• Regenstrief Institute & Health Catalyst Team to Reveal Hidden Meaning in Clinical Data for Better Patient Care

    Partnership commercializes validated research & world-renowned expertise to extract clinical insights from text records   

    ORLANDO,FL – February  21, 2017 — From the floor of the HIMSS17 Conference & Exhibition in Orlando, Health Catalyst and the Regenstrief Institute announced today an agreement to bring Regenstrief’s artificial intelligence-powered text analytics technology out of the lab and into healthcare organizations nationwide.

    Regenstrief’s nDepth™ technology, internally developed within the largest and longest running health information exchange in the country, has been fine-tuned through extensive and repeated use searching over 230 million text records from more than 17 million patients and promises to accelerate improvements in patient health by unlocking the vast troves of unstructured data hidden within electronic health records (EHRs).  As a key commercialization partner, Health Catalyst will incorporate the nDepthTM solution into the Health Catalyst data analytics platform used by health systems serving 85 million patients across the U.S.

    “Eighty percent of clinical data is locked away in unstructured physician notes that can’t be read by an EHR and so can’t be accessed by advanced decision support and quality improvement applications,” said Peter J. Embi, MD, MS, President and CEO of Regenstrief Institute. “By combining Health Catalyst’s analytics market leadership and data platform with our text analytics and expertise, we will help millions of patients benefit from the untapped potential hidden within unstructured data.”

    First Deployment Site

    Memorial Hospital at Gulfport, in Gulfport, Miss., ranked the best hospital in Mississippi by US News & World Report, served as the co-development partner and first deployment site for Health Catalyst’s integration of nDepth. The award-winning 445-bed not-for-profit health system, which has earned a reputation as a bastion of quality care, deployed the Health Catalyst data and analytics platform in 2014.

    “I believe it is important for community health systems like Memorial that have made significant investments in electronic health records to take the next step in care by unlocking the value in the EHR’s unstructured data,” said Gene Thomas, Chief Information Officer of Memorial Hospital at Gulfport. “Our partnership with Health Catalyst and their incorporation of nDepth is enabling that value to impact the front lines of care for the first time.”

    nDepth analyzes any document type and unlocks the value of unstructured data to deliver meaningful insights directly to clinicians and quality improvement professionals. The solution uses Natural Language Processing (NLP)—a combination of linguistics, pattern recognition, and machine learning—to derive meaning from text. nDepth enhances these foundational technologies with clinical domain expertise and rich phenotype libraries built and curated by clinicians.

    Some recent applications of nDepth include:

    • Finding patients with metastatic melanoma
    • Identifying pre-diabetic patients for clinical trials
    • Capturing hypoglycemic events
    • Identifying patients with family history of lung cancers
    • Mapping patient trajectory following cancer treatment
    • Detecting treatment failure in insomnia
    • Finding reasons for refusal of osteoporosis medications
    • Identifying “triple negative” breast cancers

    “The Regenstrief Institute has been setting the bar for high quality medical informatics research and innovation for decades – (former director) Clem McDonald is one of my heroes,” said Dale Sanders, Executive Vice President of Development for Health Catalyst. “Our approach to NLP and text analytics are different than the norm in healthcare, so we were originally committed to developing our own product, but when we saw what Regenstrief had built, which aligned with our approach, we were thrilled to change course in favor of combining our rich data content with nDepth. Text and NLP technology in healthcare has been stuck in the realm of tinkering and not had an impact on the front lines of care. We firmly believe this partnership is going to make a breakthrough contribution across the board, at the front lines of healthcare—in clinical research, quality of care, precision medicine, and cost reduction.”

    Sanders added, “Memorial Hospital Gulfport is most definitely at the front lines of care and we are enormously grateful to Gene Thomas and his willingness to serve as our development partner.”

    The Health Catalyst data analytics platform provides the foundation for improving value-based population health outcomes. The company’s foundational enterprise data warehouse (EDW) integrates over 140 different data sources, including the electronic health record (EHR), claims, key financial, operational and patient satisfaction systems. Powered by that data, Health Catalyst’s Best In KLAS® suite of analytics applications leverages machine learning to drive predictions such as identifying patients who are most likely to acquire deadly infections; finding those who may have trouble paying their medical bills; or launching proactive medical interventions for patients who are at risk for dangerous complications.

    Visit Health Catalyst at HIMSS17 in Orlando
    Health Catalyst will demonstrate its solutions at the 2017 HIMSS Conference & Exhibition in Orlando, Feb. 20-23.  Visit booth #5173 or schedule a meeting to ensure the right people are available to meet with you.

    About Regenstrief Institute
    Regenstrief Institute is a dynamic, people-centered research organization driven by a mission to create pathways for better health. We envision a world where every patient has access to the highest quality, most efficient healthcare available, at an affordable cost. Our talented and dedicated staff support an award-winning body of faculty investigators from both Indiana University and Purdue University. Within and across the Institute we seek to find ways to integrate research discovery, technological advances, and systems improvement into the practice of medicine. See how we’ve worked to improve patient care by visiting www.regenstrief.org and following us on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn.

    About Health Catalyst
    Health Catalyst is a next-generation data, analytics, and decision support company committed to being a catalyst for massive, sustained improvements in healthcare outcomes. We are the leaders in a new era of advanced predictive analytics for population health and value-based care with a suite of machine learning-driven solutions, decades of outcomes-improvement expertise, and an unparalleled ability to integrate data from across the healthcare ecosystem. Our proven data warehousing and analytics platform helps improve quality, add efficiency and lower costs in support of more than 85 million patients for organizations ranging from the largest US health system to forward-thinking physician practices. Our technology and professional services can help you keep patients engaged and healthy in their homes and workplaces, and we can help you optimize care delivery to those patients when it becomes necessary. We are grateful to be recognized by Fortune, Gallup, Glassdoor, Modern Healthcare and a host of others as a Best Place to Work in technology and healthcare. Visit www.healthcatalyst.com, and follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook. 

    Media Contacts

    Todd Stein
    Amendola Communications for Health Catalyst
    916.346.4213
    [email protected]    		 Lisa Welch
    Regenstrief Institute
    317.274.9234
    [email protected]
    Posted 2.27.2017

  • Nuance and Epic Join Forces on Artificial Intelligence to Revolutionize Disabled Veterans Accessibility to Health IT

    Bringing Intelligent Virtual Assistant Solutions to Array of Assistive Solutions for Nation’s Wounded Warriors

    ORLANDO, FL – February 21, 2017 —Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) and Epic announce that the companies are joining forces to create more access and job opportunities for disabled persons scheduling medical appointments. The new innovations, powered by Nuance’s artificial intelligence (AI) technology and Epic’s Electronic Health Record (EHR) system, include a hands-free virtual assistant, which is available for demonstration at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Annual Convention and Exhibition February 20-24 in Orlando.

    There are nearly 20 million military veterans in the U.S., and 4 million have service-connected disabilities. Scheduling medical appointments for our nation’s veterans may be an extremely difficult task without assistance. Together, Epic’s EHR paired with Nuance’s healthcare virtual assistant technology, Florence, provide an AI-powered conversational user interface and simple design that makes technology easy to use by supporting intuitive voice-driven interactions, such as scheduling an appointment in seconds. Voice-driven workflows will be featured as part of the Medical Appointment Scheduling System program (MASS), a nationwide deployment of Epic scheduling software in VA Medical Centers, improving veterans’ access to care.

    Leveraging Nuance’s long history of delivering assistive technology and conversational solutions with Epic’s award-winning EHR will help people with disabilities gain independence and improved access to the information they need fast and securely. Nuance has delivered speech recognition technology to the U.S. Veteran’s Health Administration System through long-standing relationships across the health system, which includes 14,000 physicians across 152 hospitals supporting more than 8 million patients annually. Timely and accurate information is critical to enhance efficiency and patient care, and Nuance’s next-generation clinical documentation solutions also support all branches of the Department of Defense at hundreds of facilities across the U.S and overseas.

    “Nuance has invested heavily over the last decade to develop conversational and cognitive virtual assistant and AI technologies that will improve the experience of patients, employees and providers to support our mission of delivering solutions that help our clients deliver better patient care without technology getting in the way,” said Satish Maripuri, executive vice president and general manager of the Healthcare Division, Nuance. “This is an important invaluable initiative to help our nation’s veterans get what they need faster and to become more independent. It is an honor and a privilege to do this work on their behalf. We are very focused on such deeply-embedded solutions to drive value for our clients.”

    “We are very proud of our work with Nuance to embed their advanced AI technology into Epic’s EHR to deliver next-generation assistive capabilities to our nation’s veterans,” said Carl Dvorak, president, Epic. “By going above and beyond what is required by Section 508, Epic is focused on delivering a completely new experience to those veterans that have suffered physical disabilities due to their service to our country.”

    To see a demonstration of the first step in empowering the disabled veteran community, visit Epic Booth #1143 or Nuance booth #2546 at HIMSS.

    Nuance provides intelligent systems that support a more natural and insightful approach to clinical documentation, freeing clinicians to spend more time caring for patients. Nuance healthcare solutions capture, improve and communicate more than 300 million patient stories each year helping more than 500,000 clinicians in 10,000 global healthcare organizations to drive meaningful clinical and financial outcomes. Nuance’s award-winning clinical speech recognition, medical transcription, CDI, coding, quality and medical imaging solutions provide a more complete and accurate view of patient care.

    Nuance Communications, Inc.
    Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) is a leading provider of voice and language solutions for businesses and consumers around the world. Its technologies, applications and services make the user experience more compelling by transforming the way people interact with devices and systems. Every day, millions of users and thousands of businesses experience Nuance’s proven applications. For more information, please visit nuance.com. Connect with Nuance on social media through the healthcare blog, What’s next, as well as LinkedIn, and Twitter.

    About Epic
    Epic Systems Corporation is a privately-held healthcare software company helping to improve the quality and cost-effectiveness of health services across the care continuum. Epic’s community of customers provide care for nearly 60 percent of patients in the U.S. and include the vast majority of the top ranked health systems, physician groups and medical schools.

    Trademark reference: Nuance Florence is a registered trademarks of Nuance Communications, Inc. or its affiliates in the United States and/or other countries. All other company names or product names referenced herein may be the property of their respective owners.

    Posted 2.21.2017

  • Siemens Healthineers Establishes Global Digital Ecosystem to Drive Digitalization of Healthcare

    MALVERN, PA – February 21, 2017 —

    • Siemens Healthineers establishes digital platform for healthcare providers as well as for providers of solutions and services
    • Partners already on board include: Arterys, Dell EMC, SecondOpinions.com, Stroll Health, SyntheticMR, 3D Slicer, TMC, USARAD and Viewics
    • Siemens Healthineers Digital Ecosystem open for additional partners

    At the 55th Annual Meeting for the Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), Siemens Healthineers announces a digital platform for healthcare providers as well as for providers of solutions and services, aimed at covering the entire spectrum of healthcare. The platform is to foster the growth of a digital ecosystem linking healthcare providers and solution providers with one another as well as bringing together their data, applications and services.

    In the Siemens Healthineers Digital Ecosystem, data from imaging, in-vitro diagnostics and medical documentation is combined and assessed. This data is generated in one of the healthcare industry’s largest installed bases, i.e. the Siemens Healthineers customers who have agreed to participate in the ecosystem. Furthermore it will allow its users to exchange data and knowledge with other experts beyond their own institution. With the Digital Ecosystem Siemens Healthineers aims to set new trends in healthcare together with its customers and partners to enable healthcare providers around the world to meet their current challenges and to excel in their respective environments.

    Digitalization in healthcare is expected to drive the much-needed change towards widespread value-based care and dramatically reduced costs. Deep insights, i.e. into the clinical or operational performance of a healthcare facility, are essential for the digital transformation of healthcare. With its Digital Ecosystem, Siemens Healthineers plans to contribute to value-based healthcare by enabling fast, simple and seamless interaction between providers of data and knowledge.

    Through the Digital Ecosystem Siemens Healthineers will provide its customers with aggregated data which are usable for different evaluations. For example tools for predictive analysis could enable users to discern new correlations and trends to help improve diagnoses and guide therapy choices. Global knowledge exchange is a very important instrument in medicine to improve patient care. The Siemens Healthineers Digital Ecosystem will allow experts to link and communicate with their peers worldwide, and healthcare providers can benefit from Siemens Healthineers’ extensive expertise in nearly all clinical areas, including experience in data security in the healthcare market.

    Because a digital ecosystem thrives if as many service providers as possible contribute to it, the Siemens Healthineers Digital Ecosystem comes with open API’s (Application Programming Interface) to enable application developers and solution providers to efficiently create, market and offer services which are seamlessly integrated into a shared digital healthcare platform. Partner companies will be able to access one of the largest pools of in-vivo and in-vitro data, and share their solutions with healthcare providers in markets all across the world.

    “We believe that digitalization and the associated networking of healthcare providers is essential for the transformation to value-based healthcare. Big data needs to become smart data. With the Siemens Healthineers Digital Ecosystem, we are providing our customers with much deeper insights than previously possible into the key components that create both clinical and operational value.” commented Dr. Arthur Kaindl, Head of Digital Health Services at Siemens Healthineers. “Such a major transformation can only be initiated by working together. Our partners are essential to the success of this platform, and ultimately to the success of transforming healthcare.”

    The Siemens Healthineers Digital Ecosystem is based on the cloud-based network teamplay1, which has been recognized for its handling of data privacy2 and is already in use at hundreds of customer sites. It brings together a number of additional platforms such as LifeNet or the Point of Care (POC) Informatics solution from Siemens Healthineers. Built on Microsoft Azure cloud platform, it currently contains several million data records, providing, for example, insight into the level of utilization of imaging devices in a clinic or the associated radiation doses. Because data security and privacy are taken very seriously, the cloud-based network offers different privacy levels to support compliance with local regulations2.

    Opening development of the ecosystem to companies such as application, service and solution providers, device manufacturers, platform developers or data providers, results in a shared digital platform on which Siemens Healthineers and its partners can offer applications and services for healthcare providers to support decision-making and increase productivity. Arterys, Dell EMC, SecondOpinions.com, Stroll Health, SyntheticMR, 3D Slicer, TMC, USARAD and Viewics already agreed to provide applications and technologies for the Siemens Healthineers Digital Ecosystem, and the platform is open for additional partners. At the conference in Orlando, Siemens Healthineers will present an initial prototype of its digital platform, with single-sign-on access to its partners’ applications and services. The platform is planned to be commercially available in the fall of 2017.

    Information about the solutions from Arterys, Dell EMC, SecondOpinions.com, Stroll Health, SyntheticMR, 3D Slicer, TMC, USARAD and Viewics on the Siemens Healthineers Digital Ecosystem is available at usa.healthcare.siemens.com/infrastructure-it/healthineers-digital-ecosystem/digital-ecosystem

    1. teamplay is not yet commercially available in some countries. No undertakings can be given as to its future availability due to the special legal provisions pertaining to medical devices. More detailed information can be obtained from the relevant local Siemens organization.
    2. teamplay – CORE applications: teamplay Dose, teamplay Usage and teamplay Protocols – has been awarded with the European Privacy Seal and the German “Seal of Privacy for IT products” of the Independent Centre for Privacy Protection
      in Schleswig-Holstein (ULD).

    This press release is available at siemens.com/press/PR201702180HCEN

    Contact
    Carly Johnson
    610.448.6347
    [email protected]

    Siemens Healthineers is the separately managed healthcare business of Siemens AG enabling healthcare providers worldwide to meet their current challenges and to excel in their respective environments. A leader in medical technology, Siemens Healthineers is constantly innovating its portfolio of products and services in its core areas of diagnostic and therapeutic imaging and in laboratory diagnostics and molecular medicine. Siemens Healthineers is also actively developing its digital health services and enterprise services. To help customers succeed in today’s dynamic healthcare marketplace, Siemens Healthineers is championing new business models that maximize opportunity and minimize risk for healthcare providers.

    In fiscal 2016, which ended on September 30, 2016, Siemens Healthineers generated revenue of €13.5 billion and profit of over €2.3 billion and has about 46,000 employees worldwide. Further information is available at siemens.com/healthineers.

    Posted 2.21.2017

  • Commvault Sees Growing Healthcare Industry Demand for Powerful Holistic Data Management

    Growing data volumes, security threats, industry consolidation, & use of the cloud are driving healthcare organizations to adopt the Commvault Data Platform

    With Commvault, healthcare organizations can use holistic data management to better protect, control and extract value from their data, helping them deliver higher-quality, lower cost care 

    ORLANDO, FL & TINTON FALLS, NJ – February 21, 2017 — Commvault (NASDAQ: CVLT), a global leader in enterprise backup, recovery, archive and the cloud, today announced that it is seeing growing healthcare industry demand for its Commvault Data Platform with strong customer adoption among healthcare providers and organizations since the formation of its healthcare solutions group. Multiple forces – including growing data volumes, rising security risks, stricter regulatory requirements, increasing industry consolidation and shrinking IT budgets – are driving healthcare organizations to implement holistic data management strategies with the Commvault Data Platform. By providing data protection of electronic health records (EHR) and enabling enterprise image management through the Commvault Clinical Archive, healthcare customers are delivering higher quality, lower cost care by better protecting, controlling and extracting value from their EHR, imaging, financial and other enterprise data.

    Commvault will be highlighting why healthcare organizations are increasingly using the Commvault Data Platform to streamline disaster recovery, optimize EHR data protection, consolidate enterprise imaging and secure a holistic, 360-degree view of their data at HIMSS17 Conference & Exhibition, booth No. 1703 on Feb. 19-23 in Orlando.

    New Healthcare Customers, Partnerships Demonstrate Growing Market Traction

    At HIMSS17 Commvault announced strong customer momentum in the healthcare market since the formation of its healthcare solutions group to help them implement holistic data management strategies. A small sample of new and existing healthcare customers that have expanded their investment into Commvault’s portfolio of data management solutions include:

    • Adventist Health System
    • Advocate Health Care
    • Alaska Native Medical Center
    • Clinicient
    • Denver Health Medical Center
    • Eisenhower Medical Center
    • Kelsey-Seybold Clinic
    • GRUPO HERMES PARDINI
    • Guthrie Healthcare Systems
    • International Committee of the Red Cross
    • Salem Health
    • Roswell Park Cancer Institute
    • Tufts Medical Center
    • University of Rochester Medical Center
    • UW Health
    • Assuta Hospital
    • Kingston Hospital NHS Trust
    • Royal Cornwall Hospital NHS Trust
    • St. Andrew’s Healthcare
    • Medpace
    • The Health Products Regulatory Authority
    • The National Institutes of Health NIDA — Department of Health and Human Services
    • The National Institutes of Health NLM – Department of Health and Human Services

    At the conference, Commvault also announced new partnerships with CloudWave and Harmony Healthcare IT, a technical achievement with TeraRecon, a new IDC white paper on how healthcare organizations can use holistic data management to create a competitive advantage, and a new listing for Commvault Clinical Archive in Imaging Technology News.

    • CloudWave and Commvault Partnership: The Commvault Data Platform has been selected by CloudWave to power its new OpSus Backup service, a healthcare backup-as-a-service (BaaS) offering that enables healthcare organizations to quickly, easily and securely use the cloud to protect and recover mission-critical application data.
    • TeraRecon and Commvault Achievement: Commvault announced a technical achievement with TeraRecon, a leader in advanced visualization and enterprise medical image viewing solutions, enabling healthcare organizations to deliver anywhere access to images at speeds never before possible.
    • Harmony Healthcare IT and Commvault Partnership: Commvault has partnered with Harmony Healthcare IT to extend the power of the Commvault Data Platform with new capabilities in data aggregation and application decommissioning. As a result, healthcare customers can manage the complicated process of decommissioning legacy applicationsby retiring Electronic Healthcare Records (EHR) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems while enabling them to access and protect important clinical and business data.
    • IDC Healthcare Enterprise Data Management Whitepaper: This new whitepaper helps healthcare organizations understand how enterprise grade health data management can help them drive a competitive advantage in the marketplace by better protecting EHR data, business, and other data, enable clinical and image archiving, and enhance their security posture when it comes to cyberattacks that can compromise IT systems and data.
    • Listing in Imaging Technology News (ITN): Commvault Clinical Archive was listed in the February issue of ITN, the premiere imaging publication referred to by CIOs and decision makers within healthcare. Commvault’s inclusion in ITN’s highly-regarded VNA Comparison Chart further demonstrates the company’s growth and success in the healthcare imaging space.

    “Healthcare organizations are deriving more value from their data than ever before – yet they are also finding that protecting, managing and extracting value from this data is more complex than ever,” said Ananth Balasubramanian, General Manager of Worldwide Healthcare Business at Commvault. “By providing them with the power to implement holistic data management strategies that enable them to take full control of their data, whatever it is, wherever it may reside, Commvault is helping healthcare organizations simplify data protection and management, while also allowing them take the next step forward in using data to improve patient outcomes and reduce costs.”

    About Commvault Healthcare
    Commvault is a leading provider of data protection and information management solutions, helping healthcare organizations worldwide handle massive volumes of data, meet compliance requirements and deliver quality patient care. Through its single integrated platform, the Commvault Data Platform, Commvault provides healthcare organizations with enterprise data protection, enabling them to scale infrastructure easily and cost-effectively while maintaining the security and privacy of patient information. Commvault Software includes data encryption capabilities, enabling healthcare providers to meet the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act and other patient data privacy compliance requirements.

    About Commvault
    Commvault is a leading provider of data protection and information management solutions, helping companies worldwide activate their data to drive more value and business insight and to transform modern data environments. With solutions and services delivered directly and through a worldwide network of partners and service providers, Commvault solutions comprise one of the industry’s leading portfolios in data protection and recovery, cloud, virtualization, archive, file sync and share. Commvault has earned accolades from customers and third party influencers for its technology vision, innovation, and execution as an independent and trusted expert. Without the distraction of a hardware business or other business agenda, Commvault’s sole focus on data management has led to adoption by companies of all sizes, in all industries, and for solutions deployed on-premises, across mobile platforms, to and from the cloud, and provided as-a-service. Commvault employs more than 2,700 highly skilled individuals across markets worldwide, is publicly traded on NASDAQ (CVLT), and is headquartered in Tinton Falls, New Jersey in the United States. To learn more about Commvault — and how it can help make your data work for you — visit www.commvault.com.

    Safe Harbor Statement: Customers’ results may differ materially from those stated herein; Commvault does not guarantee that all customers can achieve benefits similar to those stated above. This press release may contain forward-looking statements, including statements regarding financial projections, which are subject to risks and uncertainties, such as competitive factors, difficulties and delays inherent in the development, manufacturing, marketing and sale of software products and related services, general economic conditions and others. Statements regarding Commvault’s beliefs, plans, expectations or intentions regarding the future are forward-looking statements, within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. All such forward-looking statements are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Actual results may differ materially from anticipated results. Commvault does not undertake to update its forward-looking statements. The development and timing of any product release as well as any of its features or functionality remain at our sole discretion.

    ©1999-2017 Commvault Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. Commvault, Commvault and logo, the “C hexagon” logo, Commvault Systems, Solving Forward, SIM, Singular Information Management, OnePass, Commvault Galaxy, Unified Data Management, QiNetix, Quick Recovery, QR, CommNet, GridStor, Vault Tracker, InnerVault, Quick Snap, QSnap, IntelliSnap, Recovery Director, CommServe, CommCell, ROMS, Commvault Edge, and CommValue are trademarks or registered trademarks of Commvault Systems, Inc. All other third party brands, products, service names, trademarks, or registered service marks are the property of and used to identify the products or services of their respective owners. All specifications are subject to change without notice.

    Posted 2.21.2017

  • Commvault, Cloudwave Bring Streamlined Cloud Backup & Recovery to Healthcare Market with Powerful New Service Offering

    Powered by Commvault, CloudWave’s new OpSus Backup service enables healthcare enterprises to implement holistic data management strategies that cut costs while minimizing security, business continuity & regulatory compliance risk —

    ORLANDO, FL & TINTON FALLS, NJ – February 21, 2017 — Commvault (NASDAQ: CVLT), a global leader in enterprise backup, recovery, archive and the cloud for the healthcare market, today announced that its Commvault Data Platform was selected by CloudWave to power its new OpSus Backup service. The new healthcare backup-as-a-service (BaaS) offering – part of the OpSus Healthcare cloud services portfolio – enables healthcare organizations to quickly, easily and securely use the cloud to protect and recover mission-critical application data. By building the OpSus Backup service on Commvault’s comprehensive data management platform, CloudWave is able to deliver healthcare enterprises a fully-managed backup service that cuts costs while minimizing security, business continuity and regulatory compliance risks. Today’s announcement was made at HIMSS 2017, being held Feb. 19 – Feb. 23, in Orlando.

    OpSus Backup supports healthcare enterprises’ efforts to implement holistic data management strategies that allow them to protect, control and derive more value from all their data. OpSus Backup uses Commvault’s holistic data management platform to backup data on Tier 4 data centers, and encrypt data both in transit and at rest. Both healthcare enterprise IT staff and CloudWave’s team of healthcare IT experts can use the service to initiate, monitor and maintain backup operations, as well as perform on-demand data restoration on secure landing zones.

    “Today many healthcare IT staff are struggling to find the time needed to ensure that their mission-critical data is backed up in full compliance with regulatory requirements,” said Matthew Donahue, Chief Technology Officer at CloudWave. “OpSus Backup helps relieve this burden, providing healthcare enterprises with a fully-managed backup service that reduces time spent on backup administration while also helping them lower risk with powerful security, availability and regulatory capabilities. “In selecting a software partner for OpSus Backup, we carefully evaluated potential providers using a disciplined matrix which spanned functionality, compatibility, efficiency, and operations. Commvault met or exceeded our criteria in every category.”

    The new OpSus Backup service, powered by Commvault, builds on the companies’ existing strong partnership. A leading provider of IT and hybrid cloud solutions for healthcare, CloudWave collaborated with Commvault last year to successfully test and validate the Commvault Data Platform for backup and recovery with MEDITECH Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems, enabling healthcare enterprises to leverage a single data management platform across their entire enterprise.

    “With data volumes growing, regulatory requirements expanding, cyberattacks increasing and IT budgets shrinking, healthcare organizations need to implement holistic data management strategies that allow them to cost-effectively use the cloud to backup and recover data while maintaining high levels of security, regulatory compliance and availability,” said Ananth Balasubramanian, General Manager of Commvault’s Healthcare Solutions Group. ”By partnering with Commvault, CloudWave is able to provide healthcare enterprises with the power to implement these strategies, through a fully managed backup service that allows IT staff to focus on more strategic initiatives, while also helping lower operational expenses and reduce security, business continuity and regulatory compliance risk. We are excited to extend our partnership with an industry leader in bringing on-premises and cloud-based technology solutions to the healthcare market and look forward to a longstanding relationship for the benefit of our customers.”

    CloudWave and Commvault will both be exhibiting at the HIMSS17 Conference & Exhibition on February 19-23. Commvault will be at booth No. 1703. CloudWave will be at booth No. 3191.

    About Commvault Healthcare
    Commvault is a leading provider of data protection and information management solutions, helping healthcare organizations worldwide handle massive volumes of data, meet compliance requirements and deliver quality patient care. Through its single integrated platform, the Commvault Data Platform, Commvault provides healthcare organizations with enterprise data protection, enabling them to scale infrastructure easily and cost-effectively while maintaining the security and privacy of patient information. Commvault Software includes data encryption capabilities, enabling healthcare providers to meet the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act and other patient data privacy compliance requirements.

    About Commvault
    Commvault is a leading provider of data protection and information management solutions, helping companies worldwide activate their data to drive more value and business insight and to transform modern data environments. With solutions and services delivered directly and through a worldwide network of partners and service providers, Commvault solutions comprise one of the industry’s leading portfolios in data protection and recovery, cloud, virtualization, archive, file sync and share. Commvault has earned accolades from customers and third party influencers for its technology vision, innovation, and execution as an independent and trusted expert. Without the distraction of a hardware business or other business agenda, Commvault’s sole focus on data management has led to adoption by companies of all sizes, in all industries, and for solutions deployed on-premises, across mobile platforms, to and from the cloud, and provided as-a-service. Commvault employs more than 2,700 highly skilled individuals across markets worldwide, is publicly traded on NASDAQ (CVLT), and is headquartered in Tinton Falls, New Jersey in the United States. To learn more about Commvault — and how it can help make your data work for you — visit www.commvault.com.

    About CloudWave
    CloudWave creates cloud solutions for healthcare which embrace the full continuum from on-premises customer private cloud, to professionally managed cloud services in our OpSus Healthcare Cloud, to seamless federation with public cloud services like Office 365 and Microsoft Azure. CloudWave’s focused portfolio of OpSus Healthcare Cloud services built for healthcare (B4H) include hosting of over 100 healthcare applications, disaster recovery with disciplined, auditable restoral testing, systems management, security, backup, and archiving services. CloudWave architects healthcare IT solutions with the goal of operational sustainability. Our engineers and consultants have long-standing, successful track records designing and implementing solutions for hospitals. For more information, visit www.gocloudwave.com or call (877) 991-1991.

    Safe Harbor Statement
    Customers’ results may differ materially from those stated herein; Commvault does not guarantee that all customers can achieve benefits similar to those stated above. This press release may contain forward-looking statements, including statements regarding financial projections, which are subject to risks and uncertainties, such as competitive factors, difficulties and delays inherent in the development, manufacturing, marketing and sale of software products and related services, general economic conditions and others. Statements regarding Commvault’s beliefs, plans, expectations or intentions regarding the future are forward-looking statements, within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. All such forward-looking statements are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Actual results may differ materially from anticipated results. Commvault does not undertake to update its forward-looking statements. The development and timing of any product release as well as any of its features or functionality remain at our sole discretion.

    ©1999-2017 Commvault Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. Commvault, Commvault and logo, the “C hexagon” logo, Commvault Systems, Solving Forward, SIM, Singular Information Management, OnePass, Commvault Galaxy, Unified Data Management, QiNetix, Quick Recovery, QR, CommNet, GridStor, Vault Tracker, InnerVault, Quick Snap, QSnap, IntelliSnap, Recovery Director, CommServe, CommCell, ROMS, Commvault Edge, and CommValue are trademarks or registered trademarks of Commvault Systems, Inc. All other third party brands, products, service names, trademarks, or registered service marks are the property of and used to identify the products or services of their respective owners. All specifications are subject to change without notice.

    Posted 2.21.2017

  • Commvault Extends Platform Capabilities for Healthcare by Adding EHR & ERP Application Decommissioning & Data Aggregation

    Partners with Harmony Healthcare IT to enable Commvault customers to access, manage & protect data from retired legacy applications

    ORLANDO, FL & TINTON FALLS, NJ – February 21, 2017 – Commvault (NASDAQ: CVLT), a global leader in enterprise backup, recovery, archive and the cloud for the healthcare market, today announced a technology collaboration with Harmony Healthcare IT, a leading provider of services and solutions that safeguard patient information, ensure cash flow, and increase productivity. Through the integration of the Commvault Data Platform with Harmony Healthcare IT’s archiving solution, Health Data Archiver, healthcare customers can manage the complicated process of decommissioning legacy applications by retiring Electronic Healthcare Records (EHR) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems while enabling them to access and protect important clinical and business data. Today’s announcement was made at HIMSS 2017, being held Feb. 19 – Feb. 23, in Orlando.

    In addition to data management and protection, customers using the Commvault Data Platform with Heath Data Archiver gain increased analytics capabilities by having data from decommissioned applications available for indexing and reporting through Commvault Software, as well as expanded eDiscovery and search functionality.

    “We are pleased to team up with Commvault to empower healthcare providers to embrace holistic data management strategies that modernize the way they manage, migrate and share clinical data,” said Tom Liddell, CEO, Harmony Healthcare IT. “With the addition of our product and services, Commvault Clinical Archive gives customers the power to derive the most value out of all data, regardless of whether it’s in production use or from decommissioned applications.”

    The collaboration between Commvault and Harmony Healthcare IT, extends Commvault’s data management portfolio and archiving capabilities in EHR and ERP application decommissioning. In tandem with Commvault Clinical Archive, announced at HIMSS last year, Commvault is transforming the way healthcare providers are managing, migrating and retiring EHR, and other legacy applications. As a result, customers are breaking down data silos, reducing storage costs and complexity, enable better data sharing, and eliminating the burden of maintaining and supporting legacy applications.

    “As healthcare providers recognize the tremendous operational and financial benefits in decommissioning outdated legacy applications, data from those systems will still need to be accessed, managed and protected since it often needs to be retained for business, compliance and regulatory reasons,” said Ananth Balasubramanian, General Manager of Commvault’s Healthcare Solutions Group. “With customers now able to use Health Data Archiver to decommission legacy applications, they can optimize healthcare IT operations, reducing maintenance application costs, while accessing and managing critical clinical and business data.”

    Harmony Healthcare IT and Commvault will both be exhibiting at the HIMSS17 Conference & Exhibition on February 19-23. Commvault will be at booth #1703. Harmony Healthcare IT will be at booth #7760.

    About Commvault Healthcare
    Commvault is a leading provider of data protection and information management solutions, helping healthcare organizations worldwide handle massive volumes of data, meet compliance requirements and deliver quality patient care. Through its single integrated platform, the Commvault Data Platform, Commvault provides healthcare organizations with enterprise data protection, enabling them to scale infrastructure easily and cost-effectively while maintaining the security and privacy of patient information. Commvault Software includes data encryption capabilities, enabling healthcare providers to meet the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act and other patient data privacy compliance requirements.

    About Commvault
    Commvault is a leading provider of data protection and information management solutions, helping companies worldwide activate their data to drive more value and business insight and to transform modern data environments. With solutions and services delivered directly and through a worldwide network of partners and service providers, Commvault solutions comprise one of the industry’s leading portfolios in data protection and recovery, cloud, virtualization, archive, file sync and share. Commvault has earned accolades from customers and third party influencers for its technology vision, innovation, and execution as an independent and trusted expert. Without the distraction of a hardware business or other business agenda, Commvault’s sole focus on data management has led to adoption by companies of all sizes, in all industries, and for solutions deployed on premise, across mobile platforms, to and from the cloud, and provided as-a-service. Commvault employs more than 2,700 highly skilled individuals across markets worldwide, is publicly traded on NASDAQ (CVLT), and is headquartered in Tinton Falls, New Jersey in the United States. To learn more about Commvault — and how it can help make your data work for you — visit commvault.com.

    About Harmony Healthcare IT
    Since 2006, health IT analysts at Harmony Healthcare IT have extracted demographic, financial, clinical and administrative data from healthcare provider systems – both ambulatory and acute. Headquartered in South Bend, Indiana, the company’s mission is to preserve vital information that will improve lives. Harmony Healthcare IT employs experts in data extraction, migration, retention, integration and analytics to provide trusted solutions. Working with hundreds of systems, billions of records and terabytes of data, Harmony Healthcare IT — with its product, Health Data Archiver — provides clients with access to historical records. Simply. Visit Harmony Healthcare IT at HIMSS17, Booth #7760, Feb. 19-23, 2017 in Orlando.

    Safe Harbor Statement: Customers’ results may differ materially from those stated herein; Commvault does not guarantee that all customers can achieve benefits similar to those stated above. This press release may contain forward-looking statements, including statements regarding financial projections, which are subject to risks and uncertainties, such as competitive factors, difficulties and delays inherent in the development, manufacturing, marketing and sale of software products and related services, general economic conditions and others. Statements regarding Commvault’s beliefs, plans, expectations or intentions regarding the future are forward-looking statements, within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. All such forward-looking statements are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Actual results may differ materially from anticipated results. Commvault does not undertake to update its forward-looking statements. The development and timing of any product release as well as any of its features or functionality remain at our sole discretion.

    ©1999-2017 Commvault Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. Commvault, Commvault and logo, the “C hexagon” logo, Commvault Systems, Solving Forward, SIM, Singular Information Management, OnePass, Commvault Galaxy, Unified Data Management, QiNetix, Quick Recovery, QR, CommNet, GridStor, Vault Tracker, InnerVault, Quick Snap, QSnap, IntelliSnap, Recovery Director, CommServe, CommCell, ROMS, Commvault Edge, and CommValue are trademarks or registered trademarks of Commvault Systems, Inc. All other third party brands, products, service names, trademarks, or registered service marks are the property of and used to identify the products or services of their respective owners. All specifications are subject to change without notice.

    Posted 2.21.2017

  • HealthGrid honored as recipient of the 2017 Microsoft Health Innovation Awards

    ORLANDO, FL – February 21, 2017 — HealthGrid today announced it has been named a recipient of Microsoft Corp.’s 2017 Health Innovation Awards.

    The awards, which were announced at the 2017 HIMSS Annual Conference and Exhibition in Orlando, Florida, recognize health organizations and their technology solution partners for using Microsoft devices and services in innovative ways that help engage patients, empower care teams, optimize clinical and operational effectiveness, and transform the care continuum. The 2017 winners are transforming the industry by creating breakthrough solutions that empower health and life sciences organizations, while meeting global, local and industry-specific compliance and security standards.

    HealthGrid, the nation’s fastest growing patient engagement platform, has demonstrated compelling evidence in the value it creates for provider organizations, like its partner Family Physician Group (FPG), making the organization the clear winner in the category for “Engage Your Patients.” HealthGrid’s Patient Engagement Platform creates a cohesive, mobile patient experience by proactively initiating bit sized, contextual interactions with the patient at the appropriate time throughout their care journey. With HealthGrid, FPG sought to improve the overall quality of care, optimize access to their physician network, improve compliance to regulatory requirements, like Meaningful Use and MACRA, while supporting the shift to value- based care. Leveraging the HealthGrid platform, FPG has fully attested all providers for Meaningful Use, added two more appointments per provider per day leading to 40 percent more closures of clinical care gaps, and 60 percent of patients utilizing post-care instructions and educational materials which has improved care plan compliance. As a result, HealthGrid has helped FPG achieve a 9:1 ROI resulting in $50k more per physician annually.

    “We are so grateful to our partners at Family Physicians Group and our collaboration with Microsoft. This award is only possible by working with thought leaders in the industry who are reshaping the conversation between patient and physician. We have always understood that patient engagement is paramount to driving quality care. And with that, our focus remains on creating a meaningful, interactive patient experience for our customers,” said Raj Toleti, president and co-founder of HealthGrid.

    From pre-care administrative operations, including gaps in care outreach, scheduling and reminders, electronic check-in to clinical interactions, including post-care delivery of care summaries, referral coordination, and care plan management, HealthGrid offers a consistent touchpoint to patients while driving significant return to the practice.

    “The health industry is undergoing a seismic shift in which intelligent technologies are helping organizations, communities and individuals improve care by helping them better understand and share information,” said Laura Wallace, vice president, Health & Life Sciences, Microsoft. “This year’s Microsoft Health Innovation Award recipients are advancing the goals of improved patient engagement and care coordination through their pioneering use of Microsoft devices, platforms and cloud services.”

    Nominations were submitted by health providers, payers, pharmaceutical and life science organizations, and public and private health institutions across the world for applying Microsoft technology to create transformative and highly-effective innovations. An esteemed panel of industry experts selected this year’s winners based on how their innovation represents a forward-thinking development or implementation of a solution that is delivering groundbreaking results and producing better health outcomes for more people. Recipients will be highlighted on the Microsoft website at microsoft.com/healthinnovationawards and on the Microsoft in Health blog at enterprise.microsoft.com.

    About HealthGrid
    HealthGrid is shifting the patient experience paradigm – meeting patients where they are. Our mobile-first CRM platform is the industry leading patient engagement solution that enables providers to engage and activate patients at any point in the care continuum. For more information, visit www.healthgrid.com or connect on Twitter @HealthGrid | Facebook | LinkedIn

    For more information, press only
    MSLGROUP
    Davida Dinerman
    [email protected]
    781.684.0770

    Product or service names mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

    Posted 2.21.2017

  • BD Demonstrates Synchronized Technology Platform at HIMSS17

    BD Showcases its Leadership in Enterprise-wide Medication Management at #HIMSS2017

    ORLANDO,FL – February 20, 2017 — BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE: BDX), a leading global medical technology company, will demonstrate its approach to a synchronized medication management technology platform aimed to help close the communication gaps between different software and devices and optimize interoperability with the EMR systems to deliver a more seamless med management process at the 2017 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual conference and exhibition being held in Orlando from February 19-23.

    BD’s leading Pyxis™ and Alaris™ technologies will be linked throughout the medication management process and interoperable with health IT platforms ─ improving the safety and accuracy of medication management workflows, while reducing complexity and cost. With the unique ability to integrate technologies, BD can help hospitals and health systems see a holistic view of the entire medication management process. This harmonized approach is also backed by clinical experts that will support a hospital or health system to define, execute and measure its medication management processes and continuously improve workflows and optimize outcomes.

    BD is focused on three primary pillars:

    • One Medication Management Platform:
      • Through this unique “one platform” approach, BD is the only company that can offer health systems a holistic approach to managing its medications – from medication reconciliation upon admission, preparation and dispensing in the pharmacy to administration at the bedside. This approach has the power to simplify and streamline medication management processes. This streamlined approach, when connected to the EHR, will support the safe and timely administration of medications to patients.
    • Medication Availability:
      • BD technologies help ensure that the right medication is available when and where needed to improve outcomes and cost-efficiencies across the continuum of care. Through this comprehensive approach towards medication management, BD will demonstrate software capabilities, including: suggestive analytics around inventory management, software applications to drive workflow efficiencies, and benchmarking capabilities. By enabling enterprise-wide inventory visibility and analytics for all medications, the system can automate ordering and receiving for all medications, including IVs and controlled substances, across healthcare networks of all sizes.
    • End-to-End IV Safety:
      • BD is working to improve comprehensive IV infusion safety through the entire process from initial compounding to administration at the patient’s bedside. BD technologies seamlessly integrate with pharmacy IT systems and EMRs to receive orders, simplify steps, optimize drug utilization, prepopulate infusion parameters into pumps and improve compliance with documentation, ensuring that the right medication and dose is delivered to the right patient.

    “By synchronizing our technologies with health care IT systems across the continuum of medication management, BD is uniquely positioned to help IT operate smarter and more effectively,” said Ranjeet Banerjee, worldwide president of Medication Management Solutions for BD. “We are continuously developing new ways to improve clinical workflows through our solutions, professional services and support. Through our interconnected, holistic approach to medication management, BD’s devices and software can be utilized to their greatest potential to help prevent medication errors, improve clinical processes and streamline costs across the entire medication management continuum.”

    BD at HIMSS

    The BD commitment to optimizing health IT to elevate the entire medication management process will be highlighted in three onsite sessions:

    • BD will support panels at the conference, including:
      • Cyber Surveillance and Threat Intelligence Sharing: February 19, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm, West Hall, Room 311E.
      • Securing Wireless Medical Infusion Pumps – A Use Case: February 22, 10:00 am – 11:00 am, Tangerine Ballroom, Hall F4.
      • Health IT Risk Management: A Practical Tool to Help Hospitals and Medical Devices Stay Secure in a Complex World. February 22, 10:00 am – 11:00 am, Room 206A.
      • Customer Panel: Driving Patient Safety With Smart Pump-EMR Interoperability – Lessons Learned. Several of the more than 165 healthcare organizations live on Alaris EMR interoperability will share their success strategies. February 21, 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm, Room 203A. Register now at org.
    • BD will participate in the HIMSS Interoperability Showcase.
      Live demonstrations will show how meeting interoperability profiles and standards can help solve some of the most critical challenges in health care:

      • AlarisTM system – Athletic Injury use case
      • BD IntelliportTM system – Scheduled surgery use case. February 20-22, Hall F, Booth #9000.
    • Stop by booth #1093 to learn the value of engaging with a single strategic medication management partner.

    About BD
    BD is a global medical technology company that is advancing the world of health by improving medical discovery, diagnostics and the delivery of care. BD leads in patient and health care worker safety and the technologies that enable medical research and clinical laboratories. The company provides innovative solutions that help advance medical research and genomics, enhance the diagnosis of infectious disease and cancer, improve medication management, promote infection prevention, equip surgical and interventional procedures, and support the management of diabetes. The company partners with organizations around the world to address some of the most challenging global health issues. BD has more than 40,000 associates across 50 countries who work in close collaboration with customers and partners to help enhance outcomes, lower health care delivery costs, increase efficiencies, improve health care safety and expand access to health. For more information on BD, please visit bd.com.

    This press release contains certain estimates and other forward-looking statements (as defined under Federal securities laws) regarding potential future sales and product development. Forward looking statements may be identified by use of words such as “will”, “plan”, “believe”, “expect” or other words of similar meaning. All such statements are based upon the current expectations of BD and involve a number of business risks and uncertainties. Actual results could vary materially from anticipated results described, implied or projected in any forward-looking statement. A number of factors could cause actual results to vary materially, including, without limitation, difficulties inherent in product development, delays in product introductions and uncertainty of market acceptance of new products; competitive factors including technological advances and new products introduced by competitors; pricing and market pressures; potential cuts in governmental healthcare spending and measures to contain healthcare costs; adverse changes in regional, national or foreign economic conditions; product efficacy or safety concerns; fluctuations in costs and availability of materials and in BD’s ability to maintain favorable supplier arrangements and relationships; new or changing laws and regulations impacting our business or changes in enforcement practices with respect to such laws; future healthcare reform; as well as other factors discussed in BD’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. We do not intend to update any forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof except as required by applicable laws or regulations.

     

    Posted 2.20.2017

  • EHR Study Finds Healthcare Leaders Plan to Adopt Enhancing Technologies to Improve Clinician Satisfaction

    Speech recognition, mobility & computer-assisted physician documentation tools are top three investments to optimize EHRs

    ORLANDO, FL – February 20, 2017 — Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) today announced the findings of a new study revealing that a majority of healthcare leaders plan to use additional technologies and tools to realize the full intended benefits of electronic health records (EHRs) and to improve clinician satisfaction with using them. The study also concluded that the improved clinical documentation resulting from EHRs and related technologies will drive positive financial impact for their institutions, including appropriate reimbursement and increased patient flow.

    The EHR and Clinical Documentation Effectiveness Study, conducted by HIMSS Analytics, was designed to understand the adoption and optimization of EHRs and supporting tools used by clinicians, as well as opportunities for improvement at hospitals and healthcare systems.

    “Just as fracking revolutionized and disrupted the petroleum industry by unlocking untapped resources, innovations such as computer-assisted physician documentation, natural language processing, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning will do the same by tapping into medical data and deriving more value for the healthcare industry,” said John S. Lee, MD, CMIO, Edward Elmhurst Hospital. “Once this data is discretely available, it then is only a matter of ingenuity and creativity to use it at the point of care.”

    The study revealed that the majority of respondents (83%) have confidence that their organization will realize the full benefits of EHRs, most notably their intended purpose of providing improved care coordination and outcomes. Today, organizations are investing heavily in resources to support EHR use and documentation of patient information. Three quarters have added training and support resources, and two-thirds have increased staff in at least one IT area since moving to an EHR.

    Notable findings include:

    • Addressing clinician satisfaction in three key ways – Healthcare institutions today acknowledge that it’s critical to find ways to save clinicians time and improve their satisfaction. This ultimately can improve work/life balance, and support retention and recruitment among clinicians. A majority of respondents identified three primary ways healthcare institutions are working today to improve clinician satisfaction around EHR use:
      • 82% provide clinician training and education
      • 75% enhance existing technology and tools
      • 68% adopt new technology and tools
    • Plans to introduce EHR-enhancing technologies in 2017 – While arming clinicians with technology at the point of care is not pervasive today, approximately one quarter of respondents plan to introduce enhancing technologies at the point of care to optimize EHR use. This will help clinicians more fully document the patient story, improve satisfaction and reduce physician burnout, ultimately resulting in improved patient flows and better financial outcomes. The top enhancing technologies planned for use in 2017 are:
      • Mobility tools – 44%
      • Computer-assisted physician documentation (CAPD) – 38%
      • Speech Recognition – 25%
    • More complete patient records drive financial impact – Hospitals realize that more accurate and complete clinical documentation of patient encounters not only impacts patient safety, care delivery and outcomes, but also has a significant impact on finances for the institution. Two-thirds of respondents indicated that improved clinical documentation that results in capturing appropriate data for reimbursement will have the largest financial impact for their organizations. Other areas that would benefit from improved documentation include:
      • Reduction in denied claims – 54%
      • Improved performance under bundled payments – 52%
      • Reduced re-admissions -38%
      • Better physician time management that improves patient flow – 38%

    “Technology is an important part of the healthcare experience today, but physicians need to interact with technology in ways that are more seamless and less obtrusive in order to keep their attention focused on the patient. The right technology, working to complement EHRs can accomplish this, and our clients are reporting major improvements in clinician satisfaction, quality, and financial outcomes,” said Brenda Hodge, senior vice president of healthcare marketing, Nuance. “In fact, we have doubled the number of organizations using our cloud-based platform, Dragon® Medical One, in less than a year because it gives clinicians freedom to document when and where they want.”

    For more information:
    A new whitepaper, “All In: Moving from EHR Adoption to Optimization,” with additional information about the study can be found here, and you can download an infographic highlighting the study results or view the study findings.

    Study Methodology
    The EHR and Clinical Documentation Effectiveness Study conducted by HIMSS Analytics was commissioned by Nuance. The web-based survey was fielded from August 17 to September 6, 2016, with 167 respondents from 142 different healthcare organizations. Forty percent of respondents hold C-suite titles, with another 40 percent in IT leadership roles.

    About Nuance Communications, Inc
    Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) is a leading provider of voice and language solutions for businesses and consumers around the world. Its technologies, applications and services make the user experience more compelling by transforming the way people interact with devices and systems. Every day, millions of users and thousands of businesses experience Nuance’s proven applications. For more information, please visit nuance.com.

    Trademark reference: Nuance and the Nuance logo are registered trademarks or trademarks of Nuance Communications, Inc. or its affiliates in the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks referenced herein are the property of their respective owners.

    Posted 2.20.2017

  • At HIMSS17 Nuance Reveals How Artificial Intelligence is Solving Clinicians’ Administrative Burden

    Clinical Documentation Powered by AI is up to 45% Faster & Improves Quality Scores 36%, Advancing Virtual Assistants & Virtual Scribes in Healthcare

    ORLANDO, FL – February 20, 2017 — Nuance Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq: NUAN) today announced results that demonstrate clinicians can save up to 45% on documentation time and improve quality scores up to 36% using artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled solutions. Powered by advances in the cloud and cognitive computing, Nuance’s next-generation speech and language understanding solutions make it easier for clinicians to quickly capture complete patient information in electronic health records (EHRs) using technology that amplifies their intelligence and works in the background to complement patient care rather than compete with it.

    Clinical Documentation up to 45% Faster
    Dragon® Medical One, Nuance’s cloud-based clinical speech platform, leverages machine learning honed over three decades and deep neural networks to deliver a compelling user experience from day one. The new era of AI improves on already high levels of accuracy of Nuance’s core speech recognition, providing enhanced responsiveness, acoustics, environmental controls, and an additional 30% drop in errors, which saves clinicians up to 45% on documentation time. These game-changing efficiencies have not gone unnoticed by healthcare providers. Since February 2016, the number of healthcare organizations using Nuance’s cloud-based speech recognition has doubled, and 97% of clinicians say they would recommend it to a colleague.

    Real-Time Advice Improves Quality
    Nuance’s next-generation computer-assisted physician documentation (CAPD) leverages clinical data from the cloud, algorithms that learn distinctive patterns, and facts and evidence to ask physicians the right question at the right time. This happens at remarkable speeds, resulting in huge gains in accuracy, context, and understanding. This enables CAPD to proactively support physicians, coders and clinical documentation specialists in delivering better care and more accurate documentation from the first words spoken.

    Nuance CAPD solutions prompt the care team during documentation when information elsewhere in a patient’s record adds up to a condition that may cause clinical or compliance implications downstream. For example, in cases like sepsis, which can be hard to identify, this proactive intelligent advisor saves more than time, it has enabled clinicians to respond and intervene early, which can save lives.

    Recently, a large integrated delivery network (IDN) using Nuance’s integrated cloud-based speech and CAPD reported impressive results. Physicians are better able to capture the complexity of patient cases in documentation, and that positively impacts publicly reported quality measures and reimbursement as follows:

    • Improved documentation of patients with extreme severity of illness by 36%
    • Improved details on the patients with the highest risk of mortality by 24%
    • Generated up to $55 revenue improvement per patient admission with increased specificity

    “I see the technology being our co-pilot. In a world now where flying the airplane is way too complex for any one human being to manage on their own, the computer should be my co-pilot to keep me alert, keep me apprised of the situation, warn me when there are dangers coming down the pike and then execute on orders when that needs to happen,” said David Y. Ting, MD, CMIO, Massachusetts General Physicians Organization.

    “We make it easier for physicians to interact naturally and capture the complexities of each patient, while also bringing actionable events back to the physician. The real intelligence comes from years of research and testing in Nuance labs to create a better process that leverages voice-enabled assistants and AI tools to give time back to the physician through a much more satisfying experience,” said Joe Petro, senior vice president of Healthcare research and development, Nuance. “We want documentation to be the least difficult part of their day.”

    Voice-Enabled Virtual Assistants on the Rise
    Further proof of the impact and adoption of advanced solutions in healthcare, physicians at Landmark Hospitals have found Nuance’s customized conversational virtual assistant, Florence, saves them time and makes it easier to enter patient orders. Florence can listen to physicians, understand their orders and anticipate what is needed to help them complete frequent, repetitive tasks much more quickly, such as orders for medications, labs or imaging.

    Watch this video – A side-by-side comparison of Dr. Anthony Sagel, CMIO of Landmark Hospitals, demonstrates how using Florence to complete orders instead of traditional computerized physician order entry (CPOE) improves the physician experience:

    • The virtual assistant saved 35% of time in the initial pilot, and now saves up to 50% on complex orders
    • Reduced keystrokes from 87 clicks to 0 in just 20 orders
    • On a national scale, the impact would amount to 22.6 million hours saved for physicians a year based on radiology, medication and lab orders in the US alone

    Bringing Virtual Scribes into the Mainstream
    Nuance is also leveraging its deep learning and AI technology in partnership with a select group of leading hospitals to develop a next-generation Virtual Scribe solution to help reduce the overwhelming administrative burden on physicians while fundamentally changing the dynamics of the traditional medical scribe market. Today, many provider organizations are rapidly adding medical scribes to help reduce physician burnout and enable clinicians to focus more on direct patient care than on documentation. With Nuance’s Virtual Scribe solution, this support can be made available to many more provider organizations regardless of where they practice, their specialty area or the EHR they use. This evolution of clinical documentation supports clinicians while also fully adhering to strict patient privacy and data security requirements.

    HIMSS17 Try-it Station
    These advanced technologies can be put to the test in a “Try-it Station” at the HIMSS Annual Convention and Exhibition February 20-24 in Nuance booth #2546 where Nuance voice-enabled tools powered by AI will filter noise, listen, understand and offer real-time advice in completing patient records.

    About Nuance Communications, Inc.
    Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) is a leading provider of voice and language solutions for businesses and consumers around the world. Its technologies, applications and services make the user experience more compelling by transforming the way people interact with devices and systems. Every day, millions of users and thousands of businesses experience Nuance’s proven applications. For more information, please visit nuance.com. Connect with Nuance on social media through the healthcare blog, What’s next, as well as LinkedIn, and Twitter.

    Trademark reference: Nuance Dragon Medical, Dragon Medical Advisor, CAPD are registered trademarks or trademarks of Nuance Communications, Inc. or its affiliates in the United States and/or other countries. All other company names or product names referenced herein may be the property of their respective owners.

    Posted 2.20.2017

  • Health Catalyst Receives 2017 Best in KLAS for Healthcare Business Intelligence & Analytics

    ORLANDO, FL – February 20, 2017 — Health Catalyst announced today that it has earned the 2017 Best in KLAS ranking for Business Intelligence and Analytics in recognition of its ability to help turn raw data into clear insights that drive improved outcomes in patient care and bottom-line performance.

    The Best in KLAS designation is reserved for vendor solutions that lead the software and services market segments with the most significant operational and clinical impact on healthcare organizations.

    The Health Catalyst Analytics Platform and suite of applications provides the foundation for improving value-based population health outcomes. With optimized machine learning models built into every Health Catalyst analytics application, organizations can leverage the technology for predictions such as identifying patients who are most likely to acquire deadly infections; finding those who may have trouble paying their medical bills; spotting possible canceled appointments before they happen; or launching proactive medical interventions for patients who are at risk for dangerous complications.

    The success of Health Catalyst’s analytics platform is closely tied to the company’s proven ability to integrate high-volume data from virtually every internal and external source available. Because multiple sources of data are required for effective predictive analytics, the technology is more effective the more data is present. Health Catalyst’s enterprise data warehouse integrates over 120 different data sources, including the electronic health record (EHR), claims, key financial, operational and patient satisfaction systems.

    “Those using [Health Catalyst’s] system say it has helped drive outcomes by helping them better understand the needs of complex patient populations, evaluate the efficacy of treatments, and easily aggregate data from disparate sources,” wrote KLAS researchers in the Oct. 2016 report, “Enterprise Healthcare BI 2016: Getting Value from BI Tools: A US and Global Perspective.” The report’s authors added, “Health Catalyst continues to set the bar for performance and partnership.”

    “We are honored to be recognized as Best in KLAS for healthcare business intelligence and analytics, and especially to be recognized by our clients for our ability to help them transform their data into meaningful outcomes,” said Dan Burton, CEO of Health Catalyst. “We anticipate even greater outcomes improvements with our clients in 2017 as we integrate analytics driven by machine learning across our entire product line.  Called catalyst.ai, this initiative equips our clients to exchange today’s limited, retrospective analysis for a new era of powerful, predictive analytics driving an orders-of-magnitude improvement in outcomes.”

    Health Catalyst will be exhibiting at HIMSS17 in Orlando, Feb. 20-23. Visit Booth# 5173 to see over 100 customer case studies and our latest solutions:

    • Machine Learning and Predictive Analytics (NEW)
    • Care Management (NEW)
    • MACRA Measures & Insights (NEW)
    • Population Health Management
    • Patient Registries
    • Clinical and Operational Outcomes Improvement

    For more information about HIMSS17, visit himssconference.org.

    About Health Catalyst
    Health Catalyst is a next-generation data, analytics, and decision support company committed to being a catalyst for massive, sustained improvements in healthcare outcomes. We are the leaders in a new era of advanced predictive analytics for population health and value-based care with a suite of machine learning-driven solutions, decades of outcomes-improvement expertise, and an unparalleled ability to integrate data from across the healthcare ecosystem. Our proven data warehousing and analytics platform helps improve quality, add efficiency and lower costs in support of more than 85 million patients for organizations ranging from the largest US health system to forward-thinking physician practices. Health Catalyst’s technology and professional services help to keep patients engaged and healthy in their homes and workplaces, and to optimize their care when it becomes necessary. We are grateful to be recognized by Fortune, Gallup, Glassdoor, Modern Healthcare and a host of others as a Best Place to Work in technology and healthcare. Visit healthcatalyst.com, and follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook. 

    About KLAS
    KLAS is a research firm on a global mission to improve healthcare delivery by enabling providers to be heard and counted. Working with thousands of healthcare professionals and clinicians, KLAS gathers data on software, services and medical equipment to deliver timely reports, trends and statistical overviews. The research directly represents the provider voice and acts as a catalyst for improving vendor performance. To learn more about KLAS and our reports, visit KLASresearch.com.

    Media Contact
    Todd Stein
    Amendola Communications
    510.417.0612
    [email protected]

    Posted 2.20.2017

  • Orion Health Begins Migration of Patient Records to Amazon Web Services

    ORLANDO, FL—February 20, 2017 — Orion Health™ announced today the company will migrate its Amadeus precision medicine platform to the Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) Cloud. Orion Health’s software currently manages over 110 million patient records globally.

    “We are impressed by Orion Health’s approach to developing cloud-based, big data solutions built on modern, scalable technology,” said Steve Halliwell, AWS Director of Healthcare and Life Sciences. “The AWS Cloud gives healthcare companies a powerful tool to enable new technologies to ingest, analyze, visualize, and store the data, while still improving security and efficiency. We look forward to collaborating with Orion Health as they use the cloud to improve healthcare delivery for every patient.”

    “Today Amadeus is utilized by many health systems across the world to acquire, unify and store traditional medical record data,” said Ian McCrae, CEO, Orion Health. “The move to AWS now allows Amadeus to store vast volumes of new data including genomic, device, social, behavioral, environmental and other new data types.”

    “Healthcare is about to experience a ‘tsunami of new information’ that will revolutionize the practice of medicine. Medical records could eventually contain as much as six terabytes of data per patient. This move to AWS positions us well to deliver the platform functionality required to store and make sense of this data,” McCrae explained.

    By using the AWS Cloud, Orion Health can provide advanced security, data privacy, higher availability and machine learning which are all essential to securely manage and interpret the vast amounts of health information that will soon be available.

    The patient health record is fast becoming the center of the health information ecosystem for whole populations. According to McCrae, the complexities involved in acquiring, storing, interpreting and then presenting the medical records of the future means that it is likely that only a few vendors will have the necessary industry experience, global presence and software technology to do it. “Orion Health intends to be one of those organizations,” McCrae stated.

    “The AWS Cloud is a key part in enabling Orion Health to become the custodian of the world’s health records,” said McCrae. “Orion plans to take advantage of the new AWS regions in the United Kingdom and Canada to launch the Orion Health Amadeus platform in these countries, as well as US, Australia and New Zealand.”

    About Orion Health
    Orion Health is a health technology company that provides solutions which enable healthcare to over 110 million patients globally. Its open technology platform Orion Health Amadeus seamlessly integrates all forms of relevant data to enable population and personalised healthcare around the world. The company employs over 1200 people around the world and is committed to continual innovation, investing substantially in research and development to cement its position at the forefront of precision medicine. For more information visit orionhealth.com

    Media Contacts
    Marcia Rhodes, 602.793.1561; [email protected]
    Karen Ewing, 647.980.3617; [email protected]

    Posted 2.20.2017
Older posts