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Surescripts Leverages Interoperable Network to Deliver Patient Clinical History to Providers at the Point Of Care
Increasing Number of Providers Across the Country Choose Surescripts Record Locator & Exchange to Obtain a More Complete View of Patient History Directly in EHR Workflow
ARLINGTON, VA – April 9, 2018 – Surescripts is tapping the strength of its interoperable network, including access to clinical records for more than 230 million patients, to provide a growing group of clinicians nationwide with actionable patient intelligence directly in their electronic health record (EHR).
The Surescripts Network Alliance™ has expanded the reach of Surescripts Record Locator & Exchange to 40 health systems representing 295 hospitals across the country. This means that clinicians working in these hospitals have access to clinical records for patients who visit any connected health system—plus the 600,000 healthcare providers across 35,000 clinics and 1,250 hospitals included in Carequality. In 2017, more than 51,000 clinicians utilizing Surescripts Record Locator & Exchange located 26.4 million documents explaining where patients had previously received care. And they exchanged four million clinical records during the last three months of the year alone.
“In an industry focused on value and quality, Surescripts plays a critical role in giving healthcare professionals the ability to both locate and exchange patient records to make safer and better informed care decisions,” said Tom Skelton, Chief Executive Officer of Surescripts. “The progress achieved across the Surescripts Network Alliance in 2017 marks a critical milestone in advancing the nation’s interoperability goals outlined by ONC in the Shared Nationwide Interoperability Roadmap.”
Successfully delivering past care locations and summaries from outside a given region or health system is no small task. It requires the strong and rapidly expanding cross-market collaboration that the Surescripts Network Alliance has forged over its 16 years as a neutral, independent organization operating a secure nationwide network for interoperable health data exchange.
Today, the Surescripts Network Alliance includes virtually all electronic health records (EHR) companies, pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), pharmacies and clinicians, and an increasing number of health plans, long-term care and specialty pharmacy organizations, who collectively transmit nearly 13 billion transactions via the network annually, including nearly five million e-prescriptions every day.
From physician offices to hospitals to outpatient care centers and home services, Sutter Health cares for more than three million people throughout Northern California. After going live with Record Locator & Exchange in 2017, Sutter Health immediately noted an increase in clinical document exchange. Today, according to a clinical study of Sutter’s emergency services, Surescripts Record Locator & Exchange is one of Sutter Health’s top clinical document trading partners representing nearly 50 percent of its total non-Epic patient link sources.
In the same clinical study, the health system also noted that of the nearly 50 percent of patients with new external clinical documents available, 30 percent of clinicians acted on drug-drug and drug-allergy interaction alerts by modifying or cancelling the prescription. This is evidence of how access to more complete patient data can help healthcare professionals better inform their decisions at the point of care.
“Surescripts Record Locator & Exchange is a key component of our interoperability strategy,” said Steven R. Lane, M.D., Clinical Informatics Director for Privacy, Information Security and Interoperability at Sutter Health. “It gives us the advantage of automation and the opportunity to use the Carequality framework, which immediately expands our access to records from those past care encounters.”
Surescripts Record Locator & Exchange leverages the Carequality Interoperability Framework which provides a common set of legal, technical and policy rules for data sharing across locations, settings, networks and technology platforms.
“Carequality’s goal is to quickly scale healthcare interoperability and make it easily accessible to providers nationwide,” said Dave Cassel, Vice President of Carequality. “Record location with a national scope plays an important role, and by partnering with Carequality implementers like Surescripts, we are reaching critical mass.”
Some of the health systems that recently went live with Record Locator & Exchange to gain easy access to nationwide clinical records include:
Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin is one of the nation’s top pediatric hospitals, ranked in all ten specialties reviewed by U.S News & World Report. With more than 500 pediatric-trained doctors who see kids of all ages for everything from routine checkups to serious procedures, Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin complements its high quality clinical care with robust community support programs that help keep kids safe and healthy.
Denver Health is an integrated healthcare system serving as a model “safety net” institution and providing level-one care for all patients, regardless of their ability to pay. One quarter of all Denver residents—or approximately 150,000 people—are Denver Health patients.
Martin Health System is a Florida-based not-for-profit community-based healthcare organization comprising three hospitals, one MediCenter, a freestanding emergency center and numerous outpatient centers and clinics. It offers preventive, primary and acute hospital care, as well as cancer care, a heart center, wellness and rehabilitation services.
Ohio State University Medical Center cares for more than one million patients each year, has the only primary academic medical center and adult transplant centers in central Ohio and has more than 1,000 active research studies in virtually every specialty.
Yale New Haven Health is Connecticut’s leading healthcare system committed to integrated, high value, patient-centered care. It comprises Bridgeport, Greenwich, Lawrence + Memorial, Yale New Haven and Westerly hospitals, as well as Northeast Medical Group, a physician foundation of primary care and medical specialists.
To learn more about Record Locator & Exchange (formerly National Record Locator Service), visit Surescripts and watch our video.
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 the Surescripts Network Alliance™ to enhance prescribing, inform care decisions and advance the healthcare industry. Visit us at surescripts.com and follow us at twitter.com/surescripts.
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Hyland completes acquisition of OneContent from Allscripts
Cleveland, OH – April 2, 2018 – Hyland, a leader in providing software solutions for managing content, processes and cases, today completed the acquisition of the OneContent business from Allscripts, a leading provider of healthcare information technology solutions. Effective today, OneContent’s associates and 350 customers will transition to Hyland.
The addition of OneContent deepens Hyland’s portfolio of healthcare solutions, a core focus for the company. OneContent captures, indexes, stores and retrieves patient information, providing both the health information department and clinicians with access to data when and where they need it. This complements Hyland’s existing suite of content and image management solutions, creating the best-in-class platform for managing clinical content across the enterprise.
“Today, we’re not only growing our portfolio, we’re also thrilled to grow the Hyland family by adding to our team of experts who deliver innovative, industry leading solutions for our customers,” said Bill Priemer, president and CEO at Hyland. “The addition of OneContent will further our mission of empowering healthcare providers by informing critical decision making and simplify information access and insight. We’re eager to bring that dedication to our new OneContent customers.”
Hyland plans to partner closely with Allscripts to support OneContent customers’ current solutions. This includes enhancing the platform with new features and functionality, refining the integration with Allscripts’ Paragon EHR system and leveraging the complementary capabilities of the Hyland Healthcare suite.
“OneContent is an ideal fit for Hyland Healthcare as we strive to provide the most comprehensive breadth of information management solutions in the industry,” said Susan deCathelineau, vice president of global healthcare sales and services at Hyland. “We look forward to serving our new OneContent customers by building long-term relationships and working together to meet their strategic initiatives now and into the future as we evolve our offerings.”
Formerly known as Horizon Patient Folders (HPF) and recently acquired by Allscripts from McKesson, OneContent is primarily supported by a team that remains based in Alpharetta, Georgia.
Hyland Healthcare combines information management and enterprise medical imaging with business process and case management capabilities, delivering a suite of unparalleled content and image management solutions to address the clinical, financial and operational needs of healthcare organizations around the world. The Hyland Healthcare suite of products – comprised of Acuo, PACSgear, NilRead, Brainware, OnBase, Perceptive Content and ShareBase – are leveraged to complete patient records, eliminate reimbursement delays and enhance business processes. For more information, please visit Hyland.com/Healthcare.
About Hyland
Hyland is a leader in providing software solutions for managing content, processes and cases for organizations across the globe. For over 25 years, Hyland has enabled more than 19,000 organizations to digitalize their workplaces and fundamentally transform their operations. Named one of Fortune’s Best Companies to Work For® since 2014, Hyland is widely known as both a great company to work for and a great company to do business with. For more information, please visit Hyland.com.###
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Physicians’ Clinic of Iowa & its 84 Providers Transition to the eClinicalWorks cloud-centric EHR System
One of Iowa’s largest private multispecialty physician groups selects eClinicalWorks V11
Westborough, MA – April 3, 2018 – eClinicalWorks®, a leader in healthcare IT solutions, announces that Physicians’ Clinic of Iowa (PCI), one of Iowa’s largest, private specialty medical groups, will transition to the eClinicalWorks cloud-centric Electronic Health Record (EHR) solution for its 84 providers. eClinicalWorks will improve PCI’s ability to fulfill its growth plans while providing excellent patient care.
“After a thorough exploratory process, PCI will shift to the eClinicalWorks EHR solution from Greenway Health,” said PCI Chief Executive Officer Michael Sundall. “Not only does eClinicalWorks V11 provide a wealth of convenient patient-focused features, it links patient demographics and medical records to insurance, billing and claims data. These features are very appealing to PCI as we move forward with our next generation EHR.”
eClinicalWorks V11 will provide PCI with tools to streamline and improve overall efficiency and communications and encourage preventive care for its patients.
V11 empowers organizations to meet the challenges and opportunities of value-based care, with key features:
- Eva, the eClinicalWorks Virtual Assistant, improves usability and efficiency, letting users interact with eClinicalWorks technology in a conversational manner.
- V11 puts interoperability at the forefront of medical care. The days of laborious, point-to-point connections are over. eClinicalWorks customers can now self-activate for seamless integration with both CommonWell Health Alliance and Carequality. Through these connections, practitioners enjoy access to comprehensive patient data from any participating organization.
- healow TeleVisits will capitalize on expanding patients access to care with an unprecedented solution that leverages the power of the eClinicalWorks EHR. Revolutionizing telemedicine by broadening the scope of services, TeleVisits is making healthcare more accessible.
“As one of the largest, private specialty medical groups in Iowa, PCI remains focused on providing the highest quality of care to the patients it serves,” said Girish Navani, CEO and co-founder of eClinicalWorks. “We believe V11 is the next step in the evolution of healthcare IT and will help our clients remain at the forefront of medical care. With our ongoing commitment to improving human health, we look forward to working with PCI as they continue to raise the bar in superior service and keeping the patient first.”
About Physicians’ Clinic of Iowa
Physicians’ Clinic of Iowa (PCI), in Cedar Rapids, is one of Iowa’s largest, private specialty medical groups. Independent and locally owned, PCI specialists see patients the PCI Medical Pavilion, as well as offering inpatient and surgical care at both Cedar Rapids hospitals, Surgery Center Cedar Rapids and surrounding community medical centers. Founded in 1997, PCI has more than 80 partner physicians, surgeons and mid-level providers whose focus is superior service and putting the patient first. We’re in this together. Together in health.About eClinicalWorks
eClinicalWorks® is a privately held leader in healthcare IT solutions. With more than 130,000 physicians and nurse practitioners using its solutions, customers include ACOs, physician practices, hospitals, community health centers, departments of health, and convenient care clinics. During the past 10 years, 19 eClinicalWorks customers have received the prestigious HIMSS Davies Award, honoring excellence in Electronic Health Record implementation. The company is second largest in the country for e-prescribing. Based in Westborough, Mass., eClinicalWorks has additional offices in Austin, New York City, Chicago, California, Georgia, London, India, and Dubai. For more information, please visit www.eclinicalworks.com, Facebook, Twitter or call 866-888-6929.Posted 4.3.2018 -
314e Corporation Names Douglas Herr Senior Vice President
FREMONT, CA – March 31, 2018 – 314e Corporation, a healthcare IT consulting company, announced the appointment of Douglas Herr as senior vice president for Epic services. Herr will work closely with clients to support sales efforts, oversee delivery and support for 314e consultants. He will lead efforts to develop additional solution offerings and extend 314e capabilities in post go-live optimization, standardization and adoption-oriented Epic services. His responsibilities will include resource management, quality control, client satisfaction, vendor relations and operations.
Prior to 314e, Herr was vice president for Leidos Health where he was responsible for the direct management and oversight of the Epic practice. Herr also held leadership roles in client and vendor relations at Logic Healthcare, Stoltenberg Consulting, maxIT Healthcare and ACS Healthcare Solutions.
“Douglas brings years of healthcare IT leadership and Epic experience to the 314e team. We are thrilled to have him as part of the 314e family and to continue to provide innovative solutions and exceptional service to our customers,” said 314e SVP of Operations Alok Sharma.
Herr graduated from Emerson College with a Bachelor of Science in speech. Herr is a member of several associations including HIMSS (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society), CHIME (College of Healthcare Information Management Executives), Child Health Corporation of America (CHCA) and the National Eagle Scout Association.
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. 314e was recently named 2018 Best in KLAS in Technical Services. To learn more about 314e, visit www.314e.com.
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510.371.67636Posted 4.2.2018