DrFirst Receives Two Awards for Exceptional Corporate Culture
March 27, 2017 - DrFirst announces that it has received recognition from two leading publications for its positive corporate culture and employee-centric work environment.Stoltenberg Survey Reveals Healthcare Organizations Still Underprepared for MACRA
March 22, 2017 - In the fifth annual Health IT Industry Outlook Survey conducted by Stoltenberg Consulting more than half of healthcare providers reported being “unprepared” or “very unprepared” for managing and executing Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) initiatives. The survey arises as the healthcare industry approaches the end of the first quarter in the first-ever MACRA reporting year.CynergisTek Announces New Compliance Program Effectiveness Assessment
March 22, 2017 - CynergisTek today announced its new Compliance Program Effectiveness Assessment (CPEA) service, which provides a comprehensive evaluation of healthcare organizations’ regulatory compliance programs. CynergisTek’s CPEA is conducted by a team of experienced consultants in accordance with rigorous procedures outlined by the Federal Sentencing Guidelines and the Health & Human Resources Office of Inspector General (OIG), as well as industry best practices.GetWellNetwork to Launch Person Engagement Index at Beryl Institute Patient Experience Conference
March 20, 2017 - GetWellNetwork will launch a new tool to help clinicians personalize care management plans based on a person’s capacity to be engaged in their health care. Researchers from GetWellNetwork’s O’Neil Center will officially introduce the Person Engagement Index ™ (PEI) on Tuesday, March 21, at The Beryl Institute’s Patient Experience Conference 2017 in Denver, Colo., during a session titled, “Person Engagement Index: Measuring a Person’s Capacity to Engage in their Healthcare.”GetWellNetwork & Veterans Health Administration Integrate Technology to Transform Care
March 14, 2017 - GetWellNetwork today announced the completion of interfaces enabling secure data exchange between the company’s IPC platform and VistA/CPRS, the Veterans Health Administration’s (VHA) electronic health record system. GetWellNetwork also integrates with other technology platforms used by the VHA, including Computrition for meal ordering and Vocera for integrated communications.Pursuit Healthcare Advisors Makes Another Philanthropic Donation to Increase & Encourage Girls to Pursue STEM Careers
March 10, 2017 - Pursuit Healthcare Advisors announced a donation of $1,000 to AAUW in support of Tech Trek. Tech Trek by AAUW is an experiential summer camp aimed at making the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields accessible and exciting for girls in middle school.Children’s Mercy Kansas City Goes Live With GetWellNetwork for Interactive Patient Care
March 2, 2017 - GetWellNetwork today announced that Children’s Mercy Kansas City successfully completed phase one of IPC implementation at Children’s Mercy Hospital Kansas in Overland Park, Kan. Designed to enhance the pediatric care experience for patients and families, the GetWellNetwork inpatient solution went live in December 2016 and will expand to Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Mo., in 2017.Health Catalyst Donates Technology & Services to Gunnison Valley Hospital to Improve Patient Care Using Data
March 2, 2017 - Gunnison Valley Hospital and Health Catalyst are excited to announce their partnership to improve health outcomes for patients in the Sanpete Valley.Regenstrief Institute & Health Catalyst Team to Reveal Hidden Meaning in Clinical Data for Better Patient Care
February 21, 2017 - From the floor of the HIMSS17 Conference & Exhibition in Orlando, Health Catalyst and the Regenstrief Institute announced today an agreement to bring Regenstrief’s artificial intelligence-powered text analytics technology out of the lab and into healthcare organizations nationwide.Nuance and Epic Join Forces on Artificial Intelligence to Revolutionize Disabled Veterans Accessibility to Health IT
February 21, 2017 - Nuance Communications and Epic announce that the companies are joining forces to create more access and job opportunities for disabled persons scheduling medical appointments. The new innovations, powered by Nuance’s artificial intelligence (AI) technology and Epic’s Electronic Health Record (EHR) system, include a hands-free virtual assistant, which is available for demonstration at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Annual Convention and Exhibition February 20-24 in Orlando.Siemens Healthineers Establishes Global Digital Ecosystem to Drive Digitalization of Healthcare
February 21, 2017 - At the 55th Annual Meeting for the Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), Siemens Healthineers announces a digital platform for healthcare providers as well as for providers of solutions and services, aimed at covering the entire spectrum of healthcare. The platform is to foster the growth of a digital ecosystem linking healthcare providers and solution providers with one another as well as bringing together their data, applications and services.Commvault Sees Growing Healthcare Industry Demand for Powerful Holistic Data Management
February 21, 2017 - Commvault today announced that it is seeing growing healthcare industry demand for its Commvault Data Platform with strong customer adoption among healthcare providers and organizations since the formation of its healthcare solutions group. Multiple forces – including growing data volumes, rising security risks, stricter regulatory requirements, increasing industry consolidation and shrinking IT budgets – are driving healthcare organizations to implement holistic data management strategies with the Commvault Data Platform.Commvault, Cloudwave Bring Streamlined Cloud Backup & Recovery to Healthcare Market with Powerful New Service Offering
February 21, 2017 - Commvault today announced that its Commvault Data Platform was selected by CloudWave to power its new OpSus Backup service. The new healthcare backup-as-a-service offering – part of the OpSus Healthcare cloud services portfolio – enables healthcare organizations to quickly, easily and securely use the cloud to protect and recover mission-critical application data. By building the OpSus Backup service on Commvault’s comprehensive data management platform, CloudWave is able to deliver healthcare enterprises a fully-managed backup service that cuts costs while minimizing security, business continuity and regulatory compliance risks.Commvault Extends Platform Capabilities for Healthcare by Adding EHR & ERP Application Decommissioning & Data Aggregation
February 21, 2017 - Commvault today announced a technology collaboration with Harmony Healthcare IT. Through the integration of the Commvault Data Platform with Harmony Healthcare IT’s archiving solution, Health Data Archiver, healthcare customers can manage the complicated process of decommissioning legacy applications by retiring Electronic Healthcare Records and Enterprise Resource Planning systems while enabling them to access and protect important clinical and business data.HealthGrid honored as recipient of the 2017 Microsoft Health Innovation Awards
February 21, 2017 - HealthGrid today announced it has been named a recipient of Microsoft Corp.'s 2017 Health Innovation Awards.BD Demonstrates Synchronized Technology Platform at HIMSS17
February 20, 2017 - BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) will demonstrate its approach to a synchronized medication management technology platform aimed to help close the communication gaps between different software and devices and optimize interoperability with the EMR systems to deliver a more seamless med management process at the 2017 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual conference and exhibition being held in Orlando from February 19-23.EHR Study Finds Healthcare Leaders Plan to Adopt Enhancing Technologies to Improve Clinician Satisfaction
February 20, 2017 - Nuance Communications today announced the findings of a new study revealing that a majority of healthcare leaders plan to use additional technologies and tools to realize the full intended benefits of electronic health records (EHRs) and to improve clinician satisfaction with using them. The study also concluded that the improved clinical documentation resulting from EHRs and related technologies will drive positive financial impact for their institutions, including appropriate reimbursement and increased patient flow.At HIMSS17 Nuance Reveals How Artificial Intelligence is Solving Clinicians’ Administrative Burden
February 20, 2017 - Nuance Communications today announced results that demonstrate clinicians can save up to 45% on documentation time and improve quality scores up to 36% using artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled solutions. Powered by advances in the cloud and cognitive computing, Nuance’s next-generation speech and language understanding solutions make it easier for clinicians to quickly capture complete patient information in electronic health records (EHRs) using technology that amplifies their intelligence and works in the background to complement patient care rather than compete with it.Health Catalyst Receives 2017 Best in KLAS for Healthcare Business Intelligence & Analytics
February 20, 2017 - Health Catalyst announced today that it has earned the 2017 Best in KLAS ranking for Business Intelligence and Analytics in recognition of its ability to help turn raw data into clear insights that drive improved outcomes in patient care and bottom-line performance.Orion Health Begins Migration of Patient Records to Amazon Web Services
February 20, 2017 - Orion Health announced today the company will migrate its Amadeus precision medicine platform to the Amazon Web Services, Inc. Cloud. Orion Health’s software currently manages over 110 million patient records globally.