• AT&T Teams Up with Navigil to Advance Wearable Technology

    October 27, 2021

    I come from a close-knit family. And like many of you, as my parents age, my siblings and I worry about them living on their own and their well-being. Now, with my mom recently diagnosed with cancer, that concern is even greater. But an announcement today from Navigil got me thinking about the role technology can play in helping our loved ones age in place while giving us, their caregivers, peace of mind.

    Navigil is a specialist in wearable products for older adults. The Finland-based company chose AT&T to connect its Navigil 580 wellness wristwatch in the U.S. With 10,000 people turning 65 every day in our country, 90% of them – my parents included – want to stay in their own homes as long as possible. Wearables like the Navigil wristwatch can help them do that. 

    The Navigil 580 looks like a regular analog watch, which is by design; no one, especially my mom, wants to wear a device that screams “I’m old.” But the watch is actually a mobile Personal Emergency Response System (mPERS) device and wellness tracker. It has embedded sensors and provides emergency messaging and automated alarms with location information. Just think how this could help with caring for a dementia patient. If the wearer gets lost, caregivers can see where the person is. Or consider the risk of a fall with an older adult. If the person can’t push the emergency button on the watch – say she loses consciousness – the watch automatically sends an alert to caregivers.

    The wristwatch also measures heart and respiratory rate. Monitoring these types of vitals is important for folks like my mom who have health issues. That’s why the battery life for mPERS devices is so critical. Because the Navigil wearable runs on our network designed for IoT (Internet of Things) devices and applications, it has extended battery life. In fact, the Navigil 580 can stay charged up to 4-weeks. That’s a gamechanger in the mPERS industry.

    With older adults, now more than ever, intent on living out their lives at home, tech solutions can play a key role. Maintaining their independence is what matters most to my parents. But peace of mind is just as important to my siblings and me. A wearable could be the happy compromise. (Note to self: add to my Christmas shopping list!)

    With the 65 and older population in the U.S. at more than 54 million and growing, I see a future filled with wearables. And who knows… a device like the Navigil wristwatch may just give our loved ones more time. 

    Posted 1.20.2022

  • AT&T Delivers Remote Patient Monitoring for High-Risk Patient

    AT&T, Samsung and Qure4u Team Up to Deliver Remote Patient Monitoring with FirstNet® for High-Risk Patients

    What’s the news?Qure4u, a leader in digital health solutions, is collaborating with AT&T* and Samsung to provide remote patient monitoring (RPM) for patients with high blood pressure. As part of this collaboration, Qure4u chose FirstNet®, Built with AT&T, to provide reliable and highly secure connectivity to support RPM kits and help expand access to care for vulnerable patients in rural and underserved areas.  

    Qure4u’s RPM solution is part of its MyCarePlan patient engagement and virtual care platform to manage comprehensive health. AT&T Professional Services is handling the set-up, delivery and management of the Qure4u ready-to-use RPM kits. The kits include a Bluetooth-enabled blood pressure cuff and the Samsung Galaxy Tab A7 Lite with mobile device management solution for enhanced security. The tablets transmit vitals from hypertension patients to their healthcare providers using the Qure4u platform, enabling care teams to closely monitor the patients. Hypertension can lead to two of the biggest killers in the U.S. – heart disease and stroke. Qure4u plans to include additional peripherals in the RPM kits as the program quickly grows.

    For patients, Qure4u’s RPM solution means easy access to improved healthcare with the peace of mind that comes from daily assurances and support. For healthcare providers, the benefits include ready access to patient data and the ability to act on it in near-real time; increased staffing efficiencies; better management of chronic conditions; and reimbursement.

     

    Why is this important?As the healthcare industry works to lower costs and produce better patient outcomes, it’s turning to technology and innovation like RPM. Reliable, highly secure connectivity is a must for doctors to access actionable patient health data which may help avoid preventable emergencies and manage chronic illnesses. That’s what FirstNet, Built with AT&T, delivers. FirstNet is the only nationwide, high-speed broadband communications platform dedicated to and purpose-built for America’s first responders and the extended public safety community. It’s Built with AT&T in a public-private partnership with the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet Authority) – an independent agency within the federal government.

    Qure4u joins FirstNet as an extended primary user – organizations and agencies that could be called on to help support public safety during emergency response. Extended primary users include healthcare, public works, essential government services, school security, transportation, and utilities. The work they are called on to perform ranges from mitigation, remediation, clean-up, and restoration to the provisioning of other services required during the time of an emergency or its aftermath. Eligibility for extended primary user status is rigorously reviewed before service is approved, to help ensure that FirstNet’s unique capabilities remain dedicated to first responders and those who support them.

     

    What are people saying?

    “More doctors are embracing remote patient monitoring,  because they’re realizing the many benefits. For patients, it’s about peace of mind and daily assurance and better quality of care. For doctors, it’s ease of access to patient data, the ability to act in near real-time, better efficiencies, and reimbursement. And at the core of this vital service is what AT&T is all about: creating reliable and highly secure connectivity. We keep the lines of communication open so healthcare professionals can communicate where and when it matters. We enable healthcare through connectivity.” – Joe Drygas, VP of AT&T Healthcare Industry Solutions

    “Secure, reliable connectivity is paramount to help ensure at-risk patients receive the high level of care they need. A quarter of the healthcare organizations Qure4u supports today are Federally Qualified Health Centers, community health centers, and critical access hospitals caring for rural patient populations. It’s vital that our platform can reach all of those patients, regardless of geographic, socioeconomic, or technological barriers. We can provide ubiquitous healthcare connectivity with FirstNet and AT&T, device partnerships with vendors committed to the field like Samsung, and lifecycle management for everything from kitting to order fulfillment. We are excited to collaborate on this mission to bring greater health equity to rural communities.” – Bradley Dick, Chief Information & Security Officer, Qure4u

    “Remote patient monitoring has the potential to transform the patient experience, improve health outcomes and save patients and providers money. Together with AT&T and Qure4U, we’ll be able to help high-risk patients in underserved, rural communities safely and securely monitor their health, empowering their doctors to make more informed decisions based on patient data.” – Dr. Hon Pak, Chief Medical Officer of Samsung Electronics America

    FirstNet and the FirstNet logo are registered trademarks of the First Responder Network Authority.  All other marks are the property of their respective owners. 

    Posted 1.20.2022

  • Smart Meter Remote Patient Monitoring Powered by AT&T IoT Connectivity Helps Improve Outcomes for Patients with Chronic Conditions

    Smart Meter IoT Devices in Remote Care Programs Dramatically Improve Health in 84% of Diabetes Patients and 88% of Hypertension Patients

    First-in-Class Smart Meter Cellular Pulse Oximeter to Debut at CES 2022

    What’s the news?AT&T* is teaming up with Smart Meter to improve health outcomes for patients with chronic conditions like diabetes and high blood pressure. Smart Meter supplies healthcare providers with cellular remote patient monitoring (RPM) devices and services, including the SmartRPM™ solution, iGlucose®, iBloodPressure 2.0™, iScale™ and soon, the iPulseOx™, being unveiled at CES 2022 in Las Vegas. These devices run on AT&T’s nationwide IoT network, known for its reliability and coverage.

    Chronic diseases are the leading causes of death in the U.S., and they’re on the rise. Hypertension can lead to 2 of the biggest killers in this country – heart disease and stroke – while diabetes ranks 7th for deaths. But studies show remote patient monitoring can help change this. For example, 84% of diabetes and 88%1 of hypertension patients at highest risk for severe disease complications experienced significant improvements in their health when using the Smart Meter iGlucose and iBloodPressure as part of RPM programs.

     

    Why is this important?Consistent use is a must for an effective RPM program. So, the simpler the solution, the more likely the patient will use it. Smart Meter’s cellular-enabled devices simplify RPM. They are an easy out-of-the-box solution; just insert the included batteries and press the start button. The monitoring devices contain IoT SIM cards, so they automatically send the patient’s data over the AT&T IoT network to the SmartRPM cloud. The healthcare provider then accesses the data there via secure log-in.

    Unlike cellular-enabled RPM devices, Bluetooth-enabled monitoring devices require the user to pair the device with a smartphone or tablet, download the data, and then send it to the doctor. It’s a more complicated solution that oftentimes involves troubleshooting. This can be intimidating and frustrating for users and can lead to them not continuing with the RPM program. Cellular RPM devices help lessen the technological divide and are more accessible to patients of all ages, regardless of digital literacy and access to connectivity.

     

    What are the benefits?

    For patients, Smart Meter’s cellular RPM devices mean easy access to improved healthcare with the peace of mind that comes from frequent assurances and support. For health care providers, the benefits include ready access to more complete patient data and the ability to act on it in near real-time, while automatic record keeping meets requirements for reimbursement.

    Because of these benefits, a growing number of doctors are embracing RPM. A recent survey found 43% of clinicians believe RPM adoption will be on par with in-patient monitoring in 5 years.

     

    What are people saying? “The iGlucose solution proved to be an outstanding resource for my clinical team to enable greater insights into our patients’ results between visits. More than 70% of participants required some form of intervention prior to their next in-office visit, and as a result, there was a reduction in emergency room visits and need for hospitalizations, demonstrating better overall diabetes care.” – Dr. Gail L. Nunlee-Bland, MD, Howard University Diabetes Treatment Center

    “Our collaboration with Smart Meter is another example of how our IoT connectivity is advancing connected healthcare. IoT-enabled devices ultimately provide a quicker and more convenient patient service with better outcomes for both the patient and the healthcare provider.” – Joe Drygas, VP of AT&T Healthcare Industry Solutions

    “As an early RPM innovator, Smart Meter has done extensive work to drive the best outcomes by improving patient engagement and adherence, and our cellular alliance with AT&T has been a large part of our success.” – Casey Pittock, Smart Meter CEO

    Posted 1.20.2022

  • CloudWave Strengthens Healthcare Cloud Market Leadership in 2021

    As Cloud Adoption Continues to Explode, CloudWave’s Secure Enterprise Cloud and Managed Services Help Healthcare Organizations with Any Electronic Health Record Service Architect, Build, and Integrate a Customized Solution

    Marlborough, MA (January 18, 2022) – CloudWave, the largest independent cloud and managed services software hosting provider in healthcare, announced the company has closed out 2021 with record success. Notable milestones include strong growth in terms of its customers, internal team, and partnerships.

    As the healthcare industry continues to rapidly adopt cloud services to provide the benefits of guaranteed uptime, easy access, and strong security, CloudWave continues to strengthen its leadership position. Through its multi-cloud approach, CloudWave helps hospitals architect, build, and integrate a personalized solution using managed private cloud, public cloud, and cloud edge resources. Its OpSus Cloud Services support more than 125 EHR, clinical, and enterprise applications.

    The company added nearly 50 hospital environments to the OpSus Cloud in 2021 for fully-managed compute, storage, disaster recovery, archiving, backup, or security—bringing its total number of hospitals and healthcare organizations served to nearly 240. In addition to new customers, numerous existing customers renewed or expanded their relationship with CloudWave throughout 2021.

    CloudWave has also made significant investments in expanding its world-class team of healthcare IT experts—scaling the organization to meet growing market demand—including the addition of Tim Quigley as chief client officer alongside a 25% growth in its engineering team and a nearly 20% growth in the cloud team. CloudWave was also selected by Modern Healthcare as one of the 2021 Best Places to Work in Healthcare. 

    “CloudWave customers are transforming their operations through the adoption of cloud, and we are in a great position to help them successfully do that based on our extensive industry experience,” said Erik Littlejohn, president and CEO, CloudWave. “One of the reasons customers choose CloudWave is brand reputation. Our relationships with customers have always been at the center of what we do, and we are going to continue investing in tools, programs, and resources to enhance the customer experience in 2022 and beyond.”

    In 2021 CloudWave also announced a partnership with Vital Images, Inc., a Canon Group Company and the healthcare industry’s leader in enterprise imaging solutions. Together, CloudWave and Vital will deliver secure enterprise imaging as a cloud-based service, featuring options for fully hosted, multi-cloud, and local cloud edge deployments, with systems management, replication, disaster recovery and data protection solutions delivered from the OpSus Healthcare Cloud.

     

    About CloudWave

    CloudWave is a cloud and managed services provider that delivers a multi-cloud approach, helping healthcare organizations with any electronic health record (EHR) service architect, build, and integrate a personalized solution using managed private cloud, public cloud, and cloud edge resources. As the largest, most experienced, and trusted independent software hosting provider in healthcare, CloudWave delivers enterprise cloud services to more than 200 hospitals and healthcare organizations, supporting 125+ EHR, clinical, and enterprise applications. With decades of experience in disaster recovery and backup, CloudWave can support a wide variety of healthcare IT initiatives that require scalability, reliability, and security.

    The company’s OpSus cloud services provide managed hosting, end-to-end disaster recovery, systems management, security, backup, and archiving services that are fully supported by around-the-clock Network and Security Operations Centers staffed by certified healthcare IT and security professionals in the USA. CloudWave also provides secure, cloud-based enterprise imaging as-a-service in partnership with Canon Medical, to help hospitals store, analyze, protect, and share medical images. To learn more visit www.gocloudwave.com

     

    Media Contact
    Jill Colna
    SVM PR
    [email protected]

    Posted 1.19.2022

  • Cerner Executive Appointed to National Health Information Technology Advisory Committee

    Published on December 22, 2021

    Cerner announced the appointment by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) of Hans Buitendijk, Director of Interoperability Strategy at Cerner, to the National Health Information Technology Advisory Committee (HITAC).

    Established as part of the 21st Century Cures Act in 2016, HITAC provides recommendations to the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology on policies, standards, implementation specifications, and certification criteria relating to the implementation of a health information technology infrastructure, nationally and locally, that advances the electronic access, exchange and use of health information. The Advisory Committee focuses on the priorities of achieving a health IT infrastructure both nationally and locally; promoting and protecting privacy and security of health information; and, facilitating secure access by an individual and approved family and caregivers to the individual’s protected health information.

    “I’m honored to be appointed to HITAC to help shape the future of interoperability and enhance the caregiver and patient accessibility to health records,” said Buitendijk. “The Advisory Committee is a key source of information for ONC as they consider how to progress their roadmap, learn about IT capabilities on the horizon and gain multidisciplinary industry feedback. Being able to provide the EHR community perspective on behalf of Cerner and EHRA is critical given the health data we have available and as key enablers of interoperability.”  

    Buitendijk’s new term begins Jan. 1, 2022. At Cerner, Buitendijk leads the strategy that focuses on establishing and propagating industry standards to enable interoperability across health IT systems. He represents Cerner in various industry initiatives to advance interoperability, such as HL7, CommonWell Health Alliance, Carequality and The Sequoia Project, and serves as the chair of the Electronic Health Record Association’s (EHRA) executive committee. He received his Master of Science in Management Science and Industrial Engineering from the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands.

    “Cerner is proud to have Hans represent us and provide insights on behalf of the EHR industry as part of HITAC,” said Sam Lambson, vice president of interoperability, Cerner. “He has decades of technology expertise and is an excellent selection to help guide important interoperability policies and standards.”

    Posted 1.19.2022

  • Innovaccer Offers New “Public Health Command Center” at No Cost to Public Health Departments and Hospitals to Assist with Omicron Surge

    Innovaccer offers a ready-to-deploy solution that provides operational analytics, actionable insights, and clinically contextual patient engagement to help hospitals manage capacity, optimize operations, and improve care experiences and outcomes.

    HELP!  That’s the cry of hospitals across the country, posting to social media and publishing advertisements as they are crushed by the Omicron surge. Like déjà vu, hospitals are again struggling with overrun ERs and ICUs, a lack of beds, staff shortages, supply shortages, and canceled elective surgeries, all driven by a relentless surge of COVID-19 cases.

    Innovaccer, the Health Cloud company, is responding to healthcare’s plea for help with the launch of the Public Health Command Center, an innovative solution designed to help hospitals fight the pandemic more effectively at scale. It seamlessly integrates Innovaccer’s proven COVID-19 Command Center with a COVID-focused version of Innovaccer’s new Patient Relationship Management solution. And it’s available at no cost to public health departments and hospitals for the first three months of use.

    The Public Health Command Center provides insights, triaging, navigation, and education tools to help healthcare organizations mitigate rapidly developing COVID-19 trends and better manage capacity, treatment, and follow-up—all in a bid to reduce the pressure on hospital systems while improving patient care and outcomes for communities.

    • Insights: Monitor community trends on hotspots, caseloads, inventory requirements, resource requirements, and social determinants of health data to create early warning systems.
    • Triaging: Triage patients virtually through simple COVID assessments by sending automated self-assessments based on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines to phones, and assess community risk.
    • Navigation: Empower call centers with the best course of action through a web-based contact center solution that enables proactive outreach, care navigation, and issue resolution.
    • Education: Combat panic and promote vaccinations with education by sharing CDC recommended resources with communities by text, email, and recorded voice messages.

    Hospitals can leverage the Public Health Command Center’s ready-made dashboards to track patient flow, inventory levels, bed capacity, testing capacity, and positive patient demographics—and they can easily generate reports for the CDC. They can also use the Public Health Command Center’s outreach and cloud contact center modules to better coordinate patient care.

    Powered by the Innovaccer Health Cloud®_platform, the new Public Health Command Center provides a unified information hub for users to manage their COVID-19 resources by seamlessly integrating data from EHRs, supply chains, human resources, and financial systems.

    Innovaccer’s Public Health Command Center is now available to public health departments and healthcare organizations at absolutely no cost for the first three months of use. A completely cloud-based service, the solution can be deployed in any hospital system in just a matter of weeks. Public health and healthcare organizations should contact Innovaccer now to get started immediately.

     

    About Innovaccer

    Innovaccer Inc., the Health Cloud company, is a leading San Francisco-based healthcare technology company committed to helping healthcare care as one. The InnovaccerⓇ Health Cloud unifies patient data across systems and settings, and empowers healthcare organizations to rapidly develop scalable, modern applications that improve clinical, operational, and financial outcomes. Innovaccer’s solutions have been deployed across more than 1,000 care settings in the U.S., enabling more than 37,000 providers to transform care delivery and work collaboratively with payers and life sciences companies. Innovaccer has helped organizations unify health records for more than 24 million people and generate more than $600 million in savings. For more information, please visit innovaccer.com.

     

    Press Contact:

    Sachin Saxena

    Innovaccer Inc.

    ​[email protected]

    415-504-3851

    Posted 1.18.2022

  • CHIME Launches Online Graduate Programs in Digital Health Through New CHIME University

    ANN ARBOR, MI, Jan. 13, 2022 — The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) is delighted to announce the opening of a new degree-granting university for digital health professionals as CHIME University’s graduate programs begin in January 2022.
     
    CHIME has built an exceptional reputation in professional education for 30 years, offering certifications to leaders in healthcare information technology fields. On January 31, online classes will begin for CHIME’s first graduate education programs: the new Master of Digital Healthcare and Doctor of Digital Healthcare degrees. These degrees are offered by CHIME University, CHIME’s arm for professional and graduate education, which has received authorization to operate as a degree-granting university. CHIME University’s programs will be open to learners in many states across the U.S., as well as to learners in selected international locations.
     
    The two graduate programs are structured to provide the practical and conceptual expertise needed to assist learners to advance personal leadership in Digital Health.
     
    Classes are taught by faculty teams that include healthcare executives with significant career experience and a passion for teaching. Each faculty team is led by a faculty member with a doctoral degree; thus, learners benefit from the instruction of both academic and industry experts.
     
    CHIME-U degrees are all self-paced and affordable. This in-depth, relevant and rigorous program is available completely online and at the student’s convenience. Program features include Case Studies, Scenario-Based Learning, Gamification, Course Test-Out Assessments, Optional Graduate Seminars with Faculty, and access to invitation-only, in-person CHIME events.
     
    Both programs will have rolling enrollment, allowing learners to start at any time throughout the year and proceed at their own pace. 
     
    CHIME University is committed to offering students the opportunity to further their education without incurring extensive debt. CHIME University therefore provides its master’s degree and doctorate degree programs at a competitive and affordable tuition rate. Standard total tuition for each academic degree program will be $12,000, with a special member rate for CHIME members, CHIME Foundation members and other CHIME-affiliated organizations. There are no additional fees or costs associated with the programs.
     
    Learners in authorized states who have indicated their interest in programs at CHIME University may apply for admission now. To see the list of authorized states, click here. (Learners should check for more information in coming months regarding additional states in which CHIME University’s programs may be offered.) Interested learners outside the United States may also express interest in admission to degree programs and will be advised on whether they are eligible to enroll according to the laws of their country of residence.
     
    Graduate classes will begin on January 31, 2022, and admissions are always open due to the self-paced nature of the courses.
     
    For more information and to apply for admission, visit www.chimeuniversity.org
     
    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 digital health leaders. CHIME includes more than 5,000 members in 56 countries and two U.S. territories and partners with over 160 healthcare IT businesses and professional services firms. CHIME and its three associations provide a highly interactive, trusted environment that enables senior industry leaders to collaborate, exchange best practices, address professional development needs and advocate for effective use of information management to improve health and care in their communities. For more information, please visit chimecentral.org.
     
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    Posted 1.13.2022

  • Innovaccer Raises $150 Million Series E Round at $3.2 Billion Valuation, Continues Rapid Growth Trajectory

    The Innovaccer Health Cloud achieves swift adoption as healthcare’s new platform for accelerating digital transformation

    Company announces new Innovation Accelerators to help customers tackle the most common and high-impact clinical, operational, and financial use cases

    SAN FRANCISCO, December 15, 2021—Innovaccer Inc. announced a $150 million Series E round at a $3.2 billion valuation, driven by rapid customer adoption of the Innovaccer Health Cloud. The round was led by Mubadala Capital, with participation from existing investors B Capital Group, Microsoft’s M12 fund, OMERS Growth Equity, Dragoneer, Steadview Capital, Tiger Global Management, and new investors Whale Rock Capital Management, Avidity Partners, and Schonfeld Strategic Advisors. Innovaccer’s Series E round brings the total capital raised by the company to over $375 million.

    At a time when healthcare organizations around the world are rapidly digitizing and transforming the way they deliver patient care, Innovaccer has embarked on a mission to connect and curate the world’s healthcare information to make it accessible and useful. Founded in 2014, Innovaccer has built the Innovaccer Health Cloud, a complete software platform used by leading healthcare organizations—including Orlando Health, MercyOne, and CommonSpirit Health—that unifies previously siloed data and helps them achieve better care quality at lower cost.

    “We’ve reached a turning point in healthcare, where the world of fragmented, fee-for-service ‘sick care’ is giving way to a new world of integrated, value-based, preventive care,” said Abhinav Shashank, cofounder and CEO of Innovaccer. “The electronic health record (EHR) brought healthcare into the digital world, but in many ways it has become an impediment to digital transformation due to its rigid architecture and lack of interoperability. Providers, payers, and life sciences companies recognize the urgent need for a new, open platform that brings all healthcare data together to provide a singular view of the patient, and enables friction-free care across the entire patient journey. This is the future of health everyone wants, and this is exactly what we are building with the Innovaccer Health Cloud.”

    “We have been investors in Innovaccer since 2019, and believe that the company has all the necessary pillars to define the new gold standard of how the Health Cloud should be implemented by providers, payers, and life sciences companies,” said Alaa Halawa, Partner and Head of the U.S. Ventures business at Mubadala Capital. “Hundreds of tech companies have tried to create a common data framework to connect the healthcare industry, but they all fell short due to extreme industry complexities or technology challenges. But in just a few short years, Innovaccer has built the most successful data activation platform in the healthcare industry as proven by record rates of industry adoption. Innovaccer is likely the first and only company since the invention of the EHR that has the opportunity to unify the healthcare ecosystem.”

     

    Innovaccer achieves critical mass in the healthcare ecosystem

    To date, Innovaccer has signed more than 50 customers, including recent wins with One Medical, Roche, CommonSpirit Health, Franciscan Health, Dayton Children’s Health Partners, St. Luke’s Health System, Sentara Healthcare, Adventist Health, Children’s Health Alliance, Premier Health, Atlantic Health System, Providence, Cityblock Health, Florence Health, and Zus Health, among others. Innovaccer’s ability to help its customers accelerate their transformation and innovation goals is at the core of its value proposition.

    “Our collaboration with Innovaccer is creating a new generation of clinical decision support tools across a wide range of use cases—from antimicrobial stewardship to oncology—that will empower clinicians to deliver more precise, personalized care,” said Sukhveer Singh, Global Head of Healthcare Insights, Roche Information Solutions. “We see huge potential to create new value for patients and clinicians. The Innovaccer Health Cloud will allow us to accelerate time-to-market and build perpetual innovation into our solution portfolio, positioning Roche to extend our legacy of clinical innovation.”

    Innovaccer plans to use its new funding to invest in R&D and recruit new hires as it rapidly scales its customer experience, product, and engineering talent. The company intends to release a new portfolio of Innovation Accelerators in 2022 that will help healthcare organizations tackle the most common and high-impact use cases in a fraction of the time associated with traditional methods and technologies.

     

    About Innovaccer

    Innovaccer Inc., the Health Cloud company, is a leading San Francisco-based healthcare technology company committed to helping healthcare care as one. The InnovaccerⓇ Health Cloud unifies patient data across systems and settings, and empowers healthcare organizations to rapidly develop scalable, modern applications that improve clinical, operational, and financial outcomes. Innovaccer’s solutions have been deployed across more than 1,000 care settings in the U.S., enabling more than 37,000 providers to transform care delivery and work collaboratively with payers and life sciences companies. Innovaccer has helped organizations unify health records for more than 24 million people and generate more than $600 million in savings. For more information, please visit innovaccer.com.

     

    Press Contact:

    Sachin Saxena

    Innovaccer Inc.

    ​[email protected]

    415-504-3851

    Posted 1.12.2022

  • Pivot Point Consulting Issues 2022 Healthcare IT Directions Report Featuring Important Trends in Healthcare

    The Great Resignation, Virtual and Remote Care, Transforming Public Health Infrastructure and The Retail Health Revolution Identified as Major Trends to Impact Healthcare in 2022

    NASHVILLE, Tenn., Jan. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Pivot Point Consulting, a Vaco Company and #1 Best in KLAS Overall IT Services Firm (2020), today released its first Healthcare IT Directions Report, underscoring four trends certain to drive health IT decisions in 2022.

    Pivot Point Consulting’s team of experts studied and identified four trends at the top of their list for 2022 including The Great Resignation, Virtual and Remote Care, Transforming Public Health Infrastructure, and The Retail Health Revolution. As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact healthcare and our country, health IT leaders should prepare for changing workforce dynamics, expanding modalities of virtual care, the transformative effect of investment of public health infrastructure and omni-channel competition. 

    The 2022 Healthcare IT Directions Report provides insights and recommendations to help leaders frame strategies, drive innovation and operate efficiently in an unpredictable, rapidly evolving environment.  

    The Great Resignation:
    Nearly 1 in 5 healthcare workers have quit their jobs since February 2020. Among those who have kept their jobs in the healthcare field, 31% of them have considered leaving, and nearly 80% of healthcare workers’ places of work have been affected by the national worker shortage.

    • Analysis: The impact of the Great Resignation on healthcare is widespread and still not fully understood. Healthcare leaders, including those in information technology (IT), are challenged with the new talent market.
    • Takeaway: Organizations should evaluate and use hybrid staffing and Managed Services to establish fixed operating costs and reduce staffing risks.

    Virtual and Remote Care
    The pandemic accelerated the adoption of telehealth and virtual care services with research indicating the telehealth market size will reach nearly $556 billion by 2027.  Beyond telehealth, approximately 200 health systems have adopted the CMS Hospital at Home model for acute care to date, a recent study revealed approximately 20% of hospitals and health clinics are currently using RPM and 43% say they believe that RPM adoption will be on par with in–patient monitoring in five years.

    • Analysis: When determining 2022 virtual care investments, health IT leaders must understand the broad scope of potential services and technologies, patient demand for various types of services, differences in patient populations, and access enablers (as well as limiters).
    • Takeaway: To establish strongholds in the virtual care space, healthcare organizations should market services to a broader geographic footprint, investment in solutions to further unify virtual care and embed it into delivery models, integrate and visualize telehealth and RPM data, build a dedicated RPM program, and reduce the barriers to care.

    Transforming Public Health Infrastructure
    COVID-19 has shifted how we perceive and receive care, increased staff burnout, made remote work a possibility for millions and fostered rapid, broad innovation in solutions and services. The pandemic also sheds light on the nation’s fragile public health infrastructure and is helping secure much-needed funding and transformation. 

    • Analysis: The evolving Build Back Better Act allocates significant funds for public health to expand the country’s social safety, with significant funds directed towards public health.
    • Takeaway:The impact of investment and transformation of our Public Health System will be pervasive – from increasing and easing data access and reporting to shifts in career opportunities across the private and public sectors.

    The Retail Health Revolution
    It started in 2016-17 with Walgreens and CVS deploying Epic to thousands of care sites. Amazon took center stage in 2020-21 with bold moves in telemedicine and patient wearables, along with plans for rapid expansion of physical clinics across major metro areas. In September 2021, Walmart announced it would deploy Epic to 4,000 sites by 2029.

    • Analysis:The deployment of EHRs in retail sites and increasing accessibility to and interoperability of data will continue to fuel the retail revolution at a pace that will compromise traditional healthcare providers as strongholds in many communities.
    • Takeaway:Organizations should double down digital strategy and services and offer a frictionless end-to-end patient experience that will be a differentiator and competitive advantage over the convenience of retail healthcare.

    “The ongoing pandemic presents lingering obstacles and monumental shifts for providers, payers, and patients, including the fundamental change to health IT. The market needs solutions,” said Rachel Marano, Pivot Point Consulting Managing Partner and Co-Founder. “With a volatile health IT labor market, permanent demand for digital and consumer-focused care, and evolving public health infrastructure, health IT leaders need a game plan to navigate and succeed in 2022.  I look forward to sharing our experts’ research and guidance to help IT leaders frame strategies, drive innovation and operate efficiently in an unpredictable, rapidly evolving environment.”

     

    About Pivot Point Consulting
    Pivot Point Consulting, 2020 #1 Best in KLAS: Overall IT Services Firm, enables healthcare organizations to realize the most value from their technology and resources through EHR, ERP, Strategy, Virtual Care, Data Analytics, Cybersecurity, Service Desk, Application Support and Revenue Cycle Management services. Our experts deliver consulting, managed services and talent solutions to providers, payers, life sciences and technology organizations.

    Media Contact:
    Kim Warth, Amendola Communications, [email protected]

    SOURCE Pivot Point Consulting

    Posted 1.12.2022

  • HCA Healthcare Chief Health Information Officer Jim Jirjis and MEDITECH Receive 2021 CHIME Collaboration Award

    ANN ARBOR, MI, Jan. 11, 2022 — Artificial intelligence that assists healthcare providers to make customized antibiotic choices for a patient’s pneumonia — digitally-enabled teamwork between pharmacists and physicians to ensure patients get the right medications — a National Response Portal to track disease hot spots at a county and state level. All these advances in digital health were developed by outstanding collaboration between one healthcare organization and a technology solutions provider. For these contributions and many others, the College of Information Management Executives (CHIME) has honored Jim Jirjis, chief health information officer of HCA Healthcare, and MEDITECH with the 2021 CHIME Collaboration Award for their partnership.

    The CHIME Collaboration Award is given annually to recognize a CIO who is a CHIME member and a CHIME Foundation firm who together offer a benefit to the healthcare IT community. The winners are given an opportunity to share their innovative collaboration and its outcomes with CHIME members for possible application in other healthcare environments.

    “Dr. Jirjis and the team at MEDITECH have proven that quality of care advances rapidly when providers and their industry partners combine their expertise,” said CHIME Foundation Board Chair Shafiq Rab, MD, EVP and Chief Digital Officer for Wellforce. “The depth of knowledge of these leaders, applied to the real-world environment of frontline healthcare, creates an ideal incubator for cutting-edge ideas.”

    The decades-long partnership between HCA Healthcare and MEDITECH has produced recent innovations with industry-wide applications such as the INSPIRE Antimicrobial Stewardship Program, which used a clinical trial, smart prompts and custom code to ensure accuracy in medication recommendations for pneumonia patients. Medication management efficiency and accuracy took a leap forward when the two organizations collaborated on a system that allowed pharmacists to draft a patient’s discharge medication reconciliation as “pending,” to be confirmed only after a physician’s required review. HCA Healthcare assisted in developing the National Response Portal (NRP) in collaboration with MEDITECH’s cloud partner Google in order to power data-driven insights from geographic metrics from the nation’s hospitals to help end the COVID-19 crisis.

    “MEDITECH is a longtime partner of HCA Healthcare, and we are honored to be recognized by CHIME for our collaboration that has led to clinical advancements,” said Dr. Jim Jirjis, chief health information officer of HCA Healthcare.

     “We have high regard for the success of HCA Healthcare,” said Executive Vice President Helen Waters of MEDITECH. “Throughout our multiple decades of partnership, they have proven you can be both focused on quality healthcare and fiscal responsibility while driving impactful innovation. This award is an acknowledgment of our collaborative efforts leveraging the latest digital advancements and data analytics to improve clinical practices and deliver proven results. HCA Healthcare has always been a visionary leader through their strong assessment of the market and experience working with all major EHR players. We are honored by their continued vote of confidence in MEDITECH as we press forward together.”

    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 digital health leaders. CHIME includes more than 5,000 members in 56 countries and two U.S. territories and partners with over 160 healthcare IT businesses and professional services firms. CHIME and its three associations provide a highly interactive, trusted environment that enables senior industry leaders to collaborate, exchange best practices, address professional development needs and advocate for effective use of information management to improve health and care in their communities. For more information, please visit chimecentral.org.

    About HCA Healthcare

    Nashville-based HCA Healthcare is one of the nation’s leading providers of healthcare services comprising 183 hospitals and approximately 2,000 ambulatory sites of care, including surgery centers, freestanding ERs, urgent care centers, and physician clinics, in 20 states and the United Kingdom. With its founding in 1968, HCA Healthcare created a new model for hospital care in the United States, using combined resources to strengthen hospitals, deliver patient-focused care and improve the practice of medicine. HCA Healthcare has conducted a number of clinical studies, including one that demonstrated that full-term delivery is healthier than early elective delivery of babies and another that identified a clinical protocol that can reduce bloodstream infections in ICU patients by 44 percent. HCA Healthcare is a learning health system that uses its more than 32 million annual patient encounters to advance science, improve patient care and save lives. Please click here to connect with HCA Healthcare on social media.

    About MEDITECH

    MEDITECH has driven EHR innovation during every stage of the industry’s evolution. Today, MEDITECH helps healthcare organizations around the world expand their vision of what’s possible with MEDITECH Expanse, a web-based EHR setting new standards for usability, efficiency, and clinician satisfaction. MEDITECH software is used by a quarter of all hospitals in the U.S., nearly half of all Canadian hospitals, and healthcare organizations in 23 countries. MEDITECH supports healthcare in every setting, from acute centers and ambulatory practices to home health and hospice, long-term care facilities, patients’ homes and beyond. KLAS has rated MEDITECH Expanse the #1 EHR in three categories and the #2 Overall Software Suite. For more, visit ehr.MEDITECH.com, find MEDITECH Podcasts on your favorite podcast app, and follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn.

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    Contact

    Rosslyn Elliott
    Editor, Communications & Media Relations, CHIME
    734.275.0104
    [email protected]

    Posted 1.10.2022

  • AEHIS ANNOUNCES INCOMING 2022 BOARD MEMBERS AND BOARD CHAIR

    ANN ARBOR, MI, Jan. 6, 2021 – The Association for Executives in Healthcare Information Security (AEHIS) is delighted to announce the names of five new CIO members and two new Foundation member representatives who will join the AEHIS Board of Trustees in January 2022.

    “AEHIS is growing at this crucial time when cybersecurity issues have taken center stage in healthcare and all sectors globally, and we are delighted to expand our Board with these outstanding new members,” said David Finn, vice president of AEHIS. “Their combined expertise will be of immense help as we continue our service to senior IT security leaders in healthcare and our industry partners. Security is a strategic function of any business today. In healthcare, information security is an absolute must to keep patients safe, keep data available and provide care. Our Board Members are highly experienced and dedicated security professionals, and their work will be of great importance as AEHIS advocates for better cybersecurity on a national level and works to strengthen leaders across the industry to meet new challenges.”

    Effective immediately, the newly elected members of the AEHIS Board of Trustees are:

    Saad Chaudhry, CIO, Luminis Health
    Dan Dodson, CEO, Fortified Health Security
    Keith Duemling, Director, Cybersecurity Technology, Cleveland Clinic
    Vikas Khosla, Chief Digital Health Officer, Intraprise Health
    Jackie Mattingly, CISO, Owensboro Health
    Teresa Tonthat, VP, IT & CISO, Texas Children’s Hospital
    Dee Young, CISO, UNC Health

    Continuing in service to the Board and assuming a new role as Board Chair:

    Sri Bharadwaj, VP, Digital Innovation & Applications, Franciscan Health.

    Other AEHIS Board Members who will continue to serve in 2022/2023 are:

    Vikrant Arora, CISO, Hospital for Special Surgery
    Jeff Bontsas, VP, Information Security & CISO – Ascension Technologies
    Scott Breece, CISO, Cerner
    Will Long, CISO, First Health Advisory
    Wes Wright, CTO, Imprivata

    In 2022, AEHIS will bring back in-person CISO Boot Camps, which were on hold during the pre-vaccination phase of the pandemic. AEHIS will also expand collaborations such as the recently announced partnership with CyberRisk Alliance that will offer enriched resources to AEHIS members. New digital media initiatives and solutions for C-suite and other executive/leadership level professionals will expand participation and engagement in the Digital Health Community.

    About AEHIS
    The Association for Executives in Healthcare Information Security (AEHIS) launched in 2014 as the first professional organization serving healthcare’s senior IT security leaders. AEHIS offers CISOs and other top-ranking information security leaders the professional development and networking opportunities critical for their success. Members have access to educational resources and support for addressing key industry-specific privacy and security issues.

    Formed under the auspices of CHIME, the premier executive organization dedicated to supporting Chief Information Officers (CIOs) and other senior healthcare IT leaders, AEHIS benefits its members as it upholds CHIME’s 30-year history of delivering relevant, high-quality executive education and networking opportunities.

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    Contact
    Rosslyn Elliott
    Editor, Communications & Media Relations
    734.275.0104
    [email protected]

    Posted 1.6.2022

  • LeanTaaS named a ‘Flagship Vendor’ for Operational Excellence in Chilmark Research Market Trends Report on Augmented Intelligence for Healthcare Operations

    Report cites LeanTaaS as the leader in both market execution and product capabilities among all rated vendors

    SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Dec. 21, 2021 — LeanTaaS, Inc., a Silicon Valley software innovator that increases patient access and transforms operational performance for healthcare providers, today announced it has been named as a Flagship Vendor for Operational Excellence / Asset Optimization in the latest report from Chilmark Research, Augmented Intelligence for Healthcare Operations. This new 2021 report highlights 10 enterprise AI4Ops solutions, which include all activities linked to healthcare operations (hospital operations, discharge planning, revenue cycle management, and supply chains). This emerging category of the industry is experiencing explosive growth, with a CAGR of 40% forecast over the next 5 years as mature solutions like those from LeanTaaS effectively demonstrate the significant ROI of their client implementations.

    LeanTaaS is featured in the Hospital Operations & Asset Optimization category of the report, where Chilmark highlights the company’s strengths, including LeanTaaS’s competitive edge over tools created by EHR vendors and impressive use cases at the majority of the top 20 health systems in the U.S. LeanTaaS received the highest marks in the report, ranking as the leader in both market execution and product capabilities among all rated vendors.

    Select highlights from the report can be found in this excerpt and include:

    • One of the top market differentiators for LeanTaaS is its significant demonstrable ROI at 120+ health systems across 40+ states.
    • Another key differentiator for LeanTaaS is its ability to match variable supply and variable demand for assets in a manner that EHRs cannot accomplish;
    • LeanTaaS’s iQueue suite of solutions have both a market-leading pricing model and implementation strategy;
    • LeanTaaS’s clients, on average, recoup investment in 3-6 months post-implementation.
    • The iQueue suite of solutions is deployed remotely and relatively easy to implement without the need for significant hospital IT resources nor vendor consulting staff and fees; and
    • The platform is highly scalable and offers impressive ROI in a short time duration. LeanTaaS offers a money back guarantee, evidence of a mature pricing model. It has been an invaluable tool during the COVID-19 crisis with managing beds, surgical backlogs, and staffing optimization.

    When asked about the findings of the research, author and lead analyst Jody Ranck had this to say about the current market trends, “While there has been a great deal of focus on virtual care and the pandemic, a lesser-known story is the significant role of AI for operations platforms in helping hospitals and providers meet the financial, scheduling, and supply chain challenges wrought by COVID-19. The solutions available today are surprisingly more mature than many other application areas for AI and machine learning.”

    LeanTaaS’s AI and ML based solutions have now been deployed in more than 475 hospitals across the U.S., including 40% of the top 25 health systems in the country, based on net patient revenue. These hospitals use LeanTaaS’s iQueue platform to optimize capacity utilization in infusion centers, operating rooms, and inpatient beds. iQueue for Infusion Centers is used by 9,900+ chairs across 485+ infusion sites including 80% of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN). iQueue for Operating Rooms is used by more than 2,400 ORs across 43 health systems to perform more surgical cases during business hours, increase competitiveness in the marketplace, and improve the patient experience. LeanTaaS’s newest product, iQueue for Inpatient Beds, is now live at 15 hospitals across 3 major academic healthcare systems (totaling 4,002 inpatient beds) to help address inpatient capacity bottlenecks and increase confidence in managing unplanned variability.

    “We’ve experienced an impressive +40% growth during the pandemic period thanks to our mission of improving patient access and operational performance by optimizing costly, constrained healthcare resources, which has been a top priority for hospital and health system executives in today’s challenging healthcare environment,” said Mohan Giridharadas, LeanTaaS founder and CEO. “This report represents the breadth of LeanTaaS’s capabilities, features, and incredible partners we’ve worked closely with throughout the past decade and, more recently, the past two years.”

    The report comes on the heels of recent momentum including a second successful Transform Hospital Operations Virtual Summit and two major award wins with CB Insights and BIG Award for Business. Additionally, LeanTaaS recently announced details about its significant growth during the pandemic period, demonstrating heightened need to provide tools that reduce costs and transform the healthcare experience for providers and patients alike.

    The Augmented Intelligence for Healthcare Operations report is available to subscribers of the Chilmark Advisory Service or may be purchased separately. For more information, visit the sales page or send direct inquiries to John Moore III.

     

    About Chilmark

    Founded in 2007, Chilmark Research is a global research and advisory firm that is solely focused on the market for healthcare IT solutions. Everything we do is based on our core belief that healthcare information technology (HIT) plays a crucial role in improving the quality and efficiency of care. We foster the effective adoption, deployment, and use of HIT by providing objective, high-quality research into technologies with the greatest potential to improve care. This laser-sharp focus allows us to provide our clients with the most in-depth and accurate research on the critical technology and adoption trends occurring throughout the healthcare sector.

     

    About LeanTaaS

    LeanTaaS provides software solutions that combine lean principles, predictive, prescriptive analytics, and machine learning to transform hospital and infusion center operations. The company’s software is being used by over 120 health systems across the nation, which all rely on the iQueue cloud-based solutions to increase patient access, decrease wait times, reduce healthcare delivery costs, and improve revenue. LeanTaaS is based in Santa Clara, California, and Charlotte, North Carolina. For more information about LeanTaaS, please visit https://leantaas.com/, and connect on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.

    LeanTaaS and iQueue are trademarks of LeanTaaS. All other brand names and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.

     

    LeanTaaS Media Contact

    Kate Soden
    [email protected]

    Posted 1.6.2022
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