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Nordic reaches 600-consultant milestone
MADISON, WI – April 29, 2016 -– Nordic is proud to announce that it has hired its 600th consultant. The world’s largest Epic consulting practice, Nordic has grown rapidly since hiring its first consultant six years ago this month.
Nordic provides services from strategy through to IT execution and has seen continued growth in its Affiliate Solutions, Optimization Solutions, and Managed Services business lines.
As the high volume of mergers and acquisitions and the industry trend of health systems extending their EHR to smaller, independent partners has continued, Nordic’s Affiliate team has emerged as the industry leader in providing guidance and implementation support for extension projects with nearly 100 consultants working on extension projects right now.
Nordic’s Optimization Solutions helps clients get the most out of their EHR, having already provided over 100 rapid EHR assessments and 1,300 recommendations. Meanwhile, Nordic’s Managed Services has allowed clients to hand off support and maintenance tasks to Nordic’s industry-leading consultants for less than the cost of full-time employees.
As the industry moves toward value-based care, Nordic has also seen growing success in its newest business line, Data & Analytics, which equips organizations with the data they need, when and where they need it, to make critical decisions.
“As Nordic continues to grow, we remain committed to listening to our consultants, to honoring their preferences and facilitating their career development,” VP of Consulting Services Katherine Sager said. “That commitment has allowed us to hire and retain many of the best and the brightest consultants in the industry, who in turn deliver consistently superior results to our 170 clients.”
By building relationships with consultants and placing them in opportunities that best meet their needs and lifestyle, Nordic has attracted the most talented Epic consultants and an unparalleled depth and breadth of consultants to meet clients’ project needs.
About Nordic
Nordic is a trusted advisor to healthcare systems, connecting strategy through to IT execution. Nordic has worked with over 170 clients and offers advisory services, EHR implementation, optimization, managed services, and affiliate extension solutions. Renowned for excellence, Nordic helps clients improve the health of their patients and businesses while shaping the future of healthcare. Nordic has enjoyed consistently elite KLAS rankings since its inception, which is the greatest testament to its quality.Contact
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Five9 CEO Mike Burkland To Join Vocera Board of Directors
SAN JOSE, CA – April 28, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Vocera Communications, Inc. (NYSE:VCRA), the leading healthcare communications company, today announced that Mike Burkland, president and CEO of Five9, will join Vocera’s board of directors effective June 1, 2016.
Burkland joined Five9 as president and CEO in January 2008. Since then, he has built a company that has experienced rapid growth, making Five9 one of the largest and fastest growing providers of cloud-based contact center software. Mike has been responsible for the company’s strategic direction, financial success, and operational excellence.
“We were looking for someone who has successfully charted the path of rapid growth as a public company, and we are delighted to have identified such an outstanding individual. I’m confident that Mike is going to make an important and positive impact on our company,” said Brent Lang, president and CEO of Vocera. “With a long history of building enterprise software and cloud-based companies, I think Mike’s background will greatly benefit Vocera and our next generation of solutions.”
“I believe Vocera’s goals of improving care team communication and collaboration to improve operational excellence and elevate patient and staff experience are critical in today’s competitive healthcare environment,” said Burkland. “I’m honored to join the board of directors and help Vocera continue growing and making a difference in care delivery.”
Burkland will take the place of departing board member Hany M. Nada, who joined the Vocera board in May 2003 and has served on the Audit Committee since July 2004. Nada played a pivotal role on the board as the company transformed from a startup to a publicly-traded corporation. It was previously announced that Nada, who has served on the board for more than 13 years, is retiring from his board role on June 1.
“Hany’s contributions to Vocera have been invaluable,” said Lang. “On behalf of the board and the entire company, I want to thank him for providing us with strong leadership and valuable industry perspectives throughout his tenure on the board.”
About Vocera
Vocera Communications, Inc. offers the most robust clinical communications system in healthcare. Installed in more than 1,300 organizations worldwide, Vocera delivers secure, integrated and intelligent communication solutions that enable care teams to collaborate more efficiently by delivering the right information, to the right person, on the right device, in the right location, at the right time. Vocera solutions provide hands-free voice communication, secure text messaging, patient engagement tools, and integrated clinical workflow with EHRs, nurse call systems and physiological monitors. These solutions help improve operational efficiency, quality of care, safety and satisfaction across the continuum of care. In addition to technology solutions, Vocera drives thought leadership and new standards in care to elevate patient, family, nurse and physician experiences via the company’s research collaborative, the Experience Innovation Network. Vocera is headquartered in San Jose, California, with offices in San Francisco, Tennessee, Canada, India, United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom. For more information, visit www.vocera.com and @VoceraComm on Twitter.The Vocera logo is a trademark of Vocera Communications, Inc. Vocera® is a trademark of Vocera Communications, Inc. registered in the United States and other jurisdictions. All other trademarks appearing in this release are the property of their respective owners.
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Anita Pramoda Joins Health Catalyst Board
Former Epic Systems CFO & Allscripts board member adds further depth to strong corporate governance of healthcare analytics company
SALT LAKE CITY, UT – April 28, 2016 — Health Catalyst, a leader in healthcare data warehousing, analytics and outcomes improvement, announced that healthcare IT veteran Anita Pramoda has joined the company’s Board of Directors as an independent board member and a member of the Audit Committee.
Concurrently, Health Catalyst Executive Vice President and Co-Founder Steve Barlow has completed his service on the board after nearly five years of dedicated and effective participation in the governance of the company. Both changes are part of a planned evolution in the Board’s membership to ensure its makeup and structure will serve the company effectively as it grows and scales.
Pramoda brings over 20 years’ experience as a healthcare technology company chief financial officer, CEO and board director. She is currently the CEO and founder of Owned Outcomes, a software company that helps payors and providers with cognitive computing solutions to health improvement endeavors. Pramoda was a director of Allscripts from 2013 to April 2016, and served as CFO of Epic Systems from 2009 to 2012. She led Epic through a period of significant domestic market growth, its expansion into the governmental and international markets, and its launch into mobile health IT solutions.
“I am honored to join the Health Catalyst board of directors,” said Pramoda. “As the industry moves toward a value-based system of payment based on improved health outcomes, I am looking forward to working with Health Catalyst’s management team, which has built a significant track record of helping health systems to improve their clinical, financial and performance outcomes.”
Health Catalyst CEO Dan Burton commented, “Health Catalyst is thrilled to bring such a well-respected and experienced healthcare technology executive to our board of directors. Anita will prove to be a strategic asset given her experience as a CEO, CFO and board director of large private and public companies, and her unique knowledge of the healthcare technology industry.”
Burton continued, “I would also like to thank Steve Barlow for his dedicated service to the Board beyond the typical four-year term. He will of course continue to serve on the company’s senior leadership team, where he provides critical leadership to our professional services organization. With Anita’s inclusion and Steve’s departure, the Board’s makeup is now optimally configured to provide effective and independent long-term governance.”
Fraser Bullock, Chairman of Health Catalyst, added, “Anita’s significant financial and board experience will provide valuable expertise to Health Catalyst’s Board as the company executes on its strategic imperatives in 2016 and beyond. We look forward to benefiting from her vision and experience as a member of Health Catalyst’s board.”
Prior to Epic, Pramoda helped commercialize self-healing packaging technology into wholesale, retail, and military sectors at Ontech. Earlier in her career, she worked with companies in the technology and healthcare sectors on a variety of strategic advisory and financing assignments at UBS Investment Bank and served clients around the world in healthcare and life sciences at Arthur Andersen.
Anita holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering and a MBA from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
The Health Catalyst Board of Directors includes the following members in addition to Pramoda, Bullock and Burton: Penny Wheeler, MD, President and CEO of Allina Health; Michael Dixon, Partner at Sequoia Capital; Promod Haque, Senior Managing Partner of Norwest Venture Partners; Todd Cozzens, Managing Director of Leerink Capital; and John A. (“Jack”) Kane, Audit Committee Chairman of athenahealth, also serving as Health Catalyst’s Audit Committee Chairman.
About Health Catalyst
Health Catalyst is a mission-driven data warehousing, analytics and outcomes-improvement 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 65 million patients for organizations ranging from the largest US health system to forward-thinking physician practices. For more information, visit www.healthcatalyst.com, and follow them on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.Posted 4.29.2016 -
Impact Advisors Delivers Teddy Bears to Patients at Florida Hospital for Children
Firm stuffs & delivers 150 bears during annual all staff meeting
CHICAGO, IL – April 28, 2016 — Impact Advisors, LLC, a leading provider of healthcare information technology services, delivered 150 teddy bears today to patients at Florida Hospital for Children in Orlando, Fla. The firm was in Orlando for its annual all staff retreat, ImpactPalooza. “Having the opportunity to deliver teddy bears to children who are being treated at Florida Hospital for Children was one of the most touching experiences of my life,” said Andy Smith, President and Co- Founder of Impact Advisors. “We were honored to support the hospital with this donation that each of our Impact Advisors Associates had a hand (literally) in making. We were happy to partner with this exceptional healthcare organization on this activity and hopefully provide a brighter day for the children.”
On Wednesday night, during the firms’ ninth annual ImpactPalooza staff retreat, Associates and their guests stuffed, dressed and accessorized 150 teddy bears and other stuffed animals to be delivered to children at Florida Hospital for Children. Today, Andy Smith, President, Michael Nutter, Vice President, and Jenny McCaskey, Vice President delivered the bears to the hospital and had the opportunity to meet and deliver a bear to a patient. Each stuffed animal was also delivered with a birth certificate and a special message to each recipient. Nutter is a former Florida Hospital employee and McCaskey served as a consultant to Florida Hospital’s CCIO from 2004-2006. Florida Hospital is one of the largest not-for-profit hospitals in the United States.
Patients were elated to receive the special delivery, and their parents were thankful for the acts of kindness.
“We are grateful to Impact Advisors for their generous gift,” said Traci Woods, Patient Experience Director, Florida Hospital for Children. “This demonstration of support makes a tangible difference for our patients and families.”
About Impact Advisors, LLC
Impact Advisors is a nationally recognized healthcare information technology consulting firm that is solving some of the toughest challenges in the industry by delivering strategic advisory, implementation and optimization services. Their comprehensive suite of patient access, clinical and revenue cycle services span the lifecycle of our clients’ needs. Their experienced team has a powerful combination of clinical, revenue, operations, consulting, and IT experience. The firm has earned a number of prestigious industry and workplace awards including Best in KLAS® for eight consecutive years, Healthcare Informatics HCI 100, Crain’s Chicago Business Fast Fifty, as well as “best place to work” awards from: Modern Healthcare, Consulting Magazine, Becker’s Hospital Review and Achievers. For more information, about Impact Advisors, visit www.impact-advisors.com.
About Florida Hospital and Florida Hospital for Children
Opened in 1908, Florida Hospital is a faith-based institution focused on providing whole person care. It is one of the largest not-for-profit hospitals in the country, caring for more than two million patient visits per year – more than any other hospital in the country, according to the American Hospital Association. The Florida Division of Florida Hospital stretches from coast to coast with 26 hospitals, more than 4,600 patient beds, and more than 32,000 employees. The division includes the Walt Disney Pavilion at Florida Hospital for Children, dozens of outpatient facilities and 26 Centra Care urgent care locations throughout Central Florida. Florida Hospital provides a wide range of health services, including many nationally and internationally recognized programs in cardiology, cancer, women’s medicine, neurosciences, diabetes, orthopedics, pediatrics, transplant and advanced surgical programs. Florida Hospital is a designated statutory teaching hospital and also trains physicians from all around the world on the newest technologies.Florida Hospital for Children is committed to delivering world class programs, extraordinary patient care and clinical excellence. Our flagship hospital is the heart of a children’s network that includes primary care pediatricians, specialty clinics, emergency departments and Kids Urgent Care. With the help of Walt Disney Imagineering and input from patients, families and clinicians, Florida Hospital for Children features a seven-story, technologically advanced facility with a child-centered healing environment. We’ve assembled a world-class team of doctors, specialists, nurses and healthcare professionals who are second to none. At their disposal are some of the most advanced technologies, therapies and treatments available. We lead the way, not only in our approach to healthcare, but in research as well, finding new methods for treating children so we can improve outcomes. One of the premier children’s health systems in the nation, Florida Hospital for Children sets the standard for innovation, quality and comprehensive care.
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Inside CHIME: Building Partnerships to Transform Healthcare
4.27.16 by Matthew Weinstock
Director of Communications and Public Relations, CHIMEAs the delivery system continues to evolve to a value-based environment, providers and their IT partners must work hand-in-glove to create high-performing organizations. At the inaugural CHIME Partner Education Summit, leading provider CIOs will take Foundation firms on a deep dive into the world of delivery system transformation and what they need to be successful.
Meaningful Use. Population health. Value-based reimbursement. Clinical documentation. mHealth. Revenue cycle. Patient engagement. Physician engagement. Cybersecurity. Data analytics. Electronic quality measures.These are just a few of the issues topping the average healthcare CIO’s to-do list.
After more than a decade of building the foundation for a digitized healthcare environment, CIOs have shifted their focus to becoming strategic partners with the rest of the C-suite. Health IT is essential to propelling organizations toward the so-called Triple Aim of an improved patient experience, better population health, and reduced per capita costs.
But they can’t do it alone. Companies that design, build and deliver valuable products and services to providers need to be full partners in this journey. To do so, they must immerse themselves in the business of healthcare and fully understand the challenges that CIOs are facing.
“When I or someone from my organization walks into a CIO’s office, we better understand their business otherwise we are wasting the CIO’s time and ours,” says Frank Nydam, vice president for healthcare at VMware and a CHIME board member. “The entire industry is transforming and so should the traditional customer/vendor relationship. Exceptional partnerships can yield innovative solutions and transformational results for both parties, but you need put the time into to learn.”
That is part of the inspiration behind the inaugural CHIME Partner Education Summit, or CPES, September 15-16 in Chicago. Over the course of the one-and-a-half-day program, some of the nation’s leading CIOs will provide CPES attendees with expert firsthand insights into the business of healthcare and IT. During one panel discussion, CIOs will examine how new provider alliances and collaborations are not just changing care delivery, but also their purchasing decisions. Another panel will detail how IT firms and CIOs can forge long-term strategic partnerships. And, there will be an “Ask the CIO” session.
“We have to do a better job of being a partner, not a vendor, with CIOs,” says Nydam, chair of the CPES committee. “This is a very unique opportunity to dialogue with top CIOs and understand how their business is changing. Imagine being a product manager or engineer and hearing how your code impacts workflow and how one second or one click can make a difference to a nurse delivering patient care. Or for a marketing person to better understand how to get your message out there so you aren’t wasting a CIO’s time. And think about the sales person who gets a deeper understanding of how their product fits into the broader healthcare ecosystem. We want to light a fire inside of people so they are connected to the mission of healthcare, the mission of saving lives.”
These are lessons that Nydam learned with his own team. Several years ago, Nydam asked Russell Branzell, then at Poudre Valley Health System, to participate in a boot camp for his sales, marketing and engineering teams. Hearing how health IT impacted patient outcomes resulted a complete overhaul of the sales mentality. “We weren’t selling a product anymore,” Nydam says. “We were helping provide our customers with outcomes.”
To be sure, Foundation firms hold user-group meetings to solicit input from customers, but CPES will have a different feel, Nydam says. Often, user-group sessions are built around products or service offerings. CPES is geared toward understanding the dynamics of the changing healthcare environment. Also, attendees will have an opportunity to network with their peers and build stronger alliances with firms that often must work in tandem in provider settings.
“Rather than reading about what’s going on in a magazine, or hearing a sound bite, you can come to CPES and hear directly from a panel of CIOs about how they are becoming more strategic partners within their organizations,” Nydam says. “The business model is changing and we need to be thinking in terms of partnerships and delivering high-quality performance and outcomes across the board.”
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Inside CHIME: ‘We Are Better IT Executives Because of CHIME’
4.27.16 by Matthew Weinstock
Director of Communications and Public Relations, CHIMEWith CHIME’s 25th anniversary fast approaching, founding member John Glaser reflects on the growth of the organization and the evolving role of the CIO.
It started with a doodle on a napkin and has grown into a movement that’s helping to transform healthcare.
Nearly a quarter of a century ago, a handful of health IT leaders dreamed up the idea of forming a professional organization where CIOs could network, share ideas and support each other.
“I remember sitting in a HIMSS board meeting with Rich Correll and Rich Rydell discussing the need to help the field advance the CIO profession,” recalls John Glaser, former vice president and CIO at Partners HealthCare. “We talked about creating an organization where CIOs could learn from each other. Rich Rydell said that we should put ‘college’ in the title, similar to the American College of Healthcare Executives. Then Rich Correll wrote out CHIME on a napkin. That was the moment it started.”
This November, CHIME will hold its 25th Fall CIO Forum. And next April, the organization officially turns 25. During the course of the year, we’ll celebrate CHIME’s tremendous growth and the evolution of the CIO to, as the vision statement says, “Exceptional Leaders Transforming Healthcare.” (Do you have a memory you’d like to share? Maybe a photo or a video message? Click here to share your reflections, which we may use at CHIME16 and throughout the year.)
Similar to many things in healthcare, the evolution of the CIO lagged a bit behind other industries. In the early 1990s, CIOs were “largely the back office manager making sure the system was up,” says Glaser, who now serves as senior vice president of population health and global strategy at Cerner. “We could see our peers in other industries like transportation and financial services becoming more strategic partners and how IT could enable strategy.”
However, Glaser says, there were pockets of innovation in healthcare where IT was moving into the clinical realm and improving processes. Yet there was a void for CIOs to learn from each other.
“We wanted to have content and material that was really focused on the CIO and create an environment for networking and professional development. We wanted to bring CIOs together and form relationships,” Glaser adds.
Flash forward to 2016 and the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives now boasts more than 1,800 members, hosts a plethora of education and professional development events, and is helping shape IT policy in Washington, D.C. And, importantly, CHIME has helped CIOs forge lifelong professional and personal bonds.
“I give the organization credit for advancing the profession,” Glaser says. “CHIME developed Boot Camp, started offering scholarships for members to attend education programs, and built relationships with partner organizations across healthcare. We are better IT executives because of CHIME.”
But there’s no resting. Healthcare is evolving to a value-based model that extends across the continuum. As a result, CIOs need to continue to grow their knowledge base and expertise.
“We are at a critical place,” Glaser says. “We are moving from sick care to paying for quality. If you grew up in a hospital, you now have to look across delivery system, including care in the home. You have to understand accountable care and bundles and capitation. We are also coming to the end of the era of EHR adoption and shifting to getting the yield from those systems.”
As evidenced by such initiatives as the National Patient ID Challenge and the partnership with OpenNotes, as well as the LEAD Forum, Boot Camp and College LIVE, CHIME is poised to evolve alongside its members and continue to help them transform healthcare.
Again, click here to share your reflections about CHIME’s 25th anniversary.
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Inside CHIME: National Patient ID Challenge Draws Global Interest, Judges Announced
4.27.16 by Matthew Weinstock
Director of Communications and Public Relations, CHIMEMore than 340 innovators have set their sights on helping CHIME find a solution that will ensure private, accurate and safe patient identification.
CHIME’s bold initiative to solve the problem of inaccurate patient identification has sparked interest from across the globe. To date, 345 innovators from 39 countries have registered for the CHIME Healthcare Innovation Trust’s National Patient ID Challenge. Impressively, 113 of those competitors entered the Concept Blitz round, which closed yesterday. The Concept Blitz round allows innovators to get feedback from an expert panel of judges before moving onto the next round. CHIME on June 1 will name up to three winners from the Concept Blitz round, each receiving a $30,000 prize. Innovators were not required to enter this phase in order to be considered for the ultimate $1 million prize, which will be awarded in February 2017.
Here’s the remaining timeline for the NPID Challenge:
- June 1: Final innovation round opens
- July 12: Registration deadline for final innovation round
- November 10: Final submissions due
- February 2017: Grand prize winner announced
CHIME is also excited to announce the expert panel of judges who will ultimately determine the winning solution:
- Andy Gettinger, M.D., chief medical information officer, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
- Lynne Thomas Gordon, CEO, American Health Information Management Association
- S. Army Col. Nicole Kerkenbush, deputy program executive officer, Defense Healthcare Management System,
Depart of Defense - Lorraine Possanza, DPM, JD, MBE, director, patient safety, risk and quality , ECRI Institute
- Rulon Stacey, managing director, Navigant Leadership Institute; board member, Malcolm Baldrige National Quality
Board of Overseers
Click here to check in on the NPID Challenge and see a list of registered innovators (about half way down on the right hand side of the page).
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Inside CHIME: Check Out KnowledgeHub, the ‘Source of Truth’
4.27.16 by Matthew Weinstock
Director of Communications and Public Relations, CHIMECHIME’s new online tool offers members a content-rich platform for sharing and finding best practices.
CHIME is excited to officially launch KnowledgeHub, a new online tool that gives members access to a vast array of health IT information, case studies, white papers, best practices, and more.
KnowledgeHub allows members to tap into resources that exist across the organization and the membership, rather than trying to reinvent the wheel to solve a problem themselves. CHIME board member Cara Babachicos offers more insights in this video:
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More Than 340 Innovators Set Sights on Creating Patient Identification System
ANN ARBOR, MI, April 28, 2016 – A global crowd-sourcing competition aimed at finding a solution for accurate patient identification has drawn interest from more than 345 innovators across 39 countries, the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and HeroX reported today.
Launched last January, the CHIME Healthcare Innovation Trust’s National Patient ID Challenge encourages innovators to develop a way for healthcare providers in the United States to accurately, privately and safely identify patients 100 percent of the time. Among the 345 registered innovators, 113 entered the Concept Blitz round, which closed on April 27. The Concept Blitz round allows innovators to get feedback from an expert panel of judges before moving onto the next round. CHIME on June 1 will name up to three winners from the Concept Blitz round, each receiving a $30,000 prize. Innovators were not required to enter this phase in order to be considered for the ultimate $1 million prize.
The following timeline maps out the rest of the challenge:
- June 1: Final innovation round opens
- July 12: Registration deadline for final innovation round
- November 10: Final submissions due
- February 2017: Grand prize winner announced
“We are thrilled by the early response to the National Patient ID Challenge,” said Marc Probst, CHIME board chair and vice president and chief information officer at Intermountain Healthcare. “CIOs and others in healthcare have long seen the need for a way to accurately identify patients. It is a critical part of ensuring that patients can be matched to their data. It will improve patient safety and help remove millions of dollars in waste from the system. Having so many innovators registered for the competition and eager to bring forward a solution is a sign that we are ready to tackle this challenge once and for all.”
An independent panel of experts agreed to judge the National Patient ID Challenges. They are:
- Andy Gettinger, M.D., chief medical information officer, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
- Lynne Thomas Gordon, CEO, American Health Information Management Association
- S. Army Col. Nicole Kerkenbush, deputy program executive officer, Defense Healthcare Management System, Depart of Defense
- Lorraine Possanza, DPM, JD, MBE, director, patient safety, risk and quality , ECRI Institute
- Rulon Stacey, managing director, Navigant Leadership Institute; board member, Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Board of Overseers
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 1,800 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
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Clearwater Compliance Ranks in Top 20 for Second Consecutive Year
NASHVILLE, TN – April 26, 2016 — Clearwater Compliance, a leading provider of healthcare compliance and cyber risk management solutions, today announced it has earned another spot on the “20 Most Promising Enterprise Security Companies 2016” list by CIOReview Magazine, for the second consecutive year. A technology magazine that focuses on enterprise solutions, CIOReview is a leading source for technology decision makers.
The annual list, which CIOReview released this month, is based on a careful evaluation and selection process conducted by a panel of independent technology and industry experts. Clearwater Compliance was selected for the quality of solutions and expertise the company provides to the healthcare market and their service providers. CIOReview evaluated leading enterprise security companies on a wide range of parameters including execution, technology and market reach capabilities to rate maturity, experience and expertise.
“We are thrilled to be recognized as a top-ranking enterprise security company by CIO’s editorial board for the second year in a row,” said Bob Chaput, chief executive officer and founder, Clearwater Compliance. “Healthcare organizations are implementing not only new methods to protect patients and systems, but also new models for their patient safety, information security and risk management efforts. This prestigious award validates how Clearwater’s solutions address today’s evolving cyber risk management challenges.”
Clearwater’s solutions have been deployed at hundreds of hospitals, healthcare organizations, Fortune 100 companies and government institutions to help with HIPAA compliance and cyber risk management.
“During the evaluation process, it was evident that Clearwater Compliance clearly deserves to be recognized as a leader in technology solutions for the enterprise security industry, and we are proud to honor Clearwater Compliance this year,” said Jeevan George, managing editor of CIOReview.
The April 2016 edition of CIOReview Magazine is available here (p. 22).
About Clearwater Compliance
Clearwater Compliance, LLC is a leading provider of healthcare compliance and cyber risk management solutions. Its mission is to empower hospitals to successfully manage healthcare’s evolving cybersecurity threats and ensure patient safety. Exclusively endorsed by the American Hospital Association, Clearwater solutions have been deployed within hundreds of hospitals and health systems, including Fortune 100 organizations and other federal government institutions. Clearwater’s award-winning solutions have earned the trust of many of today’s largest and most prestigious hospitals by consistently delivering innovative solutions that address today’s evolving cyber threats. More information about Clearwater Compliance is at ClearwaterCompliance.com.About CIOReview
Published from Fremont, California, CIOReview is a print magazine that explores and understands the plethora of ways adopted by firms to execute the smooth functioning of their businesses. A distinguished panel comprising CEOs, CIOs, VCs, and analysts including the CIOReview editorial board finalized the “20 Most Promising Enterprise Security Companies 2016” in the US and shortlisted the best vendors and consultants. For more info: cioreview.comPosted 4.26.2016 -
Bipartisan Health IT Bill Would Bolster Efforts to Achieve Meaningful Use
Statement by CHIME President and CEO Russell Branzell, FCHIME, CHCIO on introduction of the Flexibility in EHR Reporting Act of 2016
ANN ARBOR, MI, April 20, 2016 –
“The Flexibility in EHR Reporting Act represents a sensible approach to modifying the Meaningful Use program by granting healthcare providers much-needed flexibility without compromising the goal of further digitizing healthcare. We are especially encouraged that both the Senate and House bills have bipartisan support. There’s growing acknowledgement across the industry that a 90-day reporting period for Meaningful Use, rather than the current 365-day construct, is a more reasoned approach to public policy.
“Healthcare providers are firmly committed to the goals of the Meaningful Use program and to using information technology to transform the delivery system. However, providers face significant changes to the Meaningful Use program once the federal government issues final rules under the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015. A 90-day reporting period would allow providers to adjust to the new regulatory environment all the while continuing to find innovate ways of using health IT to improve care processes and workflows.”
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 1,800 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
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CUMBERLAND CONSULTING GROUP TO OFFER LEGACY SYSTEM DATA MANAGEMENT SERVICES POWERED BY TRINISYS
NASHVILLE, TN – April 20, 2016 — Cumberland Consulting Group, a healthcare advisory, process improvement, information technology implementation and support services firm, announces the launch of legacy system data management services powered by Trinisys, a healthcare data automation and integration solutions platform. This new offering combines trusted advisory consulting services with an innovative data-archiving platform to help healthcare organizations successfully manage enterprise healthcare information technology (HIT) conversion projects.
“As organizations implement or inherit new HIT systems, they must determine what to do with the data in a legacy system – that’s where we come in,” said Brian Cahill, CEO of Cumberland Consulting Group. “Our legacy data management service offering meets the growing needs of our clients to cost effectively manage the migration, retention and access of legacy data in enterprise environments. Through our relationship with Trinisys, we are able to offer our clients a secure and accessible archiving and integration platform in addition to our strategic consulting services.”
Cumberland’s legacy system data management solutions will help providers decrease their total cost of ownership by eliminating infrastructure support and maintenance costs for retired systems and increase productivity through seamless access to legacy data. In addition, providers will reduce their risks of compromised data through secure storage on the Trinisys Convergence platform.
“Cumberland is a well-respected leader in strategic and comprehensive advisory services for the healthcare space,” said Antoine Agassi, chairman and CEO at Trinisys. “We are excited to work with the Cumberland team to assist providers in addressing critical data management challenges that often result from system replacement projects, mergers and acquisitions.”
As a part of its legacy system data management service offering, Cumberland will assess providers’ IT environments and create customized roadmaps that can be incorporated into system migration projects. The firm will advise clients on answering important questions, such as which legacy systems should be kept operational and which should be decommissioned, what data needs to be retained, and how users will need to access the data.
About Cumberland Consulting Group
Founded in 2004, Cumberland Consulting Group is a strategic business advisory, process improvement, information technology implementation and support services firm serving the payer, provider and life sciences healthcare verticals. Cumberland’s objectives are to help its clients advance the quality of services they deliver and to improve their overall business performance. For more information on Cumberland, visit www.cumberlandcg.com or follow Cumberland on Twitter at @CumberlandCG.About Trinisys
Trinisys revolutionizes the way enterprises automate business processes to lower costs and reduce time to market. A leader in Healthcare and Insurance, Trinisys has been deployed by Fortune 100 companies to small and medium-sized businesses to process over 1 billion transactions. The Trinisys platform unifies a powerful integration engine with a web platform that allows clients to create highly effective, customized solutions without custom software development. For more information about Trinisys, please visit www.trinisys.com.Media Contact
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615.373.4470Posted 4.20.2016