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mphrX announces Joel Formiga as Country Manager for Brazil
São Paulo, Brazil, Monday, February 22: The New-York based health technology company, mphrX, has announced Joel Formiga as their Country Manager for Brazil. Formiga spent the last four years running the digital transformation initiatives for the city and then the state of São Paulo. He has led emblematic initiatives such as Corujão da Saúde and transformed the way citizens access public health through apps like AGENDA FÁCIL and REMÉDIO AGORA.
“mphrX has the right technology, people, and attitude. It is the perfect place for me to bring my recently acquired expertise combined with my previous IBM experience as a tech sales executive to empower healthcare organizations to rapidly and efficiently innovate the way they deliver care”, says Formiga.
“We see the Brazilian market as a great fit for our solution that can enable healthcare organizations to provide specific solutions to consumers’ rapidly changing needs. Minerva’s capabilities provides a unified health record with vendor-neutral SMART on FHIR repository, in addition to creating value out of the legacy systems.,” said Varun Anand, mphrX co-founder and chief operating officer. “We are thrilled to have Formiga onboard who understands that this market comes with a complex set of drivers along with a diversified set of opportunities.”
Apart from navigating mphrX into the Brazilian market, Formiga will build high-performing teams consisting of sales personnel, solution architects, and delivery experts while expanding the partner network.
About mphrX
mphRx is an innovation partner for organizations pioneering the next generation of healthcare. Its platform provides best-in-class interoperability, engagement, and automation solutions that open a new world of virtual care. The company is a rapidly growing healthcare technology organization headquartered in New York City, with offices in Australia, UK, India, Singapore, and Brazil. MphRx is an ISO 13485, ISO 27001 certified organization. This year, Frost and Sullivan awarded a 2020 Global Digital Transformation Platform Enabling Technology Leadership Award to MphRx. Visit https://www.mphrx.com/
About Minerva
Minerva is a FHIR-based, vendor-neutral innovation platform from MphRx. Built to empower both patients and enterprises, Minerva takes healthcare organizations beyond digital transformation to a new world of seamless omnichannel care. The platform is deployed in over 20 countries and manages over 460 million patient records with millions of users. Minerva has enabled large health systems to aggregate healthcare data and orchestrates workflows across complex and diverse technology environments using a unique vendor-neutral approach. The platform complies with HIPAA, GDPR, and other global data protection acts. To learn more, visit https://www.mphrx.com/ and follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook
Contact
Joel Formiga
Country ManagerAditi Gupta
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Impact Advisors Named to Black Book’s Top Revenue Cycle Management Services and Optimization Consultants List
CHICAGO (Feb. 22, 2021) — Impact Advisors, a leading healthcare consultancy providing strategy, operations, revenue cycle, and technology services, has been listed among the top Revenue Cycle Management Services and Optimization Consultants by Black Book Market Research.
Black Book Market Research LLC measures client satisfaction across 20 consultant-centric, copyrighted key performance indicators: level of advisory expertise on subject matter, innovation, training, engagement successes, expertise with governance and organizational structure, strategic engagement customizations, vendor agnostic identification and selection processes, values and integrity, objectivity in advisement, scalability, marginal value adds, client care, accountability and trust, reliability, consultant firm viability and management stability, return on investment, quality of recommendations, process improvement tools, and marketing brand image.
“This recognition validates our major investment in and ongoing commitment to providing the highest valued services to healthcare providers,” said Andy Smith, president of Impact Advisors. “The areas that we have been recognized for by Black Book continue to be top priorities for healthcare leaders and we are happy to be able to support our clients through tech-enabled solutions and solve some of the toughest challenges in the industry.”
Impact Advisors was also recognized recently as the top-rated ERP Firm and among the Top Cybersecurity Consultants by Black Book.
In 2009, Black Book began surveying the client experience of healthcare software and managed services users, as well as polling for trend identification, industry insights, and outcomes. Black Book expanded its survey prowess and reputation of independent, unbiased crowd-sourced surveying to technology professionals, physician practice administrators, clinicians, user-level staff, financial leaders, executives, and board members. Consultants and advisor satisfaction polls were first issued in 2011.
Impact Advisors combines technical and operational expertise to help clients to improve the value and effectiveness of their revenue services, including operational workflow and system enhancement. By providing a unique and tailored client-specific approach to revenue cycle management services, the firm has helped clients successfully identify and deliver the best, next-generation solutions. As a result, better outcomes are delivered for their own organizations and the patients they serve.
The complete ranking is available at https://blackbookmarketresearch.com/it consultants-and-advisors.
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 operational improvement services. Our comprehensive suite of strategic planning, 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 information technology experience. The firm has earned several prestigious industry and workplace awards including Best in KLAS® for 14 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
815-282-9976
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AVAAP TOP-RATED FOR ERP IMPLEMENTATION LEADERSHIP IN KLAS ERP IMPLEMENTATION 2021 REPORT
NEW JERSEY – February 19, 2021 – Avaap, a leading healthcare advisory and management consulting firm with experience in Infor and Workday, received the best rating for its ERP implementation leadership in the latest KLAS ERP Implementation 2021 Report. Avaap is the only ERP consulting partner ranked in all three categories within the report (ERP implementation leadership, business transformation, and ERP staffing engagements) and the only consulting partner with Infor and Workday experience in each evaluation category.
KLAS, a national healthcare IT data and insights company, evaluated healthcare implementation partners through a series of health provider client interviews to determine which firms have the required knowledge about new cloud technology and ability to guide health systems through the technical, training, and change management aspects of an implementation. The report evaluated ERP services based on complexity of engagement and executive involvement, strength of partnership, and quality of consultants. Avaap clients report strong software and cloud technology knowledge, implementation expertise, and best practices when engaging with Avaap.
“With the onset of cloud solutions in the ERP market, KLAS has seen increased purchase energy, and healthcare organizations are hungry for implementation partners who will help them to achieve outcomes.” said Kaleb Harris, Research Director at KLAS, “Health systems are trying to drive results like deeper end-user adoption and a positive ROI. Healthcare organizations want partners with a broad range of expertise.”
Avaap built its business as a healthcare-focused organization founded on the mission to deliver outcomes-based results for ERP implementation and technology services. Avaap’s 2019 acquisition of Navigator Management Partners added advisory services, including BI and change management capabilities powered by Prosci® research, data, and concepts to help organization align strategy to ERP implementation for successful transformation.
“Health systems are going through a once in twenty years modernization of their ERP systems,” said Avaap Founder and CEO Dhiraj Shah. “Unlike prior ERP upgrades that were purely technical in nature, the cloud ERP migration provides an opportunity to transform business processes, improve the employee experience, and better integrate the ERP systems with clinical applications. Cloud ERP requires a new approach to software evaluation and an implementation strategy that includes proactive change management. It is gratifying to be recognized in the KLAS report and see the validation of our ERP leadership via our customer experiences.”
For more information in the KLAS report, visit https://klasresearch.com/reports.
About Avaap
Avaap is a KLAS-recognized, industry-focused, cross-platform management and technology consulting firm specializing in Epic, Cerner, Infor, Oracle, Tableau, Workday and other applications. We offer full life cycle expertise from system selection through post-production support, including a strategic approach to change management powered by Prosci® research, data, and concepts. With offices throughout the U.S. and around the world, Avaap has deep expertise in education, government, healthcare, and manufacturing, among other industries. Organizations ranging from medium-sized businesses to large enterprises have partnered with Avaap for successful transformation. To learn more, visit www.avaap.com.
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Capsule Technologies Announces Generation 3 Vitals Plus Patient Monitor
REDESIGNED MONITOR SIMPLIFIES PATIENT VITALS ACQUISITION AND UTILIZATION
ANDOVER, MA — FEBRUARY 18, 2021 — Capsule Technologies announced today the release of the third generation Vitals Plus patient monitoring and clinical documentation solution of the company’s Medical Device Information Platform (MDIP). Vitals Plus, together with MDIP, simplifies workflows and enhances operational efficiency, supporting proactive care.
Vitals Plus generation 3 features Capsule’s Neuron 3 state-of-the-art computing hub, which includes a glossy, highly responsive, edge-to-edge touchscreen. The new monitor also features a more powerful processor and an updated operating system for faster performance, while also providing enhanced security and increased resiliency versus its predecessor.
Consistent user-focused design enhancements to the hardware and software over the years have helped Vitals Plus monitors earn consistently high System Usability Scale scores and high user ratings from nurses and other clinicians. The recent additions of capnography monitoring and the new waveform display help in managing respiratory compromised patients. Combining continuous monitoring with remote clinical surveillance or other downstream systems makes patient vitals data available for analysis and awareness of developing clinical conditions.
“The third generation Vitals Plus is the embodiment of our original vision for producing a world-class monitoring and documentation solution that fulfills the needs of clinicians, hospitals and non-critical care patients,” said Kevin Phillips, vice president of product management and marketing at Capsule Technologies. “The latest version of our trusted, integrated solution further solidifies Capsule’s commitment to simplify every aspect of the monitoring process to enhance patient safety while minimizing manual data entry so clinicians can increase time they spend on face-to-face care.”
Vitals Plus generation 3 is fully interoperable in installations currently comprised of generation 2 monitors, making the latest version ideal for expansion and/or replacement. The new Vitals Plus generation 3 will begin shipping in the U.S. in May 2021 and then in other countries worldwide as required regulatory authorizations are obtained.
About Capsule Technologies
Capsule Technologies is a leading global provider of medical data technologies for hospitals and healthcare organizations. Our Medical Device Information Platform — comprised of device integration, vital signs monitoring, and clinical surveillance solutions — captures streaming clinical data from connected systems and transforms it into context-rich information for clinical documentation, alarm management, patient surveillance, decision support, predictive analytics, clinical research and more. End-to-end data management and connectivity support better collaboration and communication between clinicians and departments. More than 2,800 global clients leverage our platform to improve patient safety, simplify workflows and raise overall satisfaction throughout the hospital and across care settings. Learn more at capsuletech.com.
Media Contact
Philip Anast
Amendola Communications for Capsule Technologies, Inc.
(312) 576-6990
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Wellsheet Featured in KLAS Spotlight Targeting Physician Burnout
100% of Respondents Would Buy Wellsheet Again for Quick Access to Relevant Electronic Health Record Data to Reduce Time in the EHR
NEWARK, NJ — February 18, 2020 —Wellsheet Inc., the company delivering predictive clinical workflows transforming the physician experience in both Epic and Cerner Electronic Health Records (EHRs), announced today that it has been featured in a KLAS Spotlight on Wellsheet Targeting Physician Burnout.
“Physician burnout is a real problem, but Wellsheet has developed a solution that integrates into the EHR to improve workflow and identify gaps in care. This report looks to validate whether Wellsheet is helping to reduce physician burnout through customized workflows and physician customization tools,” according to KLAS Research. “The focus of the EHRs for delivering quality reports and supporting billing processes resulted in high rates of physician frustration in the industry. Solutions like Wellsheet that can integrate with an EHR and provide the physicians with key patient care data to improve care delivery workflows will protect EHR investments and improve physician satisfaction,” said Mike Davis, HCIT market research and analysis expert at KLAS Research.
“At large, multi-facility health systems, Wellsheet has reduced the average time physicians spend in the EHR chart by approximately 40% which has a direct impact on physician burnout. Clinicians have given Wellsheet’s EHR-agnostic predictive clinical workflow system a Net Promoter Score (NPS) of 57, putting it on par with consumer products like Netflix and Amazon, significantly greater than clinician rankings for EHR systems,” said Craig Limoli, Wellsheet CEO and Founder.
KLAS found that Wellsheet clients enjoy high-quality support and proactive service. Wellsheet is quick to incorporate feedback and is efficient for chart review, rounding, and transitions of care. KLAS also reported that physician outcomes include:
- Increased physician satisfaction
- Better quality of care
- Decreased time spent in the chart
- Bonus functionality and positive unexpected outcomes
Quality of Care
The KLAS report also addressed team-based considerations, pointing out that, “Value-based care is synonymous with team-based care. Extending EHR workflow efficiency views and tools to nurses and therapists will drive additional value for the EHR environment. The ability to identify care gaps with various patient handoffs and communicate those effectively to the clinicians will improve the quality of care as well as the outcomes. Solutions need to support all clinicians in all care settings.”
EHR-Agnostic across the Continuum of Care
The KLAS report addresses that “in many cases, large organizations may have more than one EHR implemented for acute and ambulatory care environments. Accessing multiple EHR data streams to provide a consolidated view of a patient’s care across various modalities adds another value dimension. Wellsheet has established a big data environment to effectively process and manage this data.”
Wellsheet’s EHR-agnostic, predictive clinical workflow system pulls data from the EHR chart and prioritizes clinical content through specialized machine learning algorithms. It assembles the right information in an intuitive workflow that allows providers to quickly arrive at the right clinical insights. This layer on top of an EHR gives clinicians the ability to understand what needs to be done in real-time without compromising the provider-patient interaction.
Faster Response Times
With Wellsheet’s fully cloud-based and web-delivered architecture, new features and updates are deployed with no system downtime or analyst effort, resulting in savings in IT costs for EHR optimization efforts and maintenance moving forward.
Ease of Implementation
Wellsheet uses the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) application programming interfaces (APIs), and can pull and prioritize key patient data from multiple data sources with an accelerated implementation and deployment timeline. This is a huge plus for clinicians working across various sites of service in the same facility, or across different EHRs between facilities and different health systems. Wellsheet is a complementary and seamless part of the EHR, not an add-on that requires a separate login and password.
Research on Physician Burnout
Over 42% of physicians experience physician burnout and unhealthy levels of extreme stress. This burnout costs the healthcare industry between $2.6 billion and $6.3 billion each year. Physician burnout also impacts care quality. An AJMC study found that physician burnout was associated with twice the odds of involvement in patient safety incidents.
Learn More:
- Download the KLAS Spotlight on Wellsheet Targeting Physician Burnout
- Watch a video of the RWJBarnabas Health deployment of Wellsheet
- Schedule a demo to start reducing physician burnout in weeks
About Wellsheet
Wellsheet’s platform-agnostic, cloud-based, predictive clinical workflow platform uses the FHIR API standards to work within an existing EHR to surface the most relevant content for physicians in a view that is contextualized and prioritized for their needs. It is integrated with both Epic and Cerner to reduce a physician’s time in the EHR, lessening physician burnout and improving the quality of patient care. Wellsheet’s SaaS-based offering is deployed in large healthcare providers. Learn more at www.wellsheet.com.
Wellsheet Press Contact:
Mari Mineta Clapp
(408) 398-6433
@MariMinetaClapp
@Wellsheet_Inc
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President of Israel Reuven Rivlin visits Allscripts office in Beer Sheva
The Company hosted President Reuven Rivlin and Mayor of Beer Sheva, Mr. Ruvik Danilovich, to discuss the Allscripts dbMotion™ Solution’s role in connecting all clinical venues across Israel
CHICAGO – February 18, 2021 – Allscripts Healthcare Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq:MDRX) recently hosted Mr. Reuven Rivlin, President of Israel, and the Mayor of Beer Sheva, Mr. Ruvik Danilovich, at its office in Beer Sheva, Israel. The two, along with Allscripts leadership, discussed how Allscripts interoperability solution, dbMotion, connects all clinical venues in Israel, as well as the impact the solution has had during the pandemic. With 30 health organizations across the country connected to a nationwide network, epidemiologic research capabilities immensely improved, enabling the Ministry of Health and the hospitals to better cope with the crisis. The President visited after he spent time at the Soroka Hospital in Beer Sheva, where dbMotion was first implemented.
During the event, Nir Weiss, Allscripts Director, International Professional Services, and Gabi Joffe, Allscripts Israel Site Leader, presented the successes healthcare organizations have had with the solution in the country and the specific developments and dashboards Allscripts introduced specifically for COVID-19 tracking. Leaders in the Israel office shared their personal experiences as well, including their motivation for working in healthcare, what Allscripts has accomplished in Beer Sheva specifically, and how the company strives to be inclusive and culturally aware of all populations.
Allscripts dbMotion™ Solution has been delivering clinically relevant, meaningful interoperability for many years. With dbMotion, which enables the sharing of data across different EHR systems regardless of vendor, clinicians can engage their care teams and improve access to real-time, harmonized information from across the care continuum. Used around the world in the United States, Australia, Canada, United Kingdom and Israel, the solution leverages and shares data assets, achieving safer high-quality clinical outcomes.
Every month the following volumes are enabled:
- 14M+ unique patient transactions are received in dbMotion
- 31,000+ providers and 128,000+ users interact with dbMotion
- 2,700+ ambulatory and post-acute facilities transmit data with dbMotion
- 1,000+ hospitals transmit data with dbMotion
“The Coronavirus challenge is a big numbers challenge – a complicated challenge of estimates, forecasts, models and calculations. Cooperation and sharing of information are essential. Through joining forces, you at dbMotion provide solutions for the challenges of the data and information era we are living in. Despite your global commitments during these trying times, you have found it within yourselves to look inwards and ask what you can do for the national struggle against the Coronavirus. The fact that you are located in the Capital of the Negev is yet another expression of that Israeli spirit – a spirit harnessing professionalism and innovation for our national goals,” said President Reuven Rivlin.
“It was a true honor to welcome President Reuven Rivlin and Mayor Ruvik Danilovich to the Allscripts office in Beer Sheva,” said Paul Black, Allscripts Chief Executive Officer. “We were pleased to have the opportunity to share the work Allscripts is doing to collect, integrate and display information for tracking and learning about COVID-19. We’re proud to partner with Israel to support effective healthcare delivery to its population, especially during such an unprecedented time.”
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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Pulse8’s Qualit8 Solution receives NCQA Measure Certification ProgramTM for HEDIS® MY 2020 Season
Certification to deliver value and administrative efficiency to Pulse8 customers
ANNAPOLIS, MD – February 17, 2021 – Pulse8, a Veradigm® business, is thrilled to announce MY 2020 Measure Certification from the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) for Qualit8. This demonstrates an extension of its product portfolio by combining its proven Quality Improvement Analytics (Qualit8™) with an NCQA-Certified HEDIS® Measurement & Reporting Software and HEDIS® Submission system (Qualit8™ Platinum) that will deliver value and administrative efficiency to its health plan customers.
Pulse8’s NCQA-Certified HEDIS MY 2020 Measures will provide the following value within the Qualit8 solution:
- Process all HEDIS MY 2020 measures
- Support MRR Hybrid Measure Sample Frames
- Support Survey Sample Frames
- And much more…
“Pulse8 is committed to our priority of bringing industry-leading, transparent analytics to your plan and is excited to announce our new NCQA Certification of Qualit8,” says Co-President and Chief Product Officer, Courtney Yeakel. “Our focus continues to be on eliminating unnecessary interventions that deliver little value and waste precious time and resources, so you can focus your energy on what matters.”
You can learn more about Qualit8 Certification and Pulse8’s full suite of products at https://pulse8.com/.
NCQA is a private, non-profit organization dedicated to improving health care quality. NCQA Measure Certification ProgramTM is a trademark of the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA). HEDIS® is a registered trademark of the of the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA).
About Pulse8
Pulse8 is a Healthcare Analytics and Technology business delivering visibility into the efficacy of your Risk Adjustment, Quality, and Pharmacy Benefit Management programs. We enable health plans and providers to eliminate waste and achieve the greatest financial impact in the Medicare Advantage, Medicaid, and ACA Commercial markets as well as with Value-Based Payment models for Medicare. Our advanced analytic methodologies and flexible business intelligence tools offer real-time visibility into member behavior and provider performance. For more information or to schedule a demo, please [email protected].
About Veradigm®
Veradigm® is a business unit of Allscripts, dedicated to simplifying the complicated healthcare system with next-generation healthcare solutions. An integrated clinical technology team combining data-driven clinical insights with actionable tools to help healthcare stakeholders improve the quality, efficiency, and the value of healthcare, Veradigm is helping transform healthcare for biopharma, health plans, healthcare providers, health technology partners, and most importantly, the patients they serve. To learn more, visit www.veradigm.com.
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.
For more information contact:
John Cover
602-315-5206
Investors:
Stephen Shulstein
312-386-6735
Media:
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Posted 2.17.2021 -
Guidehouse Named Top Healthcare Revenue Cycle Management Consulting Firm by Black Book for Second Year in a Row
Only Firm to Receive Top 10% Score Across All Categories, Including Client Outcomes, Innovation, and ROI
WASHINGTON – February 11, 2021 – Guidehouse, a leading global provider of consulting services to the public and commercial markets, has been named the top healthcare consulting firm in the 2021 Black Book™ Top Client-Rated Revenue Cycle Management Consultants & Advisors Report. This is the second consecutive year Guidehouse has received this recognition.
In the report, Guidehouse earned a score of 9.63 of 10 and was the only firm that received a top 10% score across all 18 categories for revenue cycle management consulting. The results are based on feedback from approximately 2,000 hospital, health system, and physician executives.
“We are proud of our ability to help healthcare providers drive transformative financial improvements, especially amid the revenue pressures brought on by the pandemic and the ongoing challenges health systems face in growing their top lines,” said Timothy Kinney, Guidehouse partner. “Being recognized for this work is a humbling validation of our broad platform of solutions and expertise in helping our clients navigate the evolving healthcare environment and address their most pressing revenue needs.”
Guidehouse was the only firm to achieve number 1 rankings across 10 of 18 criteria areas, including:
- Overall client outcomes and improvements
- Innovations in consultative approaches and best-of-breed tech
- Return on investment
- Financial viability and management stability
- Speed and efficiency
Guidehouse’s revenue cycle experts include former provider C-suite executives with decades of experience who work alongside payer, pharma/life sciences, and public sector team members. Their breadth of insights and experience inform revenue cycle enhancement initiatives that improve the care experience for providers and their patients.
Guidehouse also offers global, end-to-end, outsourced revenue cycle management solutions with around-the-clock support. This customized approach integrates revenue cycle expertise and best-practice processes with proprietary technology to streamline operations and help organizations achieve the full potential of the entire revenue cycle.
The Guidehouse Health team has consistently achieved national recognition for its strategic, financial improvement, outsourcing, and value-based care consulting services, including most recently being named Best in KLAS for Strategy, Growth, and Consolidation Consulting in the 2021 Best in KLAS: Software & Services report.
The Guidehouse Health segment helps hospitals and health systems, government agencies, life sciences companies, employers, and payers strategically redesign, revitalize, and transform care delivery and operations. Visit the Guidehouse Center for Health Insights for the latest health research, trends, and best practices.
About Black Book ™
Black Book Research & Rankings, a division of Black Book Market Research LLC, provides healthcare IT users, media, investors, analysts, quality minded vendors, and prospective software system buyers, pharmaceutical manufacturers, and other interested sectors of the clinical technology industry with comprehensive comparison data of the industry’s top respected and competitively performing technology vendors and consultants. The largest user opinion poll of its kind in healthcare IT, Black Book™ collects over 800,000 viewpoints on software vendor, consultants, capital equipment, and outsourced services vendor performance annually. Black Book was founded in 2003, is internationally recognized for over 18 years of customer satisfaction polling, particularly in technology, services, outsourcing sectors within the healthcare, cybersecurity and higher education industries.About Guidehouse
Guidehouse is a leading global provider of consulting services to the public and commercial markets, with broad capabilities in management, technology, and risk consulting. We help clients address their toughest challenges and navigate significant regulatory pressures with a focus on transformational change, business resiliency, and technology-driven innovation. Across a range of advisory, consulting, outsourcing, and digital services, we create scalable, innovative solutions that prepare our clients for future growth and success. Headquartered in McLean, Va., the company has more than 8,000 professionals in over 50 locations globally. Guidehouse is a Veritas Capital portfolio company, led by seasoned professionals with proven and diverse expertise in traditional and emerging technologies, markets, and agenda-setting issues driving national and global economies. For more information, please visit www.guidehouse.com.https://guidehouse.com/news/healthcare/2021/black-book-award
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Emanate Health contact tracing dashboard helps track COVID-19 patients to prevent staff exposure using Expanse
February 9, 2021 – Emanate Health (Covina, CA) recently partnered with MEDITECH Professional Services to develop disease investigation and contact tracing dashboards in their MEDITECH Expanse Electronic Health Record (EHR).
Emanate Health (Covina, CA) recently partnered with MEDITECH Professional Services to develop disease investigation and contact tracing dashboards in their MEDITECH Expanse Electronic Health Record (EHR). The project, which identifies patients and staff at high risk for COVID-19 due to inpatient exposure, showed immediate results after just a three-month development and implementation.
“There is plenty of evidence to show that one of the keys to slowing down the spread of coronavirus is contact tracing and identifying people who may have been exposed to an infected person,” said Loucine Kasparian, Infectious Disease Director, Emanate Health. “As a result, Emanate Health implemented plans to safely identify staff who have come into contact with a patient who has tested positive for the virus. The data helps clinical operations know where transmissions are happening within our three hospitals. This unique contact tracing program was specifically developed for our EHR and how we work here at Emanate Health, helping us achieve some promising outcomes.”
This fall, Emanate Health identified the need for internal contact tracing and reached out to MEDITECH’s Professional Services team for support. They pulled a wide range of information including lists of cohorts during the hospital stay, staff that cared for the COVID-19 positive patient, staff who worked in the high-risk areas, and staff-to-staff contacts.
“The team leveraged the flexibility of the Expanse Business and Clinical Analytics solution to collect this information and establish the new dashboards,” said MEDITECH Executive Vice President Hoda Sayed-Friel.
Previously, the hospital’s infection control team had to spend time manually checking work logs and meeting with employees to identify possible exposures. The dashboards replaced these time-consuming and unreliable processes with just a one-button click to secure information from the internal system as well as outside data sources.
The dashboards are also integrated with Emanate Health’s HIPAA audit log (which tracks staff interaction with patients) as well as with their time card vendor, which monitors time cards indicating when an employee was working at the same time patients or staff were infected. This integration enables Emanate Health to identify a more accurate timeline for the person’s infection and contact to others — resulting in more efficient, accurate, and comprehensive tracking.
“This is the most recent example of how we have been able to leverage our EHR technology to address the challenges of COVID-19,” said Dan Nash, CIO, Emanate Health. “We have also used Expanse to track patients, monitor supplies, manage beds and ventilators, and create new screening protocols for the UK strain. As a result, we are reducing virus exposure and increasing our efficiency, as well as evolving to meet each new obstacle.”
This groundbreaking initiative has had an immediate impact on the organization. Since its launch, the dashboard has enabled Emanate Health to contact trace potential exposure cases, initiate preventative measures, and reduce subsequent exposures to patients and staff.
“We are pleased to support our customers in meeting the unique and evolving challenges of COVID-19,” said Sayed-Friel. “This project is a meaningful example of how your EHR can be used as a base to build powerful analytical tools tailored to an organization’s specific needs. Emanate Health’s efforts will have a direct impact on the wellbeing of their patients, staff, and community.”
Emanate Health employs more than 3,000 employees and nearly 1,000 physicians across their 16 locations — including three acute care hospitals, clinics, and physician offices. The three hospital campuses (totaling 600+ beds) include Emanate Health Inter-Community and Emanate Health Queen of the Valley in West Covina, and Emanate Health Foothill Presbyterian in Glendora.
Contacts
Robin Montville
Public Relations and Media Relations Manager
MEDITECH
781-774-3370
Posted 2.11.2021 -
The HCI Group Achieves MEDITECH UK READY Certification
London, UK – 11 February 2021 – The HCI Group is honoured to be recognised as the first MEDITECH UK READY Certified Consulting Firm. MEDITECH’s READY implementation methodology emphasises detailed project management and integrated best practice workflows while providing a cohesive, integrated, team oriented approach, targeted toward predictable outcomes in the areas of improved efficiency, improved patient care outcomes, user proficiency with the system, full user adoption and satisfaction. Certified MEDITECH UK READY Consultants utilise their industry knowledge to compliment the implementation methodology and efforts.
“We are pleased to now have a certified partner that can work with both our UK and Irish customers to provide support services in these markets. The exciting Web based Expanse platform from MEDITECH will revolutionise the way clinical staff work and having a trained and certified partner will assist us in the deployment thereof and be key to success” says Charlotte Jackson, CEO of MEDITECH UK.
The HCI Group is pleased and excited about our relationship with MEDITECH UK, and our ongoing commitment to work together in providing the best results for our collective clients. “We are extremely excited and fortunate having achieved the MEDITECH UK READY Implementation Certification,” says Kevin McConnell, PharmD, PhD., Senior Vice President of MEDITECH Service Line for The HCI Group. “This certification confirms and solidifies our commitment to MEDITECH UK and to our International Clients.”
About The HCI Group
The HCI Group is a global leader in healthcare digital transformation. We are committed to improving healthcare globally through a combination of disruptive innovation, design thinking and cost optimisation. Headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, with international headquarters in the United Kingdom, HCI offers a broad scope of digital transformation solutions in nearly 20 countries in North America, Europe, Middle East and Asia Pacific. https://www.thehcigroup.com/
About MEDITECH
An EPR leader for over 50 years, MEDITECH has driven innovation during every stage of the industry’s evolution. Today we’re helping healthcare organisations around the world expand their vision for what an EPR can be, with MEDITECH Expanse — the first fully web-based EPR to boost clinical and organisational efficiency while enhancing physician, nurse, and patient satisfaction. MEDITECH software is used extensively throughout the UK and Ireland in both the private and public sector. Many of our NHS customers are recognised at some of the most digitally mature hospitals in the UK. With Sunderland Royal Hospital achieving HIMSS 7 and Alder Hey Children’s Trust achieving HIMSS 6. Internationally MEDITECH has customers in 23 countries. We help power the best care possible in every setting, from acute hospitals and outpatient clinics, to general practitioner, primary care, community, home health and social care environments. Visit ehr.meditech.com and find us on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn.
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Posted 2.11.2021 -
Varun Anand Earns CHIME’s Healthcare Hero Designation
ANN ARBOR, MI, February 9, 2021 – The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) has named Varun Anand, Co-founder, and Chief Operating Officer, MphRx, a CHIME Healthcare Hero for outstanding service during the COVID-19 pandemic. The honor is given to a CHIME member or a CHIME Foundation firm, based on a nomination from a peer.
We have seen extraordinary innovation and dedication from our CHIME members and CHIME Foundation partners during this difficult time,” said Russell Branzell, president and CEO of CHIME. “Under their leadership, projects that previously would take months were done in weeks or even days. The digital healthcare solutions they have designed are transforming health and care in their communities and across the healthcare ecosystem.”
Varun is a health-tech entrepreneur with proven experience in building and managing technology teams for fast and agile development projects. His dynamic leadership and technical acumen have helped grow MphRx from a promising start-up to a global partner of choice for major healthcare organizations.
“The Covid-19 has created unprecedented health challenges, especially for the most vulnerable among us. Varun has been working diligently behind the scenes to find new and better ways of using technology, thereby helping providers in their mission to flatten the curve and to attend to those who need utmost care. This award is a testament to his hard work and commitment,” said Mahesh Uberoi, President and CEO of MphRx.
CHIME is an executive organization that serves more than 5,000 digital healthcare leaders in 56 countries. CHIME provides education, career development, and networking opportunities through in-person events, a digital healthcare learning platform, certification programs, and more. The CHIME Foundation is a nonprofit organization that allows healthcare IT companies, service providers, and consultants to network, learn from top healthcare IT leaders, and financially support CHIME’s benefits and services to its members.
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.
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[email protected]About MphRx
MphRx is an innovation partner for organizations pioneering the next generation of healthcare. Its platform provides best-in-class interoperability, engagement, and automation solutions that open a new world of virtual care. The company is a rapidly growing healthcare technology organization headquartered in New York City, with offices in Australia, UK, India, Singapore, and Brazil. MphRx is an ISO 13485, ISO 27001 certified organization. This year, Frost and Sullivan awarded a 2020 Global Digital Transformation Platform Enabling Technology Leadership Award to MphRx. Visit https://www.mphrx.com/
About Minerva
Minerva is a FHIR-based, vendor-neutral innovation platform from MphRx. Built to empower both patients and enterprises, Minerva takes healthcare organizations beyond digital transformation to a new world of seamless omnichannel care. The platform is deployed in over 20 countries and manages over 460 million patient records with millions of users. Minerva has enabled large health systems to aggregate healthcare data and orchestrates workflows across complex and diverse technology environments using a unique vendor-neutral approach. The platform complies with HIPAA, GDPR, and other global data protection acts. To learn more, visit https://www.mphrx.com/ and follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook
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[email protected]Posted 2.10.2021 -
Quil Expands Leadership Team, Hires VPS Of Client Delivery And Sales To Accelerate Growth
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Quil, the digital health company helping people navigate health and care, is pleased to announce two vice president hires who will drive strategic growth initiatives across client delivery and sales. Each of these leaders bring robust healthcare expertise from their work in both the payor and provider markets.
“Aligning on vision and mission is vital to who we are and what we do at Quil,” said Carina Edwards, CEO. “We are confident 2021 will be a monumental year as we continue to deliver value to our clients. Big goals call for a focused, skillful, and passionate team, so we are thrilled to welcome these new leaders. We look forward to learning from their collective experience as we scale and deliver great health outcomes for consumers.”
Meet the newest members of our leadership team, Kim McEwen and Ashley Stevens:
Kim McEwen, VP of Client Delivery
Kim joins Quil as the VP of Client Engagement & Delivery. In this role, Kim is responsible for ensuring that the retention and expansion initiatives for our health plan partnerships directly align with our growth strategy. Prior to Quil, Kim was VP of Strategic Program Services at Livongo where she led a team responsible for implementing health plans, PBM’s, and government business. With over 20 years of health plan and client experience, Kim has played a critical role in growing revenue and leading client facing teams. Kim has a Master’s in Counseling Psychology from Immaculata College and a BA in Sociology from Franklin & Marshall College. Kim is a member of Chief, an organization for female executives.
Ashley Stevens, VP of Provider Sales
Ashley joins Quil as the VP of Provider Sales. In this role, Ashley is responsible for Quil’s provider sales and commercialization strategy. Prior to Quil, Ashley excelled as a sales leader at Imprivata, Net Health, and Greenway Health. Ashley brings a relentless curiosity to her sales approach and is a strong advocate of the customer first mindset. She has demonstrated success in sales, strategy, and growth initiatives for companies that are establishing new markets and introducing new products. Ashley is currently pursuing her MBA at Franklin University, studied Sustainable Business and Disruptive Strategy at Harvard Business School, and is a Civil Engineering graduate from College of the Air Force. Ashley is a member of several organizations including WITI (Women in Technology International) and WomSA (Women’s Security Alliance).
Posted 2.8.2021