• Impact Advisors Named to Modern Healthcare’s Best Places to Work in Healthcare List for Seventh Consecutive Year

    Firm’s culture recognized by prestigious publication

    CHICAGO, IL – July 13, 2016 — Impact Advisors, LLC, a leading provider of healthcare information technology services, is pleased to announce that it has been selected – for the seventh consecutive year – as one of Modern Healthcare’s Best Places to Work in Healthcare. Specific rankings will be revealed during Modern Healthcare’s awards gala in New Orleans on October 6.

    “We are extremely honored to once again be named to Modern Healthcare’s Best Places to Work in Healthcare list,” said Andy Smith, President and Co-Founder of Impact Advisors. “We believe that creating a successful organization starts with creating a great culture. If you invest in your people, results for your clients will follow.”

    Modern Healthcare’s Best Places to Work in Healthcare recognition program, now in its ninth year, honors workplaces throughout the healthcare industry that empower their employees to provide patients and customers with the best possible care, products and services. Each year 100 companies are recognized on the list which was compiled using information gathered from employers and employees of companies with at least 25 employees. Employees are surveyed to evaluate their employer in several areas including leadership and planning, culture and communications, role satisfaction, working environment, relationships with supervisor, training and development, pay and benefits and overall satisfaction.

    “This is our seventh consecutive year being named to this prestigious list and each year we learn we received the recognition is more exciting than the last,” said Michael Nutter, Vice President and Happiologist at Impact Advisors. “We are looking forward to celebrating this honor with our Associates as it is their strong commitment to our mission and values that have created our culture of caring.”

    Impact Advisors is committed to maintaining and enhancing firm culture and associate satisfaction. The firm continuously invests in providing opportunities for its team to demonstrate and enhance their capabilities and is dedicated to providing year-round employee engagement events. In addition to recognition by Modern Healthcare on its Best Places to Work in Healthcare list, Impact Advisors has earned a number of other workplace awards including Consulting magazine’s “Best Small Firms to Work For,” Becker’s Healthcare “150 Great Places to Work in Healthcare” and Achiever’s “ 50 Most Engaged Workplaces.”

    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 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 their 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.

    Posted 7.13.2016

  • East Texas Medical Center Regional Healthcare System Selects Orion Health’s Rhapsody

    Interoperability, flexibility & sustainability: ETMC will use Rhapsody to integrate more than 300 interfaces systemwide

    TYLER, TX – July 12, 2016 — East Texas Medical Center Regional Healthcare System (ETMC) has selected Orion Health’s Rhapsody Integration Engine® to seamlessly connect its system of primary, secondary and tertiary healthcare facilities and services throughout East Texas. Rhapsody achieves rapid interoperability between healthcare IT systems, which enables connected solutions in less time and at a lower cost.

    ETMC has 12 hospitals and 40 clinics. ETMC’s IT leadership team undertook a rigorous selection process that led to their decision to go with Orion Health’s interface engine. “Rhapsody has what we believe are superior development, testing and monitoring tools,” said John Lee, director of software services for ETMC. “The technology solution gives us the ability to seamlessly, securely and easily integrate more than 300 interfaces from across our regional health system.”

    Rhapsody enables real time data acquisition and transformation between ETMC’s clinical and non-clinical applications. Rhapsody has been purchased by over 450 direct customers and there are close to 10,000 Rhapsody installations through Orion Health’s expansive network of OEM partners. “Choosing an interface engine is an important long-term decision for any hospital or health system, because the technology will likely be leveraged for decades to come,” Lee said. “We were looking for a flexible and ‘future-proofed’ integration solution to replace our previous interface engine,” he explained. “We used a recent KLAS report on interface engines to create a short list of products to evaluate. Product demos and our IT group’s in-depth compare-and-contrast evaluation ultimately led to the Rhapsody Integration Engine as our top choice.”

    With value-based care readiness a top priority for health systems, the delivery of coordinated, efficient care is more important than ever. “The interface engine that hospitals, health systems and other provider groups select must be equipped to meet the industry’s ever-changing integration and interoperability needs,” said Harish Panchal, global vice president of sales at Orion Health. “Rhapsody’s ability to tackle complex technical issues and interoperability challenges makes it a perfect fit for ETMC and similar organizations seeking long-term technology solutions with flexibility and sustainability.”

    Lee added: “Population health management continues to gain momentum in the healthcare industry. Orion Health’s Rhapsody Integration Engine meets our current needs while also preparing us for the future.”

    Rhapsody provides comprehensive support for an extensive range of communication protocols and message formats (such as HL7, X12, NCPDP, Web Services and many more), and helps interface analysts and hospital IT administrators reduce their workload while meeting complex technical challenges. Rhapsody 6.2 continues to build upon its FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) capabilities with JSON and HTTP Rest support within Rhapsody routes—enabling organizations to use them generically and to start implementing FHIR-based interfaces.

    About ETMC
    East Texas Medical Center Regional Healthcare System offers a network of primary, secondary and tertiary healthcare facilities and services that extend care throughout a 40-county area of East Texas. ETMC operates 12 hospitals and 40 clinics. The 464-bed flagship hospital in Tyler offers a host of specialized centers of excellence, including a Level I trauma center and institutes in cardiac, oncology, orthopedics, psychiatry and neuroscience care. ETMC also serves the East Texas region through a large rehabilitation/wellness network and extensive home health coverage. Regional hospitals offer a host of inpatient and outpatient services and designated trauma centers. ETMC further extends emergency care through East Texas via three emergency helicopters and one of the state’s largest ambulance systems. The organization’s philosophy is to improve the quality of life in East Texas by fostering care at the highest levels possible in the communities served by ETMC. To learn more, visit etmc.org and connect on Facebook, Twitter or YouTube.

    About Orion Health
    Orion Health is a technology company that provides solutions that enable healthcare to over 100 million patients in more than 25 countries. Its open technology platform seamlessly integrates all forms of relevant data to deliver population health and precision medicine solutions across the entire health community. Orion Health makes healthcare information available anywhere by providing healthcare IT connectivity in every U.S. state and in over 30 countries worldwide. With an inherent ability to interconnect a wide variety of healthcare information systems, Orion Health’s Amadeus, with Rhapsody Integration Engine, facilitates data acquisition and aggregation within and among payer and provider organizations, accountable care organizations, governments and health information exchanges. The company employs more than 1,250 people globally and is committed to continual innovation, investing over 30 percent of total operating revenue year to date in research and development, to cement its position at the forefront of precision medicine. For more information, visit www.orionhealth.com/us and connect on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.

    Media Contact 
    Marcia Rhodes
    Amendola Communications for Orion Health
    480.664.8412 ext. 15
    [email protected]

    Posted 7.13.2016

  • Impact Advisors Participates in Run to Home Base Event

    Firm teams up for event to support veterans & their families

     CHICAGO, IL – July 12, 2016 — Impact Advisors, LLC, a leading provider of healthcare information technology services, is participating in the 2016 Run to Home Base Event at Fenway Park in Boston. Three members of the Impact Advisors’ team, “Team Impact,” will be running the race and several other Associates will participate on the “Cheer Squad.” The team’s goal is to raise $2,250 which will bring the firm’s total lifetime contributions to the Home Base Program to nearly $20,000 raised. This is the sixth consecutive year Impact Advisors will participate in this event.

    “I am so happy to be able to participate in an event with a mission to make an impact on our veterans’ lives,” said Annamarie Kelly, Senior Advisor at Impact Advisors and organizer of “Team Impact.”  “I am also very honored to work for a company that supports its employees’ passions whether that be community outreach events or professional development activities.”

    Run to Home Base is an event that supports Home Base, a Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital program, which is dedicated to healing the invisible wounds of war for service members, post-9/11 veterans, and their families through clinical care, wellness, education and research. The event, which takes place on Saturday, July 23, is a 9 kilometer/5.6-mile race and 2.5-mile walk that starts and ends at Fenway Park in Boston.

    “Impact Advisors is proud to support this event which provides much needed services to our veterans and their families,” said Andy Smith, President of Impact Advisors. “Our firm is dedicated to creating a fun and rewarding place to work and that includes supporting our Associates in community events that are important to them.”

    Team Impact raises money primarily through asks for individual donations. The company also has a matching gift program that team members take advantage of to raise additional funds.

    For more information on Run to Home Base, visit www.runtohomebase.org.

    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 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 their 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.

    Media Contact:
    Karli Smith
    Chartwell Agency
    815.977.5343
    [email protected]

    Posted 7.13.2016

  • CHIME: House Appropriations Committee Could Clear Way for Collaboration on National Patient Identification Strategy

    ANN ARBOR, MI, July 12, 2016 – Statement by Leslie Krigstein, vice president of congressional affairs, CHIME, on Labor, Health and Human Services and Education appropriations report language from the House Appropriations Committee:

    Every year since 1999, Congress has passed appropriations bills prohibiting the Department of Health and Human Services from using funds to promulgate or adopt a rule that would establish a unique health identifier. While we continue to believe that the ban should be lifted, we applaud the House Appropriations Committee for clarifying the limitations this restriction places on HHS and for encouraging the department to work with the private sector on developing a national patient identification and patient matching strategy.

    Accurate patient identification is a linchpin to creating a safer and more efficient healthcare delivery system. Unfortunately, the lack of a national patient identification system results in some patients being misidentified. The safety implications of that are immense. According to a 2012 survey, 20 percent of CHIME members could attribute at least one adverse medical event to patient identification or matching mistakes. CHIME has taken the bold step of trying to solve this problem once and for all. The CHIME Healthcare Innovation Trust’s National Patient ID Challenge — a $1 million crowdsourcing competition — aims to find a viable and scalable solution to ensure accurate patient identification 100 percent of the time. CHIME will award the $1 million grand prize to the winning developer in 2017.

    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 1,900 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 7.12.2016

  • Consulting Powerhouses ECG Management Consultants & Kurt Salmon’s Healthcare Division Join Forces

    SAN DIEGO, CA – July 12, 2016 —– The healthcare division of Kurt Salmon US, Inc., is joining ECG Management Consultants, one of the nation’s leading consulting firms serving health systems, hospitals, medical groups, and academic medical centers. ECG has signed a purchase agreement with Kurt Salmon’s parent company, Management Consulting Group PLC (LSE:MMC), a London-based professional services company. Terms of the transaction, which is expected to close within several weeks, were not disclosed.

    The Kurt Salmon acquisition represents a significant milestone for ECG, which has been expanding its size and scope to better meet the complex needs of healthcare organizations. The two firms’ combined strengths, complementary service offerings, and shared commitment to leading healthcare forward will give the industry a comprehensive consulting resource with decades of experience helping providers and payors thrive.

    Known for its strategic approach and integrated perspective, Kurt Salmon provides three major service lines: strategy, facility and capital assets, and information technology. These areas of expertise tightly align with ECG’s core service offerings in strategy, operations, finance, and technology.

    “Kurt Salmon’s healthcare division is a natural fit with ECG, sharing a singular focus on healthcare. If you look at the expertise and capabilities of each firm, what we will be able to accomplish together for the benefit of our clients is really unmatched in the industry,” said ECG CEO Gary Edmiston. “Coming together allows us to strengthen ECG’s current suite of services and expand our offerings in strategic planning, facility and capital assets planning, and IT strategy in order to fully serve the healthcare organizations we work with.”

    Andy Bachrodt, managing partner of Kurt Salmon’s healthcare division, sees the combined strengths of the two firms as a clear opportunity to better serve the needs of the healthcare industry, which is undergoing massive transformation. “We are excited to join forces with the ECG team. Our firms are highly aligned in culture, capability, and client base, and we see great opportunity to build upon our respective strengths,” said Bachrodt. “Our clients across the spectrum – from community hospitals, regional and national health systems, children’s hospitals, academic medical centers, and schools of medicine – will benefit from the depth of our combined service offerings and thought leadership as we help them plan for the future and devise innovative solutions to the challenges facing the U.S. healthcare system.”

    ECG is adding two new office locations – Atlanta and Minneapolis – as part of the Kurt Salmon transaction, as well as a second office in San Francisco.

    For more information about ECG’s acquisition of the healthcare division of Kurt Salmon, contact Susan Arnold at 303-841-7774.

    About ECG
    ECG is a strategic consulting firm that is leading healthcare forward using the knowledge and expertise built over the course of four decades to help clients see clearly where healthcare is going and to navigate toward success. With deep expertise in strategy, finance, operations, and technology, ECG builds multidisciplinary teams to meet the unique needs of every client – from discrete operational issues to bigger-picture strategic and financial challenges. Working as trusted partners with hospitals, health systems, medical groups, academic medical centers, children’s hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, and healthcare payors across the country, ECG delivers smart counsel and pragmatic solutions to the critical challenges facing healthcare providers. ECG’s national presence includes offices in Boston, Chicago, Dallas, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, St. Louis, and Washington, DC.

    About Kurt Salmon’s Health Care Group
    Kurt Salmon is a global management consulting firm dedicated to building the market leaders of tomorrow – whatever tomorrow might look like.

    In North America, Kurt Salmon’s Health Care Group helps build provider organizations that are uniquely relevant in the dynamic environment of the 21st century. They believe that when uncertainty and change are the norm, patient-centered, operationally efficient, information-enabled healthcare organizations will be best positioned to thrive. So they offer their clients three discrete – but linked – capabilities: strategy, facility and capital assets planning, and information technology advisory services.

    Succeeding in today’s healthcare environment is an enormous challenge. But even that is not enough. Healthcare providers also need to position themselves for continued success in the even more uncertain future. That’s where Kurt Salmon comes in. They call it delivering “success for what’s next.” Clients tell them the results are transformative.

    Posted 7.12.2016

  • Halifax Health Expands Use of Vocera Communication Platform to Improve Security and Efficiency

    SAN JOSE, CA – July 12, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Vocera Communications, Inc. (NYSE:VCRA), the leading healthcare communications company, today announced that Halifax Health, the largest medical provider in east central Florida, has expanded its use of the Vocera Communication Platform, selecting Vocera’s secure text messaging solution for physicians in addition to Vocera’s hands-free communication system that has been used by care team members for several years. Integrating the hospital’s key clinical systems with Vocera has also improved operational workflow and patient care delivery.

    For more than six years, Halifax Health has partnered with Vocera to improve care team communication and patient experience. In 2009, the hospital implemented the Vocera® Communication Badge, a wearable voice-controlled device that enables instant two-way or one-to-many conversations. The mobile solution quickly reduced overhead paging in the health system’s 99,000-square-foot emergency department, which prompted an expansion of the hands-free devices to more than 3,200 personnel and nearly every clinical department. In the hospital’s France Tower, where each floor is the size of a football field, the Vocera system also made it much easier and faster for staff members to locate each other.

    “Before implementing Vocera, many of our nurses were exhausted simply trying to track down colleagues. With Vocera, care team members connect faster and the hospital became quieter – a more ideal environment for healing and working,” said Tom Stafford, vice president and chief information officer at Halifax Health. “There is no other communication system that can send a notification as closely and instantly to a nurse than Vocera. That’s why, when it came time to select a secure text messaging solution, we chose the Vocera Collaboration Suite. Our successful, long-time partnership with Vocera, and the fact that the smartphone solution combines texting with voice communication and integrates with our clinical systems, made it an easy and natural choice.”

    The trend of ‘bring your own device’ has presented many risks and opportunities for health systems around the country. With more than 500 physicians on staff, Halifax Health turned to Vocera to avoid these risks and provide a secure texting solution for clinicians inside and outside the hospital. In early 2016, Halifax deployed the Vocera Collaboration Suite, a mobile application that enables HIPAA-compliant texting, alert notifications and voice calls via smartphones using intelligent call routing by name, role, group, and availability. Now, clinicians can securely connect and consult by text or voice, eliminating unsecure communication, improving staff response times, and reducing delays in care.

    In addition, Halifax Health has integrated the Vocera Communication Platform with several clinical systems, including the hospital’s electronic health records (EHR) and patient flow systems. Integration with Meditech enables discharge notifications to be sent automatically to the right care team members via their smartphone or hands-free Vocera Badge as soon as the physician’s orders are entered into the EHR, accelerating the entire patient discharge process. Since the integration, Halifax Health has reported an 8 percent decrease in the time it takes to discharge a patient on the oncology unit.

    “Halifax Health truly understands the importance of instant and secure communication between clinicians across the entire healthcare system,” said Brent Lang president and CEO of Vocera. “An integrated, enterprise communication strategy helps safeguard physicians and patient information while also improving the healthcare experience for hospital staff, patients and families.”

    About Halifax Health
    Halifax Health is the largest medical provider in east central Florida, serving the counties of Volusia and Flagler since 1928. The hospital has more 4,300 team members and more than 500 physicians, representing 54 subspecialties. Halifax Health provides the area’s only Kidney Transplant Program, Pediatric Emergency Department, 24-Hour Neonatal and Pediatric Intensive Care Units, Comprehensive Stroke Center, and Interventional Radiology Service to name a few. The Obstetric Emergency Department is also the only one of its kind in the area, serving 90,000 patients annually. The Halifax Health Emergency Department is the largest in Florida with 99,000 square feet, 102 treatment rooms and a 4,500-square-foot rooftop helipad.

    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 led by President and CEO Brent Lang and is headquartered in San Jose, California, with offices in San Francisco, Tennessee, Canada, India, United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom. Robert J. Zollars is the Chairman of the Board. 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.

    Media Contact
Tara Stultz 
Amendola Communications
440.225.9595 
[email protected]
    Posted 7.12.2016

  • Doc Halo Reports Record Sales for Second Quarter of 2016

    CINCINNATI, OHIO – July 8, 2016 — Several major health systems, including University of Maryland Medical System, Hospital Sisters Health System and Infirmary Health, chose Doc Halo in Q2 to provide systemwide HIPAA-compliant communication and to coordinate both acute and ambulatory care.

    With these and other systemwide implementations, Doc Halo will be adding 43 hospitals, hundreds of affiliated clinics and facilities, and tens of thousands of clinicians to its network of users.

    “Our domain expertise allowed us to surpass other competitors who are not focused exclusively on healthcare,” says Jose Barreau, MD, CEO of Doc Halo. “Our clinical communication features are designed specifically to optimize clinician workflow, coordinate care and improve patient outcomes.”

    Among the goals that health systems will be achieving with the Doc Halo clinical communication platform:

    • Connecting hospitalists to primary care physicians, including automated alerts that will notify primary care physicians that their patients have been admitted to the hospital
    • Connecting nurses and staff to physicians in both the acute and ambulatory settings, including those seeing patients in remote clinics
    • Eliminating unreliable pagers, which one health system estimates will save at least 45 minutes a day for each provider
    • Consolidating disjointed department schedules onto an enterprise-wide schedule using Halo Pronto, the industry’s only physician on-call management and messaging system
    • Ensuring enterprise-wide HIPAA compliance
    • Efficiently adding medical students to the communication workflow

    “These implementations are among the first visionary examples of where coordinated communication is evolving in the future,” says Mark Cittadino, Vice President of Clinical Communication for Doc Halo. “While many healthcare organizations still utilize siloed communication solutions by department or by hospital, these health systems are truly bridging the communication gap that exists during transitions of care.”

    About Doc Halo
    Doc Halo’s clinical communication platform is transforming patient care by streamlining real-time communication and coordinating care among physicians, nurses and staff. The mobile app and online console provide secure, HIPAA-compliant texting for the safe transmission of protected patient information. Robust care coordination tools—including the new Pronto scheduling and messaging system—integrate with all hospital systems to allow instant access to systemwide schedules, critical and clinical teams, EHRs, call center messages, labs and directories. With exclusive focus on clinical communication, Doc Halo has customized solutions for some of the most prestigious healthcare organizations in the country.

    Contact:
    Marnie Hayutin
    Director of Marketing, Doc Halo
    513.929.1922
    513.310.5858
    [email protected]
    www.dochalo.com

     

    Posted 7.8.2016

  • UC Irvine Health Selects Infinite Computer Solutions & Optimum Healthcare IT for Legacy System Support as Part of Their EHR Migration

    Posted 7.8.2016

  • Parkview Health Selects Vocera for Secure Texting & Mobile Voice Communication

    SAN JOSE, CA – July 6, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Vocera Communications, Inc. (NYSE:VCRA), the leading healthcare communications company, today announced that Parkview Health, headquartered in Fort Wayne, Ind., will implement the Vocera Communication Platform in three of its hospitals. The implementation will include a robust combination of secure text messaging and voice communication on Zebra MC40-HC mobile computers, as well as hands-free voice communication on the wearable Vocera B3000n Badge.

    Parkview Health is the region’s largest employer with more than 10,000 employees in northeast Indiana and northwest Ohio. Parkview’s leadership selected the Vocera Communication Platform because its scalability, breadth of integrations, workflow escalations, and mobile device flexibility enable care team members to communicate more efficiently. The Vocera Platform will allow thousands of staff members at Parkview Regional Medical Center, Parkview Hospital Randalliaand Parkview Whitley Hospital to communicate and collaborate via secure text or voice depending on their care delivery needs.

    “We evaluated several communication companies, and the clear choice was Vocera because it provides a secure, end-to-end communication platform and a choice of devices for our care team members,” said Ron Double, Chief Information Officer of Parkview Health System. “The valuable clinical integrations Vocera offers also drove our decision. Yet, it has been the responsiveness of Vocera’s professional services team that has built our trust and helped secure a long-term partnership.”

    Future plans include expansion of the Vocera Communication Platform to the entire Parkview system of nine hospitals. Parkview Health will also integrate the Vocera solution with the hospitals’ nurse call and electronic health record systems to improve clinical workflow and staff response times.

    “Parkview Health is an award winning health system recognized for being a great place to work and for demonstrating world-class teamwork. Vocera is honored to support these leading hospitals and care team members with a communication solution that will help them create a seamless, high-quality, and personal care experience for every patient,” said Brent Lang, President and CEO of Vocera.

    About Parkview Health
    Parkview Health, headquartered in Fort Wayne, Indiana is a not-for-profit, community-based health system serving a population of more than 820,000 in northeast Indiana and northwest Ohio. With more than 10,000 employees, Parkview Health is the region’s largest employer. Parkview Health has been serving the community since its early beginnings as Fort Wayne City Hospital in 1878. Parkview Health was formed in 1995 and its heritage of care and compassion continues today with nine hospitals and a network of primary care and specialty physicians.

    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 led by President and CEO Brent Lang and is headquartered in San Jose, California, with offices in San Francisco, Tennessee, Canada, India, United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom. Robert J. Zollars is the Chairman of the Board. 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.

    Media Contact
Shanna Hearon
Vocera Communications, Inc.
865.769.2028
[email protected]

     

    Posted 7.7.2016

  • Inside CHIME: Supporting Members of Your Team

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    Weinstock 70x70 7.7.16 by Matthew Weinstock
    Director of Communications and Public Relations, CHIME

    Since 2014, nearly 1,000 leaders in IT applications, security and technology have joined CHIME’s AEHIS, AEHIA and AEHIT affiliate groups. The group’s Fall Forum in November will focus on how health IT can help bend the cost curve.

    Concern over cybersecurity has put healthcare squarely in the national spotlight. To a certain degree, this heightened attention has also elevated public recognition of the important work chief information security officers carry out every day.

    Healthcare’s evolution from focusing on volume to measuring outcomes — and health IT’s role in achieving value-based reimbursement — is sure to have a similar effect on the role of technology and applications leaders.

    As you may recall, a few years ago, CHIME created forums for leaders in these areas to share best practices, collaborate and grow their disciplines, much in the same way CHIME has helped CIOs. The Association for Executives in Healthcare Information Applications (AEHIA), the Association for Executives in Healthcare Information Security (AEHIS) and the Association for Executives in Healthcare Information Technology (AEHIT) have grown substantially since their launch in 2014, collectively boasting nearly 1,100 members.

    In November, the three groups host their second annual fall forum. Last year’s meeting allowed attendees to delve deep into how innovation can drive clinical performance and identify ways to minimize the risk of cyberattacks. Building off of the success of last year’s meeting, the AEHIX16 Fall Forum features panel discussions on how IT can help bend the cost curve, the role of telemedicine in alternative payment models, and the ins and outs of cloud computing. Closing out the meeting, George ‘Buddy’ Hickman, executive vice president and System CIO, Albany Medical Center and former CHIME board chair, will offer his perspectives on how technology leaders can become transformation leaders. There will also be ample opportunity for members to network and share ideas.

    CHIME members are eligible to attend the AEHIX16 Fall Forum, November 3-5. We also encourage you to promote AEHIS/AEHIA/AEHIT membership with your applications, technology and security staff.

    Join AEHIS/AEHIA/AEHIT

    AEHIS, AEHIA, and AEHIT are open to security, technology and applications leaders in healthcare IT provider organizations. Memberships are FREE until 12/31/16.

    APPLY NOW
    Join the AEHIS/AEHIA/AEHIT Foundation

    Representing the nation’s leading healthcare IT vendors and professional services firms, Foundation partners partner and collaborate directly with members.

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  • Inside CHIME: It’s Time — Run for the Board, Update your Profile, Nominate an Exceptional Leader

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    7.7.16 by Michelle Patterson
    Director of Membership, CHIME

    CHIME wants to celebrate the tremendous work members are doing to create a safer and more efficient healthcare delivery system.

    Throughout 2016, we’ve asked CHIME members to reflect on the organization’s incredible 25-year journey. Founding member John Glaser talked about how CHIME has helped elevate the CIO from a “back office manager” to a true strategic partner with the rest of the C-suite. Larry Grandia, who served on the first board of trustees, shared his reflections on how membership has helped forge lifelong professional and personal connections. We know that there are many other amazing stories to be told and we’d love to hear from you.

    It doesn’t stop there. Every day, CHIME members are living up to the vision statement: Exceptional Leaders Transforming Healthcare. We want to celebrate the tremendous work CHIME members are doing to create a safer and more efficient healthcare delivery system. There are few membership initiatives underway to help in this effort:

    • Board of Trustees election: CHIME’s board is actively involved in shaping the mission and vision of the
      organization. Board members engage in public policy discussions, help direct such initiatives the
      Patient ID Challenge, and interact with senior CHIME staff to ensure that the organization is positioned to
      meet member needs. Elections for three slots will take place this summer. The newly elected trustees will
      serve three-year terms beginning January 1, 2017. The deadline to apply is July 25.

    The CHIME Foundation is also conducting its annual board of directors election. The Foundation board plays
    a critical role in guiding the overall direction of the organization and ensuring that the Foundation is
    well positioned to support CHIME education and professional development activities. The deadline to apply
    for the CHIME Foundation board is July 25.

    • Membership profiles: To continue offering high-quality programs that meet your needs, we need to
      fully understand how your roles are changing. CHIME members are encouraged to log into the site and
      update their member profiles Much like your organizations need accurate data to target population
      health strategies, we need accurate membership data to ensure that CHIME’s programs keeping pace with
      industry trends. As a bonus, members who update their profiles will be entered into a lottery to win a few
      prizes, with a grand prize to be announced at the CHIME16 Fall CIO Forum.

    Please contact me if you have questions about these initiatives or other membership programs. Thanks for all you do to transform healthcare!

    More Inside CHIME Volume 1, No. 21:

    Posted 7.7.2016

  • CHIME Applauds Recommendation for 90-day Reporting Period

    ANN ARBOR, MI, July 7, 2016 – Statement by CHIME Board of Trustees Chair Marc Probst and CHIME President and CEO Russell Branzell, FCHIME, CHCIO, on Outpatient Prospective Payment System and Medicare Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment System proposed rule: 

    We are pleased that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today recommended a 90-day reporting period in 2016 for hospitals in the Meaningful Use program.

    CHIME and its members have been leading advocates for a more realistic reporting period. Shortening the reporting period to 90-days from the current 365 days will allow hospitals and health systems to continue making progress in adopting technology systems that support new payment and care delivery models.

    We are reviewing the proposed regulation and will have more detailed comments in the coming days.

     

    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 1,900 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 7.6.2016
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