• CHIME and CHIME Foundation Congratulate 2020 Award Winners in Year-end Recap

    ANN ARBOR, MI, Dec. 17, 2020 – As the year draws to a close, the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and the CHIME Foundation are honoring members and Foundation partners whose outstanding contributions earned them special recognition in 2020. Ten members of the CHIME and CHIME Foundation communities were selected by their peers to receive prestigious awards this year. The 2020 award winners were:
     
    • Myra Davis, Chief Information Innovation Officer at Texas Children’s Hospital, Teresa Tonthat, CISO at Texas Children’s Hospital, and Gus Malezis, President and CEO at Imprivata, for the 2020 CHIME Collaboration Award
    • Matthew MacVey, Vice President and CIO at Children’s National Hospital, and Kurt Newman, MD, President and CEO at Children’s National Hospital, for the 2020 CHIME-AHA Transformational Leadership Award
    • Theresa Meadows, Senior Vice President and CIO at Cook Children’s Health Care System, for the 2020 CHIME Outstanding Service Award
    • Karen Wilding, Senior Director of Quality Performance and Value Based Care at University of Maryland Medical System, for the 2020 Federal Public Policy Award for CIO Leadership
    • Will Long, for the Innovator of the Year Award
    • Judy Kirby, CEO of Kirby Partners, for the 2020 CHIME Foundation Industry Leader Award
    • Marc Probst, former CIO at Intermountain Healthcare, for the John E. Gall Jr. CIO of the Year
     
    “These award winners have shown exemplary leadership in an incredibly challenging year in healthcare,” said CHIME Board Chair John Kravitz, corporate CIO at Geisinger. “No one knows better than their peers how important their work has been for their organizations and for our industry. It is an honor to recognize them for all that they do.”   
     
    “The partnerships between CHIME members and CHIME Foundation members have brought solutions to physicians, patients and others at a critical time,” said CHIME Foundation Board Chair Shafiq Rab, MD, chief digital officer and CIO at Wellforce Health System. “This is an opportunity to celebrate the people who helped to make it happen.”
     
    The CHIME Collaboration Award recognizes a collaborative effort between a CIO who is a CHIME member and a CHIME Foundation firm that offers 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. Texas Children’s Hospital and Imprivata collaborated to deliver secure mobile solutions to physicians, nurses and patients that provided fast and easy access to information without compromising security.
     
    The CHIME-AHA Transformational Leadership Award is given annually in conjunction with the American Hospital Association (AHA) in honor of a CEO and CIO whose organization developed and deployed transformational IT that improved the delivery of care and streamlined administrative services. Among the transformative IT initiatives at Children’s National is the Bear Institute for Health Innovation, which under the leadership of MacVey and Newman has built a more robust and secure IT environment, improved efficiency for providers, enabled research and collaboration across provider organizations, and responded swiftly and effectively to the COVID-19 pandemic.
     
    The CHIME Outstanding Service Award recognizes a member who has shown extraordinary dedication to CHIME through participation in CHIME programs and volunteer service. A nationally recognized leader in healthcare cybersecurity, Meadows has served as a faculty member for the CHIME Healthcare CIO Boot Camp, the CHIME AEHIS Healthcare CISO Boot Camp and the CHIME Partners Education Summit; is a past member of the CHIME Board of Trustees; has presented at numerous CHIME education events, and more.
     
    The Federal Public Policy Award for CIO Leadership recognizes a CHIME member who is a CIO or senior leader and 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. Wilding is an active and engaged member of the Policy Steering Committee (PSC) who has helped shape policy recommendations presented by CHIME to policymakers. She has served as a speaker on numerous public policy topics and brings a passionate voice on leveraging technology to bridge the needs of high-quality care across the continuum.  
     
    The Innovator of the Year Award is given annually to a member whose creative application of IT and innovative solutions brought value to his or her organization. Since 2015, Children’s Health has been certified by HITRUST. As their vice president and CISO, Long enacted the HITRUST Common Security Framework at Children’s Health and his team worked with HITRUST to launch HITRUST CyberAid at 80 physician practices to help them harden their cyber defenses.  
     
    The Foundation Industry Leader Award recognizes a Foundation firm representative who has demonstrated exceptional dedication and made outstanding contributions to the healthcare industry, CHIME and the CHIME Foundation. It is the highest honor given to a Foundation firm member. Kirby has been an active Foundation partner member, serving on CHIME’s Women and Minority Scholarship Selection Committee and regularly co-presenting with CHIME members. She and her team have helped numerous healthcare organizations fill executive positions with exceptional leaders for over 30 years. She also serves as an executive career coach, helping job seekers transition into new roles. Kirby is a past recipient of the CHIME Collaboration Award, is a member of The Pinnacle Society, a group of the top executive recruiters in the country, and has served on the Board of Directors of the American Cancer Society.
     
    The John E. Gall Jr. CIO of the Year award is given annually to a CIO who has shown significant leadership and commitment to the healthcare industry during his or her career. The recipient is selected jointly by the boards of CHIME and the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS). Probst, who retired from Intermountain this year and now is CIO at ELLKAY, has held numerous roles at CHIME, including chair of the CHIME Board of Trustees and an influential member of the PSC.
     
    In addition to these awards, 33 members of CHIME and the CHIME Foundation were nominated by their peers as Healthcare Heroes. This ongoing program recognizes CHIME and CHIME Foundation members who have been working behind the scenes to find new and better ways to deliver health and care during the COVID-19 pandemic.
     
    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 5,000 members in 56 countries plus two U.S. territories and over 150 healthcare IT business partners and professional services firms, CHIME and its three associations provide 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 12.18.2020

  • Big Sky Care Connect Partners with Industry Leader DrFirst to Provide Clinicians with Patients’ Medication History

    Helena, Montana –– Big Sky Care Connect (BSCC), Montana’s premier health information exchange (HIE), is partnering with DrFirst, a leading healthcare IT pioneer, to provide clinicians throughout Montana access to DrFirst’s extensive medication history information system.

    Before the anticipated launch of BSCC in late 2020, Montana was just one of two states without a state-designated HIE. An HIE is a modern system for improving patient health by saving time and expediting patient care through sophisticated information technology. BSCC feeds data from healthcare providers across the state into a centralized digital network that serves as a real-time information system for participating providers, patients, and payors in Montana. Healthcare organizations of all types throughout the state can participate in the network.

    Through BSCC’s partnership with DrFirst, healthcare providers in Montana can search BSCC for a patient they are treating to view a concise and comprehensive health record that will now include thorough medication history information. MedHx by DrFirst provides the broadest source of medication history data available in the industry, which allows faster, more accurate medication reconciliation. A critical patient safety process, medication reconciliation is a National Patient Safety Goal of The Joint Commission. This partnership fills a serious gap in the data compiled from other participating organizations. “Montana has over a million residents, and our partnership with DrFirst means that healthcare providers can get the most all-inclusive medication history information for any patient in the state,” said Jean Branscum, acting CAO of BSCC. “Having this information will help identify and avoid adverse drug reactions, improve medication adherence, and prevent avoidable readmissions.”  

    Clinicians in Montana who are not already using DrFirst’s award-winning MedHx solution for comprehensive medication history will be able to access the BSSC portal to view patients’ medication data, including dose and duration. “Knowing what medications patients have been taking is crucial to delivering quality medical care,” explained DrFirst’s president, G. Cameron Deemer. “Yet patients are not always able to share this information because they may be in pain, unable to communicate or may not remember important details about their current medications.”

    BSCC has recently finalized contracts from more than 25 healthcare organizations throughout Montana that will use the HIE to create better health outcomes for all Montanans.

    About Big Sky Care Connect

    Big Sky Care Connect is a 501 (c) 3 nonprofit created in 2018 to respond to the need for a state-wide coordinated health information exchange (HIE) and related services to enhance clinical care in communities throughout Montana. Big Sky Care Connect serves to facilitate timely and secure access to clinical information between various member healthcare organizations and engage in other activities to improve and promote the public health and quality of health care in Montana in a cost-effective manner. Big Sky Care Connect is governed by a board of directors made up of physicians and healthcare executives from around the state. For more information about Big Sky Care Connect, email [email protected] or contact BSCC at 406-443-4000.

    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 Healthiverse—the interconnected healthcare universe—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. DrFirst solutions are used by nearly 300,000 healthcare professionals, including more than 100,000 prescribers, nearly half of the EHRs in the U.S., and more than 1,400 hospitals in the U.S. and Canada. To learn more, visit www.DrFirst.com and follow @DrFirst.

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    Contacts:
    Andrea Sterling
    Communications Director
    Big Sky Care Connect
    406.558.4408
    [email protected]

    Sofia Kosmetatos
    Amendola Communications
    646.431.8423
    [email protected]

    Posted 12.17.2020

  • Allscripts Sunrise™ 20.0 now generally available

    CHICAGO – December 16, 2020 – Allscripts Healthcare Solutions (NASDAQ MDRX) announced today that Sunrise 20.0 is now generally available. Sunrise is a comprehensive platform of health that connects all aspects of care, including acute, ambulatory, surgical, pharmacy, radiology and laboratory services, and also features an integrated revenue cycle and patient administration system. Sunrise is a clinician-friendly, evidence-based single platform with integrated analytics that helps deliver better health outcomes in hospitals around the world.

    “Through listening to our global client base and fully understanding their needs, we’ve developed and delivered the latest version of Sunrise for the entire continuum of care,” said Lisa Khorey, Executive Vice President and Client Delivery Officer. “This exciting release includes the choice to move to hosting in Microsoft Azure combined with more than 150 new enhancements, three user experience updates and more than 35 new performance improvements.”

    Some of the new features in Sunrise 20.0 include:

    • New modern RxWriter, which streamlines workflows and reduces physician burden
    • M*Modal Clinical Documentation integration
    • Sunrise™ Surgical Hub enhancements
    • Free text documentation with voice recognition in Sunrise™ Mobile
    • Aware Note Default Theme enhancements
    • Sunrise™ Financial Manager updates and enhancements
    • Sunrise™ Enterprise Scheduling enhancements, which offer re-order appointments in
    one click
    • OCR scanning for insurance card in Sunrise™ Enterprise Registration
    • Sunrise Patient Financial Manager updates and enhancements

    “By enabling an end-to-end healthcare IT platform through the power of Microsoft Azure, organizations can transform from using an EHR to optimizing efficiencies with a true health platform,” said Patty Obermaier, Vice President of US Health & Life Sciences at Microsoft. “Using the value of Sunrise solutions with the collaboration of Microsoft, Allscripts clients can improve organizational performance, cybersecurity, interoperability and the patient experience
    for their organizations.”

    About Allscripts
    Allscripts (NASDAQ: MDRX) is a leader in healthcare information technology solutions that advance clinical, financial and operational results. Our innovative solutions connect people, places and data across an Open, Connected Community of Health™. Connectivity empowers caregivers to make better decisions
    and deliver better care for healthier populations. To learn more, visit www.allscripts.com, Twitter, YouTube and It Takes a Community: The Allscripts Blog.

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    © 2020 Allscripts Healthcare, LLC and/or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved.
    Allscripts, the Allscripts logo, and other Allscripts marks are trademarks of Allscripts Healthcare, LLC and/or
    its affiliates. All other products are trademarks of their respective holders, all rights reserved. Reference to
    these products is not intended to imply affiliation with or sponsorship of Allscripts Healthcare, LLC and/or
    its affiliates.

    For more information contact:

    Investors:
    Stephen Shulstein
    312-386-6735
    [email protected]

    Media:
    Concetta Rasiarmos
    312-447-2466
    [email protected]

    Posted 12.17.2020

  • Allscripts moves quickly to support clients in COVID-19 vaccine administration

    Company offers guidance to track and report vaccine administration to the CDC

    CHICAGO – December 17, 2020 – Allscripts Healthcare Solutions (NASDAQ MDRX) is dedicating extensive resources to ensure its clients are prepared to maximize functionality within its solutions to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.

    Allscripts has collaborated with public health officials at all levels, including the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the American Immunization Registry Association (AIRA) to address the urgent need to capture and report vaccine administration. Since 2011, Allscripts Electronic Health Record (EHR) solutions have supported vaccine administration, associated reminders and reporting to state immunization registries in compliance with the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) certification requirements.

    In addition, in consideration of the new requirements associated with COVID-19 vaccinations, Allscripts is delivering capabilities to clients that include orders, billing, reporting, allergy/intolerance/adverse events and second-dose reminders, and importantly, data that can be uploaded with the new vaccine information. New CPT codes and relevant medications will also be addressed. Allscripts has also implemented functionality to ensure that clients can document the first administered vaccines in their Allscripts EHRs, with no need to use other external databases or disparate data logged into spreadsheets.

    “As has been the case for nearly two decades, Allscripts has proven that it is a trusted partner in helping us provide exceptional care to our patients during this challenging pandemic,” said Jim West, PIH Health System President and Chief Executive Officer. “We know Allscripts is by our side in tackling the critically important health IT-managed tasks related to the COVID-19 vaccine administration.”

    “Through the course of the pandemic, Allscripts has collaborated with HHS, the CDC, state governments, public health organizations and others to best prepare our clients for the challenges associated with delivering care during the COVID-19 pandemic, which now happily includes vaccine administration tasks,” said Allscripts Chief Executive Officer, Paul Black. “We’re working together to deliver solutions that provide our clients with the information and decision support tools they need at the point of care, recognizing the incredible challenge facing the country to inoculate hundreds of millions of people against the virus in as short a time as humanly feasible. Allscripts is committed to assisting our clients increase the vaccination coverage and eagerly answering our collective obligation to better arm our caregivers in the fight against the spread of COVID-19.”

    About Allscripts

    Allscripts (NASDAQ: MDRX) is a leader in healthcare information technology solutions that advance clinical, financial and operational results. Our innovative solutions connect people, places and data across an Open, Connected Community of Health™. Connectivity empowers caregivers to make better decisions and deliver better care for healthier populations. To learn more, visit www.allscripts.com, Twitter, YouTube and It Takes a Community: The Allscripts Blog.

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    © 2020 Allscripts Healthcare, LLC and/or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved.

    Allscripts, the Allscripts logo, and other Allscripts marks are trademarks of Allscripts Healthcare, LLC and/or its affiliates. All other products are trademarks of their respective holders, all rights reserved. Reference to these products is not intended to imply affiliation with or sponsorship of Allscripts Healthcare, LLC and/or its affiliates.

    For more information contact:

    Investors:

    Stephen Shulstein

    312-386-6735 [email protected]

    Media:

    Concetta Rasiarmos

    312-447-2466 [email protected]

    Posted 12.17.2020

  • CHIME, AEHIS Support Bill that Protects Providers Following Recognized Security Practices

    ANN ARBOR, MI, Dec. 10, 2020 – The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a bill that gives much-needed protection to providers who follow recognized security practices to fend off cyberattacks. The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and the Association for Executives in Healthcare Information Security (AEHIS) welcome the move and commend lawmakers for taking this historic step.
     
    Cyberthreats are growing in volume and sophistication and are a risk to patient safety. In response to an escalation of cyberattacks on healthcare organizations, federal authorities issued an alert in late October warning that they had credible intelligence of a pending ransomware attack that affected several hospitals in the U.S. Yet providers who have been acting in good faith by following best security practices remain at risk of being penalized by the Office for Civil Rights for a breach.
     
    “This bill offers much needed relief to providers by giving credit for best practices like those developed under the public-private efforts of the Joint Cybersecurity Working Group known as 405d,” said Erik Decker, a member of AEHIS, the industry lead for the 405d work and chief security and privacy officer at University of Chicago Medicine.
     
    CHIME and AEHIS strongly support the bill and have long advocated for legislation that credits providers for following best cybersecurity practices. Both organizations have supported the National Institute of Standards and Technology Cybersecurity Framework and have helped lead the 405d efforts, which resulted in publicly available and voluntary best practices for use by providers of all sizes.
     
    “The importance of this bill can’t be overstated,” said Russell P. Branzell, president and CEO of CHIME. “It moves us away from the punitive environment that victimized hospitals by acknowledging their work to better their cyber posture. We look forward to working with policymakers to get this legislation signed into law.”
     
    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 5,000 members in 56 countries plus two U.S. territories and over 150 healthcare IT business partners and professional services firms, CHIME and its three associations provide 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.
     
    About AEHIS
    The Association for Executives in Healthcare Information Security (AEHIS) was launched in 2014 to provide an education and networking platform to healthcare’s senior IT security leaders. With more than 900 members, AEHIS is advancing the role of the chief information security officer (CISO) through education, collaboration, exchange of best practices and advocacy in support of secure health information for the protection of both healthcare organizations and consumers. For more Information, please visit aehis.org. 
     
    Contact
    Candace Stuart
    Director of Communications and Public Relations, CHIME
    734.665.0000
    Posted 12.11.2020

  • Kirby Partners Takes the ParityPledge to Commit to Increasing Representation for Women and People of Color

    Lake Mary, FL – December 8, 2020- Kirby Partners, Healthcare IT & Cybersecurity Executive Search Firm, has signed the Parity.org ParityPledge® in Support of People of Color and in Support of Women. The ParityPledge simply asks that companies commit to interview and consider at least one qualified woman and person of color for every open role, VP and above, including the C-suite and the board of directors. Parity.org is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization focused on bringing gender and racial equality to the highest levels of business, calling for “Equal Representation. Now.”

    “At Kirby Partners, we believe that diverse teams make strong teams. By having team members with different backgrounds, organizations can leverage increased intellectual potential, innovate more effectively, and drive superior results,” said Bryan Kirby, Vice President of Kirby Partners.

    Judy Kirby, President of Kirby Partners added, “Never has there been a better time to do what is logical, what is fair, and what is right. We need to stop surrounding ourselves exclusively with people who think like we do or look like we do. We need to open our hearts and minds and do what will make us better, both individually and as organizations.”

    “We are so pleased to have Kirby Partners join us in this important commitment to underrepresented groups. It’s clear that we can, and must, do more to increase pathways for women and all communities of color,” said Cathrin Stickney, Parity.org founder and CEO. “I hope that by bringing this simple pledge to the forefront, more companies will be open to changing how they recruit and hire underrepresented executives, because we need women and people of color at the table and in decision-making roles.”

    Diversity in leadership has many benefits: companies that have more racial and ethnic diversity are more innovative and 35% more likely to have financial returns above the industry median. In the United States, there is a linear relationship between gender and racial diversity in leadership and better financial performance. Yet women and people of color experience more microaggressions, lower pay, discrimination, and fewer opportunities for advancement than their white counterparts, and are represented at much lower numbers in leadership than white men.

    Organizations wanting to take the ParityPledge in Support of People of Color and in Support of Women, or who want to learn more about Parity.org, should visit www.Parity.org.

     

    About Parity.org

    Parity.org is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization dedicated to closing the representation gap for women and people of color at the highest ranks of business leadership. You can follow Parity.org on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram. Organizations wanting to take the ParityPledge or learn more about Parity.org should visit www.Parity.org.

    Parity.org® and the ParityPledge® are trademarks of Parity.org.

     

    About Kirby Partners

    Kirby Partners is a retained executive search firm placing healthcare IT and cybersecurity leaders and providing one-on-one career executive coaching. Forbes has named Kirby Partners one of “America’s Best Search Firms”. Learn more about Kirby Partners here.

    Posted 12.9.2020

  • MEDITECH Selects Google Cloud to Power EHR Solutions

    MEDITECH Cloud Platform bundles three solutions that further extend the possibilities of the Expanse Electronic Health Record (EHR).

    December 3, 2020

    Today MEDITECH introduced MEDITECH Cloud Platform—a suite of solutions available to healthcare organizations of all sizes that further extend the possibilities of the Expanse Electronic Health Record (EHR). This offering includes: Expanse NOW, High Availability SnapShot, and Virtual Care solutions, all created to work naturally in the cloud, and available through a subscription model.

    Multiple MEDITECH Cloud Platform solutions are built on Google Cloud, enabling healthcare organizations to further personalize their EHR in a way that is secure, reliable, and easy to maintain.

    “MEDITECH Cloud Platform is the pivotal next step in offering healthcare organizations the technology and tools they need to achieve their care, financial, and provider goals,” said MEDITECH Vice President of Advanced Technology Scott Radner.

    “These integrated cloud-based solutions give our customers the security, availability, affordability, and flexibility they need — no matter their size or budget. Additionally, our hybrid model provides cloud advantages to both hosted and traditional installations.”

    Expanse NOW is a mobility app that empowers physicians to manage everyday tasks and coordinate care on their smartphone device. Integrated with Expanse, tasks and messages can flow between workload and the app in real time.

    High Availability SnapShot provides healthcare organizations with immediate access to key patient data in the event of unexpected or planned downtime. Patient information such as medications, allergies, orders, and more is backed up securely and accessible via cellular-connected devices.

    Virtual Care gives new and existing patients access to urgent virtual care on demand through the healthcare organization’s website, as well as the ability to schedule virtual visit appointments. New patients who request Virtual Care are automatically enrolled in the Patient Portal, connecting them to the organization and in turn, enabling organizations to grow their business.

    The Expanse NOW and High Availability SnapShot solutions leverage Google Cloud’s core capabilities including compute and storage (as well as their healthcare-specific data, analytics, security, and identity management solutions) alongside existing on-prem solutions to provide high availability and continuity of care in a secure and scalable service. They can be easily accessible to critical care staff to improve healthcare continuity across MEDITECH-powered healthcare organizations.

    “Access to healthcare data is critical to ensuring high-quality care, particularly as more and more care is delivered virtually,” said Joe Miles, Managing Director, Healthcare and Life Sciences at Google Cloud.

    “We’re excited that MEDITECH has selected Google Cloud to deploy its next-generation EHR platform, and look forward to partnering with healthcare organizations to build a foundation for a digital-first future.”

    Healthcare organizations can select one or a combination of the solutions from MEDITECH Cloud Platform. The flexibility of the subscription model enables a quick setup as well as the ability to add solutions as needed. Additionally, the cloud combined with the subscription model provides opportunities to add solutions in the future.

     

    Contacts

    Robin Montville

    Public Relations and Media Relations Manager

    MEDITECH

    781-774-3370

    [email protected]

    Posted 12.7.2020

  • KidsX and Censinet Partner to Reduce Cybersecurity Risks to Pediatric Healthcare Organizations and Digital Health Innovators Globally

    LOS ANGELES, CA and BOSTON, MA – December 1, 2020 – Today Censinet, the leading Intelligent Risk Network for Healthcare, and KidsX, a global accelerator for digital health pediatrics innovation, announced a partnership to help consortium members and participating digital health startups streamline cybersecurity assessments that improve security processes and practices which meet HIPAA regulatory security and privacy rules.

    KidsX connects early stage digital health companies with over 40 children’s hospitals globally to transform pediatric care. The KidsX Accelerator supports early stage digital health companies to achieve product and business model validation in the pediatric market. Third-party vendors are required by HIPAA regulation to complete security assessments, which often delay the purchasing and procurement processes, and are ineffective at remediating cybersecurity risks.

    “KidsX brings together the top children’s hospitals and talented digital health companies to build, test and deploy software solutions to make pediatric care exceptionally effective, safe, efficient and convenient for children and families,” said Omkar Kulkarni, Managing Director of KidsX and Chief Innovation Officer at Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles.

    Censinet will enable the KidsX digital healthcare companies to manage their response to security and risk assessment requests on the Censinet platform at no cost. The two organizations will also provide digital healthcare startups with an educational program that includes best practices, policies, procedures, controls and remediations for managing cybersecurity risk.

    “Censinet and KidsX believe that by arming digital health innovators with effective tools, best practices and education, we can accelerate their entrance into the healthcare market with safe and secure solutions,” said Ed Gaudet, CEO and founder of Censinet. “We’re excited to partner with KidsX and continue to advance our mutual mission of creating a secure and productive healthcare ecosystem.”

    For more information, go to www.censinet.com/kidsx.health

    About Censinet

    Censinet provides the first and only third-party risk management platform built by and for healthcare organizations to manage the threats to patient care that exist within an expanding ecosystem of vendors. With its unique Censinet One-click Assessment™ capabilities and Digital Vendor Catalog™, the Censinet Platform reduces the time to assess vendor risk from weeks to seconds, while automating inefficient workflows and providing continuous real-time insights into the changing risk profile of each vendor. Censinet is based in Boston, MA and can be found at https://censinet.com/

    About KidsX

    KidsX is a global ecosystem of pediatric innovators, anchored by a consortium of over 40 children’s hospitals from North America, Europe and Australia motivated to partner with early stage digital health companies to transform pediatric care. Learn more at https://www.kidsx.health/

    Contacts:

    Contact for KidsX

    Kate Berman

    KidsX [email protected]

    Contact for Censinet:

    Rob Ciampa

    Censinet

    (617) 286-6785 [email protected]

    Posted 12.3.2020

  • Impact Advisors Ranked on Consulting Magazine’s Fastest Growing Firms List

    Firm recognized for fourth consecutive year

    CHICAGO (Dec. 2, 2020) — Impact Advisors, a leading provider of strategy, performance excellence, revenue cycle management, ERP, implementation, and technology consulting services to the healthcare industry, was named to Consulting magazine’s Fastest Growing Firms list. This is the fourth consecutive year the firm has been recognized on the list.

    “We are honored by this recognition, which we believe confirms we are continuing to do the right work with high-quality outcomes for our clients,” said Maria Smith, Chief Financial Officer for Impact Advisors. “The pandemic required us to transform our business model this year, and we will continue to grow, expand, and pivot as the industry shifts. We would like to thank our associates for their continued dedication and commitment to helping our clients solve some of their toughest challenges.”

    This exclusive list recognizes the fastest-growing consulting firms – of any size and from any sector – in the world. The firms included on Consulting’s annual list demonstrate exemplary revenue growth over a three-year period, and the list highlights reasons for their outstanding financial performance.

    Impact Advisors was founded in 2007 on the premise of building the nation’s premier healthcare technology consulting firm whose sole focus is to deliver unwavering quality service to clients by putting their interests first. The firm is a trusted partner among the industry’s leading health organizations with a solid reputation that continues to propel its consistent annual growth, tempered by hiring only the best employees in the industry. Impact Advisors understands the value of its associates and is committed to creating and maintaining a culture where they want to do this important work.

    Impact Advisors will be featured in the December edition of Consulting magazine for this recognition.

     

    About Impact Advisors

    Impact Advisors is a nationally recognized healthcare management consulting and technology services 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 13 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.

     

    Media Contact:
    Karli Smith
    Chartwell Agency
    815-977-5343
    [email protected]

    Posted 12.2.2020

  • KLAS and Censinet Partner to Reduce Cybersecurity Risk for Healthcare CISOs, CIOs and IT Vendor Community

    Partnership Provides Healthcare Decision Makers with A Catalyst to Improve Cyber
    Readiness, Reduce Risk and Make More Informed Security Investments

    SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH AND BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS – December 1, 2020 – KLAS, a healthcare research and insights firm, and Censinet, the leading intelligent risk network for healthcare, today announced a partnership to help healthcare IT vendors and services firms improve their overall risk and security profile and provide greater transparency to thousands of healthcare providers. As part of the partnership, KLAS, which has conducted deep research and analysis on more than 900 healthcare IT products and services, will introduce a new Cybersecurity Readiness Assessment.

    The partnership will also include collaborative research, insight sharing, special report access, and cybersecurity best practices, arming healthcare decision makers with vital information to improve their cybersecurity posture and ultimately, foster a more secure and productive healthcare ecosystem.

    “More than ever, providers and payers rely on vendors to deliver highly secure and resilient products and services,” says Adam Gale, President of KLAS. “Our partnership with Censinet will enable KLAS-rated vendors to communicate a level of security transparency and confidence to providers and payers with better decision making.”

    While the massive undertaking to implement electronic health records over the past decade has spurred an era of digital health innovation, it has also greatly expanded the attack surface for cyber criminals to target healthcare organizations. And now, the COVID19 pandemic has both increased reliance on digital health and given attackers even more incentive to target providers, payers and others in the healthcare industry.

    The new Cybersecurity Readiness Assessment developed through the KLAS and Censinet partnership aims to help healthcare leaders uncover risks in IT vendor and services solutions. Instead of the months-long and resource-intensive process typically required to assess security concerns of new healthcare technology, these new ratings immediately give providers the confidence they need to make decisions quickly. Technology that has not yet been assessed can be vetted in as little as 10 days.

    “Censinet and KLAS share a common vision that arming providers and their vendors with the right tools, insight, best practices and education is the best way to reduce risks to patient data, care and safety,” said Ed Gaudet, CEO and founder of Censinet. “We’re excited about working with KLAS and continuing to advance our mutual mission of creating a secure and efficient healthcare ecosystem.”

    KLAS and Censinet are hosting a series of healthcare vendor webinars describing the process and benefits of participation over the coming weeks. All vendors and service firms that KLAS currently measures will have the opportunity to report on their cybersecurity preparedness. After engaging in a webinar, links to assessments will be provided to participating vendors. Participation does not require a membership to KLAS and is offered to vendors at no cost.

    To participate, sign up to listen in on one of the below webinars:

    • Dec. 2 at 3:00 p.m. EST: https://events.klasresearch.com/CensinetWebinar2
    •  Dec. 7 at 1:00 p.m. EST: https://events.klasresearch.com/CensinetWebinar3
    •  Dec. 16 at 4:00 p.m. EST: https://events.klasresearch.com/CensinetWebinar4
    • Jan. 8 at 11:00 a.m. EST: https://events.klasresearch.com/CensinetWebinar5

    Additional information on the partnership can also be found here: www.censinet.com/klas

     

    About KLAS
    KLAS has been providing accurate, honest, and impartial insights for the healthcare IT (HIT)
    industry since 1996. The KLAS mission is to improve the world’s healthcare by amplifying the
    voice of providers and payers. The scope of our research is constantly expanding to best fit
    market needs as technology becomes increasingly sophisticated. KLAS finds the hard-to-get
    HIT data by building strong relationships with our payer and provider friends in the industry.
    Learn more at klasresearch.com.

    About Censinet
    Censinet provides the first and only third-party risk management platform built by and for
    healthcare organizations to manage the threats to patient care that exist within an
    expanding ecosystem of vendors. With its unique Censinet One-click Assessment™
    capabilities and Digital Vendor Catalog™, the Censinet Platform reduces the time to assess
    vendor risk from weeks to seconds, while automating inefficient workflows and providing
    continuous real-time insights into the changing risk profile of each vendor. Censinet is based
    in Boston, MA and can be found at https://censinet.com/

    Media Contact for KLAS
    Joshua Schneck
    For KLAS
    +1 (801) 404-5427
    [email protected]

    Media Contact for Censinet
    Mike Reilly
    fama PR for Censinet
    (617) 986-5008
    [email protected]

    Posted 12.2.2020