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InterSystems and Virtusa Corporation Partner to Enhance Patient Data Integration Capabilities

Collaboration to create advanced platform for healthcare data management, research and analytics

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., November 18, 2019 – InterSystems, a global leader in information technology platforms for health, business, and government applications, today announced that it is partnering with Virtusa Corporation, a global provider of digital strategy, digital engineering, and IT services and solutions, to enhance the healthcare data integration capabilities of its vLife™ life sciences platform.

Virtusa’s vLife, an Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud-based technology, is a platform consisting of a comprehensive HIPAA-compliant data lake with multiple data sources, pre-built APIs, artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning (ML) models. Additional visualization and predictive tools are also available for client subscription. With the native interoperability and integration foundation of the InterSystems IRIS for Health™ Data Platform, Virtusa customers can now more easily and effectively extend vLife’s capabilities to access patient data from electronic medical record (EMR) systems and other clinical applications. This will enable and support a broad range of analytics use cases for healthcare payers, life sciences and medtech companies.

“The healthcare industry is in the midst of a monumental shift from a fee-for-service to a fee-for-value reimbursement pay structure. Therefore, our focus is on helping our customers improve patient care while reducing cost through improved analytics,” said Anthony Lange, senior vice president of life sciences, Virtusa. “As a standalone platform, vLife provides superior support for research and training ML programs. But, to fully meet customer needs and expectations, we need to offer seamless access to real world clinical data for use in payer, life science, and medtech scenarios. InterSystems IRIS for Health makes that possible.”

InterSystems IRIS for Health is a unified data platform that combines analytical and transaction processing with native interoperability for all data types. With the ability to rapidly scale and manage both heterogeneous data and fast data, InterSystems IRIS for Health accelerates development cycles to meet the data demands of the modern healthcare organization. It enables users to create information-rich healthcare applications, more rapidly.

“We’re thrilled to work with Virtusa to securely collect, analyze, engage, and apply data to help drive positive patient outcomes,” said Don Woodlock, vice president of InterSystems HealthShare®. “The combination of InterSystems healthcare integration solutions and Virtusa’s vLife platform creates a superior platform for healthcare data management, research, and analytics.”

For more information, please visit https://www.intersystems.com/.

About Virtusa Corporation

Virtusa Corporation (NASDAQ GS: VRTU) is a global provider of digital business strategy, digital engineering, and information technology (IT) services and solutions that help clients change, disrupt, and unlock new value through innovative engineering. Virtusa serves Global 2000 companies in Banking, Financial Services, Insurance, Healthcare, Communications, Media, Entertainment, Travel, Manufacturing, and Technology industries.

Virtusa helps clients grow their business with innovative products and services that create operational efficiency using digital labor, future-proof operational and IT platforms, and rationalization and modernization of IT applications infrastructure. This is achieved through a unique approach blending deep contextual expertise, empowered agile teams, and measurably better engineering to create holistic solutions that drive business forward at unparalleled velocity enabled by a culture of cooperative disruption.

About InterSystems

InterSystems is the information engine that powers some of the world’s most important applications. In healthcare, business, government, and other sectors where lives and livelihoods are at stake, InterSystems has been a strategic technology provider since 1978. InterSystems is a privately held company headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA), with offices worldwide, and its software products are used daily by millions of people in more than 80 countries. For more information, please visit https://www.intersystems.com/.

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Posted 11.18.2019
KLAS Research Recognizes PatientPing as a High Performing Emerging Healthcare IT Company

Report highlights PatientPing’s ability to facilitate care coordination, reduce avoidable utilization, and provide an exceptional customer experience

Boston, MA, November 14, 2019 – PatientPing, the nation’s leading care collaboration platform, is recognized as a Higher Performing Emerging Healthcare IT company in the new KLAS® Research report “Emerging Technologies for 2019.” PatientPing customers independently selected by KLAS provided KLAS Research with overwhelmingly positive feedback on their high satisfaction with the platform, reflecting PatientPing’s ability to improve care coordination and collaboration, improve patient outcomes, and reduce costs across the continuum.

The KLAS report acknowledges PatientPing’s top strengths to be customer-focused services, responsive support functionalities, and a key facilitator of care coordination to reduce readmissions. Also, PatientPing users strongly endorse the platform for their peers as the company received an 8.88 rating on a scale of 1-9.

“We work hard to fully dedicate ourselves to deeply listen and deliver for our customers. The KLAS report is a helpful validation of our commitment to improve outcomes for our customers and the patients they serve,” said Jay Desai, CEO of PatientPing. “We’re honored to be recognized by KLAS as a high performing emerging healthcare IT company, and to continue offering enhanced solutions to help providers across the nation deliver better coordinated care.”

KLAS evaluated PatientPing on a series of features and services, including the ability to gain insights on patients whenever and wherever they receive care, improve outcomes through timely interventions, increase physician engagement across the continuum, reduce costs while improving quality of care and patient experience, and strengthen relationships with acute and post-acute provider networks.

The KLAS report is based on interviews among leading healthcare executives and stakeholders that leverage the PatientPing platform. Interviews are conducted using a standard quantitative evaluation sharing the scores and commentary collected online, so that other providers and healthcare professionals can benefit from peer reviews.

About KLAS

KLAS is a data-driven company on a mission to improve the world’s healthcare by enabling provider and payer voices to be heard and counted. Working with thousands of healthcare professionals, KLAS collects insights on software, services and medical equipment to deliver reports, trending data and statistical overviews. KLAS data is accurate, honest and impartial. The research directly reflects the voice of healthcare professionals and acts as a catalyst for improving vendor performance. To learn more about KLAS and the insights we provide, visit www.KLASresearch.comhttps://klasresearch.com/

About PatientPing

PatientPing is a Boston-based care collaboration platform that reduces the cost of healthcare by seamlessly connecting providers to coordinate patient care. The platform enables providers to collaborate on shared patients through a comprehensive suite of solutions and allows provider organizations, health plans, governments, individuals and the organizations supporting them to leverage real-time data to reach their shared goals of improving the efficiency of our healthcare system. For more information, please visit www.patientping.com.

Posted 11.14.2019
Industry Leader, Collaboration and Partner Awards Announced at Forum
11.14.19
By Candace Stuart, Director, Communications & Public Relations

The CHIME Foundation announced winners of three awards on Tuesday, Nov. 5. The awards were presented during the 2019 CHIME Fall CIO Forum in Phoenix, along with the previously announced federal policy leadership award.

CHIME Foundation Industry Leader Award

Mac McMillan, founder and CEO emeritus of CynergisTek, was named winner of the prestigious CHIME Foundation Industry Leader Award, making him one of only 14 people to receive this title in CHIME’s 27-year history.

After a career that spanned more than two decades in defense, McMillan decided to transfer his knowledge and skills as a security leader to the healthcare sector. What he discovered when he co-founded CynergisTek in 2004 was an industry that was woefully unprepared for the cyberthreats that were lurking. Undeterred, he made it his mission to raise awareness and educate CIOs in provider settings through CHIME forums. He is largely credited with bringing healthcare security to its current state of preparedness.

When CHIME launched AEHIS, an association dedicated to security leaders, CHIME turned to McMillan to serve on the inaugural board. McMillan was the keynote speaker at the first AEHIS Summit, testified at CHIME’s invitation before a U.S. House Committee about the HHS Data Protection Act, was instrumental in CynergisTek joining the CHIME Foundation and AEHIS Foundation and supported the CHIME Education Foundation and the CHIME Opioid Task Force. He also has been a frequent speaker and presenter at other association events, is active in university programs to promote careers in cybersecurity and is a contributing author in the book Information Security in Healthcare: Managing Risk, published by HIMSS.

“I am honored and humbled to receive this award,” McMillan said. “When I look back to when I first came into healthcare to where we are today, we are a much different industry with respect to cybersecurity. We are much further along than we were, but we still have a way to go. I think we will get there, though.”

The award recognizes a CHIME Foundation firm representative who has demonstrated exceptional dedication and made outstanding contributions to the healthcare industry, CHIME and the CHIME Foundation. The award was presented during the 2019 CHIME Fall CIO Forum in Phoenix.

CHIME Collaboration Award

Rusty Yeager, senior vice president and CIO at Encompass Health, and Cerner received the 2019 CHIME Collaboration Award for jointly developing a tool that identifies patients who are at risk of returning to acute care and alerts clinicians so they can intervene. Encompass Health, one of the largest providers of post-acute healthcare services in the U.S., partnered with its electronic health records supplier Cerner Corporation®, a global health platform and innovation company, on the project.

The results have been promising. Encompass Health reported its lowest acute-care transfer rate in a decade in March 2018, while simultaneously increasing its discharge to community rate – meaning fewer patients were being sent back to acute-care facilities and more patients were returning to their homes.

“The model was created using the knowledge, skills and capabilities utilized by both organizations to not only provide enhanced care and better outcomes for patients but also to do so in a manner that achieves business success for Encompass Health,” Yeager said.

Inspired by the success of this project, Encompass Health and Cerner launched the Post-Acute Care Innovation Center to develop clinical decision support tools to enhance the post-acute care continuum. Their goal is to design innovations to more effectively and efficiently manage patients across multiple care settings.

“Working alongside Encompass Health in developing a tool to reduce acute care transfers directly aligns with our company commitment to imagine, design and implement intelligent health networks. We are proud to be recognized by CHIME for innovation and collaboration in this space,” said Adam Laskey, vice president, Long Term and Post-Acute Care, Cerner. “We are eager to expand upon this work through the Post-Acute Innovation Center, helping drive ideas that enhance and improve healthcare outcomes and experiences for all.”

The award is given annually to recognize a collaborative effort between a CIO who is a CHIME member and a CHIME Foundation firm who together offer a benefit to the healthcare IT community. The winners are given an opportunity to share their innovative collaboration and its outcomes with CHIME members for possible application in other healthcare environments.

CHIME Foundation Partner Award

First Health Advisory Solutions received the 2019 CHIME Foundation Partner Award for the company’s numerous contributions to CHIME, AEHIS, members and the health IT industry.

When AEHIS, which is CHIME’s affiliated security association, needed experts to help develop a new credential, members on the leadership team at First stepped up to the plate. First’s executive team played a key role in the development and rollout of the Certified Healthcare Information Security Leader (CHISL) credential in 2019 and the CHIME Foundation Certified Healthcare Executive (CFCHE) credential in 2017.

And when CHIME members advocate for security-related policies, First is there offering support and resources. In addition, First offers industry initiatives in medical device security and cybersecurity risk management that align with CHIME ‘s top policy priority topics.

“These efforts have been enhanced in concert with CHIME advocacy, policy involvement, webinar presentations and consistent focus group participation,” said First CEO Carter Groome, who is a member of the AEHIS Board and chair of the AEHIS Education and Professional Development Committee. “We are confident that industry impact has been greatly enhanced through the efforts of CHIME and the platform it has provided First to share such innovations.”

The CHIME Foundation Partner Award is given annually to a CHIME Foundation firm that has made outstanding contributions and demonstrated exceptional dedication and support to the healthcare IT industry.

A Cybersecurity Standout

Theresa Meadows, senior vice president and CIO at Cook Children’s Health Care System, co-chair of the Health and Human Services (HHS) Healthcare Cybersecurity Task Force, vice chair of the Health Sector Council Cybersecurity Working Group and a member of the Malcolm Baldrige Board of Overseers, accepted the 2019 Federal Public Policy Award for CIO Leadership at the forum. The award was announced on Sept. 26 in conjunction with National Health IT Week.

The policy leadership award is given annually to a CHIME member who has demonstrated leadership in educating Congress and administration officials at the federal level about the value of health IT and its role in patient care.

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Posted 11.14.2019
CHIME19: Launching into the Future with New Programs, Partners and More
11.14.19
Shafiq Rab, Chair, CHIME Board; SVP & CIO, Rush University Medical Center

The 2019 CHIME Fall CIO Forum was a resounding success, with members engaged in three days of learning, sharing, networking and being rejuvenated. The theme this year was “Into the Future,” which provided an opportunity to look ahead while celebrating the gains made in 2019.

For those who missed the live streaming or otherwise couldn’t join us, here are some highlights.

Forging New Ground

CHIME achieved several noteworthy “firsts” in 2019 that were called out during CHIME19. They include:
- Launching CHIME Innovation, a new educational program that helps us think strategically about what we can do now to transform care. Only 11 months old, CHIME Innovation has hosted several workshops, the CI²O Innovation Summit and is bringing thought leaders together to address 5G, advanced technologies, innovation leadership and other key topics.
- Holding our first Diversity and Inclusion Forum on Sunday (Nov. 3), which allowed members and Foundation partners to participate in roundtable discussions on Breaking Down Barriers, Building and Leading the Next Generation, Patient Diversity and Inclusion Programs, Women of CHIME and more.
- Offering CHIME’s CIO certification exam in German. We now have 15 German-speaking members who are certified.
- Designing and launching a credentialing program for CISOs called the Certified Healthcare Information Security Leader, or CHISL.
- Creating and holding the first-ever CHIME AEHIS Healthcare CISO Boot Camp, which took place immediately following CHIME19.
Growing in the U.S. and Internationally

CHIME has more than 3,200 members in 56 countries. During the forum, CHIME announced the addition of a 10th international chapter through a partnership with Digital Health Canada. CHIME now has chapters in Austria, Belgium, Canada, Germany, India, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland and the UK.

Fellow and Lifetime Memberships

Seven CHIME members were named fellows during the forum in recognition of their service, along with one new lifetime award. Our new fellows are Pam Banchy, Theresa Meadows, George Reynolds, Kathy Ross, Tressa Springmann, Corey Zeigler and Mark Zirkelbach. Marc Probst was given a lifetime membership.

Charitable Contributions

Golfers who played in Sunday’s competition contributed over $1,400 to be split between the Opioid Task Force and the Education Foundation’s Pay It Forward campaign. The Fun Run raised $ 1,320 for the Phoenix Children’s Hospital, whose NICU and the local charity and shelter Andre House were the beneficiaries of the Giving Back program. CHIME members and CHIME Foundation members packed six gift boxes for the NICU and 100 kits for Andre House to distribute to people struggling with substance use disorder.

Partnering with Baldrige

CHIME and the Malcolm Baldrige Foundation announced several joint initiatives during the Most Wired portion of Wednesday’s programming. Speaking in a video that aired during the event, Baldrige Foundation President and CEO Al Faber said the Baldrige Foundation has endorsed the Most Wired survey as the top IT performance excellence and benchmark recognition program. CHIME and the Baldrige Foundation will collaborate on a cybersecurity survey that will serve as the benchmark and quality award for cybersecurity and jointly recognize the highest achieving organizations at Baldrige’s annual Quest for Excellence Conference and the CHIME Fall CIO Forum.

Final Words

As always with the fall forum, we recognized winners of CHIME and CHIME Foundation awards, listened to dynamic keynote speakers, participated in focus groups, learned from peers at track sessions and Leadership from the Edge, and enjoyed each other’s company during breaks and networking dinners. Look for more detailed coverage of those events in additional articles and visit http://fallcioforum.org to view the photo gallery, slides and more.

Registration is now open for the 2020 spring forum, too, which will be March 8-9 in Orlando. Members who register now will receive early bird pricing and have access to CHIME’s room block, while availability lasts. CHIME will announce keynote speakers and provide other updates in the coming months.

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Posted 11.14.2019
News of Note
11.14.19
By Candace Stuart, Director, Communications & Public Relations

CHIME-KLAS report measures adoption of AI: Healthcare organizations that are early adopters of AI are experiencing increasing success in clinical, financial and operational areas, according to a newly issued report from CHIME and KLAS Research. The executive summary of the report, Healthcare AI 2019: Actualizing the Potential of Artificial Intelligence, can be accessed here.

AEHIS names Erik Decker Health Information Security Innovator of the Year: Erik Decker, the chief information security and privacy officer at University of Chicago Medicine, received the Association for Executives in Healthcare Information Security’s (AEHIS) inaugural Health Information Security Innovator of the Year award. The award was announced Nov. 4 at the AEHIS Fall Summit in Phoenix. Read more about the award here.

Patient matching webinar on Dec. 5: CHIME members Michael Martz and Albert Oriol will join healthsystemCIO.com Editor-in-chief Anthony Guerra at noon ET Dec. 5 for a webinar titled “The State of Patient Matching: Today’s Best Practices & Tomorrow’s Possibilities.” The webinar is produced in collaboration with CHIME; participants may earn up to one CHIME CEU by attending. Registration is available here.

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Posted 11.14.2019
Most Wired Trends Report Sheds Light on Participants’ Use of Healthcare Technology
11.14.19

Michelle Patterson, VP, Operations

CHIME has released a national trends report based on an analysis of data from the 2019 Most Wired surveys. The report is free and available for download through the CHIME website.

This year CHIME offered an ambulatory survey in addition to domestic and international surveys. The 2019 report includes a section devoted to the ambulatory findings; other sections focus on value-based care, population health management, patient engagement, security, EHR data access and integration, and other findings.

Overall, acute-care organizations and ambulatory facilities are following similar trajectories in their adoption of healthcare technologies, and in both settings organizations that used advanced technologies the most also reported the most benefit. According to the analysis:
- Fee-for-service remains the dominant payment model, with alternative payments accounting for 25% of Most Wired participants’ revenue. There was a modest increase in the adoption of most financial tools between 2018 and 2019.
- Healthcare organizations are making headway with their population health management efforts. On average 81% of respondents have adopted basic tools for care management although the adoption of advanced technologies is much lower. More than 80% use their EHR for various population health activities, and 63% include third-party tools.
- Almost all respondents offer patient portals that include clinical information like test results and visit summaries, and about half include functionality like self-management tools for chronic conditions. The more patients used the portals, the greater was the impact on outcomes.
- Telehealth remains a challenge. Two-thirds of organizations with telehealth services reported less than 10% of patients have used them.
- Most organizations employ some components of a comprehensive security program but only about one third have adopted all 11 components.
- Almost all participants have made the EHR and imaging data remotely accessible to clinicians yet less than half allow remote access to alerts and notifications for patients with chronic conditions.
- Most organizations have integrated at least one measured type of patient-monitoring data source, and those that integrate at least seven reported a 10% higher impact on outcomes.
- More organizations reported the ability to consume CCD data into their EHR as discrete data in 2019 compared with 2018. The ability to consume data from skilled nursing facilities and home health agencies also improved, yet about one-third still lack that ability.
The ambulatory results mostly mirrored trends seen with acute-care organizations but there were a few differences, too. Compared with acute-care organizations, ambulatory facilities were slightly more likely to have adopted a mix of population health technologies and had higher adoption of portal functionalities overall. They also were more likely to offer telehealth services, but patient use was low in this setting as well. More ambulatory facilities reported that their patient engagement tools had a high impact on outcomes.

Results from the trends report were presented Nov. 5 at the 2019 CHIME Fall CIO Forum. A digital version of the report is available on the CHIME website and can be downloaded here.

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Posted 11.14.2019
Transformational Leadership, Innovator and Outstanding Service Awards Given at CHIME19
11.14.19
By Candace Stuart, Director, Communications & Public Relations

CHIME announced the names of four award winners on Monday, Nov. 4, during CHIME19. Here is a look at the award-winning initiatives and the people behind them.

CHIME-AHA Transformational Leadership Award

Aviv Gladman, MD, CIO and CMIO at Mackenzie Health in Ontario, Canada, and Amanda Hammel, senior vice president and CIO at Memorial Hermann Health System in Houston, Texas, tied for the Transformational Leadership Award, which is given by CHIME in conjunction with the American Hospital Association (AHA).

Mackenzie Health launched its EHR in July 2017 and under Gladman’s leadership implemented several initiatives designed to improve clinical outcomes. They created an electronic pathway for treating patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease that reduced the length of stay by more than two days, freeing up beds for other patients in need of care. In addition, streamlining the electronic order set in their stroke program improved the clinical workflow, expedited care and improved outcomes. A third initiative designed to reduce hospital-acquired C. difficile infections reported a drop of 43% one year after the EMR was implemented.

Gladman and his team will continue to look for ways to use technology to simultaneously improve clinical and business outcomes. “We want to build a measurable environment that is seamlessly integrated into the clinicians’ workflow,” he said. “With baseline data, we can identify gaps and develop processes to deliver better care.”

Hammel played a key role in the implementation of Memorial Hermann’s population health strategy. She and her team were responsible for onboarding a massive amount of data, pulling in data from more than 40 disparate sources, leveraging registries within multiple EHRs and validating analytics. They helped develop a Population Health Data Warehouse and tools that give a comprehensive picture of their patients and identify gaps. They also created Everyday Well, a consumer-facing app that facilitates access to care.

“I am honored to receive this award on behalf of all the work we have done at Memorial Hermann,” said Hammel. “While we have laid a solid foundation, we know there is more work to be done. We plan to continue the acceleration of data use to provide actionable insights by enabling more digital tools and ultimately creating exceptional patient journeys.”

The CHIME-AHA Transformational Leadership Award is given in honor of a CEO and CIO whose organization developed and deployed transformational IT that improved the delivery of care and streamlined administrative services.

CHIME Innovator of the Year

Omer Awan, senior vice president and chief information and digital officer at Navicent Health, was named Innovator of the Year for using health IT to tear down barriers across the system, and improve quality and the patient experience, while saving Navicent Health millions of dollars.

Awan partnered with a software development company to develop OrCarestra, an innovation platform that the Navicent Health team can use to integrate applications that coordinate existing systems and streamline the delivery of care. Among their achievements:
- A scheduling platform that allows community physician practices to quickly schedule procedures at a hospital, replacing faxes and phone calls;
- An electronic patient check-in process using airline boarding as a model that makes canceling and rescheduling easy, removes the burden of filling out paper forms and cuts down the wait time;
- An intuitive patient management tool that displays patient case activity on a single page. It includes assessment tools, care plan recommendations, identifies gaps and offers patient education resources; and.
- A physician directory that allows physicians to customize their biographies, photos and search terms, making it faster and easier for patients to find providers who match their needs.
“Innovation is never about one person; it is a team sport and I am fortunate to have such fantastic teammates,” Awan said. “Thanks to their great work, we are well positioned to meet the strategic objectives of the enterprise.”

The Innovator of the Year Award is given annually to a member of CHIME whose creative application of technology has demonstrated value to their healthcare organization with an innovative solution that can be shared widely with the CHIME membership.

CHIME Outstanding Service Award

The CHIME Board of Trustees named Liz Johnson the 2019 CHIME Outstanding Service Award winner in recognition of all that she has done for CHIME and the health IT community. As one of CHIME’s most prominent policy leaders, she gladly pores over 1,000-page-plus proposed rules to help her colleagues assess the policy’s impact and provide a clear and insightful response to then submit to the agency. She jumped at the chance to help try to curb the opioid epidemic by joining the CHIME Opioid Task Force in 2018. As a volunteer on the member-elected Board, a faculty member, a mentor, a policy dynamo and much more, Johnson has shown a passion for serving CHIME and her fellow members over the years.

Johnson recently retired as the chief innovation officer at Tenet Healthcare. Prior to that position, she was the CIO of Acute Care Hospitals and Clinical Informatics at Tenet. She currently serves as the chair of the CHIME Education Foundation, vice chair of the Policy Steering Committee and a CHIME faculty member. Her past contributions include CHIME Foundation Board chair (2018); Policy Steering Committee chair (2018); CHIME Board chair (2017); and a founding member of the CHIME Opioid Task Force. She is a CHIME Fellow and a Lifetime Member. In 2014, she received CHIME’s Federal Public Policy Award for CIO Leadership.

“The members of CHIME are like family to me,” Johnson said. “They have stood beside me throughout my career, offering guidance and advice whenever I needed it. It is a privilege to be able to provide the same to others. To be recognized by my peers for doing something I love is beyond wonderful. Thank you!”

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Posted 11.14.2019
TransformativeMed Partners with Beebe Healthcare to Improve Operational Efficiency and Prevent Clinician Burnout
SEATTLE, Nov. 13, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — TransformativeMed, the leader in transforming electronic health records (EHRs) with apps directly embedded within the EHR, today announced a partnership with Beebe Healthcare (Beebe) in Delaware to improve the health system’s clinical workflow efficiency, patient care communication and overall clinician experience with their electronic health record (EHR) system.

Founded in 1916, Beebe Healthcare includes a 210-licensed-bed medical center as well as five outpatient locations offering an array of inpatient, outpatient, emergency and diagnostic services. Beebe’s specialized service lines include cardiac and vascular, surgical services, oncology, women’s health and orthopedic services.

Beebe, like many health systems nationwide, has recognized the importance of preventing physician and clinician burnout by optimizing their EHR and making workflows more intuitive and productive. This emphasis is in keeping with a groundbreaking report on burnout that the National Academy of Medicine recently issued. The report, “Taking Action Against Clinician Burnout: A Systems Approach to Professional Well-Being,” outlines six goals health system leaders and other stakeholders can pursue to prevent and mitigate clinician burnout and foster professional well-being, including “improving the usability and relevance of health IT” and “reduce tasks that do not improve patient care.”

In keeping with those goals, one of the many benefits the TransformativeMed platform will offer Beebe is saving their clinicians 45 minutes to an hour each shift because they will no longer need to print patient lists from the EHR. All the relevant data and communication tools to support their rounds will be securely available from their mobile devices.

“The highest quality patient care is our top priority, and preventing burnout among our physicians and other clinicians is crucial to achieving that goal,” said George Kluchnik, MD and hospitalist at Beebe Healthcare. “By making our EHR align better with our clinicians’ workflows through TransformativeMed, they can spend less time with technology and more time with their patients—which improves their satisfaction as well as patient experience.”

Restoring Joy in Practice:

Beebe Healthcare is implementing three key modules from the TransformativeMed platform to improve workflow efficiency and clinician communication. Those modules are:
- Core Work Manager App. Embedded in the EHR, the Core Work Manager App delivers rich, actionable information visually presented in a format unique to each specialty’s priorities. Clinical teams caring for a patient have accurate, timely and actionable information to organize rounds, convey discharge readiness, conduct handoffs and manage their patient list. The list of patients includes the most recent list of issues and is organized based on the information that each team needs to maximize relevance.
- Core Work Manager Mobile App. Everything clinicians need is delivered through this mobile app that allows a bidirectional flow of information between the EHR and the clinicians’ smartphone or another mobile device. Their team’s patient to-do list can be reviewed and updated with the latest information from a personalized patient list, and tasks can be created and edited with voice-to-text and then automatically uploaded to the EHR for the entire care team to see. This capability minimizes entering the same information multiple times and ensures the team is updated in real time.
- Core Notify App. Alert fatigue has been cited as a major contributor to clinicians’ frustrations with health IT. With Notify, clinicians can subscribe to only the alerts that are most important to them, ensuring fewer interruptions and faster response rates. While easily configured based on user or facility, the Notify App also automatically learns clinicians’ preferences, so their alerts are always relevant and actionable.
“We are proud to partner with a leading organization such as Beebe Healthcare that has taken the crucial step to maximize the value they receive from their EHR by improving their clinicians’ satisfaction and the efficiency of their workflows,” said Rodrigo Martinez, MD, Chief Clinical Officer at TransformativeMed. “As the National Academy of Medicine report points out, helping maintain or restore clinicians’ well-being and joy in medicine must be a national priority. A major step forward, as Beebe has done, is to make their EHR work like their physicians work so they can spend more time caring for patients.”

About TransformativeMed
TransformativeMed dramatically improves the usability of Electronic Health Records (EHRs), with specialty-specific and disease-specific workflows, which are embedded within the EHR. The Core Work Manager and Core Diabetes App securely synchronize clinical workflow, tasks, alerts, notifications and messages to harmonize the care team and create seamless communication across clinicians, using any device, including mobile. With TransformativeMed, clinicians are happier and clinical work is streamlined, more efficient, less costly and safer. Learn more at TransformativeMed.com.

About TransformativeMed
TransformativeMed dramatically improves the usability of Electronic Health Records (EHRs), with specialty-specific and disease-specific workflows, which are embedded within the EHR. The Core Work Manager and Core Diabetes App securely synchronize clinical workflow, tasks, alerts, notifications and messages to harmonize the care team and create seamless communication across clinicians, using any device, including mobile. With TransformativeMed, clinicians are happier and clinical work is streamlined, more efficient, less costly and safer. Learn more at TransformativeMed.com.

About Beebe Healthcare
Beebe Healthcare is a not-for-profit community healthcare system with a charitable mission to encourage healthy living, prevent illness, and restore optimal health for the people who live in, work in, and visit the communities we serve. Beebe Healthcare has three campuses: the Margaret H. Rollins Lewes Campus, which houses the medical center; the Rehoboth Beach Health Campus; and coming in 2020, the South Coastal Health Campus. Beebe Healthcare offers primary care as well as specialized services in the areas of cardiac and vascular, general surgery, robotic surgery, cancer treatment, women’s health, and orthopaedics. Beebe also offers walk-in care, lab, imaging and physical rehabilitation services at several locations throughout Sussex County, in addition to a Home Care program and an adult activities center.

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Posted 11.13.2019
Most Wired Report Finds Parallels Between Acute-Care and Ambulatory Organizations

ANN ARBOR, MI, Nov. 13, 2019 – Acute-care organizations and ambulatory facilities are following similar trajectories in their adoption of healthcare technologies, according to a report released by the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME). Organizations that used advanced technologies the most also reported the most benefit.

The report, HealthCare’s Most Wired: National Trends 2019, was based on responses to CHIME’s 2019 Most Wired survey. CHIME conducts the survey annually to assess how effectively healthcare organizations apply core and advanced technologies into their clinical and business programs to improve health and care in their communities. This year CHIME offered an ambulatory survey in addition to a domestic and international hospital survey and introduced a performance excellence certification system using a Level 1-10 scale. The trends report focused on high-interest categories in healthcare that are impacted by technology.

“This report serves as a benchmark for the industry and a roadmap for healthcare organizations that strive to be best in class,” said Bill Spooner, chair of the Most Wired Governing Board. “Overall we saw improvement in the adoption of advanced technologies compared to the previous year and identified opportunities where healthcare organizations could target their resources.”

Fee-for-service continues to be the dominant payment model, with alternative payments accounting for 25% of Most Wired participants’ revenue. There was a modest increase in the adoption of most financial tools between 2018 and 2019, but two – real-time identification/tracking of value-based care conditions and distribution/management of bundled payments – saw upticks of 11 percentage points and 8 percentage points, respectively.

Healthcare organizations are making headway with their population health management efforts. On average 81% of respondents have adopted basic tools for care management although the adoption of advanced technologies is much lower. More than 80% use their EHR for various population health activities, and 63% include third-party tools. Those that use the EHR plus third-party tools, but no manual tools, report a stronger impact on patient, clinician, operational and financial outcomes.

Almost all respondents offer patient portals that include clinical information like test results and visit summaries, and about half include functionality like self-management tools for chronic conditions. The more patients used the portals, the greater was the impact on outcomes. Telehealth remains a challenge, though; two-thirds of organizations with telehealth services reported less than 10% of patients have used them.

Most organizations employ some components of a comprehensive security program but only about one third have adopted all 11 components. Nine of 10 organizations with a comprehensive security program and high adoption of security measures report a high positive overall impact.

Almost all participants have made the EHR and imaging data remotely accessible to clinicians yet less than half allow remote access to alerts and notifications for patients with chronic conditions. Most organizations have integrated at least one measured type of patient-monitoring data source, and those that integrate at least seven reported a 10% higher impact on outcomes. More organizations reported the ability to consume CCD data into their EHR as discrete data in 2019 compared with 2018. The ability to consume data from skilled nursing facilities and home health agencies also improved, but about one-third still lack that ability.

The ambulatory results mostly mirrored trends seen with acute-care organizations but there were a few differences, too. Compared with acute-care organizations, ambulatory facilities were slightly more likely to have adopted a mix of population health technologies and had higher adoption of portal functionalities overall. They also were more likely to offer telehealth services but patient use was low in this setting as well. More ambulatory facilities reported that their patient engagement tools had a high impact on outcomes.

Results from the trends report were presented Nov. 5 at the 2019 CHIME Fall CIO Forum. A digital version of the report can be downloaded for free 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), chief innovation officers (CIOs), chief digital officers (CDOs) and other senior healthcare IT leaders. With more than 3,200 members in 56 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 care in the communities they serve. For more information, please visit chimecentral.org.

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Candace Stuart
Director of Communications and Public Relations, CHIME
734.665.0000
[email protected]

Posted 11.13.2019
DrFirst Collaborates with OneHealthPort to Provide Seamless Integration with Washington State’s Prescription Drug Monitoring Program to Help Prevent Opioid Abuse

November 12, 2019

Rockville, Md. – DrFirst, the nation’s leading provider of e-prescribing, patient medication management, and price transparency solutions, announced today it is collaborating with OneHealthPort, the Health Information Exchange (HIE) for the state of Washington, to seamlessly integrate its technology with the state’s Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP). The PDMP is an electronic database that tracks prescriptions for controlled substances, which can help identify opioid “doctor shopping” and reduce substance abuse.

Approximately two deaths a day in Washington are the result of an opioid-related overdose, according to the Washington State Department of Health, and thousands struggle with addiction.

“In Washington state, we know that the PDMP is a vital tool to help manage opioid prescribing and that seamless integration with the prescribers’ electronic applications increases utilization,” said Rick Rubin, CEO of OneHealthPort. “We are very pleased to be able to implement this connection with DrFirst that will allow its extensive network of caregivers to benefit from a seamless workflow. We very much appreciate how rapidly and efficiently DrFirst built this key linkage to meet the needs of its customers and the patients we all serve.”

About 1,500 healthcare providers at more than 300 hospitals and physician practices in Washington use DrFirst products to prescribe medications.

“Our collaboration with OneHealthPort gives doctors an important tool to identify patients at risk of addiction,” said G. Cameron Deemer, president of DrFirst. “Streamlining the connection to the PDMP means they can more quickly make treatment decisions that help tackle the opioid epidemic.”

About DrFirst

Since 2000, DrFirst has pioneered healthcare technology solutions and consulting services that securely connect people at every touchpoint of care to improve patient outcomes. We create unconventional solutions that solve care collaboration, medication management, price transparency, and adherence challenges in healthcare. We provide our clients with real-time access to the information they need, exactly when and how they need it – so patients get the best care possible. To learn more, visit DrFirst.com.

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DrFirst Media Contact
Michelle Ronan Noteboom
Amendola Communications
512-426-2870
[email protected]

Posted 11.12.2019
NuEyes Technologies Inc. Granted Key Augmented Reality Patent for Vision
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., November 12, 2019 (Newswire.com) –NuEyes, a pioneer in the field of low-vision technology, today announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued US Patent 10,429,675 “System for Using Augmented Reality for Vision” covering key advantages such as:
- Auto-Focus set to continuous but locked at set distances determined by magnification settings.
- Variable magnification inclusive but not limited to 0× (or no mag) up to 12×.
- Contrast or augmented reality threshold filters specifically designed to enhance the visually impaired experience.
- Voice In/Voice Out. A large variance of voice frequencies and algorithms set to commands and key phrases that control the smartglasses enabling hands-free control.
- TTS/OCR. The augmented reality software ecosystem has the ability to read back text, signs or any printed material up to but not limited to 10 ft from said device.
- Voice Controlled Recording or picture taking. For purposes of visually impaired and/or surgical and dental loupes the software can record or take pictures via voice commands, then stored to an on-board gallery or be emailed to a secure server or electronic medical record.
- On-Board Gallery. The software ecosystem contains within it a secure gallery that can store images and recordings.
- 2× Lens (hardware). The lens has the ability, but not limited to take a 50 degree electronically magnified image at distances of great than 50+ feet and cut the field of view down to 30 degrees in turn creating a clear image. The lens can also be affixed or taken off the smart glasses.
“We are extremely excited about the long-awaited issuance of our first set of patents. This is the first of many that were filed years ago and will provide our products with long-term market exclusivity,” said Mark Greget, CEO and Founder of NuEyes. “This patent is an important component of NuEyes Technologies Inc.’s ever-growing intellectual property portfolio.”

ABOUT NUEYES TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

NuEyes is a veteran-owned technology company based in Orange County, California that was launched in January 2016 to assist those with eye conditions such as macular degeneration, glaucoma and retinitis pigmentosa, via a wireless and light-weight solution. Over the past 2 years, the company has seen extensive sales growth and has won awards at CES and also obtained Federal, State and Insurance reimbursement for its devices. NuEyes is excited to bring such advanced products to market that will leapfrog the technology currently available for someone dealing with legal blindness. With the leadership of NuEyes having over 18 years of combined experience in this space, we understand what it takes to successfully bring new products to market.

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Regina Chatman
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800-605-4033
Posted 11.12.2019
Canon Medical and Vital® to Deliver Comprehensive Vitrea® Enterprise Imaging Solution to Western Australia

November 8, 2019 – Minnetonka, MN – Canon Medical Systems Corporation (Canon Medical) and Vital, a Canon Group company, have been awarded a $47.2M AUD contract by the Western Australia Department of Health (WA Health) to implement a new medical imaging platform solution.

This contract will expand Canon Medical and Vital’s Vitrea Enterprise Imaging solution suite to more than 80 Western Australian hospitals spread across an area of 2.5 million square kilometers (976,790 square miles) – the largest area in the world covered by a single health authority.

Canon Medical will operate as the prime contractor for this deployment, offering a solution that delivers cuttingedge technologies for WA Health. Consortium partners, Intelerad, Kestral, and DesAcc, are joining Canon Medical to implement a complete solution to provide hospital staff with fast, accurate and consistent access to a range of diagnostic data, as well as support for WA Health’s clinical workflows.

Canon Medical and Vital’s Vitrea solution was selected for its powerful capabilities and high scalability. A key design feature will be a Vendor Neutral Archive (VNA), which can provide a digital storage solution for all clinical images, photographs and videos that can be securely shared between clinicians at different hospitals

“As a global company, we are excited to see the growth of our Vitrea Enterprise Imaging solution to a new territory – Western Australia,” said Jim Litterer, president and CEO of Vital. “We are delighted that WA Health has chosen Vital as its partner to enhance its enterprise imaging solution and approach. We look forward to joining with WA Health in their efforts to improve patient care outcomes for many years to come.”

The contract award was announced by the Western Australia Minister for Health in a media statement.

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About Vital®

Vital, a Canon Group company, has a legacy of leadership in healthcare imaging using smart algorithms and techniques of innovation spanning 30 years. As a premier provider of an Enterprise Imaging (EI) solution focused on interoperability, Vital transforms and seamlessly connects disparate PACS and other data into an efficient, perceptive and interoperable EI solution. Through modular and scalable enterprise message orchestration, enterprise visualization and enterprise analytics solutions, Vital’s Vitrea® Enterprise Imaging solution makes data accessible across the entire enterprise when and whereproviders need it. Today, Vital is selectively embedding intelligence and leveraging decades of smart algorithms in advanced visualization to give clinicians the ability to make real-time decisions for today’s empowered healthcare consumer and enhancing the patient care experience. For more information on how Vital is shaping the future of healthcare technology, visit www.vitalimages.com, or join the conversation on LinkedIn, Twitter or Facebook.

About Canon Medical Systems Corporation

Canon Medical offers a full range of diagnostic medical imaging solutions including CT, X-Ray, Ultrasound, Vascular and MR, as well as a full suite of Healthcare IT solutions, across the globe. In line with our continued Made for Life philosophy, patients are at the heart of everything we do. Our mission is to provide medical professionals with solutions that support their efforts in contributing to the health and wellbeing of patients worldwide. Our goal is to deliver optimum health opportunities for patients through uncompromised performance, comfort and safety features. At Canon Medical, we work hand in hand with our partners – our medical, academic and research community. We build relationships based on transparency, trust and respect. Together as one, we strive to create industry-leading solutions that deliver an enriched quality of life. For more information, visit the Canon Medical website: https://global.medical.canon.

For more information contact:
Jessica Baker
(952) 487-9713
[email protected]
www.vitalimages.com

Posted 11.11.2019