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Leading Digital Transformation Services Firm emids Receives Investment from BlueCross BlueShield Venture Partners
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Leading Digital Transformation Services Firm emids Receives Investment from BlueCross BlueShield Venture Partners
NASHVILLE, Mar. 10, 2020 – emids, a leader in digital engineering and transformation solutions to the healthcare industry, today announced a strategic equity investment from BlueCross BlueShield Venture Partners (the Blue Venture Fund), further strengthening its position as the preferred partner for digital transformation to healthcare and life sciences firms.
“We are exceptionally excited about this partnership as it aligns seamlessly with our growth plan,” said emids founder and CEO Saurabh Sinha. “Part of that plan is broadening our work with health plans, an industry vertical that is under increasing pressure to quickly adopt new strategies that harness the power of digital capabilities and analytics. We look forward to partnering closely with Blues plans and payers more broadly in their digital transformation journeys.”
emids works with payers, providers, health technology companies and life sciences firms to accelerate the adoption of next-generation digital technologies and manage an increasingly complex data ecosystem to drive high quality, accessible and affordable healthcare. Building on emids’ partnership with New Mountain Capital in 2019, this newly announced investment from the Blue Venture Fund allows emids to leverage its category leadership and experience, working with payers to support Blue Cross and Blue Shield companies among the more than thirty BCBS plans that participate in the Blue Venture Fund.
“We intimately understand the value of digital in healthcare and are extremely impressed with the quality and scope of emids’ solutions,” said Mike Spadafore, Managing Director of Sandbox Industries, the Blue Venture Fund’s exclusive provider of investment management services. “Through its work with individual Blue Cross and Blue Shield companies, and now this investment, emids is well positioned to be the organization’s preferred partner for digital transformation offerings.”
About emids
emids is a leading provider of digital transformation solutions to the healthcare industry, serving payers, providers, life sciences, and technology firms. Headquartered in Nashville, emids helps bridge critical gaps in providing accessible, affordable, and high-quality healthcare by providing digital transformation services, custom application development, data engineering, business intelligence solutions, and specialized consulting services to all parts of the healthcare ecosystem. With over 2,200 professionals globally, emids leverages strong domain expertise in healthcare-specific platforms, regulations, and standards to provide tailored, cutting-edge solutions and services to its clients. For more information, visit www.emids.com.
About BlueCross BlueShield Venture Partners
BlueCross BlueShield Venture Partners is a corporate venture fund program to which thirty-three BCBS entities have committed over $575 million across three Funds. Blue Venture Fund invests in promising emerging companies of strategic relevance to Blue Cross and Blue Shield companies and provide access to its portfolio to deploy innovation at scale. BlueCross BlueShield Venture Partners is sponsored by the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, an association of independent Blue Cross and Blue Shield companies. For more information, visit www.bcbsvp.com.
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DrFirst and GoHipo Partner to Use Telehealth to Fight High Relapse Rates After Substance Abuse Treatment by Addressing Major Gaps in Post-Inpatient Rehabilitation
New use of technology will keep patients in recovery connected with their clinical care teams and support networks after discharge.
Rockville, Md., March 9, 2020 – Relapse rates for people recovering from substance abuse are between 40% and 60%, but a new approach to post-discharge care aims to help people beat the odds.
DrFirst and GoHipo are collaborating to keep patients connected with their treatment centers’ care teams using a mobile app for secure messaging and telehealth services.
DrFirst is a pioneer in technology, support, and services that connect people at touchpoints of patient care. GoHipo is a healthcare software and information systems development company that supports continuity of care for addiction treatment.
Nearly 20 million people struggle with substance abuse disorders in the U.S., causing close to 200 deaths each day from drug overdose. High relapse rates point to the need for new ways to support people in recovery. The partnership enables GoHipo’s HipoChat mobile app to provide people in recovery with a new way to support their sobriety. HipoChat offers a supportive social media connection to designated friends, family, and others in recovery. The app is available for Android and Apple iOS devices.
After discharge, many patients can struggle to continue their recovery without the close contact of their inpatient clinical teams and the fellow patients in their support groups, according to Doug Denhart, GoHipo’s founder and CEO. He observes it is even more difficult for the many patients who live hundreds or thousands of miles from their residential treatment centers.
“Traditionally, after treatment, patients return home to the same environments and triggers that led them to substance abuse in the first place. We want to use technology in a new way to help clients remain drug-free and sober,” Denhart adds. “Being able to continue care with their clinical teams and stay connected with the friends who helped them through recovery can help clients avoid relapse.”
The new partnership uses DrFirst’s BacklineR technology to power the GoHipo mobile app, providing 24/7 support for people recovering from addiction. Backline’s secure messaging meets HIPAA requirements for protecting private health information. The GoHipo app provides:
- A One-Touch Trigger button that clients in crisis can use to alert their primary support teams, (such as their sobriety sponsors, therapists, families, friends) if they are in crisis and need urgent support
- Continuity of care with clients’ entire treatment teams from their residential centers, including physicians and therapists, via HipoChat’s secure telehealth connection
- Ability to schedule on-line medical assisted treatment (MAT) with their physicians
- “Always on” access to clients’ patient support teams from the treatment facilities
- Social media community with clients’ friends and families to help support their sobriety
“This partnership allows an unprecedented level of support for people recovering from addiction,” said G. Cameron Deemer, president of DrFirst. “Real-time connections for patients, caregivers, and their support community can help them maintain life-changing recovery.”
The collaboration also will enable streamlined workflows for e-prescribing and fully integrated telehealth communications between clinicians and patients.
About GoHipo
Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Orange County, Calif., GoHipo helps healthcare professionals and insurance companies by using technology to improve workflow, profitability, and maintaining regulatory compliance while also helping improve patient outcomes and reducing occurrences of readmission/relapse. To learn more, visit GoHipo.com.About DrFirst
Since 2000, DrFirstTM has pioneered healthcare technology solutions and consulting services that securely connect people at touchpoints of care to improve patient outcomes. We create unconventional solutions that solve care collaboration, medication management, price transparency and adherence challenges faced in healthcare. We unite the HealthiverseTM by providing 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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Amendola Communications
646-431-8423
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PatientPing Launches Educational Website Dedicated to CMS’s Interoperability and Patient Access Rule
The information hub, www.adtnotifications.com, helps hospitals, practitioners, care teams, and post-acutes navigate new e-notifications compliance requirements
Boston — (March 9, 2020)— PatientPing, the nation’s leading care collaboration platform, today announced the launch of an educational website, www.adtnotifications.com, dedicated to providing information on the Conditions of Participation (CoPs) published as part of CMS’s Interoperability and Patient Access rule. The final rule, announced today, creates new Conditions of Participation that require hospitals, psychiatric hospitals, and Critical Access Hospitals to share e-notifications with eligible requesting practitioners, care team members, and post-acute providers upon a patient’s admission, discharge, and transfer (ADT). The rule will allow for improved information sharing among providers to help enhance care coordination and patient outcomes.
The new PatientPing website serves as an information hub for hospitals, care teams, and other providers, including post-acutes. Through a series of videos and articles, visitors can review distilled information and insights into what the e-notifications rule entails and how organizations can best prepare and comply with the new requirements.
“CMS’s new rule has the potential to reshape the way that information is shared among providers across the entire care continuum,” said Vanessa Kuhn, Director of Policy at PatientPing. “Transformative regulations such as this are not always easy to navigate. We’re excited to help support our existing community members and hospitals across the country best prepare for this rule through the information provided on our new website and help them succeed in sharing e-notifications on patients’ care events.”
Through its comprehensive suite of solutions, PatientPing helps its national network of providers improve care quality for patients while reducing unnecessary costs and readmissions. Over 6,000 hospitals, post-acute-care providers, ACOs, health plans and community physicians all use PatientPing to collaborate on patient care events across the healthcare continuum.
To view the PatientPing microsite, and receive updates on the rule, click here.
About PatientPing
PatientPing is a Boston-based care collaboration platform that reduces the cost of healthcare and improves patient outcomes 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 this real-time data to reach their shared goals of improving the efficiency of our healthcare system. PatientPing is recognized as a High Performing Emerging Healthcare IT company by KLAS® Research. For more information, please visit www.patientping.com.Posted 3.9.2020 -
DataRobot and InterSystems Partner to Accelerate Adoption of AI in Healthcare
Strategic partnership provides developers access to DataRobot within InterSystems platform
BOSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–DataRobot, the leader in enterprise AI, and InterSystems, a global leader in information technology platforms for health, business, and government applications, today announced a partnership designed to accelerate the application of AI in healthcare. Through an integration and reseller agreement, the partnership makes it easier for InterSystems customers to integrate predictions and insights from DataRobot’s enterprise AI platform into their healthcare applications.
The DataRobot enterprise AI platform provides automation across the entire AI lifecycle, accelerating and streamlining a user’s journey from data to value. Through this partnership, the enterprise AI platform will be integrated with InterSystems IRIS® data platform and InterSystems IRIS for Health™, the world’s first and only data platform specifically engineered to extract value from healthcare data.
“Healthcare is prime for disruption in ways that benefit patients, providers and payers, and AI represents the next frontier,” said Bill Hobbib, SVP of Marketing, DataRobot. “Our partnership with InterSystems makes it easier for users to leverage the power of AI to deliver high-quality care, improve patient experience and outcomes, all while reducing the cost of care through AI-driven efficiencies.”
DataRobot’s enterprise AI platform will augment InterSystems IntegratedML, which gives developers access to AutoML capabilities directly from SQL. This allows InterSystems IRIS and IRIS for Health customers to embed predictions within their existing applications in a simple, intuitive, and scalable way. InterSystems’ technology simplifies the data acquisition, normalization, and other “data wrangling,” and DataRobot’s technology simplifies the entire AI process from feature engineering and modeling to deployment and monitoring. This will accelerate delivery and time to value of ML/AI capabilities in real-time decisioning applications.
“DataRobot’s enterprise AI platform is a natural extension across all InterSystems deployments using our IntegratedML, both in healthcare and also in other industries,” said Scott Gnau, head of Data Platforms for InterSystems. “This enables developers to easily include machine learning and AI extensions, creating real-time enhanced decisions and analytics for their applications. It makes operations robust as well. IntegratedML is built into InterSystems IRIS and IRIS for Health – a secure and reliable platform that runs many of the world’s most health-critical applications, and DataRobot brings in best-in-class MLOps.”
“At Baystate Health, we are focused not only on the 800,000 patients in Western Massachusetts, but also on turning data into insights that can help advance healthcare nationwide and around the world,” said Joel Vengco, senior vice president and chief information officer of Baystate Health. “This partnership between DataRobot and InterSystems is an exciting one for us; it will put even more powerful tools in the hands of our development staff to create cutting-edge healthcare solutions.”
About DataRobot
DataRobot is the leader in enterprise AI, delivering trusted AI technology and ROI enablement services to global enterprises competing in today’s Intelligence Revolution. DataRobot’s enterprise AI platform democratizes data science with end-to-end automation for building, deploying, and managing machine learning models. This platform maximizes business value by delivering AI at scale and continuously optimizing performance over time. The company’s proven combination of cutting-edge software and world-class AI implementation, training, and support services, empowers any organization – regardless of size, industry, or resources – to drive better business outcomes with AI.
With a singular focus on AI since its inception, DataRobot has a proven track record of delivering AI with ROI. DataRobot has offices across the globe and $431 million in funding from top-tier firms, including New Enterprise Associates, Sapphire Ventures, Meritech, and DFJ Growth. For more information, visit https://www.datarobot.com, and join the conversation on Twitter and LinkedIn.
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 InterSystems.com.
About Baystate Health
Baystate Health is a not-for-profit healthcare organization serving over 800,000 people throughout western New England. Services include an academic medical center, community hospitals, medical practices, homecare and hospice, regional reference lab, and the insurer Health New England. As part of a state-wide $1 billion healthcare innovation initiative in Massachusetts, Baystate Health launched an innovation and adoption accelerator, TechSpring, to match private enterprise with partners to take on some of healthcare’s most difficult challenges. Visit baystatehealth.org.
About TechSpring, the Baystate Health Technology Innovation Center
TechSpring represents Baystate Health’s digital innovation team, specializing in the discovery, evaluation, design, development and deployment of impactful technologies. For 5 years, TechSpring has championed projects building a bridge between a ‘living lab’ real healthcare environment and healthcare innovators, such as InterSystems, Cerner, athenahealth, and Aruba. By linking technology solutions in the marketplace to Baystate Health’s passionate problems and strategic initiatives, TechSpring enables partnering digital health companies to access the assets of Baystate Health, and the Western Massachusetts healthcare ecosystem, to test, pivot, refine, and launch new solutions. Visit: techspringhealth.org.
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New Telehealth Capability Helps Healthcare Providers Connect with Patients and Other Clinicians in Novel Ways
DrFirstTM and Agora partner to add telehealth to Backline® HIPAA-compliant care collaboration platform
Rockville, Md., and Santa Clara, Calif., March 4, 2020 – DrFirst, a pioneer in technology, support, and services that connect people at touchpoints of patient care, today announced a new telehealth feature for DrFirst’s Backline® care collaboration tool. By partnering with Agora.io, the leading voice, video and live interactive streaming platform, Backline now enables clinicians to connect with patients and other healthcare providers in real-time, from anywhere in the world.
“For most people, the term ‘telehealth’ means an online visit they can schedule with a healthcare provider,” said G. Cameron Deemer, president of DrFirst. “Instead, DrFirst’s Backline allows healthcare providers to initiate video sessions with other clinicians to discuss care plans, or with patients as part of follow-up care,” he explained. “There are times when a physician needs more information – visual information – about a patient than can be communicated through a simple phone call. It may be seeing if the patient is moving normally or evaluating if a wound is infected. In some cases, the physician may just want to provide a more interactive level of service than a phone call can provide.”
Telehealth services have expanded to include using the technology to improve and coordinate patient care, according to the U.S. Health Resources & Services Administration.
Healthcare providers can use Backline’s telehealth capability to confer with other clinicians, similar to a traditional video conference, but using technology that meets HIPAA requirements to protect private patient information. Paramedics can use Backline EMS on their smartphones to consult hospital physicians to facilitate faster treatment for emergency patients.
“Our partnership with DrFirst gives healthcare providers valuable new options to take care of their patients,” said Reggie Yativ, COO of Agora. “Physicians, nurses, paramedics and other healthcare providers can start a secure telehealth conference using their smartphone or computer.”
Backline is used to improve care collaboration in nearly every setting, including hospitals, long-term care facilities, hospices and pharmacies. Backline EMS also allows paramedics to access six months of patient medication histories, to help avoid dangerous drug interactions, even if patients are unresponsive or can’t remember their medications. Paramedics also can share patient information on the way to the receiving hospital using Backline’s secure messaging, to speed the time to treatment.
Because Backline’s telehealth capability adheres to HIPAA standards for sharing protected health information, patients will be required to complete two-factor authentication before participating in a video call with their clinicians through the tool.
About Agora.io
Agora.io helps apps increase user engagement and retention with a developer platform for live, interactive audio, video, and messaging features at planetary scale. With a dedicated network and device-optimized SDKs, Agora is the only real-time engagement platform designed to cross borders and reach users on low-bandwidth networks and on lower-powered devices.About DrFirst
Since 2000, DrFirst™ has pioneered healthcare technology solutions and consulting services that securely connect people at touchpoints of care to improve patient outcomes. We create unconventional solutions that solve care collaboration, medication management, price transparency and adherence challenges faced in healthcare. We unite the HealthiverseTM by providing 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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TransformativeMed and King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre Form Multilayer Partnership to Accelerate Specialty Workflows Kingdom-Wide
SEATTLE and RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, March 3, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — TransformativeMed, which transforms electronic health records (EHRs) with directly embedded apps, announced today a partnership with King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre (KFSH&RC), a leading tertiary health system in Saudi Arabia, to improve EHR workflow efficiency and care quality among its many world-class medical specialties and collaborate on custom solutions for other disease areas. This is the first international partnership for TransformativeMed.
KFSH&RC was the first specialist hospital in the Gulf Region when it opened in 1975. The 1,600-bed integrated healthcare organization is now comprised of three facilities in Riyadh, Jeddah and Madinah, offering the most-advanced tertiary, quaternary and referral medical services throughout the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Recognized internationally for its world-class facilities, latest medical technology and equipment, skilled and experienced physicians and providers, and high-quality patient care, KFSH&RC Centers of Excellence include its Heart Centre, The Oncology Centre (Adult), Organ Transplant, Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Neurosciences and Medical Genetics.
KFSH&RC will implement TransformativeMed’s full suite of embedded EHR apps: Core Work Manager App, Core Work Manager Mobile App, Core Messaging App, Core Notify App and Core Diabetes App. As the partnership expands, TransformativeMed will collaborate with KFSH&RC on developing new specialty apps for thrombolytics, oncology, congestive heart failure and others. KFSH&RC’s business subsidiary will also assist other health systems in the Kingdom in implementing TransformativeMed’s Core solutions at their organization.
“We believe that the broad and effective use of health IT by our physicians and other providers is imperative to our patient care, research and financial success, a dedication we have demonstrated throughout our history,” said KSFH&RC Chief Information Officer Osama Alswailem, MD, MA. “Our partnership with TransformativeMed will help us continue that legacy while also supporting other healthcare organizations throughout the Kingdom in achieving KSA Vision 2030 and their respective clinical objectives through these EHR optimization solutions.”
KFSH&RC recently received the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Davies Award of Excellence for a smart room design (one of three case studies presented) in its King Abdulla Center Oncology and Liver Disease (KACOLD) building that includes full EHR integration, bedside medical devices, and other high-tech tools to support patient engagement and personal care education. The HIMSS Davies Award recognizes outstanding achievements of organizations that have utilized health IT to substantially improve patient outcomes through sharing evidence-driven best practices on implementation strategies, workflow design, change management and patient engagement.
The organization has also achieved Stage 7 of HIMSS Analytics Outpatient Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (O-EMRAM) through Family Medicine Riyadh and Jeddah. Stage 7 is the highest accreditation for the best utilization of health IT in healthcare.
“We are always searching the globe for effective health IT solutions that help our physicians and other providers practice more efficiently and support world-class patient care delivery,” said Abdullah Alturki, MD, Chief Medical Information Officer for KSFH&RC. “TransformativeMed is far and away the best EHR optimization solution we have experienced. They clearly understand how physicians of all specialties are empowered to be most productive and have designed a solution that allows us to quickly extract, evaluate, document and take action on data from multiple sources.”
The partnership will also help KSFH&RC contribute to Saudi Vision 2030, a 10-year economic development initiative to diversify the Kingdom’s economy and stimulate more private sector growth, including healthcare. KSFH&RC will be one of the first organizations to partner with the government to become a self-sustainable, not-for-profit independent foundation.
“Health systems worldwide are eager to streamline their EHR workflows while improving their physicians’ experience and patient outcomes, so we see this synergistic partnership with this highly respected healthcare delivery and research organization as just the beginning for us,” said Doug Cusick, CEO at TransformativeMed. “The fact that King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre is also such an established worldwide leader in adopting and operationalizing leading health IT solutions within its enterprise truly makes it doubly an honor.”
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 King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre
KFSH&RC was the first specialist hospital in the Gulf Region when it opened in 1975. The 1,600-bed integrated healthcare organization is now comprised of three facilities in Riyadh, Jeddah and Madinah, offering the most-advanced tertiary, quaternary and referral medical services throughout the Kingdom. Recognized internationally for its world-class facilities, latest medical technology and equipment, skilled and experienced physicians and providers, and high-quality patient care, KFSH&RC Centers of Excellence include its Heart Centre, The Oncology Centre (Adult), Organ Transplant, Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Neurosciences and Medical Genetics.Media Contact:
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CynergisTek CEO Emeritus Mac McMillan Receives John A. Page Distinguished Fellows Service Award from HIMSS
Founding Father of Healthcare Cybersecurity Honored for a Lifetime of Exceptional Service
Austin, TX – March 3, 2020 — (HIMSS Booth #4121) — HIMSS has announced Mac McMillan, CEO emeritus and founder of CynergisTek, (NYSE AMERICAN: CTEK), a leader in cybersecurity, privacy, and compliance, as recipient of the 2020 John A. Page Distinguished Fellows Service Award. The award honors HIMSS Fellow Members for a lifetime of exceptional service, outstanding contributions to the principles for which HIMSS stands, and acting as a role model to the HIMSS community.
HIMSS recognized McMillan as a pioneer in healthcare cybersecurity. After 20 years in the military, McMillan retired from the armed forces and dedicated the next two decades of his career to improving healthcare cybersecurity with CynergisTek. Under his stewardship, the consultancy has aided over 1,000 healthcare organizations with implementing sound security measures since its founding in 2004. McMillan has shared his expertise with the HIMSS community by serving as the chair of multiple committees, including the HIMSS Privacy & Security Steering Committee and the HIMSS Privacy & Security Policy Task Force.
McMillan has also been very involved with College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) throughout his career and served as a member of CHIME’s inaugural board of the Association for Executives in Healthcare Information Security (AEHIS) in 2015. Additional notable contributions include McMillan’s 13 consecutive years of national HIMSS conference presentations, and his vocal advocacy of security, privacy, and compliance, as he testified before the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on the cybersecurity responsibilities of the Department of Health and Human Services in 2016. He has also provided expert analysis for thousands of articles, podcasts, and books across a portfolio of national outlets and trade publications to educate the next generation of cybersecurity professionals.
“The healthcare industry has grown leaps and bounds in its cybersecurity capabilities over the past 20 years and I am confident that we can further improve the protection of patients’ data from escalating threats through continued collaboration and training,” said McMillan. “Mentorship of the next generation of security leaders is critical to healthcare’s continued success and has been a passion of mine for many years as the cybersecurity workforce shortage grows. Sharing my expertise with others is just one small way to give back to the industry, and it is an honor to be recognized by the talented and passionate health IT professionals I have had the honor to work with throughout my tenure at CynergisTek.”
McMillan will be recognized during the 2020 HIMSS Global Conference & Exhibition, held March 9-13, 2020 in Orlando, Florida at the Orange County Convention Center. HIMSS20 brings together 45,000+ health information and technology professionals, clinicians, executives, and vendors from around the world. Exceptional education, excellent speakers, cutting-edge health information and technology products, and powerful networking are hallmarks of this industry-leading conference.
“Mac has been (and continues to be) a pioneer, advocate, leader, and scientist who has helped advance the information security and privacy field in healthcare,” said Marc Probst, CIO of Intermountain Healthcare. “He is one of the founding fathers of modern cybersecurity as we know it. His prolific leadership through CynergisTek and other professional associations has guided the industry to innovate in ways that make our healthcare system more secure and better prepared to address the needs of patients everywhere.”
About CynergisTek, Inc.
CynergisTek is a top-ranked cybersecurity firm dedicated to serving the information assurance needs of the healthcare industry. CynergisTek offers specialized services and solutions to help organizations achieve privacy, security, and compliance goals. Since 2004, the company has served as a partner to hundreds of healthcare organizations and is dedicated to supporting and educating the industry by contributing to relevant industry associations. The company has been recognized by KLAS as a top performing firm in healthcare cybersecurity and was awarded the 2019 Top Healthcare Cybersecurity Consultants in Black Book IT Advisory Outcomes Survey.
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InterSystems Launches HealthShare® Managed Connections to Improve Healthcare Information Exchange
New digital hub reduces the time needed and the cost associated with connecting healthcare organizations
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 3, 2019 – InterSystems, a global leader in information technology platforms for health, business, and government applications, today announced the launch of InterSystems HealthShare® Managed Connections, a service that enables healthcare organizations to take advantage of a network of connections to a vast number of patient records via a central hub and exchange data easily. Through the HealthShare Managed Connections hub, participants can exchange information in a safe, controlled, reliable, and efficient manner.
Most healthcare organizations today rely on one-to-one connections to their partners and to national networks. InterSystems is taking the approach of “build once, use many” to create connections which keep pace with changing requirements and standards. The HealthShare Managed Connections hub transforms healthcare interoperability with faster onboarding as well as easier maintenance, time, and cost to connect healthcare data. The HealthShare Managed Connections vendor-agnostic connectivity means it doesn’t compete with national networks; it complements them.
“HealthShare Managed Connections allows users to connect to each other as well as to vast national networks, ultimately providing interoperability in a reusable and economical fashion that benefits everyone,” said Don Woodlock, vice president of HealthShare. “This central hub makes it easier to create a single, unified patient record and drive better healthcare outcomes.”
As a CommonWell ConnectorTM product, HealthShare Managed Connections empowers users with the ability to access the CommonWell Health Alliance network—representing more than 15,000 provider sites and 76 million individuals. Through CommonWell, users have the added benefit of being able to leverage the Carequality Interoperability Framework, further increasing access to patient health information. To date, the CommonWell network has more than 219 million health records accessible for exchange, and on average, exchanges more than 70 million health-related records per month[1]. Dual access to the CommonWell network and Carequality’s Interoperability Framework can allow customers with a multitude of EMRs to connect. In addition, by connecting via HealthShare Managed Connections, InterSystems can help remove the burden of implementation for provider organizations.
“CommonWell has made significant progress toward breaking down the barriers that stand in the way of nationwide health data exchange; our CommonWell Connector program is proof of that,” said Paul L. Wilder, executive director of CommonWell Health Alliance. “Integrating CommonWell services into the InterSystems HealthShare Managed Connections hub enables a broader diversity of products to tap into existing and future data points, extending and strengthening the value of the CommonWell network for all connected providers and their patients.”
Built on the solid core of InterSystems interoperability and database technology, HealthShare Managed Connections supports data needs on demand and is scalable. In the U.S. alone, InterSystems HealthShare is connected to 26 percent of hospitals, nearly 2,300 EHRs and more than 8,300 other clinical information systems. In early 2020, KLAS Research named InterSystems HealthShare the category leader for interoperability platforms. HealthShare received an exceptional 91 out of 100 approval rating based on customer feedback. For more information on the InterSystems HealthShare product suite, visit https://www.intersystems.com/products/healthshare/.
About InterSystems
InterSystems is the information engine that powers some of the world’s most important applications. In healthcare, finance, 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 http://www.intersystems.com/
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The HCI Group Hires Ed Marx As Chief Digital Officer
JACKSONVILLE, FL. – March 2, 2020 – The HCI Group (HCI), global leader in healthcare IT managed services and Digital Transformation, hires Ed Marx as Chief Digital Officer.
“Tech Mahindra has recently completed an investment of more than $160m in digital transformation through its string of digital and consumer experience acquisitions of Pininfarina, The BIO Agency, Mad*Pow, Born, and has tapped Ed to bring it all together.” said Ricky Caplin, CEO of The HCI Group. “We are delighted to welcome Ed on board to be our first Chief Digital Officer. I’ve personally known Ed for close to 10 years and not only is he a dynamic thought-leader, he’s one of the most genuine and diligent people I know in our industry. I feel so blessed to have him join us on this journey.”
Ed was Chief Information Officer (CIO) at Cleveland Clinic, an $11B health system with facilities in Ohio, Florida, Nevada, Toronto, Abu Dhabi and London. His responsibilities included digital solutions, as well as information technology. Prior to joining Cleveland Clinic, Ed served as the CIO for The Advisory Board, Texas Health Resources and University Hospitals.
“I’m very excited to be HCI’s first Chief Digital Officer. HCI is a growing global company, and this new role will enable me to partner with more people and organizations to ensure digital transformation continues to impact lives around the world,” said Ed Marx. “With Tech Mahindra, our digital reach is across the healthcare continuum to include providers, pharma and payers. I am looking forward to providing leaders with the tools and knowledge to begin and cultivate their own digital healthcare transformation.”
Ed is a Fellow of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS). He has won numerous awards, including HIMSS/CHIME 2013 CIO of the Year, and has been recognized by both CIO and Computer World as one of the “Top 100 Leaders.” Becker’s named Ed as the 2015 “Top Healthcare IT Executive” and among the 2016 “17 Most Influential People in Healthcare.”
Ed is the author of three books, including the 2019 healthcare bestseller Voices of Innovation. He has a new book on healthcare digital transformation coming out in 2020 and is contracted for a two-book series in 2021.
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Posted 3.3.2020