• Sectra PACS wins ‘Best in KLAS’ in the US for the sixth year in a row

    Shelton, CT – January 31, 2019 – International medical imaging IT and cybersecurity company Sectra (STO: SECT B) continues to be the #1 rated PACS and is awarded the prestigious customer satisfaction award ‘Best in KLAS’. For the sixth continuous year, Sectra has been named ‘Best in KLAS’ in the US for PACS (Large Hospital/IDN) with a score of 94 out of a possible 100. The distinction is given by the healthcare IT data and insights company KLAS Research. With an increasing number of VNA customers, Sectra is also included in the report in the VNA Image Archive category (1).

    “We are dedicated to contributing to improving the effectiveness in healthcare, and happy users are the ultimate proof that Sectra’s staff and solutions achieve that in the best possible way. I am thankful and honored to be acknowledged for our top ratings in customer satisfaction,” says Dr. Torbjörn Kronander, President and CEO of Sectra.

    The first Sectra PACS was installed in 1993 and today, the company has 1,800 installations worldwide. Sectra PACS is an integral part of Sectra’s enterprise imaging solution comprising VNA and spans image-intense departments such as radiology, breast imaging, pathology, orthopaedics, and cardiology.

    “When we call the help desk, 90% of our problems can be solved by the person who answers the phone. That is very nice. Sectra’s staff members are very knowledgeable and jump right in. Support is definitely the best thing with Sectra,” says US Analyst/Coordinator, December 2018, KLAS Research (2), https://klasresearch.com/comments/sectra-pacs/1814.

    “We have had Sectra PACS for many years, and we could not be happier. Our radiologists have seen numerous PACS products, and they feel that Sectra PACS is by far more functional and easier to use than other products. We have radiology technicians who work at other hospitals part-time. They feel that no other system even compares to Sectra PACS,” says US Manager, November 2018, KLAS Research (2), https://klasresearch.com/comments/sectra-pacs/1814.

    Meet Sectra at HIMSS and ECR 2019
    Sectra’s enterprise imaging solution, including Sectra PACS and Sectra VNA, will be showcased at the HIMSS and ECR trade shows. Visit us at booth #1079 at HIMSS and #D11 at ECR to learn more about our solutions.
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    About ‘Best in KLAS’
    2019 Best in KLAS is a recognition of outstanding efforts to help healthcare organizations in their quest to deliver quality patient care. The Best in KLAS designation is awarded only in those software and services market segments that have the broadest operational and clinical impact on healthcare organizations.

    (1) Sectra was included in KLAS’ “Below Konfidence category” because fewer than 15 interviews were conducted. KLAS Konfidence is a measure of sample size.

    (2) Selected commentary about Sectra PACS collected 2018. For a complete view, visit www.klasresearch.com and https://klasresearch.com/best-in-klas-ranking/pacs/2019/7-1.

    About Sectra Imaging IT Solutions
    With more than 25 years of innovation and 1,800 installations, Sectra is a leading global provider of imaging IT solutions that support healthcare in achieving patient-centric care. Sectra offers an enterprise imaging solution comprising PACS for imaging-intense departments (radiology, pathology, cardiology, orthopaedics), VNA, and share and collaborate solutions. Read more about Sectra and why Sectra PACS is “Best in KLAS” for a sixth consecutive year at http://www.sectra.com/medical/.

    Contact:
    Andrea Sowitch, Vice President of Marketing
    Sectra, Inc.
    E-mail: [email protected]
    Phone: 203 925 0899 ext. 268

    Torbjörn Kronander, President and CEO
    Sectra AB
    E-mail: [email protected]
    Phone: +46 705 23 5227

    Posted 1.31.2019

  • 2019 Best in KLAS Report Ranks Protenus No. 1 in Patient Privacy Monitoring

    Healthcare compliance analytics company achieves national recognition after survey of nationwide customers

    BALTIMORE, MD – January 31, 2019 – Protenus, the healthcare compliance analytics platform that protects patient privacy for the nation’s leading health systems, announces today that it has been ranked the leading provider in the patient privacy monitoring category of the 2019 Best in KLAS: Software & Services report.

    Founded in 2014, Protenus uses artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze every single action taking place inside a hospital’s EHR and ancillary systems. These advanced analytics proactively detect inappropriate accesses to patient data and provide health systems full insight into how health data is used throughout their organizations, often for the first time. AI-powered analytics allow healthcare privacy teams to rest assured that their patient data is safe and allows them to focus on the true threats to their organization and patients.

    Protenus was also named the 2016 HPE-IAPP Innovator of the Year and 2018 Modern Healthcare’s Best Places to Work in Healthcare. Protenus co-founders were recently recognized on a list of Becker’s Hospital Review Rising Stars in Healthcare in 2018.

    “We considered several other organizations, but Protenus offered a substantially better product. We are a large organization with multiple hospitals, so we needed to ensure that our EMRs were safe. Keeping tabs on our many providers and patients is a monumental effort, so we needed to find a tool to do much of that legwork.” – KLAS survey respondent, June 2018

    KLAS Research is a healthcare IT data and insights company providing the industry with accurate, honest, and impartial research on the software and services used by providers and payers worldwide. KLAS partners with healthcare professionals to foster an atmosphere of transparency surrounding the state of healthcare and highlight the services and solutions that are having an impact.

    “We are humbled to receive this prestigious recognition from our customers and KLAS Research,” stated Nick Culbertson, Protenus CEO and Co-founder. “Since we founded Protenus, customer delight has always been our top priority and we are proud that our customers see how we operationalize our values.”

    “Our team strives to exceed customer expectations while delivering technology that enables health systems to better protect their patient’s most sensitive data,” stated Christa White, Protenus Director of Customer Success. “Our customers are more than just users of the platform, they are our partners in better protecting patient data and innovating the industry. We look forward to continuing to work with them to reduce organizational risk and ensure patient trust.”

    The Protenus platform will be showcased at the upcoming HIMSS19 conference, at booth #929, from Feb. 11-14, 2019 in Orlando. To schedule a meeting, contact our events team at [email protected].

    To access and review the KLAS Patient Privacy Segment, please visit: https://klasresearch.com/best-in-klas-ranking/patient-privacy-monitoring/2019/246

    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 Protenus

    The Protenus healthcare compliance analytics platform uses artificial intelligence to audit every access to patient data 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.

    Media Contact

    Kira Caban
    Director of Strategic Communications
    [email protected]

    Posted 1.31.2019

  • Impact Advisors Named Best in KLAS #1 Overall IT Services Firm for the 5th Time in Seven Years

    Firm earns recognition in three categories

    CHICAGO, IL – January 31, 2019 – Impact Advisors, LLC, a leading provider of clinical, revenue cycle and information technology services to the healthcare industry, announced today that it has been named Best in KLAS #1 Overall IT Services Firm for the fifth time. The firm was also named #1 Best in KLAS in HIT Enterprise Implementation Leadership and Category Leader in Clinical Optimization in the 2019 Best in KLAS: Software and Services report. These recognitions make it the 12th consecutive year the firm has been recognized by KLAS. 

    The Best in KLAS Overall IT Services Firm ranking is reserved for those firms that have at least three separate IT services that meet the minimum “KLAS Konfidence” level in three separate market segments. Ranking #1 on the list, Impact Advisors received above average or well above average rankings in all six categories, which are culture, loyalty, operations, product, relationship and value.

    “This industry recognition is one of the most meaningful to us because it is a reflection of the quality of service and value we provide to our clients,” said Peter Smith, CEO and Co-Founder of Impact Advisors. “We are humbled by the support of our clients and proud of the dedication and passion of our Associates. We will continue to live our mission of creating a positive Impact for our clients by helping put the strategies in place to help reach their ultimate goal of providing high-quality service and exceptional patient care.”

    Best in KLAS is a recognition of outstanding efforts to help healthcare organizations in their quest to deliver quality patient care. The Best in KLAS report ranks healthcare IT software and services vendors across numerous market segments and contains two types of awards for various healthcare IT markets: the Best in KLAS award and the Category Leader award. The Best in KLAS designation is awarded only in those software and services market segments that have the broadest operational and clinical impact on healthcare organizations. Market segments that are assigned Category Leader awards are new or niche segments with a focused impact across many health systems.

    The Best in KLAS HIT Enterprise Implementation Leadership designation is reserved for vendors that provide outstanding efforts to help healthcare organizations in their quest to deliver quality patient care.

    The Clinical Optimization Category Leader designation is reserved for use in select market segments that don’t qualify for Best in KLAS, but in which at least two products meet a minimum level of “KLAS Konfidence.” Like Best in KLAS winners, vendors awarded a Category Leader designation stand out for helping healthcare organizations deliver quality patient care.

    Impact Advisors ranked a close second in the Revenue Cycle Optimization category, as well.

    “Best in KLAS is about raising the bar for healthcare technology,” said Adam Gale. “Its providers and payers demand better performance, usability and interoperability. Ultimately, Best in KLAS is about giving providers and payers the tools they need to facilitate superior care and improved outcomes.”

    Impact Advisors will be attending the Best in KLAS Awards Ceremony on Feb. 11 in Orlando.

    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 Impact Advisors

    Impact Advisors is a nationally recognized healthcare consulting firm that is solving some of the toughest challenges in the industry by delivering strategic advisory, technology implementation and performance improvement services. Our comprehensive suite of digital health, clinical optimization and revenue cycle services spans 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 12 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 1.31.2019

  • HealthNET Systems Consulting, Inc. Receives MEDITECH READY Certification

    BURLINGTON, MA – January 31, 2019 – HealthNET Systems Consulting, a leading provider of healthcare technology services, announced today that they are now certified by MEDITECH to assist clients with their MEDITECH Enterprise Health Record (EHR) READY implementations.

    HealthNET is one of just 13 consulting firms who are READY-Certified for MEDITECH Levels 1-4 and Client/Server 5.6 to 6.1 Pathway implementations.

    To achieve the MEDITECH READY-Certified distinction, consulting firms must exhibit an extensive history of client satisfaction and knowledge on the MEDITECH 6.x platform. READY’s key tenets of implementation is based on an integrated, team-oriented approach dedicated to enhancing patient care, which includes:

    • Rapid Adoption
    • Evidence-based Content
    • Advanced Workflows
    • Dedicated Teams
    • Your [Client] Success

    Conveniently located near the hub of MEDITECH’s offices in Massachusetts, HealthNET is uniquely positioned to work cohesively in collaboration with MEDITECH to deliver optimal client results. The firm’s core team of consultants average 20 years of expertise and bring a wealth of knowledge across the gamut of MEDITECH products.

    “Given our many years of working with MEDITECH, this is a nice achievement and recognition,” said HealthNET’s founder Clifton Jay. “The READY certification will enable us to better support our clients,” he added.

    To learn more about HealthNET, visit healthnetconsulting.com or email [email protected].

    About MEDITECH

    The next digital transformation of healthcare is underway, and MEDITECH is leading the charge with Expanse, the only full-scale EHR designed specifically for the post-Meaningful Use era. As a leading EHR vendor for 50 years, MEDITECH’s solutions have empowered 2,325 customers across 22 different countries to provide higher quality care, with greater efficiency, to more people, at a lower cost. Today, our cutting-edge solutions are helping organizations to see healthcare through a new lens and navigate this virtual landscape with unparalleled vision and clarity. Whether your destination is clinical efficiency, analytical prowess, or financial success, MEDITECH’s bold innovation, passion, and expertise will get you where you want to go. Visit ehr.meditech.com, our Newsroom and Blog, and connect with us on Twitter, Facebookand LinkedIn to start your journey today.

    About HealthNET Systems Consulting

    Founded in 1990, HealthNET’s mission is to deliver exceptional healthcare IT solutions based on the unique needs of their clients. HealthNET’s industry knowledge across the entire spectrum of MEDITECH products runs deep and is grounded in best practices and effective use of methodologies. Streamlined practices and workflow optimization are natural outcomes of HealthNET’s investment in their clients, producing end results of quality patient care, sound fiscal operations and overall improved organizational performance.

    In addition to being a MEDITECH READY-Certified consulting firm, HealthNET is a privately held S corporation and a certified Minority Business Enterprise (MBE). Learn more at healthnetconsulting.com or follow them on LinkedIn or Twitter.

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    Media Contact

    Joann Williams-Hoxha
    Phone: (781) 270-4000 Ext. 2085
    Email: [email protected]

    Posted 1.31.2019

  • MEDITECH Joins Forces with Nuance to Deliver AI-Powered Virtual Assistants for Healthcare

    MEDITECH Expanse will be integrated with Nuance’s Dragon Medical Virtual Assistant to improve the physician and patient experience

    WESTWOOD, MA, and BURLINGTON, MA – January 30, 2019 – With a constant eye toward improving both physician efficiency and the patient experience, MEDITECH, a leading, innovative Electronic Health Record (EHR) vendor, and Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN), the pioneer and leader in AI-powered solutions for more than 10,000 global healthcare organizations, announced MEDITECH is integrating Nuance’s Dragon Medical Virtual Assistant into MEDITECH Expanse. Building on a long history of innovation by the two companies, this integration will complement common clinician workflows by automating high value clinical and administrative tasks that will allow physicians to spend more time focused on, and improving, the patient experience.

    MEDITECH showcased several of these virtual assistant-enabled workflows—that understand, analyze, and respond to human language to increase productivity and amplify human intelligence—through a proof of concept demonstration at the recent 2018 Physician and CIO Forum. These workflows enable physicians to seamlessly accomplish a number of common clinical workflow tasks including:

    • Saving time by conversationally retrieving patient lists;
    • Increasing efficiency by searching patient charts for lab results, vital signs, medications, and more using natural dialogue; and
    • Improving productivity by queueing orders through intuitive voice-driven workflows.

    “In the past decade, virtual assistants have become more and more ingrained in our everyday lives. MEDITECH is excited to bring the power of Nuance’s proven expertise in virtual assistants to the MEDITECH community through Expanse,” said Executive Vice President at MEDITECH, Hoda Sayed-Friel. “Using this seamless integration, providers can more efficiently and conveniently engage with the EHR using a conversational user interface. This work with Nuance continues to demonstrate MEDITECH’s commitment to improving the clinician and patient experience through the use of technology.”

    “When I am rounding, I regularly need to quickly access information in the chart and submit orders on the fly,” said Dr. Howard LeWine, MEDITECH Physician Consultant. “By using Nuance’s Virtual Assistant, I can easily ask for the chart information, such as last EKG or colonoscopy report, and order tests and medications without interrupting my interaction with the patient.”

    Building on decades of experience in healthcare, its extensive market footprint, and applying Nuance technology that has supported many of the leading consumer, enterprise and automotive brands in the world, Nuance’s virtual assistant platform is optimized for the healthcare market with rich conversational dialogue management and voice biometrics. The platform’s core capability builds on Dragon Medical, which is trusted by more than 500,000 clinicians worldwide to accurately create and communicate more than 300 million patient stories a year.

    “Clinicians want technology that is easy to use and that gives them more time back in their day to spend with the patients they care for,” said Peter Durlach, senior vice president, strategy and new business development, Healthcare division, Nuance Communications. “Leveraging our broad experience with developing virtual assistant technology for 6,500 leading consumer and enterprise brands that rely on Nuance, Nuance is building a future where care teams can utilize the next generation of Dragon Medical cloud capabilities to become even more productive, better informed and better served through the use of advanced conversational AI technologies.”

    To learn more about this strategic effort and see a demonstration of these AI technologies in action, visit MEDITECH booth #3921 and Nuance booth #3345 at HIMSS 2019, Orlando, Florida, February 11-15, 2019.

    About MEDITECH
    The next digital transformation of healthcare is underway, and MEDITECH is leading the charge with Expanse, the only full-scale EHR designed specifically for the post-Meaningful Use era. As a leading EHR vendor for over 45 years, MEDITECH’s solutions have empowered 2,350+ customers across 22 different countries to provide higher quality care, with greater efficiency, to more people, at a lower cost. Today, our cutting-edge solutions are helping organizations to see healthcare through a new lens and navigate this virtual landscape with unparalleled vision and clarity. Whether your destination is clinical efficiency, analytical prowess, or financial success, MEDITECH’s bold innovation, passion, and expertise will get you where you want to go. Visit ehr.meditech.com, our Newsroom and Blog, and connect with us on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn to start your journey today.

    MEDITECH Press Contacts 
    Paul Berthiaume
    Senior Manager, Marketing Communications
    MEDITECH
    781-774-5742
    [email protected]

    Liz Carroll
    Manager, Public Relations and Media Relations
    MEDITECH
    781-774-3297
    [email protected]

    About Nuance Healthcare
    Nuance provides intelligent systems that support a more natural and insightful approach to clinical documentation, freeing clinicians to spend more time caring for patients. Nuance healthcare solutions capture, improve, and communicate more than 300 million patient stories each year helping more than 500,000 clinicians in 10,000 global healthcare organizations to drive meaningful clinical and financial outcomes. Nuance’s award-winning clinical speech recognition, medical transcription, CDI, coding, quality, and medical imaging solutions provide a more complete and accurate view of patient care. For more information, please visit www.nuance.com.

    About Nuance Communications, Inc. 
    Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) is the pioneer and leader in conversational AI innovations that bring intelligence to everyday work and life. The company delivers solutions that can understand, analyze and respond to human language to increase productivity and amplify human intelligence. With decades of domain and artificial intelligence expertise, Nuance works with thousands of organizations – in global industries that include healthcare, telecommunications, automotive, financial services, and retail – to create stronger relationships and better experiences for their customers and workforce. For more information, please visit www.nuance.com.

    Trademark reference: Nuance and the Nuance logo are registered trademarks or trademarks of Nuance Communications, Inc. or its affiliates in the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks referenced herein are the property of their respective owners.

    Nuance Press Contact 
    Victoria Barnes
    ReviveHealth for Nuance Healthcare
    (781) 249-3738
    [email protected]

    Posted 1.30.2019

  • Health Catalyst Introduces Rapid Response Analytics to Accelerate Analytics ROI

    New software solution drives 90 percent faster insights for health system analytics teams

    SALT LAKE CITY, UT – January 29, 2019 – Health Catalyst®, Inc., today takes another significant step forward in the company’s leadership of healthcare analytics with the release of the Rapid Response Analytics Solution, a force multiplier for data assets and analytics staff.

    Developed based on Health Catalyst’s unprecedented experience in the trenches of healthcare data management and analysis, the solution supports three fundamental concepts and needs: dramatically increasing the efficiency and productivity of data analysts and data scientists so they can operate at the top of their skills; improving analytic consistency and data governance; and reducing the total cost of ownership for data platforms and enterprise data warehouses.

    The industry’s need for greater analytics efficiency, consistency and ROI is clear. According to a 2018 survey by HealthLeaders Media, organizations are prioritizing the hiring of analytics staff over that of every other role except care coordinators. At the same time, they are increasing investments in analytics technology to support the analysts, ranking clinical analytics their No. 1 area of IT investment over the next three years.

    The Rapid Response Analytics Solution’s curated data content and tools will help to satisfy the industry’s demand for more efficient and affordable data analysis. The solution maximizes value from healthcare’s most strategic business asset—data—by providing agility, speed, and consistency to analytics engineers and data scientists.

    The result, confirmed by early deployment at client sites, is a 90 percent decrease in the time required to develop new analytic insights, which can translate into up to a 10x efficiency multiplier in developing analytics.

    “Like every healthcare IT department that I know of, we have historically faced significant delays in responding to requests for data analysis, simply because the process has always required a data analyst,” said John Sanders, Chief Information Officer of Health Share of Oregon, that state’s largest Medicaid coordinated care organization, serving more than 210,000 Oregon Health Plan members. “Rapid Response Analytics is quickly making us—and our clinical partners—significantly more productive by enabling us to get data slicing and access out of the hands of the IT department and into those of less technical people who can now use applications to answer their questions themselves, without our help. It’s a breakthrough that promises to make healthcare data far more accessible and useful to more people.”

    “The Rapid Response Analytics Solution is a game changer,” said Mia Taylor MSN, FNP-BC, APRN-RX, Director of Community & Post-Acute Care Services at The Queens Health Systems in Hawaii. “We can bring timely, relevant data to providers and can partner with providers in the community to more effectively manage the total cost of care. EMRs are not built to perform the type of analytics we need to improve the health of populations. And it is challenging to provide effective longitudinal care when you have disparate EMRs. The Health Catalyst analytics platform and applications allow us to bridge that gap.”

    Analytics problems solved

    Informal Health Catalyst surveys of healthcare data analysts and data scientists reveal that they spend 80-90 percent of their time moving, organizing and curating data, and only 10-20 percent of their time on analytics that benefit their organization. Healthcare executives have long complained that the turnaround time for data analysis is too long; their organizations suffer from inconsistent, labor intensive, and sometimes outright wrong quality reporting and outcomes improvement analytics. Similarly, many healthcare CIOs complain that the cost of supporting and maintaining data warehouses and analytics staff eventually becomes unscalable.

    To help address these concerns, Health Catalyst began developing the Rapid Response Analytics Solution three years ago.  Today, the first version is available to the market and installed at all client sites.

    The Rapid Response Analytics Solution consists of two primary elements: curated, modular data kits called DOS Marts; and Population Builder, a powerful self-service tool that lets any type of user, from physician executive to frontline nurse, explore their data and quickly build cohorts of patients without relying on IT staff and with no need for sophisticated and customized SQL and data science coding.  

    DOS Marts integrate multiple data sources, harmonize the terminology, and make the most common data elements easy to use, facilitating the rapid development of analytic reports and applications. Built on the Health Catalyst Data Operating System (DOS™), DOS Marts provide a curated, reusable, customizable layer of data content, logic and algorithms. They are designed to address a large number of analytic scenarios, while encouraging governance and the efficient reuse of logic for consistent analytics. DOS Marts also provide standardized vocabulary mappings to key data elements and incorporate over 400 clinical definitions from nationally standardized data sources such as CMS.

    Population Builder is a powerful and elegantly designed tool that simplifies exploration of the DOS Marts and dramatically boosts analysts’ productivity. Population Builder is specifically designed to support the precise definition of patient cohorts, as well as the publication, governance and reuse of national and local definitions for patient cohorts. Clinicians, researchers, data analysts, and data scientists can use Population Builder in a real-time, collaborative work setting, exploring different definitions for patient cohorts, and then saving that work for downstream analytics.

    Unburdened by traditional code-based methodologies, analysts using Population Builder can uncover actionable insights within minutes rather than hours or days. Users without SQL or technical expertise can build logic to define populations of interest, based on a breadth of dimensions ranging from ICD codes to genomic profiles. Additionally, Population Builder’s visual building experience generates easy-to-understand documentation, enabling more direct and effective collaboration between clinicians and analysts, as these teams can review graphical representations of patient populations, rather than complex SQL code, to refine population definitions.  Finally, Population Builder allows the defined populations to be published and governed into DOS, where they can be reused across a variety of analytic and software applications.

    “We field numerous requests for ad-hoc reports and knew that Population Builder would be a great tool to quickly gather patient populations around specific illnesses,” said James Henderson, senior manager of quality analytics for the Wolff Center at UPMC, a leading integrated health system that owns a financial interest in Health Catalyst.  “As a first test, we used Population Builder to find patients who had been diagnosed with endocarditis, and in under 5 minutes we had our patient population.  That search would have taken a couple of hours with our current tool.”

    Dale Sanders, Health Catalyst’s President of Technology, commented, “With Rapid Response Analytics, we provide pre-packaged data that’s been harmonized to industry terminology standards and value sets. It dramatically improves the efficiency of data analysts and data scientists. Our Chief Data Scientist, Jason Jones, who spent many years at Kaiser Permanente, Bayer, and Intermountain Healthcare, almost cried with joy when he first saw the conceptual design for Rapid Response Analytics. It’s like a meal-delivery kit, so data analysts and scientists don’t have to go shopping and build their own data sets from scratch, but they retain the ability to adjust the data to their local and unique needs.

    “We give them what amounts to data kits that they can tailor and quickly turn into a gourmet meal,” Sanders added. Other products on the market today force data analysts and scientists to operate in one of two modes, either conducting their analysis under the constraints of highly-structured, monolithic data models, like star schemas—that’s the 1990s frozen TV dinners of data analysis—or laboriously piecing together the data that they need to build their own schema, store it, then build and maintain the data extraction and loads. That’s the equivalent of spending their time shopping at the grocery store and cooking every meal from scratch.”

    Sanders continued, “The Rapid Response Analytics Solution lets analysts and data scientists devote their time and skills to actual analysis, not rote data movement and modeling. It also improves data governance by enabling more consistent analytic results. And, over time, it radically decreases the proliferation of data objects in the data warehouse which is a major source of increasing infrastructure and platform performance cost. Prior to coming to Health Catalyst, I was a data-driven healthcare CIO who had to either pay for all of these inefficiencies or eliminate them.  My teams and I eliminated them and now the same data technology is available to the market. We feel very fortunate to provide that.”

    For more information about the Rapid Response Analytics Solution, visit: https://www.healthcatalyst.com/product/rapid-response-analytics-solution/.

    About Health Catalyst

    Health Catalyst, Inc. 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 1.29.2019

  • Clearwater, Digital Reasoning Launch Strategic Multi-Year Cyber Risk Partnership Advancing AI, Machine Learning in Healthcare

    Best-in-Breed Partnership Enables Healthcare Providers to Realize AI Care Transformation with World-Class Cybersecurity and HIPAA Compliance

    NASHVILLE, TN – January 29, 2019 – Clearwater and Digital Reasoning today announced a strategic three-year Cyber Risk Services partnership enabling healthcare providers to realize the results of artificial intelligence (AI) powered solutions supported by a proven and trusted cybersecurity and HIPAA compliance program.

    Experts predict AI will dramatically impact the “Triple Aim” – cost, quality and patient experience – by creating value from patient data. With Patient Health Information (PHI) at the heart of that work, healthcare AI necessitates the highest standards in cybersecurity to ensure patient and provider confidence in their data safeguards.

    As Clearwater supports many technology companies entering healthcare, such as Uber Health, the company’s work with Digital Reasoning couples its IRM|Pro™ Cyber Risk Management SaaS platform with professional service expertise to deliver an OCR-Quality Risk Analysis™. Clearwater’s Cyber Risk Services will support enablement of administrative, technical and physical safeguards combined with workforce training, policies and procedures.

    “We are honored to earn the trust and confidence of Digital Reasoning and to join them in enabling this strategically important evolution in healthcare,” said Steve Cagle, Clearwater CEO. “Healthcare presents an important growth opportunity, and we are excited to support Digital Reasoning as they bring their proven AI technologies to the industry and to the benefit of millions of patients.”

    With increasing pressure on health systems to create value from the digitization of medical records and build consumer-centric solutions comes increased necessity to ensure PHI is handled with the highest care and security.

    “Clearwater’s deep experience with leading health systems and its ability to deliver the gold standard in cybersecurity beyond simply HIPAA compliance makes this a strong partnership that will benefit our current and future healthcare clients,” said Digital Reasoning CEO Brett Jackson. “AI and machine learning empowers solutions to extract value from healthcare organizations’ data. That only happens with the highest cybersecurity standards. Only together can we deliver on the promise of AI – augmenting doctors, nurses and the whole care team to enhance their most important work: caring for patients.”

    Digital Reasoning, recognized by PitchBook in 2018 as Tennessee’s most valuable startup, began the healthcare journey by entering into a strategic partnership with HCA Healthcare to unlock valuable insights captured within both unstructured and structured data in clinical records. This partnership yielded proven, market-validated solutions that will now be available to all healthcare providers. Last year, the company announced a new, $30 million round of funding that included previous investor HCA.

    About Digital Reasoning

    Digital Reasoning builds software that understands human communication, context and meaning to create value at enterprise scale. In health care, Digital Reasoning deploys AI-powered care management software within health systems to augment the care team and accelerate the entire care process, delivering a positive impact on clinical, financial and operational outcomes. For more information about Digital Reasoning visit http://www.digitalreasoning.com/healthcare.

    About Clearwater

    Clearwater provides the most complete and trusted, enterprise-class cyber risk management solution available. Designed for healthcare providers and their partners, Clearwater’s IRM|Pro™ platform and experienced professional services team provide insights and actions to address compliance, cyber and patient safety risks. Clearwater is a 2017 Inc. 5000 fastest-growing company, the 2018 Best in KLAS winner in Cybersecurity Advisory Services, the 2017 and 2018 Black Book Marketing Research winner in Compliance and Risk Management Solutions, and exclusively endorsed by the American Hospital Association as well as numerous state hospital associations. Clearwater solutions have been deployed within hundreds of hospitals and health systems, Fortune 100 organizations, and federal government institutions. More information about Clearwater is at clearwatercompliance.com.

    Contacts

    Kriste Goad | [email protected] | (615) 440-9049
    Liz Long | [email protected]| (615) 567-8637

    Posted 1.29.2019

  • Health Catalyst CEO Dan Burton to be Interviewed by Fraser Bullock at Silicon Slopes Tech Summit

    SILICON SLOPES, UT – January 28, 2019 – Health Catalyst, Inc. a leader in next-generation data, analytics, and decision support, announced today that CEO Dan Burton will be a presentor at the Silicon Slopes Tech Summit in Salt Lake City on Thursday, January 31.

    Burton will be interviewed in a “fireside chat” format by Fraser Bullock, co-founder and senior advisor at Sorenson Capital and chairman of the board at Health Catalyst.

    The two-day summit, Jan. 31-Feb. 1, is hosted by the Silicon Slopes community of Utah technology and startup companies, and presented by Nasdaq.  It is one of the largest and most prominent annual tech events in the world, bringing together more than 20,000 attendees. Other speakers at the summit include Pinterest Co-Founder and CEO Ben Silbermann; Ancestry CEO Margo Georgiadis; Adobe Founder John Warnock; and baseball legend Alex Rodriquez.

    Both Burton and Bullock serve on the board of Silicon Slopes.

    Silicon Slopes Tech Summit

    When: Thursday, January 31, 2019
    Fireside Chat Time: 2:15pm MT
    Where: Ballroom A/C, The Salt Palace, Salt Lake City  

    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.

    About Silicon Slopes

    Silicon Slopes is the voice, hub, and heart of Utah’s startup and tech community. We are a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization empowering Utah’s startup and tech community to learn, connect, and serve in an effort to make entrepreneurship and opportunity in Silicon Slopes open and accessible to all.

    For more information contact:

    Todd Stein
    Amendola Communications
    510-417-0612
    [email protected]

    Posted 1.28.2019

  • Health IT Policy in 2019: Something New or More of the Same?

    1.24.2019
    Leslie Krigstein – VP, Congressional Affairs

    The November election results sparked questions about the future of health IT-related policy. New House leadership combined with the influx of new (mostly Democratic) members in the House and the loss of some familiar faces in the Senate suggest change is afoot. With committee assignments now in place, we have a clearer idea of what might be in store in 2019.

    Committee rosters in the House and Senate look quite different as incumbent loses and retirements impacted committees with healthcare jurisdiction. Health IT has largely been a topic garnering bipartisan interest on Capitol Hill; however, new committee leadership and a change in who holds the gavel will likely impact the lens through which issues are examined.

    The Senate remains in the hands of a Republican majority, with some committee ratios shifting slightly to reflect the larger Republican majority. The leadership of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee will remain unchanged, as Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) will continue oversight of health IT, electronic health records and the implementation of the 21st Century Cures Act. Alexander’s retirement in 2020 may factor into what issues he steers the committee toward, knowing that healthcare cost is one of his priorities.

    There was a shakeup on the Senate Finance Committee, which has Medicare and Medicaid under its jurisdiction, with the retirement of former Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and the losses of incumbent members Bill Nelson (D-FL), Claire McCaskill (D-MO) and Dean Heller (R-NV). Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), a fierce oversight and transparency advocate, left the helm of the Senate Judiciary Committee and took over as Finance Committee chair in January.

    In January, the House became controlled by the Democrats, who gained more than 30 seats. This correlates to many new members and many new faces on committees of jurisdiction. The Energy and Commerce Committee gavel is in the hands of the current ranking member, Frank Pallone (D-NJ), who l swapped places with Greg Walden (R-OR). The Health subcommittee got new leadership with the retirement of Gene Green (R-TX), with Anna Eshoo (D-CA) taking his spot.

    The House Ways and Means Committee also saw a change with the loss of health subcommittee chairman Peter Roskam (R-IL) along with eight Republican committee members who did not seek re-election, and the retirement of Sander Levin (D-MI). Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) is now the health subcommittee chair.

    We expect consumer and patient privacy to take center stage, with interest expressed by leaders of the Energy and Commerce Committee and Senate Commerce Committee. The lines between health data and consumer data are blurring with the growing popularity of wearables and apps to download records, raising concerns that these valuable data streams may teeter outside of the reach of the Health Insurance Portability and Access Act (HIPAA). If and how the committees will address this in 2019 is unclear.

    The past Congress attempted to delve into the implementation of the 21st Century Cures Act, but much of the rulemaking has been stalled at Office of Management and Budget and the ongoing budget shutdown. Health IT has been bipartisan, so the forecast should show continued conversation about how to spur interoperability, improve patient access and reduce provider burden. Additionally, with the potential consideration of an infrastructure package, there could be an opportunity for health IT and cybersecurity readiness to be interjected into the conversation. The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT’s apparent perennial fight for funding will likely factor into their ability to go beyond what is mandated in statute.

    We see possible headwinds and unknowns as well. A court ruling on the Affordable Care Act will likely serve as a distraction, for both parties, as health agendas are formulated in 2019. And the influx of diversity among recently elected candidates, with unprecedented numbers of women, minority and millennials, is a wild card.

    We can only wait and see how these factors play out as the year progresses. Be sure to join us June 26-28 in Washington, D.C., for our second annual CHIME Advocacy Summit. Our speakers will give an in-depth and up-to-date look at policy developments. The summit also will include opportunities to network with D.C.’s top decision makers and more. For information and to register, go here.

    Senate Finance Committee:

    Majority Committee Roster:

    • Chair: Chuck Grassley (R-IA)
    • Mike Crapo (R-ID)
    • Pat Roberts (R-KS)
    • Michael B. Enzi (R-WY)
    • John Cornyn (R-TX)
    • John Thune (R-SD)
    • Richard Burr (R-NC)
    • Johnny Isakson (R-GA)
    • Rob Portman (R-OH)
    • Patrick J. Toomey (R-PA)
    • Tim Scott (R-SC)
    • Bill Cassidy (R-LA)
    • James Lankford (R-OK)
    • Steve Daines (R-MT)
    • Todd Young (R-IN)

    Minority Committee Roster:

    • Ron Wyden (D-OR)
    • Debbie Stabenow (D-MI)
    • Maria Cantwell (D-WA)
    • Robert Menendez (D-NJ)
    • Thomas R. Carper (D-DE)
    • Benjamin L. Cardin (D-MD)
    • Sherrod Brown (D-OH)
    • Michael F. Bennet (D-CO)
    • Robert P. Casey, Jr. (D-PA)
    • Mark R. Warner (D-VA)
    • Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)
    • Maggie Hassan (D-NH)
    • Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV)

    Senate HELP Committee:

    Majority Committee Roster:

    • Chair: Lamar Alexander (R-TN)
    • Michael B. Enzi (R-WY)
    • Richard Burr (R-NC)
    • Johnny Isakson (R-GA)
    • Rand Paul (R-KY)
    • Susan Collins (R-ME)
    • Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA)
    • Pat Roberts (R-KS)
    • Lisa Murkowski (R-AK)
    • Tim Scott (R-SC)
    • Mitt Romney (R-UT)
    • Mike Braun (R-IN)

    Minority Committee Roster:

    • Patty Murray (D-WA)
    • Bernie Sanders (D-VT)
    • Robert P. Casey, Jr. (D-PA)
    • Tammy Baldwin (D-WI)
    • Christopher Murphy (D-CT)
    • Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)
    • Tim Kaine (D-VA)
    • Maggie Hassan (D-NH)
    • Tina Smith (D-MN)
    • Doug Jones (D-AL)
    • Jacky Rosen (D-NV)

    House Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Health:

    Majority Committee Roster:

    • Chair: Anna Eshoo (D-CA)
    • Eliot Engel (D-NY)
    • K. Butterfield (D-NC)
    • Doris Matsui (D-CA)
    • Kathy Castor (D-FL)
    • John Sarbanes (D-MD)
    • Ben Ray Luján (D-NM)
    • Kurt Schrader (D-OR)
    • Joseph P. Kennedy III (D-MA)
    • Cárdenas (D-CA)
    • Peter Welch (D-VT)
    • Raul Ruiz (D-CA)
    • Debbie Dingell (D-MI)
    • Ann Kuster (D-NH)
    • Robin Kelly (D-IL)
    • Nanette Barragán (D-CA)
    • Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE)
    • Bobby Rush (D-IL)
    • Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ) – Ex Officio

    Minority Committee Roster:

    • Ranking Member: Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX)
    • Fred Upton (R-MI)
    • John Shimkus (R-IL)
    • Brett Guthrie (R-KY)
    • Morgan Griffith (R-VA)
    • Gus Bilirakis (R-FL)
    • Billy Long (R-MO)
    • Larry Bucshon (R-IN)
    • Susan Brooks (R-IN)
    • Markwayne Mullin (R-OK)
    • Richard Hudson (R-NC)
    • Buddy Carter (R-GA)
    • Greg Gianforte (R-MT)
    • Greg Walden (R-OR), Ex Officio

    House Ways & Means, Health Subcommittee:

    Majority Committee Roster:

    • Chair: Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-TX)
    • Mike Thompson (D-CA)
    • Earl Blumenauer (D-OR)
    • Ron Kind (D-WI)
    • Brian Higgins (D-NY)
    • Terri Sewell (D-AL)
    • Judy Chu (D-CA)
    • Dwight Evans (D-PA)
    • Brad Schneider (D-IL)
    • Jimmy Gomez (D-CA)
    • Steven Horsford (D-NV)

    Minority Committee Roster:

    • Ranking Member Devin Nunes (R-CA)
    • Vern Buchanan (R-FL)
    • Adrian Smith (R-NE)
    • Kenny Marchant (R-TX)
    • Tom Reed (R-NY)
    • Mike Kelly (R-PA)
    • George Holding (R-NC)

    More Inside CHIME:

    Posted 1.24.2019

  • Keynote Speaker Uses Insights Gained from Childhood in Foster Care to Drive Change

    1.24.2019
    Candace Stuart – Director, Communications & Public Relations

     

    You are a child. You are on your own, on the streets, and you experience an asthma attack. No home care and chicken noodle soup for you. Instead, you end up in the emergency room getting expensive, crisis care.

    “That is how I learned very personally about the social determinants of health and the ways we need to redefine our healthcare system to truly address those upstream determinants of health,” said Claire Pomeroy, a keynote speaker at CHIME HIMSS CIO Forum, speaking of her childhood in foster care. While Pomeroy thrived, completed medical school, earned an MBA and now is the president and CEO of the Lasker Foundation, she noted many other children she met in foster care did not do well. Their already lagging language and social skills put them at a health disadvantage that many could not surmount.

    The care patients receive in a clinical setting makes up about 10 percent of what determines an individual’s health, according to Pomeroy. A sense of community, educational opportunities, safe housing, job opportunities and nutritious food, among other social and behavioral factors, are all upstream drivers that contribute to health. Aided by this upstream data, the healthcare system could identify those at risk and intervene earlier.   

    “This is a new way of looking at health,” she said. “We need information about the whole person if we are going to truly improve their health. If we restrict ourselves to classical clinical data, cholesterol, for example, we may miss the fact that this person does not live in a neighborhood with a grocery store with healthy food. Just prescribing more statins instead of getting them access to healthy food won’t change a thing.”

    An expert in infectious diseases, Pomeroy will discuss changes that need to occur in the healthcare system to serve communities everywhere. Those changes include thinking differently about the kinds of data healthcare organizations collect, the questions that determine what data to collect and how to use the data once it is captured. Having a diverse workforce that represents the community is also key to ensure that the right questions are presented to the right people in way that engenders trust.

    Looking beyond clinical information, healthcare IT systems may need to gather data on socioeconomic status, for instance, or support mechanisms such as food banks. Research evaluating interventions to improve social determinants of health will also be needed to assess their effectiveness. Healthcare IT leaders, both in clinical settings and in industry, will play a key role by finding ways to connect their information systems with other sectors, Pomeroy said.

     “Whether it is opioids or gun violence or homelessness or food desert or social isolation, there are so many opportunities to make an impact,” she offered.

    Pomeroy became president of the Lasker Foundation in June 2013. Her previous positions include chief of infectious diseases and associate dean for research and informatics at the University of Kentucky and executive associate dean, vice chancellor and dean of the School of Medicine at the University of California, Davis.

    She will present her keynote address on Feb. 11 at the CHIME HIMSS CIO Forum in Orlando, Fla. To learn more about the forum and to register, go here.

    More Inside CHIME:

    Posted 1.24.2019

  • CHIME Boot Camp Gives Region in England a Head Start to Attain National Goal

    1.24.2019
    Jane Dwelly – CHIME International Programs and Education

     

    In January, England’s National Health Service (NHS), a tax-funded universal healthcare system serving 54 million people, published its agenda for the next 10 years. The NHS Long Term View sets out to enhance digital leadership of the NHS, in particular by expecting specific IT representation on the board of every NHS organization. This includes hospitals and integrated care systems. In the north of England the Yorkshire and Humber Local Health and Care Record Exemplar (LHCRE) already has a running start, thanks to its work with CHIME. It has become the first health economy in England to train 30 healthcare IT leaders to an internationally recognized professional standard.

    CHIME was invited to give leadership training by host Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. Over two weekends in 2018, the CHIME Healthcare CIO Boot Camp put students through a seven-part curriculum designed to develop skills of a successful healthcare IT leader. Taught for CIOs by CIOs, the boot camp also included mentoring, leadership assignments and the opportunity for students to examine their work/life balance.

    The program exceeded participants’ expectations.

    “When I was invited to join the CHIME boot camp, I wasn’t sure that I was at the right level to benefit from a course for CIOs,” said Samantha Atkinson, Digital Project Manager at Leeds Teaching Hospitals with 20 years of experience in the NHS. “The boot camp, though, opened up the way I think about networking, team building and relationships in the projects that I do and will do in the future.”

    A total of 30 candidates from across the region representing Trusts, Clinical Commissioning Groups and Local Authorities participated. To date, eight of those healthcare IT leaders have earned certification through CHIME’s Certified Healthcare CIO (CHCIO) program. They include Rob Child, Digital Program Manager at Leeds Teaching Hospitals, with 18 years’ experience in the NHS. “CHIME has been the perfect personal development opportunity to learn tools and techniques for thinking differently,” he said, adding that the knowledge and skills he now has will help him move the digital agenda forward in Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

    “It is great to see many of the region’s excellent NHS and local authority health tech leaders recognized through the CHCIO qualification,” said Will Smart, CIO at NHS England and CHIME Board member. “Professional accreditation is fundamentally important to support our drive toward the goals of improving patient-centered care by further utilizing current and future technical innovations.”

    The NHS Long Term Plan, published on Jan. 7, outlined the NHS agenda for the next five and 10 years. It included a commitment to expand the NHS Digital Academy to train tomorrow’s healthcare IT leaders. The report states:

    “We will expect informatics leadership representation on the board of every NHS organisation, with chief executives capable of driving the transformation of their organisations and non-executive directors able to support and demand increasing digital maturity over the next five years. We will increase training in digital capabilities for the health and care workforce and focus on attracting excellent technical expertise and skills, particularly in ‘newer’ digital fields so that our workforce can continue to deliver our technology strategy.”

    CHIME’s educational and professional development programs align with the NHS Long Term Plan’s goals. “Advancements in Digital, home assistive technology, machine learning with AI, all have shown more than ever that the NHS has wonderful opportunities for Digital to assist in patient-centered care,” said Richard Corbridge, a CHIME faculty member and CIO for Leeds Teaching Hospitals. “Having so many of our digital team across the region able to complete the Healthcare CIO Boot Camp here at Leeds and be successfully accredited is testament not only to the existing skills we have, but the dedication across the region to continuous development of Digital health for citizens’ healthcare.”

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    Posted 1.24.2019

  • Vocera Smartbadge to Simplify Clinical Workflows

    Upcoming webinar and HIMSS19 provide closer look at the new wearable device

    SAN JOSE, CA – January 23, 2018 – Vocera Communications, Inc. (NYSE:VCRA), a recognized leader in clinical communication and workflow solutions, is offering two opportunities for clinicians, healthcare IT leaders, and other industry professionals to get a closer look at the new Vocera Smartbadge. Introduction of the solution earlier this month marked a significant milestone for the company and how patient care is coordinated.

    More details about this wearable communication device will be shared during a complimentary webinar, 6 Clinical Communication Workflows Simplified with the Vocera Smartbadge, on Tuesday, Jan. 29, from 12-1p.m. ET. This online event will be co-hosted by Vocera Chief Nursing Officer Rhonda Collins, and the company’s Chief Medical Information Officer Ben Kanter. The two clinicians will explain how the Smartbadge can simplify care team communication and clinical workflows, reducing cognitive overload for nurses and doctors.

    “Clinical workflows can be complex, but they can be simplified when the right technology is used and used in the right way,” said Dr. Collins. “The Vocera Smartbadge was purpose-built for healthcare professionals to make their lives easier. The device intelligently combines voice calling, messaging, clinical alerts and alarms, and more, providing a single wearable device to clinicians for their many communication and workflow management needs.”

    Drs. Collins and Kanter will be joined on the webinar by the Director of Product Management at Vocera, Conrad Price, who will discuss the many features of the Smartbadge, a revolutionary new category in wearable communication technology. A significant advantage of the Smartbadge over earlier versions of the wearable communication device is the larger 2.4” touchscreen, which enables clinicians to receive and read notifications with more patient context. While the new screen is larger than the original Vocera Badge, the Smartbadge is still small, lightweight, and ideal for busy clinicians needing their hands free to provide patient care. Additionally, the Smartbadge boasts improved microphones and speakers, extended battery life, a water-resistant design, and a dedicated, one-touch panic button to make it faster and easier for staff to get help in emergency situations.

    Clinicians and other care team members can get a closer look at the new Smartbadge during the 2019 HIMSS Global Conference and Exhibition. Vocera is hosting two HIMSS19 Lightning Sessions in Exhibit Hall D, Booth 7145 on Feb. 12 and 13, from 12:45-1:05 p.m. ET. The interactive sessions will be led by Price, who will demonstrate the Smartbadge and answer questions about the latest hands-free communication device. Additionally, HIMSS19 attendees are invited to visit Vocera Booth #1747 throughout the event, taking place Feb. 11-15 in Orlando.

    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.
    669.999.3368
    [email protected]

     

     

    Posted 1.23.2019
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