• CHIME’s New Digital Education Lets Health Leaders Choose What and When They Learn 

    ANN ARBOR, MI, June 18, 2020 – The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) has launched a new digital education resource that allows anyone in the healthcare community to experience customized e-learning based on their individual interests and schedules. The new program, Ignite: CHIME Digital Learning, lets learners explore content areas, participate in discussions, join communities and learn at their own pace.
     
    “With today’s digital technology, healthcare providers can deliver health and care to patients when, where and how they want it,” said Tim Stettheimer, Ph.D., vice president of education at CHIME and a former regional chief information officer for Ascension. “Thanks to an incredibly talented and creative team at CHIME, we can offer the same flexibility to anyone who wants to learn, grow and interact with healthcare peers and subject matter experts. No matter where they are in their careers, they will find valuable content in a convenient and collegial environment that is easy to navigate and available 24/7.”   
     
    Free content is available to anyone, with learning opportunities on issues and content relevant to the digital health community. Participants who subscribe have even greater access to additional premium content. Starting July 1, Ignite: CHIME Digital Learning will begin offering in-depth online courses led by senior faculty who are experts in their fields. Participants who complete these courses will be eligible to earn CHIME continuing education units (CEUs). Upcoming course topics include:
    • Organizational Governance
    • Digital Healthcare Leadership
    • CHIME Certified Healthcare CIO (CHCIO) Prep Course
    • Healthcare Cybersecurity
    • How to Coach for Excellence
    • Analytics and Data Governance
    “As devastating as the COVID-19 pandemic has been, it has shown us that with the right leadership and innovative thinking, we can do amazing work,” said CHIME President and CEO Russell Branzell. “Our digital leaders have prepared themselves for moments like this, positioning their healthcare organizations for success. Through our digital learning resources, participants can develop the skills and knowledge they need to face any challenge, learning from leaders with real-world experience.”
     
    CHIME Digital Learning also will host the first Digital CIO Boot Camp beginning July 1 with Stettheimer and Branzell as lead instructors. A second Digital CIO Boot Camp is scheduled for August.
     
    Ignite: CHIME Digital Learning is available online at http://ignitedigital.org. From there, visitors can begin learning and subscribe and access premium content where they can continue making connections and tracking their progress. Participants are encouraged to check in frequently to access the growing list of courses.
     
    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.
     
    Contact
    Candace Stuart
    Director of Communications and Public Relations, CHIME
    734.665.0000
    Posted 6.18.2020

  • Medigate Honored With Eight Awards in Multiple Awards Programs

    Awards highlight vital need for one IoT security solution that discovers, manages and secures all devices on healthcare delivery organizations’ networks

    NEW YORK, February 27, 2020 — Medigate, the first dedicated healthcare IoT security and asset management platform, today announced that it won a total of eight awards across a variety of categories in four different awards programs, including the Cybersecurity Excellence Awards, Info Security Products Guide’s Global Excellence Awards, the IoT Evolution IoT Excellence Awards, and the Tech Trailblazers Awards. Medigate’s unique platform enables it to discover and identify all connected devices on a provider’s clinical network, accurately detect credible threats in real time, and prevent attacks from succeeding by enforcing clinically-driven policies and preventing malicious communications without affecting the operation of the device under attack.

    Medigate was recognized by the following:

    • The 16th Annual 2020 Info Security PG’s Global Excellence Awards honored Medigate in two categories. These global awards from Info Security Products Guide, the industry’s leading information security research and advisory guide, recognize cybersecurity and information technology vendors with advanced, ground-breaking products, solutions and services that are helping set the bar higher for others in all areas of security and technologies.
      • Security Product and Service for Healthcare – Gold
      • Internet of Things Security – Silver
    • The Cybersecurity Excellence Awards recognized Medigate in four categories. This annual competition recognizes companies, products and professionals that demonstrate excellence, innovation and leadership in information security. The finalists and winners have been selected based on the strength of their nomination, as well as the popular vote by members of the information security community.
      • Best Cybersecurity Company – Silver
      • Best Cybersecurity Startup – Silver
      • Most Innovative Cybersecurity Company – Bronze
      • Internet of Things Security – Bronze
    • The 2019 IoT Evolution IoT Excellence Awards honors innovative products that support the availability of information being deduced, inferred and directly gathered from sensors, systems and anything else that is supporting better business and personal decisions.
      • Winner
    • The 2019 Tech Trailblazers Awards recognizes outstanding early-stage companies across 10 major enterprise technology categories alongside three additional special categories.
      • Internet of Things – Runner-up

    “As the cybersecurity environment grows progressively more volatile and healthcare delivery organizations race to secure IoT devices connected to their hospitals’ networks, our distinctive capabilities in identifying and securing medical devices provides us with a unique seat at the table,” said Jonathan Langer, co-founder and CEO of Medigate. “We are honored to be recognized by these prestigious awards programs in multiple categories, further reinforcing our approach to protecting healthcare organizations as they increasingly rely on connected devices to deliver critical patient care.”

    Protecting connected devices on healthcare networks poses several unique challenges that require security solutions and expertise dedicated to healthcare environments and clinical networks. Medigate is revolutionizing healthcare cybersecurity by adding medical device and clinical workflow expertise to traditional IoT security. Medigate fuses knowledge and understanding of medical device workflows, protocols and identities with the reality of today’s cybersecurity threats, ensuring providers can deliver critical treatment and protect patient data. As health systems look to secure their connected devices, large healthcare systems and smaller hospitals alike are coming to Medigate for its legacy medical device security and visibility into all the devices on their network.

    Medigate was also recently named a “Hot Company for Cybersecurity IoT” and “Best Product for Healthcare IoT Security” by the Cyber Defense InfoSec Awards at RSAC 2020 and was included on the Constellation Shortlist for Healthcare Medical Device Security for Q1 2020.

    For more information, visit: https://www.medigate.io/.

    About Medigate

    Medigate is the industry’s first and leading dedicated medical device security and asset management platform, enabling providers to deliver secure, connected care. Medigate fuses the knowledge and understanding of medical workflow and device identity and protocols with the reality of today’s cybersecurity threats. With Medigate, hospital networks can safely operate all medical devices on their network, enabling deployment of existing and new devices to patients while ensuring privacy and safety.

    Contacts

    Julie Sculley
    617-986-5730
    [email protected]

    Posted 6.15.2020

  • Medigate Launches Healthcare Protection Solution for Clinical Data Centers and Networks

    Strategic Collaboration and Powerful Integration Provides Hospitals with Streamlined Single Cybersecurity Solution for Healthcare Devices

    NEW YORK, June 10, 2020 — Medigate, a dedicated medical device security and asset management solution firm, today announced the Medigate Healthcare Protection Solution powered by Dell Technologies. The Medigate collaboration with Dell Technologies and VMware provides hospitals and healthcare organizations with enhanced visibility into their clinical data centers to uncover network vulnerabilities and then protect against security threats.

    Today’s healthcare organizations face a growing security threat due to the rising number of devices connecting to their networks. According to KLAS Research, 36% of CIOs and CISOs are not confident in their medical device security due to a lack of inventory and asset management. Medigate’s collaboration with Dell Technologies and VMware provides hospitals the visibility into their networks to identify individual connected devices and then implement threat prevention and protection to reduce risks and ensure patient safety when connected to devices. The solution also provides advanced insights into device utilization to reduce overall maintenance costs.

    “In teaming up with Dell Technologies and VMware, we are providing hospitals and healthcare systems with the integrated security capabilities they need to protect their increasingly connected networks. Our integrated solution will mitigate threats while allowing for the delivery of uninterrupted, high-quality patient care,” said Jonathan Langer, CEO of Medigate. “Medigate is committed to collaborating with industry-leading security firms to bring a unified set of solutions and services that address current and future needs of all healthcare organizations.”

    Combining Medigate’s visibility and clinical expertise with server and security technologies from Dell Technologies and VMware’s zero-trust enforcement and micro segmentation capabilities for software-defined networks gives healthcare organizations a single cybersecurity solution that enables effective protection for clinical data centers.

    “Cybersecurity solutions are more critical than ever within hospital environments as the rise of digital healthcare expands the number of devices that access protected health information,” said David DeAngelis, General Manager, Healthcare, Dell Technologies. “Our Dell EMC PowerEdge server technology, in collaboration with Medigate, enables hospitals to help create and enforce clinically-vetted security policies from their data center, to the edge, to protect their patient data and operations.”

    About Medigate

    Medigate is the industry’s first and leading dedicated medical device security and asset management platform, enabling providers to deliver secure, connected care. Medigate fuses the knowledge and understanding of medical workflow and device identity and protocols with the reality of today’s cybersecurity threats. With Medigate, hospital networks can safely operate all medical devices on their network, enabling deployment of existing and new devices to patients while ensuring privacy and safety

    Contacts

    Nina Gill
    LEWIS
    781-418-2434
    [email protected]

    Posted 6.15.2020

  • Medigate Named As One of the “Top 20 IoT Startups to Watch” by Forbes Magazine

    Firm’s extensive healthcare expertise and dedicated focus on medical device security lauded for protecting clinical networks against many cyber threats

    NEW YORK, June 11, 2020 — Medigate, a dedicated medical device security and asset management solution firm, today announced that Forbes magazine recognized it as one of the “Top 20 IoT Startups to Watch in 2020”. This designation notes the healthcare industry’s demand for the Medigate platform to protect against the rising tide of cybersecurity threats while protecting patient privacy and information.

    “In the past few months, we have seen cybersecurity attacks increase as firms move to a remote operations model and implement new technologies, procedures and devices onto their network at a rapid rate,” said Jonathan Langer, CEO of Medigate. “Medigate has risen to the challenge to assist our healthcare customers and partners in protecting every clinical network from cyberattacks. Our placement on the Forbes list recognizes how Medigate’s clinically-specialized platform is disrupting the way assets connected to clinical networks are managed and cyber-secured.”

    Medigate is revolutionizing healthcare cybersecurity by adding medical device and clinical workflow expertise to traditional IoT security. From its close relationships with leading partners and healthcare firms, Medigate is continually gathering input to enrich its solution to incorporate advanced security practices into established clinical workflows. Medigate fuses knowledge and understanding of medical devices, protocols and identities with the reality of today’s cybersecurity threats, ensuring providers can deliver critical treatment and protect patient data.

    About Medigate

    Medigate is the industry’s first and leading dedicated medical device security and asset management platform, enabling providers to deliver secure, connected care. Medigate fuses the knowledge and understanding of medical workflow and device identity and protocols with the reality of today’s cybersecurity threats. With Medigate, hospital networks can safely operate all medical devices on their network, enabling deployment of existing and new devices to patients while ensuring privacy and safety.

     

    Contacts

    Nina Gill
    LEWIS
    781-418-2434
    [email protected]

    Posted 6.15.2020

  • Survey Underscores Telehealth’s Benefits during COVID-19 and Beyond

    ANN ARBOR, MI, June 15, 2020 – Telehealth has been a resounding success as healthcare organizations quickly implemented solutions to remotely care for patients during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a survey of nearly 200 digital healthcare executives conducted by the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME). Telehealth’s rapid implementation is testament to the skills and resourcefulness of these organizations’ IT leadership, who shared insights on their greatest gains, challenges and future needs.
     
    “Our members and their teams have worked tirelessly to help protect their patients, clinicians and communities from COVID-19,” said CHIME President and CEO Russell Branzell. “They have been extremely innovative, using existing and new technologies, partnerships and the knowledge of their peers to respond to this unprecedented crisis. They have shown the world how resilient they are, and how amazingly nimble they can be, when faced with adversity.”
     
    The survey revealed huge increases for virtual visits and appointments. Of the organizations surveyed, 73% had conducted less than 25 virtual visits per day prior to COVID-19. Post COVID-19, 84% of organizations were conducting more than 50 visits per day and a full one-third of those were scheduling over 250 visits per day. Even organizations that already had been seeing high volumes of patients virtually prior to COVID-19 experienced a 366% increase in the number of virtual visits. Organizations also reported a pre vs. post COVID-19 hike in the use of remote patient monitoring.
     
    Many respondents listed the swift deployment and implementation of telehealth and virtual visits – some within mere days or a week – as their greatest success. Many noted quick adoption by clinicians and physicians as a win, along with physician and patient satisfaction with the ability to safely provide and get remote care. Limited supplies of high-demand technology, integration issues, patients’ lack of resources like broadband and unfamiliarity with the technology posed challenges, but many organizations found ways to surmount these obstacles. Based on their experience handling COVID-19, almost 80% suggested that telehealth would require more future funding and more than 60% supported more funding for remote monitoring.
     
    The federal government has allowed regulatory flexibilities during the public health emergency, a move that some respondents praised and wanted continued. “Our members greatly appreciate efforts by the administration, Congress and federal agencies to reduce the strain that COVID-19 has placed on their healthcare organizations,” said CHIME Public Policy Vice President Mari Savickis. “The flexibilities have allowed members to expand virtual care at a critical time. Given the great success we’ve seen, we’d like many of those flexibilities to be made permanent.”
     
    When asked in the survey how concerned members are with meeting upcoming federal deadlines on information blocking, more than 45% were extremely or very concerned and 25% were concerned. About 7% said they hadn’t had time to learn about the deadlines because they were devoting their attention to the COVID-19 pandemic. Earlier this year, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services extended the compliance deadline for the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT’s information blocking provisions to Nov. 2. “We’re following this closely and working to make sure our members are fully informed,” Savickis said.      
     
    CHIME conducted the online survey of CHIME’s membership between May 16 and June 1. All but nine states were represented through a spectrum of healthcare organizations, including academic medical centers, critical access hospitals, multi-hospital systems, standalone hospitals, specialty hospitals, long-term care and skilled nursing facilities, behavioral health facilities and ambulatory/outpatient practices.
     
    “We hear every day from our members about how IT has helped connect patients to physicians, caregivers and loved ones,” Branzell said. “In a time when physical distancing is critical for reducing the spread of this disease, digital technologies have provided hope and solace.”
     
    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.
     
    Contact
    Candace Stuart
    Director of Communications and Public Relations, CHIME
    734.665.0000
    Posted 6.15.2020

  • PatientPing Secures $60 Million in Series C Funding to Continue Expansion of National Electronic Notifications Network

    Company to Scale Capabilities and Reach as Need for Real-Time Notifications About Patients’ Care Encounters
    Becomes Federally Mandated

    Boston —(June 9, 2020)— PatientPing, the nation’s leading care collaboration and e-notifications platform, today announced that it has raised $60 million in Series C funding to fuel expansion to new geographies and extend capabilities. Powered by the nation’s largest network of Admission, Discharge, Transfer (ADT) data, PatientPing connects thousands of healthcare providers and health plans across the continuum of care. The investment round, co-led by Andreessen Horowitz, F-Prime Capital, GV (formerly Google Ventures), and Transformation Capital, with additional participation from existing investors, brings PatientPing’s total funding to over $100 million.

    The funding announcement comes as the deadline nears for complying with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) interoperability rule, which adds a Condition of Participation (CoP) requiring hospitals to share ADT electronic event notifications (e-notifications) with other providers whenever patients have inpatient or emergency department care events. This is an approach PatientPing pioneered nearly seven years ago with its Pings solution. It also comes in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, when sharing real-time information about patients’ care encounters across providers and settings is critical to ensure better, safer, and faster treatment and care transitions for infected and recovering patients.

    PatientPing experienced record growth over the past year, adding thousands of hospitals, PAC facilities, provider organizations and health plans to new and existing markets, including new organizations in Texas, Washington, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio, and Missouri. The Series C financing fuels the continued expansion of the PatientPing e-notifications network beyond the 1,000+ hospitals, and 5,000+ post-acute care facilities that are currently connected, enabling 135 million patient ADT events for 43 million covered lives. With its growth and breadth, PatientPing is well positioned to be a compliance solution for hospitals under the new e-notifications CoP.

    Sharing ADT events via Pings is a secure and cost-effective way to activate a patient’s entire medical team to take action to coordinate care. This enables providers to drive efficient care transitions in and out of emergency departments, hospitals, post-acute providers, and other care settings. By connecting care teams during clinical encounters, Pings keep patients from poor hand-offs between providers that frequently result in patients spending more time in hospitals and other care settings than they need.

    “While monitoring a patient in the emergency department (ED), I saw a Ping come in that alerted me to quickly connect with the ED case manager as their ED treatment plan needed to consider my care manager’s recent documentation of the patient having falls. As a result, rather than being admitted to the hospital, a discharge plan was developed for a Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) stay,” explains Aimee Traugh, Health Regional Care Management Director at UnityPoint Health, a network of hospitals, clinics and home care services in Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin. “If I hadn’t gotten the Ping and been able to reach out, the ED case manager would not have researched the patient’s clinical history until discharge. This reduced the ED visit time, prevented a hospitalization, and expedited the admission to the SNF.”

    In addition to expanding its Pings network for e-notifications, PatientPing recently added two new solutions to its enterprise care collaboration product suite, Callouts and Spotlights. Providers and health plans can use Callouts to improve patient engagement and enroll patients in available programs and supplemental benefits. Spotlights, a real-time network performance management tool, enables providers to view dashboards to monitor network wide utilization patterns, performance trends and intervene, enabling faster quality improvement cycles instead of waiting for months for claims-derived analytics. The company also introduced a COVID-19 Flag feature, which enables providers to identify and monitor presumptive COVID-19 patients’ ADT data in real time by alerting providers via text, email, and within the PatientPing web app whenever patients experiencing COVID-19-like symptoms have care events. Through this new flag feature, providers can better prepare for incoming COVID-19 patients, adhere to quarantine protocols, assess overall population health, and, most importantly, help improve outcomes for patients while keeping them and staff members safe.

    “Patients often receive care from many providers and when they work together, care is safer and better,” said Jay Desai, PatientPing’s CEO. “PatientPing is committed to delivering the innovative products needed to support every patient and their full care team with real-time awareness into patients’ treatment. With CMS recognizing this need through their CoP, we’re excited to accelerate the growth of our national network that makes it easy for any two or more providers to collaborate anytime a patient is receiving care.”

    “It’s been exciting to watch PatientPing steadily expand its geographical reach and technology capabilities to positively impact millions of patients nationwide,” said Julie Yoo, General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. “Their platform plays such a critical role in the transition of patients between sites of care, and eliminates one of the major blind spots in our fragmented healthcare system by longitudinally tracking a patient’s care journey across all encounters. With the favorable regulatory tailwinds and the need for more resilient care delivery infrastructure coming out of the COVID crisis, PatientPing is well poised to continue leading the market in its quest to achieve better coordination of care.”

    About PatientPing
    PatientPing is an innovative 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 real-time patient data to reach their shared goals of improving the efficiency of our healthcare system. Visit www.patientping.com to learn more.

    Posted 6.9.2020

  • Impact Advisors Named to CRN Solution Provider 500 List

    Firm ranked among North America’s largest 500 technology integrators

    CHICAGO (June 8, 2020) — Impact Advisors, a leading provider of strategy, performance excellence, revenue cycle management, ERP, implementation, and technology consulting services to the healthcare industry, announced today that CRN ®, a brand of The Channel Company, has named the firm to its 2020 Solution Provider 500 list (SP 500) for the sixth year in a row.

    CRN’s Solution Provider 500 honors the top IT channel partner organizations throughout North America who have earned the highest revenue over the past year. The SP 500 list is widely accepted as the industry standard for the highest-performing technology integrators, strategic service providers, and IT consultants on the basis of revenue.

    “We are proud to be named to CRN’s 2020 Solution Provider 500 list,” said Maria Smith, CFO of Impact Advisors. “Our firm’s success is a direct result of our dedicated associates and their passion for the industry paired with our commitment to providing solutions for our clients that exceed their expectations and solve their most challenging problems.”

    This year’s Solution Provider 500 companies collectively generated $393 billion in 2019, up more than 3% from last year’s $381 billion.

    “CRN’s Solution Provider 500 list showcases the top IT channel partner organizations across North America,” said Bob Skelley, CEO of The Channel Company. “This year, companies on this list represent a combined revenue of $393 billion, a data point that underscores the impact and influence these solution providers have on the IT industry. On behalf of The Channel Company, I’d like to congratulate these companies for their outstanding contributions to the growth and success of our industry.”

    The complete 2020 Solution Provider 500 list is available online at www.CRN.com/SP500 and a sample from the list will be featured in the June issue of CRN Magazine.

    About Impact Advisors

    Impact Advisors is a nationally recognized healthcare consulting firm that is solving some of the toughest challenges in the industry by delivering strategic advisory, technology implementation and performance improvement services. Our comprehensive suite of digital health, clinical optimization and revenue cycle services spans the lifecycle of our clients’ needs. Our experienced team has a powerful combination of clinical, revenue, operations, consulting and IT experience. The firm has earned a number of prestigious industry and workplace awards, including Best in KLAS® for 12 consecutive years, Healthcare Informatics HCI 100, Crain’s Chicago Business Fast Fifty, as well as “best place to work” awards from: Modern Healthcare, Consulting Magazine, Becker’s Hospital Review and Achievers. For more information about Impact Advisors, visit www.impact-advisors.com.

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    Karli Smith
    Vice President

    Posted 6.8.2020

  • CI Security Announces Strategic Agreement with SYNNEX Corporation to Expand Channel Program

    Managed Detection and Response Provider Signs Distribution Deal with SYNNEX

     

    SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–CI Security®, a Managed Detection and Response (MDR) and Professional Services provider specializing in protecting the networks of essential organizations and critical infrastructure, today announced a strategic agreement with SYNNEX Corporation, a leading business process services company in the Americas and Japan.

    CI Security, an expert provider of Managed Detection and Response (#MDR) and Professional Services announced a strategic agreement with SYNNEX Corporation, a leading business process services company in the Americas and Japan. #informationsecurity

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    The agreement enables SYNNEX to expand its security services line card by adding CI Security’s Critical Insight™ MDR solution, as well as a menu of professional services such as penetration testing and risk assessments.

    CI Security’s Critical Insight™ MDR platform adds an outsourced security operations center (SOC) to SYNNEX customers’ existing infrastructure, providing a full suite of services with a team to monitor security risks and manage compliance. This is beneficial and cost-effective for organizations, especially those supporting critical services, to monitor and remediate security alerts.

    “This strategic alliance with SYNNEX greatly expands our capacity to reach organizations within the channel throughout the United States, Canada, Japan, Mexico, China and Latin America,” said Garrett Silver, CEO of CI Security. “Partnering with SYNNEX gives us the ability to accelerate our initiatives for the expansion of our channel program and further extends our service offerings to customers around the world.”

    As a top business services company providing a comprehensive range of distribution, logistics and integration services for the technology industry, SYNNEX has one of the industry’s most robust line cards and portfolio of services and is well positioned to help CI Security further grow its capabilities.

    CI Security combines its Critical Insight™ MDR solution with SYNNEX’ core strengths in distribution by fusing both the technology and security analyst talent to encompass a comprehensive and complete process to help meet customers’ needs and achieve greater efficiencies in a rapidly evolving security landscape.

    “In a time of increased exposure to security threats, CI Security’s holistic approach to risk reduction provides a comprehensive managed security solution for our customers with strict regulations and elevated risk environments, including those in critical industries such as healthcare and government,” said Reyna Thompson, Senior Vice President, Product Management, North America, SYNNEX. “SYNNEX is dedicated to assisting its customers with the most innovative and technologically advanced solutions to the challenges of today and tomorrow.”

    SYNNEX customers will now have access to the following services:

    • Critical Insight™ Managed Detection and Response for Networks
    • Critical Insight™ Managed Detection and Response for AWS
    • Critical Insight™ Managed Detection and Response for O365
    • Critical Insight™ Managed Detection and Response for Azure
    • Log Retention
    • Security Assessments
    • Penetration Testing
    • Vulnerability Scanning

    For more information about the available services, please visit: https://ci.security

    About CI Security

    CI Security provides Managed Detection Response services, combining purpose-built technology with expert security analysts to perform full-cycle threat detection, investigation, response, and recovery. CI Security is focused on defending critical systems in healthcare, the public sector, and other industries. CI Security helps customers gain critical insight into their security posture through the MDR platform and Information Security consulting services. Find out more at https://ci.security.

    About Synnex Corporation

    SYNNEX Corporation (NYSE: SNX) is a Fortune 200 corporation and a leading business process services company, providing a comprehensive range of distribution, logistics and integration services for the technology industry and providing outsourced services focused on customer engagement to a broad range of enterprises. SYNNEX distributes a broad range of information technology systems and products, and also provides systems design and integration solutions. Founded in 1980, SYNNEX Corporation operates in numerous countries throughout North and South America, Asia-Pacific and Europe. Additional information about SYNNEX may be found online at synnex.com.

    SYNNEX, the SYNNEX Logo, and all other SYNNEX company, product and services names and slogans are trademarks or registered trademarks of SYNNEX Corporation. SYNNEX, the SYNNEX Logo, Reg. U.S. Pat. & Tm. Off. Other names and marks are the property of their respective owners.

    Contacts

    Jake Milstein
    CI Security
    206-347-0588
    [email protected]

    Posted 6.5.2020

  • Healthgrades COVID-19 Patient Confidence Study Shows Consumer Confidence Towards Healthcare Providers on the Rise

    Study Aligns with Significant Increases in Physician Search Activity at Healthgrades.com

    DENVER–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Patient confidence in visiting healthcare providers is at the highest levels since March 27, according to a new study conducted by Healthgrades, the leading resource that connects consumers, physicians and health systems, in partnership with Infosurv. The COVID-19 Patient Confidence Study, a weekly measure of consumer attitudes and behavior, shows that consumer confidence is at the highest levels since the onset of COVID-19.

    The findings include:

    • 72% of patients have reported that they are not delaying a doctor visit to discuss a condition. In addition, the majority of patients (52%) expect to go to the HCP in the next two months or sooner, while only 37% expected to go in the next two months on April 30.
    • 86% of consumers are comfortable visiting healthcare providers, over twice the confidence of visiting a restaurant (40%) or the 36% comfortable attending a public gathering such as a rock concert or sports event.
    • Physician search has significantly increased across the country from late March. For example, in Nevada, there was an increase of 129%; in Texas, there was an increase of 111%; and in New York an increase of 114%.

    “As the country emerges from COVID-19, we’re watching consumer confidence shift back to where it was prior to the onset of this crisis. At Healthgrades.com, this shift is reflected in the dramatic increases we’re seeing in physician searches as consumers are taking action to find and appoint with their healthcare providers,” said Brad Bowman, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Healthgrades.

    The research also shows that telemedicine has played an important role in delivering care. According to the survey, 30% of respondents have participated in telemedicine in the past 3 months and 83% are open to interacting with their care provider virtually. To help consumers more easily connect with a doctor who provides telemedicine, Healthgrades.com visitors are now able to search for the more than 400,000 providers that offer telehealth appointments.

    Download the full report here.

    About Healthgrades:

    Healthgrades is dedicated to empowering stronger and more meaningful connections between patients and their healthcare providers. At Healthgrades, we help millions of consumers each month find and schedule appointments with their provider of choice. With our scheduling solutions and advanced analytics applications, we help our health system and life sciences clients cultivate new patient relationships, improve patient access, and build customer loyalty. At Healthgrades, better health gets a head start.

    About Infosurv:

    Infosurv Research (www.infosurv.com) is a boutique research agency based in Atlanta, GA. The company helps clients to design, develop, and deploy strategic research programs that drive insights and growth. With a fierce dedication to understanding and optimizing the customer experience, Infosurv offers tools are services that enable a 360-degree view of your customers through direct feedback, employee engagement, and custom market research.

    Contacts

    Jen Newman
    [email protected]

    Liz Austin
    [email protected]

    Posted 6.2.2020

  • CDISC PARTNERS WITH GEVITY TO FACILITATE USE OF ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD DATA IN CLINICAL RESEARCH

    Austin, TX – 05 May 2020 – The Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) has launched a project that will facilitate the use of electronic health record (EHR) data in clinical research to achieve efficiencies that expedite global regulatory reviews, contribute to the evaluation of new treatments for patients and drive next generation discovery.

    The FHIR to CDISC project will leverage Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR), HL7’s standard for exchanging healthcare information electronically and CDISC’s standards for data collection (CDASH) and data tabulation (SDTM) to streamline the flow of data from EHRs to CDISC submission-ready datasets.

    CDISC has engaged the consulting firm, Gevity Consulting Inc. (Gevity), to carry out project scoping and development. Gevity’s Lloyd McKenzie, one of the initial developers of the FHIR standard, will spearhead the effort. CDISC and Gevity will work together to develop a dynamic mapping of FHIR resources and an Implementation Guide that will be made exclusively available to CDISC member organizations. The mapping and Implementation Guide will eventually be available via the CDISC Library API, the single, trusted, authoritative source of CDISC standards metadata.

    “Facilitating the development of quality tools to help unlock the benefits of standardization is an essential component of CDISC’s Strategic Plan,” stated David R. Bobbitt, CDISC President and CEO. “We look forward to providing our community with the knowledge and tools they need to support good science.”

    “As EHRs and other real world data sources play an increasingly important role in clinical research and healthcare decision making, our FHIR to CDISC project is timelier than ever,” said Rhonda Facile, Vice President, Development Opportunities.  “The project will foster greater efficiencies across systems and resources, and encourage end users to support higher quality data exchange integrations within, and outside of, research.”

    Mr. McKenzie, a senior consultant with Gevity, agreed. “When HL7 first created FHIR, it was with the intention that it could be used by anyone, including other standards development organizations.  Making it easier for the research community to access data, while still abiding by data access controls such as patient consent has always been one of my personal objectives for FHIR. It’s great to see this project helping to make that a reality.”

    CDISC will leverage existing work from our EHR to CDASH project, which developed mappings to enable the transfer of healthcare data into a form for data collection in clinical research. We anticipate to release the mapping and Implementation Guide in 2021.

    About CDISC

    CDISC creates clarity in clinical research by convening a global community to develop and advance data standards of the highest quality. Required by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Japan’s Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency (PMDA), recommended by the China National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) and adopted by the world’s leading research organizations, CDISC standards enable the accessibility, interoperability, and reusability of data. With the help of CDISC standards, the entire research community can maximize the value of data for more efficient and meaningful research that has invaluable impact on global health. CDISC is a 501(c)(3) global nonprofit charitable organization and is headquartered in Austin, Texas, with hundreds of employees, volunteers, and member organizations around the world. www.cdisc.org.

    About Gevity

    Gevity Consulting offers professional services to clients seeking to establish sustainable and effective healthcare, life sciences and social services systems. From strategic planning and advisory services to supporting and implementing critical transformation initiatives, we work with healthcare organizations to deliver results and enable a healthier world. We have been in business since 1995 and have grown steadily through geographic and service portfolio expansion. For more information, please visit www.gevityinc.com.

    Contact

    FOR CDISC

    Ann P. White, +1.512.363.5826, [email protected]

    FOR GEVITY

    Sebastien Roy, +1.347.413.0340, [email protected]

    Posted 6.2.2020

  • Impact Advisors Receives Top Honors in KLAS’ Clinical Optimization Services Report

    CHICAGO (June 1, 2020) — Impact Advisors, a leading provider of strategy, performance excellence, revenue cycle management, ERP, implementation, and technology consulting services to the healthcare industry, announced today that it has been recognized by KLAS in the Clinical Optimization Services 2020 report. The firm is one of five firms recognized in the report with an overall score of 93.4.

    “We are honored to be recognized by KLAS for our Clinical Optimization services as it highlights the value we are providing to our clients,” said Pete Smith, CEO, Impact Advisors. “We are dedicated to helping our clients realize the investment and benefits of their EHR and our associates are committed to providing the highest quality of service to ensure our clients achieve their goals.”According to KLAS, clinical optimization projects focus on improving how clinical systems operate and are used by clinicians, and these services should result in improved patient care, ROI, and physician use and adoption. In order to accomplish these goals, the firms recognized in the report help clients with three primary levers:  workflow refinement, application enhancement and clinician training.

    Impact Advisors scored well in all areas, but compared to other firms, received the most praise around engagement execution in the application enhancement lever. The firm was recognized often for bringing to bear proven methodologies that delivered fast results. Impact Advisors received positive mentions from clients around continuously meeting or exceeding expectations, timeliness, project management, and tools and methodologies. The firm was also recognized for its biggest strengths: being quick to action and completion, not overpromising and helping clients become self-sufficient.

    Each year, KLAS interviews thousands of healthcare professionals about the IT products and services their organizations use. These interviews are conducted using a standard quantitative evaluation, and the scores and commentary collected are shared online in real time so other providers and IT professionals can benefit from their peers’ experiences. For the full report, click here.

    Impact Advisors helps clients with clinical optimization by focusing on high-value areas for improvement based on industry best practice. The firm improves revenue, quality, and safety, and patient and provider experiences for clients while also helping them prepare for value-based payments and realizing cost reductions. By focusing on these areas, health systems can ensure the highest return on investment in capital-intensive technology investments like EHRs.

    About Impact Advisors

    Impact Advisors is a nationally recognized healthcare consulting firm that is solving some of the toughest challenges in the industry by delivering strategic advisory, technology implementation and performance improvement services. Our comprehensive suite of digital health, clinical optimization and revenue cycle services spans the lifecycle of our clients’ needs. Our experienced team has a powerful combination of clinical, revenue, operations, consulting and IT experience. The firm has earned a number of prestigious industry and workplace awards, including Best in KLAS® for 12 consecutive years, Healthcare Informatics HCI 100, Crain’s Chicago Business Fast Fifty, as well as “best place to work” awards from: Modern Healthcare, Consulting Magazine, Becker’s Hospital Review and Achievers. For more information about Impact Advisors, visit www.impact-advisors.com.

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    Karli Smith
    Vice President

    Posted 6.1.2020
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