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December 13, 2016 - Santa Rosa Consulting, Inc. was selected by AtlantiCare, a NJ-based member of Geisinger Heath System, to strengthen the benefits and strategic value of the health system’s enterprise business intelligence and analytics (BIA) program. AtlantiCare’s pursuit of innovative strategic directions is increasing enterprise demands on its BIA program. Major imperatives centering on population health management, value-based payments, operating effectiveness, quality and safety improvement, and more, required a stronger, more robust BIA program to be successful.
December 12, 2016 – Recognized as one of the top 50 blogs in health IT for its provocative content, the Orion Health™ blog featured over 80 original posts in 2016. In brief, here are the organization’s picks for its top six entries of the year.
December 8, 2016 -For the second year in a row, Health Catalyst has earned the 2017 Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Award recognizing the “Best Places to Work” in the nation based soley on employee feedback.
December 8, 2016 - Anderson Regional Medical Center was one of several organizations to share their financial success story during MEDITECH’s recent Revenue Cycle Summit. The event highlighted strategies our customers can take to maintain profitability while navigating industry regulations and new reimbursement models.
December 7, 2016 -- Nuance Communications today announced it has been named the leading vendor in two recent surveys conducted by the independent market research and opinion research company, Black Book™ Research. Nuance ranked #1 for Clinical Documentation Improvement (CDI) for the third consecutive year, and ranked #1 for End-to-End Healthcare Coding, CDI, Transcription and Speech Recognition Technology for the second consecutive year. Black Book interviews healthcare executives about their current technology and services partners and awards top-performing vendors based on indicators of client experience and customer satisfaction.
December 7, 2016 - Vaco today announced the formation of Pivot Point Consulting, a Vaco Company. Vaco's healthcare IT division, Vaco Healthcare, acquired Pivot Point Consulting based in Seattle and Greythorn based in Bellevue, WA to offer expertise in EHR implementation, training, optimization, legacy and go-live support, project management and strategic advisory services. The new HIT services firm brings together more than 50 employees and 250 consultants across the nation.
December 6, 2016 – Optimum Healthcare IT announced that it has formed a strategic partnership with Collibra and joined the Collibra Partner Program. Collibra is an internationally recognized leader in data governance technology that helps businesses implement a more collaborative data governance organization that manages change and promotes business and IT alignment.
December 1, 2016 - GetWellNetwork, announced today that Dayton Children’s Hospital in Dayton, Ohio, has initiated a two-phase implementation of IPC throughout the hospital. Phase one was completed in just 45 days and includes the GetWellNetwork Inpatient solution with IPC Pathways deployed in 93 beds via Smart TV with bi-directional education integration.
December 2, 2016 - TelmedIQ is proud to be featured as a platform vendor by KLAS Research. TelmedIQ achieved an overall performance score of 91.4* out of 100 in the recent Secure Communication 2016 report from KLAS. KLAS identified more than 120 vendors and reviewed over 15 for their Secure Communication 2016 report and rated TelmedIQ for having one of the strongest platform options for improved care team communication based on objective scoring and interviews with existing customers.
December 1, 2016 - Use of machine learning and predictive analytics to improve health outcomes has so far been limited to highly-trained data scientists, mostly in the nation’s top academic medical centers.
November 30, 2016 - Spok today announced the availability of the T52 pager. The T52 pager supports communication with smartphones, pagers, handhelds, PCs, and other two-way devices, allowing care teams to stay connected regardless of the devices in use. With the enabled encryption service from Spok, the T52 is the only two-way pager on the market that supports secure messaging and helps healthcare organizations meet HIPAA compliance requirements.
November 29, 2016 - Healthcare IT Leaders, a national IT consulting and recruitment firm for leading healthcare employers, today announced the hire of Vicki Davis as Vice President for Training and Activation. In this role, Davis will help hospitals prepare and train their end-users for EMR activation, adoption and long-term success.
November 29, 2016 - Nordic is pleased to announce that it has completed a minority recapitalization with Silversmith Capital Partners and a group of banks led by current lender Square 1 Bank. By successfully raising this growth capital, Nordic reaffirms its position as the nation’s largest independent EHR/IT advisory consulting firm and positions itself as an industry leader well into the future.
November 29, 2016 - GetWellNetwork announced today that founder and CEO Michael O’Neil will present at the 15th Arab Conference, New Trends in Hospital Management, Dec. 5 - 7, 2016, at the Dusit Hotel, Abu Dhabi, UAE. The conference is being presented by the Arab Administrative Development Organization (ARADO) to raise awareness of involving the public and patients in the health care process, and promote their role as beneficiaries from health services.
November 28, 2016 - Nuance Communications today announced two important commitments to helping wishes come true for pediatric patients who will have a wish granted by Make-A-Wish®. On a national scale, Nuance will connect Make-A-Wish kids to the largest pediatric image sharing network in the US, Nuance PowerShare, to help them get the best care possible when traveling on wish experiences. Additionally, Nuance is donating $15,000 to Make-A-Wish Illinois to support children like Shane, an 11-year-old, who has wished to go to San Diego and take in all the local attractions this summer.November 28, 2016 - Nuance Communications today announced that it has enhanced its PowerShare Network capabilities in collaboration with Coordinated Care of Oklahoma (CCO) to make image awareness in Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) now a reality. CCO is the leading health information network of hospitals, health systems and physicians in Oklahoma.
November 16, 2016 - Health Catalyst today announced it ranked 97 on Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500, a ranking of the 500 fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences and energy tech companies in North America.
November 27, 2016 - International medical imaging IT company Sectra announces that ProMedica is adding the Sectra Cardiology Module into its existing enterprise imaging architecture. Through integration with the Epic Cupid reporting module, physicians will have combined access to their patients’ complete imaging history for both radiology and cardiology. ProMedica’s twelve hospitals and six ambulatory surgery centers in northwest Ohio and southeast Michigan provide 4.7 million patient encounters annually. All the facilities utilize Sectra PACS and, earlier this year, the Sectra VNA architecture was configured to prepare for the inclusion of cardiology and other non-radiology images. Cardiac catherization and cardiac ultrasound images will be viewed in the Sectra PACS and archived in the Sectra VNA.
November 22, 2016 - Nuance Communications today announced that Baptist Health South Florida has realized $45 million in increased appropriate reimbursement since the implementation of Nuance Clinical Documentation Improvement (CDI), which optimizes the accuracy and efficiency of physician documentation and communication of patient care. Not only did Baptist Health significantly improve financial outcomes, it improved the tracking and reporting of patient’s clinical conditions, which more than doubled metrics including severity of illness (SOI) and risk of mortality (ROM) to directly impact quality of care and treatment decisions.
November 21, 2016 – International medical imaging IT company Sectra has the highest customer satisfaction in the industry according to a new report from analytics company peer60. The report—Ideal Imaging Configuration: The Tug-of-War Between Enterprise and Best of Breed—shows that Sectra’s customers consistently express the highest satisfaction regardless of IT approach. It also shows that regardless of the customer preference for overall solution architecture, Sectra is the best partner.
