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MEDITECH and Google Health highlight pilot phase collaboration
Westwood, MA. (November 14, 2022) | MEDITECH and Google Health have advanced their search and summarization collaboration to the next phase, with DCH Health System (Tuscaloosa, AL) and Mile Bluff Medical Center (Mauston, WI) signing as early adopters of their integrated solution.
MEDITECH and Google Health have advanced their search and summarization collaboration to the next phase, with DCH Health System (Tuscaloosa, AL) and Mile Bluff Medical Center (Mauston, WI) signing as early adopters of their integrated solution. The collaboration was announced earlier this year and will embed the Google Health search and summarization capabilities directly within the clinical workflow of the Expanse EHR.
MEDITECH saw the opportunity to leverage Google Health’s search and summarization capabilities to create a longitudinal view of a patient’s health history within the web-based Expanse platform. This integrated workflow will provide clinicians with timely and intuitive access to relevant clinical information on their patients from both legacy platforms and disparate systems. Ultimately, this collaborative effort between MEDITECH and Google Health will enable a more holistic view of the patient and their conditions and make their medical history more actionable.
“This feature takes our EHR to new heights in our ability to provide holistic, patient-centered care. It is positioning our doctors, nurses, and care providers to aggregate information on patients’ past and present conditions faster, to improve the quality of care,” said CIO Billy Helmandollar of DCH Health System.
“We must innovate and think outside the box in order to have advancements in healthcare technology and reduce the burden on clinicians. I am very encouraged by MEDITECH’s commitment to work with innovative partners and make the system even better than it is today.”
Clinicians at DCH Health System are equally excited about the workflow improvements this integration will provide. “Having a consolidated, condition-level view of both structured and unstructured data from across the patient’s history — regardless of how or where it is stored — means less time searching records and more time treating our patients,” said Dr. Robin Wilson, CMO of DCH Health System.
The Expanse solution will leverage Google Health’s intelligent summarization, search, and second-level insights capabilities to extract information from different parts of the patient record — such as current and legacy data and scanned documents — to produce a curated summary of a patient’s health conditions.
“We are looking forward to these new capabilities and expect they will lead to better health outcomes, in addition to improved overall satisfaction for patients and clinicians,” said IT Director Pat Stubbs of Mile Bluff Medical Center, which will be adopting the solution on their cloud-based MEDITECH-as-a-Service (MaaS) platform.
“Having the ability to quickly search disparate sources will give providers a more complete summary of a patient’s medical history – without needing to take the time to access multiple sources of records. This in turn will give providers more face-to-face time with patients and allow them to focus on providing care and treatment.”
MEDITECH COO and Executive Vice President Helen Waters says that collaboration between technology innovators is one of the most important avenues to advance EHR usage. “One of the many benefits of a cloud-based platform like Expanse is the ability to easily leverage cutting-edge or niche technology from partners,” she said.
“Imagine the profound impact we can have on clinician satisfaction when a physician can easily find relevant information from within a patient’s health history and feel positively influenced by the technology vs. frustrated by its presence. Our collaboration with Google Health is going to make this vision a reality by addressing the burnout openly discussed in our collective EHR market space, regardless of which EHR vendor is deployed. Together, we will deliver a solution that ensures access to meaningful and actionable patient data — including conditions and disease history— curated and presented to busy doctors and nurses as part of their natural workflow to help guide all of their most important decisions.”
MEDITECH Expanse and Google Health’s tools are designed to adhere to industry best practices and regulations, including HIPAA, and will not use patient data for advertising. Healthcare organizations maintain ownership and oversight of their data through business associate agreements.
Contacts
Rose McCarthy
Public Relations and Media Relations Manager
MEDITECH
781-774-5229
[email protected]Posted 11.30.2022 -
Ordr Publishes Connected Device Security Maturity Model to Guide Healthcare Organizations on the Path to Zero Trust
Comprehensive Guide Details Essential Stages of Connected Device Security, Helping Organizations Improve Cybersecurity Strength and Resiliency
Santa Clara, CA – November 29, 2022 – Ordr, the leader in connected device security, today published a maturity model aimed at helping healthcare organizations benchmark their connected device security efforts and develop a strategy to improve the efficiency and strength of their security programs.
Entitled “A Practical Guide: Implementing Connected Device Security for Healthcare Organizations,” the document serves as a framework for healthcare security teams, helping them understand where their organization is on the connected device security maturity curve, and where to focus efforts to make improvements. The guide organizes the stages of maturity into five steps, including detailed descriptions, requirements, and the potential business value realized at each stage. Recommended actions, technical considerations, and helpful insights are included as well, to help teams learn how to improve their security posture, become more resilient, and advance their security efforts as they move toward Zero Trust.
Connected devices play an essential role within a healthcare organization – gathering data, providing diagnostics and therapeutic functions, and automating activities. But those same connected devices also expand the attack surface and create risk for healthcare providers. In fact, the healthcare sector faced the most ransomware attacks of any industry last year, according to the FBI’s 2021 Internet Crime Report, resulting in losses of $6.9 billion.
“A majority of healthcare organizations today rely on Internet of Things (IoT), Internet of Medical Things (IoMT), and Operational Technology (OT) devices to provide critical patient care, improve efficiencies, and manage the facility. The truth is, connected devices are everywhere in healthcare, which can make protecting them a daunting task,” said Pandian Gnanaprakasam, Chief Product Officer and co-founder of Ordr. “At Ordr, we’ve gained deep expertise working with customers of all sizes and at all stages of maturity. We understand the complexities that security teams in healthcare struggle with everyday – and we’re proud to share our insights with the community, to be used as a guide on the journey to Zero Trust.”
The five steps of the maturity model include:
- Asset Visibility: This stage includes creating a complete, accurate and up-to-date asset inventory by automating discovery and classification for all known, unknown, and new devices, in addition to identifying risks.
- Vulnerability and Risk Management: This stage encompasses creating a risk-based view of connected devices by combining device vulnerability insights, establishing device behavior baselines, and reviewing external threat intelligence inputs to gain a comprehensive view of the attack surface, guiding security efforts.
- Reactive Security: This stage uses connected device insights and the risk-based view from the previous stages, combined with business context, to help teams understand device risk in their unique environment, prioritizing risk mitigation and incident response efforts.
- Proactive Security: In this stage, teams automate policies and workflows to ensure rapid threat detection and response. Teams also develop and implement proactive measures such as Zero Trust segmentation to reduce the attack surface ahead of threats, enabling teams to focus on more complex threats.
- Optimized Security: At this stage, teams continue to build on the foundation they have created to expand and optimize their security methods with automation and proactive Zero Trust security policies, aligning and scaling with organizational demands.
“While all industries are at risk of cyberattack, the potential outcomes of attacks on healthcare organizations could be catastrophic, with real consequences for patients,” added Brad LaPorte, author of the guide and former Gartner cybersecurity analyst. “Organizations cannot expect to reach the Optimized Security stage instantly. Each stage establishes critical capabilities, builds upon previous stages, and creates value on the journey to Zero Trust. No matter where you are on this journey and what your ultimate goal is, this guide provides essential insights to understanding your security posture – and what is needed to improve.”
To learn more about Ordr’s connected device security maturity model for healthcare organizations, please sign up for the January 19th Ordr of Business webinar: Healthcare’s Guide to Connected Device Security Maturity Model – The Road to Zero Trust.
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TrueCare Chief Innovation Officer Tracy Elmer and Artera Receive 2022 CHIME Collaboration Award
ANN ARBOR, MI, November 18, 2022 – Reducing patient no-show rates by 4 percent while giving staff back more time for what matters most- patient care supportive activities- is highly valuable. Promoting health equity and putting the patient in control of when and how they like to communicate is priceless. That is exactly what the collaborative partnership between TrueCare and Artera, formerly known as WELL Health, created for the diverse and underserved communities in San Diego and Riverside County. For these contributions and many others, the College of Information Management Executives (CHIME) has honored Tracy Elmer, Chief Innovation Officer of TrueCare, and Artera with the 2022 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.
Prior to their partnership, TrueCare was struggling with record high no-show rates and high call volume – even before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Arguably more significant, however, was a lack of bidirectional, flexible communication with their patients that would meet them where they are: on their phones and in their preferred languages.
“TrueCare has been providing heartfelt, compassionate care for over 50 years. A core element of our patient engagement strategy was to innovate how we actually connect with our patient; ensuring that we not only meet their healthcare needs, but all the aspects of how they engage with it,” said Tracy A. Elmer, MS, CHCIO, CDH-E, RHIA, Chief Innovation Officer for TrueCare. Ultimately, “communicating with patients in the way that best makes sense to them helps promote health equity”, as noted by Ana Ramon, TrueCare’s Member Access Point Director.
Little did they know COVID-19 would soon surprise us all and radically transform the entire industry. TrueCare had carefully evaluated numerous patient communication vendors just a few months prior and ultimately selected Artera as its partner. The scope of implementation grew dramatically and quickly in response to the pandemic and would not have been successful without the playbook provided by Artera.
The collaborative approach between TrueCare and Artera went well beyond the technology. Each organization brought to the table an open mind and a willingness to partner together to find a solution, which ultimately improved the patient experience.
“As a CIO I understand that the significance and meaning of innovation goes well beyond technology. It takes people and context to bring it to life,” said Elmer.
Since the depths of the pandemic, the health center has reached 150,000 patients via the Artera platform and has sent 8.3 million messages to its patient population – approximately 900,000 of which were within the first 30 days of implementing the texting platform.
Alongside Elmer to accept the CHIME Collaboration Award at the Fall Forum conference earlier this month was Guillaume de Zwirek, CEO & Founder of Artera. “The TrueCare and Artera partnership is a best-in-class example for vendor-provider collaboration,” said de Zwirek. “Thanks to the open, collaborative nature of our partnership, we worked together to overcome technical barriers to implementation and improved the patient experience during the most challenging time in healthcare’s history – the COVID-19 pandemic.”
Today, we can never underestimate the power and importance of partnership and how investing time in building that relationship makes a significant difference – not only in a moment of time, but for the long haul.
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 58 countries plus two U.S. territories and over 190 healthcare IT business partners and professional services firms, CHIME and its three associations provide a highly interactive, trusted environment enabling senior professional and industry leaders to collaborate, exchange best practices, address professional development needs and advocate the effective use of information management to improve the health and care in the communities they serve. For more information, please visit chimecentral.org.
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Calli Dretke
Vice President & Chief Digital and Marketing Officer
CHIME
734.412.6255
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Lumeon Named ‘Rising Star’ in the New EHR Innovations Category of UCSF Health Hub Digital Health Awards 2022
Care orchestration pioneer lauded for its innovative work transforming
the way hospitals and health systems tackle care coordinationBOSTON and LAS VEGAS – Nov. 15, 2022 – Lumeon, the leading care orchestration solution provider, today announced that it has been recognized as a Rising Star in the New EHR Innovations category of the 4th Annual UCSF Health Hub Digital Health Awards. The award recognizes the achievements of innovative health tech companies that are dramatically improving healthcare using technology. Winners were announced during the grand finale gala on November 14 at HLTH 2022 in Las Vegas.
Lumeon won for its work in revolutionizing care orchestration. Its approach differs from existing antiquated methods of care coordination, which are overly manual, expensive, and nearly impossible to scale. Lumeon’s automated care orchestration platform analyzes real-time data and applies clinical intelligence to automatically orchestrate care based on the individual needs of every patient. This approach empowers health systems to effectively scale and deliver consistent care with less manual intervention. Specifically, it automates all phases of care coordination; reduces busywork; automates outreach to patients to glean information, eliminating phone tag; adjusts pathways; and turbocharges EHRs not equipped to automate care coordination tasks.
“With the ongoing healthcare worker shortage and the increasing incidence of clinician burnout, the healthcare industry today is challenged more than ever before with finding new ways to improve care quality while ensuring efficiency,” said Greg Miller, chief growth officer of Lumeon. “Being recognized as a leading innovator with this UCSF Health Hub Digital Health Award is an incredible validation of the pioneering work being done by the entire Lumeon team.”
Since 2019, UCSF Health Hub, a digital health accelerator working with digital health startups from around the world, has hosted the Digital Health Awards to identify the most innovative upcoming digital health companies in the biggest areas of digital health, including Telemedicine and Application of AI.
About UCSF Health Hub Digital Health Awards
The program has grown year on year since being established in 2019, marking a 35 percent increase in submissions in 2021 from 2020 and attracting more than 500 judges. Past winners include: AmWell (Application in Telehealth, 2021), Cityblock (Mental and Behavioral Health, 2021), Conversa (Remote Diagnostics, 2020), Eko (Hospital Diagnostics, 2020), Oura (Consumer Wellness, 2020), Dr. On Demand (Telemedicine, 2019), Livongo (Application of AI, 2019). 2021 winners can be viewed here, 2020 here and 2019 here. Previous year’s award shows have been viewed thousands of times. The 2021 Grand Finale Video can be viewed here.About Lumeon
Lumeon believes that care better coordinated is care better delivered. Lumeon is a digital health company that provides a cloud-based care orchestration platform that automates the tasks, workflow, activities, and events that occur during the process of coordinating care. With real-time, bi-directional data/system integration and the dynamic application of clinical intelligence and automation, Lumeon ensures that each patient receives the right care at the right time – every time. By automating care coordination, care teams deliver care faster, more efficiently, effectively, and consistently across the continuum of care, while also empowering clinicians and staff to work at the tops of their licenses and spend time with patients that need it most.
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Philip Anast
Amendola (for Lumeon)
312-576-6990
Posted 11.17.2022 -
Lumeon, NTT DATA to Automate Care in Hospital-at-Home Program
Orchestration of services reduces costs while supporting high-quality acute care in the home
BOSTON – November 14, 2022 – Care orchestration tech leader, Lumeon, and NTT DATA, a global digital business and IT services leader, today announced a strategic alliance to coordinate delivery of key non-clinical services for hospital-at-home programs, including patient meals, medications, housekeeping services and home setup.
As healthcare systems begin to pilot hospital-at-home services, clinicians have been tasked with coordinating many of the non-clinical services required for patients, which is unsustainable and cost-prohibitive as the programs grow. NTT DATA’s virtual command center technology, built on the Lumeon care orchestration engine, will automate such coordination, allowing clinicians to focus on patient care and providing a more cost-effective way to deliver the appropriate care.
When a non-clinical service is required, the command center will send triggers to Lumeon’s care orchestration platform, which will then determine next-best steps, take action, and provide updates to care team members as well as the patient and appropriate family members.
“Healthcare organizations cannot afford to throw more bodies at this complex challenge or risk dropping the ball on any of the services needed to support patients receiving acute care services in their homes,” said Greg Miller, chief growth officer of Lumeon. “This solution eliminates the labor burden on clinicians and staff, while also reducing operational costs. Automating manual workflow processes, tasks, activities and events frees up clinicians and care teams to do what they do best – serve their patients.” McKinsey estimates $265 billion worth of care services moving from traditional facilities to the home by 2025. And hospital-at-home programs have been shown to cut the cost of care by 20%, reduce complications, and earn favorable feedback from patients, caregivers and providers, HFMA reports.
“Our work across industry sectors gives us a keen view of how to scale technology to meet difficult challenges,” said Mary Edwards, president, Healthcare Provider, at NTT DATA Services. “Our alliance with Lumeon is particularly meaningful because automated care orchestration is a tipping point in healthcare delivery. We now have the means to not only make hospital-at-home programs cost effective, but also create the best possible care experience for patients, clinicians and staff.”
Lumeon’s automated care orchestration platform integrates with data in real-time, applies clinical knowledge, and employs intelligent automation to orchestrate care based on the individual needs of each patient, alleviating the burden on clinicians and staff, who otherwise coordinate care manually. The Lumeon platform dramatically enhances clinician and staff productivity while improving care team efficiency and reducing operating costs. For a demonstration of the Lumeon and NTT DATA solution, please visit booth #1418 at HLTH, taking place Nov. 13 – 16 in Las Vegas.
About Lumeon
Lumeon believes that care better coordinated is care better delivered. Lumeon is a digital health company that provides a cloud-based care orchestration platform that automates the tasks, workflow, activities, and events that occur during the process of coordinating care. With real-time, bi-directional data/system integration and the dynamic application of clinical intelligence and automation, Lumeon ensures that each patient receives the right care at the right time – every time. By automating care coordination, care teams deliver care faster, more efficiently, effectively, and consistently across the continuum of care, while also empowering clinicians and staff to work at the tops of their licenses and spend time with patients that need it most.
About NTT DATA
NTT DATA is a $30 billion trusted global innovator of IT and business services. We help clients transform through business and technology consulting, industry and digital solutions, applications development and management, managed edge-to-cloud infrastructure services, BPO, systems integration and global data centers. We are committed to our clients’ long-term success and combine global reach with local client service in over 80 countries. Visit nttdata.com or LinkedIn to learn more.
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Media Contact
Philip Anast
Amendola (for Lumeon)
312-576-6990 [email protected]
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Cook Children’s Health Care System’s Trailblazer, Theresa Meadows, Receives CIO Of The Year Award From CHIME
ANN ARBOR, MI, November 16, 2022 – In the 1990s, Theresa Meadows was tapped to teach a new system to physicians given her rapport with them, as a cardiac transplant and interventional cardiology nurse. That temporary role ignited a passion for health care IT that would lead her to the mainstage at the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) Fall Forum conference to accept the award for CHIME 2023 CIO of the Year. The award is given annually to a CIO who has demonstrated significant leadership and a lifetime of achievement in the healthcare IT industry. The recipient is selected by the CIO of the Year Award committee comprised of past recipients and is approved by the Board of Directors of CHIME.
“When I looked at the list of the previous winners, I was humbled to see that over half of the names on that list have served as a mentor, role model, and supporter to me throughout my entire career,” said Meadows in her acceptance. “I cannot stress enough to emerging leaders the importance of finding strong mentors and participating in organizations like CHIME to build their professional networks. These networks have helped me grow in my career but also allowed me to give back to the industry.”
Theresa’s experience as a nurse gives her the unique ability to fluently speak both the language of health care and technology and to marry the two disciplines seamlessly. And that’s exactly what she has done for over 20+ years.
Some of the most endearing qualities exhibited by this barrier-breaker are her humility, confidence, influence, and presence. “Her very personal approach to leadership embodies the highest industry standards. She has distinguished herself through her contributions to the industry and to her organization,” said CHIME President and CEO, Russ Branzell.
Meadows’ experience prepared her to help lead the clinical response to the greatest challenge that healthcare has faced in a lifetime. When COVID-19 struck, her team helped physicians, nurses and other health providers see thousands of patients via virtual telemedicine visits. When the vaccine became available, they created a patient portal within days to support a massive drive-thru vaccination effort.
They also continued to move forward with projects unrelated to the pandemic but certainly challenged by it. Theresa and her team recently celebrated the 1-year anniversary of the opening of Peaks Tech Zone at Cook Children’s Pediatric Specialties – Prosper. The zone is believed to be a first-of-its-kind hybrid model that blends a technology lounge with an in-person help desk where guests can get one-on-one tech assistance from a health technology advocate.
Theresa has received a number of individual awards of her own, including being named Most Powerful Woman in Healthcare IT by Health Data Management from 2016 to 2019. She is a 2022 Dallas CIO of the Year ORBIE Awards finalist, named by The Dallas CIO Leadership Association. She has served as both Co-Chair for the HHS Cybersecurity Task Force and is a member of the Malcolm Baldridge Board of Overseers. Theresa currently serves as faculty for CHIME CIO Boot Camps, is a pace setter for designations such as Digital Health Most Wired, Best Hospital IT Departments, and Best Places to Work, which are only a sample of her accolades.
Most importantly, her colleagues describe her as “a beacon of possibility to those that have had the benefit of meeting her. Theresa’s willpower to keep going forward despite hurdles, dedication towards others over her own personal achievements, commitment to detailed and precise pursuit of improvement is all led by her personal humility. She is absolutely driven to see others succeed and is passionately devoted to the craft of the care and improvement of human life on multiple dimensions.”
Theresa has distinguished herself through her contributions to the industry and in her current position as Senior Vice President & CIO of Cook Children’s Health Care System, stands alongside her team at the cusp of the innovative approach to technology-enabled care and digital transformation.
“I am so incredibly grateful to the amazing colleagues and family that I have built through the digital health industry and here at CHIME,” said Meadows. “Thank you for supporting, challenging, and inspiring me at every step of the journey.”
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 58 countries plus two U.S. territories and over 190 healthcare IT business partners and professional services firms, CHIME and its three associations provide a highly interactive, trusted environment enabling senior professional and industry leaders to collaborate, exchange best practices, address professional development needs and advocate the effective use of information management to improve the health and care in the communities they serve. For more information, please visit chimecentral.org.
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Contact
Calli Dretke
Vice President & Chief Digital and Marketing Officer
CHIME
734.412.6255
[email protected]Posted 11.16.2022 -
UC Davis Health’s Melissa Jost Earns the 2022 Stoltenberg Future Fund Health IT Leadership Scholarship
Scholarship program helps advance health tech leaders through CHIME continuing education
Bethel Park, PA., November 3, 2022. Stoltenberg Consulting Inc., a leading healthcare IT consulting firm, today named Melissa Jost, who serves as both the Director of Informatics and Director of Clinician Health and Wellbeing at UC Davis Health, as the recipient of the 2022 Stoltenberg Future Fund Scholarship for College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) education.
The Stoltenberg Future Fund awards scholarships annually through the CHIME Education Foundation for recipient use at any of CHIME’s events, including the Healthcare CIO Boot Camp, CISO Boot Camp, Clinical Informatics Boot Camp, Fall CIO Forum and ViVE Conference. By supporting emerging health IT leaders, the scholarship channels industry-leading best practices for digital health advancement and interoperability into hospitals and health systems, enabling them to optimize IT systems for cross continuum care alignment. Scholarship demand has risen as pandemic recovery financial concerns have forced many hospital IT departments to cut funding for user group meetings, conferences and continuing education opportunities.
CHIME has provided valuable mentorship and connections with leaders around the nation facing similar challenges, who I frequently rely on to develop new ideas and share lessons learned. The CHIME community has taught me not only how to address the challenges of health IT usability, adoption, and change management, but also how to become a better clinical informatics leader,” Jost said. “The gracious gift from Stoltenberg Consulting will allow me to further develop my skills through CHIME to prepare for future leadership positions with UC Davis Health.
As the inaugural Director of Clinical Informatics at UC Davis Health, Jost piloted and led the nationally-recognized Practice Experience Program (PEP) to decrease EHR burden and boost physician efficiency and satisfaction. Focusing on individually tailored EHR training, system optimization and workflow redesign, Jost deployed the PEP to over 1,800 physician faculty, residents and fellows, lessening physician time spent working after hours. She also oversaw the creation of a MyChart Message Response Team consisting of RNs, which manages 23,000 Primary Care messages per month across the UC Davis Health enterprise — improving turnaround time with 97% of messages being handled within 48 hours and reducing messages requiring physician intervention by 70%. Directly addressing the qualified IT staffing shortage plaguing healthcare, she also oversaw the creation of the Clinical Informatics Externship Program to provide a more diverse candidate pipeline into clinical informatics and health IT positions.
Prior to her current role, she served as a Senior Clinical Applications Analyst and Clinical Applications Project Manager at UC Davis Health, where she managed Epic implementation initiatives across all phases for revenue cycle, OR, anesthesia, patient access, radiology and referrals. She received the UC Davis Health Employee Excellence Team Award in 2020 and the STAR Award in 2019, along with the 2020 Josie King Hero Award. Jost plans to utilize the Stoltenberg Future Fund Scholarship toward her CHIME22 Fall Forum attendance in San Antonio.
Stoltenberg Consulting committed to hosting the annual CHIME Education Foundation scholarship over a span of 25 years. Jost is the 13th scholarship recipient of the Stoltenberg Future Fund program since its inception in 2009. To be eligible for this scholarship, applicants must be CHIME members in good standing, express need for financial support for continuing education and describe their professional accomplishments and aspirations in the healthcare IT industry. Previous recipients include IT leaders from Ascension Saint Thomas, Dayton Children’s Hospital, Texas Children’s Hospital, UNC Health Care, Brooke Army Medical Center, UPMC Chautauqua and Jackson Health System.
To learn more about the Stoltenberg Future Fund Scholarship, visit https://www2.stoltenberg.com/Scholarship.
About Stoltenberg Consulting
For over 27 years, Stoltenberg Consulting has exclusively served the healthcare industry by providing customizable IT support solutions. FlexSourcing, Stoltenberg Consulting’s three-time Best in KLAS Partial IT Outsourcing program, delivers day-one ROI through a versatile, certified health IT support workforce — including Tier 1+ help desk services — that can scale up at any time. Averaging 15 years of experience, Stoltenberg analysts are skilled in both financial and clinical systems with best practice expertise for Epic, Oracle Cerner, MEDITECH, NextGen, Allscripts and eClinicalWorks systems. To see how Stoltenberg simplifies healthcare technology, visit stoltenberg.com.Media Contact
Shana Tachikawa
Stoltenberg Consulting
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RCG Joins CHIME Foundation to Help Drive Digital Innovation
ISELIN, NJ, (November 10, 2022) – RCG Global Services is pleased to announce that it has become a member of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives Foundation (CHIME Foundation.
As a CHIME Foundation member firm, RCG Global Services will play a vital role in CHIME’s continuing efforts to enable its members and their respective organizations with resources, thought leadership, solutions, and experts to drive digital transformation. “We are thrilled to join this world-class community to help address disruptive forces impacting Healthcare,” said Dr. Rob Nelson, head of the healthcare and intelligent innovation practices at RCG. “This focus includes system sustainability, digitally driven innovation, patient-centered care, the rise of personalized and precision medicine, wellness, prevention, and consumerism.”
Through its commitment to the CHIME Foundation, RCG further elevates its long partnership with the healthcare industry and provider organizations. A key focus is to enable the utilization and expansion of digital and intelligent capabilities and services, pushing for and achieving greater value-based care and personalized service to deliver a frictionless customer-centric experience as sentient enterprises. RCG helps organizations reimagine processes, get closer to patients, and customers, build intelligent systems, solutions, and the sentient enterprise, and create digital platforms as delivery engines that are agile at scale, data science enabled with the customer experience front and center.”
“Joining CHIME is a pivotal step in our mission to help revolutionize healthcare. We bring unique expertise not only in healthcare but also at the intersection of retail, consumer, and hospitality with a proven digital transformation and advanced analytics solutions,” said Rob Simplot, CEO at RCG. “We look forward to participating in CHIME events and innovatively collaborating to find and harvest sources of value for our nation’s critical healthcare providers.”
About RCG Global Services
RCG is a global provider of digital transformation consulting services, combining digital strategy and modern cloud and data technologies to deliver measurable business outcomes for customer engagement, workforce enablement, and operations optimization. RCG helps customers ignite transformational thinking and unlock new value throughout their journey to achieve their digital ambitions. RCG serves Fortune 1000 enterprise clients across a range of markets, with special emphasis on the consumer, financial services and insurance, and healthcare industries. RCG is based in Iselin, New Jersey, with offices throughout the United States, and offshore delivery centers in the Philippines and India. For more information, please visit rcgglobalservices.com.
Posted 11.16.2022 -
Supply Chain and Clinical Quality Technology Trends Highlight Findings In The CHIME 2022 Digital Health Most Wired Survey
ANN ARBOR, MI, November 8, 2022 – As healthcare organizations rebound from the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, greater emphasis on enhancing supply chain technology and clinical quality and safety highlight the findings from CHIME’s 2022 Digital Health Most Wired survey. The National Trends Report, released today at CHIME’s Fall Forum, shows how the last 3 years have been a period of remarkable disruption and challenge for healthcare organizations.
Digital health continues to rapidly transform the state of healthcare, according to additional results from the survey. As healthcare organizations, large and small, work to reinforce and reinvent solutions to vulnerabilities exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic, the survey reveals significant changes in the areas of Administrative and Supply Chain and Clinical Quality and Safety with increased percentage of organizations in the 2022 DHMW survey achieving Level 10 designations in these two areas.
Key findings include:
- While more than 90% of organizations are in some stage of executing their digital strategies, many have shared experiences related to their biggest challenges to realizing digital transformation strategies:
- Lack of dedicated budget (20%), cultural resistance (15%), tendency for short-term over long-term planning (12%) and an over reliance on legacy technology (11%)
- Mobile applications are increasingly used to engage patients. This year, organizations reported a significant increase in the array of functionalities available within their mobile applications to include offering:
- A price list for different services (14% increase) health maintenance campaigns (14% increase), mobile check-in (10% increase) and event alerts (13% increase).
- Currently, 72% of organizations report spending between 1-9% of their IT spend on experimentation/trials of technological innovation, new ideas, ventures, etc., 19% report spending between 10-19% and 4% report spending 20% or more, highlighting how important investing in innovation and competitive differentiation is becoming amongst healthcare organizations.
- This year saw a remarkable increase in the deployment of integrated surveillance systems with the EHR as well as machine enabled detection of prescribing anomalies, which is a significant tool in the continued effort to combat the U.S. opioid crisis.
- Organizations are reporting a significant increase in their ability to integrate data for chronic and care/disease management services provided outside of the healthcare facility into their EHR.
- As healthcare organizations continue to build analytical capabilities, the use of Predictive Analytics is more widely adopted than Machine Learning and Artificial intelligence, with Predictive Analytics being deployed at 80% of organizations for Clinical Workflow, 49% for Revenue Cycle Management, 32% for Supply Chain Management/ERP and 30% for CRM/Patient Engagement.
“Innovation in the healthcare industry is accelerating at a never-before-seen pace, kicked into an overdrive by the pandemic, forcing organizations to either adapt or be left behind,” said CHIME President and CEO Russ Branzell. “The survey covers multiple categories to assess how effectively and where healthcare organizations are advancing on their digital health journeys. Despite the challenges presented by the pandemic, 60% of our survey respondents this year report being right on schedule with their digital transformation efforts, which is nothing short of amazing considering the adversity they faced.”
Despite the pandemic, and maybe even because of it, most healthcare organizations are over halfway towards achieving their digital transformation goals. As many organizations prepare for a new year, leaders are reflecting on the incredible accomplishments of the past several years and identifying and prioritizing the opportunities for improvement and investment in 2023. By an overwhelming margin, 80% of healthcare organizations surveyed in 2022 rank security as an essential priority over the next year as they continue to invest in their security capabilities and technology. In addition to security, leaders will be focusing on clinical quality and safety and infrastructure which leaders ranked as essential by 62% and 53% of organizations, respectively.
This year, the survey grew by 20%, despite the pandemic, and represents over 38,000 facilities from 10 countries. Those providers include organizations that serve patients across the continuum of care: acute care, ambulatory care, and long-term/post-acute care (LTPAC). The findings can be found at www.dhanalytics.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 healthcare IT leaders. With more than 5,000 members in 58 countries plus two U.S. territories and over 190 healthcare IT business partners and professional services firms, CHIME and its three associations provide a highly interactive, trusted environment enabling senior professional and industry leaders to collaborate, exchange best practices, address professional development needs and advocate the effective use of information management to improve the health and care in the communities they serve. For more information, please visit chimecentral.org.
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Contact
Calli Dretke
Vice President & Chief Digital and Marketing Officer
CHIME
734.412.6255
[email protected]Posted 11.8.2022 - While more than 90% of organizations are in some stage of executing their digital strategies, many have shared experiences related to their biggest challenges to realizing digital transformation strategies:
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Healthcare Triangle Enables Virtual Immersive Experiences and Interactions through Metaverse
Enabling healthcare and life sciences enterprises to implement virtual and augmented environment for patients and clinical trials.
PLEASANTON, Calif., October 26, 2022: Healthcare Triangle Inc., (Nasdaq: HCTI) (“HCTI” or the “Company”) announces its offering and services towards enabling healthcare and life sciences enterprises to facilitate and explore the Metaverse, which will assist healthcare enterprises to introduce virtual and augmented environments for their patients, clinical trials, training healthcare professionals, and more.
The healthcare sector is evolving, according to Market Research Future, and Metaverse in the healthcare industry is forecasted to be worth USD 5.3 Billion by 2030 at a 48.3% CAGR. With the increasing usage of digital twins, metaverse in healthcare will boost healthcare companies to augment their digital roadmaps by bringing enhanced personalized care to their patients across the globe. Here are a few instances of how the Metaverse for healthcare and life sciences will be accelerating personalized experiences:
- Metaverse facilitates patient scan data (such as MRI, CT, and ultrasound scans) over time and combines them into one perspective for treatment planning, execution, and monitoring disease progression.
- Digital twins in the pharma manufacturing units can facilitate real-time remote monitoring of tools and machinery on the shop floor to optimize uptime and maintenance.
- Metaverse allows pharma companies to reach out to potential customers and physicians through digital conferences, virtual advertisements, sponsorships, educative games, etc.
Enhanced compliance with HIPAA, HITRUST, and more; Metaverse initiative by Healthcare Triangle, involves a multidisciplinary approach by leveraging emerging and advanced technologies in tandem to create and interact while managing large scale data pipelines across the life cycle of their generation and operation.
Speaking about the initiative, Suresh Venkatachari, CEO of Healthcare Triangle said, “This will be the technology of the future, our lives and business innovation are already interwoven in-between physical and virtual worlds. Metaverse will create a greater bond in deepening the overlap. Healthcare Triangle, with its advanced cloud, data engineering AI, and blockchain solutions for the healthcare and life science industry, is well positioned to support its clients to quickly undertake the Metaverse proof of concepts and put them into practice. This will surely boost us to be well ahead of other contemporary businesses, while significantly enhancing the customer experience”.
Cloud, data engineering, AI & blockchain are vital building blocks for the Metaverse. The company will incorporate its platforms – CloudEz, DataEz, and Neutral Zone – as foundations to implement the Metaverse by healthcare and life sciences organizations. It will also invest in inculcating, expanding competencies, and strategic partnerships for developing capabilities in AR/VR/3D designing, etc.
“With Metaverse, innovation no longer depends solely on the ability of an organization to securely and efficiently create their own Metaverse environment, deliver signature experiences in an existing Metaverse, and bring advanced AI-powered data analytics and simulations to realize their evolving aspirations as the internet evolves. At HCTI, we are geared up to assist our customers in identifying gaps to close and long-term opportunities to build from the metaverse and its key concepts, then work on strengthening foundational measures.” said Anand Kumar, Senior Vice President, and Head of Cloud Solutions, HCTI.
Training, conferencing, experience sharing, and trading facilitated by Metaverse will become key differentiators in the coming few years that characterize the winners in the marketplace across domains. This innovative technology will facilitate new dimensions in collaboration and real time activity/event participation between employees, partners, researchers, and customers across verticals.
About Healthcare Triangle, Inc. (HCTI)
Healthcare Triangle, Inc. based in Pleasanton, California., reinforces healthcare progress through breakthrough technology and extensive industry knowledge and expertise. We support healthcare providers including hospitals and health systems, payers, and pharma/life sciences organizations in their effort to improve health outcomes. Healthcare Triangle achieves HITRUST Certification for Cloud and Data Platform (CaDP), marketed as CloudEz and DataEz. HITRUST Risk-based, 2-year (r2) Certified status demonstrates to our clients the highest standards for data protection and information security. Healthcare Triangle enables the adoption of new technologies, data enlightenment, business agility, and response to immediate business needs and competitive threats. The highly regulated healthcare and life sciences industries rely on Healthcare Triangle for expertise in digital transformation encompassing the cloud, security and compliance, data lifecycle management, healthcare interoperability, and clinical and business performance optimization. For more information, visit HealthcareTriangle.com.
Healthcare Triangle, Inc. Contact:
Michael Campana – [email protected]
Posted 11.4.2022 -
Healthcare Triangle Helps Lane Regional Deliver Value-based Care with MEDITECH Chronic Care Management (CCM)
Healthcare Triangle helped Lane Regional deliver a more holistic approach to care with the implementation of new functionality in MEDITECH Expanse for CCM.
PLEASANTON, Calif., Oct,25, 2022—Healthcare Triangle’s expertise in MEDITECH helped Lane Regional set up new functionality in MEDITECH Expanse for Chronic Care Management (CCM).
Lane Regional Medical Center, the primary healthcare resource for more than 200,000 neighbors located throughout Zachary, LA, and surrounding communities, in their initial rollout of the program used spreadsheets to manually track patients and monthly time sheets. In this manual process, they faced challenges in enhancing care between visits and automating charge capture. The hospital looked for a reliable MEDITECH partner to implement a comprehensively integrated CCM solution to improve care for patients with chronic conditions and increase value-based reimbursement.
Healthcare Triangle’s MEDITECH Ready-Certified consultants assisted in setting up new functionality in MEDITECH Expanse for Chronic Care Management. The implementation enabled the client’s care managers to refine the provider document processing by identifying gaps and leveraging patient data while eliminating manual processes and keeping patients on track.
“Lane Regional selected HCTI to be their MEDITECH consulting partner. HCTI experts went above and beyond to deliver a solution leveraging MEDITECH functionality to streamline Case Management workflow. Kelly was amazing to work with. She brought so much knowledge to the table and helped us refine our documentation and processes,” Amy Rome, RN, BSN, Chronic Care Management Nurse Navigator, Lane Regional Medical Center.
HCTI further assisted in implementing the CCM functionality to automate CCM billing and time-based monthly charging. HCTI was also instrumental in improving the documentation requirements by implanting the Care Plan feature to track health concerns, interventions, and outcomes.
With Healthcare Triangle’s MEDITECH Expanse expertise, Lane Regional achieved:
- Improved CCM efficiency and workflows.
- Structured recording of patient health information.
- Quick turnaround time, taken live in around 4 weeks.
- Created a centralized list of patients allowing nursing care managers to better care for their patient’s health.
- Reduced administrative burden by automating monthly charge capture.
About Healthcare Triangle, Inc. (HCTI)
Healthcare Triangle, Inc.™ (NASDAQ: HCTI), based in Pleasanton, Calif., reinforces healthcare progress through breakthrough technology and extensive industry know-how. HCTI achieves HITRUST Certification for Cloud and Data Platform (CaDP) to meet compliance requirements. We support healthcare providers, payors, hospitals, and Pharma/Life Sciences organizations to improve health outcomes by enabling the adoption of new technologies, data enlightenment, business agility and accelerate response to immediate business needs and competitive threats. The highly regulated healthcare and life sciences industries turn to HCTI for our expertise in digital transformation on the cloud, security and compliance, data lifecycle management, healthcare interoperability, and clinical and business performance optimization. For more information, visit www.healthcaretriangle.com.
About Lane Regional Medical Center
Lane Regional Medical Center serves as the primary healthcare resource for more than 200,000 of our neighbors located throughout Zachary and the surrounding region of Baker, Central, Clinton, Jackson, St. Francisville, New Roads, and North Baton Rouge. Established in 1960, Lane is a state-of-the-art, 139-bed, regional healthcare system that is continually expanding and adding new technologies, programs and services such as Interventional Cardiology, Medical & Radiation Oncology, OB/GYN, Pediatrics, Wound Care and Hyperbarics. With more than 850 dedicated team members, Lane Regional is the largest employer within the city of Zachary. The hospital continues to grow and invest in the community by recruiting new physicians and providing access to the very best healthcare services, technologies, and programs available in the region.
Healthcare Triangle, Inc. Contact:
For Media Enquiries:
Michael Campana – [email protected]
Posted 11.4.2022 -
MEDITECH advances its population health capabilities with Expanse Population Insight
October 18, 2022 – MEDITECH is extending its population health management offering with Expanse Population Insight, powered by the Innovaccer Data Platform. Population Insight leverages the power of the Expanse platform for providing care delivery and data analytics with proven expertise in data aggregation and curation.
Expanse Population Insight aggregates data from claims, the EHR, and other sources to provide clinicians with valuable insights related to risk, care gaps, and utilization at the point of care. Embedding this information for care management workflows allows for the creation of cohorts on registries by disease state, provider attribution, risk contract, and numerous other criteria. Care managers can effectively prioritize outreach efforts and deploy interventions.
“As evolving payment models and key industry drivers like health equity and consumerism continue to reshape healthcare delivery, our customers need solutions that help them see the full patient picture, regardless of where a patient receives care,” said MEDITECH Executive Vice President and COO Helen Waters.
“Expanse Population Insight enables organizations to accelerate their population health initiatives. Care providers can leverage a larger and more powerful data asset embedded within their native EHR workflows. This way, they can cater to the specific needs of their communities.”
Analysis of curated data sets enables healthcare organizations to see a more complete picture of their patient populations, and gain valuable insights on domains like quality measures, performance, cost of care, risk distribution, and gap opportunities. By leveraging these insights, organizations can identify opportunities for improving outcomes and better managing costs, which is especially important as the industry shifts to broader adoption of value-based care models.
“Health equity is critical to supporting the needs of our most vulnerable populations. Population Insight includes risk algorithms like Innovaccer’s social vulnerability index,” said MEDITECH Product Manager Kate Jenkins-Brown. “These insights provide greater agility to meet evolving patient needs.”
Contacts
Rose McCarthy
Public Relations and Media Relations Manager
MEDITECH
781-774-5229
[email protected]Posted 11.2.2022