• Organizations Securely Exchange Medical Data and Documentation with OnBase Mackinac

    OnBase Mackinac bridges the gap between healthcare payers and providers to increase collaboration and accelerate processes while reducing costs

    CLEVELAND – September 7, 2017 – In an effort to bridge the gap across the healthcare continuum, Hyland — a leading global provider of software for managing content, processes and cases — announces the launch of OnBase Mackinac on September 8. Leveraging industry leading OnBase by Hyland information management platform functionality, OnBase Mackinac is a workflow and business process management solution that enables payer and provider organizations to securely exchange medical data and documentation electronically.

    OnBase Mackinac tracks delivery and receipt, and facilitates collaboration to help reduce costs, and eliminate risks and delays through increased transparency, quality and faster processes. By utilizing an organization’s existing secure infrastructure and services, OnBase Mackinac electronically routes the right information to the right person at the right time – eliminating duplicative, lost or misplaced information.

    “OnBase Mackinac leverages more than 25 years of OnBase technology and workflow capabilities to help both our payer and provider customers to effectively and securely collaborate,” said Susan deCathelineau, vice president, global healthcare sales and services at Hyland. “OnBase Mackinac enables expedited decision-making through automated routing, approval and verification workflows that provides benefit to all healthcare organizations, including their patients and members.”

    OnBase Mackinac secures personal health information while eliminating the high costs of communicating through fax, postal mail, couriers, overnight delivery and web portals. Instead, the sender and receiver evenly split a per-transaction fee. The workflow and BPM solution has the potential to reduce both parties’ cost-per-transaction by more than half while cutting expensive communication costs.

    Existing customers with OnBase 15 and newer versions located in Ohio have immediate access to OnBase Mackinac, with future product releases slated for additional areas in the coming months. Interested organizations may purchase the solution through Hyland’s partner channel or technology and clearinghouse partners.

    To learn how organizations can leverage OnBase Mackinac to securely exchange information electronically, reduce costs by accelerating processes and increase cross-industry collaboration, visit OnBase.com/Mackinac.

    About Hyland
    Hyland is a leader in providing software solutions for managing content, processes and cases for organizations across the globe. For over 25 years, Hyland has enabled more than 19,000 organizations to digitalize their workplaces and fundamentally transform their operations. Named one of Fortune’s Best Companies to Work For® since 2014, Hyland is widely known as both a great company to work for and a great company to do business with. For more information, please visit Hyland.com.

    Media contact:
    Laura Pegg
    +1 440-788-5632
    [email protected]

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    Posted 9.7.2017

  • Pivot Point Consulting Announces Training Point Program for EMR Implementation Projects

    NASHVILLE, TN – September 06, 2017 — Pivot Point Consulting, a Vaco Company is proud to introduce Training Point, an expanded program offering training, advisory services, and cost management solutions for EMR implementations and optimizations.

    EMR implementation projects are expensive and complex, and their success can hinge on getting the smallest details right. Training Point, formerly known as LIVESite Training, has offered Epic credentialed training services since 2012. Now serving all EMR platforms, they provide a complete training program with staffing solutions, consultant and project management support and ad hoc management advisory services. Training Point’s offerings include:

    • End user training
    • Physician training
    • Training leadership support
    • Onsite management
    • Project management
    • Training team development and engagement
    • Expense and travel programs
    • Personalization labs

    Chris Kendrick, Sr. Director of Training Point, says he is committed to partnering with clients to ensure quality training for hospital and health system staff.

    “Building a strong partnership at the beginning is critical so our clients can quickly move on and focus on patient care,” he said. “Our role isn’t just to provide staff to train end users—much of it is to remove the burden and stress off a client’s plate through our total training solution with our resources management, subject matter experts and expense and travel programs.”

    Managing Partner Rachel Marano agrees. “We are proud our clients trust us with their most important initiatives, including training,” she said. “They know that we are invested in their success, and we’ve expanded our service line to ensure we can help them achieve it.”

    The announcement from Pivot Point comes shortly after the news that the company was the highest rated vendor in the Select Category of the July 2017 Implementation Services KLAS report. They were also #1 in KLAS for Epic Consulting 2016, Select Category, and have been in the top three in the HIT Implementation Support & Staffing Category in the Best in KLAS report for 2015/2016 and 2017.

    To learn more about Training Point, click here.

    Posted 9.6.2017

  • $200M Later: Health Catalyst Changes the Digital Trajectory of Healthcare with the Data Operating System (DOS)

    For the first time in an affordable, single technology architecture, DOS leapfrogs the features of traditional data warehousing, clinical data repositories, and health information exchanges

    Salt Lake City, UT – September 5, 2017 — Health Catalyst, a leader in healthcare analytics, decision support and outcomes improvement, today introduced the Health Catalyst Data Operating System (DOS™), a breakthrough engineering approach that combines the features of data warehousing, clinical data repositories, and health information exchanges in a single, common-sense technology platform.

    Healthcare trails all American industries except hospitality, construction and agriculture in its adoption of digital technologies, according to McKinsey. Yet healthcare organizations are among the most complex enterprises in the world. That digital disparity leaves hospitals, health systems, and physician practices accountable to make high-risk decisions with untimely, incomplete, and inaccurate data.  Patients, for their part, are mostly left out of the data ecosystem that could help them be more accountable and engaged in their own care.

    Traditional data warehousing, which solved some of these problems, is no longer good enough. As Gartner recently reported, traditional data warehousing will be outdated and replaced by new architectures by the end of 2018.

    It’s time for something better: DOS.

    A New Response to the Data-Centric Future of Healthcare
    DOS is Health Catalyst’s response to a simple truth: The future of healthcare will be centered around the broad and more effective use of data.

    From population health management to value-based care, healthcare providers face a quagmire of reimbursement schemes and quality initiatives, each requiring precise analysis of clinical, financial and patient data.  Yet to get there they must unravel a Gordian knot of diverse information systems that cannot communicate with each other and that separately lack the data needed to succeed. The explosion of information from wearables, mobile phones, genomics and other sources outside the traditional healthcare sphere is exacerbating these problems while also enabling personalized healthcare and management as never before, assuming organizations can manage the transformation.

    DOS provides the answer: a vendor-agnostic digital backbone for healthcare. For the first time, organizations using DOS will be able to populate workflow information systems with critical point-of-decision insights, significantly increasing the value of the EHR to care providers.

    Based on modern software and data engineering tools adopted from Silicon Valley, and the outcome of a multi-year $200 million development process, DOS was designed from the beginning to leverage open source technologies and Application Programming Interfaces (APIs).  With DOS, Health Catalyst’s new generation software applications can be designed and developed in a fraction of the time, and with a “decision support first” mindset by reusing existing data. The same applies to third-party application development, which can leverage DOS for the benefit of Health Catalyst’s clients.

    Already built and deployed at two Health Catalyst client sites, DOS delivers significant benefits to healthcare organizations:

    • Orders of magnitude faster software application development will enable applications that are tailored to specific needs, not generic requirements
    • Physicians will have more intelligent software applications that can be tuned to their preferences and optimized to their disciplines, and patients will benefit from the same data and applications with more personalized care
    • Generic, impersonal healthcare workflow and patient care will no longer be the norm
    • A new level of personalized care for both physicians and patients will finally be possible

    “Clinical and financial decision support at the point of care is almost nonexistent in healthcare, restricted to a few pioneering organizations that can afford the engineering and informatics staff to implement and maintain it,” said Health Catalyst CEO Dan Burton. “With DOS, we can make that kind of decision support affordable and effective, raising the value of existing electronic health records and making new software applications possible, too.”

    Added Dale Sanders, executive vice president of product development for Health Catalyst, “For the vast majority of organizations, health information exchanges, traditional data warehouses, personal health records, and EHRs have all failed to make the necessary information for decision support available at the point of decision. The state of software engineering in healthcare is mid-1990s, if not older. I include Health Catalyst in this criticism; we’ve been valuable to our customers, and are ranked Best in KLAS, but we’re not satisfied. We need to be much better, for the sake of the healthcare problems we face in our country. DOS is that next and necessary step towards something much better. Even though DOS might sound ambitious and dreamy, the reality is, it’s a common-sense step forward. We have the technology, tools, and experience to make it happen, thanks in large part to Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, and Twitter. Like our Late Binding in data warehousing, I expect and encourage other vendors to borrow our DOS ideas and concepts, for the obvious reasons of competition but also because DOS simply makes sense for everyone.

    Six Big and Common Headaches Relieved

    DOS has the power to solve extremely common problems for healthcare organizations, with a solution that:

    • Enables and simplifies the upcoming tsunami of data requirements for population health and risk-based payment models. Only 8% of the data required for precision medicine and population health resides in today’s EHRs.
    • Improves physician and care provider satisfaction by providing the right data, at the right time, in the right modality
    • Leverages legacy data warehouses without the need to replace them
    • Accelerates the benefits of mergers, acquisitions, and partnerships through rapid and granular data integration of the new organization
    • Enables Personal Health Records (PHR) for patients in an unprecedented way, including portability of the data from one care delivery system to another
    • Provides an orders-of-magnitude less expensive strategic option to “rip and replace” for integrating disparate EHRs with a single vendor solution

    Groundbreaking Attributes of the Data Operating System

    DOS is made possible not only by the enabling technologies and engineering patterns of Silicon Valley, but also by Health Catalyst’s proven success in managing healthcare data. Understanding the ins and outs of healthcare data requires years of operational experience that can only come of being deeply embedded within complex organizations. No other company in healthcare has more experience and skill in this area than Health Catalyst, whose customers care for nearly one fourth of all Americans.

    “Health Catalyst understands the data content in healthcare like nobody else,” said Sanders. “We can ingest data from over 150 different vendors of source data systems at a very granular level, including claims, clinical, financial, administrative, wearables, genomic, and socio-economic data domains. We have a library of over 200 reusable data bindings—algorithms, value sets and metrics—and 24 healthcare-specific machine learning models. And we are expanding in each of these areas every day.”

    The seven attributes of the Data Operating System are:

    1. Reusable clinical and business logic: Registries, value sets, and other data logic lies on top of the raw data and can be accessed, reused, and updated through open APIs, enabling third-party application development
    2. Streaming data: Near or real-time data streaming from the source all the way to the expression of that data through the DOS, supporting both transaction-level exchange of data and analytic processing
    3. Integrates structured and unstructured data: Integrates text and structured data in the same environment. Eventually, incorporates images, too.
    4. EHR Integration (closed loop capability): The methods for expressing the knowledge in the DOS include the ability to deliver that knowledge at the point of decision-making, including back into the workflow of source systems, such as an EHR
    5. Microservices architecture: In addition to abstracted data logic, open microservices APIs exist for DOS operations such as authorization, identity management, data pipeline management, and software application telemetry. These microservices are built specifically to enable third-party applications to be built on the DOS.
    6. Machine Learning: The DOS natively runs machine learning models and enables rapid development and utilization of these models, embedded in all applications
    7. Agnostic data lake: Some or all of the DOS can be deployed over the top of any healthcare data lake. The reusable forms of logic must support different computation engines (e.g. SQL, Spark SQL, SQL on Hadoop, et al).

    These seven attributes are so significant, Sanders suggested, that they should be used to evaluate all vendors and solutions in the healthcare data space.

    “One of our cultural goals at Health Catalyst that is very near and dear to my heart is that we want to offer technology and professional services as if we were selling them to our families, friends, and colleagues,” Sanders said. “In reality, that’s what we’re doing and we want to be proud to do so. With DOS and our new generation products that utilize DOS, combined with analytic services expertise tailored specifically to a client, we are quietly celebrating what we can now deliver to the industry.”

    Health Catalyst clients can watch the development of DOS via the Health Catalyst Community: https://community.healthcatalyst.com

    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 Contact:
    Todd Stein
    Amendola Communications
    916-346-4213
    [email protected]

    Posted 9.5.2017

  • SECTRA SIGNS ENTERPRISE-WIDE IMAGING SOLUTION CONTRACT WITH TEMPLE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM

    Shelton, CT – September 5, 2017 – International medical imaging IT and cybersecurity company Sectra (STO: SECT B) announces that Temple University Health System (TUHS) will install Sectra PACS throughout their multi-hospital system. The Sectra enterprise imaging solution will provide an integrated master patient index with linking capabilities. By joining an unlimited number of patient identifiers, all TUHS healthcare providers will have access to the complete patient record, regardless of its origin. The multi-year agreement includes Sectra PACS for a full suite of radiology and mammography functionality, a complete advanced visualization portfolio as well as a pre-operative planning solution in 2D and 3D for orthopaedic surgery. The software will support patient care at all imaging locations within the healthcare system.

    “TUHS’s focus on advanced medical treatments, cancer care and medical education align very closely with our core values at Sectra. We are looking forward to implementing our enterprise-wide imaging solution at this prestigious healthcare system,” says Mikael Anden, President of Sectra North America.

    Sectra Enterprise Image Management Sectra’s complete enterprise imaging offering is modular and supports the most image-intense departments—radiology, pathology, cardiology and orthopaedics. Being built on the same technical platform, customers can easily extend a departmental solution to create a comprehensive VNA and enterprise image management solution without major investments or the replacement of existing components.

    About Sectra With more than 25 years of innovation and 1,700 installations, Sectra is a leading global provider of imaging IT solutions that support healthcare in achieving patient-centric care. Sectra offers an Enterprise Image Management solution comprising PACS for imaging-intense departments, VNA and Cross Enterprise Workflow solutions. Read more about Sectra and why Sectra PACS is “Best in KLAS” at http://www.sectra.com/medical/.

    Contact:
    Andrea Sowitch, Vice President of Marketing
    Sectra North America
    E-mail: [email protected]
    Phone: 203.925.0899 ext. 268

    Torbjörn Kronander, President and CEO
    Sectra AB
    E-mail: [email protected]
    Phone: +46 705 23 5227

    Posted 9.5.2017
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