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Cumberland Consulting Group Named One of the Nation’s Fastest Growing Consulting Firms for the Second Year in a Row
NASHVILLE, TN – November 10, 2017 – Cumberland Consulting Group, a leading healthcare advisory, implementation and outsourcing services firm, announced today it has been named to Consulting magazine’s 2017 Fastest Growing Firms list for the second consecutive year. The publication’s annual list of the top 75 fastest growing consulting firms across all industries is based on revenue growth over a three-year period.
Cumberland experienced a 100 percent revenue growth between 2013 and 2016 by expanding its service offerings to meet the needs of the payer, provider and life sciences healthcare markets. The firm has been recognized for its growth on national and regional levels, as well as in the healthcare IT sector. In addition to the Fastest Growing Firms list, Cumberland was named to the Inc. 5000, the Healthcare Informatics 100 and the Nashville Business Journal’s Fast 50 in 2017.
“At Cumberland, we pride ourselves on delivering exceptional service along with practical solutions that help our payer, provider and life sciences clients navigate the complex healthcare industry and improve outcomes,” said Brian Cahill, CEO of Cumberland. “Consulting magazine’s Fastest Growing Firms list recognizes firms that are making an impact in a variety of industries, and we’re honored to be included for the second year in a row.”
Consulting magazine introduced its Fastest Growing Firms list in 2015 for North American firms, and expanded the list to include all global firms in 2016. This year’s list was announced Nov. 2 at the gala awards dinner in New York.
“With mind-numbing growth, there’s absolutely no doubt these 75 consulting firms are disrupting the industry from the bottom up—they are the profession’s Fastest Growing Firms for 2017,” said Joseph Kornik, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Consulting magazine.
The 2017 honorees are featured in the November issue of Consulting magazine, available now.
About Cumberland Consulting Group
Founded in 2004, Cumberland Consulting Group is a leading healthcare consulting and services firm that helps some of the nation’s largest payer, provider and life sciences organizations implement and optimize technologies to maximize operational efficiency. We offer our clients comprehensive consulting services with a focus on strategic advisory, implementation, optimization and outsourcing. For more information, visit www.cumberlandcg.com or follow us on Twitter at @CumberlandCG.Taylor Davis
Marketing Manager
Cumberland Consulting Group
office: 615.373.4470 | mobile: 704.451.0437
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Pivot Point Consulting to Honor Veterans With Donation Drive for Service Dogs
NASHVILLE, TN – November 10, 2017 – When a veteran returns home, the battle isn’t always over. According to the US Department of Veteran Affairs, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) affects anywhere from 11% to 30% of military veterans in the United States. One of the most effective ways to support these brave men and women when they return home is to pair them with dedicated service dogs, but the cost is often prohibitive; once a dog’s food, training, and medical care are factored in, a single canine companion can cost $30,000.
Pivot Point Consulting, a Vaco Company values the service of those in our military, as well as the sacrifices made by their spouses and families. In appreciation of their work and in honor of Veterans Day, the company is proud to launch a donation drive for Dogs2DogTags.
Rachel Marano, Pivot Point’s Managing Partner, explained why she was excited her company was raising funds for the charity. “Our veterans deserve the very best support, especially when their service ends,” she said. “The emotional aspect of their care can get overlooked, but Dogs2DogTags is working to change that, and we’re thankful for the opportunity to assist in their mission.”
Dogs2DogTags rescues shelter dogs, trains them to work as support animals, and then places them with a veteran who has been diagnosed with post-combat stress and anxiety. There is no out-of-pocket cost for those receiving a service dog.
Kicking off with a company donation, the Pivot Point team’s goal is to raise $30,000 and provide a veteran with a service dog. Those who want to help can contribute to the fundraiser here.
About Pivot Point Consulting, a Vaco Company
Pivot Point Consulting is a healthcare IT consulting leader specializing in technology and strategic advisory services, EHR implementation, training, optimization, legacy support and project management. The firm has 250 consultants, 50 internal employees and serves over 50 clients across the nation. Clients range from large multi-hospital networks to academic institutions, pediatric hospitals, and local community clinics. The company has earned many industry and workplace quality awards including: highest rated vendor in KLAS Implementation Services Select Category (July 2017 report), #1 in KLAS for Epic Consulting in the Select Category in 2016, and #9 in Modern Healthcare’s Best Places to Work in 2016. For more information about Pivot Point Consulting, visit http://www.pivotpointconsulting.com. Follow us on Twitter @pivotpc.Ellie Andonian
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Vocera Earns New ATO From the Department of Defense
SAN JOSE, CA – November 9, 2017 – Vocera Communications, Inc. (NYSE:VCRA), a recognized leader in clinical communication and workflow solutions, today announced it received a new Authority to Operate (ATO) from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), based on compliance with strict security requirements and risk assessments outlined in the Risk Management Framework (RMF). The RMF is the unified information security framework replacing the legacy Certification and Accreditation (C&A) processes within federal government departments and agencies, the Department of Defense (DOD) and the Intelligence Community (IC).
The RMF was developed by the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) to help DoD and federal agencies manage information technology risks. The DoD security authorization process, which was successfully completed for the hands-free Vocera Communications Badge, is an integral part of authorizing, securing and managing healthcare technology systems across the DoD. The framework is a risk-based approach to cybersecurity that replaces the DoD Information Assurance Certification and Accreditation Process (DIACAP) as the required process to obtain ATO. The RMF demands a higher level of security that assesses risks even more effectively with the introduction of assurance controls and continuous monitoring of those controls.
“Safeguarding patients and protecting their information is the No. 1 priority for the military facilities we serve,” said Gregory Young, vice president of military health systems at Vocera. “It’s our priority, too, and that’s why we continuously pursue the latest security protocols and testing. I’m proud to say the security of Vocera solutions is defense-grade.”
Vocera technology is currently deployed in 25 U.S. Army Medical Command (MEDCOM) facilities. The wearable Vocera Communication Badge meets all federal government requirements, is FIPS 140-2 compliant, and Joint Interoperability Test Command (JITC) certified. Proven to reduce steps and save time, this communication solution enables mobile healthcare workers to connect with the right person, group and information instantly. It also integrates with more than 120 clinical systems, including electronic health records, nurse call systems, physiologic monitors, and real-time location systems.
About Vocera
The mission of Vocera Communications, Inc. is to simplify and improve the lives of healthcare professionals and patients, while enabling hospitals to enhance quality of care and operational efficiency. In 2000, when the company was founded, we began to forever change the way care teams communicate. Today, Vocera continues to offer the leading platform for clinical communication and workflow. More than 1,400 hospitals and health systems around the world have selected our solutions for care teams to text securely using smartphones or make calls with our hands-free, wearable Vocera Badge. Interoperability between Vocera and more than 120 clinical systems helps reduce alarm fatigue, speed up staff response times, and improve patient care, safety and experience. In addition to healthcare, Vocera is at home in luxury hotels, nuclear facilities, libraries, retail stores and more. Vocera makes a difference in any industry where workers are on the move and need to connect instantly with team members and access resources or information quickly. Learn more at www.vocera.com, and follow @VoceraComm on Twitter.
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Inside CHIME: CHIME Awards Highlight Collaborations, Partnerships and Exemplary Contributions
11.9.17
By Candace Stuart, Director of Communications & Public Relations, CHIMEThe awards announced on Nov. 2 at CHIME17 focused on CHIME Foundation firms and their representatives. The awards highlighted a collaboration between a CHIME member and a Foundation firm, a Foundation firm that exemplified partnership and industry leadership.
The 2017 CHIME Collaboration Award, given to Deborah Gash and HCTec
Deborah Gash, CHCIO, VP & Chief Information Officer, Saint Luke’s Health System
About three years ago, the IT department at Saint Luke’s Health System (SLHS) in Kansas City, Mo., was stretched at the seams. SLHS was implementing a new EMR and a revenue cycle management system that added to the workload and required frequent switching between tasks. Staff were required to manage projects that didn’t always suit their capabilities and interests, and turnover began to increase.
Deborah Gash, CIO at SLHS, weighed her options. She could make new hires, but it would take six months and cost approximately $170,000 per employee to make them productive. She could outsource, but that also was costly. Instead, she turned to HCTec, a company based in Brentwood, Tenn., that provides healthcare workforce solutions.
Working together, they developed and implemented a bi-modal strategy that splits tasks into two categories: general operation and growth and business transformation. SLHS and HCTec then created two workforce teams, with HCTec’s remote managed services team offering support in general operations. That freed up the SLHS IT staff for strategic planning initiatives.
Their strategy has cut staff turnover from 15 percent to 3 percent, increased morale and overall productivity, and to date has saved SLHS $9.2 million. SLHS also saw a boost in its customer satisfaction scores after the implementation. HCTec now is using the model to serve healthcare networks across the country.
The 2017 CHIME Foundation Partner Award, given to Connection
Jennifer Ramstrom, CFCHE, VP of Vertical Strategy & Business Development
Healthcare organizations and the CIOs who are responsible for selecting, implementing and managing their IT systems need reliable, compatible technologies to ensure safe, quality healthcare. They also need experienced and informed partners in industry who support them in their mission.
Connection, a company based in Merrimack, N.H., that specializes in connecting healthcare customers with suitable technology solutions, has developed a number of processes, services and tools to meet their needs. Beyond that, Connection’s employees have served as dedicated volunteers with CHIME and other organizations. Their contributions earned Connection the 2017 CHIME Foundation Partner Award.
Jennifer Ramstrom, Connection’s vice president of vertical strategy and business development, accepted the award at CHIME17 on behalf of Connection. She served as committee chair for the CHIME Foundation Certified Healthcare Executive (CFCHE) program, which launched in June 2017. The first exam was given in September, and 24 Foundation firm employees – including Ramstrom – passed.
The 2017 CHIME Foundation Industry Leader Award, given to Dana Sellers
Dana Sellers, co-founder and retired CEO of Encore Health Resources
Dana Sellers, co-founder and retired CEO of Encore Health Resources, has spent her 30-year career championing the use of healthcare IT to improve patient care and outcomes. A skilled leader, she has been praised by the CIOs she served and the staff she oversaw for her people-focused, solutions-driven approach.
She is recognized as a pioneer in EHR strategy and rollouts and identifying IT solutions that support value-based care. Her past positions include being a partner in IBM’s Global Business Solutions, where she oversaw the U.S. healthcare provider team; president and COO of Healthlink; and CEO of Encore Health Resources in Houston, which she co-founded with Ivo Nelson in 2009. At Encore, she emphasized the importance of people, both clients and employees, which earned Encore numerous “Best Places to Work” awards.
She now serves as a member of the board at emids, which acquired Encore earlier this year. She also has served on the boards of CHIME, the CHIME Foundation and the CHIME Education Foundation.
This is the highest honor CHIME gives to a CHIME Foundation firm member, and as this year’s recipient, Sellers was invited to the podium at CHIME17 to speak during the morning welcome. In her speech, she credited her family for her success and thanked them for their support through the years.
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Inside CHIME: Gary Barnes, Fernando Martinez and Chuck Christian Earn 2017 Awards
11.9.17
By Candace Stuart, Director of Communications & Public Relations, CHIMEOn Nov. 1, three members of CHIME walked across the stage at the CHIME17 Fall CIO Forum in San Antonio to accept the highest praise from their peers: awards that acknowledged their contributions as healthcare IT leaders. Here is a look at how they earned these honors.
The 2017 CHIME-AHA Transformational Leadership Award, given to Gary Barnes
Gary Barnes, CHCIO, Chief Information Officer, Medical Center Health System
When the Medical Center Health System (MCHS) in Odessa, Texas, learned five years ago that the EHR software it had been using for 25 years was being sunsetted, the leadership embraced it as an opportunity to bring about change. CEO William Webster and CIO Gary Barnes created a plan to implement a new EHR. What they and supportive staff throughout the system achieved was much more: a unified organization that puts the patient at the center.
Key to MCHS’ success was a decision to unify its analytics team and data governance structure, which allowed MCHS to consolidate and standardize multiple data sources. They also created two distinct but complementary CMIO positions, with one for inpatient settings and one for outpatient care, to optimize transitions in care. The EHR plan also included regional partners and the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Medical Center in Odessa.
They not only met their go-live date but they also remained under budget. Clinician adoption and usage has been strong, and thanks to a voice recognition mobile device application, they have experienced improvements in turnaround time for reports at reduced costs.
The 2017 CHIME Innovator of the Year Award, given to Fernando Martinez
Fernando Martinez, CHCIO, Chief Digital Officer, Texas Hospital Association
Imagine a setting where physicians have at their fingertips not only the cost of a medication, a lab test or of a scan but also the adverse drug reactions, the estimated blood loss and consequent risk of anemia or the patient’s cumulative exposure to radiation from imaging tests. Add to this scenario that the information appears unobtrusively with no clicking and on any EMR at any point of care.
Fernando Martinez, the chief digital officer at Austin-based Texas Hospital Association (THA) and president and CEO of the THA Foundation, not only imagined it, he helped make it a reality through the THA Foundation Center for Technology Innovation. With Martinez at the helm, the center identified a unique, innovative nascent technology that had the potential to significantly address two major pain points commonly raised by Texas hospital CEOs: management of cost and variability of care.
The result was the THA Smart Ribbon, a digital tool to help clinicians make informed decisions based on cost and clinical data. Implementation of the THA Smart Ribbon using 55 providers at the Parkland Health and Hospital System in Dallas resulted in a cost savings of $430,444 over 71 days. The pre-post intervention study also demonstrated the predicted reduction in variation of care.
Parkland has expanded the use of the THA Smart Ribbon to all providers at Parkland Hospital and three more hospital systems have the tool in production or are implementing it. Several other hospital systems are in the final stages of joining the program and THA expects increased adoption will continue over the next few years.
The 2017 CHIME Outstanding Service Award, given to Chuck Christian
Charles Christian, CHCIO, VP of Technology & Engagement, Indiana Health Information Exchange
Charles (Chuck) Christian’s commitment to CHIME predates his present position as a vice president at the Indiana Health Information Exchange in Indianapolis, his two-year stint as a vice president and CIO at St. Francis Hospital in Columbus, Ga., and goes well into his 23-year tenure at Good Samaritan Hospital in Vincennes, Ind.
He has served as chair of the CHIME Foundation Board (2016); chair of the CHIME Board (2015); CHIME board chair-elect (2014); chair of the CHIME Policy Steering Committee (2011, 2013 and 2016); a member of the CHIME Policy Steering Committee (2010 to present), and a member of the CHIME Board (2002-2004). He is a charter member of CHIME, a CHIME Fellow and a CHIME Lifetime Member. Besides his extensive service on boards and committees, he also has been a member of the CHIME Boot Camp faculty and a popular forum speaker.
He’s won numerous awards from CHIME, including the John E. Gall HIMSS/CHIME CIO of the Year (2010) and the CHIME Collaboration Award (2010). On Nov. 3, he also received CHIME’s 2017 Federal Public Policy Award for CIO Leadership, which was formally announced on Oct. 6 to coincide with the National Health IT Week.
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Leadership Promotions at Impact Advisors
Paula Elliott to Lead Firm’s Quality Services and Bill Faust to Lead Strategic Implementation Services
Chicago, IL – October 30, 2017 – Impact Advisors, LLC, a leading provider of healthcare information technology and performance improvement services, announced today that it has tapped Paula Elliott, Vice President, to drive the firm’s new Quality Services team.
“One of our hallmarks has always been high quality, and we now intend to double down on this strength, evolving our approach to defining and maintaining quality and how we improve over time,” said Andrew Smith, the firm’s President. He continued, “Paula is an immensely talented leader. She has been invaluable to the growth and success of our firm, and we believe she will excel in this new role.”
Bill Faust, also a Vice President at Impact Advisors, will lead the firm’s Strategic Implementation Services practice. According to Smith, “Bill has a well-established record for building and maintaining strong relationships and is known for instituting rigorous program mechanics and structure, which have helped him bring exceptionally aggressive program timelines to fruition. Over his ten years at Impact, Bill has grown his role to include leadership of some of our biggest projects and clients. He is very highly regarded by vendors and clients alike.”
Elliott has over 30 years of experience in healthcare. She joined Impact Advisors in 2008, having served as Implementation Director in the Cerner practice for a large healthcare consultancy. Prior to that, she worked for multiple IT vendors and spent the first 10 years of her career in hospital finance.
Faust’s 20 years of healthcare IT experience has progressed from working in a call center to training to system design and build and eventually large-scale project/program management. Faust joined Impact Advisors shortly after it was founded in 2007. Prior to that he spent several years at another consultancy and also worked in the vendor space.
For more information on Impact Advisors, visit www.impact-advisors.com or visit the company on Facebook www.facebook.com/impactadvisors.
About Impact Advisors, LLC
Impact Advisors, a distinguished healthcare information technology consulting firm, improves its clients’ healthcare delivery through technology. As a trusted healthcare leader, the firm helps hospitals and health systems maximize clinical and operational performance with its Best in KLAS® strategic advisory, implementation and optimization services. Since its inception, Impact Advisors has consulted to more than 140 hospitals and health systems nationally and internationally. The firm has earned a number of industry and workplace quality awards including Best in KLAS® for seven consecutive years, Healthcare Informatics HCI 100, Crain’s Chicago Business Fast Fifty and Modern Healthcare’s Best Places to Work. For more information about Impact Advisors, visit www.impact-advisors.com.###
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Communications Strategist
Chartwell Agency
www.chartwell-agency.com
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Impact Advisors Named to Consulting Magazine’s Fastest Growing Firms
Healthcare IT consulting firm recognized as one of the top in the nation
CHICAGO, IL – November 8, 2017 – Impact Advisors, LLC, a leading provider of healthcare information technology services, is pleased to announce it has been ranked by Consulting Magazine in its list of “Fastest Growing Firms” for 2017. This exclusive list recognizes the fastest-growing consulting firms in the world, of any size and from any sector.
Every year, Consulting Magazine releases its annual ranking of the consulting industry’s “Fastest Growing Firms” – a celebration of the industry’s top movers and shakers in terms of revenue growth over a three-year period, highlighting the reasons for their outstanding financial performance.
“Making Consulting Magazine’s list is a tremendous honor,” said Maria Smith, CFO of Impact Advisors. “This recognition strongly reflects the firm’s commitment to achieving sustainable, responsible growth while ensuring our team always offers clients the highest quality advisory services.”
Impact Advisors adds this latest honor to a growing list of 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 on Impact Advisors, visit www.impact-advisors.com or visit the company on Facebook at www.facebook.com/impactadvisors.
About Impact Advisors, LLC
Impact Advisors is a nationally-recognized healthcare information technology consulting firm that is solving some of the toughest challenges in the industry by delivering strategic advisory, implementation and optimization services. 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 www.impact-advisors.com.###
RoseAnn Haedt
Communications Strategist
Chartwell Agency
www.chartwell-agency.com
120 W. State St.| Suite 305| Rockford, IL 61101
Direct: 815.708.6157 | Cell: 815.742.0573Website link: http://www.impact-advisors.com/newsroom/news-item/impact-advisors-named-consulting-magazines-fastest-growing-firms/
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GetWellNetwork CEO Michael O’Neil to Chair Next Generation Patient Experience Conference
November 7, 2017– GetWellNetwork®, Inc., the Precision Engagement™ health care company, announced today that its founder and chief executive officer, Michael O’Neil, will be chairing day two of the Next Generation Patient Experience (NGPX) Conference taking place in San Diego, Nov. 28-30, 2017. NGPX brings together senior level PX executives from across the spectrum care, all of whom are tasked with overseeing their organization’s patient experience strategy.
O’Neil was invited to chair day two of NGPX because he is well-known in the industry as a thought leader who is passionate about patient and family engagement. As chair, he will moderate sessions that will tackle pressing PX challenges including how to:
- Meet the heightened expectations of today’s empowered patient
- Shift to a patient and family-centered culture
- Engage clinical and non-clinical staff in your PX strategy
- Achieve a single view of the patient
- Create patient and family advocates
In his keynote address, O’Neil will introduce the concept of Precision Engagement in health care as it relates to patient experience strategy.
What is Precision Engagement? Influenced by the fundamentals of precision medicine, where personalized medical treatment is data-driven and guided by individual variables, Precision Engagement transforms the one-size-fits-all approach of the past to a new model that accounts for the unique needs of each person. The goal is to help health care organizations deliver on the promise of population health by giving patients the opportunity to participate in their care by providing the proper “interventions” to promote that participation. GetWellNetwork has enabled this by bringing patient engagement solutions into a single, integrated platform — the Patient’s Platform™.
At the core of the Patient’s Platform is a comprehensive suite of patient experience technologies, clinician tools and success strategies proven to deliver precision engagement across the care continuum. Why is this critical?
Health care providers are more focused on patient satisfaction than ever before. A 2016 NGPX survey found that respondents plan to allocate resources in the following areas:
51% Digital/mobile patient support
50% Patient survey/voice of patient providers
49% Patient experience design
48% Patient experience training, coaching and education
48% Patient data and analytics software
In response to the shifts in how and where care is being delivered, over the past three years, GetWellNetwork has been building out the Patient’s Platform, launching new solutions and acquiring companies to extend patient engagement across the full spectrum of care.
About Michael O’Neil
Michael O’Neil was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma at the age of 28. After four cycles of chemotherapy, he started GetWellNetwork® to help hospitals improve performance and outcomes through patient engagement.
Michael is a member of the Young Presidents’ Organization and Mindshare, a group of high-tech CEOs fostering entrepreneurship and growth throughout the nation’s capital. Michael also serves on the board of directors of The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and The DAISY Foundation, a global organization dedicated to honoring nurses.
Media Contact
Marcia Rhodes, Amendola Communications for GetWellNetwork, Inc.
602.793.1561
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Hawaii Insurer AlohaCare Selects Health Catalyst to Boost Performance with Business Intelligence
Health Catalyst analytics to improve risk stratification, quality scores and collaboration with care providers for Hawaii’s third-largest health plan
HONOLULU, HI and SALT LAKE CITY, UT – November 7, 2017— AlohaCare, a nonprofit health plan serving nearly 70,000 Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries in Hawaii, and Health Catalyst have teamed up to accelerate AlohaCare’s quality and cost-saving initiatives. The partnership reflects AlohaCare’s strategic response to the increasing prevalence of pay-for-quality initiatives that tie government reimbursement for medical services to the quality of that care.
Founded in 1994 by Hawaii’s community health centers, AlohaCare partners with nearly 3,500 physicians and specializes in Medicare and QUEST Integration health insurance, a Medicaid managed care program under the Hawaii Department of Human Services (DHS). As a result, AlohaCare’s revenue comes largely from DHS and the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and is increasingly based on the quality of care its members receive.
AlohaCare will leverage Health Catalyst’s deep experience analyzing healthcare data from hundreds of sources for America’s largest health systems, health plans, and commercial payers to provide quality care to its members and ensure effective use of government funds.
“Unlike most analytics providers in the health insurance space, Health Catalyst has deep insight into healthcare data, which is critical to understanding and improving the quality and cost of care,” said Todd Morgan, Chief Information Officer at AlohaCare. “And because they have a wide footprint within the provider community in Hawaii, we believe we’ll be able to collaborate more effectively with providers while working seamlessly with the state to enhance our quality scores and reimbursement.”
AlohaCare will deploy the Health Catalyst Data Operating System (DOS™), a revolutionary digital platform that transforms raw data from any source into Deep Data. By providing a complete picture of the past while delivering real-time insights within the right workflows in the present, DOS gives providers the power to predict and improve future outcomes. Based on modern software and data engineering tools adopted from Silicon Valley, DOS combines the features of data warehousing, clinical data repositories, and health information exchanges in a single, common-sense technology platform.
Working with AlohaCare’s existing IT systems, DOS will serve as the health plan’s digital backbone, with the ability to integrate critical data from over 200 of the most popular data sources, including third-party electronic medical records (EMRs), data warehouses, claims processing systems, financial systems, wearables, genomics, and socio-economic indices. Moreover, DOS includes a vast suite of products and analytic accelerators that are optimized with machine learning and natural language processing. These flexible solutions will help to meet AlohaCare’s needs for population health and accountable care, financial decision support, and operational performance improvement initiatives.
“We are thrilled that AlohaCare has chosen to partner with Health Catalyst to gain a better understanding of the quality and cost of care their members receive,” said Dan Burton, CEO of Health Catalyst. “As payers like AlohaCare come under increasing pressure to demonstrate quality, the need for rich data from clinical systems and other sources beyond claims is rapidly accelerating. We are fortunate to help provide those insights to benefit AlohaCare and, most importantly, AlohaCare’s members.”
AlohaCare will have access to Health Catalyst’s entire library of technology solutions and content culled from its outcomes-improvement work with health systems and payer organizations across the country. The partnership with AlohaCare solidifies and accelerates Health Catalyst’s footprint in the Medicaid Managed Care market.
About AlohaCare
AlohaCare is Hawaii’s third largest health plan dedicated to meeting the health needs of underserved communities throughout the state. AlohaCare is a local, non-profit health plan founded in 1994 by Hawaii’s community health centers. AlohaCare provides health care coverage for Hawaii’s QUEST Integration (Medicaid) and Medicare beneficiaries statewide.
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 health care 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 plans and commercial payers. 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 www.healthcatalyst.com, and follow us on Twitter (@HealthCatalyst), LinkedIn and Facebook.
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SURESCRIPTS TRANSFORMS PRESCRIPTION DECISION PROCESS BETWEEN PHYSICIANS AND PATIENTS
Health Information Network Wins Partnerships with EHRs and PBMs to Provide Prescription Benefit Price Transparency and Electronic Prior Authorization
ARLINGTON, VA – November 7, 2017 – Surescripts is again revolutionizing the prescription decision-making process between physicians and patients with its Real-Time Prescription Benefit and expanded Prior Authorization solutions. Having created the first true nationwide interoperability network with e-prescribing, Surescripts has continuously built upon it to offer an advanced prior authorization solution and a full range of capabilities designed to improve prescribing, inform care decisions and advance healthcare.
Surescripts is joining forces with five electronic health records (EHR) companies representing 53 percent of the U.S. physician base, and is leveraging information from pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) CVS Health and Express Scripts, who represent nearly two-thirds of U.S. patients, to deliver patient-specific benefit and price information to providers in real time at the point of care. Once integrated with the EHR, the solution will also display therapeutic alternatives so that the prescriber and patient can collaborate in selecting a medication that is both clinically appropriate and affordable.
Prescription price transparency is critical to lowering patients’ out-of-pocket costs and preventing “sticker shock” and prescription abandonment at the pharmacy, a common cause of medication non-adherence which negatively impacts patient safety and costs an estimated $300 billion annually, according to the New England Health Institute. In just 12 months, Surescripts Real-Time Prescription Benefit pilot participants, including CVS and Express Scripts, generated 3.75 million transactions to test the functionality and validate the market demand for delivering patient-specific prescription benefit price data to prescribers in real time.
“Surescripts is leveraging the same network alliance we built to revolutionize healthcare with eprescribing 17 years ago. Now, we’re deploying actionable intelligence to the exact point in the care process where patients’ prescription benefits can be optimized,” said Tom Skelton, Chief Executive Officer of Surescripts. “We’re once again at the forefront of a transformational moment in healthcare. Together with our partners, we’re delivering value back to the network in the form of greater price transparency and a streamlined workflow—two keys to patients getting the right drug at the right time, and at a cost that lets them start and stick with their medication therapy.”
When used together, Surescripts Real-Time Prescription Benefit, Prior Authorization and E-Prescribing create the ideal scenario. For the first time ever, prescribers will be able to see what a medication will cost their patient, based on their specific health plan coverage, and pick the most affordable medication that meets the patient’s therapeutic need. Once the most appropriate and affordable medication is selected, if an authorization is still required, it may be quickly completed during the office visit within the EHR workflow. It is then sent to the pharmacy, resulting in the patient leaving the doctor’s office confident in both the medication choice and the medication cost, knowing that it will be covered by their insurance.
“We are excited about the prospect of being able to provide physicians and patients with information during the office visit, at the point of prescribing, which can enable them to select a medication that is both effective for the patient’s condition and affordable,” said Troyen A. Brennan, MD, Chief Medical Officer of CVS Health. “This visibility can help streamline the patient’s access to care and can ultimately help improve medication adherence.”
“Integrating timely, patient-specific information at the point of care is a key way Express Scripts is working to enable better physician decisions,” said Lynne Nowak, M.D., Vice President, Clinical and Provider Solutions at Express Scripts. “Particularly for our members in a high- deductible plan, clarity around prescription drug costs is vital. Surescripts’ real-time intelligence coupled with an automated authorization workflow will improve interactions between patients, physicians, pharmacists and benefit providers. It unlocks physicians’ ability to understand—in real time—the most appropriate and cost-effective treatment options for each patient. Combined, this technology improves the prescribing experience, increases patient access to more affordable medications, drives adherence and ultimately, creates better health outcomes.”
Surescripts Real-Time Prescription Benefit and Prior Authorization solutions require strong cross-market network alliances, which are already in place and expanding at an incredible rate. Surescripts prior authorization is currently available in EHRs representing 75 percent of U.S. physicians, and is connected to PBMs representing 85 percent of covered lives. Surescripts gained additional momentum with their recent agreement to partner with cloud-based EHR Practice Fusion to provide Real-Time Prescription Benefit and Prior Authorization. Allscripts, Aprima Medical Software, Cerner, Epic and GE Healthcare have also committed to offering Surescripts Real-Time Prescription Benefit to their users.
“When it comes to choosing the best medication, we believe in giving prescribers every available advantage within our platform,” said Tom Langan, Chief Executive Officer of Practice Fusion. “Surescripts’ NCPDP SCRIPT standard-based solution gives us both a functional and a competitive edge over others that use telecomm-based standards. And the ability to see what a particular drug will cost, plus real-time prior authorization, will relieve a lot of burden on both providers and patients, and improve satisfaction across the board.”
About Surescripts
Our purpose is to serve the nation with the single most trusted and capable health information network, built to increase patient safety, lower costs and ensure quality care. Since 2001, Surescripts has led the movement to turn data into actionable intelligence, and convened its network allies to enhance e-prescribing, inform care decisions and advance the healthcare industry. Visit us at www.surescripts.com and follow us at twitter.com/surescripts.# # #
Media Contact:
Kelly Jeffers
Surescripts
(571) 384-4776
[email protected]Posted 11.7.2017 -
Hyland Healthcare Debuts New Enterprise Imaging Solutions at RSNA 2017
Hyland Healthcare is moving imaging forward, providing new product demos at booth #1316
CHICAGO, IL – November 7, 2017 – Hyland, a global leader in providing software solutions for managing content, processes and cases, is launching Hyland Healthcare and its new enterprise imaging solutions at RSNA 2017 on November 26 to December 1 in Chicago. Show attendees can stop by booth #1316 to learn more about how Hyland Healthcare enterprise imaging solutions help healthcare providers capture, manage, view and share both DICOM and non-DICOM (XDS) images, while providing accessibility, data security, reducing costs and improving the quality of patient care.
Enterprise imaging products Hyland Healthcare will present at RSNA 2017 include:
- PACSgear connectivity solutions enable departments to capture paper, film and electronic documents, CDs/DVDs, images, videos, structured report measurements and form data from workstations, browsers and mobile devices. The data is stored or shared as DICOM or XDS content to picture archiving and communication systems, vendor neutral archives, electronic health records, content services platforms such as OnBase by Hyland, as well as other destinations.
- Acuo by Hyland is a VNA that stores all DICOM and XDS imaging content from across the enterprise in a truly independent repository, providing clinicians access to complete patient information while eliminating departmental silos. The Acuo VNA is interoperable, multi-tenant, and can be distributed, federated and centrally managed, enabling healthcare organizations to actively manage and provide access to medical imaging data and XDS content.
- NilRead is an industry leading, web-based, zero-footprint enterprise clinical and diagnostic viewer that provides a universal platform for basic and advanced visualization of medical images in any format – anywhere, anytime – across the enterprise and beyond. It can also serve as an XDS document consumer.
- OnBase Patient Window provides clinicians with access to all patient-related unstructured content, including medical imaging studies, seamlessly from within the context of the EHR.
“Radiologists today are under increasing pressure to be more efficient and deliver more value to the clinical process,” said Susan deCathelineau, vice president, global healthcare sales and services at Hyland. “Hyland Healthcare provides the enterprise imaging solutions that enable radiologists to untether themselves from proprietary PACS and more easily collaborate on and share images with other clinical stakeholders both inside and outside the enterprise. With enhanced medical imaging visibility, healthcare delivery organizations can make more informed clinical decisions, improve patient outcomes and optimize existing technology investments. We are delighted to showcase our new solutions at RSNA and are committed to helping radiologists move imaging forward.”
With a strong commitment to standards-based interoperability and image sharing for all enterprise solutions within the context of existing work processes, Hyland Healthcare solutions deliver integrated content services across healthcare organizations that desire a common technology stack for managing enterprise medical images, documents and other patient-related information.
Hyland Healthcare’s enterprise imaging solutions are open, flexible, configurable, intuitive solutions and vendor neutral. Streamlined radiology workflows enable radiologists to interpret images from anywhere with a diagnostic-grade monitor – untethering them from traditional PACS workstations, enhancing their productivity and optimizing their value.
For more information about Hyland Healthcare’s enterprise imaging suite of products or presence at RSNA 2017, stop by the Hyland Healthcare booth #1316, follow the conversation on social media with #HylandHealthcare or visit Hyland.com/Healthcare.
About Hyland Healthcare
By combining information management and enterprise medical imaging with business process and case management capabilities, Hyland Healthcare delivers a suite of unparalleled content and image management solutions to address the clinical, financial and operational needs of healthcare organizations around the world. Every day, more than 2,000 healthcare organizations use Hyland Healthcare’s world-class solutions to become more agile, efficient and effective. The Hyland Healthcare suite of products – comprised of Acuo by Hyland, PACSgear, NilRead, Brainware by Hyland, OnBase by Hyland and ShareBase by Hyland – are leveraged to complete patient records, eliminate reimbursement delays and enhance business processes. For more information, please visit Hyland.com/Healthcare.
Hyland Healthcare is a part of Hyland, 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]Posted 11.7.2017 -
AMITA Health Selects PerfectServe to Establish Platform for Clinical Communication Growth Initiatives Partnership supports clinical integration of expanding Chicago faith-based health system to serve those in need
KNOXVILLE, TN – November 6, 2017 — AMITA Health, an integrated health system committed to delivering compassionate care to more than 1.2 million residents in Chicago’s western and northwestern suburbs, selects PerfectServe as its enterprise clinical communication and collaboration system. PerfectServe will help one of the largest healthcare networks in Illinois establish a common platform for standardizing care team coordination and collaboration growth initiatives.
“Partnering with PerfectServe represents yet another successful opportunity and milestone to clinically integrate our expanding health system,” said Julieann Russo, Director of Information Systems, Continuum of Care and Physician Services at AMITA Health. “PerfectServe’s platform creates a cohesive way to establish closer peer-to-peer bidirectional text and voice communication between nurses, physicians and other medical support staff, which speeds time to treatment and interventions for optimal care delivery. Our priority is to remove communication variability that puts our patients at risk and our care team members in noncompliance with HIPAA and The Joint Commission.”
AMITA Health will implement PerfectServe at four Adventist hospitals in 2018: AMITA Health Adventist Medical Center in Bolingbrook, AMITA Health Adventist Medical Center in GlenOaks, AMITA Health Adventist Medical Center in Hinsdale, and AMITA Health Adventist Medical Center in La Grange. Currently, PerfectServe is in limited use at Alexian Brothers Medical Center in Elk Grove Village, and St. Alexius Medical Center and Alexian Brothers Behavioral Health Hospital, both in Hoffman Estates. The full suite of PerfectServe functionality will be implemented in late 2018, putting the entire organization on the complete solution.
PerfectServe’s clinical communication capabilities will enable AMITA Health’s care team members to speed time to treatment, eliminating delays and variability in patient care. The solution’s Dynamic Intelligent Routing® empowers a clinician to reach the right provider responsible for the patient at any moment regardless of location. As an extra safety measure, automatic fail-safe protocols escalate connection to a secondary care team member if the primary member does not respond to a message.
PerfectServe also accelerates alignment, referrals and accountability through transparency into communication trends for all physicians employed or affiliated across AMITA Health’s multiple hospitals.
“We are honored to support AMITA Health’s faith-based mission of providing quality, compassionate healthcare to its local communities,” said Terry Edwards, CEO and President of PerfectServe. “Our care team communication and collaboration system upholds the health network’s growth trajectory to achieve true clinical integration—a continuous process of enhancing effectiveness and efficiency of care coordination across Chicagoland.”
About AMITA Health AMITA Health (www.AMITAhealth.org) is a joint operating company formed by Adventist Midwest Health, part of the Adventist Health System in Altamonte Springs, Florida, and Alexian Brothers Health System, a subsidiary of St. Louis-based Ascension. Headquartered in Arlington Heights, Illinois, AMITA Health is the third-largest health system in the state, with more than 12,000 associates committed to delivering the most efficient, highest quality, faith-based care at nine acute and specialty care hospitals and at more than 80 ambulatory/clinic locations. AMITA Health has an extensive provider network of more than 3,000 hospital-affiliated physicians, and the AMITA Health Medical Group consists of over 500 multi-specialty employed physicians and associate practitioners, ranking it among the largest regional medical groups. AMITA Health’s mission is to extend the healing ministry of Jesus by respecting the faith traditions of the many individuals and families it serves across suburban Chicago.
About PerfectServe® PerfectServe 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 clinicians in forward-looking organizations across the U.S. 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.
AMITA Health Contact:
Matthew M. Wakely
Senior Vice President and Chief Communications Officer
847.385.7176
[email protected]PerfectServe Contact:
Heather Dorsett, MBA
Director, Content Strategy and Marketing
855.871.7299
[email protected]Posted 11.6.2017