• CHIME21 Spring Forum: Big Names, Bold Approaches and Can’t Miss Live Events

    ANN ARBOR, MI, March 11, 2021 – New, big, bold and ground-breaking. The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) has shattered the mold with the CHIME21 Spring Forum and its lineup of live panel discussions featuring industry power houses, digital health innovators and ample opportunities to interact with peers. The virtual forum kicks off with a bang, with the CEOs from Cerner, Epic and MEDITECH joining together to explore healthcare’s current and future landscape.
     
    Headliners for the April 13-15 event include:
     
    Opening Keynote Panel: The View from Health Tech
    Future Vision for Health and Care: What’s Coming Over the Horizon
    • Judy Faulkner, Founder and CEO, Epic
    • Howard Messing, CEO, MEDITECH
    • Brent Shafer, Chairman and CEO, Cerner
    • Moderator: Darren Dworkin, SVP of Enterprise Information Services and CIO, Cedars-Sinai Health
     
    Keynote Conversations: Views from Big Tech
    One-on-Ones with Technology Thought Leaders
    • Aashima Gupta, Director, Google Healthcare Solutions, Google Cloud
    • David Rhew, MD, Chief Medical Officer and VP of Healthcare, Microsoft
    • Phoebe Yang, General Manager, Amazon Web Services
    • Moderator: Daniel Barchi, CHCIO, Group SVP and CIO, NewYork-Presbyterian
     
    Keynote Panel: The Health Provider Voice
    Executive Perspectives: Post-COVID Trends Shaping Healthcare
    • Theresa Meadows, FCHIME, CHCIO, SVP and CIO, Cook Children’s
    • Jim Noga, VP and CIO, Mass General Brigham
    • Rasu Shrestha, MD, EVP and Chief Strategy and Transformation Officer, Atrium Health
    • Moderator: Helen Waters, EVP, MEDITECH
     
    Keynote Panel: The Health Provider Voice
    Putting Patient Experience at the Heart of Healthcare
    • Andrew Burchett, MD, CMIO, Avera Health
    • John Halamka, MD, President, Mayo Clinic Platform
    • Sonia Patel, CIO, NHSX
    • Moderator: Andrew Rosenberg, MD, CIO, Michigan Medicine
     
    Keynote Panel: The View from Health Tech
    Improving Lives Through Innovation: How Providers and Health Tech Startups are Transforming Care
    • Randy Gaboriault, SVP and Chief Digital and Information Officer, ChristianaCare
    • Lisa Stump, SVP and CIO, Yale New Haven Health
    • Joel Vengco, CHCIO, SVP and Chief Information and Digital Officer, Baystate Health
    • Moderator: Carina Edwards, CEO, Quil Health
     
    Closing Keynote Panel: The View from New Tech
    The Growing Role of Venture Capital in Health and Care
    • Keith Figlioli, Investment Partner, LRVHealth
    • Matt Hermann, Senior Managing Director, Ascension Ventures
    • Julie Yoo, General Partner, a16z
    • Moderator: Guillaume De Zwirek, CEO, Well Health
     
    “With all the disruption in healthcare today, we decided it was time to shake it up and give attendees a totally new experience,” said CHIME Board Chair John Kravitz, LCHIME, CHCIO, Corporate CIO at Geisinger. “The Planning Committee under the leadership of Board member Darren Dworkin did a fantastic job bringing in fresh programming with speakers who understand today’s healthcare challenges. All of the events are live, too, with opportunities to engage with each other in real time.”
     
    The program covers three core themes that drive digital innovation in health and care, categorized at the forum as the Views from Health Tech, Views from Big Tech and the Health Provider Voice. “This year’s program provided an opportunity to be bold and pioneering. The Planning Committee set ambitious goals early in the process and built a unique program around these key themes. I’m proud to have served with such an amazing group of thought leaders across CHIME and the CHIME Foundation, who have delivered a program that goes well beyond our own lofty expectations,” said Darren Dworkin, Planning Committee Chair and Senior Vice President of Enterprise Information Services and CIO at Cedars-Sinai Health. “Healthcare is a team sport; no one group does this alone. We’ve designed the forum to highlight interconnections and to involve everyone in discussions on how to work together to improve healthcare.”
     
    Attendees can access Foundation partners’ conference suites, a place to learn, share and connect with colleagues and peers, and enjoy an evening welcome reception on April 13. On April 14 and 15, they will have the opportunity to attend keynote sessions featuring industry and provider thought leaders, peer-to-peer breakouts covering a variety of topics and visit conference suites with executive networking. April 14 will include a networking reception as well. Some keynote panels will include a moderated live Q&A.
     
    “CHIME has always offered a collaborative environment that is ideally suited to bring people from across the industry together to learn, share ideas and transform healthcare,” CHIME President and CEO Russell P. Branzell, FCHIME, CHCIO, said. “The CHIME21 Spring Forum retains that welcoming CHIME spirit but with a whole new format featuring amazing speakers, all-live programming and lots of opportunities for digital healthcare executives to meet and network.”
     
    The CHIME21 Spring Forum is open to CHIME members, members of CHIME’s three associations (AEHIS, AEHIT and AEHIA), CHIME Foundation and association Foundation firms, as well as interested leaders and executives who share a stake across the digital health ecosystem. More details and registration are available here. CHIME members have the option to register for all three CHIME21 forums using the All Forum Pass, reflecting a tremendous value for members interested in participating in all three CHIME Forums this year.
     
    Editor’s note: Members of the trade media are welcome to attend. Contact Candace Stuart, CHIME’s Director of Communications, at [email protected] with a request to be added to the media list.
     
    Please note that the agenda was updated on March 24 to reflect the lineup of speakers as of that date. 
     
    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 3.11.2021

  • MEDITECH Expanse Genomics opens new doors to precision medicine

    March 9, 2021 – Clinicians can save valuable time looking for and leveraging patient genetic results, getting the most from their Expanse EHR.

    Now physicians can have discrete patient genetic data integrated into their workflow as well as the tools to understand and apply it with Expanse Genomics. MEDITECH’s groundbreaking, integrated EHR-based solution allows users to receive, store, and present complex genomic information to clinicians in intuitive ways at the point of care.

    “Our Expanse Genomics solution provides health systems of all sizes the ability to tap into the power of precision medicine by integrating the process of collecting, storing, and centralizing the display of patient genetic information in the EHR, and providing guidance and clinical decision support,” stated MEDITECH Executive Vice President Hoda Sayed-Friel. “Patients benefit from personalized treatment when their physicians are armed with genetic data about their ability to metabolize medications, their predisposition to disease, or characteristics of a tumor. That information, used in conjunction with guidance and clinical decision support, is what powers precision medicine.”

    Expanse Genomics improves efficiency and reduces cognitive load by allowing physicians to perform all aspects of their workflow within their EHR — from ordering tests to isolating genetic insights and providing actionable clinical decision support, in a language they can understand. Users will no longer have to hunt for test results in a separate PDF report because Expanse imports and parses data directly into the patient record and displays it alongside easy access to the original PDF reports.

    In addition, the solution offers enhanced connectivity with reference laboratories to allow for communication of genetic data in ways that has not been previously envisioned in the marketplace. The solution has the flexibility to handle all healthcare specialties — such as pediatrics, oncology, pharmacogenomics and behavioral health — and can be utilized in both acute and ambulatory settings. This ensures all clinicians have the tools and data they need to provide safe and effective personalized treatments.

    Having a single, consolidated chart view for all clinicians will improve physician workflow, lower cognitive load, and yield better outcomes as providers have the data and tools they need for clinical decision making. Providers are armed with hundreds of pharmacogenomic alerts through embedded integration of trusted drug data from FDB (First Databank), the leading provider of drug knowledge that helps healthcare professionals make precise decisions, providing guidance at points in the workflow where it is most needed.

    “FDB is pleased to work closely with MEDITECH to bring the power of pharmacogenomic decision support to more clinicians, including those at rural and community hospitals,” said FDB President Bob Katter. “This is the first time FDB’s evidence-based pharmacogenomic data has been directly integrated by a major EHR vendor, saving hospitals implementation time and costs. With MEDITECH’s approach, hospitals will be able to more easily access and maintain this valuable, patient-specific data to help inform better decisions and enhance the safety and effectiveness of patient care.”

    Patients benefit greatly when their treatment plans are tailored more precisely to their individual profiles and needs, including their unique genetic makeup. With Expanse Genomics, patients can now receive cutting-edge genomic medicine in the convenience of their own communities, without the need to travel long distances to other facilities.

    Golden Valley Memorial Hospital is an early adopter of the solution. CMIO William Dailey, MD, said, “We are thrilled to be one of the first to implement Expanse Genomics. The solution is going to expand our possibilities for delivering precision medicine at our organization and enhance our connectivity with commercial labs. It’s also going to elevate our ability to analyze and parse results into discrete, actionable data displayed directly in the patient charts.”

     

    Contacts

    Rose McCarthy

    Public Relations and Media Relations Manager

    MEDITECH

    781-774-5229

    [email protected]

    Posted 3.11.2021

  • Censinet Announces Censinet RiskOps for Healthcare

    Unique Integrated Platform Consolidates Enterprise Risk and Operations Capabilities Across Critical Business Areas for Healthcare Organizations

    Boston, MA – March 10, 2021 – Censinet, the leading collaborative risk network for healthcare organizations (HCOs), today announced Censinet RiskOps™, the first and only cloud-based integrated platform that consolidates enterprise risk management and operations capabilities across critical business areas: Clinical, Regulatory, Cybersecurity, Research, and Supply Chain. This new product offering builds upon the Company’s foundational success with third-party risk management (TPRM) for healthcare and transforms enterprise risk by making data and insight actionable.

    “Today, risk is siloed throughout a health system, managed using disparate data across different teams with manual processes and non-integrated tools,” said Ed Gaudet, CEO and founder of Censinet. “To significantly reduce the occurrence of risks or the impact of incidents, we must integrate and operationalize risk across the enterprise. By consolidating risk into a unified, actionable view, healthcare organizations can identify risk accurately and remediate it quickly.”

    Censinet RiskOps enables departments to come together as a single, cohesive team that responds faster and more effectively to risks affecting business operations, care delivery, and patient safety. Business and clinical leaders benefit from efficient procurement processes, effective contracting, fewer post-purchase problems, and elimination of costly duplication and rework. Risk owners achieve maximum visibility across the lifecycle of processes, suppliers, and products, resulting in better enterprise performance.

    “Censinet RiskOps enables us to automate and streamline our IT cybersecurity, third-party vendor, and supply chain risk programs in one place,” said Aaron Miri, Chief Information Officer for Dell Medical School and UT Health Austin. “Censinet enables our remote teams to quickly and efficiently coordinate IT risk operations across our health system.”

    Purpose-built for Healthcare and available now, Censinet RiskOps is an integrated platform of services delivered on a cloud-based exchange and available through both a state-of-the-art user experience and an open application programming interface (API). Censinet RiskOps extends its pre-built, automated workflows for third-party risk management and turns risk data into actionable insights. By leveraging industry standards and best practices, Censinet reduces risk and drives productivity gains across a networked community of clinical and business process owners, suppliers, affiliates, researchers, and other strategic partners. The RiskOps Command Center is the core of the Censinet platform. It provides a real-time operations dashboard for managing enterprise risk, and an intelligent workflow and analysis engine to deliver AI-driven evidence analysis, predictive modeling, crowdsourced intelligence, and peer benchmarking. Platform data collection services leverage important industry standards (NIST CSF, ISO, HIPAA, and more) allowing for the rapid intake, assessment, and analysis of risk data. Censinet’s continually expanding digital catalog, with today more than 7,000 assessed vendors and 18,000 products and services, drives unmatched productivity in third-party cybersecurity and supply chain risk workflows. Automated risk ratings and corrective action plan generation streamline the identification and remediation of risks across several pre-built risk workflows which support clinical and business use cases. 

    In addition to orchestration of actionable insights, the Censinet RiskOps command center enables IT, supply chain, business and clinical leaders to quickly visualize issues and take action on the risk to any process, resource, product, or technology under management across 400,000 unique data points. Using Censinet RiskOps, an IT risk analyst can respond to the CISO’s request to see all vendors and products with access to protected health information (PHI) but without an active Business Associate Agreement (BAA) in just a few seconds. Censinet RiskOps also empowers the organization to find risks sooner. This rapid identification delivers the following benefits: ensures better contracting terms, coverages, and remediation obligations; reduces the impact of a data breach or other incidents; enables rapid and complete recovery from a service disruption or supply chain outage.

    Censinet RiskOps is available now. For more information on how healthcare organizations can reduce and avoid the impact of risk, please visit: censinet.com/RiskOps or join Ed Gaudet and Karl West, former Intermountain Healthcare CISO, as they discuss RiskOps: censinet.com/RiskOps-webinar.

    About Censinet

    Censinet enables healthcare organizations to take 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. Censinet is based in Boston, MA, and can be found at censinet.com 

     

    Contact:

    Rob Ciampa

    Censinet         

    (617) 286-6785

    [email protected]

    Posted 3.10.2021

  • Former NIH Executive John J. McGowan, PhD, Joins Guidehouse

    Bioinformatist, Scientist, and Virology Expert to Support Firm’s Health Sector Solutions

    WASHINGTON – March 8, 2021 – John J. McGowan, PhD, former deputy director for Science Management and Executive Officer at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH), and US Department of Health and Human Services, has joined Guidehouse, a leading global provider of consulting services to the public and commercial markets, as a director.

    Dr. McGowan, who worked at the NIH for 34 years, is a widely recognized scientist and informaticist trained in molecular biology and virology. He worked closely with Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, NIAID director and chief medical advisor to President Joe Biden, for more than three decades, most recently on COVID-19 emergency response efforts.

    An expert in NIH extramural policies and program operations who is skilled in managing complex issues, Dr. McGowan will support Guidehouse’s Health segment agenda to identify and deliver synergies between public and commercial healthcare organizations.

    “We are excited to have Dr. McGowan joining our team of healthcare experts,” said Guidehouse CEO Scott McIntyre. “His leadership in government reinvention and process improvement drives really innovative operational systems, and we look forward to applying his outlook and expertise to our work with clients on widespread industry transformation.”

    Dr. McGowan will use his experience leading the “business of science” to transform mission-driven healthcare across public sector, provider, payer, life sciences, and state and local government organizations in their efforts to proactively address emerging issues in scientific research.

    “Dr. McGowan will be instrumental in helping create solutions for the critical spaces where science, health, management, and leadership overlap,” said Alicia Harkness, Guidehouse partner and Health segment leader.

    As a leader at the NIAID and NIH, Dr. McGowan served in a variety of positions. As NIH grew, he continuously aligned offices and capabilities to meet its expansive mission and address emerging health threats. For example, as acting NIH deputy director for management, Dr. McGowan worked with business and scientific leaders to address critical worldwide research efforts, including HIV/AIDs, SARS, bioterrorism, and COVID-19.

    Additionally, at NIAID, Dr. McGowan worked to keep science at the forefront by incorporating innovative data, technology, and automation initiatives, such as the NIH Big Data to Knowledge effort, the Clinical Research Management System, high performance computing, and multiple grants/research systems, into complex research programs.

    A nationally recognized thought leader, Dr. McGowan has authored numerous articles, abstracts, and research papers for scientific journals and national publications, and presented at hundreds of scientific seminars, conferences, and events.

    The Guidehouse Health segment includes a team of former provider and public health administrators, clinicians, scientists, pharmaceutical executives, and other experts with decades of strategy, policy, revenue cycle, digital, retail health, managed care, and managed services experience. With 11 KLAS #1 rankings, the Guidehouse Health team 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 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. The company has more than 9,000 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.

     

    Posted 3.8.2021

  • Capsule Receives Frost & Sullivan 2021 New Product Innovation Award

    Ventilated Patient Surveillance Workstation Enhances Patient Safety, Supports Clinicians, and Saves PPE during COVID-19 Pandemic

    ANDOVER, Mass., March 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Frost & Sullivan, a research and consulting firm that helps clients accelerate growth, today named Capsule Technologies the recipient of its 2021 New Product Innovation Award in the North American remote ventilator surveillance industry.

    Capsule’s Ventilated Patient Surveillance (VPS) workstation helps frontline providers identify patients in respiratory distress. By extending the reach of intensive care unit staff over the full range of critical care patients, the VPS workstation is designed to improve patient safety and reduce the burden on already stressed care providers. Ventilated patient surveillance leverages the ventilator connectivity of the Capsule Medical Device Information Platform, already used in over 2,800 hospitals globally. The VPS workstation is a tailored configuration of the company’s Capsule Surveillance solution, which integrates a wide range of patient monitoring and therapy devices, in addition to ventilators.

    Frost & Sullivan selected Capsule, a medical device integration, monitoring, and surveillance technologies producer, because it addresses new market challenges and opportunities, has a deep commitment to providing transformative technologies that benefit healthcare providers and patients, and develops core analytics across the entire value chain.

    “Capsule Technologies is committed to developing technology that advances its connected health solutions,” said Kaustubh Savant, senior industry analyst at Frost & Sullivan. “Its April 2020 launch of the Ventilated Patient Surveillance workstation is a unique market offering that has been a strong value-add for hospitals’ virtual critical care environments.”

    The Capsule VPS workstation analyzes streaming live data from ventilators, which are not ordinarily connected for surveillance, and escalates emergent clinically actionable events to respiratory therapists, pulmonologists, and intensivists.  

    “We are grateful to receive this award from Frost & Sullivan, a distinguished market research leader in healthcare,” said Hemant Goel, Capsule CEO. “Since the onset of COVID-19, the VPS workstation has protected caregivers from unnecessary exposure to infection and reduced the use of personal protective equipment (PPE).  Key hospitals, including Yale New Haven Health, the University of Miami Health System and others, were early adopters of the VPS workstation and important collaborators in its implementation.”

    Capsule offers the VPS workstation to its U.S. customers, where Capsule Surveillance has FDA clearance.

     

    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 www.capsuletech.com.

    About Frost & Sullivan
    For six decades, Frost & Sullivan has been world-renowned for its role in helping investors, corporate leaders, and governments navigate economic changes and identify disruptive technologies, Mega Trends, new business models, and companies to action, resulting in a continuous flow of growth opportunities to drive future success. Contact us: Start the discussion.

     

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

    SOURCE Capsule Technologies

    Related Links

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    Posted 3.4.2021

  • Healthcare Industry Veteran Joins Clearwater as Vice President of Business Development

    New Role Designed to Help Healthcare Cyber Risk Management Leader Further Build Presence as Top Partner for Private Equity Firms and Attorneys

    NASHVILLE, TN (February 25, 2021) – Clearwater, the leading provider of Enterprise Cyber Risk Management and HIPAA Compliance solutions for the healthcare industry, announced today that Will Pendleton has joined the company as Vice President, Business Development. In this new role, Mr. Pendleton will focus on continuing to grow the company’s presence as a top partner to private equity firms and attorneys seeking to ensure their portfolio companies and clients have strong cybersecurity and HIPAA compliance programs.

    For the past four years in a row, Clearwater has been rated the top Compliance and Risk Management solutions provider in Black Book Market Research’s annual healthcare industry survey, which in 2020 received responses from 2,424 security professionals representing 705 provider organizations. Attorneys and private equity firms focused on the healthcare industry have long recognized Clearwater as a leader as well.

    “Based on all I’ve seen over the years, Clearwater’s risk analysis methodology and software are in the best-of-breed tier and can be seriously considered by any organization striving to meet regulatory requirements in performing HIPAA risk analysis,” says Leon Rodriguez, Former Director of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights and Partner, Seyfarth Shaw LP.

    Mr. Pendleton comes to Clearwater from Curex Capital, a biotech/pharma-focused hedge fund where he was responsible for the financial analysis of the company’s portfolio. Prior to his time at Curex, he managed corporate development activities for Cumberland Pharmaceuticals, a publicly traded pharmaceutical company. He also served as a sales executive for ExamOne, a Quest Diagnostics’ subsidiary. Mr. Pendleton is based in Nashville, TN, where he has lived since earning an MBA with honors from the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University.

    “We are very excited to bring Will on board and apply even greater focus and energy toward our work with attorneys and private equity firms,” says Clearwater’s Chief Sales Officer Dan Pruyn. “Healthcare attorneys recommend Clearwater to their clients because they know our solutions go deeper and further to protect their clients, and private equity firms are recognizing the same thing when it comes to protecting their portfolio companies.”

     

    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 3.4.2021

  • New Book Stop the Cyber Bleeding Provides Healthcare Board Members and Executives With Practical Guidance for Overseeing an Enterprise Cyber Risk Management Program

    As Cyberattacks Accelerate and Threaten Patient Safety, Industry Veteran Bob Chaput Shares Playbook to Help Healthcare Providers Combat Growing Problem

    NASHVILLE, TN (November 12, 2020) – Clearwater is proud to announce the publication of a new book by company Founder and Executive Chairman Bob Chaput focused on helping healthcare organizations combat the growing cybersecurity problem that continues to plague the industry. Available today via Amazon to consumers and IngramSpark to retailers for readers around the world, Stop the Cyber Bleeding delivers practical guidance drawn from Chaput’s nearly 40-year career in healthcare information technology and security designed to more deeply engage and empower senior leaders and board members at hospitals and health systems in the effort to make cyber risk management an enterprise-level priority.

    “’Cybersecurity’ is the kryptonite of too many healthcare company board meetings,” says Ralph W. Davis, serial healthcare board member/adviser and Operating Partner, The Vistria Group.

    “Otherwise intelligent and accomplished people can be intellectually paralyzed by the mere mention of the term. Yet, failure to appreciate cybersecurity risk and ensure appropriate resource allocation too often leads to an even more painful experience: the post-breach emergency meeting. In Stop the Cyber Bleeding, Bob Chaput clearly and concisely arms executives and board members with what they need to know and the questions they need to ask to exercise effective oversight in this critical area.”

    The book begins by delving into the healthcare cyber risk problem and the unique challenges facing healthcare organizations when it comes to managing that risk enterprisewide. From there, Chaput turns his attention to actions and outcomes, with guidance on essential terms that C-suite executives and board members must learn, six steps to establish or improve an Enterprise Cyber Risk Management (ECRM) program, and how to experience the ideal ECRM board meeting. Each chapter concludes with a series of discussion questions focused on advancing and elevating the conversation about how to reduce cyber risk.

    As Gartner Distinguished VP Analyst Paul Proctor wrote in the July 2020 research brief “Cybersecurity Must Be Treated as a Business Decision[1]”: “Organizations are focused on the wrong questions about cybersecurity.”

    “Talking about ECRM may seem technical and complex. And yes, it can be both,” Chaput writes in Stop the Cyber Bleeding. “But it is important to remember that the role of executive leadership and the board is to provide informed direction and oversight for the organization’s ECRM approach, activities, and strategy. It is not the board’s role to micromanage cybersecurity efforts in the field, but to provide leadership, guidance, and oversight that optimizes the organization’s cybersecurity efforts.”

    An educator at heart, Chaput has served on HealthCare’s Most Wired™ Survey Governance Board, and he was a contributing co-author to an American Society of Healthcare Risk Management academic textbook on the fundamentals of risk management released in October 2017. More recently, Chaput authored a chapter in the 2019 Wolter Kluwers’ Health Care Law Update entitled “Compliance Risk Management and Cyber Risk Management,” and in collaboration with Michael Whitman, Ph.D., CISM, CISSP, of Kennesaw State University, he co-authored the paper “Experiential Activities for Risk Management Education” which was published in the Fall 2020 issue of Journal of The Colloquium for Information System Security Education.

    Stop the Cyber Bleeding’s insights are based on what Chaput has learned throughout his distinguished career, which includes serving as a Chief Information Officer and Chief Information Security Officer in global healthcare organizations such as GE, Johnson & Johnson, and Healthways. He also has advised and supported hundreds of hospitals and health systems on cyber risk concerns.

    “I know from first-hand experience that the concepts, principles, and actions presented in Stop the Cyber Bleeding work to engage and inspire top leaders and board members alike to seriously take up the matter of cyber risk management as an enterprise issue,” says Gregory J. Ehardt, JD, LL.M, Vice President, Compliance and Privacy, CHRISTUS Health. “It’s terrific to see Bob codify his practical risk management skills, knowledge, and experience into a book that’s easy to read and use. His insightful treatment of the transformation required as a behavior change matter is incredibly relevant for healthcare organizations. Given the increasing cyber liabilities facing healthcare organizations and their C-suite executives and board members alike, Stop the Cyber Bleeding is a must-read today.”

    To learn more about the book and purchase a copy, visit https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08N5BTWJ9/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=%22stop+the+cyber+bleeding%22&qid=1605041968&sr=8-3.

     

    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.

    Gartner, Cybersecurity Must Be Treated as a Business Decision, July 2020

    Posted 3.4.2021

  • Impact Advisors Recognized in KLAS ERP Implementation Report

    Firm receives praise for positive client experiences 

    CHICAGO (March 1, 2021) —Impact Advisors, a leading healthcare consultancy providing strategy, operations, revenue cycle and technology services, has been recognized by KLAS in its ERP Implementation Report. The firm scored a 92.9* in the Implementation Leadership Firms category and was praised by clients for providing positive experiences

    “We are honored to be recognized in the KLAS ERP Implementation report,” said Lydon Neumann, vice president, Impact Advisors. “Healthcare leaders recognize the need to make strategic ERP decisions to contain costs and improve efficiencies and we are proud to work shoulder to shoulder with our clients to help them navigate the best solution for their organization.

    The Implementation Leadership Firms category includes organizations engaged to provide overall project leadership/management for projects of low-to-moderate complexity. Core competencies of these engagements include application implementation management, project management and technical expertise. In most cases, projects include some change management.

    According to the report, while newer to ERP implementations, Impact Advisors is seeing early success. Clients of Impact Advisors say the firm is a true partner and challenges them in positive ways. The firm is seen by respondents as strategic, skilled at project management, fair in pricing and good at coming in on budget.

    One client said, “I like that Impact Advisors brings seasoned resources. The best way I can describe the situation is that they bring the doers. I have worked with a lot of organizations that bring mini-doers, and too many people have to review all of the information, and there are too many layers. Impact Advisors quickly became embedded in our organization. They are more like partners and feel like they are part of us. The vendor challenges us, and I like to be challenged. I don’t know what I don’t know, and Impact Advisors knows the industry. There is a strong partnership, and that is why I find their services to be very valuable.”

    Impact Advisors offers high-valued ERP services as a Workday Services Partner and an Oracle Partner Network Member. The firm is an expert in maximizing the value of technological investments that address common ERP challenges such as obtaining economies of scale, producing consistent reporting, achieving synergy across various data sources, making agile decisions, and maintaining standard system access and security.

    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 3.1.2021

  • 314e Corporation named 2021 Top Performer for Technical Services by KLAS

    PLEASANTON, Calif., Feb. 26, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — 314e Corporation, a leader in Healthcare IT products and solutions announced today that it has been rated as one of the Top Performers in the Technical Services category, with a score of 96.2 in the Best in KLAS 2021 report.

    Technical Services includes data conversion, interfacing/integration (FHIR®-based innovations), implementing an HIE, healthcare analytics (data warehousing, cloud analytics, report writing), system design, build and enhancement, programming, database development, web portal design and implementation, setting up a security and privacy infrastructure, cybersecurity, and general IT support. 

    100% of our technical services customers interviewed by KLAS said that 314e’s services “Exceed Expectations” and that they would “Buy Again” from 314e. Our customers also said that 314e is “Clear with Costs” (does not nickel-and-dime) – 2021 Best in KLAS Report. 

    314e’s COO, Alok Sharma said, “We are thrilled that KLAS and our clients have ranked 314e as a top performer. This is a testament to our talented team that always puts the interests of our customers above everything else.”

    “Despite the challenges of 2020, we collected over 22,000 evaluations from healthcare IT leaders and decision makers this year,” said Adam Gale, president of KLAS. “Their perspectives are the backbone of this annual Best in KLAS report. I believe it represents the most comprehensive report of its kind in the industry.”

    About 314e Corporation
    314e is a healthcare IT product and solution company working with over 250 enterprise customers in the US and Canada. Since 2006, it has catered to healthcare providers, payers and life sciences companies, enabling their digital transformation journey via cloud adoption, big data, integration, digital learning, electronic health record optimization, and revenue cycle management.

    About KLAS
    Since 1996, KLAS has been providing accurate, honest and impartial insights to the healthcare IT (HIT) industry. The KLAS mission is to improve the world’s healthcare by amplifying the voice of providers and payers. Working with thousands of healthcare professionals, KLAS generates insights on software, services, and medical equipment to deliver comparison reports and reveal trends. To learn more about KLAS, visit www.KLASresearch.com.

    Media Contact
    Mimi Curiel
    314e Corporation
    [email protected] 
    (510) 371-6736

    Posted 3.1.2021

  • Care Journey Orchestration Tackles Healthcare’s Biggest Operational Challenges

    This innovative approach, already used in other industries, helps health systems refactor their costs, shift to be consumer-centric, and make reimbursement predictable, finds Frost & Sullivan

    SANTA CLARA, Calif. – March 1, 2021 –The economics of healthcare have been adversely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Virtualized care is promising to enhance patient convenience, but productivity is at an all-time low urging a fresh approach to address the sustainability of healthcare. Care Journey Orchestration is revolutionizing how health systems can build on their foundational electronic health record (EHR) to personalize care delivery for every patient, increasing productivity and ensuring appropriate, reimbursable activity. Significantly, it enables continuity in the hybrid virtual care experience, so care can be efficiently coordinated beyond the four walls of the physical care setting, choreographing care plans, decisions, visits, and activity meeting the consumer where they are.

    Frost & Sullivan’s latest thought leadership paper, 2021 Guide to Care Journey Orchestration, analyzes why leading health systems are adopting care journey orchestration platforms. It details how caregivers can leverage these solutions to stay ahead, boost margins, and enhance patient loyalty.

    To download the complimentary white paper, please visit: https://info.lumeon.com/care-journey-orchestration-frost-sullivan

    “Orchestration eliminates gaps between silos and allows health systems to raise quality, reduce cost, and personalize the care journey to the specific needs of the individual,” explained Daniel Ruppar, Healthcare & Life Sciences | Consulting Director at Frost & Sullivan. “A care journey orchestration platform enables health systems to enhance patient loyalty and outcomes while improving financial and operational performance.”

    “Lumeon’s cloud-based orchestration platform acts as an agility layer to supplement limited orchestration capabilities in the EHR,” added Robbie Hughes, chief executive officer at Lumeon. “It moves beyond the point solutions that exist today to eliminate fragmentation and extend care beyond the four walls of the hospital to drive significant cost savings. Overall, it helps care teams work at the top of their license by automating repetitive tasks, reducing care delivery costs, increasing productivity, and delighting patients with care delivered on their own terms.”

    Care journey orchestration brings a timely opportunity to:

    • Offer personalized, consumer-centric experiences.
    • Blend virtual and physical care into a single, coordinated journey.
    • Proactively coordinate tasks and decisions at the right time for every patient.
    • Guide patients proactively through a personalized pathway, increasing loyalty and quality.
    • Drive organizational behavior through a central command center that unifies and simplifies complex care infrastructure.

     

    About Frost & Sullivan

    For six decades, Frost & Sullivan has been world-renowned for its role in helping investors, corporate leaders and governments navigate economic changes and identify disruptive technologies, Mega Trends, new business models and companies to action, resulting in a continuous flow of growth opportunities to drive future success. Contact us: Start the discussion.

    Contact:
    Mariana Fernandez

    Corporate Communications

    P: +1 210 348 10 12

    E: [email protected]

    http://ww2.frost.com

    About Lumeon

    Lumeon’s care journey orchestration platform helps health systems scale efficient, effective care delivery both within and beyond their hospitals’ four walls.

    Lumeon’s industry-leading solutions address the needs of patient access, surgery, population health, amongst many others. They transform the EHR into an agile care delivery platform that navigates the patient along a personalized, adaptive care plan, coordinating the care team to deliver the right care, at the right time, every time. At every step along the journey, they harmonize care, communication, tasks, and decisions to increase compliance and productivity, free up capacity, and deliver superior outcomes at a reduced cost. 

    More than 70 health systems across 12 countries have deployed Lumeon’s multi-award-winning platform. www.lumeon.com 

    Posted 3.1.2021
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