• Doximity Announces New Integration with MEDITECH

    Integration of Doximity Dialer with MEDITECH Expanse Now provides one-touch dialing for telehealth video and voice calls

    SAN FRANCISCO, CA (May 16, 2023)–Doximity, Inc. (NYSE: DOCS), the leading digital platform for U.S. medical professionals, today announced an integration with MEDITECH, one of the most widely used electronic health record (EHR) systems in the United States. The integration enables medical professionals to launch a Doximity Dialer voice or video telehealth visit directly from MEDITECH’s physician-facing native app, Expanse Now.

    With this easy-to-use native app integration, medical professionals can conveniently access patient records and virtually communicate with patients all from a single screen. Physicians can set a custom caller ID, and eliminate the need to look up and manually dial patient phone numbers, which helps save time and improve patient pick-up rates.

    “At Doximity, we are committed to delivering solutions that help doctors be more productive so they can provide better care for their patients,” said Jeff Tangney, co-founder and CEO of Doximity. “Dialer’s integration with MEDITECH Expanse Now simplifies clinical workflow and streamlines communications between medical professionals and their patients.”

    Doximity Dialer offers one-click voice and video visits, custom Caller ID, device and language optimization, and seamless transition between voice and video calls. The telehealth solution is HIPAA-compliant, meeting the protected health information requirements for telehealth. Hospitals and health systems across the country use Dialer to reduce no-show rates and expand their reach within their local communities.

    “We are excited to collaborate with Doximity to enhance our telehealth capabilities for our customers,” said Rebecca Lancaster, Director of Product Management and Strategy at MEDITECH. “The integration of Doximity Dialer with MEDITECH Expanse Now will help reduce friction for our users and ultimately increase efficiency in care coordination. We believe this integration will ultimately allow busy medical professionals to provide better, more timely care for their patients.”

    About Doximity
    Founded in 2010, Doximity is the leading digital platform for U.S. medical professionals. The Company’s network members include over 80% of U.S. physicians across all specialties and practice areas. Doximity provides its verified clinical membership with digital tools built for medicine, enabling them to collaborate with colleagues, stay up to date with the latest medical news and research, manage their careers and on-call schedules, and conduct virtual patient visits. The Company’s telehealth platform Doximity Dialer was named #1 ‘Best in KLAS’ Telehealth – Video Conferencing Platform in 2022 and 2023. Doximity’s mission is to help doctors be more productive so they can provide better care for their patients. For more information, visit www.doximity.com.

    Contacts
    For media:
    Amanda Cox
    [email protected]

    For investors:
    Perry Gold
    [email protected]

    Posted 11.29.2023

  • Caregility Introduces New Integrations and Capabilities to Virtual Care Ecosystem that Streamline Clinical Workflows

    New telehealth program management tools, connected device integrations, and HL7 capabilities add to the company’s growing list of hybrid care innovations purpose-built to help healthcare organizations increase efficiency while improving patient and clinician experience.

    EATONTOWN, NJ (October 30, 2023) – Caregility, an enterprise telehealth leader connecting care for patients and clinicians everywhere, announces the release of new capabilities as part of the company’s highly anticipated Cares 2.0 software series. The Cares 2.0 software enhancements introduce new telehealth program and device fleet management capabilities, peripheral device integrations, and interoperability standard options for more than 75 leading health systems that depend on Caregility Cloud™ (Best in KLAS virtual care platform; 2021, 2022, and 2023) to deliver their virtual care programs.

    “Cares 2.0 marks the latest step in our unrelenting pursuit of virtual care applications that help healthcare teams improve process efficiency and positively impact care quality,” said Kedar Ganta, Caregility’s Chief Product and Engineering Officer. “We continue to explore new boundaries to offer patients and care teams innovative ways to transform inpatient care delivery in today’s changing landscape.”

    Caregility’s iObserver application for continuous patient observation.

    Caregility Cloud™ customers can now:

    • Leverage HL7 and Smart on FHIR interoperability to seamlessly share patient demographic data between the EHR’s admission, discharge, and transfer (ADT) system and virtual care programs to save time and protect data integrity.
    • Enable virtual encounters between patients and remote caregivers via a wider range of Interactive Patient Console (IPC) systems to offer easy bedside access to remote support and improve patient engagement.
    • Bring connected care devices such as digital stethoscopes into virtual care sessions to enhance what clinicians can assess remotely in inpatient, outpatient, and home settings.
    • Create virtual breakout rooms for various clinical workflows, including educational sessions with a large number of participants.
    • Use the new Program List feature to centrally manage virtual observation programs and easily transfer patient observation session data during virtual sitter and virtual nurse shift changes to save time and avoid redundant data entry in iObserver.
    • Run batch operations to temporarily suspend endpoint system notifications to simplify device fleet management during planned maintenance and offline activities.
    • Generate insightful program utilization reports to cost-justify and inform virtual care program expansion plans.

    The Cares 2.0 software enhancements add to Caregility’s unprecedented ecosystem of integrated virtual care offerings that empower healthcare organizations to implement telehealth programs tailored to their specific needs and use cases. Meanwhile, the company also continues its work to bring embedded AI capabilities into virtual clinical workflows through new Augmented Observation and Vitals Trending offerings.

    The new capabilities build on the company’s award-winning solutions for virtual consults, continuous patient observation, virtual nursing, and more. The Caregility Cloud™ virtual care platform encompasses purpose-built telehealth endpoints, clinically vetted virtual engagement applications, sophisticated device fleet management and program administration, and an unparalleled array of innovation and service provider partners, all underpinned by reliable, cloud-based telehealth trusted by leading health systems.

    Set up an exploratory call to learn more.

    About Caregility
    Caregility is dedicated to connecting patients and clinicians everywhere with its Caregility Cloud™ virtual care platform. Awarded the Best in KLAS Virtual Care Platform (non-EMR) in 2021, 2022, and 2023, Caregility Cloud™ powers a purpose-built ecosystem of enterprise telehealth solutions across the care continuum. Caregility provides secure, reliable, and HIPAA-compliant audio and video communication designed for any device and clinical workflow, in both acute and ambulatory settings. Today Caregility supports more than 1,000 hospitals across over 75 health systems with over six million virtual care sessions hosted annually. From critical and acute, to urgent and emergent, to post-acute and ambulatory, as well as hospital-at-home, Caregility is connecting care everywhere. Follow Caregility on LinkedIn and Twitter at @caregility or learn more at www.caregility.com.

    Contact
    Jess Clifton
    Senior Manager, Marketing Communications
    [email protected]
    (678) 360-9043

    Posted 11.21.2023

  • Virtual Sitting a Resource Gain for Nurses, Study Finds

    Study in Western Journal of Nursing Research reveals virtual sitting is a valued resource with positive effects on nurse burnout

    (BELMONT, Mich., November 16, 2023) — Virtual care adoption is increasing quickly in hospital settings, but do bedside clinicians view it as a positive change? Recent studies show that virtual sitting is a technological advancement that is viewed as a resource gain, not a resource drain. AvaSure, the market leader in acute virtual sitting and virtual nursing solutions, today announced the results of a new study published in the Western Journal of Nursing Research in August 2023. The study, An Experience Sampling Analysis of the Impact of Video Monitoring Technology and In-Person Sitters on Nurse Burnout: The Moderating Effect of Nurse Commitment and Mediating Effect of Emotional Labor (Kluemper, et al), supported by Providence and AvaSure, revealed that the use of virtual sitting technology, as opposed to one-to-one sitters, can be tied to reduction in nurse burnout especially for nurses who already feel less committed. Additionally, the study showed in-person sitting was viewed as a resource drain with negative effects on these nurses’ emotional labor and emotional exhaustion.

    “Having insightful research into virtual sitting helps us alleviate burnout among our nursing staff and optimize the usage of all our resources to get the right care to the right patient at the right time,” said study co-author Emily Anderson, MSN, RN, PCCN-K, nurse manager at Providence Medical Center in Anchorage, AK. “This study supports our experience that virtual sitting improves the well-being of our nurses and helps maintain patient safety.”

    While it is well-established in clinical literature that virtual sitting technology, compared with the use of in-person sitters, improves safety and reduces costs for hospitals, this study sheds light on the technology’s impact on nurses’ stress and well-being. The new study builds on previous research published in the Journal of Nursing Measurement in 2020, which surveyed 412 nurses on their attitudes toward virtual sitting. It demonstrated bedside nurses view virtual sitting as an increased resource to maintain patient safety and did not view one-to-one sitters as a safer alternative.

    “This research represents a valuable contribution to the knowledge base on virtual sitting by being the first to demonstrate a reduction in nurse burnout associated with the use of virtual sitting technology,” said Lisbeth Votruba, MSN, RN, chief clinical officer of AvaSure. “As more and more peer-reviewed research on virtual sitting is published, it becomes clearer that nurses view the unproven practice of using one-to-one sitters as a resource drain and virtual sitters are a benefit. Nurses know that pulling valuable nursing assistants to sit with one patient around the clock is wasteful and leaves everyone else shorthanded.”

    “While we already know from the existing literature that virtual sitting improves patient safety and saves hospitals critical financial resources, it is important to better understand how virtual sitting impacts nurse well-being,” said Don Kluemper, Ph.D., the study’s lead author and Professor of Management at Texas Tech University. “This new study supports the notion that virtual sitting reduces while one-to-one sitters worsen nurse burnout.”

    The study used an experience sampling method and was conducted by surveying nurses twice a day for three weeks, resulting in 524 survey administrations provided by 74 nurses. The surveys included measures of daily video monitoring technology and in-person sitter use, emotional labor, emotional exhaustion, and nurse career commitment. Nurses participated from Providence Medical Center in Anchorage, AK and Providence St. Peter in Olympia, WA.

    AvaSure was not involved in the study design, collection, analysis, interpretation of data, writing of the manuscript nor the decision to submit the manuscript for publication.

    To learn more about the AvaSure TeleSitter® solution, click here.

    About AvaSure
    AvaSure provides the leading virtual sitting and virtual nursing solutions to systems with nursing and staffing shortages that are challenged to significantly reduce labor costs without sacrificing patient health outcomes. Recognized by KLAS Research as the leader in reducing the cost of patient care, AvaSure is the pioneer in providing best-in-class, video-based AvaSure TeleSitter® and TeleNurse™ solutions. As a trusted partner of more than 1,100 hospitals, AvaSure combines virtual safety attendants, virtual nurses and other providers on a single platform to enhance clinical care without placing any additional burdens on existing staff. To learn more about AvaSure visit www.avasure.com.

    About Providence
    Providence is a national, not-for-profit Catholic health system comprising a diverse family of organizations and driven by a belief that health is a human right. With 51 hospitals, over 1,000 physician clinics, senior services, supportive housing, and many other health and educational services, the health system and its partners employ more than 120,000 caregivers serving communities across seven states – Alaska, California, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas, and Washington, with system offices in Renton, Wash., and Irvine, Calif. Learn about our vision of health for a better world at www.Providence.org.

    Media Contact:
    Marcia Rhodes, Amendola Communications
    [email protected]

    Posted 11.21.2023

  • Digital Access Dominates: 80% of Consumers Prioritize Scheduling Care Online, Reveals Kyruus’ 2023 Care Access Benchmark Report

    New data provides insights into patient access expectations for providers and health plans

    BOSTON, MA (October 10, 2023) – Kyruus, the leader in healthcare provider data management, price transparency, and patient access and engagement, announced the release of its “Care Access Benchmark Report” for providers and health plans. In July of 2023, the company partnered with Wakefield Research to better understand how consumer preferences for finding, selecting, and accessing care have evolved, and how preferences might differ by generation. A total of 1,000 healthcare consumers were surveyed. Key findings include:

    • Digital access is a top priority: Almost 80 percent of all consumers would schedule care from a health plan website if given the option, and 75 percent of millennials scheduled their last appointment online. When selecting a new provider, 61 percent of consumers say the ability to schedule appointments online is extremely or very important. A mere 36 percent of those surveyed said they were confident they were matched with a provider who could meet their clinical needs when scheduling an appointment over the phone.
    • Lack of health plan price transparency creates care barriers: 96 percent of those surveyed said they consider cost when making healthcare decisions, and 44 percent agreed that a lack of price transparency from their health plan prevents them from seeking healthcare. More than a quarter (26 percent) said their health plan doesn’t offer transparency tools, while 64 percent of consumers agree they need more help navigating these tools.
    • Data inaccuracies erode trust: More than half (58 percent) of those surveyed confirmed they relied on a health plan website or app when searching for care online, and 29 percent ranked their health plan’s website as the most trusted source for information. A whopping 77 percent said inaccurate provider information on their health plan’s website impacts their level of trust, yet 40 percent noted they had found inaccurate provider information on their site.

    Gail Airasian, Chief Strategy Officer at Kyruus, explained why recognizing the gaps between what consumers want and what health plans and providers deliver is crucial to improving care access. “Accurate data, price transparency, and easy-to-use tools are paramount to an optimized experience,” she confirmed.

    Airasian was also careful to note a patient’s digital expectations vary by age. “Generational differences among consumers showcase the continued need for a multi-channel focus on care access—meaning a wide variety of options are still vital to truly serve patients,” she added.

    Kyruus will use the data learned from this report to guide its path forward in better addressing the needs of its customers and its customers’ patients and continue to provide solutions that address care access and price transparency. Kyruus will be attending HLTH 2023 in Las Vegas and will be available to further discuss the 2023 Care Access Benchmark Report.

    To schedule an interview with Gail Airasian at HLTH, please contact Jeff Rusack at [email protected].

    About Kyruus
    Kyruus is on a mission to connect people to the right care. Serving more than 500 healthcare organizations and 100 health plan brands, its platform includes solutions for provider data management, price transparency, provider search and scheduling, and digital patient intake — all to help people navigate and access the care they need. Kyruus provides a better healthcare journey, resulting in more satisfied members and patients, more aligned and engaged clinicians, and improved financial performance for the organizations it serves.

    Visit www.kyruus.com to learn about our solutions for health systems and hospitals.
    Visit www.epionhealth.com to learn about our solutions for medical groups and practices.
    Visit healthsparq.com to learn more about our solutions for health plans.

    Media Contact
    KNB Communications
    Jeff Rusack
    [email protected]

    Posted 11.21.2023

  • Northern Virginia Technology Council Recognizes DrFirst as a Top Tech Leader for Fourth Consecutive Year

    2023 NVTC Tech100 Celebrates Forward-Thinking Companies Driving Innovation in the Washington, D.C., Region

    Rockville, Md. (November 21, 2023) – Northern Virginia Technology Council (NVTC), the trade association representing the Washington, D.C., region’s technology community, has announced the 2023 NVTC Tech100 honorees. For the fourth year in a row, healthcare IT pioneer DrFirst is being honored as an innovative company that develops breakthrough technologies and contributes to the region’s economic growth.

    “Congratulations to DrFirst and all of this year’s Tech100 honorees—a cross-section of innovators from the tech sectors of cyber, cloud, AI, software development, data centers, government IT, and commercial tech,” said Jennifer Taylor, NVTC president and CEO. “I am so inspired by the positive impact these honorees have on the technology field. Our region continues to be one of the nation’s leading tech hubs—and with the exponential growth of responsible and trustworthy AI, our future is brighter than ever.”

    To choose the 100 honorees, a panel of independent judges carefully reviewed and considered 200 nominations.

    “With our focus on innovation and dedication to radical improvements in healthcare technology that improve patient outcomes, we are honored to be recognized as one of the NVTC Tech100 companies,” said G. Cameron Deemer, CEO of DrFirst. “We congratulate all honorees and are pleased to contribute to the area’s growth as a tech hub.”

    About the Northern Virginia Technology Council (NVTC)
    NVTC is the trade association representing the Northern Virginia technology community. As one of the nation’s largest technology councils, NVTC serves companies from all sectors of the industry, from small businesses and startups to Fortune 100 technology companies, government contractors, as well as service providers, academic institutions, and nonprofit organizations. More than 460 members look to the organization as a resource for networking and educational opportunities, peer-to-peer communities, policy advocacy, industry promotion, fostering of strategic relationships, and branding of the region as a major global technology center. Learn more at www.nvtc.org.

    About DrFirst:
    Since 2000, healthcare IT pioneer DrFirst has empowered providers and patients to achieve better health through intelligent medication management. We improve healthcare efficiency and effectiveness by enhancing e-prescribing workflows, improving medication history, optimizing clinical data usability, and helping patients start and stay on therapy. In the last few years, DrFirst has won over 25 awards for excellence and innovation, including winning Gold in the prestigious Edison Awards in 2023, recognizing our game-changing use of clinical-grade AI to streamline time-consuming healthcare workflows and prevent medication errors. Our solutions are used by more than 350,000 prescribers, 71,000 pharmacies, 270 EHRs and health information systems, and over 2,000 hospitals in the U.S. and Canada. To learn more, visit DrFirst.com and follow @DrFirst.

    DrFirst Media Contact
    Katlyn Nesvold, Amendola Communications for DrFirst
    715-559-0046 [email protected]

    Posted 11.21.2023

  • CHIME Unveils 2023 National Trends Report: “Accelerating Data Usage” Dominates Digital Health Landscape

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    CHIME Unveils 2023 National Trends Report: “Accelerating Data Usage” Dominates Digital Health Landscape

     

    Ann Arbor, MI, November 20, 2023 – The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) proudly presents the 2023 National Trends Report, a culmination of insights gathered through the esteemed Digital Health Most Wired (DHMW) Survey. The report mirrors the remarkable progress made by leading healthcare providers in reshaping the future of healthcare through innovative digital health strategies.

     

    Access the full report here: Digital Health Most Wired National Trends Report 2023

     

    The Digital Health Most Wired survey, reflecting the digital profiles of nearly 40% of US hospitals, offers a comprehensive overview of the digital health landscape. This year’s findings, encapsulated in the report, reveal a predominant theme: “Accelerating Data Usage.” The report delves into this theme with evidence drawn from the DHMW survey, complemented by supplementary insights from KLAS Research, providing a nuanced understanding of the market context.

     

    The survey results indicate a critical juncture for healthcare organizations (HCOs) as they navigate the delicate balance between financial stability and allocating resources for IT support. A key concern is optimizing spending, staff utilization, and adopting a data-driven approach for strategic decision-making.

     

    Considering market conditions, the healthcare industry’s ongoing commitment to harnessing technology for enhanced care delivery and patient outcomes is evident. This commitment is facilitated by three key trends outlined in the report: Enhanced Data Outputs, Expanded Data Inputs, and Elevated Data Direction.

     

    • Enhanced Data Outputs: This trend signifies the evolution in metabolizing data to optimize decision-making. It involves providing relevant data and insights at the right time and speed to the right people, thereby enhancing the overall efficacy of healthcare decision processes.

     

    • Expanded Data Inputs: Consumerism’s pervasive influence in the healthcare market emerges as a powerful force in accelerating data usage within Healthcare Organizations (HCOs). The 2023 DHMW survey findings reveal the profound impact of consumerism, underscoring the need for HCOs to adapt and leverage data in response to evolving patient expectations and preferences.

     

    • Elevated Data Direction: The third trend facilitating the acceleration of data usage in HCOs involves an expanded reliance on specialized and dedicated leaders to guide data usage. This emphasizes the strategic role of leadership in navigating the complex landscape of healthcare data, ensuring its responsible and effective utilization.

     

    Russ Branzell, CHIME President and CEO, expresses the significance of these trends, stating, “The 2023 National Trends Report reflects the vitality of the healthcare industry as it embraces the digital transformation. The commitment to enhanced data outputs, expanded data inputs, and elevated data direction underscores the industry’s dedication to leveraging technology for improved patient care.”

     

    Adding to this sentiment, KLAS President, Adam Gale, notes, “KLAS Research is proud to collaborate with CHIME in providing additional insights into the trends shaping digital health. The survey findings emphasize the critical role of data in steering healthcare organizations towards greater efficiency, patient satisfaction, and overall success.”

     

    The report serves as a comprehensive resource for industry leaders, policymakers, and healthcare professionals, offering nuanced insights into the transformative journey towards a digitally empowered healthcare future.

     

    About CHIME
    The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) is an executive organization dedicated to serving chief information officers (CIOs), chief medical information officers (CMIOs), chief nursing information officers (CNIOs), chief innovation officers (CIOs), chief digital officers (CDOs) and other senior healthcare IT leaders. With more than 5,000 members in 56 countries plus two U.S. territories and over 150 healthcare IT business partners and professional services firms, CHIME and its three associations provide a highly interactive, trusted environment enabling senior professional and industry leaders to collaborate, exchange best practices, address professional development needs and advocate the effective use of information management to improve the health and care in the communities they serve. For more information, please visit chimecentral.org.

     

    About KLAS Research

    KLAS is a research and insights firm on a global mission to improve healthcare. Working with thousands of healthcare professionals and clinicians, KLAS gathers data and insights on software and services to deliver timely reports and performance data that represent provider and payer voices and act as catalysts for improving vendor performance. The KLAS research team publishes reports covering the most pressing questions facing healthcare technology today, including emerging technology insights, that provide early insights on the future of healthcare technology solutions. KLAS also fosters measurement and collaboration between healthcare providers and payers and best practice adoption. Learn more at klasresearch.com.

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    Contact

    Calli Dretke
    Executive Vice President & Chief Digital and Marketing Officer
    CHIME                                                                                                           
    734.412.6255
    [email protected]

     

     

    Posted 11.21.2023

  • FDB Recognized by AMIA for Decades-Long Partnership & Contributions to Healthcare Informatics

    Joint commitment to advancing healthcare transformation through data-driven clinical decision-making yields better patient care & health policy

    SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, CA (November 13, 2023) – FDB (First Databank, Inc.), the leading provider of drug knowledge that helps healthcare professionals make precise decisions, announced today that it has received the Silver Corporate Partner Award presented by the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), the leading professional association for informatics professionals in healthcare. AMIA formally recognized FDB for this award for its generous contributions to the association and to the field of informatics at the AMIA 2023 Annual Symposium in New Orleans today.

    Founded in 1988, AMIA’s membership includes 5,600 informatics professionals from more than 65 countries. As the voice of the nation’s top biomedical and health informatics professionals, AMIA and its members play a leading role in assessing the effect of health innovations on health policy and advancing the field of healthcare informatics. AMIA actively supports five domains in healthcare informatics: translational bioinformatics, clinical research informatics, clinical informatics, consumer health informatics, and public health informatics.

    Organizations, such as FDB, that strategically partner with AMIA demonstrate that they are industry leaders with valuable content and expertise to share.

    “As an AMIA member for more than two decades, FDB has supported the organization in its mission to use informatics to accelerate healthcare’s transformation by more efficiently and effectively collecting, analyzing, and applying data directly to improve care decisions,” said FDB Senior Vice President of Informatics and Clinical Content Joan Kapusnik-Uner, PharmD. “As informatics enters an exciting and rapidly advancing era that includes emerging technologies such as generative AI, we will continue to support, contribute to, and rely on AMIA to lead the way in this transformation through its trusted science, education, and opportunities for multidisciplinary collaboration.”

    FDB joined AMIA as a member in 1998. Early contributions from FDB to achieve joint goals include sharing knowledge and expertise on data standardization for electronic health record (EHR) development, specifically for medication-related computerized physician order entry and clinical decision support. Over the years, FDB has continued to participate in and contribute to AMIA-related multidisciplinary conferences, research, and knowledge-sharing opportunities, including being a founding member of its Pharmacoinformatics Workgroup. FDB leaders have presented at AMIA conferences, participated in collaborative studies, reviewed articles for its peer-reviewed publications, and held corporate roundtable meetings, among its many activities.

    “Our corporate partners’ support enhances AMIA’s initiatives, improves member benefits, and helps transform health and healthcare through informatics,” said Gretchen Purcell Jackson, MD, PhD, FACS, FACMI, FAMIA, AMIA Board Chair and President, Vice President and Scientific Medical Officer, Intuitive Surgical and Associate Professor of Surgery, Pediatrics, and Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center. “We are grateful for FDB’s long-term commitment to our association and welcome its continued participation in the coming years to advance pharmacoinformatics research and improve medication information systems to ultimately benefit the practice of healthcare and the health of people worldwide.”

    About FDB
    FDB (First Databank) creates and delivers the world’s most powerful drug knowledge that ignites, inspires, and illuminates critical medication decisions. We collaborate with our partners to help improve patient safety, operational efficiency, and health outcomes. Our drug databases drive healthcare information systems that serve the majority of hospitals, physician practices, pharmacies, payers, and all other areas of healthcare and are used by millions of clinicians, business associates, and patients every day. Please visit us at https://www.fdbhealth.com/, or follow us on X, LinkedIn and YouTube.

    About Hearst Health
    The mission of Hearst Health is to help guide the most important care moments by delivering vital information into the hands of everyone who touches a person’s health journey. Care guidance from Hearst Health reaches the majority of people in the U.S. The Hearst Health network includes FDB (First Databank), Zynx Health, MCG, Homecare Homebase and MHK. Hearst also holds a minority interest in the precision medicine and oncology analytics company M2Gen. Follow Hearst Health on Twitter @HearstHealth or LinkedIn @Hearst-Health.

    About AMIA
    AMIA, the leading professional association for informatics professionals, is the center of action for 5,600 informatics professionals from more than 65 countries. As the voice of the nation’s top biomedical and health informatics professionals, AMIA and its members play a leading role in assessing the effect of health innovations on health policy and advancing the field of informatics. AMIA actively supports five domains in informatics: translational bioinformatics, clinical research informatics, clinical informatics, consumer health informatics, and public health informatics.

    Media Contact
    Tara Stultz
    Amendola Communications for FDB
    M: 440-225-9595
    [email protected]

    Posted 11.15.2023

  • Artisight Receives Prestigious CHIME Innovation Award with Partner Guthrie Clinic

    The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives recognizes program that utilizes AI-powered Smart Hospital Platform to transform care delivery.

    PHOENIX, Ariz., (November 13, 2023) – Artisight, Inc., a smart hospital platform powered by industry-defining artificial intelligence to provide virtual care, quality improvement, and care coordination solutions, has been honored with the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) Innovator of the Year Award alongside partner Guthrie Clinic. The award, presented Nov. 10 at CHIME’s Fall Conference opening ceremony, recognizes demonstrated value through creative application of technology.
    Artisight and Guthrie Clinic were recognized for the implementation of an AI-driven remote nursing solution and virtual command center to improve care delivery. The honor marks the first time a health system and technology partner have received the award jointly.

    “When implementing a new healthcare technology, it’s essential not only to understand your current use case, but also to have a clear vision of where you are going,” said Terri Couts, chief digital officer and SVP at Guthrie Clinic. “With Artisight, we have a partner who can offer a comprehensive solution to the challenges we are facing. We’ve been able to seamlessly adopt this innovative technology to the benefit of our staff, patients and the hospital overall.”

    Guthrie Clinic serves a vast 9,000 square mile region spanning rural parts of New York and Pennsylvania. Ensuring consistent access across this expansive area presents challenges, which the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated amid workforce reductions and recruiting difficulties. To confront these obstacles, Guthrie Clinic collaborated with Artisight to launch the Pulse Center –– an advanced remote nursing program with a virtual command hub. This pioneering approach:

    • Reduced nurse turnover from 25% to 13%
    • Yielded $7 million in cost savings to date
    • Reduced the amount of time nurses spend on administrative tasks by more than 30 minutes per shift
    • Increased nurse job satisfaction

    Additionally, Artisight’s technology has allowed Guthrie to deliver the right level of care to patients at the right time, no matter where they are located.

    “Artisight’s work with Guthrie illustrates the impact of true collaboration,” said Stephanie Lahr, MD, president of Artisight. “Together, our organizations formulated a strategy that prioritized addressing Guthrie’s immediate issues promptly, and we worked together to train our platform to develop algorithms that address those needs. We’re proud to be recognized by CHIME for a program that alleviates nurse burnout and increases patient satisfaction.”
    In addition to this latest accolade, the collaboration has gained industry recognition including the 2023 ECRI Health Technology Excellence Award for AI-driven remote monitoring and Modern Healthcare’s Top 2023 Innovators Award.

    About Guthrie Clinic
    Guthrie is a not-for-profit, integrated healthcare system designed to offer patients a full spectrum of health services incorporating primary care, complex specialty care, behavioral health services, surgical services, inpatient care, durable medical equipment services, home health, long-term care, palliative care and hospice care. Guthrie Clinic serves a primarily rural community that covers 9,000 square miles in portions of New York and Pennsylvania.

    About Artisight
    Artisight redefines the possibilities of healthcare through its Smart Hospital Platform and solutions for virtual care, quality improvement, and care coordination. Anchored in deep clinical knowledge and industry-defining artificial intelligence, Artisight’s state-of-the-art computer vision and robust multi-sensor network adapts in real-time to specific environments and workflows, unlocking previously inaccessible data and ensuring seamless integration into your healthcare ecosystem.

    Media Contact
    Amendola for Artisight
    Kim Mohr
    949-322-3733
    [email protected]

    Posted 11.15.2023

  • Wooster Community Hospital’s Eric Gasser Earns the 2023 Stoltenberg Future Fund Health IT Leadership Scholarship

    Scholarship program helps advance health tech leaders through CHIME continuing education

    PITTSBURGH, PA (November 14, 2023) – Stoltenberg Consulting, Inc., a leading healthcare IT consulting firm, today named Eric Gasser, vice president and chief information officer (CIO) at Wooster Community Hospital in Wooster, Ohio, as the recipient of the 2023 Stoltenberg Future Fund Scholarship for healthcare technology leadership continuing education.

    The Stoltenberg Future Fund awards scholarships annually through the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (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, or toward formal secondary education tuition and related expenses. By supporting health IT leadership development, the scholarship promotes digital health advancement and technology-enabled patient engagement in hospitals and health systems. Scholarship demand has risen as looming workforce and financial challenges have forced hospital IT departments to cut funding for user group meetings, conferences, and continuing education opportunities.

    “The Stoltenberg Future Fund Scholarship is a symbol of the ongoing support and investment in my aspirations. It is not just financial assistance for my MBA; it’s an endorsement of the transformative power of education in healthcare leadership,” Gasser said. “I’m profoundly grateful to both CHIME and Stoltenberg Consulting for their incredible support. This scholarship represents a significant step in my journey to making a lasting impact on healthcare technology and patient care. It’s a reminder that no matter where you start, with dedication and support, you can achieve remarkable heights in your career.”

    Gasser is a seasoned HIT professional with 19 years of information systems experience. He, however, began his healthcare career as a registered nurse before discovering a passion for informatics and clinical technology. Following this direction, Gasser quickly advanced within Wooster Community Hospital’s IT department. Early in his tenure, Gasser led the organization in implementing CPOE (Computerized Physician Order Entry), electronic physician documentation, and the MEDITECH emergency department application. Upon promotion to director of information systems, Gasser effectively led the conversion from MEDITECH Magic to MEDITECH 6.0, with which Wooster Community Hospital achieved Meaningful Use Stage 1 and Stage 2 certifications.

    Now, serving as vice president and CIO, Gasser has spearheaded initiatives for increasing EHR satisfaction, reducing physician burnout, and optimizing the use of technology to facilitate meaningful patient interactions. At home, Gasser and his wife Lisa are raising six children, having recently officially adopted their 6-year-old daughter into their family. Gasser plans to utilize the Stoltenberg Future Fund Scholarship toward his MBA education at the University of Akron this fall.

    Stoltenberg Consulting committed to hosting the annual CHIME Education Foundation scholarship over a span of 25 years. Gasser is the 14th 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 UC Davis Health, 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://www.stoltenberg.com/pages/news/scholarships.aspx.

    About Stoltenberg Consulting
    For over 28 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 EHR systems with best practice expertise for Epic, Oracle Cerner, MEDITECH, NextGen, Veradigm (Allscripts), Altera, and eClinicalWorks. To see how Stoltenberg simplifies healthcare technology, visit stoltenberg.com.

     

    Posted 11.15.2023

  • KLAS Reports Recognize care.ai in Virtual Care Solutions, Credited for Expert Staff, Premium Hardware, and Advanced AI Features

    care.ai is the only vendor in the report to have all client respondents using the solution for virtual nursing.

    ORLANDO, Fl., Nov. 15, 2023 — KLAS, the respected healthcare research organization, has released an inaugural report on Virtual Sitting and Virtual Nursing, along with an Emerging Solutions Spotlight highlighting Smart Patient Rooms on care.ai. These reports highlight care.ai’s Always-Aware Sensors and Smart Care Facility Platform, as endorsed by their esteemed clients and provide an early glimpse into the care.ai client experience.

    Through structured interviews with care.ai’s clients, the reports underscore care.ai’s strong performance in the market, affirming its position as a trusted and established name. Clients have attested to care.ai’s ability to drive outcomes and scalability and create significant return on investment, particularly with the integration of AI-powered sensors.

    The care.ai Smart Patient Emerging Solutions KLAS Spotlight report reveals that 75% of care.ai clients see outcomes within six months. These transformations have translated into heightened patient and staff safety, increased satisfaction levels, reduced length of hospital stays, and a more substantial operational bandwidth for bedside nurses.

    Clients highlight that they have experienced significant financial benefits by opting for a solution that effectively scales sitter capacity to monitor and proactively prevent adverse events. care.ai’s Smart Care Facility Platform not only delivers substantial ROI but also boasts a remarkable endorsement from its users. An astounding 100% of clients have incorporated the platform into their long-term strategies, and an equally impressive 100% express that they would purchase again.

    “We’re thrilled to receive top accolades from KLAS in both the Virtual Sitting & Nursing 2023 Report and the Emerging Solutions Spotlight Report, and we extend our gratitude to our valued clients for their shared dedication to enhancing patient safety and alleviating clinician burden,” said care.ai Founder and CEO Chakri Toleti. “care.ai stands at the forefront with the industry’s premier purpose-built, edge-to-cloud AI platform tailored to empower Smart Care Facilities. Our clinical and technical teams are fully dedicated to collaborating with our clients, all driven by the shared mission of ‘Never Stop Caring’”

    care.ai client quotes from the care.ai Smart Patient Emerging Solutions KLAS Spotlight report :

    • “The solution is highly beneficial. Certain clinical functions can continue even if there is a crisis in the unit because we have virtual nursing. The success metrics are decreased safety events, increased patient satisfaction, and increased staff satisfaction. In time, we hope to see a reduction in turnover.” —CMO, September 2023
    • “care.ai is very willing to customize workflows that meet our specific needs, and the vendor is quick to roll out technology. care.ai’s AI engine sits on the sensor and not in the back-end infrastructure, so AI inferencing is done very quickly and easily, and the engine doesn’t impact IT the way other vendors’ AI engines do.” —Director, September 2023
    • “The vendor’s customer service and project management people are really awesome. We are working really hard with our quality department, and the vendor is making sure that we are meeting our KPIs. The vendor is able to continuously scope out the product and meet timelines.” —Director, September 2023

    KLAS is a research organization that helps healthcare providers make informed technology decisions by offering impartial vendor performance information.

    About care.ai
    care.ai is the artificial intelligence company redefining how care is delivered with its Smart Care Facility Platform and Always-aware Ambient Intelligent Sensors. care.ai’s solutions transform physical spaces into self-aware smart care environments to autonomously enhance and optimize clinical and operational workflows, delivering a transformative approach to virtual care models, including Virtual Nursing.

    Media Contact:
    [email protected]

    Posted 11.15.2023

  • Physician Executive Leader Shares Clinician-Friendly Tech Adoption Playbook at CHIME23 Fall Forum

    FDB Targeted Medication Warnings ease improvement of medication alert relevance in the EHR workflow

    PHOENIX, AZ (November 8, 2023) – A physician executive leader from a long-time customer of FDB (First Databank, Inc.), the leading provider of drug knowledge that helps healthcare professionals make precise decisions, will share real-world lessons on how to earn clinician buy-in and long-term engagement in health IT projects large and small, even during a time of historic staffing challenges.

    Donald Levick, MD, MBA, CPE, FHIMSS, a practicing pediatrician and the former chief medical information officer at Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN), will share his presentation, “Pulling Along Tech Change Without Pushing Clinicians Over the Edge” at the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) Fall Forum, November 9-12 in Phoenix.
    “Many organizations today are wary of introducing changes to providers’ workflows,” said Dr. Levick, who has built his clinician-friendly tech-adoption playbook since 2000. “If new systems and changes are selected and executed correctly and collaboratively, launching a clinician-led IT workflow change in this environment can actually help reduce provider burnout by eliminating tech-related drudgery and increasing meaningful time with patients.”

    Managing Changes Large and Small
    Dr. Levick led numerous health IT projects over two decades that required clinician buy-in and adoption – including an Epic EHR implementation. The Epic launch and associated change management effort were enormous. Yet smaller, incremental tech improvements to an existing EHR, such as implementing FDB Targeted Medication Warnings™ to optimize select medication safety alerts, require change management steps, too. Dr. Levick’s presentation includes hard-earned, real-world advice and best practices for managing IT adoption with clinicians, including how to generate interest – or even excitement – around the smaller ones.

    For example, Dr. Levick introduced an initiative to help reduce the number of drug-drug interaction notifications that clinicians received warning them of potential hyperkalemia (high blood potassium levels) in patients. Clinicians at LVHN were frequently overriding these alerts because they were being fired at inappropriate times and were not relevant to the patient in the current clinical context.
    Dr. Levick formed a multidisciplinary team and collaboratively worked with FDB to implement FDB Targeted Medication Warnings to make these alerts more patient-specific. FDB’s “patient-first” approach to optimizing medication decision support integrates additional inputs, including lab results, genomic markers, and clinical scoring/surveillance systems, to achieve a highly personalized notification at the point of care.

    The inclusive, collective effort initiated by Dr. Levick resulted in a 70% reduction in the volume of irrelevant, non-actionable hyperkalemia alerts. Likewise, providers cut their overrides of hyperkalemia alerts in half. The change improved the clinician experience while protecting patients’ safety and health.

    Another major factor in earning clinician buy-in for this change and others was to first find a clinician champion (or “influencer” in today’s parlance) to build engagement among other providers. Dr. Levick also conducted a deep data analysis of clinician behaviors to determine which alerts were being ignored the most. Another factor was that this EHR optimization required no formal training sessions for most clinicians and was highly intuitive. Acceptance of alerts jumped from less than 20% to more than 60%, indicating much higher relevancy to providers at that right point in their workflow – and likely less tech-related frustration.

    “Preventing ‘alert fatigue’ among clinicians is important, but preventing ‘change fatigue’ may, in turn, be a more pressing issue today,” said Dr. Levick. “By introducing and implementing health IT changes the right way, organizations can take advantage of innovative new tools that help protect patient safety and improve outcomes, while at the same time, improve their clinicians’ experiences.”
    Dr. Levick’s informal and interactive presentation is part of “The Human Side of Digital Health” education track and will be delivered on Saturday, November 11, at 11:15 a.m. in the JW Marriott Desert Ridge Resort & Spa conference room.

    About FDB
    FDB (First Databank) creates and delivers the world’s most powerful drug knowledge that ignites, inspires, and illuminates critical medication decisions. We collaborate with our partners to help improve patient safety, operational efficiency, and health outcomes. Our drug databases drive healthcare information systems that serve the majority of hospitals, physician practices, pharmacies, payers, and all other areas of healthcare and are used by millions of clinicians, business associates, and patients every day. Please visit us at https://www.fdbhealth.com/, or follow us on X, LinkedIn and YouTube.

    About Hearst Health
    The mission of Hearst Health is to help guide the most important care moments by delivering vital information into the hands of everyone who touches a person’s health journey. Care guidance from Hearst Health reaches the majority of people in the U.S. The Hearst Health network includes FDB (First Databank), Zynx Health, MCG, Homecare Homebase and MHK. Hearst also holds a minority interest in the precision medicine and oncology analytics company M2Gen. Follow Hearst Health on Twitter @HearstHealth or LinkedIn @Hearst-Health.

    Media Contact
    Tara Stultz
    Amendola Communications for FDB
    M: 440-225-9595
    [email protected]

    Posted 11.15.2023

  • Healthcare Triangle Ransomware Protection and Prevention Initiative Draws Initial Support from Multiple Health System Clients

    Company offers critical resources for seven key tenets of ransomware cybersecurity: education, assessment, preparedness, protection, detection, response, and recovery

    PLEASANTON, Calif. (July 26, 2023) – Healthcare Triangle, Inc. (Nasdaq: HCTI) (“HCTI” or the “Company”), a leader in digital transformation solutions including managed services, cloud enablement, cybersecurity, data analytics, and AI data processing for the healthcare and life sciences industries, today announced that its new ransomware prevention and protection initiative launched earlier this month is drawing initial interest and support from numerous health system clients seeking critical tools and guidance for preventing and responding to ransomware incidents. The Company is servicing multiple contract agreements for cloud backup and disaster recovery, enabling hospitals and health systems to move disaster recovery to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud to secure resources and scale on demand. This helps to mitigate risks by increasing resilience and meeting compliance requirements. Elastic disaster recovery minimizes downtime with minimal RPO (recovery point objective) and RTO (recovery time objective) for immediate recovery to ransomware events.

    “The accelerating volume of national news about ransomware incidents is driving widespread demand for cybersecurity services. Our clients are seeking guidance and protection from solutions that are specific to the concerns and needs of healthcare systems and their patients,” said Lena Kannappan, head of business, strategy and partnerships for Healthcare Triangle. In July alone, one of the country’s largest providers confirmed a data breach impacting 11 hospitals and 12 million patients, and now faces at least four class action lawsuits. A prominent community hospital had to close its doors permanently due to a 2021 ransomware attack that caused devastating financial loss. IBM reported that ‘the average costs of a studied breach in healthcare reached nearly $11 million in 2023 – a 53% price increase since 2020.’ Rural hospitals are particularly vulnerable to risk at these high costs.

    “Healthcare Triangle’s mission is to fill a leadership role as the authority on specialized cybersecurity and identity management solutions for organizations ranging from small community healthcare providers to large healthcare systems serving millions of patients. We are in discussions with multiple cybersecurity product vendors and public cloud providers to bring best-of-breed solutions to the hospital community,” Kannappan continued. “In just two weeks, our initiative has drawn a significant amount of interest from our existing health system clients and partners. This strong initial response bodes well for the continuing adoption of our critical resources for preparedness, prevention, detection, response, and recovery from ransomware attacks.”

    Key areas of client interest to date include:

    • Education and training
    • Threat assessment
    • Evaluation and recommendations for security processes and tools
    • Incident management plan preparation
    • Backup and disaster recovery
    • Data archival on the cloud
    • Threat vectors and remediation
    • Prevention and protection including identity management
    • Detection, response, and recovery

    Commenting on Healthcare Triangle’s ransomware initiative, longstanding client CalvertHealth Medical Center stated, “Hospitals need to take solid steps toward ransomware resilience. With HCTI’s help we have implemented their Amazon Web Services-based disaster recovery solution in order to protect our patients’ data.”

    For more information about Healthcare Triangle’s ransomware initiative, contact [email protected].

    About the Healthcare Triangle
    Healthcare Triangle, Inc. based in Pleasanton, California, reinforces healthcare progress through breakthrough technology and extensive industry knowledge and expertise. We support healthcare including hospitals and health systems, payers, and pharma/life sciences organizations in their effort to improve health outcomes through better utilization of the data and information technologies that they rely on. Healthcare Triangle achieves HITRUST Certification for Cloud and Data Platform (CaDP), marketed as CloudEzTM and DataEzTM. 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, identity management, data lifecycle management, healthcare interoperability, and clinical and business performance optimization. For more information, visit www.healthcaretriangle.com.

    Forward-Looking Statements and Safe Harbor Notice
    All statements other than statements of historical facts included in this press release are “forward-looking statements” (as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995). Such forward-looking statements include our expectations and those statements that use forward-looking words such as “projected,” “expect,” “possibility” and “anticipate.” The achievement or success of the matters covered by such forward-looking statements involve significant risks, uncertainties and assumptions. Actual results could differ materially from current projections or implied results. Investors should read the risk factors set forth in the Company’s Prospectus filed with the SEC on October 7, 2021, previous filings, subsequent filings and future periodic reports filed with the SEC. All the Company’s forward-looking statements are expressly qualified by all such risk factors and other cautionary statements.

    The Company cautions that statements and assumptions made in this news release constitute forward-looking statements and make no guarantee of future performance. Forward-looking statements are based on estimates and opinions of management at the time statements are made. The information set forth herein speaks only as of the date hereof. The Company and its management undertake no obligation to revise these statements following the date of this news release.

    Contacts
    Media:
    Michael Campana
    [email protected]

    Investors:
    1-800-617-9550
    [email protected]

    Posted 11.15.2023
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