries, CHIME pointed out that healthcare has some distinctive characteristics. These include healthcare’s regulatory environment; the various settings from which care is delivered; the varied resources of small, rural and critical access hospitals; the need to identify financial incentives for investment; and the need to craft policies that do not inhibit health information exchange and mobile health. As a result, CHIME believes that the federal government should work with healthcare stakeholders to develop industry-specific standards for protecting health information from cyber criminals.

    “Both Congress and regulatory agencies need to work with the industry to advance better information sharing,” said Charles Christian, FCHIME, LCHIME, CHCIO, chair of the CHIME Board of Trustees. “We also encourage Congress to pursue legislation that harmonizes the patchwork of regulations governing privacy, security and risk management.”

    Tuesday’s briefing will be in 562 Dirksen Senate Office Building, 12:00-1:30 pm. Click here to RSVP. 

    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 1,700 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 chimecentral.org.


    Contact
    Matthew Weinstock
    Director of Communications and Public Relations, CHIME
    734.249.8917
    [email protected]

    Posted 10.5.2015

  • Intelerad Releases Latest Version of their Cross-Enterprise Workflow Solution

    InteleOne XE provides an alternative to replacing key systems while enhancing collaboration, performance & quality across multi-site health organizations

    DENVER, CO & MONTREAL, CA – September 30, 2015 — Intelerad Medical Systems™, a leader in medical imaging solutions, today announced the release of InteleOne XE, the latest version of their cross-enterprise workflow and universal image access solution.

    “InteleOne XE represents the culmination of eight years’ work developing and deploying cross-enterprise workflow solutions to a wide range of customers,” said Randall Oka, President, Intelerad. “This includes large hospitals, reading groups and teleradiology organizations across North America, Oceania and the United Kingdom.”

    A rapidly-deployed solution, InteleOne XE provides an alternative to replacing critical and costly systems by seamlessly linking clinicians to data stored in existing HIS, RIS, EMR, PACS, and VNA systems. This enables the enterprise to:

    • Gain the benefits of a cross-enterprise system without having to endure a PACS replacement or deploy a VNA.
    • Unify multiple sites while maximizing use of existing infrastructure and avoiding data migrations at the same time.
    • Balance workloads across the enterprise and improve subspecialist utilization.
    • Enhance collaborative care by connecting clinicians across multiple sites and health providers.
    • Increase efficiency, eliminate duplicate imaging and improve clinical outcomes by automatically retrieving all patient data located across the imaging ecosystem.

    In addition, InteleOne XE provides a great deal of flexibility by allowing them to easily add or remove systems from the imaging ecosystem. This is particularly valuable during a merger or acquisition as sites can be easily added or removed from the enterprise.

    For clinical staff, the solution’s ability to unify multiple sites greatly enhances performance and quality across the enterprise. This is accomplished by using Intelerad’s Assignment Engine to balance workloads across the enterprise and enhance subspecialist utilization; enhancing collaboration by connecting clinicians across multiple sites; avoiding duplicate scans by providing access to all patient data across the imaging ecosystem; and enabling radiologists to read their entire caseload from a single, standards-based user interface.

    “We recognize that the medical imaging industry is currently in a state of flux. For some, it’s not an ideal time to invest in new medical imaging systems, while others are looking to work with more flexible vendors,” said Oka. “With InteleOne XE, our goal is to work with health enterprises to advance the capabilities of their imaging ecosystem without having to replace its existing pieces.”

    Health organizations looking to receive a demo of InteleOne XE at RSNA 2015, can book them directly with Intelerad at www.intelerad.com/inteleone-xe.

    About Intelerad
    Intelerad Medical Systems is a leader in distributed radiology, specializing in RIS, PACS and workflow solutions for healthcare organizations. Intelerad solutions increase productivity and streamline workflow by overcoming technical barriers in distributed and complex environments. Highly scalable, flexible and robust, Intelerad’s solutions offer high performance and industry leading customer service and support. Intelerad solutions are used in more than 1,000 sites across North America, Oceania and the United Kingdom. For more information, visit www.intelerad.com.

    Posted 10.2.2015

  • Impact Advisors Participates in National Health IT Week

    Firm celebrates healthcare IT through awareness activities

    Chicago, IL – October 1, 2015 — Impact Advisors, LLC, a leading provider of healthcare information technology services, is partnering with hundreds of organizations across the country to celebrate National Health IT (NHIT) Week. The firm will be promoting the important role that health information technology plays in improving healthcare delivery in America by participating in several awareness activities throughout the week. NHIT Week is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year.

    “Our participation in National Health IT week highlights our commitment to improving healthcare through technology which ultimately provides better outcomes for patients,” said Peter Smith, CEO and Co-Founder of Impact Advisors. “As a firm, we are excited to participate in a number of awareness activities that stress the importance of healthcare IT.”

    NHIT Week, which begins on Monday, October 5, is a collaborative forum and virtual awareness week that assembles key healthcare constituents dedicated to working together to elevate the necessity of advancing health through the best use of information technology. The theme for this year’s NHIT Week is One Voice, One Vision: Transforming Health. The goal is to educate and build awareness on how health information technology improves the quality of healthcare delivery, increases patient safety, decreases medical errors, and strengthens the interaction between patients and healthcare providers. For more information, visit www.healthitweek.org.

    Impact Advisors will be participating in NHIT Week by promoting the virtual event internally as well as on its social media sites and posting several blogs on its website.

    For more information on Impact Advisors, visit www.impact-advisors.com or visit the company on Facebook www.facebook.com/impactadvisors.

    About Impact Advisors, LLC
    Impact Advisors, a distinguished healthcare information technology consulting firm, improves its clients’ healthcare delivery through technology. As a trusted healthcare leader, the firm helps hospitals and health systems maximize clinical and operational performance with its Best in KLAS® strategic advisory, implementation and optimization services. Since its inception, Impact Advisors has consulted to more than 140 hospitals and health systems nationally and internationally. The firm has earned a number of industry and workplace quality awards including Best in KLAS® for seven consecutive years, Healthcare Informatics HCI 100, Crain’s Chicago Business Fast Fifty and Modern Healthcare’s Best Places to Work.  or more information about Impact Advisors, visit www.impact-advisors.com.

    Posted 10.1.2015
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