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Apple Health Records: Readers optimistic on adoption but skeptical small...
Apple Health Records are now in use at more than three-dozen leading U.S. health systems, including NYU Langone Medical Center, Partners Health Care, Penn Medicine, Geisinger, Johns Hopkins and Duke...
View ArticleInTouch Health buys Reach Health, bolstering inpatient, outpatient telehealth...
In its second acquisition this year, InTouch Health, which develops enterprise telehealth technology for hospitals and health systems, announced that it has acquired Reach Health, another telemedicine...
View ArticleOpioid epidemic: Why aren't prescription drug monitoring programs more...
Long before the opioid epidemic was thought to be a public health emergency, prescription drug abuse and misuse were steadily increasing in the U.S. To combat this, states and hospitals have been...
View ArticleMayo Clinic CIO Christopher Ross on breaking the $1 billion EHR and IT...
Mayo Clinic is on the cusp of one of the biggest and most expensive EHR go-lives in history. When the health system replaces Cerner and GE software with Epic’s electronic health record on May 5, at its...
View ArticleAmerican Well embeds telehealth into EHR workflows with AW11
American Well launched new telehealth technology on Tuesday dubbed AW11 at the American Telemedicine Association Annual Conference and Expo. The new version comes one day after American Well announced...
View ArticleAmazon, Apple only part of 'seismic change' coming to healthcare
Health executives know about Amazon, Apple, Google, IBM and Microsoft making moves into the healthcare industry but there are far more Fortune 50 companies that already have a foot in the space....
View ArticleTrinity Health chooses Epic for integrated EHR, revenue cycle management
It's a big week for Epic implementations in the Upper Midwest. The world-class Mayo Clinic is ready to go live with its newly-minted system on May 5, after more than three years of work. And today...
View ArticlePayer-provider convergence: What IT considerations to make as ‘payvider’...
Efforts to break down inefficiencies between providers and payers has put healthcare IT organizations on the front lines.In so-called “payvider” models, health systems may establish their own health...
View ArticleBlockchain for healthcare – closer than we think?
Blockchain holds big potential for overcoming issues of trust and ironing out technology wrinkles in the sharing of clinical and financial data in healthcare. While that is becoming increasingly widely...
View ArticleVA EHR contract delay hits Cerner's revenue
The ongoing uncertainty about the status of Cerner's EHR contract with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is beginning to have an impact on the company's balance sheet. Cerner executives discussed...
View ArticleChange Healthcare expands revenue cycle analytics with new platform
Change Healthcare has unveiled a new version of its Acuity Revenue Cycle Analytics that will enable users to track and gather data across the revenue cycle continuum. Change’s move to boost revenue...
View ArticleFDA says it's looking to buy EHR to track the safety of regulated products
The Food and Drug administration is looking for its own, large-scale EHR system to track the safety of regulated products and drug adverse reactions.According to the RFI, the EHR would support a...
View ArticleAllscripts acquires HealthGrid patient communication platform
EHR vendor Allscripts has made an agreement to purchase patient communication app maker HealthGrid for $60 million in cash, with an additional $50 million in earn-out payments based on HealthGrid...
View ArticleSpeech recognition works best when widely deployed, says KLAS
Healthcare IT News previously reported on a KLAS study that showed "speech recognition proving its worth," with findings that nine out of 10 hospitals had plans to expand their deployment of front-end...
View ArticleSequoia Project to bring PULSE platform nationwide for disaster response
The Sequoia Project is developing a nationwide deployment plan for Patient Unified Lookup System for Emergencies, a disaster response platform for health information access that was launched this past...
View ArticleElliott Management proposes $6.5 billion takeover of athenahealth
Activist investor Elliott Management is pressing athenahealth CEO Jonathan Bush to sell the cloud-based EHR company he co-founded in 1997. Shares of athenahealth jumped more than 23 percent on the...
View ArticlePatient experience management platform saves solo practitioner from burnout
LifeArts Integrated Health Center in Plattsmouth, Nebraska, implemented a patient experience management platform this past year. The technology is designed to be used across any in-office or personal...
View ArticleIt's not just EHRs: Interoperability also poses big challenges for revenue cycle
More than three-quarters of the hospitals surveyed for a new HIMSS Analytics study said that denials are the biggest challenge they face with revenue cycle management.One reason for that could be their...
View ArticleEpic App Orchard adds predictive analytics and patient surveillance technology
Excel Medical, which markets technologies designed to eradicate unexpected deaths in hospitals, has debuted Wave, an FDA-cleared patient surveillance and predictive algorithm platform that's now...
View ArticleChange Healthcare joins with Adobe and Microsoft on new patient engagement tech
Change Healthcare will work with Adobe and Microsoft on a new platform that will aggregate patient data for a more seamless and user-friendly patient experience.The three companies will leverage...
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