Health Catalyst @HealthCatalyst – Health Catalyst, provider of data warehousing, analytics and outcomes improvement, announced that it has acquired Health Care DataWorks (HCD), a provider of business intelligence for health systems. The cash-and-stock purchase closed on July 31. As part of the agreement, HCD’s health system customers have become Health Catalyst customers, including Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, El Camino Hospital, MemorialCare Health System, Orlando Health, and Tampa General Hospital. Additionally, Cedars-Sinai and MemorialCare have become investors in Health Catalyst, joining other Health Catalyst customer-investors Kaiser Permanente, Partners HealthCare, Allina Health, and Indiana University Health. Read the full press announcement on the acquisition.
Cerner Corporation @Cerner – Cerner Corp. is confident it can handle the mammoth task of upgrading the U.S. military’s medical records — and it already has a model system ready to go, says the company’s president, Zane Burke.“The Department of Defense (contract) is big and complex and hard, but it’s not new to Cerner to do big and complex and hard projects,” Burke said in an interview Tuesday.The interview marked the first time a Cerner executive had spoken publicly since the Pentagon announced last week that a team that included the North Kansas City-based health information technology company had won the multibillion-dollar contract to modernize the electronic health records of military personnel, retirees and their families. Read the full story reported on The Kansas City Star.
Spok, Inc @spoktweets – Spok announced that University Health System (UHS) in San Antonio, Texas, has selected its enterprise suite of communication solutions. The Spok® on-call scheduling, secure texting, critical test results management, and hospital call center solutions will allow the rapidly growing organization to increase staff efficiency and enhance secure communications. As part of the rollout, UHS plans to provide the Spok Mobile® secure texting app to 1,600 physicians and residents. Read the full press release.
WellStar Health System @WellStarHealth, AHA @AHAhospitals and CHIME @CIOCHIME – Health data security and patient engagement are top priorities for the nation’s hospitals, according to results of the 17th annual HealthCare’s Most Wired™ survey, released by the American Hospital Association’s Health Forum and the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME). As tribute to the level of patient care and safety at its hospitals, WellStar Health System was named to the 2015 Most Wired hospitals list. The 2015 Most Wired™ survey and benchmarking study is a leading industry barometer measuring information technology (IT) use and adoption among hospitals nationwide. The survey examined how organizations are leveraging IT to improve performance for value-based healthcare in the areas of infrastructure, business and administrative management, quality and safety, and clinical integration. Read the full press release.
eHealth Technologies @eHealthTec – eHealth Technologies, provider of referral solutions, announced they have successfully fulfilled over a half million record aggregation requests utilizing its eHealth Connect™ Intelligent Health Record Aggregation platform. The platform allows clinical and administrative staff at hospital departments and specialty centers to easily request outside health information needed for their referred patients. eHealth Technologies ensures complete, intelligently organized medical records and images from multiple sources are consolidated and delivered to the facility’s EMR or PACS within 3 to 5 days on average, and often within hours. Read the full press release.
Allscripts @Allscripts, NIH @NIHClinicalCntr, HIMSS @HIMSS – The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Center, a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the world’s largest hospital devoted exclusively to clinical investigation, used theAllscripts Sunrise™ platform (NASDAQ:MDRX) to achieve Stage 7, the highest level attainable, on the HIMSS Analytics Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model™ (EMRAM). It is the first U.S. government health organization to achieve Stage 7. The HIMSS Analytics EMR Adoption Model is a methodology that measures progress and cumulative capabilities of EMR systems within hospitals. There are eight stages (0-7) in the HIMSS Analytics EMR Adoption Model, and Stage 7 represents the most advanced patient record environment. Currently, only 7.8% of hospitals in the HIMSS Analytics® Database have reached Stage 7. Read the full press release.
Premier, Inc.@PremierHA – Premier, Inc. is acquiring a Pittsburgh-based health-care solutions provider for $400 million. Through the acquisition, CECity will become part of Charlotte-based Premier’s performance-services division. It will continue to operate out of its Pittsburgh headquarters for the foreseeable future. The privately held company has 134 employees. CECity specializes in cloud-based technology related to performance management and improvement, pay-for-value reporting and professional education. Read the full story.
CareCloud @CareCloud – CareCloud, a leading provider of modern, cloud-based software for medical groups, has announced a partnership with CodeLLa, a non-profit that provides a safe, girls-only environment for young Hispanic girls from families living at or below the poverty level to explore entrepreneurship in tandem with coding, technology, and science. The partnership provides the girls an opportunity to learn from top females in engineering and product development. Read more here.