Today’s Business News
Atigeo™, a compassionate technology company for a wiser planet, and Medsphere Systems Corporation, provider of affordable and interoperable healthcare IT platform solutions, today reached an agreement to integrate Atigeo’s xPatterns Clinical Auto-Coding (C.A.C.) application with Medsphere’s OpenVista electronic health record (EHR). “The agreement expands OpenVista’s medical coding capabilities and demonstrates the value of Atigeo solutions in the rapidly expanding healthcare IT marketplace.
eClinicalWorks® has announced that it is investing an additional $50 million over the next 12 months to further enhance and expand patient engagement tools under the business unit Health & Online Wellness (healow™) and population health solutions. With 14 million consumers using the company’s electronic patient portal and mobile application, this investment is in addition to the $25 million the company announced for 2013. Part of this funding will be used to hire an additional 100 software developers.
Greenway Medical Technologies announced the release of Intergy v9.00, the advanced version of a comprehensive clinical and financial solution that prepares providers for the ICD-10 transition, charts their progress with other regulatory measures, and delivers an easier, more intuitive way for physicians to document patient visits.In addition to advanced practice management and electronic health record capabilities, Vitera Intergy v9.00 helps practices improve profitability, workflow and patient outcomes through practice analytics, a patient portal and a dashboard to track the progress of a practice’s transition to ICD-10 or to Meaningful Use attestation.
Advanced Data Systems (ADS), has announced the company was ranked 21st in Medical Economics’ Top 100 EHR Vendors for 2013. ADS produces the MedicsDocAssistant™ EHR system. Medical Economics also reported that best government estimates indicate there are a total of 729 vendors providing certified EHRs. David Barzillai, President of ADS said, “Attaining as high a ranking as we did from as prestigious an organization as Medical Economics is both humbling and gratifying. When considering the even bigger picture of more than 700 vendors, it is extraordinary. Needless to say, everyone at ADS is incredibly proud in having achieved this esteemed standing.”
Lantana Consulting Group was awarded a $7.6 million contract to support the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in managing public reporting for the Hospital Quality Initiatives (HQI) over the next five years. The contract is Lantana’s first task order award within its CMS Measure and Instrument Development and Support (MIDS) Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract.
MD Buyline, Inc. and IBM announced today a partnership utilizing the IBM Watson cognitive computing system to help improve decision-making processes in hospitals to enable better patient care and outcomes. MD Buyline and IBM will showcase a prototype of the Big Data solution Hippocrates powered by IBM Watson during the IBM Watson Summit 2013 in Austin, Texas. Leveraging Watson’s cognitive abilities, Hippocrates acts as a decision adviser, uncovering the data-driven evidence that health systems and healthcare professionals need to make important decisions in real time.
Linguamatics, a natural language processing-based (NLP) text mining and analytics, announced the launch of Linguamatics Health, a new clinical NLP suite that enables hospitals and research organizations to harness the information contained in unstructured fields of EHRs and patient narratives to drive healthcare analytics, advanced research and improved patient outcomes. Linguamatics Health provides the technology needed to extract meaningful information from the mass of data located in complex patient documentation such as pathology and radiology reports, physician notes, and discharge reports. The information is then used in data warehouses, predictive models and dashboards to improve hospital efficiency and support Meaningful Use initiatives.
President Obama nominated Dr. Vivek H. Murthy, an early supporter and grass-roots advocate for the Affordable Care Act, as surgeon general. Dr. Murthy, 36, is a founder and the president of Doctors for America, a group that campaigned for the health care law before Congress passed it in 2010 and that was an outgrowth of Doctors for Obama, which worked to help elect the president in 2008. He is a doctor at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and an instructor at Harvard Medical School.