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• Vital Explores “The Way of Tea” During HIMSS 2017

  John Halamka, MD, MS, to present at authentic tea ceremony

  MINNEAPOLIS, MN – February 15, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Vital Images, Inc. (Vital), a Minneapolis-based advanced medical imaging and informatics company is inviting guests to take a brief, tranquil break and immerse themselves in a traditional Japanese tea ceremony during the highly energetic pace of a major conference in February.

  Vital will present “The Way of Tea” on Monday, February 20, 3:00-4:00 pm at their exhibit during the annual conference of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) to be held February 19 – 23 in Orlando, Florida. HIMSS is a global, not-for-profit organization devoted to better health through information technology. This year’s conference at the Orange County Convention Centre will attract more than 40,000 health IT professionals, clinicians, executives, and vendors from around the world.

  Dating from the ninth century, the tea ceremony is elaborate and refined, and is meant to demonstrate respect through grace and good etiquette. It is a ritual that represents mindfulness, harmony and tranquility.

  Playing a vital role in the Japanese ceremony will be John Halamka, MD, MS, a medical information technology visionary and cultural enthusiast. Dr. Halamka is Chief Information Officer of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; Chairman of the New England Healthcare Exchange Network; Co-Chair of the HIT Standards Committee; Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School; and a practicing Emergency Physician.

  Dr. Halamka will begin as part of the larger audience observing the ritual, which includes a series of precise hand movements and graceful choreography, in a serene “Tatami Room” within the Vital exhibit on the conference floor. Following the ceremony, Dr. Halamka will share some of his experiences with Japanese culture and health IT.

  “Vital is a Toshiba Medical company, and we want to celebrate our Japanese heritage at a global tradeshow,” says Paul Markham, PhD, Vice-President of Marketing for Vital. “This event allows guests to enjoy a moment of peace at a unique ceremony. It will be a rare and special moment during the hectic pace of a major conference.”

  Conference attendees can register for “The Way of Tea” here: vitalimages.com/himss-2017.

  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 vitalimages.com or join the conversation on Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube.

  Contact
  Paul Markham
  [email protected]
  vitalimages.com

  Posted 2.15.2017

• CynergisTek Releases Redspin Annual Report on the State of Cybersecurity in Healthcare

  Report Shows Hacking Attacks on Healthcare Providers Increased 320% in 2016; Identifies Ransomware as Prominent Threat to Hospitals

  AUSTIN, TX – February 15, 2017— CynergisTek™, an Auxilio company (NYSE MKT: AUXO), and industry leader in health information privacy, compliance and cybersecurity, today announced the release of Redspin’s annual cybersecurity report titled, Breach Report 2016: Protected Health Information (PHI). The seventh annual report provides in-depth analysis of the causes of PHI breaches reported to the Department of Health and Human Services and the overall state of cybersecurity in healthcare.

  On January 31, 2017, Auxilio acquired CynergisTek. Under the terms of the deal, CynergisTek will continue to operate as an independent entity and Redspin, acquired by Auxilio in 2015, became part of the CynergisTek portfolio.

  The report revealed a 320 percent increase in the number of healthcare providers victimized by hackers in 2016, and that 81 percent of records breached in 2016 resulted from hacking attacks specifically. Additionally, 2016 marked the first time a U.S. hospital had been the victim of ransomware, defined as a type of malware that encrypts data and holds it hostage until a ransom demand is met. While several large healthcare organizations were targeted by hackers in 2016, the majority of attacks occurred at smaller clinics.
  “Healthcare providers have become the primary targets of malicious hackers, and their attacks are becoming increasingly sophisticated and disruptive to operations,” said Dan Berger, Vice President at CynergisTek. “The dramatic increase in hacking attacks in 2016, coupled with the large number of patient records compromised in those incidents, points to a pressing need for providers to take a much more proactive and comprehensive approach to protecting their information assets in 2017 and beyond.”
  Additional findings of the 2016 Breach Report include:

  • 325 large breaches of PHI, compromising 16,612,985 individual patient records
  • 3,620,000 breached patient records in the year’s single largest incident
  • 40 percent of large breach incidents involved unauthorized access/disclosure

  “By absorbing Redspin, we created a group of cybersecurity subject matter experts unmatched in the industry,” said Mac McMillan, CEO of CynergisTek. “The findings of this report demonstrate that specialized knowledge is required to combat the growing threat that cyberattacks present to healthcare, and by leveraging our new resources we can deliver that level of expertise on a much larger scale.”

  The report also includes a summary of HIPAA enforcement activities announced in 2016 and concludes with recommendations for strengthening privacy and security controls at healthcare organizations. The full report can be downloaded at cynergistek.com/2016-breach-report.

  To learn more, stop by booths #2093 and #1734 at the HIMSS Annual Conference from February 20–23 in Orlando where Dan Berger will be presenting the report findings. To schedule a meeting with a CynergisTek executive at the conference, please contact Chanel Benoit at [email protected].

  About CynergisTek
  CynergisTek, an Auxilio company, (cynergistek.com) is a top-ranked cybersecurity 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 and is dedicated to supporting and educating the industry by contributing to relevant industry associations. The company has been named in numerous research reports as one of the top firms that provider organizations turn to for privacy and security, and won the 2017 Best in KLAS award for Cyber Security Advisory Services.

  About Auxilio
  Auxilio (auxilioinc.com) provides complete document workflow solutions and IT security services to healthcare organizations across the United States. Auxilio has helped its clients save more than $80 million since 2004 by providing Print as a Service (PRaaS) vendor neutral solutions which lower costs, improve operational efficiency and enhance security. Auxilio’s intelligent workflow automation suite delivers a customer driven approach transforming printed documents to digital workflows, reducing waste and driving additional savings opportunities. Auxilio serves a national portfolio of nearly 220 hospital campuses and manages over 1.5 billion documents annually from over 90,000 devices supporting over 280,000 caregivers.

  Forward Looking Statements
  This press release contains “forward-looking statements” as that term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, regarding the enhancement of shareholder value the Company’s strategy relating to uplisting to a national exchange, and the Company’s future ability to increase liquidity and attract institutional investors. Such forward-looking statements are based on current expectations and involve inherent risks and uncertainties, including factors that could delay, divert or change any of them, and could cause actual outcomes and results to differ materially from current expectations. No forward-looking statement can be guaranteed. These forward-looking statements are made as of the date of this press release, and the Company assumes no obligation to update the forward-looking statements, or to update the reasons why actual results could differ from those projected in the forward-looking statements. Readers are urged to read the risk factors set forth in the Company’s most recent annual report on Form 10-K, subsequent quarterly reports filed on Form 10-Q, and other filings made with the SEC. Copies of these reports are available from the SEC’s website at sec.gov or without charge from the Company.

  Investor Relations Contact
  Mike Cole
  MZ North America
  949.259.4988
  [email protected]

  Media Contact
  Chanel Benoit
  Senior Account Executive
  Aria Marketing
  617.332.9999 x209
  [email protected]

  Posted 2.15.2017

• Immersive Partners with SecurityScorecard to Help Healthcare Organizations Manage Third-Party Risk

  Immersive helps customers make meaningful & sustainable business associate cybersecurity risk management possible with cutting-edge ratings platform

  PANAMA CITY, FL – February 14, 2017 — Advancing its work in data protection, HIPAA compliance and enforcement readiness solutions, Immersive announced today a partnership with SecurityScorecard, the leader in security ratings and continuous risk monitoring, to enhance its portfolio of comprehensive business associate (BA) risk management solutions.

  SecurityScorecard’s comprehensive security rating platform is the most accurate benchmark of cybersecurity risk across the global business ecosystem. The platform offers a breadth and depth of critical data points, across 10 factors of security performance, including hacker chatter, leaked information and social engineering, in an automated, user-friendly platform. Data is continuously collected and analyzed to provide Covered Entities (CEs) with a security assessment for any BA or vendor of interest that should be evaluated once, or continuously monitored. The platform also provides expert remediation advice and real-time alerts with any new vulnerabilities discovered.

  “Healthcare’s prevailing risk management approaches have not enabled visibility nor fostered collaboration between CEs and their BAs,” stated Dan Rounds, President at Immersive. “Too many organizations rely upon resource-intensive, inconsistently-executed manual processes to assess and manage CE-BA risk that are not effective nor sustainable. The intelligence introduced via SecurityScorecard reveals critical information about a BA’s information security performance that manual processes alone could never surface. The platform automates visibility to this intelligence on a continuous basis which allows us to deliver new insights to our clients 24x7x365, and to scale our clients’ BA risk management programs to maturity more quickly and cost-effectively.”

  The partnership with SecurityScorecard adds another dimension to Immersive’s data-driven BA management solutions portfolio to address opportunities for risk-reduction head-on. From providing clients with instant visibility to a prospective BA’s scorecard during a selection process, to managed service offerings that provide continuous monitoring of cybersecurity risk, Immersive’s BA risk management portfolio includes on-demand, program development and managed services to address the continuum of client needs and requirements.

  “We’re excited to partner with Immersive to bring security ratings and continuous risk monitoring to healthcare organizations,” said Michael Rogers, Vice President of Strategic Alliances and Channels at SecurityScorecard. “Instant visibility into the security posture of third-parties is critical to this sector, and what’s absolutely essential are the expert recommendations on the immediate actions needed to remediate vulnerabilities.”

  To learn more about Immersive’s BA Management solutions visit: immersive.healthcare/business-associate-risk-mgmt/
  Attending HIMSS17 and the CHIME CIO Forum? Schedule a meeting with the Immersive team here: immersivellc.wufoo.com/forms/z96mtz408y87dh

  About Immersive
  Immersive is a provider of exceptional healthcare data lifecycle management solutions harmonized under four service pillars: data governance, data management, data analytics and data protection. We pride ourselves on a common-sense, resource-sensitive approach, with a healthy dose of ingenuity to achieve better outcomes for our clients. Our consultants have served on the front lines as well as in the executive suite; we have walked the hallways of healthcare in your shoes for decades. Client vision sets the compass for our work. Immersive was founded on the belief that our industry can and will achieve extraordinary advances in clinical care, healthcare operations and healthcare financing when we apply the full potential of the data that we have at our fingertips. We are profoundly respectful of the power and the value of today’s healthcare data and we are relentless about protecting it. For more information, please visit immersive.healthcare.

  About SecurityScorecard
  SecurityScorecard’s comprehensive security rating platform is the most accurate benchmark of cybersecurity risk across the global business ecosystem. The platform offers a breadth and depth of critical data points, across 10 factors of security performance including hacker chatter, leaked information and social engineering, in an automated, user-friendly platform. Data is continuously collected and analyzed to provide Covered Entities (CEs) with a security assessment for any BA or vendor of interest that should be evaluated once or continuously monitored. The platform also provides expert remediation advice and real-time alerts with any new vulnerabilities discovered. . For more information about SecurityScorecard visit securityscorecard.com.

  Posted 2.14.2017

• Orion Health Hits New Milestone: More Than 600 Rhapsody Customers Worldwide

  Interoperability technology enables quick, effective integration for 300-plus healthcare organizations in the US

  SCOTTSDALE, AZ – February 14, 2017 — Orion Health™, a global technology company that provides solutions that enable healthcare to over 110 million patients in more than 25 countries, has announced another milestone: Its Rhapsody® Integration Engine, is now in use at more than 640 healthcare organizations in 36 countries worldwide. More than half of them—324—are US based providers, payers, pharmaceutical manufacturers or application developers. In addition, 500 OEM partners have deployed close to 10,000 instances of Rhapsody.

  Rhapsody is Orion Health’s foundation product—the healthcare enabler that brings disparate systems together through seamless data integration. The solution now processes more than a billion messages per day across the globe. This positions Orion Health as one of the global leaders and single-source solution providers of a healthcare integration product that is future-proofed to handle the needs of today—and tomorrow.

  Rhapsody gives Stormont Vail Health in Topeka, Kansas, the ability to expand functionalities and components without incurring additional capital expenses. “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,” said Judy Corzine, administrative director and CIO of Stormont Vail Health.

  Orion Health has proven its ability to not only retain existing clients, but attract new customers to its end-to-end, scalable solutions. “In 2016 alone, we announced significant Rhapsody contracts in the UK, France, Australia, United States and Canada, with large EMR and population health companies as well as small companies and start-up software vendors—evidence of the broad-ranging market need for a flexible and scalable modern healthcare integration platform,” said Harish Panchal, global vice president, Orion Health.

  In the US alone, leading hospitals and health systems have selected Rhapsody for data integration, including Allegheny Health Network, Regional Health, Penn State Health, Palmetto Health, and Greenville Health System.

  Product Upgrades
  Orion Health is soon to go to market with two product updates with version 6.2.3 available in the first half of 2017. Updated features will include:

  • Intelligent Mapper — EMR upgrades/migration, new applications requiring complex integration, and other industry changes are pushing the limits of outdated engines. Many organizations feel daunted by the effort to migrate or rebuild existing interfaces. Rhapsody’s Intelligent Mapper reduces by up to half the time and cost of migration. It accelerates the mapping process by performing much of the heavy lifting, including analysis of the legacy engine, reverse engineering of rules, documentation and code generation.

  Rhapsody 7 introduces a new pluggable database architecture which will provide a platform for horizontal scalability and higher availability with an active/active capability delivering no single points of failure. New features will include:

  • High Availability: Active/Active — Healthcare engines are usually deployed in an active/passive manner, as it is easier to manage message sequence and guaranteed delivery of messages. With active/active, customers can meet requirements around guaranteed message delivery using a resilient architecture that offers continuous service.

  Rhapsody is the integration engine that powers Amadeus’ high-volume data-acquisition capabilities. Amadeus is Orion Health’s award-winning platform for population health management and precision medicine.

  About Orion Health
  Orion Health is a technology company that provides solutions which enable healthcare to over 110 million patients in more than 25 countries. Our end-to-end solution—featuring integration tools, our massively scalable Amadeus data platform with real-time analytics, and applications for care management and patient engagement—enables population and personalized healthcare around the world. Orion Health facilitates interoperability within and among payer, provider and pharma organizations, governments and health information exchanges, and helps physicians, patients and researchers improve healthcare outcomes. The company employs over 1,200 people globally and is committed to continual innovation. For more information, visit orionhealth.com.

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

  Posted 2.14.2017

• Machine Learning in Healthcare: Now for Everyone

  catalyst.ai by Health Catalyst democratizes machine learning, enables transformative outcomes improvement through predictive analytics for healthcare organizations of all sizes

  SALT LAKE CITY, UT – February 14, 2017 — Machine learning is a part of everyday life for most Americans, from navigation apps to Amazon’s omniscient purchase recommendations. But in healthcare the use of machine learning has so far been limited to niche science projects in large and academic health systems – those able to afford the highly skilled data scientists and dedicated teams required to turn their data into meaningful performance improvements.

  Health Catalyst is on a mission to change that by embedding the value of machine learning throughout healthcare. Last month, the company launched healthcare.ai™ to help make machine learning routine, pervasive and actionable for healthcare organizations of all sizes. The collaborative, open source repository of machine learning tools and expertise including topical blog content and weekly live hands-on machine learning educational broadcasts, makes it easy to deploy machine learning in any environment.

  Now, to bring the life-saving technology to hospitals and patients everywhere, Health Catalyst is embedding machine learning as a core capability across the company’s entire product line in an initiative called catalyst.ai™. With optimized machine learning models built into every Health Catalyst 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.

  Together, healthcare.ai and catalyst.ai represent the next generation of healthcare analytics. With these machine learning innovations now readily available to organizations large and small, American healthcare will be equipped to exchange today’s limited, retrospective analysis for a new era of powerful, predictive analytics driving an orders-of-magnitude improvement in outcomes.

  “Predictive analytics powered by machine learning has truly vast potential in healthcare, but we lag other industries by several years largely because early efforts were extremely expensive one-off models requiring an army of data scientists to write and test the algorithms behind the technology,” said Health Catalyst Executive Vice President of Product Development Dale Sanders. “catalyst.ai solves that problem by lowering the bar for entry and enabling data architects and analysts to become ‘citizen data scientists.’

  “Another factor limiting the usefulness of machine learning is that healthcare data is far more complex than data in other industries and difficult to aggregate. Machine learning algorithms are only as good as the volume and quality of data that feeds them. We’ve invested tens of millions of dollars over the last few years to create high-volume high-quality data content that these algorithms thrive on, and we are embedding the results in the workflow of clinicians in every department across a hospital or health system.”
  Indiana University Health uses machine learning to reduce hospital-acquired infections

  Health Catalyst machine learning has already been deployed at multiple client sites with promising outcomes. Indiana University Health (IU Health), a 17-hospital nationally recognized healthcare system, engaged Health Catalyst machine learning in an attempt to reduce healthcare associated infections (HAI) and achieve zero central line-associated blood stream infections (CLABSIs). Of the 41,000 patients who develop a CLABSI in US hospitals each year, one in four die, according to a Centers for Disease Control study. IU Health wanted to be able to predict which patients are most likely to develop a CLABSI so clinicians could proactively undertake prevention activities 100 percent of the time.

  IU Health used Health Catalyst’s enterprise data warehouse (EDW) and catalyst.ai-driven analytics to bridge information gaps in its EMR data and to paint a complete picture of patients’ CLABSI risk. Models on the data were developed and tested by Health Catalyst using machine learning algorithms such as logistic regression and random forest—the workhorses of the machine learning world. This led to the development of a CLABSI risk prediction model that is built into a unit-level dashboard used by nursing staff to identify patient-level care gaps. In addition to the risk score, the top three risk factors for each high-risk patient are displayed, providing immediate insight into specific actions that can reduce the CLABSI risk for these patients.

  As a result, today IU Health can predict which patients with a central line will develop a CLABSI with an estimated 87 percent accuracy and a false positive rate of 0.16.

  “We have quite a few initiatives centered on hospital-acquired harm events that are supported with analytics,” said Kristen Kelley, Director of Infection Prevention at IUH, in a recent Scottsdale Institute report on the project. “We are on the cutting edge. In the past six months we’ve experienced a 20 percent decrease in CLABSI and a 30 percent drop in harm events overall. So we are headed in the right direction.”

  Machine learning + data = success
  catalyst.ai’s effectiveness is closely tied to Health Catalyst’s proven ability to integrate high-volume data from virtually every internal and external source available. Because multiple sources of data are required for machine learning to develop the models that drive predictive analytics, the technology is more effective the more data is present. Most companies providing machine learning solutions require customers to figure out how to connect up to 100 different data sources to make the technology work. By contrast, Health Catalyst’s EDW integrates 120 different data sources, including the electronic health record (EHR), claims, key financial, operational and patient satisfaction systems.

  “I want to acknowledge Eric Just, Dr. Levi Thatcher, and the rest of our Data Science team who are making breakthrough progress, unlike any vendor in the market, including the largest players,” said Sanders. “At Health Catalyst we have a proven track record and know how to make outcomes improvement work. We know how clinicians use data to make decisions. We understand the context in which the machine learning insight needs to be delivered, and the right time and modality to deliver that insight. That knowledge is built into catalyst.ai, scaling machine learning and outcomes improvement for use by virtually any organization. The bottom line is that we believe our clients will save many more lives and improve the care process for everyone.”

  Machine learning models available today
  In addition to its CLABSI risk prediction model, Health Catalyst has leveraged catalyst.ai to deploy numerous predictive models at launch that are useful for clinical, financial and operational decision support, including clinical decision support models for:

  • Central line-associated bloodstream infection future risk (CLABSI)
  • Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) readmission risk
  • Pre-surgical risk for bowel surgery
  • Diabetes future risk
  • Financial and operational decision support models such as propensity to pay and appointment no-show risk

  In addition to predictive models, Health Catalyst is currently developing algorithms that use machine learning to identify treatment patterns that lead to better outcomes. These algorithms will be used to drive treatment decisions on patients by showing how ‘patients like this’ were treated and what the outcomes were for a cohort of similar patients.

  Explore catalyst.ai in Live Webinar, Thursday, Feb. 16
  For a detailed look at catalyst.ai, join the Health Catalyst product development team for a live product webinar on Thursday, February 16th, 1-2:30 p.m. EST. Attendees will be able to view a live demo of catalyst.ai and participate in a live question and answer session. Register for the webinar here.

  Join weekly machine learning webcasts starting Feb. 23
  Beginning on Feb. 23, Health Catalyst will host a weekly, live YouTube session, “Hands-On Healthcare Machine Learning,” at 3pm EST. Each session will feature Levi Thatcher, PhD and the Health Catalyst data science team demonstrating one or more key data science principles, including machine learning, visualization, R, Python, the healthcare.ai and catalyst.ai predictive packages, as well as tools to understand and improve population health outcomes. The weekly broadcast is part of Health Catalyst’s mission to democratize machine learning in healthcare by providing practical hands-on advice to help aspiring analysts become “citizen data scientists,” and to help existing data scientist accelerate the effectiveness of machine learning and predictive analytics to improve outcomes.

  Register to attend the weekly machine learning sessions here.

  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 healthcatalyst.com, and follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.

  Contact
  Todd Stein
  Amendola Communications for Health Catalyst
  916.346.4213
  [email protected]

  Posted 2.14.2017

• The Chartis Group Earns High Marks in 2017 Best in KLAS: Software & Services Report

  Only Firm to Rank Among the Top Five for Both Overall Healthcare Management Consulting & Overall IT Services

  CHICAGO, IL – FEBRUARY 14, 2017 (PRWEB) — The Chartis Group, a national advisory services firm dedicated to the healthcare industry, is ranked among the top five firms in the “2017 Best in KLAS: Software and Services” report in two overall categories: Healthcare Management Consulting (#2) and IT Services (#4). It is the only firm to rank in the top five in both categories. The firm was also ranked among the top five for the following market segments: Strategy, Growth and Consolidation Consulting, Value-Based Care Consulting, Clinical Optimization and Financial Improvement Consulting.

  KLAS is a research and insights firm on a global mission to improve healthcare delivery by amplifying the provider’s voice. The report ranks the top software and professional services vendors in the healthcare industry based on client feedback.

  “We are enormously appreciative to continue to be recognized by our clients across multiple management and IT consulting categories this year,” said Ken Graboys, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of The Chartis Group. “As US healthcare faces material challenges ahead, I find it reassuring to review the KLAS reports and see so many firms doing such great work on a daily basis. Congratulations to all of the professionals and firms delivering their ‘Best’ to the healthcare industry.”

  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, Needham, 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]
  312.932.3060

  Terri Sanders
  Director of National Marketing
  The Chartis Group
  [email protected]
  312.932.3051

  Posted 2.14.2017

• Orion Health’s Rhapsody Integration Engine Implemented by The Ottawa Hospital

  Canada’s largest hospital network implements highly scalable engine that adapts to current & future population health needs

  TORONTO, ON – February 14, 2017 — Orion Health, a leader in population health management and healthcare integration solutions, announced today that The Ottawa Hospital (TOH) has selected Rhapsody® Integration Engine to replace its legacy engine. Rhapsody will serve as a long-term solution that will aid in forwarding TOH’s goal in providing high quality patient-centered care, while continuously adapting to integrate with new solutions.

  The new platform will ensure that the 1.5 million residents TOH services will continue to receive high quality care and services, both in English and French languages. TOH is one of the largest teaching hospitals in Canada and boasts multiple specialized centres, catapulting Rhapsody as the best option to rapidly scale to its changing needs, while still providing secure interoperability between differing care centres.

  “We have an experienced team of systems integration specialists, and pride ourselves on providing solutions of the highest quality for the delivery of patient care,” stated Carl Maisonneuve, Chief Systems Architect at TOH. “The Rhapsody Integration Engine stood out for our team because of its flexibility and ease-of-use, providing at the same time a robust platform that can handle a large volume of transactions.”
  An integration engine is a key component of healthcare delivery and has the ability to provide better access and secure sharing of information between healthcare providers, patients and healthcare institutions. Rhapsody is a robust, comprehensive and powerful back-end integration engine which is designed to carry out rapid interoperability between healthcare IT systems, regardless of the technology or the standards. It is reliable and scalable, making it easier for healthcare organizations to both use as a starting point as a new system or to update legacy systems and transition more easily to new solutions. Rhapsody is also the first integration engine to support FHIR and can implement the new HL7® FHIR® standard.

  “We’re seeing a shift in the Canadian healthcare system where engines need to do more for less, but still meet the rapidly changing needs of the healthcare system,” said Gary Folker, EVP for Orion Health in North America. “Rhapsody’s ability to evolve quickly to meet these new challenges means that it is well-positioned to support TOH’s healthcare vision and goals.”

  About Orion Health
  Orion Health is a leading population health management company and is one of the world’s foremost providers of electronic health records (EHRs) and healthcare integration solutions to healthcare organizations. Worldwide, Orion Health solutions are used in 30 countries by more than 300,000 clinicians. In Canada, thousands of clinicians and hundreds of provider facilities and OEM partners rely on Orion Health to facilitate data exchange between hospitals, health systems and EHRs, resulting in improved care coordination, increased cost savings and efficiencies, and enhanced quality of care. More information can be found at orionhealth.com

  For more information, visit orionhealth.com. Connect with us on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.

  The Ottawa Hospital
  The Ottawa Hospital is one of Canada’s largest learning and research hospitals, with more than 1,100 beds, approximately 12,000 staff members and an annual budget of about $1.2 billion.

  Our focus on learning and research helps us develop new and innovative ways to treat patients and improve care. As a multi-campus hospital affiliated with the University of Ottawa, we deliver specialized care to the Eastern Ontario region, but our techniques and research discoveries are adopted around the world. We engage the community at all levels to support our vision for better patient care. From the compassion of our people to the relentless pursuit of new discoveries, The Ottawa Hospital never stops seeking solutions to the most complex health-care challenges.

  Contacts
  Karen Ewing
  Senior Marketing Director, Orion Health
  [email protected]
  647.980.3617

  Jenny Cade
  MAVERICK PR for Orion Health
  [email protected]
  416.640.5525 ex 237

  Posted 2.14.2017

• PerfectServe Signs Multi-Year Contract with Hospital for Special Surgery

  KNOXVILLE, TN – February 13, 2017 — PerfectServe™ announced today its newest client is Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS), the world’s largest academic medical center focused on musculoskeletal health. HSS has been top-ranked for both orthopedics and rheumatology in the US for 25 consecutive years.

  Based in New York City with locations in Long Island, New Jersey and Connecticut, Hospital for Special Surgery is the latest healthcare organization to sign a multi-year contract with PerfectServe. HSS performs more than 30,000 surgical procedures annually, and has over 15,000 total inpatient admissions annually. HSS was the first hospital in New York City to receive the Magnet Award for Nursing Excellence and the first Hospital in the State of New York to be re-designated with nursing’s highest honor four consecutive times.

  HSS leaders are looking to PerfectServe to improve its large volume of nurse-to-provider and care team communications, in addition to developing an integrated, enterprise-wide communication platform that securely connects all care team members across in-patient and outpatient settings easily and quickly.

  “Our clinicians are often in and out of surgery. Naturally, complexities arise in getting hold of the correct care team member in the fastest way – especially in the context of schedules,” explained Jamie Nelson, HSS Senior Vice President and CIO. “PerfectServe can pull in those highly complex workflows and schedules beyond basic call schedules, so physicians can be reached effectively and efficiently based on severity of case and urgency level.”

  “We’re honored and proud to partner with Hospital for Special Surgery,” said Terry Edwards, President and CEO of PerfectServe. “Surgeons, nurses and other care team members involved in transmitting information will be empowered as PerfectServe eliminates the communication barriers that hinder clinical workflows, speeding the delivery of care.”

  More than 400,000 clinicians use the PerfectServe Synchrony™ solution. They include 70,000-plus physicians employed by approximately 165 hospitals and 25,000 practices and post-acute provider organizations in the US.

  Edwards concluded, “The healthcare industry is looking for strategic, interoperable solutions to coordinate patient-centered care. PerfectServe Synchrony can help build and support systematic, patient-centered team collaboration to drive transformative care across settings, better outcomes and cost efficiencies. With our next-generation technology and financial strength, we are well positioned to accelerate growth and revenue in 2017 and beyond.”

  About Hospital for Special Surgery
  Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) is the world’s largest academic medical center focused on musculoskeletal health. HSS is nationally ranked No. 1 in orthopedics and No. 2 in rheumatology by US News & World Report (2016-2017), and is the first hospital in New York State to receive Magnet Recognition for Excellence in Nursing Service from the American Nurses Credentialing Center four consecutive times. HSS has one of the lowest infection rates in the country. HSS is an affiliate of Weill Cornell Medical College and as such all Hospital for Special Surgery medical staff are faculty of Weill Cornell. The hospital’s research division is internationally recognized as a leader in the investigation of musculoskeletal and autoimmune diseases. Hospital for Special Surgery is located in New York City and online at hss.edu.

  About PerfectServe
  PerfectServe Synchrony™ is healthcare’s most comprehensive and secure care team collaboration platform. The platform is unique in its ability to improve communication process accuracy and reliability via its proprietary Dynamic Intelligent Routing™ capability, which automatically identifies and provides immediate connection to the right care team member for any given clinical situation at every moment in time. More than 400,000 clinician users, including over 70,000 physicians, in forward-looking organizations across the US rely on PerfectServe to help them speed time to treatment, expedite care transitions, enhance the patient experience and reduce HIPAA compliance risk. Headquartered in Knoxville, Tennessee, with offices in Alpharetta, Georgia and Chicago, PerfectServe has helped clinicians provide better care since 2000. Follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook and subscribe to our blog.

  Media Contact Angela Jenkins Agency Ten22 303.877.0115 [email protected]

  PerfectServe Contact Heather Dorsett, MBA Director, Content Strategy and Marketing 855.871.7299 [email protected]

  Posted 2.13.2017

• Vital to Demonstrate New Image Sharing Strategy

  Sharing capabilities for Vitrea® Enterprise Imaging Customers

  MINNEAPOLIS,MN – February 13, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Vital Images, Inc. (Vital), a Minneapolis-based advanced medical imaging and informatics company will be demonstrating new image sharing capabilities for current Vital customers. The solution allows users to share images from different types of media between providers, hospitals and patients.

  “Image sharing capability is becoming a core expectation of an enterprise imaging architecture,” says Tim Dawson, VP of Technology at Vital Images. “The inefficient workflows tied to patients carrying CDs or clinicians having to physically go to different workstations are simply no longer acceptable. Too many studies are still being repeated due to missing or unavailable images at time of treatment, leading to added expense and radiation dose. Vital’s DICOMweb^TM-driven Vitrea Enterprise Viewer is the perfect delivery mechanism for viewing these image sets in almost any setting, and on any device.”

  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 vitalimages.com or join the conversation on Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube.

  Vitrea is a trademark of Vital Images, Inc.

  Marks not owned by Vital Images, Inc. are the property of their respective holders.

  Contact
  Paul Markham
  [email protected]
  vitalimages.com

  Posted 2.13.2017

• Pursuit Healthcare Advisors Makes another Philanthropic Donation to Increase the Primary & Holistic Care for the Uninsured

  PHILADELPHIA, PA – February 9, 2017 — Pursuit Healthcare Advisors, LLC (Pursuit) announced today that they will be donating a minimum of $1,000 in 2017 to increase Population Health initiatives within a local community. In late 2016, after hearing an inspiring presentation by Dr. Mary Wirship, our first contribution of $500 was awarded to Community Volunteers in Medicine (CVIM) in support of their mission to “provide compassionate primary medical and dental care and health education to people who live or work in Chester County, Pennsylvania who lack access to insurance, in order to support their goals to lead productive, healthy, and hopeful lives.” CVIM’s patients are hardworking individuals who have no insurance and make less than 300% of the Federal Poverty Line.

  Pursuit believes in the importance of primary care as an integral piece of our healthcare system and the role it plays in delivering quality care that improves health outcomes. Not only can effective primary care reduce the instances of hospitalizations and the use of acute care facilities, but available primary care can also promote health equity across disparate populations.

  “We know that socioeconomic status has strong implications for a person’s overall health and wellness,” says Cyndi Vely Cahill, Managing Partner of Pursuit. “We are proud to support the immediate and sustainable impact CVIM provides to their population’s health. Pursuit recognizes and applauds the holistic approach to creating a medical home for the underinsured and working poor of Chester County, and we are proud to play a small role in supporting such a service.”

  To learn more about Pursuit Healthcare Advisors, click here. To learn more about CVIM, click here.

  About CVIM
  Community Volunteers in Medicine provides free coordinated healthcare to uninsured, low-income individuals and families who have no other place to turn for care in the Chester County region. As a non-profit, supported 100% through philanthropy, CVIM is committed to remaining the safety net provider of medical and dental care and health education in order to help their patients lead productive, healthy and hopeful lives. To learn more, please visit cvim.org or contact Denise Mahal, at 610.836.5990 x108 or [email protected].

  About Pursuit Healthcare Advisors, LLC
  Pursuit Healthcare Advisors, LLC (Pursuit) is focused on fostering a supportive and educational environment as well as creating opportunities for our employees to make a difference where they work. We are pleased to work with some of the most forward thinking organizations to help data become usable information – and have secure access to that information in a dynamic and mobile delivery. Together we help health enterprises, clinicians, and patients achieve success in this environment thereby improving care delivery, business performance, and health outcomes. It’s simple, at Pursuit, it’s all about Ü. For more information, visit pursuithealthcare.com.

  Posted 2.9.2017

• Impact Advisors Celebrates 10 Years of Improving Healthcare Through Technology

  Smith Brothers founded consulting firm in 2007 with commitment to service, culture 

  NAPERVILLE, IL – February 9, 2017 — This month, Impact Advisors, a nationally recognized healthcare information technology consulting firm, celebrates its 10th anniversary. Headquartered in Naperville, Illinois, Impact Advisors has been creating a positive impact for both clients and associates since 2007.

  Brothers Andy and Peter Smith founded Impact Advisors on the premise of building the nation’s premier healthcare technology consulting firm whose focus is providing quality service and creating a home for the most talented associates. Enjoying consistent annual growth, the firm has provided award-winning healthcare IT consulting services to well over 250 clients worldwide.

  “We have achieved this milestone through the incredible work and dedication of our associates, and our unwavering commitment to creating a culture of caring and collaboration,” said Andy Smith, President and Co-Founder of Impact Advisors. “We are anchored in our mission to create a positive impact in our firm, in our industry and in our communities.”

  Over the years, Impact Advisors has earned a number of prestigious industry and workplace awards including Best in KLAS® for eight consecutive years, Healthcare Informatics HCI 100, Crain’s Chicago Business Fast Fifty, as well as “best place to work” awards from: Modern Healthcare, Consulting Magazine, Becker’s Hospital Review and Achievers.

  About Impact Advisors, LLC
  Impact Advisors is a nationally recognized healthcare information technology consulting firm that is solving some of the toughest challenges in the industry by delivering strategic advisory, implementation and optimization services. Our comprehensive suite of patient access, clinical and revenue cycle services span the lifecycle of our clients’ needs. Our experienced team has a powerful combination of clinical, revenue, operations, consulting and IT experience. The firm has earned a number of prestigious industry and workplace awards including Best in KLAS® for eight consecutive years, Healthcare Informatics HCI 100, Crain’s Chicago Business Fast Fifty, as well as “best place to work” awards from: Modern Healthcare, Consulting Magazine, Becker’s Hospital Review and Achievers. For more information about Impact Advisors, visit impact-advisors.com.

  Media Contact
  RoseAnn Haedt
  Chartwell Agency
  815.742.0573
  [email protected] 

  Posted 2.9.2017

• MedeAnalytics Receives 2017 Certification from NCQA for HEDIS Certified MeasuresSM

  EMERYVILLE, CA – February 9, 2017 — MedeAnalytics today announced that it has achieved 2017 National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) certification on all Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS)® certified measuresSM within its Quality Management solution. One of the first vendors to achieve certification for 2017, MedeAnalytics Quality Management empowers health plan customers with the ability to rapidly improve HEDIS performance, ultimately improving quality care for their members. Audit and chart chase support artifacts are built into the certified logic, simplifying an often painful and time-consuming process. The certified HEDIS measure module leverages MedeAnalytics’ investment in Apache® SparkTM technology that provides increased performance gains with validated calculations in minutes.

  “Quality of care will continue to be a primary focus for healthcare, and as one of the earliest recipients of the NCQA certification, MedeAnalytics continues to demonstrate our ability to support clients with the best solutions to implement and measure their quality management programs,” said Andrew Hurd, CEO of MedeAnalytics. “What’s most exciting is that once you have enabled your customers to get validated results in minutes, you open the door for direct provider participation in quality improvement and supplemental data capture, something many of our customers are doing today. It really changes the payer-provider dynamic and delivers enhanced health value for consumers.”

  MedeAnalytics’ Quality Management provides scalable, quality reporting with speed, frequency and integrated analytics power unmatched in the industry. The solution covers HEDIS, P4P, Medicare Star Ratings, AHRQ, QRS, PQRS and custom measures. These measures can be updated as often as daily and are integrated within a platform that enables member and claim-level granularity, all with audit and chase support built-in. Those insights help to identify gaps in care and ensure members meet quality standards. Quality Management manages the performance requirements from multiple governing bodies to reduce overall administrative complexity and standardize measurement processes.

  NCQA’s HEDIS Measure Certification is precise, automated testing that verifies compliance with HEDIS Specifications and satisfies the source code review portion of the HEDIS Compliance AuditTM. HEDIS is a set of standardized performance measures designed to make sure purchasers and consumers have the information they need to reliably compare the performance of managed health care organizations.

   

  About National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA)
  NCQA is an independent, not-for-profit organization dedicated to assessing and reporting on the quality of managed care plans, managed behavioral healthcare organizations, preferred provider organizations, new health plans, physician organizations, credentials verification organizations, disease management programs and other health-related programs. For more information, visit www.ncqa.org

  HEDIS® is a registered trademark of the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA).

  NCQA Measure CertificationSM is a service mark of the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA).

  HEDIS Certified MeasuresSM is a service mark of the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA).

  About MedeAnalytics®
  MedeAnalytics provides evidence-based insights to solve a real problem that plagues healthcare – how to use the immense amount of patient data collected along the care continuum to deliver cost-effective care and promote a healthier population. Its analytics platform delivers intelligence that helps healthcare organizations detect their greatest areas of risk and identify opportunities to improve their financial health. It empowers providers and health plans to collaborate and use data to strengthen their operations and improve the quality of care. MedeAnalytics’ cloud-based tools have been used to uncover business insights for over 1,500 healthcare organizations across the United States and United Kingdom. The company has also been named one of Modern Healthcare’s top 100 Best Places to Work in Healthcare for 2014, 2015 and 2016. For more information, visit www.medeanalytics.com.

  Media Contacts:

  Anne Perez, Senior Director, Marketing MedeAnalytics [email protected] 703.403.0496

  Victoria Khamsombath SHIFT Communications [email protected] 415.519.8464

  Posted 2.9.2017