• Alliance Community Hospital First MEDITECH Customer to Deploy CommonWell Services

    MEDITECH advancing nationwide interoperability as the first EHR vendor to deploy CommonWell Health Alliance services leveraging FHIR

     

    Westwood, MA – June 28, 2018 – MEDITECH, a leading Enterprise Health Record (EHR) vendor and Contributor Member of CommonWell Health Alliance®, has successfully deployed CommonWell interoperability services at Alliance Community Hospital (ACH). The capabilities will enable ACH, a non-profit hospital serving the residents of Alliance, Ohio, to exchange patient information seamlessly for improved patient care and quality outcomes.

    “We’re excited to be at the forefront of interoperability breakthroughs and technical innovation in healthcare,” says David Shroades, Vice President Operations and CIO at ACH. “Even more importantly, we’re excited to bridge gaps in patient care, and deliver the best outcomes possible for our community.”

    MEDITECH is the first EHR vendor in CommonWell to deploy the Argonaut Project’s FHIR specifications to customers for the purpose of document exchange, providing near real-time access to a participating patient’s data. Embedded directly into the MEDITECH EHR, these CommonWell services include patient enrollment capabilities and C-CDA exchange, opening the door for more comprehensive sharing of discrete segments of data in the future, such as medication and allergy data.

    “Interoperability is a cornerstone of MEDITECH’s healthcare IT vision and the deployment of CommonWell Health Alliance services in the MEDITECH EHR at Alliance Community Hospital is a testament to that,” said Lawrence O’Toole, associate vice president of strategy at MEDITECH, and a member of the CommonWell Health Alliance Board of Directors. “Utilizing this contemporary architecture to enable providers to access health information nationwide further symbolizes MEDITECH’s commitment to work collaboratively to improve patient care.”

    Today, more than 9,300 provider sites are Live on CommonWell services across the nation, and more than 30 million individuals are enrolled. “I’m proud of the unwavering commitment from CommonWell Members in continuing to expand the deployment of CommonWell services,” said Jitin Asnaani, executive director of CommonWell Health Alliance. “CommonWell congratulates MEDITECH for bringing its first customer Live on the network, an important leap forward in supporting our mission to break down the barriers to health data exchange.”

    “As a Contributor Member, MEDITECH is continuing to help steer the future direction of CommonWell and provide our customers access to services that go beyond one EHR system, one healthcare organization, and one community,” said Howard Messing, president and CEO, MEDITECH. “Together, we can advance nationwide connectivity and interoperability.”

    Is your organization looking to reach its interoperability potential? Learn more about how MEDITECH Expanse is leading the way in interoperability.

    Posted 6.28.2018

  • Santa Rosa to present 7 critical aspects of BI&A program success a HFMA 2018

    Franklin, TN – June 26, 2018 – Santa Rosa Consulting, Inc., a leading provider of management consulting and information technology services for the healthcare industry, will share key insights to significantly improve a health system’s business intelligence and analytics (BI&A) program during the Healthcare Finance Management Association (HFMA) Annual Conference in Las Vegas, June 24th-June 27th.

    The HFMA 2018 Annual Conference is the premier education, networking, and technology-unveiling event for healthcare finance executives. On Wednesday, June 27 from 10 a.m. to 11:15 a.m., Santa Rosa Consulting’s Chief Strategy Officer William Leander will examine seven critical aspects of a BI&A program’s success, and provide attendees a self-assessment tool to evaluate the health of their own BI&A program and create a path toward improvement. (This session #CS3A will be held in Venetian C room).

    “Many BI&A programs fail to deliver the positive, measurable impact needed by healthcare organizations,” said Leander. “It’s important to understand that many of the challenges faced by BI&A programs are really symptoms, and not root causes. By understanding critical aspects of BI&A, health systems can improve their program and ultimately, their bottom line.”

    For those attending HFMA 2018, please join Mr. Leander’s session, “Seven Critical Aspects of Business Intelligence & Analytics Program Success,” to learn how to optimize a BI&A program. Or, individuals wanting to learn more about BI&A programs can also Read a case study about Santa Rosa’s collaborative effort with AtlantiCare, an integrated health system headquartered in New Jersey.

    Posted 6.26.2018

  • News of Note

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    Candace Stuart – Director, Communications & Public Relations

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

    CHIME Opioid Task Force co-chairs will participate in a webinar: Ed Kopetsky and Jim Turnbull, co-chairs of the CHIME Opioid Task Force, will discuss the CIO’s role in battling the opioid crisis in a webinar at noon ET Tuesday (June 26). HealthsystemCIO.com is hosting the webinar. CHIME members who attend may be eligible to earn one CEU for their Certified Healthcare CIO (CHCIO). Learn more about the webinar here; to register, go here.

    Task force member will share steps for reducing opioid prescribing: Dave Lehr, CIO at Anne Arundel Health System and a member of the CHIME Opioid Task Force, will conduct a College LIVE session that will highlight the clinical and technical steps Arundel took to reduce opioid prescribing by 50 percent. To register for “A Journey to Opioid Prescribing Reduction,” go here.

    CHIME opens awards nominations and applications for 2018: CHIME offers several awards honoring the outstanding efforts and accomplishments of those who have demonstrated leadership, innovation and collaboration through the application of technology in healthcare. CHIME members and CHIME Foundation firm representatives may apply for, or nominate, candidates. Learn more about the awards and how to apply or nominate someone here.

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    Posted 6.21.2018

  • AEHIS Board Chair Voices Members’ Cybersecurity Concerns at Hearing in D.C.

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    Chris Cook – VP, AEHIS, AEHIA & AEHIT Memberships

    On June 6, AEHIS Board Chair Erik Decker testified before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on draft legislation that recognizes the importance of ensuring the nation’s health systems are better prepared and able to respond to cybersecurity incidents. Speaking on behalf of AEHIS and CHIME, he supported provisions that for the first time would include cybersecurity threats in the Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Reauthorization Act of 2018 (PAHPA).

    PAHPA reauthorizes certain programs under the Public Health Service Act and Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. The draft legislation being considered includes amendments that recognize the threat that cyberattacks pose on patient safety and security, the need for a coordinated response and other improvements. In particular, they amend the Public Health Service Act to include “cybersecurity” in both “Improving State and Local Public Health Security” (42 U.S.C. 247d-3a) and “Partnerships for State and Regional Preparedness to Improve Surge Capacity” (42 U.S.C. 247d-3b.)

    In his written and oral testimony as well as in follow-up materials, Decker shared members’ perspective, including:

    • Continued concerns about the threats to patient care and safety that cybersecurity attacks pose in an era of ubiquitous connectivity
    • The need to clarify where cybersecurity is to be managed within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and proper channels for communicating cybersecurity-related issues and concerns
    • The importance of adequately funding and appropriately staffing the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR), or whatever office is selected to manage cybersecurity for HHS, to match the added functionality

    Cybersecurity is a priority topic for the CHIME and AEHIS public policy programs and AEHIS members have been valuable contributors to efforts to educate policy makers about the potential impact of their decisions. The upcoming CHIME Advocacy Summit, scheduled for Oct 3-5 in Washington, D.C., will feature CHIME and AEHIS policy leaders as well as top government and agency figures. (For more information and to register, go here.)

    AEHIS and CHIME applaud the committee for recognizing the potentially widespread damage that cyber incidents can inflict on the healthcare industry and patients. We have been emphasizing that improving the cybersecurity posture of the healthcare industry is an important, but resource-intensive process, and that it is critical that these policy proposals be funded properly. We also have emphasized that recognition of the potential of cybersecurity threats to disrupt healthcare delivery should be a consideration in the next iteration of the National Health Security Strategy.

    The Energy and Commerce hearing is available online here. The cybersecurity segment of the hearing occurs near the end, starting near the at 2:48 mark. Decker’s written testimony is posted here.

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    Posted 6.21.2018

  • Telehealth Gets Boost from VA, Medicare Reimbursement

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    Liz Johnson – MS, FAAN, FCHIME, FHIMSS, CHCIO, RN-BC, CHIME Public Policy Steering Committee Chair, Chief Information Officer, Acute Hospitals and Applied Clinical Informatics, Tenet Healthcare

    On June 11, veterans became eligible to receive virtual healthcare from Veterans Affairs providers no matter where they live or where the provider practices in the U.S. This is a sign that we finally are breaking down a bricks-and-mortar mindset that has dominated our healthcare system – the insistence that patients must come to us, the providers, in our work place to get care. Once this rule went into effect on June 11, American veterans anywhere – even those in remote, rural and underserved areas and those who can’t travel for health, financial or logistical reasons – should have access to care.

    This is a positive step forward, and one that makes those of us in the healthcare IT industry optimistic that telehealth has a real chance to grow and succeed in this country.

    The Department of Veterans Affairs made this happen through a proposed rule titled “Authority of Health Care Providers to Practice Telehealth,” which it unveiled last year. The proposed rule called for an amendment to allow the VA to exercise “federal preemption” and override state-specific telehealth laws, medical licensing restrictions and other requirements that conflicted with the VA’s need to provide telehealth services across its entire system. Removing those barriers now frees VA healthcare providers to treat beneficiaries using telehealth irrespective of the state or location of the provider or the beneficiary.     

    CHIME and our members strongly supported the proposal. In a letter submitted to Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin during the comment period, we pointed out some of the potential benefits of telehealth: better access; better outcomes; increased convenience for patients and their families; the ability to “touch” patients whose location or condition impedes in-person care; and an efficient and cost-effective use of the VA’s limited resources. As the chief information officers and senior IT leaders in our nation’s healthcare organizations, we understand the great potential technology has to improve delivery of care, including remotely.  

    Our letter also cited a joint 2017 telehealth report by CHIME and KLAS Research based on a survey of our members. The discord between state laws and state restrictions and the benefits of interstate telehealth services was a common theme among respondents. Another frequent concern was reimbursement. On this front, state laws were driving reimbursement for some services “but national legislation is still missing,” according to the report. More than half of respondents said lack of reimbursement was limiting the adoption of telehealth.

    We’ve seen progress in federal reimbursement in recent months, too. The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 that was signed into law in February included elements of the Creating High Quality Results and Outcomes Necessary to Improve Chronic (CHRONIC) Care Act. The legislation will expand reimbursement for some telestroke and end-stage renal disease services for Medicare beneficiaries, both beginning Jan. 1, 2019; and it will allow Medicare Advantage to add clinically beneficial services through telehealth to basic plans, and will let Accountable Care Organizations expand the use of telehealth services, both beginning in 2020.

    Why does this matter? Medicare beneficiaries totaled an estimated 58.5 million people in 2017, according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. The Department of Veterans Affairs placed its veteran population at nearly 20 million people in 2017, with about half enrolled in the VA healthcare system. The increasing acceptance for telemedicine by two prominent national healthcare programs that serve a significant proportion of citizens in the U.S. is paving the way for more opportunities to build off our telehealth capabilities. Their willingness to adequately reimburse telehealth services is a signal to providers and their healthcare organizations that they can incorporate telehealth into the delivery of care without taking a financial blow. Most importantly, the growing use of telehealth now and in the future gives more patients access to timely and affordable care wherever they live.   

    Editor’s note: A version of this article originally was published in Health Data Management.

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    Posted 6.21.2018

  • CHIME Adds Convenience to Getting CHCIO Certification

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    6.21.2018
    Donna Roach – CHIME Board Secretary, Chief Information Officer, Ascension Information Services-St. Louis

    Many of our healthcare organizations are increasingly engaged with the patient experience, using healthcare IT to serve patients when and where they want. Now CHIME is doing the same for you by offering certification from the convenience of your work or home office.

    CHIME now allows members to schedule their CHIME Certified Healthcare CIO (CHCIO) exams at a time and place that is convenient for them. This new feature offers another way to complete your certification within your busy schedule. These “in home” tests allow for flexibility while maintaining the integrity of the exam and credential itself.

    Exams taken remotely will be monitored by Kryterion testing support to ensure everything runs smoothly and is completed to the highest standard. Remote testing exam preparation will remain the same, but now you have far less obstacles standing in your way of becoming CHCIO certified.

    If remote testing is not your preferred method, Kryterion Testing Centers and CHIME in-person events will continue to provide testing opportunities to complete your CHCIO.

    To date, more than 400 members have earned the CHCIO title, a designation that demonstrates their expertise and commitment to quality patient care. CHIME has a dedicated team in place to explain the process, help you determine if you are eligible for certification, and once you pass the exam, how to maintain your certification. You can reach them at [email protected].

    You can learn more about the CHCIO program here. A 10 percent savings is available for exams completed this summer.

    I look forward to seeing more of us carry this honor and take our profession to the next level.

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    Posted 6.21.2018

  • PeriGen to Demonstrate First Ever Artificial Intelligence-Based Fetal and Maternal Early Warning Solution at AWHONN

    Automated platform works alongside existing perinatal system to help labor and delivery clinicians quickly, easily and consistently identify patients developing worsening conditions

     

    Tampa, FL. – June 19, 2018 – AWHONN Conference (Booth #1001) PeriGen, the global leader in applying artificial intelligence to obstetrical care, today announced the availability of the first automated fetal and maternal early warning system, PeriWatch™ Vigilance™. The company will showcase the system at the 2018 AWHONN Convention taking place June 23-27 at the Tampa Convention Center.  

    Multiple peer-reviewed studies indicate that more than 50 percent of bad outcomes in childbirth are preventable, with the vast majority of them showing delayed recognition and response to clear critical warning signs. This has led to the creation of checklists designed to draw clinical attention to worsening conditions, but these checklists add significant documentation burden, and good compliance is arduous if not impossible in clinical settings. PeriWatch Vigilance automates real-time identification of patients with these warning signs, providing clinicians with standardized analysis and timely alerting of troubling trends such that they can follow protocols in a more consistent and timely way. Critical data elements and trends in fetal heartrate abnormalities, maternal vital signs and labor progress are shown in a single, time-aligned view spanning several hours.

    PeriWatch Vigilance runs independently of existing fetal surveillance systems; it does not require their replacement and can be implemented at a single hospital or across an enterprise in a matter of weeks at a cost and effort that is a fraction of most enterprise systems. Vigilance interfaces with all leading EMRs, supports existing workflows and is supported by a 24 hour support desk based in Cary, NC.

    To celebrate the system’s debut at AWHONN, for every demonstration of Vigilance given on the show floor, PeriGen will make a donation to the AWHONN ‘Every Woman, Every Baby’ research and education fund. This will include a base gift and an incremental $25 for each demonstration completed. This charity supports lifelong learning for nurses, research that leads to improving nursing practice and patient care, as well as education and activities that provide information and resources for women and their families. 

    “The statistics around preventable maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality are sobering, fortunately innovation can make a difference here,” said Matthew Sappern, CEO of PeriGen. “With the rising complexity of care in obstetrics, early warning systems can help clinicians intervene on time. We are also proud to support AWHONN’s ‘Every Woman, Every Baby’ research and education program.”  

    Hands-on demonstrations of the new software will take place at PeriGen’s booth #1001. Click here to reserve a demo time.

    About PeriGen
    PeriGen offers innovative perinatal software solutions that incorporate artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance clinical efficiency and standardization of care during childbirth. Led by skilled OB practitioners, AI scientists and technologists, PeriGen has created the PeriWatch platform to provide consistent analysis and efficient display of complex data in real-time to promote better human recognition and communication about impending problems during labor. With PeriWatch clinicians can spend more time on direct patient care and less time on manual calculations and data manipulation. To learn more, visit www.perigen.com; follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, and Facebook; or call 984.208.4250 or email.

    Media Contact:
    Heather Caouette
    Amendola Communications for PeriGen
    Phone: 508-579-3894
    Email: [email protected]

     

    Posted 6.19.2018

  • Kroll Associate Managing Director Devon Ackerman Voted Forensic 4:cast Digital Forensic Investigator of the Year

    Former FBI Supervisory Special Agent, Senior Digital Sciences Forensics Examiner and expert witness specializes in investigative digital forensics, intrusion response and malware analysis at Kroll

    New York, NY– June 19, 2018 – Kroll, a division of Duff & Phelps, a global leader in risk mitigation, investigations, compliance, cyber resilience, security and incident response solutions, is pleased to announce that Devon Ackerman, an Associate Managing Director with the firm’s Cyber Risk practice, has been voted Forensic 4:cast 2018 Digital Forensic Investigator of the Year. The award was presented at a ceremony on June 8 during the 2018 SANS Digital Forensics & Incident Response (DFIR) Summit in Austin, Texas. In its 10th year, the Forensic 4:cast Awards recognize the achievements of digital forensic investigators around the world as voted by professionals and peers within the forensics and incident response community.

    “On behalf of everyone at Kroll, I congratulate Devon on this prestigious award,” said Jason Smolanoff, Senior Managing Director and Global Cyber Risk Practice Leader for Kroll. “Digital forensics is an intrinsically complex and demanding discipline. To be recognized by his peers in the global digital forensics community speaks to the exceptional knowledge and contributions that Devon brings to the profession, his colleagues and Kroll’s clients every day.”

    Ackerman is an authority on digital forensics and has extensive experience in the investigation and remediation of cyber-related threats and incidents. At Kroll, he leads engagements for clients across a wide range of industries involving investigative digital forensics, intrusion response (unauthorized access) and malware analysis. He also serves as team lead for two North America incident response teams, where he conducts and oversees digital evidence collection, triage and preservation.

    Ackerman joined Kroll from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, where he was a Supervisory Special Agent and Senior Digital Sciences Forensics Examiner in the Digital Evidence Field Operations Unit. In this role, he oversaw and coordinated all FBI Digital Forensics-related field operations across the United States. Ackerman has also provided expert witness testimony in federal and state courts.

    While at the FBI, Ackerman developed a number of forensic tools that are still widely used and was a primary contributor to a number of training curriculums. He began his career with the FBI in 2008, where he co-founded the FBI’s first North Carolina Cyber Security and Intrusion Working Group (eShield).

    Ackerman is also the founder and manager of “Digital Forensics/Incident Response (DFIR) – The Definitive Compendium Project,” known as AboutDFIR.com. Ackerman launched the resource in 2014 with a single category of information tracking fewer than 30 DFIR-related certifications; today, the site presents an extensive amount of curated DFIR-related information across nearly 30 categories.

    Media Contact:
    Infinite Global
    Ada Oni-Eseleh
    646-685-8075
    [email protected]

    Posted 6.19.2018

  • Telmediq Recognized in the Gartner Market Guide for Clinical Communication and Collaboration

    Seattle, WA. – June 19, 2018 – Telmediq announced today that it has been listed as a Representative Vendor in Gartner’s 2018 Market Guide for Clinical Communication and Collaboration. Telmediq unifies texting, voice communications, alerting, pagers, on-call schedules and the call center to improve clinical communication and workflows.

    “CC&C is critical to becoming a next-generation healthcare provider” notes Gartner Analyst Barry Runyon, “Moving off the status quo requires implementing new programs surrounding IT consolidation, standardization, automation, instrumentation, integration, performance monitoring, and system decommissioning, as well as extending the reach of IT into new venues of care.”[1]

    According to the report, “Healthcare provider CIOs and clinical leadership should use this guide to see where this market is heading and identify notable vendors.”

    Telmediq is the first company to forward patient alarms and nurse calls through a central, cloud-based solution and the only company that can integrate with a hospital’s non-session initiation protocol (non-SIP)/VoIP hospital switch via the public switched telephone network (PSTN). Telmediq was also the first company to include call center capability with a unified communication platform in healthcare using a cloud delivery model.

    “Point solutions create additional technology and user silos that aren’t providing clinicians what they need,” notes Ben Moore, Telmediq CEO, “Clinical communication and collaboration platforms such as Telmediq are helping remove these silos and create an environment of rich patient data to improve critical workflows, care coordination and the patient experience.”

    Gartner Disclaimer
    Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner’s research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

     About Telmediq
    Telmediq is the #1 KLAS rated vendor for secure communication platforms for large hospital systems, acute-care and ambulatory facilities. Telmediq unifies communication by integrating 20+ clinical systems (EHR, schedules, call center, alarms, nurse call) to improve workflow and connect care team members. www.telmediq.com

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    Gabrielle Eagles
    [email protected]
    206.960.4202

    [1]   Gartner “Market Guide for Clinical Communication and Collaboration” by Barry Runyon, 12 July 2018.

    Posted 6.19.2018

  • Health Catalyst Named One of Best Places to Work in IT by Computerworld Magazine

    Salt Lake City, UT – June 18, 2018 – Health Catalyst, a leader in next-generation data, analytics and decision support, has been named a 2018 Best Places to Work in IT by IDG’s Computerworld for the second year in a row. As one of 100 top organizations that challenge their IT staffs while providing great benefits and compensation, Health Catalyst will be included in coverage on Computerworld.com along with results from the 2018 Best Places to Work in IT survey.

    “We are honored to be recognized by Computerworld as one of the best workplaces in the technology industry,” said Health Catalyst CEO Dan Burton. “Our mission of enabling massive healthcare improvements through the use of data and analytics is one that attracts smart, hardworking and humble people.  Few accomplishments are as fulfilling as seeing firsthand how your work is helping more people get better medical care, while improving the efficiency of great teams of physicians, nurses and other healthcare professionals.”

    Health Catalyst team members, who are considered “owners” in recognition of their individual contributions, rated the company’s workplace quality in anonymous questionnaires distributed by Computerworld.  Team members ranked Health Catalyst among the Best Places to Work in IT for reasons ranging from work-life balance and health and wellness to professional development:

    • Above-market compensation
    • Great work-life balance, thanks to unlimited PTO, company holidays, a work-from-home policy, and maternity and paternity leave
    • Companywide bonus structure
    • Fitness benefits, including onsite gym with fitness classes
    • Education/training reimbursement
    • Transparency from upper management
    • Generous benefits (such as matching 401K) and affordable healthcare coverage with an HSA match
    • Family-friendly company events
    • Internet and cell phone reimbursement

    The Computerworld listing is one of more than 30 regional and national “best workplace” honors earned by Health Catalyst, including awards from Glassdoor, Fortune, Forbes, Inc., Entrepreneur, Modern Healthcare, and the Salt Lake Tribune.

    “Over the past couple of years, we’ve seen an already tight market for tech talent get even tighter,” said Computerworld executive editor Ken Mingis. “Computerworld’s 2018 Best Places to Work in IT list illustrates that the companies that offer the best working environments aren’t satisfied with rolling out one or two initiatives. They seek an edge in the talent marketplace through a combination of good salaries, great benefits, ready access to training, and the deployment of cutting-edge technologies. They recognize that the top tech talent can easily move to the organization that respects them best, and they are determined to be that organization.”

    Health Catalyst has multiple job openings across all locations. Interested candidates can see available positions and submit applications at www.healthcatalyst.com/job-openings.

     

    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. Our technology and professional services can help you keep patients engaged and healthy in their homes and workplaces, and we can help you optimize care delivery to those patients 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 Computerworld
    Computerworld is the leading technology media brand empowering enterprise users and their managers, helping them create business advantage by skillfully exploiting today’s abundantly powerful web, mobile, and desktop applications. Computerworld also offers guidance to IT managers tasked with optimizing client systems—and helps businesses revolutionize the customer and employee experience with new collaboration platforms. Computerworld’s award-winning website (www.computerworld.com), strategic marketing solutions and research forms the hub of the world’s largest global IT media network and provides opportunities for IT vendors to engage this audience. Computerworld is published by IDG Communications, Inc. Company information is available at www.idg.com.

    About the Best Places to Work in IT list
    The Best Places to Work in Information Technology (IT) list is an annual ranking of the top 100 work environments for technology professionals by IDG’s Computerworld. The list is compiled based on a comprehensive questionnaire regarding company offerings in categories such as benefits, career development, training and retention. In addition, Computerworld conducts extensive surveys of IT workers, and their responses factor heavily in determining the rankings.

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    Todd Stein
    Amendola Communications
    916-346-4213
    [email protected]

     

    Posted 6.18.2018

  • Telmediq Wins VIATEC’s Product of the Year Award

    Telmediq’s Clinical Communication & Collaboration Platform Recognized as Most Innovative Solution, Best Customer Adoption and Most Disruptive

     

    Seattle, WA – June 17, 2018 – Telmediq, the #1 KLAS rated vendor for secure communication platforms in healthcare, was recognized at the 2018 VIATEC Technology Awards as winner of Product of the Year. Telmediq was named a winner of the 2017 VIATEC Technology Awards for Emerging Technology Company of the Year, this year building momentum toward a Product of the Year win.

    “It is a great honor to be named Product of the Year, recognizing the market leadership position of our clinical communication and collaboration platform,” notes Ben Moore, Founder and CEO of Telmediq. “We want to thank VIATEC, as their role as stewards of the technology industry in Victoria is so critical to the local economy, as well as to the success of every technology company here.”

    The 2018 VIATEC Technology Awards highlights technology companies helping to make Greater Victoria the fastest growing technology sector. Awards were selected for 11 award categories from a record-breaking 181 nominations. Product of the Year recognized market traction through sales and sales growth, customer adoption, market share along with market disruption and level of innovation.

    Telmediq was recognized earlier this year as “Category Leader” by 2018 KLAS Research for Secure Communications Platforms. This distinction recognizes the vendor with the highest rating directly from physicians, nurses, and IT teams, with customers noting our ability to address complex and unique scheduling challenges and our easy-to-use platform, streamlining how the care team interfaces with other clinical systems. One client sates, “Everyone is quickly catching on to Telmediq. Everybody is demanding it and wants it now…Physicians are raving about it.”

    “We have extremely high user adoption and retention rates,” notes Moore, “We’ve done this by working closely with physicians, nurses and the IT teams to hear what they need to be successful now and in the future. With changing reimbursement models focusing on the value of care, increased privacy and security concerns over healthcare data, and the introduction of complex new healthcare technologies, providing a secure uniform platform for clinical communication and collaboration is more important now than ever before.”

     

    About Telmediq
    Telmediq is a leader in healthcare communications solutions for large hospital systems and acute-care facilities. Telmediq provides a unified clinical communication platform that integrates more than 20 clinical systems (EHR, scheduling, lab, nurse call) and helps match technology with the way people work. Telmediq provides an integration and consolidation roadmap to reduce software and support costs, improve workflows and provide a single source for analytics, auditing and reporting. Our clients reduce patient wait times, improve patient handover times and improve physicians’ work environment. www.telmediq.com

    About VIATEC
    VIATEC (Victoria Innovation, Advanced Technology and Entrepreneurship Council), started in 1989. Our mission is to serve as the one-stop hub that connects people, knowledge and resources to grow and promote the Greater Victoria technology sector (Victoria’s biggest industry). We work closely with our members to offer a variety of events, programs and services. In addition, VIATEC serves as the front door of the local tech sector and as its spokesperson. To better support local innovators, we acquired our own building (Fort Tectoria) where we offer flexible and affordable office space to emerging local companies along with a gathering/event space for local entrepreneurs. www.viatec.ca

    * Selected commentary collected about Telmediq Secure Communications by KLAS December 2017, visit klasresearch.com for a complete view

    Media Contact
    Gabrielle Eagles
    Director of Marketing
    Telmediq
    [email protected]
    206.960.4202

     

     

    Posted 6.17.2018

  • Summer Success Series

    Join us for the Summer Success Series with CHIME Technologies, Inc. Each month, we will review one of the value-added services offered for Foundation firms, and will provide insight as to how these services can bolster your plans for your final quarter. Each webinar will include one of CHIME’s CIO members to offer feedback and insight.

    CHIME TECH SUMMER SUCCESS SERIES: SPEAKERS BUREAU (FOR FOUNDATION FIRMS)

    Start: 06/27/2018 02:00PM
    End: 02:30PM
    Event Type: Foundation Online Events

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    CHIME TECH SUMMER SUCCESS SERIES: ADVISORY SERVICES (FOR FOUNDATION FIRMS)

    Start: 07/25/2018 02:00 PM
    End: 02:30 PM
    Event Type: Foundation Online Events

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    CHIME TECH SUMMER SUCCESS SERIES: COOPERATIVE MEMBER SERVICES (FOR FOUNDATION FIRMS)

    Start: 08/22/2018 02:00 PM
    End: 02:30 PM
    Event Type: Foundation Online Events

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    Posted 6.12.2018
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