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CynergisTek Continues to Expand Executive Team, Adds Vice President of Audit Strategy
Industry Veteran, Marti Arvin to Lead Strategic Business Development in Compliance Services Amid Increasing Demand for Specialized Regulatory Support
AUSTIN, TX – August 15, 2016 — CynergisTek™, an authority in health information security, privacy and compliance, today announced that is has further expanded its executive team with the addition of Marti Arvin as Vice President of Audit Strategy. Arvin brings more than three decades of experience in the fields of compliance, research and regulatory administration at academic medical centers and traditional hospital care settings to her role. She will lead strategic business development for the company’s compliance services, as well as support clients in meeting evolving compliance and regulatory requirements.
As the latest addition to the CynergisTek executive team, Arvin will enable the company to effectively respond to rapidly growing demand by Covered Entities and Business Associates for specialized support in understanding regulatory changes and achieving compliance. Drawing on her extensive experience building and managing compliance and research programs, Arvin will also contribute to CynergisTek’s industry outreach and educational programs.
“The regulatory environment in healthcare has become extremely complex, and organizations of all kinds need expert guidance they can trust,” said Mac McMillan, CEO of CynergisTek. “Marti brings a unique combination of academic medical experience and deep-rooted knowledge in compliance and audit strategy that will enable us to better address the needs of our clients and continue to build an arsenal of unrivaled subject matter expertise.”
In addition to more than 30 years of compliance, research and regulatory experience, Arvin holds a JD as well as CHC-F, CCEP-F, CHRC and CHPC certifications. Prior to joining CynergisTek, Arvin was a board member to the Health Care Compliance Association and served on the Compliance Certification Advisory Board for more than eight years. She also served on the certification committee for the CHC, CHC-F, CCEP, CCEP-F, CHRC and CHPC.
“Healthcare is undergoing vast compliance and regulatory changes, and the stakes are high for organizations struggling to keep up,” said Arvin. “CynergisTek has a proven track record for effectively equipping its clients with both the guidance and support they need to protect their assets and the integrity of their business through sound security, and I look forward to advancing the company’s mission of educating the industry on top privacy, security and compliance issues.”
About CynergisTek
CynergisTek is a top-ranked information security and privacy consulting firm. The company offers solutions to help organizations measure privacy and security programs against regulatory requirements and assists in developing risk management best practices. Since 2004 the company has served as a partner to hundreds in the healthcare industry. CynergisTek is also dedicated to supporting and educating the industry by contributing to relevant associations such as HIMSS, AHIMA, HFMA, HCCA, AHIA, AHLA, IAPP and CHIME. CynergisTek has been named in multiple research reports as one of the top firms provider organizations turn to for privacy and security. For more information visit www.cynergistek.com, call 512.402.8550 or email [email protected].Media Contact
Taylor VerMeer
Account Executive
Aria Marketing
617.332.9999 x205
[email protected]Posted 8.15.2016 -
Statement on Leadership Change at the Office of the National Coordinator
ANN ARBOR, MI, August 11, 2016 – CHIME President and CEO Russell Branzell issued the following statement on Karen DeSalvo’s departure from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology:
During her tenure heading the Office of the National Coordinator, Karen DeSalvo, M.D., has been instrumental in advancing adoption of health information technology and making interoperability and health information exchange a national priority. We appreciate the strong working relationship that ONC and CHIME have been able to forge over the past few years and our collective work to advance health IT policy and promote solutions that push the entire industry toward higher value and better care. We look forward to continuing that collaborative approach with Vindell Washington, M.D., as he takes the helm at ONC.
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 8.11.2016 -
The Chartis Group Launches the Chartis Physician Leadership Institute
Institute dedicated to consulting & research around physician alignment & high performing medical groups
CHICAGO, IL – August 11, 2016 — The Chartis Group, a national advisory services firm dedicated to healthcare, announced today that it has launched the Chartis Physician Leadership Institute (CPLI). CPLI brings together senior physician executives with unrivaled expertise from the nation’s leading health systems, academic medical centers, medical groups and health plans. It is dedicated to advancing health system and medical group performance through innovative solutions that drive physician alignment and engagement, and achieve the highest levels of organizational and operational effectiveness.
In the value-based healthcare environment, the role of physicians and physician leaders becomes even more vital to the success of the system. Physician engagement and alignment with enterprise strategy and operational goals are key differentiators in the performance and success of leading health systems in the new era of healthcare.
“Every aspect of health system strategy and performance is directly influenced by physicians and requires their leadership,” said Dr. Mark Werner, leader of the newly launched CPLI and the firm’s National Director of Clinical Consulting. “Simultaneously, physician groups and networks must be well managed, high-performing and able to drive care transformation, for they are the key drivers of success in a value-based world.” He adds, “With our team of senior physician executives, CPLI will play a formative role in helping to advance the industry’s thinking and approach to physician alignment, leadership and performance — enabling stronger outcomes and the market-elevating performance necessary in the new healthcare.”
At the core of the new institute is a groundbreaking framework on physician alignment and its interplay with physician leadership, organizational constructs, operating models, enterprise economics, governance, adoption and change management. “We are enormously excited,” said Ken Graboys, CEO of The Chartis Group. “We have brought our clinical advisors together, under one banner, for a shared purpose – to create a thriving, interdisciplinary vehicle for thought and practice leadership, where our clients’ and CPLI’s physician executives can truly engage and drive healthcare transformation.”
CPLI is championed by Dr. Mark Werner, National Director of Clinical Consulting; Dr. Thomas Graf, National Director of Population Health Management; Dr. Mark Wenneker, Principal, Strategy and Physician Alignment; Dr. Robert Schwartz, Principal, Informatics and Technology; Dr. Mark Van Kooy, Principal, Clinical Performance Excellence; and Dr. Frederick (Rick) van Pelt, Associate Clinical Principal, Advanced Performance Solutions. To learn more about CPLI visit chartis.com/services/CPLI.
About The Chartis Group The Chartis Group (Chartis) is a national advisory services firm dedicated to the healthcare industry. Chartis provides strategic and economic planning, value-based care, advanced performance, and informatics and technology consulting services and decision support tools to the country’s leading healthcare providers. Chartis has been privileged to work with over two-thirds of the academic medical centers on the US News and World Report “Honor Roll of Best Hospitals,” seven of the 10 largest integrated health systems, four of the five largest not-for-profit health systems, nine of the top 10 children’s hospitals, emerging and leading accountable care organizations, hundreds of community-based health systems, and leading organizations in healthcare services. The firm is comprised of uniquely experienced senior healthcare professionals and consultants who apply a distinctive knowledge of healthcare economics, markets, clinical models and technology to help clients achieve unequaled results. Chartis has offices in Boston, Chicago, Minneapolis, New York, Portland and San Francisco. For more information, visit chartis.com.
Contact
Amy O’Brien
Principal and Vice President of Strategy and Business Development
The Chartis Group
[email protected]
312.932.3060Terri Sanders
Director of National Marketing
The Chartis Group
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312.932.3051Posted 8.11.2016 -
UMass Memorial Health Care Selects Agfa HealthCare’s Enterprise Imaging Solution
A unified software platform offers an excellent comprehensive imaging informatics solution to support high quality & cost-effective patient care
MORTSEL, BELGIUM/GREENVILLE, CS – August 8, 2016 —
- Enterprise Imaging consolidates imaging data from multiple service lines and provides secure access to a patient’s
medical images, in one view, accessible “anywhere, anytime”. - The new agreement includes Enterprise Imaging for Radiology & Cardiology, VendorNeutral Archive, XERO image
viewer with Image Exchange and Business Intelligence. - UMass Memorial joins a growing list of academic medical centers that chose Agfa HealthCare’s Enterprise Imaging
platform for its comprehensive imaging informatics capabilities.
Today, Agfa HealthCare announces that UMass Memorial Health Care (UMass Memorial) will implement a comprehensive suite of software solutions on their Enterprise Imaging platform. With Enterprise Imaging, health systems can consolidate hardware, storage and software, and enable clinicians to access, use and collaborate on all imaging data that they need, no matter where they are practicing.
UMass Memorial Health Care is the largest provider of health care in Central Massachusetts. The system consists of four hospitals and a physician practice of more than 1,700 physicians. It has chosen to implement the entire suite of Agfa HealthCare’s Enterprise Imaging solutions throughout its system.
With Agfa HealthCare’s Enterprise Imaging platform, UMass Memorial will be empowered with the latest healthcare interoperability standards on a completely virtual infrastructure, providing integration flexibility and neutrality in the rapidly changing healthcare IT landscape.
The health care system was searching for a complete solution to address a number of their medical imaging needs. After a team of clinicians and IT professionals, along with the assistance of an industry consultant, carefully researched the market, they chose Agfa HealthCare’s Enterprise Imaging platform to address all of their identified needs through a single-vendor solution.The Agfa HealthCare Enterprise Imaging platform creates a comprehensive imaging ecosystem that enables UMass Memorial’s images to be available to all involved caregivers across the care continuum. Despite being an enterprise application set, the platform’s components can be adopted modularly, targeted at specific clinical use cases and at the hospital’s own pace.
UMass Memorial’s Enterprise Imaging deployments consists of:
- Enterprise Imaging for Cardiology – improves clinical productivity and reduces application overload by using a single
user interface supporting all cardiology clinical workflows. - Enterprise Imaging for Radiology – a single, converged platform that brings together an image management
system, embedded reporting with leading-edge voice recognition, advanced image processing and clinical tools, all in
one platform. - Enterprise Imaging Vendor-Neutral Archive (VNA) – consolidates all imaging data from multiple systems,
departments, facilities and vendors into a central clinical data foundation. - Enterprise Imaging Exchange – allows fast, secure, reliable transfer of patient studies, without CDs or DVDs.
- Web-based XERO® universal image viewer – provides secure access to DICOM and nonDICOM imaging data from
different departments and multiple sources, in one view, to anyone inside and outside of the hospital who needs it. - Enterprise Imaging Business Intelligence – provides standard and customizable reports, for easy retrieval of all
the information in the unified Enterprise Imaging platform, which supports more informed decision-making.
“UMass Memorial went to market for an integrated imaging and informatics system and acknowledged their option to select multiple vendors and solutions. Over the course of the evaluation the benefits of our single software platform became crystal clear.” says Frank Pecaitis, Senior Vice President, North America Sales at Agfa HealthCare. “Integrated solutions enable integrated care. We are delighted that, after such an extensive evaluation UMass selected us and while doing so recognized the broader value of a single software platform solution. It’s no coincidence that the leading academic medical centers in the nation are seeing the same value.”
“Our team at UMass Memorial believes Agfa HealthCare’s Enterprise Imaging solution is a good fit with the current needs and future vision for our health care system,” comments Max Rosen, MD MPH, Chairman of Radiology, UMass Memorial Medical Center. “We needed to address the evolving imaging informatics needs of our health care system. After an extensive evaluation of clinical and technical capabilities, we chose Agfa HealthCare’s Enterprise Imaging solution. We were specifically pleased with their contemporary technology platform as well as their workflow, and clinical / educational collaboration tools. It’s a good fit for our caregivers and most importantly our patients.”
Installation of Agfa’s Enterprise Imaging solution at UMass Memorial will begin in the Fall of 2016 and is planned to be fully operational by the end of 2017.
About Agfa
The Agfa-Gevaert Group is one of the world’s leading companies in imaging and information technology. Agfa develops manufactures and markets analogue and digital systems for the printing industry (Agfa Graphics), for the healthcare sector (Agfa HealthCare), and for specific industrial applications (Agfa Materials). Agfa is headquartered in Mortsel, Belgium. The company is present in 40 countries and has agents in another 100 countries around the globeAbout UMass Memorial Health Care
UMass Memorial Health Care is the largest not-for-profit health care system in Central Massachusetts with more than 12,900 employees and 1,670 physicians, many of whom are members of UMass Memorial Medical Group. Their member hospitals and entities include Clinton Hospital, HealthAlliance Hospital, Marlborough Hospital, UMass Memorial Medical Center and Community Healthlink, their behavioral health agency. With their teaching and research partner, the University of Massachusetts Medical School, their extensive primary care network and their cancer, diabetes, heart and vascular, and musculoskeletal programs, UMass Memorial delivers safe, high-quality and compassionate care. Call 855-UMASS-MD (855-862-7763) for all your health care needs. Visit umassmemorialhealthcare.org.About Agfa HealthCare
Agfa HealthCare, present in one hospital out of two, is a leading provider of eHealth & Digital Imaging solutions. Care organizations in over 100 countries rely on Agfa HealthCare to optimize their efficiency and improve patient care.For more information on Agfa HealthCare, please visit agfahealthcare.com or the Agfa HealthCare Blog For images, courtesy of Agfa HealthCare, please visit agfahealthcare/resources
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Wake Radiology Selects Vital’s Imaging Practice Management Tools for Self-Service Access to Enterprise-wide Imaging Operations Data
Delivering Real-time, Evidence-based Business Intelligence
MINNEAPOLIS, MN – August 4, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Vital Images, Inc. (Vital), a Minneapolis-based advanced medical imaging and informatics company, was recently selected by Wake Radiology to provide a suite of imaging practice management tools that facilitate self-service access to operational data needed to efficiently operate their business. Vitality IQ® imaging practice management enables imaging leaders to make smart decisions around revenue, efficiency and quality.
Vital’s solution provides self-service business analytics tools that simplify the understanding and visualization of metrics that are commonly used to measure the performance of imaging businesses, but are typically difficult to compile and access. Vitality IQ imaging practice management aggregates enterprise-wide data from disparate data sources and modalities and provides users a simple, web-based user interface that enables instant access to mission-critical information.
“As a data-driven organization, we recognize the value of making informed decisions in today’s environment where inefficiency can directly affect both the quality of our service and our bottom line,” says Matt Dewey, CIO of Wake Radiology. “Vitality IQ will allow us to make critical decisions in a more timely fashion and without the delays inherent when data is stored in various silos.”
“We are proud that Wake Radiology has selected Vitality IQ imaging practice management to deliver enterprise-wide access to their imaging data,” says Jim Litterer, CEO of Vital Images. “This enterprise analytics solution leverages existing infrastructure to provide immediate review of the organization’s current activities. Vital’s imaging practice management offers enhanced quality metrics to help improve patient outcomes and operational performance.”
About Wake Radiology
Founded in 1953, Wake Radiology is the Triangle’s leading provider of outpatient imaging services. Its physicians have been trained as experts in specific imaging specialties – ranging from breast cancer detection and pediatrics to sports medicine and neuroradiology – to accurately diagnose healthcare issues. Wake Radiology is the region’s largest outpatient imaging practice with nearly 50 radiologists who perform close to 600,000 procedures each year. It has outpatient locations throughout the Triangle and provides imaging services at several area hospitals, including WakeMed Health and Hospitals, as well as Maria Parham Medical Center. Wake Radiology is an independent, locally owned and physician-lead practice that actively supports the local community. To learn more, visit WakeRad.com or follow us on Facebook and LinkedIn.About Vital Images, Inc.
Vital Images, Inc., a Toshiba Medical Systems Group company, is a leading provider of diagnostic imaging and enterprise informatics solutions to help healthcare organizations deliver exceptional care while optimizing resources across multi-facility organizations. The company’s solutions are scalable to meet the unique needs of hospitals and imaging centers and are accessible throughout the enterprise anytime, anywhere. For more information, visit www.vitalimages.com or join the conversation on Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube.Vitality IQ is a trademark of Vital Images, Inc.
Contact
Aaron Wangen
952.487.9632
[email protected]
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Inside CHIME: We Will Never Again Be a Barrier to the Business
8.4.16 by Matthew Weinstock
Director of Communications and Public Relations, CHIMEPenn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center recently opened a state-of-the-art data center that will help drive precision medicine. In this video, CIO Rod Dykehouse explains how the medical center is using data to transform care delivery.
For Rod Dykehouse, the goal is pretty straightforward: use data to create more personalized care.
Eying that milepost, Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and Penn State College of Medicine recently opened a state-of-the-art data center that will help researchers and clinicians link genomic data to electronic health records and drive precision medicine.
In the video below, Dykehouse, CIO of the medical center and college of medicine, describes how the 46,000-square foot University Technology Center will help ensure that IT is at the forefront of transforming care delivery and is “never again a barrier to the business.”
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Spok Counts Nation’s Top Hospitals as Customers
“These healthcare organizations are the best of the best, and communication plays a key role in delivering excellent care,” said Hemant Goel, president of Spok, Inc. “We’re pleased our solutions can work behind the scenes to connect care providers with one another and with clinical messaging to help improve patient outcomes.”
Spok serves more than 2,000 healthcare organizations around the world. The Spok Care Connect® platform helps hospitals improve clinical messaging throughout the organization with integrated solutions across patient floors, in the call center, and in lab and radiology areas. These solutions include on-call scheduling, web directories, clinical alerting, and secure text messaging in addition to operator consoles and paging.
About Spok
Spok, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Spok Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: SPOK), headquartered in Springfield, Va., is proud to be the global leader in critical communications for healthcare, government, public safety, and other industries. They deliver smart, reliable solutions to help protect the health, well-being, and safety of people around the globe. Their customers send over 100 million messages each month through their Spok® solutions, and they rely on Spok for workflow improvement, secure texting, paging services, contact center optimization, and public safety response. When communications matter, Spok delivers. Spok delivers. Visit them at spok.com or find them on Twitter @Spoktweets.Spok is a trademark of Spok Holdings, Inc. Spok Care Connect is a trademark of Spok, Inc.
Contact
Spok, Inc.
Jill Asby, +1-952-230-5363
[email protected]Posted 8.3.2016 -
Survey: Fewer Than 2 in 10 Hospitals Regularly Use Patient-Reported Outcomes Despite Medicare’s Impending Plans for the Measures
72 Percent of Hospitals With Limited or No Patient-Reported Outcomes Tracking Say They Will Implement it Within 1-3 Years
SALT LAKE CITY, UT – August 2, 2016 — The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently began using a new yardstick to calculate how much providers should be paid: a patient’s own view of their health.
First incorporated into a new CMS program designed to lower the cost of knee and hip replacements, patient-reported outcomes, or PROs, may soon become far more widespread. The self-reported health measures are a key component of the proposed Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) that would significantly restructure how Medicare pays for virtually every medical service. As a result, providers whose patients report significant improvements in health could be paid more than those whose patients report problems.
Despite the interest in PROs by the nation’s biggest payer, though, fewer than one-fifth of U.S. hospitals say they regularly review the measures to guide medical care, according to a new survey from Health Catalyst. The online survey of 100 clinical and administrative executives in health systems of all sizes across the country revealed that just 18 percent always use PROs to guide clinical care.
Still, hospitals appear to have seen the writing on the wall. Nearly three-quarters (72%) of survey takers who said they “rarely” or “never” use PROs also said they plan to begin using the measures within 1 to 3 years.
“Patient-reported outcomes are critical to enabling healthcare’s evolution away from focusing on the volume of services delivered to the value created for patients,” said Paul Horstmeier, Senior Vice President of Health Catalyst. “Their use promises seismic changes not only in the way providers are paid, but how they measure success, how patients choose their doctors, and most importantly how clinical outcomes are improved. Yet with few exceptions our nation’s hospitals are unprepared for the shift and need help managing this new priority within the ever-shifting field of time-intensive regulatory requirements.”
The search for PRO standards
A PRO is any measure of a patient’s symptoms and physical, cognitive, social and emotional functioning, as well as their health-related quality of life. Traditionally, health systems and clinicians have focused on measuring adherence to evidence-based medicine guidelines, with outcomes measures limited to such concrete events as death. “But for most of medicine, the question is no longer whether someone will survive, but how their life will be after treatment,” says Caleb Stowell, MD, Vice President of Standardization and Business Development for the International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement (ICHOM).The research–based, nonprofit organization has convened groups of experts on specific conditions, together with patient representatives, to help healthcare organizations worldwide understand and use PROs to improve patient outcomes. ICHOM has already identified standard sets for 20 conditions covering 45 percent of the global disease burden and is currently working with innovative providers and health systems globally to support the adoption of these standard sets.
ICHOM hopes to develop a mechanism for communicating how patients are actually doing. In a blog post, Dr. Stowell cited work being done at Stanford Health Care, which participated in developing, and is measuring outcomes consistent with, the ICHOM Standard Set for Low Back Pain. “As a clinician, when you come in to see the patient you have the [PRO] information immediately available,” said Stanford neurosurgeon Dr. John Ratliff, in a video produced by ICHOM about Stanford’s program. “This benefits the patient by engaging them prior to the consultation. They are already thinking about the outcomes that matter to them, and this cue is being provided at exactly the right time.”
But PROs can do more than just communicate; they can also predict a patient’s health status. Boston-based Partners HealthCare uses PRO data for patients with suspected coronary artery disease to predict their likely benefit from coronary intervention. Such predictive models have helped Partners avoid costly interventions when patients don’t stand to benefit.
And in a study of HIV patients in Alabama, data collected via PROs regarding substance use and depression was found to better predict antiretroviral therapy adherence compared to clinician’s own judgment of patients.
Time and/or money the chief barriers to PRO collection
While many factors contribute to the difficulty of deploying PROs within the healthcare decision making process, respondents to the Health Catalyst survey noted four specific barriers. Thirty-six percent of survey respondents said “time and/or money” was the most significant barrier to using PROs more broadly. The next most common barrier identified by respondents, at 26 percent, was difficulty fitting PROs into clinicians’ daily workflow.Technology was listed as the most significant barrier to PRO use by only 15 percent of respondents, perhaps reflecting the wide variety of so-called ePRO technologies including mobile and wearable devices that promise to make the collection of PROs far easier.
Coming in third on the barrier list was organizational resistance to change (10 percent), followed by lack of leadership support (4 percent).
Chronic care tracking tops list of PRO uses
Survey respondents who said their organizations use PROs today, even if only occasionally, said they use it primarily to track chronic disease care and progress of surgery patients. Fifty-nine percent selected “chronic care tracking” and 58 percent selected “surgical interventions” when asked to list all of the areas in which they use PROs. Mental health (27%) and “symptom tracking for cancer care patients” (22%) were the other most common areas of PRO use.Results reflect the opinions of 100 healthcare professionals who responded to an online survey between May and June 2016. Respondents included 35 CEOs; 32 chief medical officers and related clinical roles; and a variety of departmental leadership roles. They work for organizations ranging from some of the nation’s largest urban academic medical centers and integrated delivery networks to small, rural critical access facilities.
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 70 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.Media Contact
Todd Stein
Amendola Communications
916.346.4213
[email protected]Posted 8.2.2016 -
Stormont Vail Selects Orion Health’s Rhapsody
Integrated healthcare system will use Rhapsody Integration Engine® to migrate and integrate more than 130 interfaces systemwide
TOPKEA, KS – August 2, 2016 — Orion Health™ announced today that Stormont Vail Health (SVH) has selected Orion Health’s Rhapsody Integration Engine® to replace a legacy engine that could no longer meet their integration and interoperability needs. Rhapsody achieves rapid interoperability between healthcare IT systems, which enables connected solutions in less time and at a lower cost. Rhapsody can support all healthcare message formats and standards, which include HL7® (v2 and v3), HL7 FHIR®, CCDA, NCPDP, X12, IHE, DICOM, XML, binary, delimited and legacy formats.
Based in Topeka, Kansas, SVH is made up of providers, primary care and specialty physician clinics, a 586-bed acute care hospital and other services. In January 2016, the IT team at SVH undertook a rigorous selection process in which they reviewed the top vendors listed by KLAS and then narrowed it down to their top two. After running parallel Proof of Concept (POC) projects and in-depth due diligence into the shortlisted candidates, Rhapsody was selected as the Integration Engine to which SVH will migrate over all of their interfaces.
“I wanted a product that my team would enjoy using every day,” said Judy Corzine, administrative director and CIO of SVH. “My team was much more comfortable with Rhapsody’s Integrated Development Environment (IDE) than anything else they had seen and they were very confident that they would be able to migrate all of the interfaces to Rhapsody without the need to hire any additional IT staff.” Corzine added that Rhapsody gives SVH the ability to expand functionalities and components without incurring additional capital expenses.
SVH also felt more assured with Orion Health’s migration strategy, which includes a conversion tool that will help convert its legacy interfaces (written in Monk) into new Rhapsody interfaces with minimal changes.
Orion Health’s training plan includes both in-person and online (certification) programs, with simple to understand and engaging self-paced learning. Further, Rhapsody gives users an online wiki (called “Doki”) where users can quickly and easily access documentation and answers, rather than having to search an index-based help file.
SVH’s vision is to be a national leader in providing compassionate, high-quality and efficient integrated care through collaboration that results in a healthier community. SVH leaders recognized that leveraging the right technology is a critical factor in achieving effective and efficient coordinated care, which helped drive their decision to choose Rhapsody.
“The pricing—which includes an unlimited license—met my expectations,” said Corzine. “I was very happy with the contracting process and feel that we have chosen a stable, long-term partner.”
“We are privileged to be selected by SVH to help fulfill their vision with the right technology to meet their integration and interoperability needs,” said Baz Patel, sales director at Orion Health. “Rhapsody provides a comprehensive set of tools that will help SVH with their current requirements to get off their legacy engine with zero risk, and the same platform will accommodate any new and future requirements.”
About Stormont Vail Health
Stormont Vail Health is a not-for-profit integrated healthcare system based in Topeka, Kansas. It is comprised of Stormont Vail Hospital, a 586-bed acute care center, and Cotton O’Neil, a multi-specialty physician group with 230 primary care and specialty care physicians. More than 4,500 employees provide care and support services for patients in the hospital and 27 other locations, including the Cotton O’Neil Heart Center, Cancer Center, Diabetes & Endocrinology Center, Digestive Health Center and multiple primary care clinics throughout northeast Kansas. Stormont Vail Health has achieved and maintained Magnet recognition from the American Nurses Credentialing Center.Stormont Vail Hospital has the region’s only Level III Neonatal Intensive Care and only verified trauma center.
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 US 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 the 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 8.2.2016 -
CynergisTek Adds Vice President of Security Strategy to Growing Executive Team
Clyde Hewitt Brings More than 30 Years of Operational & Executive Leadership Experience to Healthcare IT Security Firm
AUSTIN, TX – August 2, 2016 — CynergisTek™, an authority in health information security, privacy and compliance, today announced that it has expanded its executive team with the addition of Clyde Hewitt as Vice President of Security Strategy. Hewitt brings more than 30 years of relevant experience to his new role. He will provide strategic direction for the company’s information and cybersecurity services and take an active role in new business development. Hewitt will also serve as senior security advisor to the company’s growing roster of healthcare clients.
Following record growth in the first half of 2016, CynergisTek appointed Hewitt to help meet increased demand by healthcare organizations for its specialized security expertise. Prior to CynergisTek, Hewitt retired from the United States Air Force after serving in various senior technology roles, and later working in the private sector in multiple information security management roles. Most recently, he was the Vice President and Chief Security Officer for Allscripts Healthcare where he implemented a global ISO 27001 Information Security Management System. Hewitt’s firsthand executive experience developing, implementing, and evaluating security program strategy provides him with the practical experience to contribute to CynergisTek’s thought leadership around cybersecurity and assist clients in achieving their data protection goals.
“We have a long history of advocating for the designation of dedicated, C-level security officers in healthcare organizations, and Clyde’s hire is a testament to our commitment in advancing that mission,” said Mac McMillan, CEO of CynergisTek. “Clyde brings a wealth of operational and executive experience that will help foster security leadership in healthcare and help us as an organization to better serve our clients.”
Hewitt’s previous experience in developing and implementing strategic information and cybersecurity programs has prepared him to take a lead role in CynergisTek business development as well as to contribute to the thought leadership activities the company has become known for. Hewitt holds a Master of Science in Engineering from the University of Arkansas, received his Bachelor of Arts in International Relations from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, and is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), ISO 27001 Lead Auditor, certified Level III Program Manager, and Certified in Healthcare Security (CHS).
“The CynergisTek organization has cultivated an unmatched reputation for its in-depth knowledge of healthcare information security and superior service, and I am proud to come aboard,” said Hewitt. “CynergisTek’s pledge to educate the industry and support those in information security roles deeply resonates with me, and I look forward to contributing.”
About CynergisTek
CynergisTek is a top-ranked information security and privacy consulting firm. The company offers solutions to help organizations measure privacy and security programs against regulatory requirements and assists in developing risk management best practices. Since 2004 the company has served as a partner to hundreds in the healthcare industry. CynergisTek is also dedicated to supporting and educating the industry by contributing to relevant associations such as HIMSS, AHIMA, HFMA, HCCA, AHIA, AHLA, IAPP and CHIME. CynergisTek has been named in multiple research reports as one of the top firms provider organizations turn to for privacy and security. For more information visit www.cynergistek.com, call 512.402.8550 or email [email protected].Media Contact
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Vital to Showcase Healthcare Imaging Informatics Solutions for Enterprise Interoperability at AHRA
Customer-Centric, Scalable, Health Imaging Management & Intelligence
MINNEAPOLIS,MN – August 1, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Vital Images, Inc. (Vital), a Minneapolis-based advanced medical imaging and informatics company, will feature its healthcare imaging informatics (HII) solutions for enterprise interoperability at the AHRA annual meeting in booth 846, July 31-August 3 in Nashville, Tenn. Vital’s HII solutions provide healthcare organizations complete imaging informatics from advanced visualization and enterprise-wide viewing to scalable image management and operational analytics for optimizing department resources.
“We look forward to showcasing the latest updates to our HII solutions at AHRA,” says Jim Litterer, CEO of Vital Images. “Vital continues to expand implementations of the full range of our HII solution-set to help customers deliver enterprise interoperability and improve efficiency. We are excited to share some of these successes and our vision for the future of customer-centric, healthcare imaging informatics. HII is central to Vital’s strategic goal of delivering enterprise-wide solutions to healthcare organizations as they transition to value-based medicine and accountable care organization standards.”
Enterprise interoperability via HII provides a number of paths to help improve both patient and operational outcomes. While Vitrea® Advanced Visualization software helps enhance diagnostic confidence, Vital’s image management and business intelligence solutions help healthcare organizations improve access to clinical images, streamline workflow and gain operational insights to maximize imaging investments.
At AHRA, Vital will showcase its Vitality IQ® Imaging Practice Management solution, which empowers imaging service providers to continuously improve efficiency and quality across their practices through efficient access to meaningful data. This advanced imaging analytics solution allows providers to structure data from RIS/PACS and disconnected databases into actionable, self-generated reports.
“Healthcare providers and imaging management professionals need easy access to data in order to make informed decisions to improve patient outcomes, optimize practice resources and drive imaging referrals,” says Litterer. “Vitality IQ Imaging Practice Management provides operational insight to all levels of the organization. System-wide trends to specific resource utilization can be viewed on demand, in real-time.”
About Vital Images, Inc.
Vital Images, Inc., a Toshiba Medical Systems Group Company, is a leading provider of health imaging diagnostic, management and imaging intelligence solutions to help healthcare organizations deliver exceptional care while optimizing resources across multi-facility organizations. The company’s solutions are scalable to meet the unique needs of hospitals and imaging centers and are accessible throughout the enterprise anytime and anywhere. For more information, visit vitalimages.com or join the conversation on Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube.Vitrea is a trademark of Vital Images, Inc.
Vitality IQ is a trademark of Vital Images, Inc.
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vitalimages.comPosted 8.1.2016