• Keith MacDonald Named One of Consulting Magazine’s Top 25 Consultants for 2018

    Impact Advisors’ healthcare leader receives accolades from Consulting Magazine

     

    Chicago, IL – May 07, 2018 – Keith MacDonald, Vice President at Impact Advisors, a leading provider of healthcare information technology services, has been named one of the “Top 25 Consultants” of 2018 by Consulting Magazine. Keith is one of four to be recognized in the Excellence in Healthcare category. He will attend the Top 25 Consultants awards dinner on June 14th at The Mandarin Oriental in New York.

    Each year, Consulting Magazine ranks those consultants making the greatest impact within their industry. Keith and other consulting leaders were recognized in various categories including Excellence in Leadership, Client Services, Financial Services and Technology. This year the magazine received nearly 400 nominations.

    “It is truly an honor to be named one of Consulting Magazine’s Top 25 Consultants for 2018,” said Keith. “I am especially proud to be recognized for Excellence in Healthcare, and have 250 talented colleagues at Impact Advisors to thank for making it easy to be that much more successful with our clients.”

    Keith has 30 years of healthcare experience and leadership. His background includes strategic planning; vendor evaluation and selection; workflow improvement/redesign; implementation project planning and management; operations management; and market research. He possesses both broad and deep clinical information systems experience and has tracked and reported on IT market trends, operational best practices and vendor capabilities. Keith has been with Impact Advisors since 2010 and is a Client Services Executive for Impact Advisors’ Northeast clients. 

    For more information on Impact Advisors, visit www.impact-advisors.com or follow the company on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter.

     

    About Impact Advisors, LLC
    Impact Advisors is a nationally recognized healthcare information technology consulting firm that is solving some of the toughest challenges in the industry by delivering strategic advisory, implementation and optimization services. Our comprehensive suite of patient access, clinical and revenue cycle services span the lifecycle of our clients’ needs. Our experienced team has a powerful combination of clinical, revenue, operations, consulting and IT experience. The firm has earned a number of prestigious industry and workplace awards including Best in KLAS® for ten consecutive years, Healthcare Informatics HCI 100, Crain’s Chicago Business Fast Fifty, as well as “best place to work” awards from: Modern Healthcare, Consulting Magazine, Becker’s Hospital Review and Achievers. For more information about Impact Advisors, visit www.impact-advisors.com.

    Posted 5.7.2018

  • Surescripts Proves Nationwide Interoperability is Rapidly Advancing Across Healthcare

    ARLINGTON, VA – MAY 7, 2018 – Healthcare interoperability is alive and well across the United States, according to the Surescripts 2017 National Progress Report, which reveals that 13.7 billion secure health data transactions traversed the nation’s largest health information network last year—a 26 percent increase over 2016. Having evolved its capabilities far beyond electronic prescribing, the Surescripts Network Alliance™ expanded to include 1.47 million healthcare professionals who have the ability to access health data for 233 million patients, or 71 percent of the U.S. population.

    Surescripts operates an industrial-strength health information network that delivers actionable patient intelligence at critical points in care to increase patient safety, lower costs and improve quality. The nationwide network offers a portfolio of solutions that work together to enhance prescribing, inform care decisions and advance healthcare. 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.

    “The Surescripts Network Alliance continued to make remarkable progress in 2017, signaling that healthcare interoperability is indeed happening today,” said Tom Skelton, Chief Executive Officer of Surescripts. “Over the last decade, E-Prescribing has matured and scaled. Now, newer functionality like Record Locator & Exchange and Real-Time Prescription Benefit are ramping up at an impressive rate. And we’re measuring, at scale, the accuracy of this massive transaction volume—a capability with the potential to truly redefine and elevate the state of U.S. healthcare.”

    Major Progress Toward Perfecting E-Prescribing

    In 2017, the Surescripts Critical Performance Improvement program continued to work across the Surescripts Network Alliance to drive broader adoption of e-prescribing and better prescription data quality for the benefit of every pharmacist, prescriber and patient. In 2017, Surescripts Sentinel™ measured a 26 percent increase in prescription accuracy network-wide. With 77 percent of all prescriptions delivered electronically, these quality improvements are having a direct and immediate impact on patient safety. At the same time, the volume of e-prescriptions for controlled substances increased 71 percent over 2016 as more prescribers adopted the technology.

    Price Transparency and Therapeutic Alternatives Empower Prescribers and Patients

    Last year, Surescripts introduced a solution to help transform the prescription decision process between prescribers and their patients. When used together, Real-Time Prescription Benefit, Prior Authorizationand E-Prescribing deliver patient-specific drug benefit and cost information—including therapeutic alternatives and their costs—within the e-prescribing workflow at the point of care. In 2017, Electronic Prior Authorization transactions increased 350 percent, with more than 100,000 prescribers enabled nationwide. In addition, Surescripts processed more than 3 million Real-Time Prescription Benefit transactions.

    Bringing Technology to the Front Lines of the Opioid Epidemic

    In response to a national health emergency, Surescripts continued taking action to prevent opioid fraud and abuse through a combination of technology, education and public policy. In 2017, the number of prescribers enabled for Electronic Prescribing for Controlled Substances (EPCS) increased 59 percent. In New York, three-quarters of all prescribers were enabled for EPCS at the end of the year, following the enactment of legislation mandating the use of the technology. Meanwhile, Surescripts delivered 1.46 billion patient medication histories nationwide, helping healthcare professionals make more informed care decisions for their patients.

    Nationwide Interoperability Surges On

    The Surescripts Network Alliance successfully partnered across the healthcare marketplace to push industrywide interoperability to the next level. In 2017, an increasing number of providers across the country chose Record Locator & Exchange to obtain a more complete view of patient history directly in their EHR workflow. In fact, more than 50,000 clinicians used the solution to access and exchange an annualized total of 16 million clinical documents and 65 million documents summarizing where a patient previously received care. And healthcare professionals across the country sent nearly 26 million clinical direct messages—a 32 percent increase over 2016—enabling more informed care decisions for clinicians and pharmacists alike.

    Download the Surescripts 2017 National Progress Report. Visit surescripts.com to learn more about solutions that enhance e-prescribing and inform care decisions. And explore Intelligence in Action to see Surescripts’ work to advance healthcare. 

    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 attwitter.com/surescripts.

    Media Contact

    Kelly Jeffers
    Surescripts
    [email protected] 
    (202) 215-1250

     

    Posted 5.7.2018

  • CHIME Joins Long Term and Post Acute Care Health IT Summit as Collaborative Member

    ANN ARBOR, MI, May 4, 2018 – The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) has joined the Long Term and Post Acute Care Health IT (LTPAC HIT) Summit scheduled for June 24-26 in Washington, D.C., as a collaborative member. The summit is being organized by the LeadingAge Center for Aging Services Technologies.

    The theme for this year’s summit is “Technology Connecting the Healthcare Ecosystem.” The event is expected to draw executives and information technology leaders from the LTPAC sector, acute care providers, payers and technology companies serving older adults and individuals with chronic conditions. CHIME board member Rusty Yeager, senior vice president and CIO at Encompass Health, will participate as a panelist at the summit. Encompass Health is one of the nation’s largest providers of post-acute care, with 128 hospitals and 268 home health and hospice locations in 36 states and Puerto Rico.

    “I am pleased to have the opportunity to share and learn from healthcare leaders who, like my colleagues in CHIME, recognize the important role healthcare IT plays in the continuum of care,” Yeager said. “Having executives from long-term, post-acute care and hospital settings, all at one summit, shows a commitment to serve patients throughout their healthcare journey.”

    LeadingAge is an association for nonprofit providers of aging services. Its more than 6,000 members and partners include nonprofits, 38 state associations, hundreds of businesses, consumer groups, foundations and research centers. The LeadingAge Center for Aging Services Technologies is dedicated to expediting the development, evaluation and adoption of emerging technologies to improve the aging experience.

    The LTPAC HIT Summit is being held June 24-26 at the Washington Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C. CHIME members are eligible for a $100 discount off the registration fee. For more information about the summit and to register, go here. Members also can contact CHIME’s public policy team at [email protected] for more details.

    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 2,600 members in 51 countries and over 150 healthcare IT business partners 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.

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

    Posted 5.4.2018

  • Change Healthcare Closes the Revenue Cycle Analytics Gap with New Patient Access Capability

    Leading healthcare IT company gives providers ability to reconcile patient access effectiveness, delivering the missing piece in revenue cycle analytics

     

    Denver, CO – May 3, 2018 – PRNewswire/ — NAHAM 44th Annual Conference, Booth 101—Change Healthcare today unveiled a new version of Acuity Revenue Cycle Analytics™ that adds front-end patient access analytics to expand its revenue cycle intelligence portfolio. Now, using Acuity Revenue Cycle Analytics, hospitals and health systems can more readily understand the interdependencies and influences across the revenue cycle from the first moment they touch a consumer all the way through claims submission, processing, billing, and payment.

    “When it comes to optimizing the revenue cycle, you can’t resolve issues that you’re not aware of,” said Marcy Tatsch, senior vice president and general manager, Reimbursement and Analytics Solutions, Change Healthcare. “Most providers are not getting the complete picture from their analytics tools. We’ve invested in a new version of Acuity Revenue Cycle Analytics, now with critical patient access capabilities, including eligibility, estimation, pre-authorization, and medical necessity, to help our customers analyze the entire revenue cycle continuum, and let them reconcile back-end financial outcomes with front-end processes.”

    One reason why revenue cycle managers struggle to optimize their processes is because they lack the ability to analyze how revenue flows through every phase of the cycle and what is slowing it down. That’s because most providers have insufficient analytics or may only be able to analyze siloed segments of the revenue cycle. Now, using Change Healthcare Acuity Revenue Cycle Analytics, they can gain a holistic view from the beginning to the end of the revenue cycle and fine-tune their operations for optimal performance.

    With visibility into eligibility, estimation, pre-authorization, and medical necessity, as well as the relationships between processes that span departments and systems, revenue cycle managers now can make decisions to better manage consumer experiences, promote accurate and timely payment from patients and payers, and improve patient access team management. Specifically, Change Healthcare Acuity Revenue Cycle Analytics helps providers to:

    • Readily access the data that matters most, regardless of where it resides in the revenue cycle: Views of revenue cycle performance data—historical, real-time, and within and across facilities — are available through a customizable KPI dashboard. Provider revenue cycle managers get near real-time information and can set customer performance alerts without involving IT resources.
    • Identify issues impeding revenue and address them: Acuity Revenue Cycle Analytics taps the Change Healthcare database of over 3.4 billion healthcare financial transactions, including eligibility, authorization, estimation, claims, and remittance data, to support root-cause analysis. This knowledge lets providers monitor patient access team productivity and accuracy to remediate problems and help speed the claims process and cash flow.
    • Analyze the full revenue cycle to rein in the departmental ripple effect: Acuity Revenue Cycle Analytics’ holistic view of the revenue cycle shows how disparate departments—across the revenue cycle continuum, from front-end to back-end—affect one another and influence speed and accuracy of payment from payers and patients.
    • Improve accuracy of consumer estimates: Acuity Revenue Cycle Analytics makes it easy for providers to understand how estimated patient charges compare to actual adjudicated insurance benefits, whether patient responsibilities are being accurately estimated up front, and whether those estimates are being leveraged to drive higher point-of-service collections.

    Acuity Revenue Cycle Analytics is available immediately and provides robust analytics capabilities to both the Clearance Patient Access Suite™ and Assurance Reimbursement Management™ solutions. Change Healthcare will demonstrate Acuity Revenue Cycle Analytics in booth 101 at the NAHAM 44th Annual Conference in Denver, May 3-6, 2018.

    About Change Healthcare
    Change Healthcare is inspiring a better healthcare system. Working alongside our customers and partners, we leverage our software and analytics, network solutions, and technology-enabled services to enable better patient care, choice, and outcomes at scale. As a key catalyst of a value-based healthcare system, we are accelerating the journey toward improved lives and healthier communities. Learn more at www.changehealthcare.com.

    Posted 5.3.2018

  • KLAS Research Names Health Catalyst to the “A-List” of “High Energy” Healthcare Technology Vendors That Satisfy and Keep Their Customers

    Exclusive list recognizes eight companies with high rates of customer satisfaction and retention

    Salt Lake City, UT – April 30, 2018 – In a new report on healthcare organizations’ perceptions of technology vendors from across the healthcare IT software spectrum, KLAS Research has named Health Catalyst to the exclusive “A-List” of HIT companies that combine high customer satisfaction with high rates of customer retention.

    The inaugural report, Decision Insights 2018: National Trends & Best Practices, released this month, is designed to “help provider organizations understand which vendors have market energy and why other organizations are considering these vendors,” according to KLAS. Health Catalyst was the only data analytics company among the eight companies named to the report’s A-List. An “A” listing requires both an overall KLAS Score of 86 or higher, and a retention rate of greater than 91% of current go-forward customers.

    “Health Catalyst continues to show healthcare vendors and providers alike that data has the power to create change,” wrote the report’s authors. “Health Catalyst customers consistently report strong outcomes, even saved patient lives, driven by Health Catalyst’s strong software and, even more importantly, their guidance in creating change.”

    The report’s results are based on 1,157 software decisions that healthcare organizations have made in the last 12 months or will make in the next 24 months. In its analysis of decisions made across the HIT software spectrum, KLAS included 35 vendors that each received at least 10 buying considerations.

    This month’s report is one of several by KLAS to recognize Health Catalyst for its ability to help turn raw data into clear insights that drive improved outcomes in patient care and bottom-line performance. Health Catalyst earned both the 2017 and 2018 “Best in KLAS” ranking for Business Intelligence and Analytics. The Best in KLAS designation is reserved for vendor solutions that lead the software and services market segments with the broadest operational and clinical impact on healthcare organizations.

     “We appreciate the comprehensive research completed by KLAS and we are honored that their independent review highlighted our clients’ successes in utilizing our platform and applications,” said Dan Burton, CEO of Health Catalyst. “Our clients’ success and satisfaction are the fundamental ways we measure our effectiveness.  We’re grateful to see third-party validation from KLAS that this is consistently occurring.”

    The report, Decision Insights 2018: National Trends & Best Practices, is available at
    https://klasresearch.com/report/decision-insights-2018/1357

     

    About KLAS
    KLAS is a data-driven company on a mission to improve the world’s healthcare by enabling provider and payer voices to be heard and counted. Working with thousands of healthcare professionals, KLAS collects insights on software, services and medical equipment to deliver reports, trending data and statistical overviews. KLAS data is accurate, honest and impartial. The research directly reflects the voice of healthcare professionals and acts as a catalyst for improving vendor performance. To learn more about KLAS and the insights we provide, visit www.KLASresearch.com

     About Health Catalyst
    Health Catalyst is an insight-producing 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 healthcare systems and physician practices to commercial payers. Health Catalyst’s technology and professional services help to keep patients engaged and healthy in their homes and workplaces, and to optimize their care when it becomes necessary. We are grateful to be recognized by Fortune, Gallup, Glassdoor, Modern Healthcare and a host of others as a “Best Place to Work” in technology and healthcare. Visit www.healthcatalyst.com, and follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.

     

    For more information contact:
    Todd Stein
    Amendola Communications for Health Catalyst
    916.346.4213
    [email protected]

    Posted 5.2.2018

  • Vocera and HIMSS Analytics Explore the Impact of Workflow Interruptions on Clinician Well-being

    Research findings and report to be released during virtual briefing on May 1, 2018

     

    San Jose, CA – April 30, 2018 – Vocera Communications, Inc. (NYSE:VCRA), a recognized leader in clinical communication and workflow solutions, is releasing a research report in conjunction with HIMSS Analytics about the impact of interruptions on clinician stress and burnout. Vocera worked closely with HIMSS Analytics to design a survey that was conducted during the 2018 HIMSS Conference and Exhibition.

    Approximately 150 clinical and IT leaders from health systems, hospitals and outpatient facilities participated in the study. Findings from the research will be released during a HIMSS Learning Center free virtual briefing on May 1, from 1-2 p.m. ET.

    Bryan Fiekers, senior director of research services at HIMSS Analytics will discuss survey results, interruption challenges in clinical workflows, and how interruption fatigue is impacting patient care and clinician well-being. Benjamin Kanter, MD, chief medical information officer at Vocera will address these finding and discuss ways clinical and IT leaders can monitor, measure, and manage interruptions to improve clinician resilience and patient experience.

    “It’s not enough to view multiple technology vendors’ usage reports on interruptions in isolation and manually compile data to decipher trends,” said Dr. Kanter. “We must find a solution that aggregates the data and tells the complete story to understand a day in a life of a physician or nurse and help simplify their workflows and reduce interruption fatigue.”  

    To register for this HIMSS Learning Center virtual briefing, click here. The complete research report will be available after the online event.

    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 1,700 facilities worldwide, including nearly 1,500 hospitals and healthcare facilities, have selected our solutions for team members to text securely using smartphones or make calls with our hands-free, wearable Vocera Badge. Interoperability between Vocera and more than 140 clinical and operational 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.

     Vocera® and the Vocera logo are trademarks 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.
    865.805.1078
    [email protected]

                   

    Posted 5.2.2018

  • GCS Medical College, Hospital & Research Centre, A 1,000-Bed Hospital, Goes Live with eClinicalWorks

    eClinicalWorks to replace four different applications to manage care at the hospital

     

    Westborough, MA – May 1, 2018 – eClinicalWorks®, a leader in healthcare IT solutions, today announces that GCS Medical College, Hospital & Research Centre (GCSMC), a state-of-the-art multispecialty hospital in India, is transitioning to the eClinicalWorks Hospital Management Information System (HMIS) solution for its 1,000-bed hospital. GCSMC will utilize the eClinicalWorks inpatient and outpatient technology to create one unified medical record for its patients.

    “GCSMC was founded to offer medical education and create a continuous stream of trained medical professionals to provide diagnostic, therapeutic and preventive healthcare to the patients at an affordable cost,” said Ms. Neha Lal, Senior General Manager & Operations & HR, of GCS Medical College, Hospital & Research Centre. “GCSMC needed a HMIS technology that could meet our needs and allow us to provide the level of care our patients have come to expect. After working with three HMIS solutions, eClinicalWorks was selected because of its experience and commitment towards improving healthcare. We also felt the company would be an ideal partner for the long term.”

    GCSMC and eClinicalWorks will collaborate to streamline and automate processes for a more effective patient treatment model. GCSMC will leverage the eClinicalWorks HMIS solution, which features a patient dashboard showing all clinical details for the emergency department, operating room, ICU, and inpatient units. The eClinicalWorks comprehensive solution also covers pharmacy, radiology, labs, and the ability to manage care by census lists. To better serve its patients, GCSMC is utilizing available eClinicalWorks features, including an integrated Central Sterile Service Department (CSSD) for a seamless flow of reusable surgical materials, dynamic multiple approval level for increased user accountability, and enhanced analytical capabilities through multiple dynamic reports.

    “At eClinicalWorks we support the needs of customers who want to deploy a complete, effective, streamlined healthcare IT solution,” said Girish Navani, CEO and co-founder of eClinicalWorks. “We are thrilled to expand our global footprint by partnering with GCSMC, which is invested in providing state-of-the-art care to its patients. With the eClinicalWorks HMIS solution, GCSMC will have the tools to enhance the delivery of care for the patients it serves.”

    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 ten 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 5.1.2018
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