• Immersive Announces the Release of clarityDG 2.0 Data Governance Framework for Healthcare

    clarityDG™ 2.0 expands key performance indicators in several data governance domains to foster improved program development and measurement; completes clarityDG integration with AHIMA IGAM™ and ONC Patient Demographic Data Quality Framework to address data/information governance continuum

     

    PANAMA CITY, FL – February 20, 2018 – Immersive, a leader in healthcare data management advisory services and solutions, today announced the release of clarityDG 2.0, the only data governance framework developed for the healthcare industry. clarityDG 2.0 expands the library of key performance indicators across its nine operational domains by twenty percent, adding new indicators in the domains of information lifecycle management, architecture and connectivity, and data quality management. Further, Immersive completes the integration of the clarityDG Framework with AHIMA’s Information Governance Adoption Model (IGAM)™ initiated earlier this year and ONC’s Patient Demographic Data Quality (PDDQ) Framework in the 2.0 release.

    “To keep pace with the evolving and dynamic data and information landscape, we are continuously optimizing our methodologies and approaches to our work,” stated Immersive president, Dan Rounds. “While more healthcare organizations are implementing data governance (DG), few have adopted a framework to inform their effort. clarityDG has always been both a strategic and tactical framework, but in this 2.0 release we’ve added more explicit performance indicators related to data/information architecture and data/information usability that map more explicitly to population health, precision/personalized medicine and patient engagement/experience initiatives. For organizations that have experienced frameworks as purely academic or theoretical, clarityDG will come as a refreshing alternative. Our work to align clarityDG with the ONC PDDQ Framework is a perfect example of bridging data governance theory to real healthcare practice. Finally, all of our clients acknowledge that while they seek to be data-driven, they strive to be information-led. Our vision of thoughtful and seamless integration of DG and information governance (IG), as put forth in AHIMA IGAM™, is accomplished in clarityDG 2.0.”

    For image of the clarityDG Framework, please click here.

    “Like many of our industry peers, we have attempted and failed to implement data governance on more than one occasion over the past several years,” stated Doug Gentile, MD, MBA, chief medical information officer for the University of Vermont Health Network. “Immersive stood out from other consultancies, in part, because of its framework-driven approach to data governance program development and implementation and the fact that its methodology is forward-looking to information governance. The clarityDG Framework helped to educate our organization about data governance, create a common vocabulary amongst stakeholders, identify our priorities, document a roadmap and begin our implementation of DG with greater confidence. It will be instrumental as we measure progress and establish progressive data/information-oriented performance metrics.”

    Immersive offers a continuum of data governance and data management solutions leveraging the clarityDG Framework, to include environmental scans and readiness assessments, DG program performance assessments, program roadmap development and implementation support, interim and virtual Chief Data Officer services, and a host of technical data preparation-for-analytics services via its clarityDG DataLab™ data innovation centers.

    About Immersive
    Immersive is a provider of exceptional healthcare data 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 www.immersivellc.com.

     

     

    Posted 2.20.2018

  • Soul Radiology Chooses Novarad for PACS and RIS

    Medical software company goes into contract with New York-based imaging center

     

    HOWARD BEACH, N.Y. – February 13, 2018 – Novarad Corporation, a leader in the development of medical imaging software, has recently entered into contract with Soul Radiology of Howard Beach, N.Y. for PACS and RIS.

    According to Steve Paleocostas, Operations Manager with Soul Radiology, the company chose Novarad due to the products’ ease of use, scalability and a history of upfront pricing.

    “The main reason we selected the Novarad RIS/PACS solution is because we felt the interface was easy to use and provided us with capabilities we did not see from other vendors,” Paleocostas said. “Also, the professionalism the account manager and clinical specialist exhibited was another reason we felt Novarad could be trusted if a problem ever arises. That means a lot to smaller radiology practices that rely on their system to perform optimally every day.”

    Soul Radiology currently operates in Howard Beach, N.Y. but will be opening a second location in the Bronx.

    Novarad offers PACS, RIS, cardiology, orthopedic, and mammography systems and has more than 1000 installations worldwide. To learn more about Novarad, follow the company on Twitter @NovaradCorp, or visit www.novarad.net.

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    Founded by a radiologist over 20 years ago, Novarad has demonstrated Best in KLAS expertise in the three phases of enterprise imaging—viewing, workflow, and storage—which allows it to customize meaningful enterprise imaging solutions to fit the unique needs of each healthcare professional. Providing both easily deployed modular products and fully customizable enterprise imaging solutions, the company has installed over 1000 systems globally with KLAS-confirmed, market-leading retention rates. The company is best known for product functionality and constant development; its products have a reputation for being easy to learn and use, yet feature-rich for even the most advanced users. Visit Novarad.net to learn more.

     

    Media Contact:
    Kristi Alvarado,
    Media Relations Contact at Novarad
    801.642.1001
    [email protected]

    Posted 2.16.2018

  • In the News – February 2018

    Several publications announced award recipients and their accomplishments as part of their CHIME17 coverage. Modern Healthcare’s coverage included roundups on Nov. 1 and Nov. 2. HealthsystemCIO.com included an award roundup in addition to a Q&A with Board Chair Liz Johnson, an update for CHIME’s public policy team an articles on gender-related challenges  and ways to improve providers’ satisfaction.

    Modern Healthcare quoted CHIME member Michael Martz and CHIME Vice President of Federal Affairs Mari Savickis in an article published Oct. 28 about CMS guidance on data blocking. “What they issued yesterday doesn’t provide the level of clarification we needed,” Martz said in the article. “We are still at risk of doing what we think are our best efforts but under someone else’s perceptions be told we’re not, and then face penalties as a result.”

    HealthsystemCIO.com issued a special report on Oct. 27 in advance the CHIME17 Fall CIO Forum. The report included a Q&A with CHIME President and CEO Russ Branzell titled “Why We All Need to Think Bigger.” It covered many updates in addition to forum events.

    Sean Murphy, CISO at Premera and chair of the AEHIS collaborative relationships committee, is quoted in an article published on Oct. 24 by the Information Security Media Group about the benefits of a partnership between AEHIS and the Medical Device Innovation, Safety and Security Consortium(MDISS). The report included a podcast with MDISS Executive Director Dale Nordenberg. 

    Becker’s Hospital Review reported Oct. 18 about the addition of three new members to the CHIME Board of Trustees. The new members will assume their positions on Jan. 1, 2018.

    At least 15 publications ran articles about a telehealth report based on a survey by CHIME and KLAS Research. Modern Healthcare, Politico, Health IT News, Beckers Hospital Review, Fierce Healthcare, Health Data Management and others reported that the majority of healthcare systems planned to expand their telehealth offerings. The report was released on Oct. 10.

    Posted 2.15.2018

  • Inside CHIME: News of Note

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    By Candace Stuart, Director, Communications & Public Relations

    Here is a roundup from CHIME of recent news and upcoming events:

    CHIME Opioid Task Force opens survey for members: The CHIME Opioid Task Force would like to engage and leverage the CHIME membership to increase awareness of opiate addiction and help develop partnerships with communities and healthcare organizations to improve treatment and reduce mortality rates. They also want to use the networking power of CHIME members to collect and share leading and emerging practices for dealing with the opioid crisis. The task force is asking for your input, ideas and feedback. Please take a moment and complete this short survey.

    Stop by CHIME’s booth at HIMSS18 for an update on Most Wired: Members who plan to attend HIMSS18 can get an update about the Most Wired survey if they stop by the CHIME booth in Lobby C at 11 a.m. on March 6. Staff will talk about what has changed and how the submission process has been streamlined during the hour long session. Other sessions include CHCIO certification from 1:30-2:30 p.m.; a meet and greet with the faculty of the CMIO Leadership Academy from 3-4 p.m.; and ways to get engaged in public policy from 4-5 p.m.  

     

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  • Inside CHIME: CHIME Brings Four Dynamic Keynote Speakers to CIO Forum in Las Vegas

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    By Candace Stuart, Director, Communications & Public Relations

    Four dynamic leaders will offer insights on topics ranging from healthcare innovation, digital medicine, workforce trends and strategies for overcoming adversity on March 5 at the CHIME-HIMSS CIO Forum in Las Vegas. The lineup includes:

    • Nicholas Webb, a world-renowned enterprise strategist, best-selling author and futurist
    • Robert Wachter, M.D., an international expert on the impact of health IT and author of the New York Times best-selling book, The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine’s Computer Age
    • Seth Mattison, an expert on workforce trends and generational dynamics
    • Liz Murray, author of the best-seller Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard

    “Each one of our keynote speakers could stand alone as a headliner,” said CHIME Board Chair Cletis Earle, senior vice president and CIO at Kaleida Health in Buffalo, N.Y., and a CHIME-HIMSS planning committee member. “We wanted four thought leaders who could inspire and energize our members, but challenge them as well. Our members will come out with a vision of what they can accomplish and the pathway to get there.”

    Webb will kick off the one-day event. An innovator with more than 45 patents, Webb invented one of the first wearable technologies and one of the world’s smallest medical implants. He is the author of The Innovation Playbook, The Digital Innovation Playbook and the best-seller What Customers Crave. In this session, he will discuss top five trends that will shape the future of healthcare, healthcare as a consumer product and designing market-leading patient experiences using the Internet of things, wearables and interoperability. He will also speak about the importance of leaders who can institutionalize “intrapreneurship” as a way to innovate in disruptive times and build superstar organizations.

    Wachter will offer new insights and practical steps to overcome the so-called “productivity paradox” of IT as it relates to healthcare. In his widely cited work, he has highlighted the surprising impact of EHRs on workflow and communication. Moreover, his observations regarding the “digital squeeze” on doctors are at the heart of the struggle many healthcare organizations face. Wachter is a practicing physician, chairman of the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, and he chaired the National Advisory Group on HIT in England.

    Mattison, a workforce strategist and management trend spotter, advises many of the world’s leading organizations on the key shifts occurring around change and innovation, leadership and the future of work. In this session, he will discuss the changing landscape and management models for developing talent and driving innovation; in particular, how leaders can leverage technology in the workplace to bridge and not widen the digital gap. Mattison will also investigate how leadership, strategy, and curating and shaping culture in the workplace has changed in the connected age while exploring how to create deeper and more meaningful relationships by better balancing time spent in the physical and virtual worlds.

    Liz Murray rose from some of New York’s meanest streets to graduate from the Ivy League and has become an international speaker. The child of drug-addicted parents, she was homeless at age 15 – but determined to not to be defined by her circumstances. She earned her high school diploma in just two years and won a scholarship to Harvard University that would turn her bleak past into a future filled with possibility. Her memoir, Breaking Night, made the New York Times’ best-seller list and her presentations have inspired audiences around the world. In this session, she will share how perseverance, vision and the support of others can help you overcome adversity. In addition, she will discuss how you can adjust your thinking to lead a more purposeful life and how you can encourage others to follow the same path.

    More information about the CHIME-HIMSS CIO Forum is available here.

    Liz Murray, CHIME’s closing keynote speaker, spoke with CHIME about her inspirations as she went from a homeless teen to a Harvard grad as well as the insights she gained on opioid addiction as the child of addicted parents. CHIME will publish the interview in the next issue of Inside CHIME.   

     

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  • Inside CHIME: Feb. 9 Was a Great Day for CHIME Members. Here’s Why.

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    Cletis Earle, Chief Information Officer, Kaleida Health

     

     

    Liz Johnson, MS, FAAN, FCHIME, FHIMSS, CHCIO, RN-BC, Chief Information Officer, Acute Hospitals and Applied Clinical Informatics, Tenet Healthcare

    Last week CHIME members scored huge wins in Washington with the passage of legislation that will lessen the burdens we’ve experienced under the Meaningful Use program, expand access to telehealth services and free up $6 billion to combat the opioid epidemic.

    One victory in particular has been long in the making for our Public Policy Steering Committee: H.R. 3120, which was designed “to reduce the volume of future electronic health record-related significant hardship requests.” It did so by amending a clause in the original Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act that stipulated the Meaningful Use program must be “more stringent over time.”

    The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has cited that clause when they imposed increasingly stringent Meaningful Use criteria. At the time HITECH was written, that mandate may have seemed like an appropriate way to nudge physicians and health organizations toward more ambitious use of their EHRs. But its authors didn’t anticipate the disconnect between the rapid pace of technological change under these rules and the ability of many providers and hospitals to adjust.

    We know many of our members struggled to meet the timelines and requirements under Meaningful Use, forcing them to rely on hardship exemptions to avoid penalties. For our clinicians, the requirement to meet a constant escalation of rules – some considered more of a check list than a clinically relevant measure – was demoralizing and distracting.

    For several years, CHIME’s Public Policy Steering Committee has been advocating for Congress to ease burdens that the Meaningful Use escalation has placed on members. Our public policy team in D.C. has pored over thousands of pages of text to follow the twists and turns in regulations. In July 2017, one of us (Cletis Earle) represented CHIME members in testimony before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. We were among only 11 organizations invited to share our insights before the panel on this and several other bills.

    Now, six months later, we can all celebrate. This is a big weight off all of our shoulders.

    Imagine what we now can do with the time we used to devote to filing hardship exemptions. Imagine having a reprieve from trying to complete EMR upgrades under impossible timelines. Imagine having the bandwidth to give clinicians the digital tools they’ve been clamoring for, and giving them more valuable face-to-face time with their patients.

    We made inroads on other fronts, too. Last year CHIME and KLAS jointly released a report that cited lack of reimbursement as a barrier to the adoption of telehealth services. We have been working with policy makers for some time to address that limitation. On Feb. 9 we saw some progress when several IT provisions were signed into law. The provisions expand coverage of telestroke and teledialysis services, allow Medicare Advantage plans to more easily cover telehealth and require the Department of Health and Human Services to study remote health monitoring and connected care.

    More recently, we have been pushing for increased awareness of the opioid epidemic that is rocking our country. CHIME created the CHIME Opioid Task Force to help find ways to reduce this devastating disease’s addiction and death rates. We are pleased that the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 includes $6 billion over two years for state grants and public prevention programs, among other things. This commitment is a 400 percent increase over the previous appropriation, and a sign that Congress is taking opioid addiction seriously.

    On behalf of the Public Policy Steering Committee, we thank you for your support. We are so pleased to share this good news with you, and we will continue to look out for you in Washington. There are many ways you can get involved at federal, state and local levels, too. Feel free to reach out to the policy team at [email protected] if you have questions. For a good primer, check out CHIME’s CIO Playbook here.

    Cletis Earle is the chair of the CHIME Board of Trustees and Liz Johnson is chair of CHIME’s Public Policy Steering Committee.   

     

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  • Orion Health Launches Cloud-Based Rhapsody Integration Engine on AWS, a Simple, Out-of-the-Box Solution for Complex Healthcare Organizations

    Scottsdale, Ariz. – February 14, 2018 – Orion Health, a leading provider of interoperability, population health management, and precision medicine solutions, today announced the global launch of Rhapsody as a Service (RaaS), a cloud-based integration solution, powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS).

    Offering a full-service model to healthcare organizations, Orion Health also announces RaaS’s global Integration as a Service (IaaS) capability to manage and maintain the entire integration engine for customers.

    For many years, Orion Health’s Rhapsody® Integration Engine has provided rapid and scalable interoperability to more than 640 customers in 36 countries globally. RaaS now offers the same powerful features and benefits to healthcare organizations working in a cloud environment. Adding expansive value with responsiveness and agility with best-in-class cloud-based integration RaaS also:

    • Provides rapid interoperability between healthcare systems, connecting solutions seamlessly, in less time, and at a lower cost
    • Eliminates or reduces expensive hardware and maintenance of on premises systems
    • Takes on the entire responsibility for a customer’s integration solution with IaaS
    • Establishes a new and competitive pricing model, while using the latest version of Rhapsody’s technology and configuration
    • Enables highly available deployments and services recover from failures automatically while minimizing downtime
    • Provides 24/7 pro-active monitoring and on-call expert engineers.

    Today many healthcare organizations are dealing with vast amounts of data from a myriad of sources across their IT systems while struggling with aging IT infrastructure and layers of legacy technologies which are expensive to maintain. This demands intelligent data integration tools to enable organizations to have robust access to accurate and comprehensive data.

    Orion Health CEO, Ian McCrae, believes that migrating from on premises servers to cloud-based services provides many benefits.

    “As the healthcare sector takes advantage of the benefits of moving to the cloud as other industries have, and with the recent developments in healthcare compliance and certification, Orion Health is evolving solutions to help healthcare organizations transform their IT systems, helping them deliver improved patient care,” said McCrae. “And as demands on healthcare IT systems increase, improving financial performance remains a priority for most public and private health organizations. Taking advantage of Rhapsody as a Service’s simplicity, organizations can quickly realize cost savings, improve flexibility, reduce risk and increase security, deploy IT faster, and increase scalability.”

    Orion Health Head of Research and Development Mark Capill highlights RaaS’s increased flexibility through providing elastic scalability.

    “Rhapsody as a Service uses AWS to scale storage capacity and computing power so that the customer only uses, and pays for, what it needs,” said Capill. “The solution also provides off-the-shelf compliance which adheres to the appropriate healthcare guidelines. This cloud-based solution aggregates and stores data in offsite and multiple locations while providing organizations with reliable access to their data.”

    Orion Health at HIMSS18
    Orion Health will be showcasing the RaaS solution next month at HIMSS18 in Las Vegas. Visit the Orion Health booth 5454 at the Sands Convention Center or attend an in-theater presentation, A Modern Cloud Engine in a Traditional On-Prem Healthcare World, hosted in the Amazon Web Services booth 1625, March 7, 2018 at 1:30 pm PST.

    About Orion Health
    Orion Health is a global health technology company that provides solutions which enable healthcare to more than 100 million patients globally. Built on an open platform, Orion Health is a leading provider of interoperability, population health management and precision medicine solutions. The company employs over 1200 people around the world and is committed to continual innovation, investing substantially in research and development to cement its position at the forefront of precision medicine. For more information visit www.orionhealth.com. 

    Media Contact
    Marcia Rhodes
    Amendola Communications
    [email protected]
    480-664-8412 x 15

    Posted 2.14.2018

  • Stoltenberg Consulting Brings on Lisa Alkin-Imhof as Epic Practice Director

    PITTSBURGH, Feb. 14, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Stoltenberg Consulting, Inc., a leading healthcare information technology consulting firm, announced today the addition of Lisa Alkin-Imhof as the Epic Practice Director. With distinct broad-based healthcare leadership experience, she will expand the firm’s Epic service line.

    With more than 20 years in healthcare, Alkin-Imhof brings deep expertise in health services administration and management information systems to the Stoltenberg team, including project management, system selection and design, financial preparation, policy development, planning, acquisition navigation, implementation support and maintenance for multisystem facilities. As a PMP-certified EHR project manager, she is known for her strategic operational experience combined with IT technology capabilities to provide innovative solutions.

    Prior to joining Stoltenberg, Alkin-Imhof held leadership roles including Epic team lead, project manager, director, CIO and COO for medium to large healthcare provider organizations. She most recently served as the Epic integration project manager and conversions team lead while consulting for UMass Memorial’s legacy project as the health system transitioned to Epic.

    In her new role, Alkin-Imhof will not only use her industry experience and knowledge toward the growth of Stoltenberg’s Epic service line capabilities, but she will also expand the firm’s Epic credentialed consulting team and its effectiveness in the field.

    Alkin-Imhof holds an Associate of Science degree in computer science from Yuba College and a Bachelor of Arts in health services administration from Saint Mary’s College on top of Epic Ambulatory and Epic Bridges credentials.

    She will be attending the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Annual Conference March 5-9 in Las Vegas with the Stoltenberg executive leadership team, discussing Stoltenberg’s Tier 1+ Service Desk and Flexsourcing Staffing Model in booth #2815.

    About Stoltenberg
    Founded in 1995, Pittsburgh-based Stoltenberg Consulting, Inc., delivers information technology and business consulting services, including system selection, project management, implementation, legacy and Tier 1+ Service Desk support, optimization and integration between systems, to healthcare provider organizations. Averaging 15 years of experience, Stoltenberg consultants hold skills in both financial and clinical systems, offering expertise for Cerner Millennium, Cerner Soarian, Epic, MEDITECH, NextGen, Allscripts and McKesson customers. For more information call (412) 854-5688 or visit www.stoltenberg.com.

     

    Posted 2.14.2018

  • CHIME Brings Four Dynamic Keynote Speakers to CIO Forum in Las Vegas

    ANN ARBOR, MI, Feb. 13, 2018 – Four dynamic leaders will offer insights on topics ranging from healthcare innovation, digital medicine, workforce trends and strategies for overcoming adversity on March 5 at the CHIME-HIMSS CIO Forum in Las Vegas, the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) announced today. The lineup includes:

    • Nicholas Webb, a world-renowned enterprise strategist, best-selling author and futurist
    • Robert Wachter, M.D., an international expert on the impact of health IT and author of the New York Times best-selling book, The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine’s Computer Age
    • Seth Mattison, an expert on workforce trends and generational dynamics
    • Liz Murray, author of the best-seller Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard

    “Each one of our keynote speakers could stand alone as a headliner,” said CHIME Board Chair Cletis Earle, senior vice president and CIO at Kaleida Health in Buffalo, N.Y., and a CHIME-HIMSS planning committee member. “We wanted four thought leaders who could inspire and energize our members, but challenge them as well. Our members will come out with a vision of what they can accomplish and the pathway to get there.”

    Webb will kick off the one-day event. An innovator with more than 45 patents, Webb invented one of the first wearable technologies and one of the world’s smallest medical implants. He is the author of The Innovation Playbook, The Digital Innovation Playbook and the best-seller What Customers Crave. In this session, he will discuss top five trends that will shape the future of healthcare, healthcare as a consumer product and designing market-leading patient experiences using the Internet of things, wearables and interoperability. He will also speak about the importance of leaders who can institutionalize “intrapreneurship” as a way to innovate in disruptive times and build superstar organizations.

    Wachter will offer new insights and practical steps to overcome the so-called “productivity paradox” of IT as it relates to healthcare. In his widely cited work, he has highlighted the surprising impact of EHRs on workflow and communication. Moreover, his observations regarding the “digital squeeze” on doctors are at the heart of the struggle many healthcare organizations face. Wachter is a practicing physician, chairman of the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, and he chaired the National Advisory Group on HIT in England.

    Mattison, a workforce strategist and management trend spotter, advises many of the world’s leading organizations on the key shifts occurring around change and innovation, leadership and the future of work. In this session, he will discuss the changing landscape and management models for developing talent and driving innovation; in particular, how leaders can leverage technology in the workplace to bridge and not widen the digital gap. Mattison will also investigate how leadership, strategy, and curating and shaping culture in the workplace has changed in the connected age while exploring how to create deeper and more meaningful relationships by better balancing time spent in the physical and virtual worlds.

    Liz Murray rose from some of New York’s meanest streets to graduate from the Ivy League and has become an international speaker. The child of drug-addicted parents, she was homeless at age 15 – but determined to not to be defined by her circumstances. She earned her high school diploma in just two years and won a scholarship to Harvard University that would turn her bleak past into a future filled with possibility. Her memoir, Breaking Night, made the New York Times’ best-seller list and her presentations have inspired audiences around the world. In this session, she will share how perseverance, vision and the support of others can help you overcome adversity. In addition, she will discuss how you can adjust your thinking to lead a more purposeful life and how you can encourage others to follow the same path.

     

    More information about the CHIME-HIMSS CIO Forum is available here.

    Note to the media: Members of the media are welcome to attend the CHIME-HIMSS CIO Forum. Please email requests to [email protected].

    About CHIME

    The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) is an executive organization dedicated to serving chief information officers (CIOs), chief medical information officers (CMIOs), chief nursing information officers (CNIOs) and other senior healthcare IT leaders. With more than 2,500 members in 51 countries and over 150 healthcare IT vendors and professional services firms, CHIME provides a highly interactive, trusted environment enabling senior professional and industry leaders to collaborate; exchange best practices; address professional development needs; and advocate the effective use of information management to improve the health and healthcare in the communities they serve. For more information, please visit chimecentral.org.

    Contact
    Candace Stuart
    Director of Communications and Public Relations, CHIME
    734.665.0000
    [email protected]

    Posted 2.13.2018

  • Health Catalyst Honored for Shattering the Glass Ceiling for Women in Technology

    SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 7, 2018 — Health Catalyst, a leader in healthcare analytics, decision support and outcomes improvement, has been recognized by the Women Tech Council as a member of the 2018 “Shatter List,” comprised of technology companies that enact practices and cultures intended to increase the number of women working in technology.

    The Women Tech Council, a national organization based in in Salt Lake City’s “Silicon Slopes” technology region, is focused on increasing the number of women in technology. The 2018 Shatter List, comprised of 44 technology companies, is the first research of the technology industry to review and rate the development and successful implementation of measures that create inclusive cultures where women can contribute and succeed.

    “We are honored to be named to the 2018 Shatter List, and feel deeply grateful for the leadership and contributions that our female team members provide at Health Catalyst,” said Dan Burton, CEO of Health Catalyst. “As an outcomes-improvement company, Health Catalyst will continue to relentlessly commit to its mission to make all team members—regardless of gender, race, experience, or perspective— feel respected and supported during the entirety of their careers at Health Catalyst.”

    Health Catalyst’s HR-related practices are driven by fairness, from ethical hiring practices to flexible hours that encourage work-life integration. They are intended to create a supportive work environment that minimizes the personal sacrifices team members make when they come to work, and they demonstrate the company’s commitment to equity and being a best place to work for women:

    • Family leave, including generous and flexible maternity and paternity leave policies.
    • Unlimited paid time off.
    • Flexible work hours and the ability to work remotely.
    • Wellness program (onsite gym and allowance to spend on anything wellness related).
    • Pay equity and above-average compensation.

    The Shatter List was compiled by scoring companies on four factors critical to building inclusive cultures with meaningful measures that help women break and surpass the glass ceiling in technology. Each factor relates to demonstrable and visible activities, programming and commitment to women working in technology at all levels of the company from executive to entry level. Data was gathered and evaluated from across 10 different secondary data sets and mapped to the following four evaluation factors:

    • Executive engagement (active support from the CEO, executive team and all leadership)
    • Company programming (currently has women in leadership executive positions and proactively implements programs to support women in technology)
    • Community investment (active participation with the broader community to learn from and share best practices regarding culture and inclusion)

    “Shattering technology’s glass ceiling requires companies to invest more and be actively engaged in creating cultures and activities that expect and demand inclusivity from top to bottom,” said Cydni Tetro, Women Tech Council president. “By highlighting the companies and practices that are actively championing women and are making strides to change the industry’s landscape and culture, this list accelerates the technology sector’s journey to increase the number of women in technology and break our own glass ceiling.”

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

    About Women Tech Council:
    Women Tech Council (WTC) is a national organization focused on the economic impact of women in the technology sector through developing programs that propel the economic pipeline from high school K-12 to the C-suite. WTC offers mentoring, visibility, opportunities and networking to more than 10,000 women and men working in technology to create business environments focused on inclusivity and high performance. Through this work, WTC propels women in technology careers and the talent pipeline by ensuring a strong, diverse and entrepreneurial technology workforce. For more information on Women Tech Council, visit: www.womentechcouncil.org.

     

    Media Contact:
    Todd Stein
    Amendola Communications for Health Catalyst
    916-346-4213
    [email protected]

    Posted 2.9.2018

  • Vocera Engage Is Now Available in the United Kingdom

    Healthcare workflow platform offers one solution for clinical system integrations and care team communication

     

    SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 7, 2018 – Vocera Communications UK, Ltd. (NYSE:VCRA), a recognised leader in clinical communication and workflow solutions, announced today that the company’s Vocera® Engage solution is now available across the UK. The software solution, which enables multiple clinical systems integrations, workflow efficiency, and care team communication, is registered with the Medicines Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency.

    Vocera software integrates with more than 120 clinical systems, including electronic health records, nurse call, cardiac monitors, ventilators, and many other systems. The solution supports clinical decisions by aggregating and prioritizing relevant information from multiple systems and sending contextual alerts, notifications or text messages  to the right caregiver based on location, role, group or other patient assignment set up within the system. Multiple variables can be used to trigger actionable alarm and alert notifications, and to filter out non-actionable ones, helping reduce interruption and alarm fatigue.

    “We are excited to offer Vocera Engage to healthcare facilities across the UK,” said Brent Lang, president and CEO of Vocera. “The solution will make it much easier for hospitals and clinics to connect clinical systems, information and people. We look forward to seeing Vocera Engage simplify care team communication and workflows to help improve the lives of patients and their families.”

     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, aged care facilities, 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. In 2017, Vocera made the list of Forbes 100 Most Trustworthy Companies in America. Learn more at www.vocera.com, and follow @VoceraComm on Twitter.

    The Vocera logo is a trademark of Vocera Communications, Inc. Vocera® is a trademark of Vocera Communications, Inc. registered in the United States and other jurisdictions. All other trademarks appearing in this release are the property of their respective owners.

    CONTACT
    Shanna Hearon
    Vocera Communications, Inc.
    865.769.2028
    [email protected]

    Posted 2.9.2018

  • DrFirst’s myBenefitCheck Surpasses 6,000,000 Price Transparency and Electronic Prior Authorization Transactions

    Nation’s leading real-time benefit verification system continues to add EHR and PBM partners while saving patients an average of $11 per 30 day prescription

    Rockville, MD – February 6, 2018 – DrFirst, the nation’s leading provider of e-prescribing and medication management solutions, is pleased to announce that its industry-leading benefit verification system, myBenefitCheckSM, has now processed more than six million benefit and pricing inquiries on behalf of physicians and patients nationwide. The pioneering solution enables physicians to access their patient’s actual cost for prescribed medications before they leave the physician’s office, helping to eliminate financial impediments as a primary factor in patient noncompliance. The myBenefitCheck solution enables physicians to access real-time costs through many of the largest pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) in the U.S. and is currently processing more than one million transactions per month. Out-of-pocket cost savings for patients have been as much as $640, and average around $11 for a 30-day prescription.

    With over 300 electronic health record (EHR) solutions using the myBenefitCheck system, including recently announced industry partners Allscripts and GE Healthcare, DrFirst’s platform will reach almost 200,000 physicians with the myBenefitCheck service by mid-2018. The first real-time benefit check solution to market, myBenefitCheck has been live and in production for more than two years and continues to deliver technology enhancements to ensure precise reconciliation of many data processing anomalies that minimize error messages, speed response times, and optimize the user experience. Four of the top six PBMs, as well as a number of pilot partners, are already using the technology to power and improve their price transparency capabilities. No other similar solution has enabled that scope of PBM coverage, transaction volume or impact on patient’s pocket books and medication adherence.

    “The cost of medications is a well-known impediment to medication adherence. We deliver comprehensive, patient-specific prescription pricing information that eliminates surprises at the pharmacy, and enables patients to start drug therapy as quickly as possible,” said G. Cameron Deemer, president of DrFirst. “Now that pharmacy benefit managers have embraced price transparency technology, we hope to add them to our payer network through our easily implemented APIs, and drive the industry to 100 percent adoption of this worthwhile functionality.”

    By moving the process of pharmacy price transparency into the prescribing workflow, myBenefitCheck gives physicians patient-specific out-of-pocket costs, so physicians can counsel patients on therapy and pharmacy alternatives. This provides physicians with a valuable shared decision-making opportunity with their patients to reduce patient/provider discordance as an impediment to adherence. Studies have shown that the major causes of primary non-adherence to medication is price sensitivity and the patient’s acceptance/understanding of the medication plan. Via myBenefitCheck, a provider has the opportunity to check both covered and non-covered drugs, suggest the lowest cost alternatives for the patient, and provide opportunities for patient assistance programs to lower cost even further. The solution affords the opportunity for physicians to involve patients in the decision-making process, increasing medication adherence.

    About DrFirst
    DrFirst, the nation’s leading provider of e-prescribing and medication management solutions, enables stakeholders across the healthcare industry to intelligently utilize comprehensive real-time data and connectivity to increase their patient safety ratings, efficiency and profitability. Today, over 170,000 healthcare professionals and over 60% of Electronic Health Record vendors, depend on DrFirst’s innovative software solutions to improve clinical workflows, expedite secure collaboration across a patient’s care team and drive better health outcomes. The company’s integrated technologies include its award-winning electronic prescribing platform, the most comprehensive medication history available, clinically specialized secure messaging, as well as patient medication adherence monitoring and benefits checking. In addition, DrFirst was the first to offer e-prescribing for controlled substances (EPCS), and is considered the industry standard for providers nationwide. For more information, please visit www.drfirst.com or connect with us @DrFirst.

     

    DrFirst Media Contact:
    Jenna Warner
    Amendola Communications
    480-664-8412 X19
    [email protected]

     

     

     

    Posted 2.8.2018
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