• QliqSOFT Debuts Patient-facing, Chronic Care Management Solution at HIMSS19

    Dallas, TX – February 11, 2019 – QliqSOFT, an industry leader in secure clinical collaboration solutions, today announced the release of a new patient-facing chronic care management solution that allows for the easy sharing and monitoring of data between patients and their care team members.

    “Texting is an effective way of engaging patients in their personal health and motivating them to take action and change behavior,” says QliqSOFT Founder & CEO, Krishna Kurapati, “Our chronic care management solution is a major first step to effectively use Secure Texting for speeding up and improving care management”

    Patients with chronic conditions, such as those suffering from Type 2 Diabetes, can easily connect their bluetooth-enabled glucometer with the Qliq mobile app and share their test results with care managers without ever having to write down a single note in their paper diaries.

    Care managers will then be able to instantly view those results and discuss issues over texting with patients in real-time. These features, combined with customized threshold alerts and schedule medication reminders will contribute to the overall care of patients and a reduction of readmissions for chronic care patients.

    The announcement of QliqSOFT’s chronic care management solution coincides with the HIMSS 2019 Healthcare IT Conference in Orlando. Live demonstrations of this feature along with QliqSOFT’s entire suite of clinical collaboration solutions can be seen at Booth 873, February 12th, 13th, and 14th.

    To learn more about QliqSOFT’s new chronic care management solution, click here.

    About QliqSOFT, Inc.

    With its unique cloud pass-thru architecture, QliqSOFT’s Secure Texting, On-Call Scheduling, Patient Communication and Clinical Collaboration solutions are trusted by over 1,000 Hospitals, Home Health, and Hospice Organizations to deliver HIPAA-compliant, reliable, and real-time communication between doctors, nurses, caregivers, and patients. To learn more, visit www.qliqsoft.com.

    Media Contact: Ben Henson | Dir of Marketing | c: 770-688-4689 | e: [email protected]

    Posted 2.11.2019

  • CHIME Releases Timeline for 2019 HealthCare’s Most Wired Survey, Recognition Program

    ANN ARBOR, MI, Feb. 11, 2019 – The CHIME HealthCare’s Most Wired survey will be open to participants in early April, the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) announced today. The Most Wired program sets the standard for the healthcare IT industry by measuring the use of innovative and leading-edge technologies that improve health and care.
     
    This will be the second year that CHIME has overseen the Most Wired survey and recognition program. In 2018, 647 participants representing 2,190 hospitals and health systems in nine countries submitted surveys. Of those, 254 received recognition for meeting or exceeding the high bar set by the Most Wired Governing Board.
     
    “Last year we updated the survey to reflect practices that truly impact patient care,” said Bill Spooner, chair of the Most Wired Governing Board and retired CIO at Sharp HealthCare. “We also raised the threshold to be named a Most Wired organization. This year we revised the survey again and recalibrated the threshold to capture advancements in the industry. Our goal is to push organizations to continually strive for excellence.”
     
    CHIME will make a preview PDF of the 2019 survey questions available online in March. CHIME will also release a high-level change document that maps differences between the 2018 and 2019 versions of the survey. The 2019 survey will open in early April and remain open for two months. Recipients of 2019 Most Wired honors will be recognized at the CHIME Fall CIO Forum, which will be Nov. 3-6 in Phoenix.
     
    Each Most Wired participant will receive a customized benchmarking report that highlights strengths and opportunities for improvement. CHIME also will analyze the survey responses to produce a free industry trends report, which will be available on the CHIME website. In addition, CHIME is partnering with Modern Healthcare Custom Media to publish a supplement that lists all 2019 Most Wired recipients and articles that highlight best practices.
    More information about the Most Wired program is available here.
     
    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 2,800 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
    Posted 2.11.2019

  • CHIME Launches Innovation Center to Spur Advancements in Healthcare IT

    ANN ARBOR, MI, Feb. 10, 2019 – The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) today launched CHIME Innovation to facilitate the creation and adoption of healthcare technology innovation and to improve health and care globally. The launch marks the completion of the buildout of the Intermountain and CHIME Innovation Center powered by Sirius Healthcare within the Kem C. Gardner Intermountain Transformation Center in Murray, Utah.

    CHIME Innovation is a resource for CIOs, innovation executives, senior healthcare IT executives and others to promote innovative and disruptive technologies designed to transform health and care. CHIME Innovation will serve as an educational hub and an innovation facilitator for the health IT and innovation community.

    “CHIME is ideally suited to take on the role as a leader in the advancement of healthcare IT,” said Jonathan Fritz, JD, MS, executive director of CHIME Innovation. “CHIME’s members have embraced the potential of IT to improve patient care, and they are the linchpin for innovation in many of their healthcare organizations. CHIME Innovation will give them the tools, knowledge and confidence to drive change in healthcare.”

    CHIME Innovation will offer workshops, summits, events focused on the intersection between CIOs and chief innovation officers, and opportunities for CHIME members to share their innovation success stories. The first workshop, “Developing an Innovation Framework,” will be March 17-18 at the Intermountain and CHIME Innovation Center. Taught by faculty from CHIME Innovation and Intermountain Healthcare, the workshop will introduce concepts that establish a common language and toolset for innovation. The event, which is part of the CHIME Executive Education Series, will include networking, small group exercises and case studies. More information about the workshop is available here.

    “Healthcare technology has been evolving at an unprecedented pace,” said Shafiq Rab, chair of the CHIME Board of Trustees and CIO at Rush Medical Center. “As CIOs, we have no other option but to innovate. CHIME Innovation will be an educational resource for CHIME members and others in our community, and also a catalyst for advancing promising technologies and impactful innovation. This is a win for everyone, especially for the patients who will benefit from these advancements.”

    Fritz, who joined CHIME on Jan. 1, has worked as a healthcare executive, an entrepreneur and a patent attorney for many years. His previous positions include chief strategy officer and director of new ventures at Symphony Corporation, co-founder of a fit-tech software company, and a partner at various large law firms focused on patent, venture capital and startup law. Fritz also serves on the Board of Directors of the Wisconsin Technology Council and the investment committee of BrightStar Foundation, a seed stage fund with more than 40 portfolio companies. He will serve as a CHIME faculty member and the executive director of CHIME Innovation.

    The high-tech Intermountain and CHIME Innovation Center facility is housed in the Transformation Center on Intermountain’s Murray-based medical campus. Intermountain opened the state-of-the-art Transformation Center in September to support research, innovation and best practices as well as numerous institutes. Intermountain, a leader in healthcare innovation, is partnering with CHIME on the initiative.

    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), lead innovation executives, and other senior healthcare IT leaders. With more than 2,800 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 health and care 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 2.10.2019

  • DrFirst Launches California’s First-ever Integrated Technology to Tackle the Opioid Epidemic Across the Healthcare Continuum

    Solution enables easy access to state database via MEDITECH EHR to identify opioid ‘doctor shopping’ and reduce overall drug abuse

    ROCKVILLE, MD — February 7, 2019 — DrFirst, the nation’s leading provider of e-prescribing and patient medication management solutions, announced today the availability of an integrated solution with the MEDITECH Enterprise Health Record (EHR) that seamlessly connects prescribers to California’s Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP). For the first time ever, in-workflow access to the PDMP, known as Controlled Substance Utilization Review and Evaluation System (CURES 2.0) is available to MEDITECH and DrFirst mutual customers using the MEDITECH Acute, Ambulatory, and ED solutions in the 6.15 or Expanse platforms.

    This new CURES 2.0 integration is critical because it gives clinicians streamlined, real-time access to essential opioid prescription information for individual patients at the point-of-care. Prescribers using DrFirst’s e-prescribing tools within the MEDITECH EHR can quickly check the CURES 2.0 database to view their patients’ opioid prescription history, allowing them to quickly identify patients who may have substance abuse disorders and are “doctor shopping” for prescriptions of controlled substances.

    Prescribers do not need to log into CURES 2.0 from a separate browser because patient queries are initiated from within the e-prescribing workflow. Prescription records are returned directly within the EHR automatically once physician credentials are validated in the state’s PDMP.

    “As the first vendors to offer acute care providers access to CURES 2.0 within e-prescribing workflows, DrFirst and MEDITECH are demonstrating our strong commitment to tackling the country’s opioid crisis, as well as our leadership in the development of innovative solutions that advance patient safety and empower physicians,” said G. Cameron Deemer, President of DrFirst. “We value our close relationship with MEDITECH; our teams share a passion for delivering technology solutions that improve patient care, increase physician efficiencies and help prescribers make clinically sound medication management decisions.”

    DrFirst and MEDITECH are long-time collaborators with a history of initiatives that advance e-prescribing and medication management for MEDITECH EHR clients. In addition to this critical work in California, DrFirst and MEDITECH offer similar integrations with PDMPs in 37 other states across the country. MEDITECH EHR customer Salinas Valley Memorial Health System is the first hospital scheduled to go live with the integrated CURES 2.0 solution.

    “Physicians want to do what’s best for their patients and, as technology providers, we have the privilege of helping them deliver care more safely and efficiently,” said Howard Messing, President and CEO of MEDITECH. “We are confident that, by giving physicians ready-access to in-depth details of patients’ past prescriptions through the integration between MEDITECH and the CURES 2.0 PDMP, physicians will be able to make a meaningful difference in addressing California’s opioid crisis.”

    “The integration between MEDITECH and the state’s PDMP will give our physicians an efficient solution that will ensure the utmost safety when prescribing controlled substances through the DrFirst e-prescribing interface,” said David Kasting, MD, CMIO for Salinas Valley Memorial Health System. “We look forward to bringing this solution to our providers and taking our next step to continually ensure the safety of all of our patients, including those who may be in need of substance abuse treatment.”

    The CURES 2.0 database includes prescriptions of Schedule II, III and IV controlled substances dispensed in California. As of October 2, 2018, with specified exceptions, health care practitioners authorized to prescribe, order, administer, or furnish a controlled substance were required by California law to consult the CURES database. Practitioners must review a patient’s controlled substance history before prescribing Schedule II, III and IV drugs to a patient for the first time, and at least once every four months after that if the substance remains part of the treatment of the patient. In 2016, over 2,000 individuals died from opioid-related overdoses in California and more than 42,000 across the country.

    About MEDITECH
    Five decades. One EHR. No limits. More than ever, MEDITECH’s reputation for excellence resounds across every care setting. As we celebrate 50 bold years of vision and innovation, we invite you to see healthcare through a whole new lens with Expanse, the premier EHR for the digital healthcare paradigm. Our cutting-edge solutions help organizations and providers all over the world to take on the challenges of healthcare’s ever-expanding landscape. Whether your destination is clinical efficiency, analytical prowess, a superior patient and consumer experience, or financial success, MEDITECH’s 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.  

    About DrFirst
    DrFirst, the nation’s leading provider of e-prescribing and medication management solutions, enables stakeholders across the healthcare industry to use comprehensive real-time data and connectivity to increase their patient safety ratings, efficiency, and profitability. Today, more than 170,000 healthcare professionals and more than 60% of electronic health record (EHR) vendors depend on DrFirst’s innovative software solutions to improve clinical workflows, expedite secure collaboration across a patient’s care team and drive better health outcomes. The company’s integrated technologies include its award-winning electronic prescribing platform, the most comprehensive medication history available, clinically specialized secure messaging, and patient medication adherence monitoring and benefits checking. In addition, DrFirst was the first to offer e-prescribing for controlled substances (EPCS) and is considered the industry standard for providers nationwide. For more information, please visit www.drfirst.com or connect with us @DrFirst.

    DrFirst Media Contact:
    Lisa Chernikoff
    Amendola Communications
    734-678-5513
    [email protected] 

    MEDITECH Media 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]

    Posted 2.7.2019

  • Health Catalyst Secures up to $100 Million with Financing Led By OrbiMed

    Financing round which includes new and existing investors follows record growth in 2018

    Silicon Slopes, UT – February 7, 2019 – Health Catalyst®, Inc., a leader in next-generation data, analytics and improvement, announced the closing of a Series F equity and debt funding round led by OrbiMed, a leading healthcare public and private market investment firm. This equity and debt funding will provide Health Catalyst with access to up to $100 million in capital.  Several existing investors including Sequoia Capital, Norwest Venture Partners, Sands Capital Ventures, UPMC Enterprises and Kaiser Permanente Ventures also contributed to the financing, which lifts Health Catalyst’s value above $1 billion.

    Proceeds from the financing will support continued expansion of Health Catalyst’s technology and services offerings for healthcare transformation. The company is on a mission to unleash data as a catalyst for massive, sustained clinical, financial and operational improvements in the performance of healthcare organizations.  In support of that mission, the Health Catalyst Data Operating System (DOS™) is the foundation upon which the company has built an expanding library of analytics applications, supported by world-class services.

    “As more healthcare organizations are coming to understand, the future of healthcare will rely on the broad and more effective use of their vast stores of data,” said Health Catalyst CEO Dan Burton. “This additional capital will enable us to continue developing the technology and expertise necessary to offer health systems a path to systematically use data to analyze their performance, and then work to make measurable improvement in clinical, financial and operational areas. It will also help to support our expansion, already underway, into the life sciences and international markets.”

    2018: A Breakthrough Year

    The market’s rising valuation of Health Catalyst as a leader in data, analytics and improvement was secured through the company’s strong performance in 2018. During the year, Health Catalyst experienced over 65% growth in its annual recurring revenue, over 50% growth in revenues, and over 80% growth in its gross profits.  The company also added sixteen new health system customers in 2018, more than in any previous year in the company’s 10-year history. Health Catalyst also added over 200 team members in 2018, to end the year with nearly 750 team members throughout the US.  Also during the year, Health Catalyst’s customers realized over 250 documented clinical, financial and operational improvements, by far the most of any year in the company’s history.

    The company’s strong business performance in 2018 was mirrored by the high ratings it received from industry analysts, whose findings were based on surveys of Health Catalyst customers. Industry bellwether KLAS Research awarded Health Catalyst its “Best in KLAS” ranking for Business Intelligence, marking the second year in a row that Health Catalyst has been recognized by KLAS as the top-performing solution in the category for its ability to help turn raw data into clear insights that drive improved clinical, financial and operational performance.  KLAS also named Health Catalyst to its exclusive “A-List” of Healthcare IT companies that combine high customer satisfaction with high rates of customer retention, in its April 2018 report, Decision Insights 2018: National Trends & Best Practices. And in December, KLAS ranked Health Catalyst second overall in its report on population health management vendors, Population Health Management 2018, Part 1.  

    On the product development front, Health Catalyst released several new applications in 2018 including Touchstone™, a breakthrough analytics application featuring next-generation benchmarking and prioritization capabilities powered by Artificial Intelligence to supercharge healthcare improvement initiatives; and 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. 

    The year also saw Health Catalyst add significant new capabilities, talent and customers with 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 added to the Health Catalyst customer base more than 50 clients, including state and regional HIEs, large employers, health plans, health systems and providers in physician groups and extended care facilities. The combination is empowering connected communities with the insights required to improve healthcare outcomes, control costs, and advance population health management. 

    Long recognized as a “best place to work” by top healthcare and technology publications, Health Catalyst continued to add to its world-class leadership team in 2018 with several significant new hires. These included William Caldwell, M.D., former Senior Vice President of Clinical Integration at Novant Health; Jason Jones, formerly a senior analytics leader at Kaiser Permanente; Cathy R. Menkiena, former Senior Director of EHR Solutions at Encore Health Resources, an emids company; Ryan Smith, former Chief Information Officer (CIO) at Banner Health; Elia Stupka, formerly a bioinformatics leader at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and Director of Computational Biology and Genomics at Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma; and Steven Vance, former regional Chief Financial Officer and Compliance Officer at Intermountain Healthcare.

    Also joining Health Catalyst in 2018, as strategic advisors, were healthcare luminaries Brent James, M.D., a global leader in bringing quality improvement science and methods to clinical care and the first Chief Quality Officer of Intermountain Healthcare; Eric Topol, M.D., Executive Vice President and Professor of Molecular Medicine at The Scripps Research Institute, and the Founder and Director of the Scripps Translational Science Institute; and Timothy Zoph, the former Senior Vice President of Administration and CIO at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago. Dr. James is also an investor in this latest round of financing.

    About OrbiMed

    OrbiMed is a leading investment firm dedicated exclusively to the healthcare sector, with approximately $13 billion in assets under management. OrbiMed invests across the spectrum of healthcare companies worldwide, from venture capital start-ups to large multinational companies. OrbiMed manages a series of private equity funds, public equity funds, royalty and credit funds and other investment vehicles.

    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 2.7.2019

  • PDS extends healthcare industry presence with CHIME Foundation partnership

    Milwaukee, WI – February 07, 2017 – PDS is pleased to announce that it has become a member of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives Foundation (CHIME Foundation), an affiliate of College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME). As a CHIME Foundation member firm, PDS will play a vital role in CHIME’s continuing education efforts and have opportunities to interact with leading healthcare executives and thought leaders.

    “We’re thrilled about our membership with a professional organization as respected in the industry as the CHIME Foundation”, said Chris Liburdi, Director of Business Development with PDS. “We have a long-standing commitment of working closely with our healthcare provider clients and industry partners. This partnership will allow us to share our insights with CHIME Foundation members and collaborate with Healthcare IT leaders as we strive to better support them.”

    PDS will be working over the next year to grow our involvement and contributions with the CHIME Foundation, and plans to gain valuable new perspectives as we strive to better serve technology leaders in the healthcare industry.

    About PDS

    PDS is a Midwest-based Information Technology Solution Provider that offers service desk and managed services for healthcare providers.  We specialize in Patient Tech Support, EMR Help Desk and Identity & Access Management services.  PDS strives to be a strategic partner that helps organizations reduce risk, total-cost-of-ownership and move closer to the vision of fully Connected IT.  

    PDS was founded over 30 years ago with a simple Golden Rule: “Do the right thing for your clients…and all else will follow.” This client-centric approach has driven our commitment to being a high-touch, value-added partner with shared goals and shared risk. This simple value has driven us to adapt and innovate as technology has evolved through the decades and continues to drive us today.

    To learn more about PDS and our healthcare offerings visit us at https://pdsit.net/healthcare/ or follow us at https://www.linkedin.com/company/paragon-development-systems/ or https://twitter.com/PDSIT

    About CHIME

    The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) is the professional organization for Chief Information Officers and other senior healthcare IT leaders. CHIME enables its members and business partners to collaborate, exchange ideas, develop professionally and advocate the effective use of information management to improve the health and care in the communities they serve.

    Media Contact:
    Steven Hartl | Digital Marketing Manager
    (262) 641-3045 | [email protected]

    Posted 2.7.2019

  • Redox To Power EHR Integration in Microsoft Teams Through FHIR

    Facilitates care collaboration of patient data to ease communication among clinicians, improve patient outcomes

    MADISON, WI – February 7, 2019 – Redox today announced that it is integrating with Microsoft Teams to enable secure, bidirectional data exchange with electronic health record (EHR) software at provider organizations using the FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) standard. As a result, clinicians and caregivers can easily communicate patient data on the Microsoft Teams platform and record information at the EHR level. Redox streamlines the adoption of Microsoft Teams by provider organizations with minimal IT resources.

    How it Works
    Redox makes it possible for Microsoft Teams to exchange data with FHIR by allowing organizations that use Teams to configure and receive data in a single, consistent FHIR format. Where FHIR is not currently available or in use, Redox connects to existing HL7v2 interfaces or EHR vendor APIs and transforms that data into a FHIR messaging format. All data sent back into an EHR is consumed by Teams in FHIR standards and then translated into the necessary format depending on what the provider’s current EHR is capable of accepting. This collaboration helps play a key role in ensuring patient data is available, comprehensive and easily exchanged among clinician teams.

    “The advent of Microsoft Teams illustrates the tremendous change in how people and teams in all industries get work done, and healthcare is no exception,” said Niko Skievaski, co-founder and president, Redox. “Yet, most provider organizations are running a very lean IT team and are not well equipped to rapidly implement new technologies. Redox simplifies integration to a single connection and data format. An integration powered by Redox represents reusable infrastructure already in place at 450 healthcare organizations.”

    Mike Ammerlaan, director, Microsoft Office 365 Ecosystem, Microsoft Corp. added, “Working with leading healthcare interoperability suppliers, such as Redox, we are bringing Microsoft’s capabilities to healthcare providers as they adopt the cloud. Powered by Redox, providers can view electronic healthcare data in Microsoft Teams. This enables clinicians to facilitate communication about patient care in real-time within Teams’ secure platform and to help improve care outcomes.”

    About Redox
    Redox accelerates the development and distribution of healthcare software solutions with a full-service integration platform to securely and efficiently exchange data. Healthcare delivery organizations and technology vendors connect once and authorize the data they send and receive across the most extensive interoperable network in healthcare. Redox exists to make healthcare data useful and every patient experience a little bit better. Learn how you can leverage the Redox Platform at www.redoxengine.com.

    Media Contact
    Davida Dinerman
    Look Left Marketing
    [email protected]
    508-561-4263

     

    Posted 2.7.2019

  • News of Note

    2.07.2019
    Candace Stuart – Director, Communications & Public Relations

     

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

    Stop by and visit us at the CHIME booth: The CHIME booth at HIMSS19 will be open from 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 12; from 9:30 a.m.-6 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 13; and from 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 14, in the West C Lobby. The booth will give members a place to gather, relax and network. Several educational and meet & greet sessions are scheduled each day. Check out the agenda here.

    Most Wired executive roundtable summary published: Healthcare leaders representing 2018 Most Wired recipient organizations and supporting CHIME Foundation firms joined CHIME’s Russ Branzell in an executive roundtable discussion about key findings in a report based on the Most Wired survey results. Healthcare Data Management published this summary.

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    Posted 2.7.2019

  • A Patent Lawyer with a Passion for innovation: Meet Jonathan Fritz

    2.7.2018
    Jonathan Fritz – Executive Director, CHIME Innovation

     

    I expected to follow the footsteps of my dentist father and nurse mother and be a clinician. Then one day in genetics class a guest speaker – a patent attorney – encouraged us to consider a career in patent law. To protect innovative technologies, he said, the profession needed people with science and technology backgrounds. After that, it was law school and not dental school for me.

    My career has taken many interesting turns, from working in-house at Unisys, a large computer corporation, to being a patent attorney and partner in several law firms, to co-founder of a startup, to the chief strategy officer and director of new ventures at Symphony Corporation. While practicing law, I received my master’s degree in bioinformatics from the Medical College of Wisconsin and was able to protect inventions from the world’s largest research universities and startups alike. Through Symphony’s affiliation as a CHIME Foundation firm, I had the opportunity to meet many CHIME members as well as the team at CHIME. And on the first of this year, I became part of that team as the executive director of CHIME Innovation.

    CHIME Innovation is a global healthcare innovation initiative that includes innovation-specific education, innovation facilitation and physical centers and labs designed around collaboratively solving healthcare problems. Educational events will be available remotely as well as in our new facility, the Intermountain and CHIME Innovation Center powered by Sirius, in Murray, Utah.

    Our first workshop, “Developing an Innovation Framework,” will be March 17-18 in Murray. More information about the workshop is available here.

    Those attending HIMSS19 in Orlando, Fla., can learn more about CHIME Innovation by visiting the CHIME booth in West C Lobby at 2:30-3:30 p.m. Feb. 12 during HIMSS19. We will provide a CHIME Innovation summary and update. I also will be available Feb. 10-11 during the CHIME HIMSS CIO Forum in Orlando to talk about our goals and how members and Foundation firms can get involved.

    We will share more details about CHIME Innovation soon. If you have any questions or thoughts about the initiative, please email me at [email protected]. 

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    Posted 2.7.2019

  • Attending CIO Forum? Learn How to Earn Up to $2,400

    2.7.2018
    Jennifer Ramstrom – VP, CHIME Foundation & CHIME Tech
    Michelle Patterson – VP, Operations

    CHIME members who attend the CHIME HIMSS CIO Forum in Orlando, Fla., still have an opportunity to sign up for CHIME Foundation Focus Groups. Members can earn up to $2,400 in honorariums, which easily offsets the CIO Forum registration fee. See our honorarium chart below to see how it works.

    While seating lasts, CHIME members have the option to attend up to 13 CHIME Foundation Focus Groups on Feb. 12-14. Attendees can earn 1.5 CEUs for every focus group attended. On Feb. 12 (Tuesday) and Feb. 13 (Wednesday), there will be five sessions, each lasting 90 minutes. On Feb. 14 (Thursday), there will be three sessions, with the last one starting at noon. Members do not need to register for HIMSS to participate in focus groups.

    All sessions will be in the Hyatt Regency Orlando, the same facility where the CHIME HIMSS CIO Forum will be held Feb. 10-11. Look for assigned rooms on the Convention Level. Be sure to schedule ample time to return from HIMSS, if you plan to drop by there before a focus group session.

    The CHIME team will be present to help if you need anything. Breaks, lunch and refreshments will be served throughout the day on the Convention Level. You can mingle with colleagues between sessions in the CIO Lounge area, where there will be free wi-fi.

    Honorarium earnings can be applied to CHIME membership dues or be paid by a personal check. Members also can donate honorariums to the Education Foundation to provide scholarships for healthcare IT executives to attend CHIME educational and professional development events, or to the CHIME Opioid Task Force, which launched a fundraising campaign to support the CHIME Opioid Health IT Action Center.

    If you haven’t registered for the CHIME HIMSS CIO Forum, there is still time. Go here to register. Register for focus groups here. (Sign in required.) If you have any questions about focus groups, please email CHIME Foundation team member Arika Lycan at [email protected] or call 734-665-0000.

     

    Focus Groups Attended Honorarium Amount
     1  $100
     2  $200
     3  $300
     4  $500
     5  $700
     6  $900
     7  $1,100
     8  $1,300
     9  $1,500
     10  $1,700
     11  $2,000
     12  $2,200
     13  $2,400

     

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  • Nuance Brings Virtual Assistant Technology to 300,000 Dragon Medical One Cloud Users

    According to new survey results, 81% of physicians believe virtual assistants in healthcare would reduce the burden on care teams and improve the patient experience

    BURLINGTON, MA – February 5, 2019 – Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) today announced that it will introduce its voice-enabled virtual assistant to all users of Dragon Medical One, the company’s cloud-based clinical documentation platform. With this launch, Nuance will bring the strength of its trusted artificial intelligence (AI) technology, already used by leading brands such as FedEx, BMW and Citizens Bank, to approximately 300,000 healthcare providers across the country. This rollout comes in tandem with, and is supported by, the release of industry survey data that underscores clinicians’ daily battle to overcome administrative burdens and bring joy back to medicine.

    Nuance’s virtual assistant technology, which has been used as the core of electronic health record (EHR) workflows at organizations such as Vanderbilt University Medical Center, is proven to not only reduce administrative burden on care teams, but to improve both provider and patient exam room experiences. Nuance’s virtual assistant technology automates high-value clinical tasks and intelligent retrieval of information from the medical record, as well as the interaction, with specialized content to bring in-workflow knowledge to the point of care.

    “At Vanderbilt, we believe that innovation in virtual assistants is essential to humanizing technology, enhancing the delivery of care and helping providers focus on their patients,” said Dr. Yaa Kumah-Crystal, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Pediatric Endocrinology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. “With Nuance’s virtual assistant technology we can empower our providers to feel more connected to their work and have seen quantifiable time savings. We have finally arrived at a place where technology has parity with human recognition.”

    Industry survey data spanning over 200 respondents across physician, nurse, and C-suite healthcare leadership roles (CMIO, CMO, and CIO) shows that 8 out of 10 agree that introducing a clinically-oriented, AI- and voice-driven virtual assistant into the EHR and exam room workflow will:

    • Reduce the burden on care teams and improve the patient experience;
    • Allow clinicians to spend more time with patients;
    • Make it more convenient to login into healthcare applications versus using a keyboard;
    • Ease the burden of accessing information in the EHR; and,
    • Reduce the time spent documenting care

    Likewise, respondents identified the following administrative tasks as benefiting most from a virtual assistant:

    • Chart search (88%)
    • Documentation and patient summaries (85%)
    • EHR navigation (82%)
    • Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) (78%)
    • Task management (76%)
    • Scheduling (75%)

    “By providing approximately 300,000 clinicians around the country access to this technology through Dragon Medical One, care teams will no longer need to grapple with the burdens of documentation and information retrieval, allowing them to be fully present with their patients,” said Michael Clark, General Manager of Provider Solutions, Nuance. “Tasks that once took minutes will be reduced down to seconds. And, as we experience in our daily lives, a voice-driven experience in healthcare is now just a voice command away.”

    Dragon Medical One, a HITRUST CSF certified solution, is completely cloud-based and seamlessly integrated into existing workflows so users can count on consistent documentation experiences regardless of their location. Dragon Medical is trusted by more than 500,000 clinicians worldwide and used within 90 percent of U.S. hospitals.

    To learn more, please visit:

    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 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.

    Contact Information
    Victoria Barnes
    Nuance Communications, Inc.
    Tel: 781-249-3738
    Email: [email protected]

    Posted 2.5.2019

  • Billings Clinic Selects Health Catalyst for Population Health, Outcomes-improvement Initiatives

    Data Operating System delivers actionable insights to improve outcomes and enhance care coordination

    SALT LAKE CITY, UT and BILLINGS, MT – February 5, 2019 – Billings Clinic, Montana’s largest healthcare organization, has partnered with Health Catalyst, Inc. a leader in next-generation data, analytics, and decision support, to power its population health and outcomes-improvement programs. Billings Clinic is implementing the Health Catalyst Data Operating System (DOS™) to centralize its data analytics operations, eliminate data siloes among existing systems, enhance quality measurement and improve patient outcomes.

    Billings Clinic is a physician-led, integrated multispecialty group practice with a 304-bed hospital and a Level II trauma center. Billings Clinic was the first Montana Magnet® -designated healthcare organization for nursing excellence and is a member of the Mayo Clinic Care Network. Billings Clinic also manages 11 critical access hospitals and various partnerships across a vast region covering much of Montana, northern Wyoming and the western Dakotas.

    “At Billings Clinic, we recognize that data, and advanced capabilities to analyze and visualize that data, is at the core of everything we want to accomplish in the future,” said Randy Thompson, MD, Chief Medical Information Officer for Billings Clinic. “We need reliable, accurate data to understand exactly where we are today and to realize what we need to achieve going forward. With Health Catalyst, I am confident that we have found a partner that has the knowledge and experience to help us optimize our use of data to improve outcomes for patients across our region.”

    Billings Clinic will adopt DOS, a data-first, analytics and application platform that transforms raw data from virtually any data source into Deep Data—data that is meaningful, actionable, and provides actual business value at a lower cost. DOS accomplishes this by integrating and analyzing critical data from over 200 of the most widely-used data sources, and delivering real-time decision support within the existing workflows of clinicians, administrators and other healthcare professionals.

    Overcoming the challenges of Frontier Healthcare

    Due to the vast distances separating many patients from clinicians in rural Montana, Wyoming and the Dakotas, Billings Clinic faces challenges unique to its environment. To better serve as a provider of “Frontier Healthcare,” Billings Clinic has established affiliations with a number of critical access hospitals in the region. Using DOS, Billings Clinic will improve care coordination with these partners by sharing access to not only electronic health records (EHR) data, but quality and outcomes measures.

    “For Frontier Healthcare organizations such as Billings Clinic that provide care across vast networks, it is critical to harness the best available data to improve care coordination,” said Dan Burton, CEO of  Health Catalyst. “Health Catalyst has a proven track record of helping our partners leverage accurate and reliable enterprise-level data to improve patient care and outcomes. We are honored with Billings Clinic’s trust in Health Catalyst and believe that, with their forward-thinking strategies for care and analytics, both organizations will benefit from our meaningful partnership.”

    Under the agreement, Health Catalyst will provide professional services focused on optimizing population health and enterprise outcomes improvements. Billings Clinic also will have access to Health Catalyst’s full library of technology solutions and content culled from the company’s outcomes-improvement work with health systems across the country. Health Catalyst applications built on the DOS platform address the most pressing concerns of healthcare organizations, including managing population health; gaining a comprehensive view of the true cost of care; empowering executive decision support with a dashboard view of enterprise-wide performance; benchmarking and prioritizing improvement opportunities; and monitoring, detecting, predicting and preventing threats to patient safety, before harm can occur.     

    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 Billings Clinic

    Billings Clinic is Montana’s largest health system, serving Montana, Wyoming and the western Dakotas. A not-for-profit organization led by a physician CEO, Billings Clinic is governed by a board of community members, nurses and physicians. At its core, Billings Clinic is a physician-led, integrated multispecialty group practice with a 304-bed hospital and Level II trauma center. Billings Clinic has more than 4,200 employees, including 450 physicians and advanced practitioners offering more than 50 specialties. Billings Clinic is the first Magnet-designated health care organization in Montana and a member of the Mayo Clinic Care Network. More information can be found at www.billingsclinic.com.

     

    For more information contact:

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

    Posted 2.5.2019
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