• 8 Healthcare Organizations Join Forces to Launch Info Blocking Resource Center

    ANN ARBOR, MI, Feb. 5, 2021 – With the deadline for complying with federal information blocking regulations quickly approaching, physicians and other healthcare providers are getting assistance from eight leading healthcare organizations. Starting today, the Information Blocking Resource Center will be live and will highlight tools and resources to educate and help prepare healthcare professionals for the April 5 information blocking applicability date.
     
    The American College of Physicians (ACP), American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA), American Medical Association (AMA), American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), American Psychiatric Association (APA), College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME), Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) and Premier Inc. have pooled resources and provided a centralized location for healthcare professionals to access the information necessary to understand and comply with these challenging 21st Century Cures Act requirements.
     
    Powered by CHIME Public Policy with search and sorting functions, the Information Blocking Resource Center offers links to regulatory overviews, documents, articles, cheat sheets, guides, webinars and other documents submitted by the eight organizations. The center will also feature resources released by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC). Materials are organized under nine categories:
     
    • Information blocking actors
    • Information blocking compliance
    • Information blocking and COVID-19
    • Information blocking and mental health/substance abuse
    • Information blocking education
    • Information blocking exceptions
    • Information blocking overview
    • Federal resources
    • Patient resources  
     
    The Information Blocking Resource Center is free and open to the public. To access the center, go here.
     
     
    The American College of Physicians (ACP) is the largest medical specialty organization in the United States with members in more than 145 countries worldwide. ACP membership includes 163,000 internal medicine physicians (internists), related subspecialists, and medical students. Internal medicine physicians are specialists who apply scientific knowledge and clinical expertise to the diagnosis, treatment, and compassionate care of adults across the spectrum from health to complex illness. Follow ACP on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
     
    About the American Health Information Management Association
     
    The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) is a global nonprofit association of health information (HI) professionals. AHIMA represents professionals who work with health data for more than one billion patient visits each year. AHIMA’s mission of empowering people to impact health drives our members and credentialed HI professionals to ensure that health information is accurate, complete, and available to patients and providers. Our leaders work at the intersection of healthcare, technology, and business, and are found in data integrity and information privacy job functions worldwide.
     
    About the American Medical Association
     
    The American Medical Association (AMA) is the physicians’ powerful ally in patient care. As the only medical association that convenes 190+ state and specialty medical societies and other critical stakeholders, the AMA represents physicians with a unified voice to all key players in health care. The AMA leverages its strength by removing the obstacles that interfere with patient care, leading the charge to prevent chronic disease and confront public health crises and driving the future of medicine to tackle the biggest challenges in health care.
     
    About the American Medical Informatics Association
     
    The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) is the professional home for more than 5,500 informatics professionals, representing frontline clinicians, researchers, and public health experts who bring meaning to data, manage information, and generate new knowledge across the health and healthcare enterprise. As the voice of the nation’s biomedical and health informatics professionals, AMIA plays a leading role in advancing health and wellness by moving basic research findings from bench to bedside, and evaluating interventions, innovations and public policy across settings and patient populations.
     
    About the American Psychiatric Association
     
    The American Psychiatric Association (APA), founded in 1844, is the oldest medical association in the country. The APA is also the largest psychiatric association in the world with more than 38,800 physician members specializing in the diagnosis, treatment, prevention and research of mental illnesses. APA’s vision is to ensure access to quality psychiatric diagnosis and treatment. For more information, please visit www.psychiatry.org.
     
    About the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives
     
    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) and other senior healthcare IT leaders. With over 5,000 members, CHIME provides a highly interactive, trusted environment enabling senior professional and industry leaders to collaborate; exchange best practices; address professional development needs; and advocate for the effective use of information management to improve the health and healthcare in the communities they serve.
     
    About the Medical Group Management Association
     
    Founded in 1926, the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) is the nation’s largest association focused on the business of medical practice management. MGMA consists of 15,000 group medical practices ranging from small private medical practices to large national health systems representing more than 350,000 physicians. MGMA helps nearly 60,000 medical practice leaders and the healthcare community solve the business challenges of running practices so that they can focus on providing outstanding patient care. To learn more, go to mgma.com or follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.
     
    About Premier Inc.
     
    Premier Inc. is a leading healthcare improvement company, uniting an alliance of more than 4,100 U.S. hospitals and health systems and approximately 200,000 other providers and organizations to transform healthcare. With integrated data and analytics, collaboratives, supply chain solutions, and consulting and other services, Premier enables better care and outcomes at a lower cost. Premier plays a critical role in the rapidly evolving healthcare industry, collaborating with members to co-develop long-term innovations that reinvent and improve the way care is delivered to patients nationwide. Premier is passionate about transforming American healthcare. Please visit Premier’s news site on www.premierinc.com; as well as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, Instagram and Premier’s blog for more information about the company.
     
    Contact
    Candace Stuart
    Director of Communications and Public Relations, CHIME
    734.665.0000
    Posted 2.5.2021

  • MEDITECH awarded Best in KLAS in 3 key categories

    KLAS ranked Expanse #1 in Acute Care EMR, Patient Accounting & Patient Management, and Home Health EHR

    February 2, 2021 MEDITECH is pleased to announce that Expanse, the company’s mobile, web-based electronic health record (EHR) was ranked #1 in three key categories in the 2021 Best in KLAS: Software & Services report. MEDITECH was the top performer in Acute Care EMR (Community Hospital), Patient Accounting & Patient Management (Community Hospital), and Home Health EHR (small 1-200 average daily census). The company will accept these awards at the Virtual Best in KLAS Awards Reception on February 23.

    “The Best in KLAS report and the awards it contains set the standard of excellence for software and services firms. Vendors who win the title of “Best in KLAS” should celebrate and remember that providers now accept only the best from their products and services,” stated KLAS President Adam Gale. “The Best in KLAS award serves as a signal to provider and payer organizations that they should expect excellence from the winning vendors.”

    This is the seventh consecutive year MEDITECH has been recognized by the global healthcare research firm, as well as the second year in a row that MEDITECH Expanse earned top honors for both the Acute Care EMR (Community Hospital) and Patient Accounting and Patient Management (Community Hospital).

    MEDITECH’s Ambulatory solution was recognized as a top performer for Ambulatory EHR (Over 75 physicians). In addition, MEDITECH was a top performer for Acute Care EMR (Large Hospital/IDN).

    Customer testimonials in the KLAS report highlight the impact of MEDITECH’s modern, web-based user interface and workflow benefits. One CMIO commented, “The (Expanse) platform is very slick and smooth. I could be shuffling from the ambulatory setting to the acute setting to the ED setting very easily, provided I had user privileges in all of those settings. The transition is basically seamless from one setting to another. The chart organization is identical. No matter what setting I am in, I don’t have to learn a completely different set of workflows. The workflows are very similar in all areas of the product.” (January 2021)

    The financial system also received praise, with one manager stating, “Expanse Patient Accounting is a stable financial system. It ties in very nicely with the EMR. The EMR and this system work very well together which is a huge reason we chose MEDITECH.” (August 2020)

    Finally, a CIO reflected on the importance of partnership throughout the pandemic, when vendor support and fast-moving adoption of innovative technologies are needed now more than ever: “MEDITECH has stepped up during the COVID-19 crisis. It has been an intense time, and MEDITECH has been an outstanding partner.” (January 2021)

    MEDITECH Executive Vice President Helen Waters emphasized the importance of EHR vendors responding to customers’ changing technology needs, especially now. “MEDITECH has remained committed to providing our customers with the advanced technologies they need to support their communities during the COVID-19 crisis, from complimentary six-month use of our Virtual Visits to our Quick Vaccination solution,” she said.

    “The Best in KLAS distinction reflects MEDITECH’s ongoing commitment to this partnership and an acknowledgment that our vision for Expanse — to help customers achieve true integration and positive outcomes across the care continuum — has been realized. We see the EHR market as hungry for change and evolution, and desiring modern foundational platforms, an intuitive user interface, and a sophisticated toolset to drive quality outcomes and maintain fiscal success. The Expanse solution encapsulates all of that.”

    Learn more about how MEDITECH Expanse can elevate the care experience for providers and patients.

    Contacts

    Robin Montville

    Public Relations and Media Relations Manager

    MEDITECH

    781-774-3370

    [email protected]

    Posted 2.4.2021

  • Guidehouse Wins Best in KLAS for Strategy, Growth, and Consolidation for Second Consecutive Year

    Achieves High Rankings in Financial Improvement Consulting and Outsourced Coding

    WASHINGTON – February 2, 2021 – Guidehouse, a leading global provider of consulting services to the public and commercial markets, has been ranked Best in KLAS for Strategy, Growth, and Consolidation Consulting by KLAS, an industry-trusted research and insights firm, for the second consecutive year.

    In the 2021 Best in KLAS: Software & Services report, KLAS ranked healthcare vendors and their services based on performance data and client satisfaction ratings. In addition to its Best in KLAS designation, Guidehouse achieved high rankings in Financial Improvement Consulting and in Outsourced Coding, the first time the firm was eligible in this category.

    “Our ongoing Best in KLAS recognition is a testament to the full Guidehouse Health platform, which integrates strategy and operational expertise with deep public and private relationships across the industry,” said Alicia Harkness, Guidehouse partner and Health segment leader. “With the global pandemic and associated economic downturn, 2020 was a time when healthcare organizations needed us most. Given the ongoing revenue pressures that health systems are expected to experience in coming years, we are proud of our ability to deliver results that help our clients achieve their growth goals and successfully serve the communities that need them.”

    The Guidehouse Health segment is comprised of provider, payer, pharma/life sciences, and public sector team members, including public health administrators, clinicians, scientists, and other experts with decades of experience.

    Over the years, the Guidehouse team has received Best in KLAS awards across multiple areas, including Strategy, Growth, and Consolidation Consulting (2020), Value-Based Care Consulting (2020), Revenue Cycle Optimization (2019), and Revenue Cycle Outsourcing (2019, 2018, and 2017). Winning Best in KLAS across this range of categories is a result of Guidehouse’s ability to drive transformative change alongside clients, based on the depth of its strategy, operational, and clinical expertise.

    Guidehouse’s 2021 Best in KLAS Recognition

    The Strategy, Growth, and Consolidation category includes consulting engagements that aid in the development of organic and acquisition-related growth strategies, as well as enhanced integration between providers and payers.

    According to KLAS’s website for this category, a health system CEO stated, “Guidehouse actually exceeded our expectations. They were very instrumental in the process. We ended up with a result that would have been unthinkable before. Another reason why they exceeded our expectations is the final asset purchase agreement. That far exceeded any of our wildest expectations in terms of what we would be able to achieve.”

    The Financial Improvement category includes consulting engagements and large-scale projects focused on reducing cost, increasing net revenue, strategic investing, and improving efficiency.

    “I would absolutely buy the vendor’s services again,” noted a CEO on the KLAS Financial Improvement segment website. “We just keep going back to the vendor. I don’t want to sound like an infomercial, but the vendor has overdelivered on every project they have worked on. We can easily go back to them and show them the next thing we are looking at because they know us extremely well. We can create change at a fast pace with the vendor.”

    Additionally, the Outsourced Coding category includes medical coding services to healthcare facilities and systems, which is a key foundational component of revenue cycle management. On KLAS’s Outsourced Coding segment website, a Guidehouse client stated, “Our contract with Guidehouse covers a lot. It includes education and additional projects, so they don’t charge us extra for those. Instead of a contract, where the vendor would just work for us, we have a support system where we support them and they support us. It is a different relationship than I have had with vendors in the past. Guidehouse is really great.”

    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 KLAS

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

    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.

     

     

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    SARAH BINDER

    Manager, Health Marketing
    704-502-9974 Mobile | [email protected]
    guidehouse.com
    Connect with me on LinkedIn

     

    Posted 2.3.2021

  • The Third Annual Enterprise Cloud Index: Healthcare Industry Findings

    Healthcare IT is accelerating hybrid cloud adoption and creating new roles in reaction to a tumultuous 2020

    Global conditions have driven healthcare IT (HIT) through a period of profound and rapid transformation. This year’s Enterprise Cloud Index: Healthcare Industry Findings garners insights from HIT decision-makers from around the world to give you an expansive view into how these forces are affecting their strategic priorities. The index reveals how these macroconditions are affecting the current and future state of cloud adoption, including invaluable data on how HIT is responding to the new challenges and priorities. The ECI also captures where HIT organizations are deploying clinical, business, and financial apps today, and where they expect to deploy them in the future. 

    Download the report to learn: 

    • The new role that HIT occupies due to changes wrought by the pandemic
    • How COVID-19 is changing current and future HIT infrastructure decisions
    • The strategic priorities that are driving change in HIT—spoiler alert: it’s not cutting costs.
    • The steps that healthcare organizations are taking in their journeys towards hybrid cloud 
    • How adopting hybrid cloud in the face of COVID-19 is translating to a range of new business processes and practices
    • And much more!

    The Third Annual Enterprise Cloud Index: Healthcare Industry Findings (nutanix.com)

    Posted 2.3.2021

  • Capsule CEO Hemant Goel Earns CHIME’s Healthcare Hero Distinction

    VETERAN HEALTHCARE TECHNOLOGY LEADER CITED FOR OUTSTANDING SERVICE DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

    ANDOVER, MA — FEBRUARY 2, 2021 — Capsule Technologies announced today that The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) has named Capsule CEO Hemant Goel a CHIME Healthcare Hero for outstanding service during the COVID-19 pandemic. The honor is given to a member of CHIME or a CHIME Foundation firm, based on a nomination from a peer.

    Capsule’s leadership was essential in guiding the development of Capsule’s Ventilated Patient Surveillance (VPS) workstation, which assists frontline providers in identifying patients in severe respiratory distress. By extending the reach of intensive care unit staff over the full range of critical care patients, the VPS workstation increases the likelihood of patient survival and reduces the burden on already stressed care providers.

    A seasoned business executive with over 30 years of global experience and proven success in healthcare information technology, Goel assumed the role of chief executive at Capsule in early 2019. Under his leadership, Capsule successfully grew its medical device integration, monitoring and surveillance businesses across numerous hospitals and healthcare organizations, culminating in Philips’ recently announced $635 million agreement to acquire Capsule.

    “I would like to thank CHIME for this honor, and I accept the award on behalf of our entire Capsule team, which has worked diligently to help hospitals and clinicians in the fight against COVID-19,” Goel said. “The pandemic has exerted extraordinary pressure on the global health system. Leading technology organizations such as Capsule responded to the crisis by establishing new, innovative approaches and advancing insight-driven, proactive care. Our Capsule VPS workstation came to fruition quickly through our work with Yale New Haven Health, the University of Miami Health System, Massachusetts General Hospital and other leading healthcare providers. I also would like to commend my industry peers for their remarkable accomplishments in responding to this most acute global public health emergency.”

    “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.”

    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 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 supports 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 www.capsuletech.com.

    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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    MEDIA CONTACT

    Philip Anast
    Amendola Communications for Capsule Technologies, Inc.
    (312) 576-6990
    [email protected]

    Posted 2.3.2021

  • Medigate Named Healthcare IoT Security Leader in 2021 Best in KLAS: Software & Services Report

    Firm’s dedication to solving healthcare’s unique network challenges and focus on high customer satisfaction positions Medigate as the market forerunner

    February 02, 2021 08:01 AM Eastern Standard Time NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Medigate, a healthcare dedicated device security and asset management company, today announced it was selected as the 2021 Best in KLAS for Healthcare IoT Security in the KLAS Software & Services Report. Medigate was rated as the top performing provider for its healthcare technology focus, responsiveness and close relationships with customers.

    The yearly KLAS report evaluates the overall performance of each product and service then grades the customer’s experience across the following pillars: culture, loyalty, operations, product, relationship and value. Medigate earned the title of Best in KLAS for its outstanding efforts to help healthcare organizations in their quest to deliver quality patient care. The Best in KLAS designation is awarded to only one vendor per category.

    Adam Gale, President of KLAS shares, “Each year, thousands of healthcare professionals across the globe take the time to share their voice with KLAS. They know that sharing their perspective helps vendors to improve and helps their peers make better decisions. These conversations are a constant reminder to me of how necessary accurate, honest, and impartial reporting is in the healthcare industry. The Best in KLAS report and the awards it contains set the standard of excellence for software and services firms. Vendors who win the title of “Best in KLAS” should celebrate and remember that providers now accept only the best from their products and services. The Best in KLAS award serves as a signal to provider and payer organizations that they should expect excellence from the winning vendors.”

    Medigate’s deep understanding of medical workflows and communication protocols unique to healthcare IoT provides the clinical security context that healthcare cybersecurity specialists need to effectively reduce the attack surface. Medigate’s solution stands out due its unique levels of visibility and insight, enabling automatic discovery of all connected devices on clinical networks to detect credible threats in real-time, prevent attacks and enforce clinically driven policies to protect patient safety and privacy. The platform’s unique identification capabilities extend its value beyond security to provide the entire organization with the data it needs to improve patient care, reduce costs and increase efficiency.

    According to a healthcare organization that spoke with KLAS analysts for the report, “Once we saw what Medigate can do with their follow-ups, tech support and general involvement, we couldn’t choose anyone else. With the way the product is organized and the way the vendor runs things, they are right on top of everything.… Whatever the vendor is doing with their business plan is incredibly effective. The business model that the vendor has is really good.”

    Medigate CEO, Jonathan Langer said, “As this recognition is based directly on insights from healthcare professionals, it is a testament to how Medigate is achieving its mission of assisting healthcare organizations in making better security and asset management decisions to reduce risks and achieve better patient outcomes. We remain committed to advancing our platform by partnering with the industry to make sure it meets their current and future needs.”

    About KLAS

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

    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

    Kathryn Ghita
    LEWIS
    781-418-2421
    [email protected]

    Posted 2.2.2021

  • Impact Advisors Named Best in KLAS No. 1 Security and Privacy Consulting Services

    Firm receives distinctions for 14 consecutive years

    CHICAGO (Feb. 2, 2021) — Impact Advisors, a leading healthcare consultancy providing strategy, operations, revenue cycle and technology services, has been named No.1 Best in KLAS for Security and Privacy Consulting Services in the 2021 Best in KLAS: Software and Services Report with a score of 99.1. This recognition makes it the 14th consecutive year the firm has been recognized by KLAS with awards in a variety of services.

    “Our primary mission is to empower our clients by providing a broad range of services and solutions and delivering value, innovation and improved performance,” said Pete Smith, CEO and co-founder of Impact Advisors. “We are truly grateful for the ongoing support of our clients and this recognition validates that we continue to exceed their expectations.”

    Each year KLAS publishes the Best in KLAS report, ranking vendors across the many technology and services markets within healthcare. This report amplifies the voice of the provider and payer communities whose willingness to share their feedback with KLAS.

    Being a ‘Best in KLAS’ vendor means that provider organizations have found that vendor to be the leader in their market segment. Healthcare providers hold Best in KLAS vendors to the highest level of excellence.

    “Each year thousands of healthcare professionals across the globe take time to share their voice with KLAS,” said Adam Gale, president of KLAS. “They know that sharing their perspective helps vendor to improve and helps their peers make better decisions. These conversations are a constant reminder to me of how necessary accurate, honest, and impartial reporting is in the healthcare industry. The Best in KLAS report and the awards it contains sets the standard of excellence for software and services firms. Vendors who win the title of ‘Best in KLAS’ should celebrate and remember that providers now accept only the best from their products and services.”

    The Best in KLAS Security and Privacy Consulting Services designation is reserved for consultants

    that help organizations assess, enhance, and develop security & privacy programs through technical or advisory work, which should result in a more secure and private environment. (i.e. security risk assessment, HIPAA privacy assessment, virtual/interim CISO, and penetration, vulnerability, network web application, security testing).

    “Security and privacy continue to be a top priority for our clients, and we are proud to be able to provide proactive and actionable solutions to help our clients protect their organizations from potential cyberattacks and ensure their patients privacy is secure,” said Andy Smith, president and co-founder of Impact Advisors. “This ranking supports our mission of creating a positive impact by focusing on advancing our clients’ own mission to provide safe, high quality, care more effectively and efficiently.”

    Impact Advisors will attend the virtual Best in KLAS Awards Ceremony on February 21.

    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 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.

    About KLAS Research

    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 about KLAS at klasresearch.com

     

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    Posted 2.2.2021

  • Allscripts and US Orthopedic Alliance Expand Strategic Partnership, Ushering in ‘The Gold Standard’ For Orthopedic Technology Platforms

    CHICAGO – Jan. 26, 2021 – Allscripts Healthcare Solutions (NASDAQ: MDRX) today announced a strategic technology partnership with US Orthopedic Alliance (USOA), an orthopedic management services provider based in Southern California, to support USOA’s growth and pursue additional relationships with leading orthopedic providers nationwide. The partnership will bring to market best-of-breed infrastructure designed to help orthopedic practices scale with agility, improve EHR implementation timelines, provide evidence-based guidelines to support evolving clinical protocols, and create community-wide connectivity with value–based care analytics. 

    The selection of USOA’s proprietary, data-driven platform is the result of an expansive vetting process of orthopedic management services providers by the Allscripts team. 
     
    “Combining the extensive industry expertise of USOA with Allscripts’ vast technology expertise and broad use in the independent physician space creates a compelling platform for orthopedic practitioners that want to access health information technology solutions only the largest health systems could afford,” said Leah Jones, SVP and general manager of Allscripts’ ambulatory business unit. “We couldn’t be more excited to work with the USOA team in building an exceptional, accessible, and scalable orthopedic services technology platform.” 
     
    USOA currently provides industry-leading management services to a network of more than 100 orthopedic surgeons, 12 ambulatory surgery centers and one specialty hospital. Physician members benefit from USOA’s superior business intelligence solutions, including revenue cycle management, contracting, risk management, and value-based care services such as infrastructure, technology, and data analytics. 
     
    “USOA has rapidly grown its market position by providing orthopedic practices with specialty–specific services to manage and grow their practice while enhancing the patient experience,” said Rick Salas, chief executive officer of USOA. “Our network has been asking about USOA’s ability to deliver an open, unifying and enabling technology platform to support independent orthopedic practices. The USOA/Allscripts deployment is an ideal fit for our network to support and empower their growth.” 
     
    John Kang, chief strategy officer of USOA, added, “Together, Allscripts and USOA are committed to supporting physicians to build profitable, patient-centric practices. We look forward to working closely with Allscripts’ team and its high-performing ambulatory business unit.”  

    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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    © 2021 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 

    stephen.shulstein@allscripts.com

    Media:  

    Concetta Rasiarmos 

    312-447-2466 

    [email protected] 

    Posted 2.1.2021
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