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QliqSOFT Announces Faxing Integration for Flagship Secure Texting Platform
Dallas, TX – March 29, 2018 – QliqSOFT, Inc., a leading provider of secure texting service for healthcare today announced the official release of Snap & Fax, a new clinical collaboration solution that allows doctors and nurses to integrate their existing medical fax solution into their daily, mobile-focused workflow.
With Snap & Fax, clinicians can create documents from captured images or share existing PDF files directly from the Qliq Secure Texting mobile app. These documents, which can contain sensitive information such as referrals, lab results, and orders, can then be sent with a cover page to a pre-built list of fax contacts to expedite processing, review, and approval.
“Though certainly an older technology,” says Krishna Kurapati, QliqSOFT Founder and CEO, “faxing is still a core part of healthcare delivery and a major component in collaboration. This is especially true when communicating about referrals from one healthcare organization to another. Snap & Fax removes the burden of clinicians who are still required to track down an available and reliable fax machine to share these important documents with relevant parties.”
In addition to sharing sensitive PHI via fax, these documents can also be uploaded to a healthcare organization’s EMR through either HL7, FHIR, or RESTful APIs.
Snap & Fax is built upon the company’s existing Snap & Sign architecture which allows e-signatures to be affixed to mobile-captured images and PDFs. The fax integration component is yet another example of QliqSOFT’s customer-driven innovation through feature requests and product roadmap development.
To learn more about QliqSOFT’s Snap & Fax click here.
About QliqSOFT, Inc.
QliqSOFT is the developer of Qliq, the most secure HIPAA and HITECH-compliant healthcare communication and clinical collaboration platform, which connects doctors, nurses, and other medical professionals. For more information on Snap & Sign or QliqSOFT’s entire suite of clinical collaboration solutions, visit us online at www.qliqsoft.com.Media Contact:
Ben Henson
Director of Marketing
[email protected]
770.688.4689Posted 3.29.2018 -
Boot Camp Alumni Find Benefits Extend Well Beyond Program’s End
3.28.2018
By Candace Stuart, Director, Communications & Public RelationsCHIME Healthcare CIO Boot Camp alumni Sarah Richardson, Ann Larkins and Joseph Kulle responded to questions about their experiences, the key takeaways and how they are applying what they learned in their jobs. The next CHIME Healthcare CIO Boot Camp will be April 7-10 in Chicago.
Richardson is CIO, California Market, at Healthcare Partners in El Segundo, Calif.; Larkins is executive director, information development at Alfred Health in Melbourne, Australia; and Kulle is senior vice president and CIO at Elliot Health System in Manchester, N.H.
Q: When did you attend the CHIME Healthcare CIO Boot Camp?
Richardson: Fall of 2014.
Larkins: Fall of 2017
Kulle: Fall of 2015.
Q: Was this your first time participating in boot camp?
Richardson: Yes.
Larkins: Yes.
Kulle: Yes.
Q: What were the top takeaways for you?
Richardson: Setting strategy in alignment with business goals; creating a partnership between IT and the business; preparation for CHCIO (CHIME Certified Healthcare CIO); building a high-performing team; and creating a space for change and positive disruption.
Larkins: Practical examples from the faculty members of servant leadership in our roles and how powerful it is in building teams; creating balance in life/work/family; and being more comfortable leading from behind and finding ways to lift up others to lead (mentoring).
Kulle: With regards to the content, the main takeaways for me were to help define the business value of IT when working toward key decisions and become more of a peer to the other C-suite staff versus just seen as the “tech guy.”
Q: Have you since applied those lessons in your work, and if so how?
Richardson: Absolutely. In some cases, the business has several ideas they want to pursue yet they may not have a true sense for how technology can plug in and assist the efforts. It’s not about finding a vendor and then looking for a problem to solve. It’s about embedding IT in strategic conversations and having us bring forward solutions that can advance the organization in the most effective and efficient manner. We have used this approach for digital health, patient experience and clinician experience in recent years.
Larkins: I have started mentoring a few of my team. I’ve kicked into a regular exercise regime and created dedicated time in my commute for personal development. I’ve opened up my boot camp folder many times to remind myself of the practical ways in which to effect change in teams and in organizations.
Kulle: A recent example related to business value has been spending the last year educating the organization on the need to spend the time and capital on refueling our Epic instance. This involved working to change longstanding mindsets by educating the business on the value refuel will bring, the need to standardize on Epic, how it will set the organization up for future growth and reduce operational inefficiencies. A peer at a nearby hospital recently commented to me, “You didn’t just pull the operational areas along; you worked to ensure they understood, became invested in and owned the decision(s) being made around the technical investments in the EMR. They are cheerleading the change.”
Have you remained in touch with fellow participants and/or faculty members?
Richardson: Yes, and I have several friendships and key associations from the experience. It was the entry point to meeting the leaders and those involved in CHIME to accelerate my participation in committees and events.
Larkins: I am part of the LinkedIn group which is not very active, unfortunately, from a participant point of view, but for CHIME to set up a facilitated group on one of the mobile platforms would be fantastic. I haven’t had a specific reason to reach out to any of the facilitators at this point but I feel comfortable to do so, should I have a specific query.
Kulle: Yes, I have kept in contact with a few but one I stay in regular contact with.
Has that helped you in your career, and if so, how?
Richardson: Boot camp and CHIME have provided me an opportunity to grow the knowledge of my teams and organizations through exposure, access and continuous learning on a regular basis. I have met hundreds of colleagues and vendors all looking to solve some of the same challenges, which is powerful when you have a cadre of professionals with whom to share ideas. It has also provided me a space where I can ask tough industry questions and receive honest and candid feedback.
Larkins: The whole experience has helped my career in so far as being connected to a very broad network of peers outside of my own country to tap into for support while we move toward our enterprise-wide implementation of Cerner. The U.S. is generally much further down the Digitizing Health journey than Australia and so the opportunity to learn from some renowned leaders who have demonstrated success in healthcare was a privilege.
Kulle: The structure of the boot camp allowed me to form lasting relationships with a small group of people. This has allowed a good network to talk to throughout the year, to bounce ideas off of, get input on challenges I/they are facing, and general networking.
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Here Are Tips for Submitting a Knockout Proposal for CHIME18
3.28.2018
By Michael Martz, Market information Officer, Gulf Coast Market, Ascension Information ServicesCHIME is accepting proposals for Track Session and Leadership from the Edge presentations for the CHIME Fall CIO Forum that will be held Oct. 30-Nov. 2 in San Diego. Whether you’ve never spoken at a forum before or you are an old hand at forum presentations, we encourage you to use this opportunity to highlight your achievements and educate your peers.
The fall forums stand out for educational content provided by CHIME and CHIME Foundation members. After all, who knows better what challenges we face and what strategies have worked to meet those challenges than healthcare IT leaders who live and work in this environment day in and day out? We have broken the track sessions into four topics – strategy and leadership; business and care transformation; emerging issues in healthcare and health information technology; and clinical informatics. If you have a proposal that doesn’t fit within those topics, don’t despair. The CHIME18 Planning Committee welcomes new insights and ideas. If your proposal has merit, the committee will try to find a spot for it.
Preference is given to proposals that feature one or more CHIME members who are provider health IT executives. CHIME Foundation partners who are senior-level executives are eligible to submit proposals as well, but we recommend the proposal includes at least one CHIME provider health IT executive. Presentations should focus more on a solution process – how something was accomplished – and not the solution itself – what was accomplished. For instance, we are less interested in a proposal that details implementation of an EHR than a proposal that explains how the implementation process changed the hospital’s culture. Proposals that are sales pitches will not be accepted.
You can submit up to four proposals, one in each topic area, and you can indicate if you would like your submission to be considered for other CHIME programs such as regional events, webinars, international programs and programs under CHIME’s three associations: the Association for Executives in Healthcare Information Security (AEHIS), the Association for Executives in Healthcare Information Technology (AEHIT) and the Association for Executives in Healthcare Information Applications (AEHIA).
CHIME introduced Leadership from the Edge at CHIME17 to allow members to share their vision of healthcare’s future and the role of IT and senior healthcare IT executives in that future. These presentations resemble TED Talks, with 20-minute sessions that push boundaries and stretch the imagination.
You can learn more about track session submissions here and about Leadership for the Edge submissions here. The deadline for submissions is 5 p.m. ET April 27. I encourage you to begin working on your proposals soon. As a presenter at the inaugural Leadership from the Edge program last year, I learned that putting together a compelling proposal takes some time and effort – all of which is worth the opportunity to share a topic you are passionate about with your peers in CHIME.
The Planning Committee is holding a webinar at noon today (March 29). Planning Committee Vice Chair Steve Stanic and I will discuss elements of a strong proposal and how to make your proposal stand out. You can register here. The webinar will be archived for those who cannot attend but want to learn more about the proposal process.
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New Faculty Changing CMIO Leadership Academy’s Dynamic
3.28.2018
George Reynolds, Retired CIO & CMIO, Children’s Hospital & Medical Center – OmahaThe CHIME CMIO Leadership Academy scheduled for May 18-20 in Chicago will have a new dynamic, thanks to some changes we have made this year. The program will continue to incorporate the success factors that form the foundation of the popular CHIME Healthcare CIO Boot Camp, with modifications to meet the needs of clinical participants. But we have added new faculty members to bring a fresh perspective on the challenges that today’s CMIOs, CNIOs and clinical leaders face.
This year we are welcoming Albert Chan, M.D., M.S., vice president and chief of digital patient experience at Sutter Health, and Amy Sitapati, M.D., CMIO of population health at University of California, San Diego Health. These rising stars will join Natalie Pageler, M.D., CMIO at Stanford Children’s Health; Marc Chasin, M.D., former CIO at St. Luke’s Health System; Brian Patty, M.D., vice president and CMIO at Rush University Medical Center; and me. (I retired in 2015 from Children’s Hospital in Omaha where I was vice president, CIO and CMIO. I now serve as CHIME’s interim vice president for education).
The CHIME CMIO Leadership Academy is designed to give clinical informatics executives the skills and tools they need to be effective leaders in their organizations, gain influence, and strengthen relationships with key stakeholders such as the CMO, CIO and other C-suite members. Patterned after the highly successful CHIME Healthcare CIO Boot Camp, the CMIO Leadership Academy reinforces key leadership skills through the use of real-world case studies. Participants work collaboratively to solve problems and deal with challenges that they face back home. Those challenges include optimizing health IT as healthcare organizations shift from volume- to value-based care and preventing physician burnout.
Participants will learn how to develop strategic plans that meet goals within their areas of responsibility and simultaneously support their organizations’ strategic objectives. We will discuss the importance of demonstrating the clinical and economic value of IT-related projects; team building; how to be change leaders; and how to achieve these goals in spite of limited positional or budgetary authority—a dilemma many clinician executives face.
Several of our faculty have experience as clinician CIOs and clinical thought leaders. We look forward to sharing our experiences and serving as mentors to participants. Our new faculty members also bring a wealth of experience as innovators who use IT to enhance the patient’s healthcare experience. They have powerful stories to tell about innovating to solve problems, advance the health of populations and demonstrate value. As with boot camps, we expect the CHIME CMIO Leadership Academy will provide an educational and networking platform that CMIOs, CNIOs and others will be able to use throughout their careers.
If you are a CIO, we encourage you to send your clinician executive colleagues. Perhaps you have up-and-coming physicians or nurse informaticists who are looking to improve their skills and take their careers to the next level? You will find the skills they gain will be a boon for your entire health IT program. If you are a CMIO, we hope to see you in Chicago for this career-changing opportunity. Please email us at [email protected] if you have questions or need anything.
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314e Corporation named 2018 Best in KLAS for Technical Services
Fremont, CA – February 6, 2018 – 314e Corporation, a leader in healthcare information technology services and solutions, announced today that it has been named 2018 Best in KLAS for Technical Services (2018 Best in KLAS: Software & Services Annual Report). Technical Services include data conversion, interfacing/integration, implementing an HIE, healthcare analytics (data warehousing, report writing, etc.), system design, build and testing, programming, database development, web portal design and implementation and setting up a security and privacy infrastructure, including penetration testing, etc.
314e’s CEO, Abhishek Begerhotta, said, “We are honored and humbled that KLAS and our clients have ranked 314e number one in this broad and crucial service category of Technical Services. We strive to deliver high quality at a reasonable price point to our customers, and this award, along with our overall high KLAS ratings, inspire us to strive even harder.”
Recognized industry-wide as an impartial arbiter of software, services and medical equipment vendors in healthcare, KLAS ranked 314e Corporation “2018 Best in KLAS for Technical Services” with a score of 96.3 out of 100.* Providers nationwide rely on KLAS’ unbiased research to help them make informed technology decisions for their health systems.
“Best in KLAS is more than a ranking. It is a recognition of vendors committed to delivering superior solutions,” said Adam Gale, president of KLAS. “It gives voice to thousands of providers who are demanding better performance, usability and interoperability in healthcare technology.”
314e will accept its award at the Best in KLAS Reception on March 5, 2018, during HIMSS18 Annual Conference and Exhibition in Las Vegas.
About 314e Corporation
314e Corporation is a full-service Healthcare ONLY Information Technology solutions and services company headquartered in Fremont, California, with a regional office in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania. Since 2004, 314e has helped over 150 healthcare providers across the country with IT Advisory, EHR, business and departmental application implementation and support, Business Intelligence, Integration and Interoperability, as well as Security and Infrastructure services. To learn more about 314e, visit www.314e.com.About KLAS
Since 1996 KLAS has been providing accurate, honest and impartial insights to the healthcare IT (HIT) industry. The KLAS mission is to improve the world’s healthcare by amplifying the voice of providers and payers. The scope of our research is constantly expanding to best fit market needs as technology becomes increasingly sophisticated. KLAS finds the hard-to-get HIT data by building strong relationships with our payer and provider friends in the industry. Working with thousands of healthcare professionals, KLAS generates insights on software, services, and medical equipment to deliver comparison reports and reveal trends. To learn more about KLAS, visit www.KLASresearch.com.* “2018 Best in KLAS Awards: Software & Services,” January 2018. © 2018 KLAS Enterprises LLC. All rights reserved. www.KLASresearch.com.
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Protenus CEO, Former HHS Chief Privacy Officer to Host Panel on Ethical Concerns Around Manual Patient Data Breach Detection
Protenus CEO to speak on the limitations of manual patient privacy auditing processes in healthcare at HIPAA Summit in Arlington, Virginia
BALTIMORE, MD – March 26, 2018 – (Newswire.com) – Data sharing, interoperability and health exchanges have provided unfettered access to patient data by hospital employees and anyone else who has access to a health system’s electronic health record (EHR) system. Nick Culbertson, CEO and co-founder of Protenus, a healthcare compliance analytics platform detecting inappropriate activity within EHRs, will host a panel with Matt Olsen, the former HHS chief privacy and data sharing officer, about ethical concerns that arise when health organizations only have the ability to audit a portion of accesses to patient data.
Culbertson and Olsen’s joint presentation, “How Privacy Monitoring Technologies Change The Ethical Standard,” will discuss emerging technologies that replace reactive, manual processes to allow health systems to audit every access to health data, accurately detect breaches, easily report to OCR and implement policy changes to address concerns and reduce privacy violations.
“Compliance officers have been doing their best to utilize existing tools to detect privacy violations, but due to limited resources they are only seeing the tip of the iceberg,” stated Culbertson. “On a daily basis, as many as 10 million actions can take place inside a healthcare organization’s electronic health record system. It’s not possible to review those accesses manually, but technology exists today that uses artificial intelligence to alert hospital leaders when there is a potential breach. It reduces the time spent on manual investigations, false positives and lets hospital leaders focus on priorities and reducing risk.”
Compliance teams currently use tools that reactively respond to suspected patient privacy violations, run routine reports or utilize manual audits. These tools lack the clinical context and user behavior analytics necessary to audit every access or proactively identify breaches to patient privacy, especially when at least 41 percent of all health data breaches are attributable to healthcare organization insiders.
“Health systems just don’t have the time or human capital to manually audit every access within the EHR,” stated Olsen. “Yet, advances in technology, especially with machine learning and AI provide the ability to analyze large amounts of unstructured data and provide insight into how patient data is being accessed and utilized. Besides the practical benefits, it creates a potential change in the ethical balance. Specifically, it raises the question of how a change in that balance could impact a decision on implementing technology that could audit every single access.”
The HIPAA Summit brings together the nation’s top health leaders to discuss challenges with electronic health record adoption, patient data security and practical information to improve HIPAA compliance and associated legal and policy issues.
To register or learn more about the presentation, please visit the HIPAA Summit website.
Presentation Details
Wednesday, March 28, 2018
5:15 p.m.
Hyatt Regency Crystal City, Arlington, VirginiaAbout Protenus
The Protenus healthcare compliance analytics platform uses artificial intelligence to audit every access to patient records for the nation’s leading health systems. Providing healthcare leaders full insight into how health data is being used and alerting privacy, security and compliance teams to inappropriate activity, Protenus helps our partner hospitals make decisions about how to better protect their data, their patients and their institutions. Learn more at Protenus.com and follow us on Twitter @Protenus.Contact
Kira Caban
Director, Public Relations
[email protected]
410-913-0274Posted 3.26.2018 -
Wayne Thompson Joins Culbert Healthcare Solutions as Executive Consultant
Healthcare Executive Deepens Firms Technology Expertise to Address Healthcare Organizations’ Dynamic Needs
Boston, MA – March 22, 2018 – Culbert Healthcare Solutions, a management consulting firm serving healthcare organizations, today announced the appointment of Wayne Thompson, as Executive Consultant. Wayne brings over three decades of executive level management experience in the areas of Information Technology, Health Information Management and Supply Chain Management. In his new role, Wayne will lead the firm’s Health-IT Advisory engagements.
“Wayne is a seasoned healthcare CIO who is known throughout our industry for delivering results in both the alignment, execution, and return on value of key Health-IT functions,” said Brad Boyd, President of Culbert Healthcare Solutions. “Wayne’s IT strategic planning experience combined with his expertise in support service operations, health information exchanges, and community health needs assessments, brings unique experience and perspective to our firm and to our client base,” added Culbert’s Founder & CEO Rob Culbert.
Before joining Culbert, Mr. Thompson served as Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Mount Nittany Health. He served as Assistant Dean and Chief Information Officer of Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine, where the CIO role formed out of a true start-up operations with 10 employees, to a fully functional medical college with over 800 clinical faculty, a 200 member administrative staff. Previous roles also include Chief Information Officer positions at UMDNJ, Thomas Jefferson University, and USF Health.
According to Wayne, “Healthcare organizations face an ever changing environment with increasing pressures to deliver high value services with constrained resources. Culbert’s commitment to each clients’ unique needs, their proven ability to solve complex problems in a cost effective manner, and the integrity of the leadership team, has truly put them in a class by themselves. I am excited to join the amazing team at Culbert to help organizations across the country succeed in the ever changing landscape of the healthcare industry.”
Mr. Thompson obtained his MS in Information Systems and BS in Business Administration from Long Island University. He has presided on several Board of Directors and Advisory Boards including Penn State Health Policy Administrative Board, Cancer Care Partnership, Pennsylvania eHealth Collaborative, Delaware Valley HIMSS, Central Pennsylvania HIMSS, and United Way of Southeastern Pennsylvania.
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About Culbert Healthcare Solutions
Culbert Healthcare Solutions is a professional services firm serving healthcare organizations in the areas of strategy and leadership, patient access and revenue cycle, clinical transformation and information technology. Culbert consultants specialize in helping academic medical centers, hospitals and large physician groups leverage best practices and technology to enhance patient care and financial performance. Headquartered in Woburn, MA, Culbert was founded in 2006.Posted 3.22.2018 -
Clearwater Compliance Offers Virtual Chief Information Security Officer to Help Hospitals Stay Ahead of Cyber Threats
Flexible Solution Helps Strengthen Hospital Governance, Drives Forward Policies and Compliance, and Keeps Networks Safe without Increasing Headcount
NASHVILLE, TN – March 20, 2018 – To help hospitals facing a dangerous combination of mounting cybersecurity threats, vulnerabilities to connected medical devices and a widening gap in the skills required to establish, implement and mature a cybersecurity program, Clearwater Compliance, a top-ranked, award-winning healthcare cyber risk assessment and cyber management solutions platform, has expanded its cyber capabilities to include a Virtual Chief Information Security Officer (vCISO). This professional service addresses the demand and critical needs that healthcare organizations face for expertise in identifying and analyzing threats, creating strategic security plans, ensuring compliance, and securing the environment from threats and cyberattacks.
With Clearwater as a strategic partner, healthcare organizations can meet the critical need for cybersecurity competency with access to seasoned professionals who understand the complex industry of healthcare and cyber risk management. vCISO customers also have access to Clearwater’s award-winning compliance and risk management platform. These solutions alleviate the need to employ skilled talent and have been developed for organizations that do not have the experience on staff or would like to have a seasoned expert without increasing headcount.
“Large and small hospitals alike are under the same threat of a cyber-attack, and forward-thinking hospital leaders are preparing their facilities through staff training, risk monitoring and other tactics,” said Lance Lunsford, Texas Hospital Association senior vice president of marketing/communications and CEO for the organization’s subsidiary HealthShare. “With vCISO, more of our members can take advantage of Clearwater’s expertise in risk assessment and management. The Texas Hospital Association represents about 500 hospitals across the state from the largest systems to rural and critical access hospitals. We are very excited about Clearwater’s array of services and solutions that enable our smaller hospitals to pool their resources to share a vCISO across their region.”
Clearwater’s new vCISO services include:
- Overall program leadership and advisory services
- Information risk management program governance
- Development of security and information risk management policy, procedures and best practices
- Establishment of a 3rd party risk management program
“With the dearth of security and risk management professionals, especially those with healthcare experience, finding and affording a qualified CISO can be a challenge,” says Bob Chaput, CEO of Clearwater Compliance. “Our vCISO service is completely tailorable to any hospital’s compliance and cyber risk management requirements and organizational needs. What’s unique is our ability to equip customers with our award-winning IRM|Pro™, SaaS-based software. Along with other solutions, our vCISO can be either on-site or remote, full-time or part-time, whichever makes the most sense operationally and fits the customer’s budget.”
Clearwater’s software and solutions are exclusively endorsed by the American Hospital Association. The company has a proven track record for helping hospitals and health systems of all sizes—including over 40 of the top Integrated Delivery Networks in the country—with today’s evolving risks. Clearwater’s comprehensive portfolio of state hospital association endorsements includes thousands of hospitals. Clearwater offers cybersecurity software and professional services, helping its clients not only defend against current cyber threats but also helping them build self-sufficiency to defend against future threats.
About: Clearwater Compliance, LLC is a top-ranked, award-winning healthcare cyber risk management and regulatory compliance company. As the leading strategic partner to hospitals and health systems, its mission is to assist in successfully managing healthcare’s evolving cybersecurity risks, compliance requirements and, ultimately, ensure patient safety. A 2017 Inc. 5000 fastest-growing company, the 2018 Best in KLAS winner in Cybersecurity Advisory Services, exclusively endorsed by the American Hospital Association as well as numerous state hospital associations, Clearwater solutions have been deployed within hundreds of hospitals and health systems, Fortune 100 organizations and federal government institutions. More information about Clearwater Compliance is at http://www.Clearwatercompliance.com.
Contacts
Clearwater Compliance, LLC
Kelly Motley, 615-483-0365
[email protected]Posted 3.21.2018 -
Cozad Community Hospital Selects Novarad for PACS
Medical software company enters into contract with Nebraska healthcare provider
COZAD, NE – March 20, 2018 – Novarad Corporation, a leader in the development of medical imaging software, has recently entered into contract with Cozad Community Hospital of Cozad, Neb. for PACS. The healthcare system chose to go with Novarad for greater convenience and improved pricing.
Cozad Community Hospital is a full-service hospital committed to providing the best possible healthcare services in the community, including radiography, fluoroscopy, MRI, CT, ultrasound, mammography, nuclear medicine, bone densitometry, respiratory care, cardiopulmonary therapy, and more.
Novarad offers PACS, RIS, cardiology, orthopaedic, 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 3.21.2018 -
University of Maryland School of Dentistry and DrFirst Team Up to Combat Opioid Abuse Using Innovative e-Prescribing and Communications Technology
Collaboration introduces school’s dental students, clinicians and alumni to the first mobile app with PDMP query compliance built into the e-prescribing workflow.
ROCKVILLE, MD – March 16, 2018 – The University of Maryland School of Dentistry (UMSOD) has joined with DrFirst, the leading independent provider of e-prescribing and medication management systems in the U.S., to fight the opioid crisis that is afflicting Maryland and the country. The school’s adoption of DrFirst’s mobility suite, including iPrescribeSM and Backline®, puts academia at the forefront of the fight against opioid addiction by providing tools and education for future oral health practitioners and UMSOD alumni to access more accurate patient medication history and opioid prescribing data.
“DrFirst is committed to helping Maryland overcome its opioid crisis, especially its opioid death rate, which is growing faster than the national average,” said G. Cameron Deemer, president of DrFirst. “We welcome our relationship with the University of Maryland School of Dentistry and are excited by its commitment to lead the charge to enable informed prescribing among the Maryland dental community, to prepare them to successfully meet the PDMP mandate, and to drive deeper collaboration within the dental community.”
The Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP) mandate, effective July 1, 2018, requires healthcare providers to check medication history via the online PDMP registry before prescribing opioids. Maryland joins 40 other states in requiring PDMP checks as part of the prescribing process to ensure the safe and appropriate use of opioids.
Preventing the oversupply of opioids without harming the patient is a critical balance that dentists must strike. An article in the Journal of the American Dental Association states that about 31 percent of opioids are prescribed after molar extractions for patients 10 to 19 years of age. Studies show that these patients are at greater risk to misuse opioids when they get older.
With iPrescribe and Backline, practitioners have accurate medication history at their fingertips, as well as access to their peers for consultation to support patient safety appropriately. Gaining this knowledge immediately improves dentists’ ability to make the most informed decisions around patient safety and opioid prescribing efficacy.
“Implementing DrFirst’s innovative e-prescribing software technology, which enables seamless access to Maryland’s mandatory Prescription Drug Monitoring Program, helps us take a leading role in improving patient care and reducing prescription drug abuse,” said Dr. Mark A. Reynolds, dean of the University of Maryland School of Dentistry and a periodontist at the school’s clinics in Baltimore. “We are preparing the next generation of oral health practitioners to integrate prescription drug monitoring into the clinical setting to better inform their prescribing practices. As Maryland’s largest oral health care provider, we are transforming how we care for our patients by establishing best practices for large, multi-disciplinary practices in dentistry.”
Together, DrFirst’s tools improve visibility into patient opioid use history, encourage compliance with Maryland’s PDMP check requirements, identify all medication interactions, monitor patient fill history, enable consultation with peers and staff, and effectively engage patients before and after office visits.
For more information on DrFirst’s best-in-class intelligent medication management solutions, including medication history, secure collaboration, mobile medication management, prescription drug price transparency, and patient engagement solutions, visit www.drfirst.com.
About DrFirst
DrFirst, the nation’s leading provider of e-prescribing and medication management solutions, enables stakeholders across the healthcare industry to use comprehensive real-time data and connectivity intelligently to increase their patient safety ratings, efficiency and profitability. Today, more than 170,000 healthcare professionals and more than 60% of electronic health record (EHR) 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 x 19
[email protected]Posted 3.19.2018 -
Santa Rosa Consulting Launches Analytics Migration Program
Santa Rosa launches a new capability which improves analytics and user adoption through any major IT transition.
FRANKLIN, TN – March 15, 2018 – Santa Rosa Consulting, Inc. a leading provider of management consulting and information technology services for the healthcare industry, expands its suite of Business Intelligence and Analytics (“BI&A”) solutions with an Analytics Migration Program that strengthens analytics during any EHR, ERP, or other system transition, while promoting a positive consumer experience and uninterrupted information for decision-makers. The program is an essential bridge to the realization of post go-live promises of return on investment through improved results and user satisfaction.
Safeguarding, and even improving, analytics during the disruption of an IT transition is an overlooked aspect of change management that, if not addressed, can lead to a number of undesired outcomes including frustrated consumers, poor adoption, a deluge of post go live report requests, impaired decision-making, and, ultimately, inadequate gains in performance. Santa Rosa and two health system panelists will share first-hand insights and best practices in an upcoming webinar entitled “Critical Aspects of Any Successful BI & Analytics Program.”
“Every major IT transition impacts analytics as data sources and definitions shift, metrics require modifications, historical data is addressed for trends and comparatives, and eMPIs are updated. Unfortunately, the focus is often limited to standing up the new system technically, and not proactively maximizing gains from the new system in terms of decision-making and performance,” said Bill Leander, Chief Strategy Officer at Santa Rosa.
“A comprehensive Analytics Migration Program is a small investment that can yield significant results. Not only does it build trust and confidence in the transition process, it is often a catalyst for effective analytics, enhanced data quality and overall program governance. In short, while a poorly planned analytics migration can derail an IT transition, a well-planned migration program can transform transition success from good to great,” said Mike Ragan, President at Santa Rosa.
Santa Rosa augments its Analytics Migration Program with insights and services from its broader suite of BI&A solutions, including comprehensive program assessment, process optimization, strengthening governance, data quality improvement, and interim analytics leadership. The combined capabilities across this suite enhance the Analytics Migration Program.
ABOUT SANTA ROSA CONSULTING:
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CHIME Applauds Administration’s Support for Patient-centered Care
ANN ARBOR, MI, March 6, 2018 – The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) applauds the administration’s announcement today to put patients at the forefront of their care through the “MyHealthEData Initiative” and Blue Button 2.0. We strongly support the drive to reimagine the future of healthcare as one where all patients have unfettered access to their medical records and data and where providers use systems that present information when they need it, where they need it and in a manner that best supports care delivery.
Our members’ ability to support clinicians and patients is hampered by today’s system that still is far too contingent upon inefficient workflows, costly interfaces and systems that are driven by billing requirements rather than clinicians’ needs.
“It is still too difficult to share data in a universal and interoperable way,” said CHIME Board Chair Cletis Earle, CIO of Kaleida Health in Buffalo. “These important initiatives will facilitate collaborations spanning both the public and private sectors.”
We also agree that the Meaningful Use program and Quality Payment Program warrant substantial changes. We welcome a renewed focus on interoperability and one that reduces the cost and time required for compliance.
“We commend CMS for recognizing the challenges providers are up against and for providing a supportive regulatory environment,” said CHIME Public Policy Steering Committee Chair Liz Johnson, MS, FCHIME, FHIMSS, CPHIMS, RN-BC, and CIO of Acute Care Hospitals & Applied Clinical Informatics, Tenet Healthcare Corporation. “CHIME stands ready to work with the administration to realize these important goals.”
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 3.16.2018