• Healthgrades Announces Appointment of Jovan Willford as Chief Executive Officer to Lead New Phase of Growth

    Denver, Colo. – (March 30, 2021) – Healthgrades today announced the appointment of Jovan Willford as its Chief Executive Officer and a member of its Board of Directors, effective immediately. Mr. Willford brings more than 20 years’ experience in healthcare technology and advanced analytics as a dynamic leader known for growth, transformation and strong operational focus. Rob Draughon, who has served as Healthgrades CEO since 2018 and its President and/or CFO since 2012, will assume the role of CEO of Healthgrades Marketplace division, reporting directly to Mr. Willford.

    “The addition of Jovan to our leadership team comes at a critical juncture in Healthgrades growth as we evolve our strategy and solutions to meet the changing needs of consumers, physicians, health systems and life sciences companies we serve. Given Jovan’s track record, breadth of healthcare experience and deep understanding of software, data and analytics, we are confident that Jovan will further accelerate the company’s existing growth trajectory,” said Roger Holstein, Board Member, Healthgrades and Managing Director, Vestar Capital Partners.

    Recently, Healthgrades has evolved and organized into two distinct divisions: Platform and Marketplace. With the launch of the Hg Mercury platform, the Company has become a leading enterprise software and data-as-a-service platform, employed by more than 1,500 hospitals to drive patient engagement and physician alignment. With healthgrades.com audience growth at 20% annually, the Company continues to be the leading patient and provider marketplace, where America comes to find the right doctor, the right hospital and the right care.

    Said Jovan Willford, CEO, Healthgrades: “The breadth and depth of Healthgrades’ offerings is unmatched in the industry. With our consumer reach and insights, plus our patient and provider engagement platform designed to help health systems accelerate growth, Healthgrades sits at the center of the healthcare ecosystem. I look forward to working with Rob and the rest of the leadership team to build on our success and deliver Healthgrades’ next wave of growth and transformation.”

    “Under Rob’s leadership, we expanded and evolved our business. He led the acquisition and integration of Influence Health and Evariant, which have been essential to creating the enterprise software and data platform, Hg Mercury. Now, in this new role, Rob will focus his efforts on realizing the full potential of Healthgrades.com and the Marketplace division, placing renewed emphasis on differentiating providers on the basis of satisfaction, experience and outcomes, and soon cost — in order to guide consumers to the right doctor, right hospital and right care,” said Norm Alpert, Chairman of the Board, Healthgrades and Co-President and Founding Partner, Vestar Capital Partners.

    Most recently, Mr. Willford served as SVP and GM of U.S. Commercial Solutions at IQVIA, delivering technology and advanced analytic solutions to enable commercial capabilities of life sciences organizations. Throughout his tenure at IQVIA, Jovan served in a variety of key leadership positions focused on analytics and technology innovation, including Senior Vice President & Global Head of Clinical Functional Service Provider (FSP) across 72 countries, global head of the industry-defining Quintiles-IMS merger and launching of innovative real-world evidence business units in North America and Asia. Previously, Mr. Willford served as a consultant at Booz & Company, Katzenbach Partners, and Accenture.

    About Healthgrades:
    At Healthgrades, we help millions of consumers find and connect with the right doctor, right hospital, and right care. Healthgrades.com is the leading marketplace connecting patients and providers. We make healthcare more accessible and transparent for consumers by differentiating providers on the basis of patient satisfaction, physician experience and hospital outcomes. Our Healthgrades Platform division works with the nation’s leading health systems to improve patient engagement and strengthen physician alignment, driving measurable financial outcomes. Hg Mercury is a comprehensive data and software as a services platform that delivers insights and communications solutions which drive patient engagement and physician alignment and integrate seamlessly with the health system’s broader MarTech stack and enterprise ecosystem. At Healthgrades, better health gets a head start.

    Posted 3.30.2021

  • Censinet Announces Appointment of Healthcare Industry Veteran Cormac Miller as President and Chief Commercial Officer

    Former Executive of The Advisory Board Company and Optum to Drive RiskOps Growth and Strategic Partnerships as Censinet Extends its Market Leadership in Healthcare

    Boston, MA – March 30, 2021 – Censinet, the leading provider of healthcare IT risk solutions, today announced that Cormac Miller has joined the Company as President and Chief
    Commercial Officer. Miller will be responsible for growing the company’s healthcare provider and supplier footprint, along with developing and managing industry partnerships and new
    markets. He will support Censinet CEO and Founder Ed Gaudet in executing the company’s vision and strategy for its recently-announced RiskOps platform.

    “Cormac Miller brings a wealth of experience in healthcare, SaaS products, technology, operations, and analytics,” said Ed Gaudet, CEO and Founder of Censinet, Inc. “He is uniquely
    qualified to help Censinet scale via our RiskOps growth strategy and our third-party risk management partnerships. I look forward to working with him as we continue our mission to
    take risk out of healthcare.”

    The escalation of cybersecurity threats like ransomware and data breaches, exacerbated by the ongoing impact of COVID-19, has significantly enlarged the risk surface area for healthcare
    providers and the vendors who serve them. Traditional models for managing risk have proven insufficient for ensuring uninterrupted patient care in this new environment. Censinet was
    founded and backed by healthcare leaders to transform how risk is managed across the industry by developing a two-sided network that creates a more scalable, continuous monitoring
    approach to third-party risk.

    “I’m honored to be joining the Censinet team at this important juncture in healthcare cybersecurity,” explained Cormac Miller. “The number of ransomware incidents in 2020
    demonstrates the need for a different-in-kind approach for providers and vendors, and I believe that the Censinet RiskOps platform is a key pillar in driving a sustained immune response
    across the industry that drives out risk in healthcare.

    ”Before joining Censinet, Miller was Executive Vice President and General Manager at Optum, a UnitedHealth Group subsidiary, a diversified healthcare company dedicated to helping people
    live healthier lives and helping make the health system work better for everyone. Miller was accountable for a $230M data and analytics software business encompassing the payer and
    provider markets within Optum Analytics.

    Prior to Optum, Miller spent 21 years at the Advisory Board Company, a publicly-traded best practices and technology firm serving healthcare and higher education, where he was an
    executive officer. He held several senior executive leadership positions across his career focused on growth and innovation, including chief product officer, executive vice president of
    strategy and corporate development, and head of new product development. He was also general manager of the healthcare analytics business unit, where he led a global workforce of
    over 1,200 team members. The Advisory Board Company was acquired by Optum in 2017.

    About Censinet
    Censinet, based in Boston, MA, enables healthcare organizations to take the risk out of their business with Censinet RiskOps™, the first and only cloud-based exchange that integrates and
    consolidates enterprise risk management and operations capabilities across critical clinical and business areas. Censinet transforms healthcare risk by increasing productivity and operational
    effectiveness while eliminating risks to care delivery, data privacy, and patient safety. Find out more about Censinet and its RiskOps platform at censinet.com.

    Contact:
    Rob Ciampa
    (617) 286-6785
    [email protected]

    Posted 3.30.2021

  • COVID-19 Report Highlights Challenges and Implications for Digital Health

    COVID-19 Report Highlights Challenges and Implications for Digital Health
     
    ANN ARBOR, MI, March 26, 2021 –Whether it was rolling out telehealth initiatives in the spring of 2020 or providing data support to COVID-19 vaccination efforts in the spring of 2021, digital healthcare executives and their teams have worked behind the scenes for more than a year to ease the burdens that COVID-19 has placed on their healthcare organizations. A report based on two surveys conducted by the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) chronicles digital health’s challenges and contributions in 2020 with insights for 2021.
     
    The report, which is free and available to the public, was published online this month, one year after COVID-19 was officially declared a pandemic globally and a national emergency in the U.S.
     
    “With each phase of the pandemic, our members and their teams have turned challenges into opportunities to learn and improve,” said CHIME President and CEO Russell P. Branzell. “The surveys show how quickly their organizations adapted and innovated using technology to address COVID issues. Their responses shed light on the human side, too, including concerns about burnout and wanting to help their team members adjust to remote work.”
     
    CHIME surveyed members in the spring and fall of 2020 using a qualitative and quantitative questionnaire. A total of 348 responses were collected and analyzed: 202 in the spring and 146 in the fall. The report, which combines text, graphics and selected comments from respondents, includes:
    • Reopening strategies
    • Dual systems of care to serve COVID and non-COVID patients
    • Telehealth usage, with changes over time
    • Telehealth successes and problems
    • The financial impact of the pandemic
    • Budgeting trends
    • Expected technology investments in 2021
     
    The report, titled “A Year in Review: COVID-19 Impact – Challenges and Implications for Digital Health,” can be accessed through CHIME’s website here.
     
    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 3.26.2021

  • Clearsense Secures $30 Million in New Funding to Fuel Growth as a Cutting-Edge Data Platform Technology

    Clearsense to expand its data platform-as-a-service technology and advisory services to lead the healthcare industry in a revolution of data maturity

    JACKSONVILLE, FL – March 17, 2021 – Clearsense, an advanced data management and analytics technology platform serving the healthcare industry, announced today it has closed $30 million in financing in partnership led by Health Catalyst Capital. Clearsense will use the new capital to build out its technology and advisory services to lead enterprise data strategies, empowering access to and value from data in ways that weren’t previously possible.

    “Our goal from the very beginning was to create a completely flexible, end-to-end data solution that drives clinical, financial, and operational solutions without limit,” says Clearsense Co-founder and Chief Innovation Officer, Charles Boicey. “We’ve been able to drive that mission through novel data management technologies with a focus on automation and advanced AI and machine learning analytics capabilities.”

    The funding and market opportunities are timely, with healthcare needing to streamline access and usage of data. COVID-19 accelerated the need for data to be easily aggregated, appropriately curated, and highly visual, with existing technologies proving inadequate to support the digital acceleration healthcare demands. Clearsense provides an adaptable data platform capable of bringing value across all healthcare verticals, including providers and payers, breaking the barriers between industry silos and leading to new efficiencies, insights, cost-savings, transparency, and a focus on value-based analytics.

    “Health Catalyst Capital is proud to drive this round of financing for Clearsense to revolutionize data and analytics technologies,” said Charles Boorady, Founding Managing Director of Health Catalyst Capital. “In 2020 the Clearsense team innovated impressive solutions for customers, a testament to the growth and resilience of the team. We are excited to see where they take data maturity for healthcare and beyond.”

    “Our advanced data platform technology is architected specifically for healthcare, and we aim to improve patient care at all levels of the organization,” said Clearsense Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, Gene Scheurer. “The investment and partnership with HCC enable our continued growth and bring a strategic partner with a healthcare focus.”

    As an adjunctive solution, Clearsense operates within any technology landscape, bringing additional value to current technology investments.

    “We’re seeing a real drive to make data-driven decisions in healthcare, especially with the use of AI and machine learning,” said Boicey. “Giving clinicians and researchers the tools to take their hypothesis and create their own cohorts to drive the data that can improve patient health, we’re really enabling citizen data science, better patient care, and an environment for breakthrough discoveries at a record pace.”

    With this investment by Health Catalyst Capital, Clearsense will continue to innovate and develop its solutions, including the Clearsense DataHub, which will operate as the central nervous system for healthcare data, further enabling automation of data curation, preparation, normalization, and governance to streamline the ability for data to be used meaningfully and with full transparency. Clearsense will continue the expansion of advisory services, bringing industry experts in data governance, data science, research, advanced analytics, and more to operationalize data across the enterprise to ensure long-term momentous results.

    About Clearsense

    Clearsense is a healthcare data platform-as-a-service company serving both providers and payers to provide organization stakeholders with the ability to unlock the power of their disparate data sources to lower costs, increase revenue opportunities, and improve outcomes. Headquartered in Jacksonville, FL, the Clearsense platform solves the fundamental data problem by ingesting, organizing, and translating all healthcare stakeholder data in real-time and in proper form, in any combination, for internal or third-party analytics functions. For more information, visit Clearsense.com.

    About Health Catalyst Capital
    Health Catalyst Capital Management is an independent fund manager investing in private, growth-stage healthcare information technology and technology-enabled services businesses that seek to improve the human condition and promote value-based care. HCC was formed by a team of experienced healthcare investors and operators seeking profitable investment opportunities, while at the same time seeking to improve the human condition and promote value-based care. Learn more at healthcatalystcapital.com.

    Media Contact

    Leann Williams
    Marketing Manager, Clearsense
    [email protected]

    Posted 3.17.2021

  • Clearwater Extends Healthcare Cyber Risk Management Leadership With AI-Driven Predictive Risk Rating, Peer-to-Peer Benchmarking and ServiceNow Integration Capabilities

    New Innovations in Flagship Software Product IRM|Analysis® Empower Customers to Analyze Cyber Risk More Confidently and Efficiently

    NASHVILLE, TN (March 17, 2021) – Clearwater, the leading provider of Enterprise Cyber Risk Management and HIPAA Compliance solutions for the healthcare industry, announced today new innovations being introduced as part of the forthcoming 6.0 release of its flagship software product IRM|Analysis. Focused on helping customers more confidently and efficiently analyze cyber risk across their enterprise, the innovations further establish Clearwater as the go-to partner for healthcare organizations seeking to understand where their greatest risks lie and take action in addressing them.

    Used by many of the nation’s largest health systems, major physician groups, leading health IT companies, and other business partners, IRM|Analysis has become the healthcare industry’s gold standard for performing a comprehensive, efficient, by-the-book risk analysis and managing risks on an ongoing basis since the first release of the product nearly ten years ago.

    The new innovations, which draw upon the software’s vast pool of data, deliver even greater power and value to customers.

    More Intelligent: AI-Driven and Community-Powered Predictive Risk Rating

    A risk rating is a function of the likelihood of a threat exploiting an information technology (IT) asset vulnerability and the impact to the organization should the exploit be successful. Determining the likelihood and impact requires careful analysis of controls in place for that asset by an analyst, and it can be a time-consuming, subjective, and error-prone process.

    IRM|Analysis employs built-in algorithms to:

    • Determine potential vulnerability and threat scenarios that should be considered
    • Automatically suggest which controls are recommended to mitigate threats exploiting vulnerabilities in these specific scenarios
    • Provide a standard means to rate risk based on both the likelihood of an event (based on the controls in place or not in place) and the harm that would be caused (based on the importance of the information system or its data to that organization)
    • Enable an organization to prioritize and report on risks across the enterprise in a consolidated or “drill down” manner through integrated reporting tools and dashboards

    With the introduction of a new Predictive Risk Rating capability in IRM|Analysis, Clearwater is leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning technology to tap into more than a million risk ratings generated by the company’s experts and its community of software users to help healthcare organizations more quickly and confidently analyze risk across the enterprise.

    “In 2019, we advanced IRM|Analysis with our patented Component Expert System technology, providing customers with a more intelligent view into all of the processes, people, locations, and technology that can pose a data security risk to an information system.,” says Jon Stone, Clearwater’s Chief Product Officer and the lead architect behind IRM|Analysis. “Now we are making IRM|Analysis even more intelligent for customers by providing AI-driven predictive risk ratings that draw upon more than a million risks scenarios that have been analyzed within the software over time.

    “The goal is to help healthcare organizations make better risk rating decisions and maximize limited resources by freeing up Risk Analysts and Managers to do higher order work in documenting the impacts of an analysis rather than getting bogged down in data preparation,” he added. “Risk rating recommendations can be automatically accepted or simply serve as guidance for the user.”

    More Insightful: Peer-to-Peer Benchmarking

    The new release of IRM|Analysis is also bringing more insight to customers in the form of new benchmarking capabilities that empower organizations to compare their performance across key risk analysis and risk management metrics to relevant peers. Peer-to-Peer Benchmarking includes comparative data such as:

    • The percentage of risks greater than or equal to the defined threshold
    • The top vulnerabilities associated with risks that are greater or equal to the threshold
    • The percentage of controls that are missing or deficient for risks greater than or equal to the threshold

    “One of the most common questions we are asked by customers is, how do our metrics compare to other organizations in the industry?” Stone says. “Delivered as part of the CyberIntelligence Dashboards in the software and available to all Platinum and Gold subscribers, customers can now get direct access to that insight.”

    More Automated: Integration with ServiceNow IT Asset Management

    Analyzing cyber risk begins with building a comprehensive IT asset inventory. Through integration with ServiceNow’s IT Asset Management solution, which a growing number of healthcare organizations use to maintain their asset inventory, IRM|Analysis enables users to address the first steps of the risk analysis process in a more rapid and automated manner.

    “With limited resources and a rapidly evolving IT environment, developing an asset inventory to support a comprehensive risk analysis can be a challenge for organizations,” Stone says. “The integration we have developed between ServiceNow and IRM|Analysis brings automation to the process that will make it significantly easier and more efficient for our customers.”

    These latest innovations build on the tradition of innovation and leadership that has helped Clearwater earn the #1 rating for Compliance and Risk Management solutions in Black Book Market Research’s annual healthcare industry survey the past four years in a row.

    The new capabilities will be available as part of the 6.0 release of the software, scheduled for deployment later this month. To learn more Predictive Risk Rating and Peer-to-Peer Benchmarking in IRM|Analysis, interested parties are invited to attend these upcoming webinars:

    Thursday, April 8, 11am CT: Advancing Risk Management: The Power of Peer Comparison

    Thursday, April 22, 11am CT: Advancing Risk Analysis: The Power of Prediction

    Visit www.clearwatercompliance.com/upcoming-education-events to register.

    Interested in receiving a private demonstration of IRM|Analysis? Reach out to us at [email protected].

     

    About Clearwater

    Clearwater is the leading provider of Enterprise Cyber Risk Management and HIPAA compliance software and consulting services for the healthcare industry. Our solutions enable organizations to gain enterprise-wide visibility into cybersecurity risks and more effectively prioritize and manage them, ensuring compliance with industry regulations. Clearwater’s suite of IRM|Pro® software products and consulting services help healthcare organizations to avoid preventable breaches, protect patients and their data, and meet OCR’s expectations, while optimizing cybersecurity investments. More than 400 healthcare organizations, including 70 of the nation’s largest health systems and a large universe of business associates that serve the industry, trust Clearwater to meet their information security needs. For more information about Clearwater, please visit www.clearwatercompliance.com.

    Posted 3.17.2021

  • Optimum Healthcare IT & University of Rhode Island Partner for Optimum CareerPath Program

    March 17, 2021 – Optimum Healthcare IT, a Best in KLAS healthcare IT staffing and consulting services company, announced today that they have partnered with the University of Rhode Island (URI) in the Optimum CareerPath™ apprenticeship program. The CareerPath program is a first-of-its-kind apprenticeship program in Healthcare IT that creates career pathways between college students and the healthcare industry.

    URI and Optimum Healthcare IT share a desire for URI students and recent alumni to have access to careers in Healthcare IT. URI students entering the Optimum CareerPath program will go through an immersive training program that includes two phases. The first phase consists of Core and Technical Education, where a solid foundation of healthcare and healthcare IT knowledge is formed. Upon completing phase one, students will then move into their respective application-specific technical tracks for phase two, focusing on specific IT skills and platforms used by healthcare organizations. After training, the students will join Optimum project teams serving clients across the United States.

    In addition to CareerPath training, apprentices will receive a certification from the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHiME) and training on specific applications or platforms necessary to succeed in their new roles.

    Healthcare organizations need additional IT staffing and are pursuing various approaches to both attract and retain staff. Whether it is specialists capable of implementing and supporting electronic health record (EHR) systems, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, data analysts, or data engineers, the Optimum CareerPath program can provide the right resources.

    About The University of Rhode Island
    The University of Rhode Island is the state’s flagship public higher education institution serving students from 48 U.S. states and territories and 67 nations. It enrolls about 17,650 undergraduate and graduate students. As a public Land Grant university in a highly competitive region in the United States, URI remains one of the most affordable universities in the Northeast for both in-state and out-of-state students.

    The University of Rhode Island (URI) Business Engagement Center (BEC) is the “front door” for the industry to connect with the vast resources that exist at the University to sponsor research opportunities, access assistance with technology or intellectual property transfer, seek information about licensing, receive customized workforce training, and connect with undergraduate and graduate students for internships, as well as other essential services to help business thrive

    About Optimum Healthcare IT
    Optimum Healthcare IT is a Best in KLAS healthcare IT staffing and consulting services firm based in Jacksonville Beach, Florida. Optimum provides world-class professional staffing services to fill any need as well as consulting services that encompass advisory, EHR implementation, training and activation, managed services, enterprise resource planning, technical services, and ServiceNow® – supporting our client’s needs through the continuum of care. Our leadership team has extensive experience in providing expert healthcare staffing and consulting solutions to all types of organizations.

    Visit www.optimumhit.com or call 1.904.373.0831 to find out how your organization can take advantage of our solution offerings.

    Posted 3.17.2021

  • Quil Launches Caregiving Circle: A Better Way for Caregivers and those they Support to Stay Connected and Informed

    PHILADELPHIA, March 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Quil, the digital health engagement platform that offers interactive health journeys, is introducing a new feature, Caregiving Circle, as part of Quil Engage. Quil Engage offers personalized patient education and navigation in partnership with providers and health plans. With Caregiving Circle, people can easily invite family and friends to join them while they navigate a specific health event or as they manage their health day to day.

    The onset of COVID-19 has only amplified the burden that an estimated 53M unpaid family caregivers in the US shoulder1,2. And 57% of those who identify as an unpaid family caregiver report clinically significant levels of stress, anxiety, or depression.2 Though many caregiver support groups and resources are available, Quil has identified a gap in secure and seamless connection between consumers, caregivers, and their healthcare providers that, once addressed, will enhance the consumer experience and provide meaningful value to partnering healthcare organizations. With clear caregiver communication comes peace of mind, reduced stress, and reduced absenteeism for caregivers and ultimately improved outcomes and satisfaction for patients. Clinical research has uncovered the positive impact for patients who have strong and active support networks, including a University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) study, which reported that involving caregivers during post-discharge planning resulted in a 25% reduction of hospital readmissions3. 

    To start, Quil will introduce this feature to Penn Medicine’s orthopedic department, specifically focused on geriatric hip events, before launching with additional clients. Caregiving Circle is just one of Quil’s commitments to better connecting consumers, caregivers, and healthcare organizations in addition to supporting health plans and employers by reducing caregiver burden. Last year, Quil partnered with AmeriHealth Caritas to launch a first-of-its-kind program to support caregivers of Medicaid members with disabilities and long-term needs. Following the launch of that program, Quil took to the stage at HLTH 2020 to announce its D2C offering, Quil Assure, set to launch at the end of 2021. Quil Assure is a platform that aims to help individuals stay at home longer with the help of ambient sensors, voice-activated technology, integrated emergency assistance, and caregiver coordination tools and resources. Over time, the Quil Assure D2C product will integrate with the Quil Engage B2B2C platform to deliver a comprehensive solution that helps individuals and their caregivers manage every aspect of health and wellness. 

    Quil Chief Product Officer Molly Doyle commented, “We strongly believe in making the health journey more accessible and less overwhelming for everyone involved. Integral to that vision is offering tools for better communication and connection so that everyone feels supported and informed. Not only does this drive value for consumers, but it is vital to patient activation and caregiver stress reduction, which unlocks better health outcomes for organizations.” 

    About Quil
    Quil, the joint venture between Independence Health Group (Independence) and Comcast, is the digital health engagement platform that offers personalized and interactive health journeys to consumers and their caregivers. Quil is committed to educating and engaging consumers and their caregivers about their health as we believe it results in better outcomes at a lower cost. Quil serves patients, members, and their caregivers and is partnered with healthcare providers and health plans nationally. We are headquartered in Philadelphia, PA. Connect with Quil now. Follow Quil on Twitter and on LinkedIn. 

    Posted 3.17.2021

  • Impact Advisors Named to Forbes’ Best Management Consulting Firms List

    CHICAGO (March 16, 2021) — Impact Advisors, a leading healthcare consultancy providing strategy, operations, revenue cycle and technology services, announced that Forbes has named the organization to its list of America’s Best Management Consulting Firms for 2021. This is the fifth consecutive year the firm has received this distinction. 

    This list is Forbes’ annual ranking of the highest-rated consultancies across all sectors, including IT and healthcare, in North America. To develop the list, Forbes partners with the market research firm, Statista.

    The list was compiled by surveying 7,500 partners and executives of management consulting firms, as well as 1,000 senior executives who worked with such firms over the last four years. Data was then divided into 16 sectors, including technology and healthcare, and 16 functional areas, including strategy, sustainability, and digital transformation. Impact Advisors is one 231 firms recognized on this year’s list. The complete Forbes list of America’s Best Management Consulting Firms for 2021 is available online.

    “Our team is extremely appreciative and honored to be recognized on the Forbes’ list of America’s Best Management Consulting Firms again,” said Andy Smith, president of Impact Advisors. “Acknowledgements like this are a result of our commitment and responsibility to best serve our clients by providing high-quality outcomes – even during one of the most challenging and turbulent times.”

    Impact Advisors adds this honor to a growing list of industry and workplace awards that include being named Best in KLAS for 14 consecutive years, Modern Healthcare’s Largest Healthcare IT Consulting Firms, Modern Healthcare’s Best Places to Work in Healthcare and Becker’s Hospital Review’s 150 Top Places to Work in Healthcare.

    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.

     

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    Posted 3.16.2021

  • Tegria Acquires Cumberland To Provide New and Enhanced Offerings for Healthcare Providers and Payers

    SEATTLE, Wash. (Mar. 16, 2021) – Tegria today announced the acquisition of Cumberland, a leading healthcare consulting and services firm for payers and providers. The move accelerates the growth of Tegria, launched by Providence in October 2020 to provide next-generation technologies and services to the healthcare sector. As a result of this transaction, Tegria increases its consulting capabilities for payer organizations while strengthening and diversifying its comprehensive consulting and managed service offerings for provider organizations.

    “The healthcare industry is simultaneously managing two enormous challenges – the COVID-19 crisis and the need to invest in a post-pandemic future,” said Anders Brown, managing director of Tegria’s consulting and technology services group, where Cumberland will reside. “Cumberland brings new energy and capacity to Tegria’s commitment to help the industry meet those challenges. Together, we can help customers transform by delivering patient-centered care, through improved access to better and more useful data, and through the deployment of forward-looking technologies.”

    “The breadth of our industry-leading healthcare consulting and managed services, combined with Tegria’s vision for supporting customers as they transform, positions us to support payers and providers as they evolve and continue to integrate,” said Brian Cahill, chief executive officer of Cumberland. “Our team is excited about joining Tegria and we look forward to what we can accomplish together.”

    With Cumberland, Tegria further expands its capabilities and reach to payers, particularly in core claims and benefit administration systems, as well as care management systems. Cumberland brings complementary strengths to Tegria’s robust managed services offering, and additional breadth and depth to Tegria’s technology consulting expertise, primarily in the strategy, optimization and integration of leading enterprise systems. Also, Cumberland has increasing momentum in the retail healthcare market, which is expanding rapidly and is set to grow significantly over the next decade.

    Cumberland will operate as an independent business unit, with its leadership team and employees remaining in place, as part of Tegria’s consulting and technology services group. It will continue to support its current customer portfolio while also partnering with teams across Tegria to collaborate on new combined offerings and mutual clients.

    Since its founding in 2004, Cumberland has earned accolades by delivering advisory consulting, technology services, and managed services for healthcare organizations in the provider and payer markets. The company is based in Franklin, Tennessee, and has more than 250 employees committed to their customers’ success in advancing healthcare.

    “Cumberland has a stellar reputation for technology expertise and advisory services, with outstanding talent at every level of their organization,” said Brown. “They share our values and sense of mission, and there’s a strong cultural alignment between us. We’re excited to see Cumberland join Tegria, and we’re looking forward to working together on behalf of our healthcare customers.”

    Cascadia Capital served as the financial advisor and Davis Wright Tremaine acted as legal counsel to Tegria. Clearsight Advisors served as the financial advisor and Goodwin Procter acted as legal counsel to Cumberland.

    About Tegria

    Tegria helps health care organizations of all sizes accelerate technological, clinical and operational advances that enable people to live their healthiest lives. Based in Seattle with teams throughout the United States and Canada, Tegria is comprised of ten companies and more than 3,000 strategists, technologists, service providers and scientists dedicated to delivering value for customers. Founded by Providence, Tegria is committed to creating health for a better world. To learn more, visit www.tegria.com.

    About Cumberland

    Cumberland, a Tegria company, is a leading healthcare consulting and services firm providing strategic advisory consulting services, technology services and managed services solutions to healthcare clients in the payer and provider markets. Our experienced team of professionals is committed to delivering solutions that advance the business of healthcare. For more information on Cumberland, visit www.cumberlandcg.com.

    Posted 3.16.2021

  • Allscripts rated #1 in Black Book™ Research’s 2021 Community Health Systems Vendors Report

    Annual survey results reveal company receives top ranking in community setting for the fifth consecutive year 

    CHICAGO – March 11, 2021 – Allscripts (NASDAQ: MDRX) has been recognized as the top-rated electronic health record vendor for community hospitals according to new survey results from Black Book Research. This is the fifth consecutive year Allscripts has earned the top rating in this annual survey. 

    The survey features responses collected from more than 1,800 community hospitals and focuses on 18 key performance indicators. Approximately 50% of the responses came from nurses, physicians, and other direct users of the technology being surveyed, while additional responses came from CEOs, CFOs, trustees and operational leaders. Survey responses were collected between the third quarter of 2020 and the first quarter of 2021.  

    Allscripts ranked first in 10 of 18 key performance indicators, including: 
     

    • Trust, Accountability, Transparency, Ethics 
    • Strategic alignment of client goals, including value-based care, revenue cycle management, and MACRA 
    • Innovation and Optimization 
    • Breadth of offerings, client types, delivery excellence 
    • Deployment and implementation 
    • Customization 
    • Scalability, client adaptability, flexible pricing 
    • Marginal value adds and modules 
    • Data security, patient privacy, and backup services 
    • Best–of–breed technology and process improvement  

    “Allscripts’ heightened focus on the community hospital market is evident based on the positive results from this year’s survey, which for the fifth year in a row resulted in the number-one rating amongst the eight top EHR vendors evaluated,” said Doug Brown, Managing Partner and President, Black Book.   

    “Today’s community hospitals are challenged with increased complexity in healthcare delivery, limited resources and rising operating costs,” said Paul Black, Allscripts Chief Executive Officer. “Black Book’s comprehensive survey shows Allscripts’ commitment to providing smaller healthcare organizations with the support, cloud technology and tools they need. We are honored to serve as our clients’ trusted partner, delivering innovative solutions that meet community-hospital goals, as we share their mission to provide superior patient care.”  

    Black Book Research is a full-service healthcare-centric market research and public opinion research company and premier provider of competitive intelligence, market research, opinion mining, sentiment analysis, services evaluation and strategic consulting services to companies worldwide. To ensure survey integrity and accurate, comprehensive results, Black Book’s comprehensive methodology is crowd-sourced and represents a broad spectrum of solution users. Survey responses go through both internal and external audits, ensuring completeness, accuracy and validity. For more information, visit www.blackbookmarketresearch.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. 

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    For more information contact: 

    Investors: 

    Stephen Shulstein 

    312-386-6735 

    [email protected] 

    Media:  

    Concetta Rasiarmos 

    312-447-2466 

    [email protected] 

    Posted 3.16.2021

  • GAVS Technologies Launches the GAVS Healthcare Technology Institute for AI/Analytics Led HealthIT

    Chennai, February 4: GAVS Technologies launched the GAVS Healthcare Technology Institute. The institute was inaugurated by Pramod Bhasin, Founder, Genpact and ex-Chairman, NASSCOM, and some of GAVS’ partners.

    GAVS, along with its partners, is focused on enabling Healthcare companies with technology-led business outcomes from Digital Transformation that are driven by the true power of AI and Analytics. The curriculum of the institute is structured to cater to the growing need for Healthcare Technologists who understand the intersection of technology, business, and human-centered care. Some of the key focus areas will be – AI in Healthcare, Population Health Analytics, MedTech, Epidemiology, Telehealth, etc.

    “We at GAVS are committed to evolve as a key player in the Healthcare space. To that end, we have launched GAVS Healthcare Technology Institute to enable technologists with Healthcare domain expertise.” – Sumit Ganguli, CEO, GAVS Technologies

    “This Healthcare Institute by GAVS will play a crucial role in enhancing the Healthcare domain expertise within GAVS, Chennai and in India.” – Pramod Bhasin, Founder, Genpact and ex-Chairman, NASSCOM

    About GAVS

    GAVS Technologies is focused on automation-led digital transformation services. GAVS’ IP led solution, Zero Incident FrameworkTM (ZIFTM) is an AIOps solution that provides a 360-degree view of enterprise IT health, proactively detects incidents before they occur and remediates with minimal human interference. By focusing on eradication and proactive remediation of the incidents, ZIFTM enables organizations trend towards a Zero Incident EnterpriseTM. GAVS is committed to improving user experience by 10X and reducing resource utilization by 40%. GAVS works with Providers, Payers, MedTech and Life Science companies, providing focused services in the areas of AI-led Operations, EHR Modernization, Data Management, Integration and Interoperability, Business process automation, Telehealth services through immersive Patient Experience and Predictive Analytics.

    For more information, visit: https://zif.ai/ , www.gavstech.com and follow GAVS on Twitter and LinkedIn.

    GAVS Technologies Press and Media Contact:

    Anand Paramasamy

    [email protected]

    Phone: +1.609.951.2256

    Address: 116 Village Boulevard, Princeton, NJ 08540

    Posted 3.12.2021

  • Cone Health and Triad Healthcare Network Expand Partnership with PatientPing to Improve Patient Outcomes and Collaboration Amongst Providers

    Care Collaboration Platform to Improve Real-Time Patient Data Interoperability for Better Outcomes

    BOSTON, MA — (February 23, 2021) – PatientPing, the nation’s most comprehensive care collaboration platform, today announced that it has expanded its partnership with Cone Health, a not-for-profit health care network serving patients in Alamance, Forsyth, Guilford, Randolph, Rockingham and surrounding North Carolina counties, and Triad HealthCare Network (THN), a provider-led Accountable Care Organization (ACO). By centralizing all incoming provider requests for e-notifications and managing Cone’s admission, discharge, and transfer (ADT) data feeds in compliance with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) e-notifications Condition of Participation (CoP), the broader strategic partnership will enhance care coordination and data interoperability processes to enable improved access to real-time patient data for better care outcomes for patients across North Carolina.

    Cone Health originally partnered with PatientPing in 2017 to enable providers to receive the most up-to-date data for appropriate care interventions. Through PatientPing’s real-time notifications, Cone Health and THN providers have been able to monitor patient ADT events taking place across hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, and home health agencies, allowing for more seamless care coordination and improved patient outcomes. Through the enhanced partnership, Cone Health will now make these e-notifications available to all community providers responsible for a patient’s care, including primary care physicians and post-acute providers.

    “Choosing PatientPing as our vendor to ensure compliance with the CMS e-notifications CoP was an obvious choice for our team, as we’ve seen how critical these notifications are to improving care coordination, enhancing value-based care initiatives, and most importantly, transforming patient outcomes,” said Valerie Leschber, MD, Chief Medical Information Officer of Cone Health. “By sharing this information about patient care encounters across provider settings, PatientPing offers our clinical team increased IT operational efficiency to facilitate new levels of visibility and improved care.”

    With the integration of PatientPing’s Route solution, the company will off-load the IT resource burden to allow the Cone Health care network and THN ACO to focus on patient care first. PatientPing will also manage all incoming provider requests for e-notifications and handle all outbound ADT data feeds to both providers and Health Information Exchanges/intermediaries, in compliance with the e-notifications CoP published as part of the CMS Interoperability and Patient Access final rule, which takes effect on May 1st.

    “CMS’s e-notifications CoP will advance care coordination efforts across the continuum but hospitals face a tight window to comply by the deadline,“ said Jay Desai, CEO & co-founder of PatientPing. “We are excited to extend our partnership with Cone Health and THN and do our part to help them meet the e-notifications CoP requirements with our Route solution. It will give them an easy-to-implement, turnkey solution that not only helps providers coordinate care, but also makes sure patient visits and transitions between visits are safe. Our organizations share a passion of delivering exceptional care for all patients and this expanded partnership furthers that mission.”

    About Cone Health

    Cone Health is a national leader in quality, service and cost. The integrated health care network consists of Alamance Regional Medical Center, Annie Penn Hospital, Cone Health Behavioral Health Hospital, The Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital, Wesley Long Hospital, Cone Health Medical Group, MedCenter High Point, MedCenter Kernersville, MedCenter Mebane, Triad HealthCare Network, HealthTeam Advantage and various outpatient clinics and programs. More than 13,000 exceptional people provide exceptional care to the people of Guilford, Alamance, Rockingham, Forsyth, Caswell and Randolph counties.

    About THN
    Triad HealthCare Network (THN), a provider-led accountable care organization (ACO) consists of community physicians, Cone Health and its physicians and hospitals, and other providers who together provide higher quality, better-coordinated and more efficient care for patients. THN improves the quality and value of health care in the Piedmont Triad by focusing on preventive care, improving communication and data flow among providers, and by providing innovative services. THN is a subsidiary of Cone Health and is governed and operated by a board of managers and a physician-led operating committee.

    About PatientPing

    PatientPing is an innovative care collaboration platform that reduces the cost of healthcare and improves patient outcomes by seamlessly connecting providers to coordinate patient care. The platform enables providers to collaborate on shared patients through a comprehensive suite of solutions and allows provider organizations, health plans, governments, individuals and the organizations supporting them to leverage real-time patient data to reach their shared goals of improving the efficiency of our healthcare system. PatientPing’s network consists of nearly 20 different provider types and currently connects over 9,000 healthcare providers including 1,250 hospitals, 6,000 post-acute care facilities, and hundreds of other providers such as Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs), social and human service agencies, urgent cares, and behavioral health organizations, among others. Visit www.patientping.com to learn more.

     

    Media Contact:

    Sarah Larrow / Jill Anderson

    SVM PR

    401-490-9700

    [email protected]

    Posted 3.12.2021
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