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MEDITECH Announces Professional Services
The leading EHR vendor is making available a targeted set of deliverables as it gears up to offer full implementation consulting and specialty services in 2019.
April 30, 2019 – MEDITECH, one of the world’s leading providers of Enterprise Health Records (EHR), announced today the formation of a new division dedicated to offering a range of Professional Services designed to optimize and maximize its Expanse EHR. Celebrating its 50th year of providing innovative software technology, MEDITECH will expand its portfolio by offering more services to its customers.
These professional services will complement the company’s Expanse implementation program known as READY. Implementation Professional Services will include on-premise Project Management Leadership, Clinical and Financial Leads, and a full suite of Subject Matter Experts and Trainers who will provide guidance, oversight, and training during the Expanse implementation. A complete slate of implementation consulting services, available on a widespread basis, will be offered during the second half of 2019.
Specialty Professional Services, which are being offered immediately, include implementation of quality initiatives using Expanse EHR Toolkits and Surveillance tools; physician consulting services; interoperability assessments and strategic planning; and programs designed to optimize Business & Clinical Analytics and Population Health solutions. Each of these tracks is being headed by a MEDITECH Associate Vice President with over 20 years of experience at the company.
“Now is the right time for MEDITECH to enter the Professional Services arena,” stated Hoda Sayed-Friel, Executive Vice President, who will lead the new division. “As our Expanse platform continues to mature, and customer adoption begins to reach critical mass, we are uniquely positioned to offer unparalleled technical knowledge for optimizing our software and achieving predictable implementation outcomes.”
“Our team will elevate our customers’ deployment of Expanse and allow organizations to reach maximum ROI on their MEDITECH investment,” continued Sayed-Friel. “It’s going to be an exciting journey and we can’t wait to get started.”
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
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Erin Svarvari Promoted to Vice President of Operations
CHICAGO, IL – April 29, 2019 – Impact Advisors, a leading provider of clinical, revenue cycle and information technology services to the healthcare industry, announced today that Erin Svarvari has been promoted to Vice President of Operations. Svarvari has more than 20 years of healthcare IT experience starting as a consultant in system design and delivery.
“We are pleased to welcome Erin to our senior leadership team,” said Todd Hollowell, COO at Impact Advisors. “She brings team and project leadership along with a wealth of Firm and industry knowledge, and we look forward to our continued focus on quality delivery and overall growth with her on our team.”
As Vice President of Operations, Svarvari will continue to provide oversight of staffing and sales support, oversee marketing activities and work directly with the recruiting team to help ensure the Firm meets our ever-growing client needs.
Svarvari joined the Firm in 2008 as a delivery consultant and joined the operations team in 2009. She transitioned to the role Director of Operations in 2016 where she focused on developing and growing the Impact Advisors operations team. In her role as Director of Operations she also led the Firm’s staffing and sales support teams, managed the internal staffing process and delivered client proposals.
About Impact Advisors
Impact Advisors is a nationally recognized healthcare consulting firm and trusted partner of industry leaders focused on delivering clinical, revenue cycle, and information technology services to solve some of healthcare’s toughest challenges. Our comprehensive suite of patient access, clinical 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: Best in KLAS® for 12 consecutive years, CRN Solution Provider and CRN Fast Growth 150, Modern Healthcare’s Largest Revenue Cycle Management Firms, Healthcare Informatics HCI 100, 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.
Media Contact:
Karli Smith
Chartwell Agency
815-977-5343
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Protenus Announces Former Chief Privacy Officer of HHS Office of the National Coordinator to Keynote 3rd Annual PANDAS Conference in Baltimore
Lucia Savage, Chief Privacy Officer of Omada Health to present on innovative strategies to advance digital health while ensuring privacy & security of patient data
BALTIMORE, MD – April 30, 2019 – The privacy and security of patient data continues to be increasingly important as access to this data increases and threats to this sensitive information continue to grow. At the same time, several new federal health information policies will make electronic health information about individuals more widely available to individuals and their caregivers and health care professionals. Lucia Savage, Former Chief Privacy Officer of HHS Office of the National Coordinator, will provide the opening keynote for the Privacy and Analytics (PANDAS) conference, focusing on innovation that equips privacy teams to effectively navigate the shift that occurs when organizations begin to more frequently utilize consumer tools to deliver healthcare.
The keynote, “Alexa, why do we need APIs in healthcare,” will focus on how health systems can balance advancing digital health and patient engagement while ensuring the privacy and security of patient data. Savage’s presentation will also highlight best practices healthcare organizations can start using to reduce organizational risk and better protect patient privacy.
“With CMS predicting the increased use of ‘common consumer tools’ to deliver care outside of traditional brick-and-mortar environments, I hope to bring a tech-forward, HIPAA-expert perspective to hospital privacy officers to help them navigate the shift,” stated Savage.
“The volume of health data available electronically has continued to grow with the adoption of consumer-facing applications focused on improving patient care. PANDAS provides our nation’s most innovative privacy officers a forum to address the new and evolving challenges these adoptions bring to healthcare,” said Nick Culbertson, CEO of Protenus, the founding organization of PANDAS. “To that end, we are thrilled to welcome Lucia. Her expertise and experience will provide unique insight as to how the industry can make important strides in protecting patient data as healthcare continues to innovate. We are looking forward to a thought-provoking discussion.”
Savage’s career has spanned healthcare across the private, nonprofit, and governmental sectors. Most recently, she served as Chief Privacy Officer at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT. At ONC, Lucia and her team advised the National Coordinator, HHS offices, and other federal agencies about appropriate electronic health information privacy and security policies and technologies. Issues included HIPAA, state privacy law, research on human subjects, the Privacy Act, and security engineering. In that role, Savage collaborated regularly with other federal and state agencies; independent commissions including the Federal Trade Commission and Federal Communications Commissions; and foreign countries. Prior to joining ONC, Lucia served as the Senior Associate General Counsel at United Healthcare, where she supervised a team that represented United on its work with large data transactions related to health information exchanges, healthcare transparency projects, academic research, and other data-driven health care innovation projects.
Lucia has a B.A. from Mills College in Oakland, CA, and received her Juris Doctor summa cum laude from New York University School of Law in May 1989, where she was awarded the Order of the Coif. She is a Member of the State Bar of California.
PANDAS will take place from May 8-9, 2019 in Baltimore, Maryland. For information on the conference, use the provided link:
About Protenus
The Protenus healthcare compliance analytics platform uses artificial intelligence to audit every access to patient records for the nation’s leading health systems, providing healthcare leaders full insight into how health data is being used, and alerting privacy, security and compliance teams to inappropriate activity. Protenus helps our partner hospitals make decisions about how to better protect their data, their patients, and their institutions. This year, Protenus was named the 2019 KLAS Category Leader in Patient Privacy Monitoring. In 2018, Protenus was named one of The Best Places to Work in Healthcare by Modern Healthcare and one of the Best Places to Work in Baltimore by the Baltimore Business Journal. Learn more at Protenus.com and follow us on Twitter @Protenus.
Media Contact
Kira Caban
Director, Strategic Communications
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Opioid Crisis Survey: 20% of Patients Face Trouble Obtaining Controlled Substance Prescriptions
How clinicians and prescription drug management programs have the power to prevent future addiction without compromising care for patients with chronic pain
ROCKVILLE, MD – April 30, 2019 – According to a DrFirst sponsored survey, 48% of consumers have been prescribed an opioid-based medication in the last five years, and, nearly two-thirds of those individuals have obtained multiple prescriptions within that timeframe. Nearly 20% of patients reported experiencing difficulty in obtaining a prescription for an opioid-based medication within that time frame, and half of the consumers who had trouble getting a prescription cited their doctor’s hesitation to prescribe opioids.
“Many patients have a legitimate need for opioid-based medications, which is one reason it is essential to empower clinicians with tools that ensure the safe prescribing of appropriate therapies,” said G. Cameron Deemer, president of DrFirst. “DrFirst is committed to providing physicians and pharmacists greater transparency into patients’ prescribing histories so they can more confidently treat patients for pain, while still quickly identifying patients who may be at risk of abuse or addiction.”
Patients Support Prescription Monitoring Programs
Many states require physicians and pharmacists to consult a prescription drug monitoring program (PDMP) before prescribing or dispensing controlled substances, allowing clinicians to spot patients who may be misusing prescription opioids and are at risk for overdose. However, providers often ignore this requirement because workflows are typically inefficient and time-consuming. Interestingly, the DrFirst survey shows that 76% of consumers favor utilization of PDMPs and 68% of them support the use of PDMPs even if it slows clinicians down.“The opioid crisis continues to devastate communities across the nation, but it is within the healthcare community’s power to solve this problem,” said Deemer. “With PDMPs, clinicians can more confidently and safely prescribe clinically-appropriate therapies. At the same time, physicians and pharmacists are better-equipped to identify the potential fraud, waste, and abuse that is often associated with prescription drugs.”
Promoting Clinically-Appropriate Prescribing
PDMPs can provide clinicians reassurance that a patient has no signs of drug-seeking behaviors, giving providers more confidence to prescribe and dispense pain-relieving medications when appropriate.“Though many physicians and pharmacists would like to consult a patient’s prescription drug history before writing a prescription, many prescribing solutions make the process overly difficult and time-consuming, failing to provide fundamental components such as complete data, in-workflow decision support, and analytics,” Deemer said. “To help clinicians make safe and clinically-appropriate prescribing decisions that address the needs of patients with chronic pain, we have developed a solution that makes consulting PDMPs as seamless and convenient as possible by enabling PDMP access through in-workflow prescribing tools.”
DrFirst is connected to over 300 EHRs and provides streamlined access to PDMPs in all available states, Washington DC, Guam and Puerto Rico. Prescribers can initiate patient queries from within the e-prescribing workflow and thus avoid the need to log into a PDMP from a separate browser. Once physician credentials are validated in the state’s PDMP, prescription records are returned directly and automatically into their Electronic Health Record. The controlled substances prescription and dispensed information collected in these state-specific databases is used to inform safer prescribing, support drug education efforts, research drug addiction and prevent substance use disorder.
Survey Details
Respondents to the random, online survey of 199 U.S. consumers were 34 percent male and 66 percent female. The largest age group represented was between 25 and 34 years old (31%), followed by 45-54 (28%) and greater than 54 (19%).About DrFirst
DrFirst, the nation’s leading provider of e-prescribing, price transparency, 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 220,000 healthcare professionals, 75,000 prescribers, and hundreds 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. Also, 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:
Jenn Cohen
Amendola Communications
404-759-3933
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Health Catalyst Named a Preferred Analytics Vendor by the Association for Community Affiliated Plans (ACAP)
Health Catalyst’s experience using data and analytics to drive clinical, financial and operational improvements aligns with ACAP’s efforts to support Medicaid-focused health plans
SILICON SLOPES, UT – April 30, 2019 – Health Catalyst, Inc., a leading provider of data and analytics technology and services to healthcare organizations, announced today that it has been designated as a Preferred Analytics Vendor by the Association for Community Affiliated Plans (ACAP).
ACAP is a national trade association that represents not-for-profit Safety Net Health Plans. Collectively, ACAP serves more than 20 million enrollees, representing nearly half of all individuals enrolled in Medicaid managed care plans.
In the ACAP Preferred Vendor Program, pre-qualified organizations are granted access to specific areas of interest for ACAP and their members. Each vendor must be sponsored by an existing ACAP member, and approved by the ACAP board. Health Catalyst was sponsored into ACAP by AlohaCare, a non-profit health plan serving nearly 70,000 Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries in Hawaii.
“We asked to sponsor Health Catalyst into ACAP as a trusted partner and Preferred Vendor,” said AlohaCare Chief Executive Officer Laura Esslinger. “In a relatively short period of time, we have automated the integration of clinical and claims data from nearly every provider in our network and actively leverage insights from that integrated dataset to drive and improve our care management and quality improvement programs for the benefit of our members.”
AlohaCare has leveraged Health Catalyst’s deep experience analyzing healthcare data from hundreds of sources for America’s largest health systems, health plans, and commercial payers to provide quality care to its members and ensure effective use of government funds. “By working side by side with Health Catalyst, we have reached a major milestone in our data acquisition strategy with the implementation of a bi-directional data exchange with our Community Health Centers,” said AlohaCare Chief Information Officer Todd Morgan.
The ability to easily integrate data from any source and immediately surface it to end users within Health Catalyst’s pre-built self-service analytic applications is revolutionary for most organizations that suffer from static reports and lengthy report request queues.
“We are honored to be named a Preferred Vendor by ACAP, and thank AlohaCare for their support,” said Health Catalyst CEO Dan Burton. “The respective missions of Health Catalyst and ACAP are in harmony, and our technology-enabled outcomes improvement approach is well aligned with ACAP member plans as they strive to efficiently improve the health and well-being of all their members, especially their most vulnerable populations.”
As a Preferred Vendor in the areas of business intelligence, enterprise data warehousing and performance analytics, ACAP members can leverage Health Catalyst’s experience in helping payers address the data integration and analytic challenges that constrain the move to value-based care. The Health Catalyst Data Operating System (DOS™) is delivered with pre-built, healthcare specific content such as code sets, terminology, analytic applications, machine learning and risk models.
ACAP members can benefit from pre-built DOS applications that include gaps in care/coding, high- and rising-risk member identification, PMPM financial analysis, and a drag-and-drop member registry builder. A dramatic alternative to black-box solutions, DOS provides a transparent, flexible, open-standards, data analytics platform that can efficiently ingest virtually any data source from claims to social determinants of health to clinical.
About Health Catalyst
Health Catalyst is a leading provider of data and analytics technology and services to healthcare organizations, committed to being the catalyst for massive, measurable, data-informed healthcare improvement. Our customers leverage our cloud-based data platform—powered by data from more than 100 million patients, and encompassing trillions of facts—as well as our analytics software and professional services expertise to make data-informed decisions and realize measurable clinical, financial, and operational improvements. We envision a future in which all healthcare decisions are data informed. Learn more at www.healthcatalyst.com.
About ACAP
ACAP represents 64 Safety Net Health Plans, which provide health coverage to more than 20 million people in 29 states. Safety Net Health Plans serve their members through Medicaid, Medicare, the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), the Marketplace and other publicly-sponsored health programs. For more information, visit www.communityplans.net.
For more information contact:
Todd Stein
Amendola Communications
510-417-0612
[email protected]Posted 4.30.2019 -
New Report: Vocera and Definitive Healthcare Examine Symptoms of Cognitive Overload
More than 60% of healthcare leaders said intelligent alarm management is a solution
SAN JOSE, CA – April 29, 2019 – Vocera Communications, Inc. (NYSE:VCRA), a recognized leader in clinical communication and workflow solutions, will release a research report in conjunction with the research services group of HIMSS Analytics, now Definitive Healthcare, about the impact of cognitive overload on care teams and the role technology can play to mitigate cognitive burden. Vocera worked closely with research professionals to design a survey conducted during the 2019 HIMSS Conference and Exhibition and online.
More than 300 clinical and IT leaders from health systems, hospitals and outpatient facilities participated in the study. Findings from the research will be released during a free webinar, on Tuesday, April 30, from 12-1 p.m. ET, hosted by Healthcare Innovation.
Brendan FitzGerald, Senior Director of Research Services at Definitive Healthcare, will moderate the online discussion and outline the survey results. He will be joined by Rhonda Collins, DNP, RN, Chief Nursing Officer, and Benjamin Kanter, MD, Chief Medical Information Officer, at Vocera, who will examine the signs and symptoms of cognitive overload and discuss strategies for simplifying clinical workflows and improving patient and staff well-being.
In many industries, technology has streamlined processes and minimized cognitive burden on workers. These recent survey findings suggest otherwise in healthcare. Forty-two percent of research participants said technologies currently deployed in the clinical environment contribute considerably or significantly to cognitive overload. Another 44% said they contribute at least moderately.
When asked which technology improvements would make the greatest impact on reducing cognitive overload, 62% of survey participants cited intelligent workflows to route alerts and alarms more efficiently as a top solution. Yet, only 45% said alert and alarm management solutions are on their organizations’ 2019 technology investment plans.
“To minimize cognitive burden, technology must help clinicians zero in on the most important information and provide relevant clinical context, while simultaneously weeding out extraneous data,” said Dr. Collins. “When clinicians receive too many requests or pieces of information at the same time, their attention is split among multiple people, systems, devices and data sources. They can become overloaded and have difficulty focusing on the most critical task at hand, which can lead to mistakes.”
Click here to register for this webinar about cognitive overload and discover how the right technology can ease it. The complete research report will be available after the online event.
About Vocera
The mission of Vocera Communications, Inc. is to simplify and improve the lives of healthcare professionals and patients, while enabling hospitals to enhance quality of care and operational efficiency. In 2000, when the company was founded, we began to forever change the way care teams communicate. Today, Vocera offers the leading platform for improving clinical communication and workflow. More than 1,850 facilities worldwide, including nearly 1,600 hospitals and healthcare facilities, have selected our clinical communication and workflow solutions. Care team members use our solutions to communicate and collaborate with co-workers by securely texting or calling, and to be notified of important alerts and alarms. They can choose the right device for their role or task, including smartphones or our hands-free, wearable Vocera Smartbadge and Vocera Badge. Interoperability between the Vocera Platform 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 power facilities, schools, libraries, retail stores, and more. Vocera solutions make 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 http://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.
Media Contact
Shanna Hearon
Vocera Communications, Inc.
669-999-3368
[email protected]Posted 4.29.2019 -
RSM Wins NetSuite Partner of the Year for Seventh Straight Year
CHICAGO, IL – RSM US LLP (“RSM”) – the nation’s leading provider of audit, tax and consulting services focused on the middle market – was recently named as the 2019 Worldwide Solution Provider Partner of the Year by Oracle NetSuite. This marks the seventh consecutive year RSM has been recognized as a Partner of the Year.
As one of the largest and most successful Oracle NetSuite partners, RSM consistently takes advantage of the available NetSuite partner programs to continue to be a trusted advisor to middle market companies for the evaluation, selection, implementation and support of NetSuite’s services and products to help those clients succeed.
“It’s an honor for all of us at RSM to receive this prestigious award for the seventh year in a row,” said Matt Kenney, technology consulting principal with RSM. “NetSuite’s offerings enhance our ability to address the unique challenges facing our middle market clients and to provide effective guidance for business success. This recognition exemplifies our dedication to providing our clients with innovative solutions and helping them achieve their visions.”
“I’m pleased to once again recognize RSM as Worldwide Solution Provider Partner of the Year,” said Craig West, SVP of Channel Sales, Oracle NetSuite. “RSM has helped us meet increasing international demand for cloud ERP solutions with its deep bench of experienced platform experts and support our thriving mutual customers across the world.”
NetSuite presented RSM with the award during its annual user conference, SuiteWorld 2019, in Las Vegas in April.
For more information about RSM’s NetSuite services, visit the RSM website.
For more information about NetSuite’s partner programs, visit NetSuite’s website.
About RSM US LLP
RSM’s purpose is to deliver the power of being understood to our clients, colleagues and communities through world-class audit, tax and consulting services focused on middle market businesses. The clients we serve are the engine of global commerce and economic growth, and we are focused on developing leading professionals and services to meet their evolving needs in today’s ever-changing business environment.RSM US LLP is the U.S. member of RSM International, a global network of independent audit, tax and consulting firms with more than 41,000 people in 116 countries. For more information, visit rsmus.com, like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter and/or connect with us on LinkedIn.
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Kirby Partners Named a Forbes’ “America’s Best Executive Recruiting Firm” for Third Consecutive Year
Lake Mary, FL – April 25, 2019 – Forbes recently released their 2019 list of best executive recruiting firms specializing in filling positions with annual salaries of at least $100,000. Kirby Partners proudly announces that they have earned a spot on the list for the third consecutive year.
Judy Kirby, President of Kirby Partners said “It is truly an honor to be recognized on the Forbes 2019 list of America’s Best Search firms. I’m particularly proud of this achievement knowing how difficult it is for a small, boutique executive search firm to earn a spot on the list among much larger firms that work across many verticals. The fact that we earned a spot on this list means that our clients nominated and championed us, which is extremely gratifying. We are deeply committed to client satisfaction and have focused on building long-term relationships in our 30 years in the executive search industry. Our customer-centric approach has helped us earn recognition as one of nation’s best.”
Forbes partnered with market research company Statista to develop their annual ranking of America’s best recruiting firms. Statista surveyed 25,000 recruiters and 5,000 job candidates and human resources managers who had worked with recruitment agencies over the last three years. Respondents were asked to nominate up to 10 recruiting firms in the executive and professional search categories. Firms could not nominate themselves; more than 17,000 nominations were collected, and firms with the most recommendations ranked highest.
About Kirby Partners
Kirby Partners is a retained executive search firm that places exceptional healthcare information technology and cybersecurity leaders. The company offers a variety of recruiting solutions including interim leadership, cybersecurity executive search, healthcare executive search, and leadership evaluation.
For more information about Kirby Partners, please visit www.kirbypartners.com
Contact
Heather Lujan
Vice President of Marketing
Kirby Partners
407.788.7305
[email protected]Posted 4.25.2019 -
Censinet Raises $7.8M in Series A Funding to Transform Third-Party Risk Management for Healthcare Providers
Funding led by HLM Venture Partners and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center with participation from Schooner Capital, LRVHealth and Excelerate Health Ventures
Boston, MA – April 23, 2019 – Censinet, the third-party risk management company for healthcare providers, today announced that it raised $7.8 million in Series A funding co-led by HLM Venture Partners and Cedars-Sinai Health System with participation from seed investors Schooner Capital, LRVHealth and Excelerate Health Ventures. Censinet will use the funding to build out the Censinet Platform’s vendor risk management capabilities, scale its go-to-market team, and accelerate adoption of the Censinet Platform by healthcare providers and their vendors.
“Censinet solves a significant cybersecurity and risk management problem that healthcare CIOs and CISOs must address today,” said Vin Fabiani, Partner at HLM Venture Partners. “We’re excited to partner with Cedars-Sinai to help Censinet accelerate adoption for its third-party risk management platform in partnership with the world’s leading healthcare organizations.”
In addition to the funding, Censinet also announced today the launch of the Censinet Platform, which is the first and only third-party risk management platform built by and for healthcare providers to manage the threats to patient care that exist within an expanding ecosystem of vendors (please see “Censinet Launches Industry’s First Third-Party Risk Management Platform Designed Exclusively for Healthcare Providers,” issued April 23, 2019).
“Third-party risk management is inefficient and a costly process for the healthcare industry at a time when resources are especially scarce” said Darren Dworkin, Senior Vice President and CIO at Cedars-Sinai Health System. “We see a big opportunity for a leader to both deliver a solution and improve compliance. Censinet’s singular focus on healthcare, their experienced team and commitment to security-first innovation position them perfectly to lead in this emerging and critical space.”
As part of the investment, Vin Fabiani will join the Censinet board of directors. The company also maintains an advisory board that includes C-level executives of top-tier healthcare providers and vendors who have served as design partners during the development of Censinet Platform.
“Censinet set out to overthrow the vendor risk management status quo in healthcare, delivering a solution that is at a fraction of the time and cost of antiquated approaches,” said Ed Gaudet, CEO and Founder of Censinet. “We’re very excited to have HLM Ventures and Cedars-Sinai join us as we help leading healthcare providers dramatically improve how they manage and reduce third-party vendor risks to patient care delivery.”
About HLM Venture Partners
HLM Venture Partners is a leading venture capital firm providing capital to emerging companies focused on health care services, health care information technology and medical devices. HLM has over $500 million of venture capital under management and works with the leading growth companies that are improving the quality of health care while reducing overall costs. HLM supports entrepreneurs as they turn innovative ideas into market-leading businesses, offering guidance on financial structuring, resource allocation and deployment, strategic planning, strategic introductions, and recruitment. HLM has been a lead investor in some of health care’s most innovative companies including: Change Healthcare, Teladoc, Nordic Consulting, ArroHealth, TYRX Medical, MedVentive, Trizetto and Healtheon. For more information, please visit www.hlmvp.com.
About Cedars-Sinai
Cedars-Sinai is a national leader in providing high-quality, patient-centered healthcare encompassing primary care as well as specialized medicine and research that leads to lifesaving discoveries and innovations. Since its beginning in 1902, Cedars-Sinai has evolved to meet the healthcare needs of one of the most diverse regions in the nation, continually setting new standards in quality and innovation in patient care, research, teaching and community service. Today, Cedars-Sinai is widely known for its national leadership in transforming healthcare for the benefit of patients. Cedars-Sinai impacts the future of healthcare globally by developing new approaches to treatment and educating tomorrow’s physicians and other health professionals. At the same time, Cedars-Sinai demonstrates a longstanding commitment to strengthening the Los Angeles community through wide-ranging programs that improve the health of its most vulnerable residents.
About Censinet
Censinet provides the first and only third-party risk management platform built by and for healthcare providers to manage the threats to patient care that exist within an expanding ecosystem of vendors. With its unique Censinet One-click Assessment™ capabilities and Digital Vendor Catalog™, the Censinet Platform reduces the time to assess vendor risk from weeks to seconds, while automating inefficient workflows and providing continuous real-time insights into the changing risk profile of each vendor. Censinet is based in Boston, MA and can be found at https://censinet.com/.
Contact:
Dan Gaffney
fama PR for Censinet
(617) 986-5036
[email protected]Posted 4.24.2019 -
Censinet Launches Industry’s First Third-Party Risk Management Platform Designed Exclusively for Healthcare Providers
Transformative platform developed in partnership with leading healthcare systems enables real-time third-party risk management
Boston, MA – April 23, 2019 – Censinet today announced the launch of the Censinet Platform, the first and only third-party risk management platform designed and developed in partnership with more than a dozen U.S. healthcare providers to manage the threats to patient care. The launch comes in conjunction with a $7.8M Series A funding round co-led by HLM Venture Partners and Cedars-Sinai with participation from seed round investors Schooner Capital, LRVHealth, and Excelerate Health Ventures (please see “Censinet Raises $7.8M in Series A Funding to Transform Third-Party Risk Management for Healthcare Providers,” issued April 23, 2019).
Hospitals today work with 700 vendors on average, each requiring a risk assessment that can take eight weeks or more to complete. Due to the lack of resources, manual processes and antiquated tools such as spreadsheets, only a fraction of vendors are regularly assessed, if ever at all. To make matters worse, these assessments are often outdated almost as soon as they are completed due to dynamic product updates, environmental configurations and cyber threats that change much more frequently than in the past. This wasted time and inadequate third-party vendor coverage increase risk of breaches to patient data, regulatory fines, reputational damage and, most importantly, disruption to patient care.
“At Censinet, we believe risk never sleeps in healthcare: it’s in infusion pumps, lurks on hospital networks and in the cloud, and says good morning at the end of a shift,” said Ed Gaudet, CEO and Founder of Censinet. “That is why we created a better way to manage risk exclusively for healthcare providers – one that is transparent, immediate and always on. Censinet’s unique cloud-based collaborative platform puts healthcare providers in control with real-time intelligence for rapid and accurate decision making.”
The Censinet Platform enables healthcare organizations to manage all vendors in their third-party ecosystem in one place with immediate access to each vendor’s risk profile and risk rating. With the Censinet Virtual Vendor Catalog™, providers know all of the active vendors they’re doing business with and can easily access the information they need to make decisions based on accurate, real-time data. Censinet One-click Assessment™ reduces the time it takes to assess vendor risk from weeks to minutes, while automating inefficient workflows and providing continuous, real-time updates to risk. Comprehensive dashboards and reporting make Censinet the only real-time platform to deliver a 360-degree view of vendor risk across a health system’s entire third-party ecosystem.
“Vendor risk assessment in healthcare has suffered from spreadsheets and ad-hoc processes,” said Jigar Kadakia, Chief Information Security and Privacy Officer, Partners HealthCare. “We worked closely with Censinet to design a platform that solves immediate workflow and automation challenges when managing third-party vendor relationships.”
The Censinet Cloud Platform is available immediately. To learn more and get started, please go to https://censinet.com/third-party-vendor-risk-management-software/
About Censinet
Censinet provides the first and only third-party risk management platform built by and for healthcare providers to manage the threats to patient care that exist within an expanding ecosystem of vendors. With its unique Censinet One-click Assessment™ capabilities and Digital Vendor Catalog™, the Censinet Platform reduces the time to assess vendor risk from weeks to seconds, while automating inefficient workflows and providing continuous real-time insights into the changing risk profile of each vendor. Censinet is based in Boston, MA and can be found at https://censinet.com/.
Contact:
Dan Gaffney
fama PR for Censinet
(617) 986-5036
[email protected]Posted 4.24.2019 -
DrFirst Structures a New $17 Million Commercial Financing Facility with SunTrust
New funds will support expansion initiatives in pharma and consumer sectors
ROCKVILLE, MD – April 23, 2019 – DrFirst, the nation’s leading provider of e-prescribing, price transparency, and medication management solutions, announced today that it has structured a new $17 million commercial financing facility with SunTrust Banks, Inc. The financing extends DrFirst’s strategic relationship with SunTrust Banks, a partnership which initially began in 2015.
“We are truly thrilled about our continued relationship with DrFirst,” said Greg Brouillette, senior vice president of the Maryland Commercial Banking Team at SunTrust Banks, Inc. “We believe in the company and all it is doing as leaders in healthcare IT. Since we began working together in 2015, DrFirst has always been a great business that has continued to grow in terms of product set and market share. This transaction will strengthen our relationship further. As a top leading bank, we are proud of the long-term relationship we have with DrFirst and look forward to supporting its continued growth and positive impact on the market.”
The new funds will support the expansion of DrFirst’s operational and development efforts for initiatives targeting the pharma and consumer sectors.
“We value our strong, ongoing relationship with SunTrust, who continues to be an excellent partner in terms of providing attractive financing alternatives and giving us access to a wealth of expertise on the health IT market through their extensive resource network,” said G. Cameron Deemer, president of DrFirst. “Since first partnering with SunTrust in 2015, we’ve experienced significant growth and been able to pay down our prior obligations. DrFirst was able to structure a new commercial financing facility with SunTrust Bank on attractive terms — we viewed this as a favorable time to refuel our cash reserves to support our growth and strategic initiatives in new vertical markets.”
About DrFirst
DrFirst, the nation’s leading provider of e-prescribing, price transparency, 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 220,000 healthcare professionals, 75,000 prescribers, and hundreds 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. Also, 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.
About SunTrust Banks, Inc.
SunTrust Banks, Inc. is a purpose-driven company dedicated to Lighting the Way to Financial Well-Being for the people, businesses, and communities it serves. SunTrust leads onUp, a national movement inspiring Americans to build financial confidence. Headquartered in Atlanta, the Company has two business segments: Consumer and Wholesale. Its flagship subsidiary, SunTrust Bank, operates an extensive branch and ATM network throughout the high-growth Southeast and Mid-Atlantic states, along with 24-hour digital access. Certain business lines serve consumer, commercial, corporate, and institutional clients nationally. As of March 31, 2019, SunTrust had total assets of $220 billion and total deposits of $162 billion. The Company provides deposit, credit, trust, investment, mortgage, asset management, securities brokerage, and capital market services. Learn more at suntrust.com.
DrFirst Media Contact:
Jenn Cohen
Amendola Communications
404-759-3933
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CHIME Advocacy Summit Features Blockbuster Lineup of Keynotes, Presenters
4.18.2019
By Candace Stuart – Director, Communications & Public Relations
Three top federal policymakers, a former CIO who now serves in the U.S. House of Representatives and the CIO of NHS England will give keynote presentations at the second annual CHIME Advocacy Summit on June 26-28 in Washington, D.C. The summit will address the latest policy developments and topics, including patient privacy, value-based care, telehealth, burgeoning cyber threats and how to manage them, and navigating the new interoperability rules and their implications for providers.
The summit’s keynotes are:
- Admiral Brett P. Giroir, MD, assistant secretary for health at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and senior adviser to the Secretary for Opioid Policy;
- Kimberly Brandt, JD, principal deputy administrator for operations of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and an expert in healthcare compliance, fraud and abuse;
- Adam Boehler, deputy administrator for innovation and quality at CMS and director of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation;
- U.S. Rep. Bill Johnson, who represents the Sixth Congressional District in Ohio, served as director of the U.S. Air Force’s Chief Information Officer Staff at U.S. Special Operations Command and is a telehealth proponent; and
- Will Smart, a member of the CHIME Board of Trustees and CIO of NHS England, who in a joint appointment between NHS England and NHS Improvement is responsible for providing strategic leadership across the whole of the NHS.
The Advocacy Summit will include sessions on cybersecurity, data privacy, interoperability, telehealth, the opioid epidemic and the role of IT innovation to improve health and care. The topics reflect priorities identified by CHIME’s 2,800-plus membership of CIOs and senior healthcare IT executives. Cybersecurity has been at the forefront of concerns after the 2017 WannaCry ransomware attack that spread through more than 150 countries and infected at least 80 NHS trusts across England. Interoperability and patient access to data are also prominent with the recent release of proposed rules by CMS and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT. Telehealth has been gaining momentum as the reimbursement landscape improves, and CHIME has taken a leadership role in stemming the tide of the opioid epidemic with the work of the CHIME Opioid Task Force.
Click here to learn about the keynote speakers and other policy leaders on the agenda. CHIME members, CHIME association members, CHIME Foundation firms and association partners who register now will receive a discounted early-bird rate. To register, click here.
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Posted 4.18.2019