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Nashville, TN - October 5, 2018 - eClinicalWorks®, a leader in healthcare IT solutions, today kicks off its 2018 National Conference, announcing innovations around physician burnout, interoperability, and telehealth technologies. The event is sold out, with a crowd of over 5,000 on-site attendees and another 5,500 employees livestreaming. The conference brings together users of eClinicalWorks’ software for education, training, and networking.
Nashville, TN - October 5, 2018 - eClinicalWorks®, a leader in healthcare IT solutions, today announced it has become one of the first Electronic Health Record (EHR) companies to be approved and to integrate with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Blue Button® 2.0 API. The Blue Button 2.0 API contains four years of Medicare Part A, B and D data for 53 million Medicare beneficiaries. eClinicalWorks will support the Consumer-Directed Exchange, covering numerous functions to improve patient access to health data and assist in informed health decisions.
Nashville, TN - October 5, 2018 - eClinicalWorks®, a leader in healthcare IT solutions, today announced the debut of Prizma, a health information search engine, to facilitate care across networks. By coordinating information from interoperability networks, such as CommonWell and Carequality, as well as payers such as CMS Blue Button® 2.0 API, Prizma will establish one longitudinal view to provide the critical information providers need to make informed health decisions. Prizma is integrated directly into the eClinicalWorks Electronic Health Record (EHR), providing seamless access for providers, ensuring complete and accurate patient information at the point of care.
San Jose, CA - October 3, 2018 - Vocera Communications, Inc. (NYSE:VCRA), a recognized leader in clinical communication and workflow solutions, today announced that Hackensack Meridian Health deployed Vocera Rounds in JFK Medical Center, making it the 10th hospital in its network to implement the mobile rounding solution.
Cary, NC and Toledo, OH - Oct. 2, 2018 - PeriGen, an innovator of perinatal early warning systems, today announced that ProMedica, a not-for-profit integrated health care organization serving 30 states, plans to deploy the company’s PeriWatch™ VigilanceTM, an artificial intelligence-based maternal-fetal early warning system (EWS), in all of its labor and delivery hospitals. Vigilance is designed to help clinicians identify troubling trends earlier and more consistently than manual assessments and creates a common language for nurses and physicians to assess cases.
Franklin, TN - October 2, 2018 - Santa Rosa Consulting, Inc., a leading provider of management consulting and information technology services for the healthcare industry and a MEDITECH READY-certified firm, announced today that Berkshire Health Systems, a leading not-for-profit provider of superior and comprehensive healthcare services, has selected the firm to lead its MEDITECH Expanse system implementation.
Salt Lake City, UT – October 1, 2018 – Health Catalyst, a next-generation data, analytics, and decision-support company, has been honored for the sixth year in a row as one of Modern Healthcare’s “Best Places to Work in Healthcare.”
September 27, 2018 - MphRx announces today that Max Healthcare has launched MyHealth, a patient facing application available on Web, Android and Apple devices. Powered by our FHIR based digital health platform - Minerva, MyHealth is an integrated patient engagement application that provides an aggregated view of patient’s health data across the network’s hospitals and enables online booking of health care services and physician appointments.
Baltimore, MD - September 27, 2018 - (Newswire.com) - Protenus, the market-leading healthcare compliance analytics platform, announced today that it was mentioned as a Sample Vendor in two July 2018 Gartner Hype Cycle Reports: the Hype Cycle for Risk Management, 2018 and the Hype Cycle for Real-Time Health Systems, 2018.
Rockville, MD. - September 26, 2018 - DrFirst, a nationally ranked provider of medication management and secure communications solutions, today announced that Centric Home Health & Hospice has successfully implemented Backline, DrFirst’s secure messaging application that supports HIPAA and Joint Commission compliance for secure texting. Backline allows Centric’s large mobile home health and hospice staff to deliver optimal patient care through efficient and secure communication and collaboration across onsite and remote clinical care teams, family members, and caregivers.
Providence, RI. – September 25, 2018 - Novarad Corporation, a leader in the development of medical imaging software, has recently entered into contract with Brown University Health Services to provide its PACS and RIS software. Reasons for selecting Novarad included greater control over study information and an increased capacity for collaborative care both inside and outside of the facility, especially in regards to referring physicians.
Austin, TX - September 24, 2018 - CynergisTek, (NYSE AMERICAN: CTEK), a leader in healthcare cybersecurity and information assurance, today announced that over the past month, five large Academic Medical Center (AMC) clients have selected the company to help develop and implement programs to ensure security, privacy, and compliance alignment. CynergisTek also announced that several of its existing AMC clients have recently expanded their contracts to incorporate additional CynergisTek services to maintain and enhance security, privacy, and compliance programs.
Nashville, TN - September 19, 2018 - emids, a global leader in digital solutions for healthcare, today announced key leadership appointments for its Provider business, including proven growth agent Tim McMullen as president and Dan Critchley as vice president.
San Jose, CA - September 19, 2018 - Vocera Communications, Inc. (NYSE:VCRA), a recognized leader in clinical communication and workflow solutions, today announced that Allina Health is deploying Vocera interoperability software to connect nurse call systems and patient monitors with the health system’s communication infrastructure. Connectivity between disparate systems will help simplify clinical workflows, improve staff response times, and reduce alarm fatigue.
Lake Mary, FL - September 19, 2018 - Kirby Partners, a retained executive search firm focusing in healthcare and cybersecurity, was named by Forbes as one of America’s Best Executive Recruiting Firms for 2018. This marks the second consecutive year that Kirby Partners has made the Forbes list, which highlights the top 250 best recruiting firms in the nation.
Westborough, MA - September 19, 2018 - eClinicalWorks®, a leader in healthcare IT solutions, announces that La Clinica de Familia (LCDF), a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) in Doña Ana County, New Mexico, will transition to the eClinicalWorks cloud-centric EHR solution for its 155 providers across 19 locations, including five school-based clinics. Use of the cloud-based technology will support care coordination between providers, staff and patients to enhance communication and improve the delivery of care.
Westwood, MA - September 18, 2018 - Embracing the changes that continue to shape healthcare, MEDITECH, a leading Enterprise Health Record (EHR) vendor, is launching a new app development environment, MEDITECH Greenfield. Supported by RESTful APIs including FHIR, Greenfield is an open space for MEDITECH customers and third-party developers to cultivate homegrown applications that increase the value of their Expanse EHR via interoperability.
Salt Lake City, UT - September 11, 2018 - Health Catalyst today launched its federally-certified Health Catalyst Patient Safety Organization (HC PSO) that protects all-cause-harm patient safety data derived from the company’s Patient Safety Monitor™ suite of software applications. Health Catalyst Patient safety experts will work closely with clients to collect, detect, intervene, learn, and prevent all-cause patient harm, all within the legal-protection of the HC PSO.
Rockville, MD - September 6, 2018—Nearly 100 percent of chief medical information officers (CMIOs) in U.S. hospitals believe medication management improvement initiatives are having a positive impact and that patient safety issues are less likely to occur today, as compared to 5 years ago, according to a new survey from the Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems (AMDIS). The survey of physician leaders, sponsored by DrFirst, also revealed that CMIOs believe there is more work to be done to address gaps that could potentially impact patient safety.
Salt Lake City, UT AND Louisville, KY - September 6, 2018 - As part of an ongoing initiative to strengthen patient safety and reduce costs, University of Louisville Hospital and University of Louisville Physicians have partnered with Health Catalyst® to implement the Data Operating System (DOS™) and leverage the company’s outcomes’ improvement professional services.
