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Consumers Demand Patient Data Protection as Black Book Names Protenus as Leading-Edge Innovator
Baltimore, MD – July 17, 2018 – (Newswire.com) – In an effort to leverage innovation to meet consumer expectations in healthcare technology, Black Book Research recently performed a survey that found Protenus is an industry-leading innovator in protecting patient data. The survey examined consumer preferences about which innovative healthcare technologies piqued their curiosity in four key areas:
“(1) immediate demand from them as an active consumer (meaning they had used or interacted with a healthcare technology, product or service within the last six months);
“(2) most likely drive an improvement in their healthcare status, choices or delivery in the next six months;
“(3) highly innovative and/or disruptive for the healthcare industry;
and (4) immediate value to them.”
With the explosion of electronic health records over the past decade has come an attendant vulnerability of protected health information (PHI). Patient awareness of this issue continues to increase, as demonstrated by such recent surveys as Aetna’s Health Ambitions Survey, where 80 percent of consumers highly rated privacy as an important aspect of healthcare. This consumer fear is well-founded, with at least one public data breach occurring in healthcare every day, and millions of records breached per year, according to the Protenus Breach Barometer.
“Fundamentally, we believe that the accurate review and risk-scoring of every single access to patient data is a standard that patients deserve and, as this and other surveys demonstrate, fervently demand. We are honored and gratified to receive this honor from Black Book, and are glad that they are always looking forward to see the future of health data security and privacy,” said Nick Culbertson, CEO and Co-Founder of Protenus.
The surveyed consumers, in reviewing Protenus and its value proposition, found that the Protenus platform was one of 19 companies that most piqued demand and spurred curiosity, a testament to the important work that Protenus is doing to ensure that every access to patient data in the electronic health record (EHR) is appropriate and justified.
“Black Book is delighted to see Protenus’ patient privacy monitoring solution represented with such enthusiasm in our survey, reflecting both the importance to consumers of accurately detecting threats to patient privacy in the EHR and associated systems, as well as Protenus’ innovation and excellence in this important area,” said Doug Brown, Founder of Black Book.
Black Book completed this survey of companies that received funding in the last twelve months and found that Protenus was one of the top 19 solutions, and the only solution in the patient privacy and health data security category. Protenus is backed by some of the world’s leading investors, including Kaiser Permanente Ventures and F-Prime Capital Partners, who jointly led Protenus’ recent $11M Series B funding round.
“At Protenus and for healthcare organizations across the country, patients are the top priority. They make decisions on which institutions to frequent based on the quality of care they receive and which organizations most respect patient privacy and health data security,” said Protenus Co-Founder and President, Robert Lord. “We are honored that the healthcare industry and consumers recognize the importance of the work we do at Protenus, striving to better protect their most sensitive information.”
About 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 7.17.2018 -
Health Catalyst Introduces Comprehensive Patient Safety Surveillance for Hospitals and Health Systems
First module in new patient safety software suite enables early detection of potential harm to individual patients; Analytics leader also to launch Patient Safety Organization
Salt Lake City, UT – July 17, 2018 – Health Catalyst today launched the Patient Safety Monitor™ Suite: Surveillance Module, the industry’s first comprehensive patient safety application to use predictive and text analytics combined with concurrent clinician review of data to monitor, detect, predict and prevent threats to patient safety before harm can occur.
Tens of thousands of patients die every year in US hospitals due to avoidable errors, according to numerous studies. The Journal of Patient Safety reports that up to 5 million patients per year suffer an avoidable, non-lethal harm event.
The new Surveillance Module, built on the Health Catalyst Data Operating System (DOS™), reflects the company’s zealous commitment to improving the safety of America’s hospitals.
Health Catalyst already has deep experience in improving patient safety in health systems across the country. The technology behind the new Patient Safety Monitor Suite takes the company’s existing capabilities to a new level of unmatched industry leadership.
To further support hospitals’ patient safety initiatives, Health Catalyst has also applied for certification as a Patient Safety Organization (PSO) with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), on behalf of the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Once listed, the Health Catalyst PSO will create a secure and safe environment where clients can collect and analyze patient safety events to learn and improve, free from fear of litigation.
Edward Ewen, MD, FACP, director of clinical data and analytics for Christiana Care Health System, commented on Christiana Care’s adoption of the new solution: “Christiana Care is fully committed to the journey to zero harm, but we realize that we will never get any closer than we are today if we stay rooted in old processes and technology. To reach zero harm will require a fundamental change in how we approach the problem. We will need to rapidly identify and respond to potential system weakness as they develop and ultimately anticipate harm before it manifests. We believe the Surveillance Module from Health Catalyst has the potential to take us to this next level, to prevent harm rather than only responding to it.”
Limitations of Current Patient Safety Efforts
“The current approach to patient safety is like doing archeology – digging through ancient safety events to identify the causes of harm, which does nothing to help with the patient in the bed right now,” said Health Catalyst Vice President of Patient Safety Products Stanley Pestotnik, MS, RPh, one of the foremost experts at the intersection of patient safety and harm-reduction technology. “Our patient safety suite, along with our quality-improvement services and the Health Catalyst PSO, turns the current paradigm on its head. Unlike other approaches to using analytics within a PSO to identify and address episodes of patient harm, we monitor triggers in near real-time to reveal whether a patient is currently at risk for a safety event, so clinicians can intervene to prevent it. And we provide constant vigilance; no patient encounter goes unnoticed.”Today’s standard approach of manual reporting of hospital safety events reportedly finds less than 5 percent of all-cause harm. This limited approach, based on data that is at least 30 days old, also requires extensive time and resources for data extraction, aggregation, and reporting, resulting in limited root-cause analyses.
Attempts to resolve some of these issues and accelerate patient safety initiatives using an electronic health record (EHR) have been stymied by the technological limitations of EHR software and databases, which provide limited surveillance and embedded AI capabilities. Moreover, because EHRs are considered “discoverable” in litigation, the legal protection afforded by the PSO framework does not apply to them. Because of these limitations, many organizations have adopted patient safety point solutions that focus on specific harms such as falls and hospital-acquired infections. But these, too, miss the mark by failing to facilitate whole-person patient safety and to predict all-cause harm.
Empowering Patient Safety Efforts with Timely, Robust Data
Developed over the last two years at a cost exceeding $50 million, the Health Catalyst Surveillance Module solves the challenges confronting today’s patient safety experts. Unlike the standard post-event reporting process, the Surveillance Module is a trigger-based surveillance system, enabled by the unique industry-first technological capabilities of the DOS™, including predictive analytic models and AI.The Surveillance Module quickly identifies patterns of harm and proposes strategies to eliminate patient safety risks and hazards for current and future patients. This potent combination of predictive analytics, text analytics and near real-time data from multiple sources enables the Patient Safety Monitor Suite to predict harm events and trigger a response while the patient is still in the hospital.
“Every healthcare organization wants to do the right thing for patient safety, but they currently don’t have the quantitative and AI-enabled real-time data to help them identify a rising patient safety risk,” said Dale Sanders, President of Technology at Health Catalyst. “By the time they know, it’s quite often too late for the patient. And it’s important to note that these safety and harmful events have a demoralizing impact on clinicians, too. The circle of impact goes beyond the patient, to the clinician, which is one reason that physician burnout and suicide rates are as high as they are.”
Sanders added, “I’m grateful that we have the expertise of Stan Pestotnik to address this critical issue in healthcare. Stan is well-known for his patient safety work at Intermountain Healthcare and as the co-founder and former CEO of TheraDoc. Now at Health Catalyst he has a platform in our data operating system to build something that he’s always wanted to build, and that the industry has been waiting for. Likewise, I’m grateful for the advice and support of our strategic advisors in patient safety. We have the best brains in the world on this topic, enabled by a very unique technological capability in our DOS platform.”
Professional Services
In concert with its release of the Surveillance Module, Health Catalyst will offer a breadth of patient safety professional services, including PSO services (e.g., safety data review, vulnerability assessment), “Culture of Safety” assessments and consulting, custom trigger development, outcomes improvement services, and safety collaboratives.Full Patient Safety Suite Roadmap
Health Catalyst is working with our client partners to evolve the Patient Safety Monitor Suite with important upcoming features including Risk Prediction, Improvement Tracker, and Decision Support (Safety Consultant). The suite and each of its modules will be continuously enhanced based on emerging safety threats and new regulatory requirements.In late 2018, the Surveillance Module will leverage additional AI and machine learning capabilities to learn from patterns of harm, significantly improving its ability to propose strategies to eliminate patient safety risks and hazards for current and future patients.
To learn more about the Patient Safety Monitor Suite: Surveillance Module, schedule a demo, or download a datasheet, visit www.healthcatalyst.com/product/patient-safety-monitor-surveillance/.
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 unleash and integrate data from across the healthcare ecosystem. Our Health Catalyst Data Operating System (DOS™)—a next-generation data warehouse and application development platform powered by data from more than 100 million patients, and encompassing over 1 trillion facts—helps improve quality, add efficiency and lower costs 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, communities, 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.Media Contact:
Todd Stein
Amendola Communications
510-417-0612
[email protected]Posted 7.17.2018 -
CHIME Statement on Proposed Updates to the Physician Fee Schedule and Quality Payment Program
ANN ARBOR, MI, July 13, 2018 – The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the proposed rule Thursday (July 12) on updates to the Physician Fee Schedule and Quality Payment Program (QPP), which encapsulates the Medicare Incentive-based Payment Program (MIPS) and Advanced Payment Models. Traditionally, these rules have been separate, however, CMS has combined them this year.
A statement by CHIME Public Policy Steering Committee Chair Liz Johnson, MS, RN-BC, Chief Information Officer, Acute Hospitals and Applied Clinical Informatics, Tenet Healthcare:
“CMS is certainly heeding calls from the provider community to reduce administrative burdens. We support efforts to reduce these burdens on clinicians, whether they were created by paper or electronic processes, and to give physicians more time to care for patients. We also applaud the discussion of expanded telehealth reimbursement, something that has been a priority for CIOs, and we commend efforts to incent use of PDMPs as we seek ways to leverage technology in our ongoing efforts to combat the nation’s opioid crisis.”
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.
Contact
Candace Stuart
Director of Communications and Public Relations, CHIME
734.665.0000
[email protected]Posted 7.13.2018 -
CHIME Makes Opioid Webinar Free and Open to the Public
ANN ARBOR, MI, July 11, 2018 – The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and the CHIME Opioid Task Force are continuing the campaign to reduce opioid addiction and deaths in the U.S. with a free webinar at noon on July 25. The webinar, “A Journey to Opioid Prescribing Reduction,” is open to anyone who registers through the CHIME website.Dave Lehr, CIO at Anne Arundel Health System and a member of the CHIME Opioid Task Force, will share the clinical and technological steps the Annapolis, Md.-based system took to reduce opioid prescribing by more than 50 percent across the system. The session will highlight change management challenges and a governance structure for achieving success.
This is the second free and open webinar hosted by CHIME and the CHIME Task Force. The task force was launched in January of 2018 to harness the talent and knowledge of CHIME’s diverse membership to help stem the tide on the opioid epidemic. More information about the task force is available here.
To register for the hourlong webinar, go here. CHIME members and CHIME Foundation members who attend can earn one continuing education credit.
Editor’s note: Members of the media are welcome to attend.
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Telmediq Receives Cisco’s DevNet Fast Lane Certification to Prioritize Voice and Texting
Seattle, WA. – July 11, 2018 – Telmediq, the #1 KLAS rated vendor for secure communication platforms in healthcare, is Cisco DevNet Fast Lane Certified to ensure critical communications are prioritized within hospital environments. The Fast Lane certification provides business critical iOS applications a higher wireless quality of service within the Cisco network environment.
With over 13,257 hospitals and clinics on Cisco infrastructure, and the increased use of iPhones, the Fast Lane enterprise certification ensures high priority messages, voice calls and video traffic from the Telmediq platform are prioritized over other Wi-Fi demands like web browsing and other mobile applications being used in the network.
Telmediq’s iOS users will notice improved audio and video quality, for example the average packet interval drops from 40ms to 20ms. Fast Lane leverages 802.11r fast roaming to allow continuous connectivity for iOS devices in motion and between access points, leading to less frequent dropped calls.
“We understand the challenges of managing hospital networks,” notes Telmediq CEO Ben Moore. “The FastLane certification reduces the configuration burden of ensuring the right applications are operating most efficiently.”
Applications that are Fast Lane enabled are rigorously tested by both Cisco and Apple to ensure that critical and non-critical messages are differentiated and that the application meets strict performance standards. Telmediq’s iOS application has been validated by Cisco as accurately tagged for QoS – meaning that it can be optimized for Wi-Fi and prioritized for Cisco Wi-Fi networks.
“Every minute counts towards improved care delivery. We are continually looking for ways to support providers’ needs to get time sensitive messages and calls delivered in the most time effective and high quality manner,” says Ben Moore.
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.comMedia Contact:
Gabrielle Eagles
[email protected]
206.960.4202Posted 7.11.2018 -
Health Catalyst Acquires Medicity, Extending Its Leadership as the Data Platform for Healthcare
Health Catalyst Platform Now Combines Data Exchange, Transaction and Analytics Capabilities
Salt Lake City, UT – July 11, 2018 – Health Catalyst, a leader in next-generation data, analytics, and decision support, today announced completion of its acquisition of Medicity, one of the nation’s largest population health management companies with solutions for health information exchange (HIE), business intelligence, and provider and patient engagement.
Medicity adds to the Health Catalyst customer base more than 100 clients including 21 state and regional HIEs, large employers, health plans, 75 health systems encompassing over 1,000 hospitals and more than 185,000 providers in physician groups and extended care facilities, in support of over 75 million patients. The combined company is positioned to solve many of the most pressing problems of large healthcare delivery networks as they seek to improve the quality and lower the cost of patient care across communities.
“The future of healthcare will rely on the broad and more effective use of data to improve quality and costs, and with this acquisition, Health Catalyst can combine its expertise in data, analytics and decision support, including a data asset of over 100 million patients, with the expertise of Medicity in data exchange across the continuum of care,” said Dan Burton, CEO of Health Catalyst. “Medicity’s experienced team, extensive client roster, expansive data sets, and significant transactional capabilities are a compelling complement to Health Catalyst’s team, capabilities and offerings. Together, we’re well positioned to scale and to offer solutions designed to help our clients apply data-driven insights in a value-based care environment.”
The acquisition combines Medicity’s deep clinical dataset of over 75 million patients and significant transactional capabilities with Health Catalyst’s Data Operating System (DOS™) including AI-driven analytics and business intelligence, and a broad set of financial, cost, patient outcomes, and supply chain data from over 400 hospitals, 4,000 clinics and a data set of over 100 million patients nationwide. The unique combination will empower connected communities with the insights required to improve healthcare outcomes, control costs, and advance population health management.
“The combination of Medicity with Health Catalyst represents the best of both worlds – the transactional capabilities that our customers have been asking for, along with the analytics that Medicity’s customers have sought, delivered now from one company,” said Health Catalyst President Brent Dover, who was president of Medicity before joining Health Catalyst in 2013. “We share complementary technologies, a home base in Salt Lake City, a culture of innovation, and a commitment to improving healthcare. We believe customers of both companies will benefit.”
The integration of Medicity significantly expands the capabilities of the Health Catalyst Data Operating System, which will now have the unique ability to receive and analyze data in real time, and then embed the resulting insights into the workflow of virtually every Electronic Health Record (EHR) on the market today. The combined companies will also have a compelling solution for, and expertise in, the loosely affiliated community ambulatory care management space. These organizations, primarily independent physician groups, are in dire need of a simple means of integrating data between EHRs at the patient encounter level, with enough clinical quality analytics to meet the legal requirements of a Clinically Integrated Network.
“Adding Medicity’s data skills and technology, particularly in physician-led value-based care networks, is a great complement to our solutions,” said Dale Sanders, Health Catalyst’s president of technology. “Both customer bases will benefit from this acquisition. Medicity is very skilled at delivering a high volume of data exchange transactions with high availability. Health Catalyst excels at the bulk movement, curation, and analysis of data, while Medicity has complementary data content that will enhance the precision of our AI algorithms. They have great technology for interacting with literally every EHR under the sun, which will enhance our ability to embed analytics and decision support at the point of care, regardless of who the EHR vendor is.”
Sanders added, “I’ve always been intrigued by the analytics of HIE data traffic; not the data content but rather the network analysis of message types, destinations, and the timing of those messages. We plan on combining that metadata analysis with our data content analysis for new insights into population health, referral patterns, and patient outcomes in a region. For the promise it offers, I believe this is a good acquisition for the industry.”
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 unleash and integrate data from across the healthcare ecosystem. Our Health Catalyst Data Operating System (DOS™)—a next-generation data warehouse and application development platform powered by data from more than 100 million patients, and encompassing over 1 trillion facts—helps improve quality, add efficiency and lower costs 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, communities, 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.Media Contact:
Todd Stein
Amendola Communications
916-346-4213
[email protected]Posted 7.11.2018 -
Avera Health Increases Labor & Delivery Patient Safety with new PeriWatch® Decision Support System
Avera Health now uses real-time trend analysis for the mothers and babies in its care
Cary, NC – July 10, 2018 – PeriGen, an innovator of perinatal early warning systems, today announced that hospitals within the Avera Health system, based in Sioux Falls, SD, are implementing PeriGen’s PeriWatch labor analysis software in their birthing units.
The first Avera locations to go live on PeriWatch – Avera McKennan Hospital & University Health Center in Sioux Falls; Avera Sacred Heart Hospital in Yankton, SD; and Avera St. Luke’s Hospital in Aberdeen, SD – are adding the full suite of PeriGen’s patient safety tools, including PeriWatch® Cues™, the only fetal surveillance solution that is both cleared by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and validated by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The software incorporates artificial intelligence to help clinicians interpret fetal heart rate patterns and provides a consistent, objective and standardized assessment to enhance care collaboration.
Avera regional hospitals in Pierre and Mitchell, SD, as well as community hospitals in Milbank and Parkston, SD; Estherville, Iowa; and O’Neill, Neb., will also implement PeriWatch.
“PeriWatch offers analytics as well as mobile capabilities for providers. The documentation is thorough and combined with clinical judgment, it can help identify issues earlier,” said Kimberlee McKay, MD, Clinical Vice President of Avera’s OB/GYN Service Line. “It offers our rural hospitals a direct connection to the tertiary care center in Sioux Falls, and an immediate second opinion on a fetal monitoring strip.”
Avera Health has 18 birthing locations in South Dakota, Minnesota, northwest Iowa and Nebraska, and excels at delivering quality care, close to home, employing best practices and the latest technology for improving outcomes and patient safety.
PeriWatch labor analysis modules provide comprehensive, patented, FDA-cleared clinical decision support for the Avera Health labor & delivery team. The software uses patented algorithms to help clinicians interpret fetal heart rate patterns and provides a consistent, objective and standardized assessment of the data as a basis for collaborative care at the bedside. The tool has been cited as invaluable in facilitating communication among nurses and physicians.
“National studies show that more than half of the bad outcomes in childbirth are preventable and often relate to delayed recognition of troubling signs,” said PeriGen CEO Matthew Sappern. “Responsibly, Avera wants its clinicians across the spectrum of its facilities to have the very best opportunities and controls to intervene in a timely fashion, and the PeriGen platform provides just that.”
ABOUT AVERA HEALTH
Avera Health is an integrated health system based in Sioux Falls, S.D., serving South Dakota and surrounding areas of Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska and North Dakota. Avera employs 17,500 at 330 locations that include 33 hospitals, 210 primary and specialty care clinics, and 40 senior living facilities in addition to home care and hospice, sports and wellness facilities, home medical equipment outlets and more. Avera offers 60 medical specialties with signature patient care programs including oncology, bone marrow transplant, cardiology, abdominal organ transplant, orthopedics, gastroenterology, women’s and children’s services, and behavioral health. As a health care ministry, Avera carries on the legacy of the Benedictine and Presentation Sisters, delivering care in an environment guided by values of compassion, hospitality and stewardship. Learn more at Avera.org.ABOUT PERIGEN, INC.
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 and IT visionaries, 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 7.10.2018 -
Foundation Firms Eligible for Exclusive Most Wired Discounts and Deals
7.10.2018
By Jessica Hadley, Executive Director CHIME Education Foundation and FundraisingThanks to our partnership with Modern Healthcare Custom Media, CHIME is positioned to offer Foundation firm members a variety of exclusive benefits associated with our HealthCare’s Most Wired program. Many of you are familiar with Modern Healthcare, whose influence as a top healthcare publication reaches more than 70,000 CEOs, CIOs, CFOs and other C-suite leaders in hospitals and health systems across the U.S. And while earning a HealthCare’s Most Wired designation is a coveted honor among those leaders, the title may not be as well recognized outside the provider community.
HealthCare’s Most Wired offers Foundation firms an enticing opportunity to be paired with the best of the best in the provider industry. This year 675 organizations representing more than 2,400 hospitals from around the world participated in CHIME’s first Most Wired survey. Although getting recognition is a strong draw, another key reason CIOs across the globe completed the survey is the high-quality report CHIME will send to each participant. These customized benchmarking reports will give participants detailed information that they can use to build a stronger IT program. Our goal is to arm them with robust data to help them make informed buying decisions and negotiate for resources.
Modern Healthcare Custom Media will publish a supplement devoted to the CHIME HealthCare’s Most Wired program and recipients of this year’s Most Wired title. The print publication will be available at the 2018 CHIME Fall CIO Forum in San Diego, which will include a special awards ceremony on Nov. 2, and will also be posted online on the Modern Healthcare and CHIME websites.
Modern Healthcare Custom Media is selling full- and half-page ads to run in the supplement, with discounts to Foundation firms. Foundation firms can save more than $2,270 on a full-page ad and more than $1,460 on a half-page ad. Modern Healthcare’s advertising team is making Foundation firms a priority but they also will be contacting other companies that specialize in healthcare IT products and services. We encourage you to take advantage of the discount and ensure your leadership in the industry is appropriately recognized.
For rates and other details, you can call Modern Healthcare Custom Media directly at 312-649-5311 or email Jessica Hadley at [email protected].
Foundation firms that sponsor HealthCare’s Most Wired program at the gold or silver level will receive an ad for free as part of their sponsorship. There are many more benefits, including other media opportunities, logo placements and more. You can learn more about sponsorships here. Sponsorship opportunities are limited, so contact us at [email protected] soon if you are interested or have questions.
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CFCHE Program Gains Traction and Interest Among CIOs
7.10.2018
By Tim Stettheimer, Vice President, Education“What have you done for me lately?” No. Not the Janet Jackson song from the ‘80s – it’s the question asked in most businesses and by customers in our increasingly fast-moving environment. If you haven’t been asked this (or something like it), hang tight; you will be.
As a CIO, no one wants to spend time answering questions like “What makes you lose sleep at night?” or “What is your strategy?” or “What are your top priorities?” Those questions waste time. CIOs want partners who already know the answers to those questions – because those potential partners are bringing solutions for a fast-moving market in which they have answers.
How do CIOs find those partners? One answer is “the CFCHE credential.” The CHIME Foundation Certified Health Executive (CFCHE) program was designed to provide recognition for CHIME Foundation members of a level of insight and industry understanding that exceeds the norm. This designation is gaining even more prominence due to the pressures that the healthcare industry faces. As CIOs are being asked to deliver innovation, strategy, operational excellence and to reduce costs, they need help.
Internal resources for CIOs are limited and it is a frustrating journey of trial and error to quickly find qualified partners to work with. When a CIO has a long-term relationship with a firm or particular individual, they are their first line of partnering. When a CIO does not have an established partner in an area (security, recruiting, networking, etc.), they need a go-to option. So, they reach out to their colleagues and friends seeking rapid support – but often, they can’t find what they need.
Next step? There is the rub. There is no good next step. There has been no way to quickly identify partners who are already competent and informed on current issues or solutions. However, the CFCHE can fill this gap. As the CFCHE ranks increase, CHIME CIOs will increasingly expect that they can find partnerships in that expert pool of people. The credential demonstrates a level of initiative and experience that is otherwise hard to identify. With a CFCHE partner, CIOs understand more and more that they won’t need to waste time bringing someone “up to speed”– they can just go. And “go” is now the name of the game.
Find out more about CFCHE, summer and group discounts, and opportunities to take the exam that include an “in-home” online option and our upcoming CPES18 event by visiting our website: https://chimecentral.org/certification/cfche/.
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Excerpts from the Proposed ‘Promoting Interoperability’ Initiative
7.10.2018
By Leslie Krigstein, VP Congressional Affairs, CHIMEOn April 24, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) proposed rule that included changes to the Meaningful Use program. The proposal included renaming Meaningful Use to Promoting Interoperability, a new scoring methodology and other changes that would impact hospitals, health systems and the health IT companies that serve them. The proposed rule is expected to be finalized in August.
Here are some excerpts from the proposed rule that may be of interest to Foundation firms, followed by links to CHIME documents.
2015 Edition of Certified Electronic Health Record IT (CEHRT)
“We continue to believe it is appropriate to require the use of 2015 Edition CEHRT beginning in CY 2019. In reviewing the state of health information technology, it is clear the 2014 Edition certification criteria are out of date and insufficient for provider needs in the evolving health IT industry. It would be beneficial to health IT developers and health care providers to move to more up-to-date standards and functions that better support interoperable exchange of health information and improve clinical workflows.”
Application programming interfaces (APIs)
“We also note that the Provide Patient Access measure’s technical requirements are updated in the 2015 Edition and support health care providers’ interest in providing patients with access to their data in a manner that is helpful to the patient and aligns with the API requirement in the Promoting Interoperability Program. … We want to ensure that health care providers have the opportunity to thoroughly test their systems and make adjustments in order to successfully attest for the EHR reporting periods in CYs 2019 and 2020. In addition, we believe that health care providers may need extra time to fully implement and test workflows with the 2015 Edition of CEHRT, which is required beginning in CY 2019, as well as the current proposal to require use of an API to incorporate patient data in the Provide Patients Electronic Access to Their Health Information measure.”
New scoring methodology and measures
“We also are proposing … an updated scoring methodology for eligible hospitals and CAHs (critical access hospitals) that would begin in 2019, as well as two new opioid measures and one new health information exchange measure that we believe eligible hospitals and CAHs will want to report on as soon as those measures are available in their CEHRT. We want to provide flexibility to health care providers as they are becoming familiar with the new scoring methodology and measures that we are proposing, as well as adequate development time for EHR developers and vendors to test and incorporate the new scoring system and measures for deployment and implementation. Therefore, we are proposing changes to the EHR reporting periods in 2019 and 2020 and believe the changes would result in a reduction in burden on health care providers and EHR developers and vendors. We are proposing these changes for 2019 and 2020 as we believe it may take more than one year for eligible hospitals and CAHs to adjust to the new scoring methodology.”
On June 25, CHIME sent comments to CMS that reflected members’ thoughts and concerns. CHIME commended CMS for exercising flexibility allowed under the 2018 Bipartisan Budget Act to remove a “pass/fail” policy under Meaningful Use. Other key points in the comment letter included finalizing new measures proposed in the Promoting Interoperability program but keeping two under an e-prescribing objective voluntary; allowing policies designed to speed interoperability a chance to take root before considering other policy levers; and addressing a list of barriers that would impede interoperability.
The comment letter is available here. The policy team also prepared a cheat sheet on the proposed changes, which can be found here.
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CHIME Foundation 25th Anniversary Profiles – Allscripts
7.10.2018
By Arika Lycan, Specialist, FoundationThis month we’re excited to continue our series on Founding Firms: Celebrating 25 Years of Robust Partnership. CHIME Foundation’s inaugural year ended with just 15 Foundation firms, at least six of which are still active members today.
CHIME Foundation’s 25th anniversary celebration is coming up at the end of October at the 2018 CHIME Fall CIO Forum. As a retrospective on the past 25 years of supporting healthcare IT firms of all sizes, we’re featuring articles with insights and voices from one of our long-term members in each month’s Insight.
Our featured partner firm this month Is Allscripts, with input from Tom Lynch, senior manager, communications, Allscripts.
Q: Do you know why Allscripts decided to join the then-newly formed CHIME Foundation?
A: Allscripts builds open, connected communities of health, and that vision requires partnership with leaders across the industry. CHIME Foundation was formed with a similar purpose and promotes collaboration between healthcare CIOs and health IT experts.
Q: How has Allscripts’ healthcare-focused work grown and changed in the past 25 years?
A: Founded in 1986, Allscripts has grown from a small private business that packaged medication for point-of-care dispensing to a global company with a comprehensive portfolio of health IT solutions and services. Our solutions enable smarter care, delivered with greater precision, for healthier patients, populations and communities.
Q: In what ways has CHIME Foundation been able to support those changing needs?
A: Allscripts wants to help our clients succeed by serving as their trusted partner. CHIME Foundation is one way we collaborate with them to ensure Allscripts will fulfill their needs today and create the health IT they will need tomorrow.
Thanks for your thoughts on the CHIME Foundation and Allscripts’ significant partnership. Next month we will profile another long-term member. Stayed tuned for more information as we move closer to our big anniversary celebration at CHIME18!
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Summer Success Series Webinars Highlight Ways to Bolster Your Year End Plans
7.10.2018
By Rebecca Scholten, Specialist, Business DevelopmentCHIME Technologies, a for-profit entity that supports innovative new products and services from the healthcare industry, is offering Foundation firm members several informative webinars entitled Summer Success Series. The three Summer Success Series webinar events will each review one of the value-added services offered to Foundation firms, and will provide insight on how these services can bolster your plans for your final quarter.
CHIME Technologies’ main service lines complement your CHIME Foundation membership benefits. Created to expand and deepen CHIME member opportunities, CHIME Tech also provides opportunities for Foundation firms to gain additional exposure with CHIME CIOs and AEHIS/AEHIT/AEHIA members. We get creative in how you connect with CHIME and our CIO members. We often have Foundation members that look for alternative avenues to expand their connection to CHIME CIOs, and our programs were created to do just that.
With services that offer advertising, advisory and educational opportunities, along with a Speakers Bureau, CHIME Tech is poised to enhance your presence in the healthcare IT realm. CHIME Technologies can build on the exposure inherent to your CHIME Foundation membership, and assist your team with achieving your goals.
There are four core programs offered by CHIME Tech:
- Through the CHIME Technologies Cooperative Member Services program, your firm is eligible to provide an exclusive discount or offering to CHIME members. The program and offerings are marketed by CHIME Technologies through several publication activities. We will review feedback from CIOs on what type of offerings they are looking for, and will share best practices for generating interest.
- The Advisory Services program gives your firm the opportunity to bring a panel of senior healthcare leaders and CIOs to your location for in-depth, in-person feedback on topics of your choosing. Learn why CIOs choose to participate in this program, and how you can get the most out of your engagement.
- The Speakers Bureau is comprised of industry thought leaders, available for speaking engagements at your company events. Learn about the engagement process, what topics our faculty cover and the advantages of utilizing the CHIME Speakers Bureau to find your next speaker.
- In partnership with CHIME’s industry leading educational team, CHIME Tech offers Foundation firms the Leadership Academy program. Leadership Academy content is based on the popular CHIME CIO Boot Camp© principals, brought to your firm for your leadership team. Learn leadership skills from CHIME faculty members.
The Summer Success Series is designed to help Foundation firms weigh these programs and make informed decision on these opportunities. Join CHIME Technologies for their Summer Success Series:
Speakers Bureau – June 27 (Listen to recording here)
Advisory Services – July 25
Cooperative Member Services – August 22
Learn more and register today: http://ow.ly/fwl430kCGwz
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